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Dr. Bruce Greyson

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Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

and they have a sense of losing control of their bodies, and they report things like, I feel like I'm falling off the table, or I feel like my legs are getting shorter. Sometimes they report seeing a double of themselves, but they never report out-of-body experience that near-death experiences do, which is being outside the body, looking back at their physical body lying on the table.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And they report seeing things accurately around the body, which people don't report when you stimulate their brains. People have reported that in some cases there was a burst of electricity after people die. And there have been maybe a half dozen publications of this in mainstream neuroscience journals in the past year or two. And none of them actually measured dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And they report seeing things accurately around the body, which people don't report when you stimulate their brains. People have reported that in some cases there was a burst of electricity after people die. And there have been maybe a half dozen publications of this in mainstream neuroscience journals in the past year or two. And none of them actually measured dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And they report seeing things accurately around the body, which people don't report when you stimulate their brains. People have reported that in some cases there was a burst of electricity after people die. And there have been maybe a half dozen publications of this in mainstream neuroscience journals in the past year or two. And none of them actually measured dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

They did, for example, studies with people who were in a coma and they were declared, they couldn't help them. So they took them off artificial ventilation and they measure what happens in the brain when they do that. And there is a small increase in electrical activity in the brain. It's not as big as it was before they did that, but it still didn't go flat immediately. It remained higher.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

They did, for example, studies with people who were in a coma and they were declared, they couldn't help them. So they took them off artificial ventilation and they measure what happens in the brain when they do that. And there is a small increase in electrical activity in the brain. It's not as big as it was before they did that, but it still didn't go flat immediately. It remained higher.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

They did, for example, studies with people who were in a coma and they were declared, they couldn't help them. So they took them off artificial ventilation and they measure what happens in the brain when they do that. And there is a small increase in electrical activity in the brain. It's not as big as it was before they did that, but it still didn't go flat immediately. It remained higher.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

But there was no indication that these people had actually regained consciousness. They didn't speak, they didn't move, they didn't do anything else. And in fact, they also measured the a heart activity in these people. And the hearts were still beating all this time. So the hearts had not stopped. They were not dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

But there was no indication that these people had actually regained consciousness. They didn't speak, they didn't move, they didn't do anything else. And in fact, they also measured the a heart activity in these people. And the hearts were still beating all this time. So the hearts had not stopped. They were not dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

But there was no indication that these people had actually regained consciousness. They didn't speak, they didn't move, they didn't do anything else. And in fact, they also measured the a heart activity in these people. And the hearts were still beating all this time. So the hearts had not stopped. They were not dying patients.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And when they actually had the heart stopped, they also stopped the brain activity. So these aren't dying patients. They're people who are approaching death. There was a study done with rats at the University of Michigan where they sacrificed their rats and found a 30-second, quote, burst. Again, it was a burst that was a minuscule part of what their brain was showing before they sacrificed them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And when they actually had the heart stopped, they also stopped the brain activity. So these aren't dying patients. They're people who are approaching death. There was a study done with rats at the University of Michigan where they sacrificed their rats and found a 30-second, quote, burst. Again, it was a burst that was a minuscule part of what their brain was showing before they sacrificed them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

And when they actually had the heart stopped, they also stopped the brain activity. So these aren't dying patients. They're people who are approaching death. There was a study done with rats at the University of Michigan where they sacrificed their rats and found a 30-second, quote, burst. Again, it was a burst that was a minuscule part of what their brain was showing before they sacrificed them.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It happened to all the rats they did this to. Only about 20% of people have near-death experiences. They found that if they anesthetized the rats first, they didn't show this at all. And of course, many people have near-death experiences under anesthesia. And they, of course, didn't interview the rats to see what the rats were experiencing. It's all speculation.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It happened to all the rats they did this to. Only about 20% of people have near-death experiences. They found that if they anesthetized the rats first, they didn't show this at all. And of course, many people have near-death experiences under anesthesia. And they, of course, didn't interview the rats to see what the rats were experiencing. It's all speculation.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It happened to all the rats they did this to. Only about 20% of people have near-death experiences. They found that if they anesthetized the rats first, they didn't show this at all. And of course, many people have near-death experiences under anesthesia. And they, of course, didn't interview the rats to see what the rats were experiencing. It's all speculation.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It tells me that it's too easy to jump to conclusions from data that may not be relevant at all. Now, we have about 50 years of good data from clinical situations where people's hearts stopped and the brain stopped within usually a matter of 10 seconds. It immediately falls off and drops off. And we have data from countless situations like this.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It tells me that it's too easy to jump to conclusions from data that may not be relevant at all. Now, we have about 50 years of good data from clinical situations where people's hearts stopped and the brain stopped within usually a matter of 10 seconds. It immediately falls off and drops off. And we have data from countless situations like this.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

It tells me that it's too easy to jump to conclusions from data that may not be relevant at all. Now, we have about 50 years of good data from clinical situations where people's hearts stopped and the brain stopped within usually a matter of 10 seconds. It immediately falls off and drops off. And we have data from countless situations like this.

Otherworld
Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson of DOPS

So the idea that we suddenly have this burst is a quite unusual thing to say. Now, there is one cardiologist, one emergency physician in New York, Sam Parnia, who has studied people who were being resuscitated.