Dr. Bruce Greyson

So I thought, well, there's gotta be a trick. Someone's fooling me. Maybe the nurses colluded with this green intern. I tried to push it out of my mind. I didn't dare tell anybody to think I was crazy. It was about five years ago when I was now on the faculty at the University of Virginia, when Raymond Moody started his training and he was in the emergency room with me.

So I thought, well, there's gotta be a trick. Someone's fooling me. Maybe the nurses colluded with this green intern. I tried to push it out of my mind. I didn't dare tell anybody to think I was crazy. It was about five years ago when I was now on the faculty at the University of Virginia, when Raymond Moody started his training and he was in the emergency room with me.

And one time we had a slow period. And he told me about a book he had written called Life After Life. And he described near-death experiences, something that was unknown in the English language before then. And I realized this is what Holly had told me years before.

And one time we had a slow period. And he told me about a book he had written called Life After Life. And he described near-death experiences, something that was unknown in the English language before then. And I realized this is what Holly had told me years before.

And one time we had a slow period. And he told me about a book he had written called Life After Life. And he described near-death experiences, something that was unknown in the English language before then. And I realized this is what Holly had told me years before.

And I still couldn't understand it, but I thought this has really happened because my patient was a psychiatric patient, so sure, now she's just crazy. But Raymond's subjects were more than 100 perfectly normal people. I thought, I have to understand that I'm a scientist. Scientists don't run away from things they don't understand. They run towards them, trying to make sense out of them.

And I still couldn't understand it, but I thought this has really happened because my patient was a psychiatric patient, so sure, now she's just crazy. But Raymond's subjects were more than 100 perfectly normal people. I thought, I have to understand that I'm a scientist. Scientists don't run away from things they don't understand. They run towards them, trying to make sense out of them.

And I still couldn't understand it, but I thought this has really happened because my patient was a psychiatric patient, so sure, now she's just crazy. But Raymond's subjects were more than 100 perfectly normal people. I thought, I have to understand that I'm a scientist. Scientists don't run away from things they don't understand. They run towards them, trying to make sense out of them.

So I started collecting cases, trying to make sense out of them. And now 50 years later, I'm still trying to understand them.

So I started collecting cases, trying to make sense out of them. And now 50 years later, I'm still trying to understand them.

So I started collecting cases, trying to make sense out of them. And now 50 years later, I'm still trying to understand them.

Well, I have a database at the University of Virginia with people who have been describing their experiences to me, and we vetted them to make sure they were, in fact, close to death and what they said made sense. And there are a little more than 1,000 in that pool.

Well, I have a database at the University of Virginia with people who have been describing their experiences to me, and we vetted them to make sure they were, in fact, close to death and what they said made sense. And there are a little more than 1,000 in that pool.

Well, I have a database at the University of Virginia with people who have been describing their experiences to me, and we vetted them to make sure they were, in fact, close to death and what they said made sense. And there are a little more than 1,000 in that pool.

I've talked to many more that we did not include in the database because we didn't think we were certain enough about their qualifications.

I've talked to many more that we did not include in the database because we didn't think we were certain enough about their qualifications.

I've talked to many more that we did not include in the database because we didn't think we were certain enough about their qualifications.

Well, sometimes it was years after. Back in the 70s and 80s, nobody would talk about these things. You'd be ridiculed or told you were crazy, so they didn't talk about it. And I talked to some people back in the 80s who had the experience 30, 40 years earlier, but I'd never talked to anybody.

Well, sometimes it was years after. Back in the 70s and 80s, nobody would talk about these things. You'd be ridiculed or told you were crazy, so they didn't talk about it. And I talked to some people back in the 80s who had the experience 30, 40 years earlier, but I'd never talked to anybody.

Well, sometimes it was years after. Back in the 70s and 80s, nobody would talk about these things. You'd be ridiculed or told you were crazy, so they didn't talk about it. And I talked to some people back in the 80s who had the experience 30, 40 years earlier, but I'd never talked to anybody.