A review by lory_enterenchanted
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective

4.5

Fascinating look at the science of near-death experiences, from a doctor who entered the field without a previous attraction to the paranormal, incited by an experience with a patient he could not explain. Along with the information about these remarkable experiences, we learn about the resistance of many scientists to doing actual, unprejudiced science, even when it challenges their previously held beliefs. Fortunately, Dr. Greyson went against this stream and pursued the research that has the potential to help change our outdated view of the mind as proceeding from the brain. There is no evidence for that view, and mounting evidence that they are different things; the brain is an instrument for the mind, and not the only way of accessing one's soul-spiritual side. Our ability to experience freedom, love, and life are not dependent on the body, though it is our task to bring them into this world through the body. The reports of these life-changing experiences are humbling and inspiring, expanding our view of what it can mean to be human.

Recommend for anyone with end-of-life questions who wants an approach based on science and not religion.