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Dr. Bruce Greyson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
624 total appearances

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Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

feeling the humiliation of being beaten up by a teenager, feeling the pain of the 32 blows on his face. Now, Tom couldn't have told you it was 32, but reliving it from the man's perspective, he counted them as 32. He described his nose getting bloodier and bloodier and his teeth going through his lower lip, all from the perspective of his victim.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

feeling the humiliation of being beaten up by a teenager, feeling the pain of the 32 blows on his face. Now, Tom couldn't have told you it was 32, but reliving it from the man's perspective, he counted them as 32. He described his nose getting bloodier and bloodier and his teeth going through his lower lip, all from the perspective of his victim.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

feeling the humiliation of being beaten up by a teenager, feeling the pain of the 32 blows on his face. Now, Tom couldn't have told you it was 32, but reliving it from the man's perspective, he counted them as 32. He described his nose getting bloodier and bloodier and his teeth going through his lower lip, all from the perspective of his victim.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And I've heard this again and again from different people, that they feel the events of the life review from the viewpoint of somebody else. And often they come back thinking, this is because we're all part of the same thing. There's no difference between you and me. It's like the fingers on your hand. If you look at the fingers, they're individual, but they're really part of the same thing.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And I've heard this again and again from different people, that they feel the events of the life review from the viewpoint of somebody else. And often they come back thinking, this is because we're all part of the same thing. There's no difference between you and me. It's like the fingers on your hand. If you look at the fingers, they're individual, but they're really part of the same thing.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And I've heard this again and again from different people, that they feel the events of the life review from the viewpoint of somebody else. And often they come back thinking, this is because we're all part of the same thing. There's no difference between you and me. It's like the fingers on your hand. If you look at the fingers, they're individual, but they're really part of the same thing.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

So you can't chop off one without hurting the whole hand. I've also had people talk about getting to understand other people's motivation. For example, one woman, Barbara, talked about reliving her life and remembering as a child, her mother being very abusive. And in her life review, she re-experienced that from a mother's perspective.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

So you can't chop off one without hurting the whole hand. I've also had people talk about getting to understand other people's motivation. For example, one woman, Barbara, talked about reliving her life and remembering as a child, her mother being very abusive. And in her life review, she re-experienced that from a mother's perspective.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

So you can't chop off one without hurting the whole hand. I've also had people talk about getting to understand other people's motivation. For example, one woman, Barbara, talked about reliving her life and remembering as a child, her mother being very abusive. And in her life review, she re-experienced that from a mother's perspective.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And so how helpless the mother felt having been abused herself. And she didn't know any other way to express herself. And she came out of that near-death experience with a lot more compassion for her mother than she had before. So I'm not sure how you explain these so-called empathic near-death experiences. And of course, we can't validate them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And so how helpless the mother felt having been abused herself. And she didn't know any other way to express herself. And she came out of that near-death experience with a lot more compassion for her mother than she had before. So I'm not sure how you explain these so-called empathic near-death experiences. And of course, we can't validate them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And so how helpless the mother felt having been abused herself. And she didn't know any other way to express herself. And she came out of that near-death experience with a lot more compassion for her mother than she had before. So I'm not sure how you explain these so-called empathic near-death experiences. And of course, we can't validate them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

We can't find the drunk man that Tom beat up and ask him what happened. So it's all relying on what they report to us.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

We can't find the drunk man that Tom beat up and ask him what happened. So it's all relying on what they report to us.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

We can't find the drunk man that Tom beat up and ask him what happened. So it's all relying on what they report to us.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

they're often very surprised by the things that appear prominent in the near-death experience. For example, one fellow who was actually a doctor here in Charlottesville had a near-death experience and expected to be shown when he got to be an Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts, when he graduated from medical school and so forth. And that wasn't a big part of it.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

they're often very surprised by the things that appear prominent in the near-death experience. For example, one fellow who was actually a doctor here in Charlottesville had a near-death experience and expected to be shown when he got to be an Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts, when he graduated from medical school and so forth. And that wasn't a big part of it.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

they're often very surprised by the things that appear prominent in the near-death experience. For example, one fellow who was actually a doctor here in Charlottesville had a near-death experience and expected to be shown when he got to be an Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts, when he graduated from medical school and so forth. And that wasn't a big part of it.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

The big part of it was doing tiny things to help individual people and being kind to others. And it was that type of thing, that one-to-one interaction with people, not the things we usually value in this life. As to how they experience it, that varies a lot according to the person's metaphors. Some say it was like turning pages of a book. Some say it was like watching a movie of my life.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

The big part of it was doing tiny things to help individual people and being kind to others. And it was that type of thing, that one-to-one interaction with people, not the things we usually value in this life. As to how they experience it, that varies a lot according to the person's metaphors. Some say it was like turning pages of a book. Some say it was like watching a movie of my life.