After

A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

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By: Bruce Greyson MD

Narrated by: Raymond Moody, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Eben Alexander

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What happens when we die?

Ten per cent of people whose hearts stop, and then restart, report near-death experiences. Stories of lights, tunnels and reunion with late loved ones have been relayed - and dismissed - since ancient times. But when Dr Bruce Greyson's patients started describing events that he simply could not dismiss, he began to investigate.

In After, he shares the scientific revelations of four decades of research into the dying process. He has become increasingly convinced that dying is less an ending than a transition, the threshold between one form of consciousness and another. Dr Greyson challenges us to consider what these lessons can teach us about the relationship between our brain and our mind, expanding our understanding of consciousness and of what it means to be human.

This audiobook includes three bonus interviews with the author.

'This long-awaited and amazing book is a major contribution to the study of what happens when we die, and will quickly prove to be a classic in near-death studies.' - Raymond Moody, author of Life After Life

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Death & Dying

History & Philosophy

Philosophy

Religious Studies

Science

Sociology

Spirituality

Near-Death Experience

Inspiring

Heartfelt

Parapsychology

Human Brain

Health

Death & Dying History & Philosophy Philosophy Religious Studies Science Sociology Spirituality Near-Death Experience Inspiring Heartfelt Parapsychology Human Brain Health

Critic reviews

BOOK OF THE MONTH: forces you to consider the unknown and try to come to terms with the unexplained.

From a less authoritative source, these stories could seem mawkish or flaky. Told here with calm precision, and with a conversational flair, they are both absorbing and convincing. With so much evidence available for further investigation, the most vexing question now is not whether life continues in some form after we die, but why mainstream science is so resistant to the idea. (Christopher Stevens)

After is that rare thing, a scientific book that is also a page-turner. Greyson's meticulous research leaves little doubt that the human mind somehow survives beyond the point of death.

This very captivating book by Dr. Bruce Greyson chronicles his personal, spiritual and professional quest to understand the meaning of near-death experiences. His long-awaited and amazing book is a major contribution to the study of what happens when we die, and will quickly prove to be a classic in near-death studies.

Bruce Greyson is the most influential medical doctor-investigator over the last 40 years of this world-changing analysis. His work has done much to organize the scientific investigation of these experiences, to take them from fascinating anecdotes to systematic and objective study that will truly enable the world to benefit from these deep lessons. His work has the potential to completely change our fractured and confused world, offering insights that may lead to an explanation of the nature of consciousness. It will also help to nudge the entire scientific community towards realizations that can alter human history — bringing far more peace, harmony, and comfort to uncountable millions of souls both now and in future generations.

What happens when we die? Dr Bruce Greyson takes on this age-old mystery as one of the world's leading and most qualified investigators. After is loaded with fresh, exciting, and enormously valuable new understandings. The most relevant and important research is masterfully presented in a remarkably easy to read format. For everyone interested in life after death, science and spirituality, and life's meaning, this book is a treasure trove of insights and inspiration.

In this very important book, Dr. Bruce Greyson helps elucidate the near-death experience with a scientific sensibility that makes what was exquisitely personal more accessible to a general audience. He bridges the gap between science and spirituality with elegance, and offers those who have not had such a transformative experience a glimpse of the changes possible in their own lives from reading his book. I believe all who read this book will be led to positive and permanent insights that will have profound and lasting effects in their own lives.

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I've mentioned this book to people many times since finishing it due to finding it quite powerful and affirming. I'm not sure I would say the book is unbiased, and Greyson does not include much empirical data to back up his research, but there is something about hearing NDE accounts that is theraputic. The book isn't overtly religious or secular, and straddles the line quite well considering.
it isn't a book of individual NDEs like The Truth In The Light (my fave book so far on NDE), but more a musing on the subject based on years of qualitative data collection, which granted, we have little direct access to, save for the glimpses given. Nonetheless, it works as both an interesting introduction to the subject as well as working as a jumping off point for those looking for 'answers' for want of a better word.
I would classify myself as having a seesaw approach to life after death but this book has added a little more weight to the case for it. To be fair, I think the book leans in that direction, but not obnoxiously so. In any case, It is certainly fascinating whether it holds any deeper meaning for you or not.