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Cargando... After : a doctor explores what near-death experiences reveal about life and beyond (edición 2021)por Bruce Greyson (Autor)
Información de la obraAfter: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond por Bruce Greyson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Greyson does an impeccable job writing about a subject many would consider frivolous and nonsensical. As a skeptic myself I wasn't sure it'd be worth my time. In fact this book truly amazed me and in some ways changed me. I highly recommend for anyone with an open mind. ( ) A really good qualitiative approach and exposition of the authors considerable expertise in the field of Near Death Experiences, the role they play in individuals lives and how they can act as agents precipitating change, mainly for the good, but for the bad too. Interspersed with individual accounts are references to studies and evidence which support or refute the particular view that’s being articulated. Very good and interesting for the general reader. Death: it's final. The end. This book is what comes "after" if your heart stops for a brief moment in time and you manage to come back from the deep unknown with some type of recollection. This book is full of reports from people with near-death experiences. While there are hundreds of stories over the years, no one knows for sure what actually happens when someone dies. Dr. Bruce Greyson begins by revealing his disbelief and later finding himself in an unexplainable experience with a patient. He continues to search for answers with scientific findings. For those interested in near-death experiences, this book may answer your questions - and more. It's a good one to read. This book adds to what others have written on this subject with a thorough review. The author is a psychiatrist who began studying near death experiences (NDEs) almost by accident after a patient's unexplained experience. He is a serious scientist and has tried to use the scientific method for all his research. He created a "scale" for NDEs in order to try to study these experiences in a more standardized way. He has published articles in JAMA and other scholarly publications. The research he describes in this book is fascinating. What was most interesting for me was the research differentiating the "mind" from the "brain." The association between the mind and the brain is a scientific fact, but the interpretation that the brain creates the mind is not. In fact, such a connection between the brain and the mind breaks down in extraordinary circumstances such as NDEs. There are many hypotheses to be explored regarding the brain/mind connection, including that the brain is a device for the mind to act more effectively on the physical body. There are lots of questions remaining. The author ends by stating that, "If you take only one thing from this book, I want you to appreciate the transformative power of these experiences to change peoples' lives." Recommended if the subject interests you. 3 stars Dr. Greyson has spent over forty years studying (NDE's) near death experiences of hundreds of people in an objective manner. He does a statistical analysis of their various experiences during these events. He is attempting to find generalities in what happened. There are two principal feelings first, that these experiences are real to people and second, they have a reduced fear of dying afterward. A majority want to change their lives for the better. If you are in any way curious about what happens "afterward" you should read this hopeful book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness. Cases of remarkable experiences on the threshold of death have been reported since ancient times, and are described today by 10% of people whose hearts stop. The medical world has generally ignored these "near-death experiences," dismissing them as "tricks of the brain" or wishful thinking. But after his patients started describing events that he could not just sweep under the rug, Dr. Bruce Greyson began to investigate. As a physician without a religious belief system, he approached near-death experiences from a scientific perspective. In After, he shares the transformative lessons he has learned over four decades of research. Our culture has tended to view dying as the end of our consciousness, the end of our existence-a dreaded prospect that for many people evokes fear and anxiety. But Dr. Greyson shows how scientific revelations about the dying process can support an alternative theory. Dying could be the threshold between one form of consciousness and another, not an ending but a transition. This new perspective on the nature of death can transform the fear of dying that pervades our culture into a healthy view of it as one more milestone in the course of our lives. After challenges us to open our minds to these experiences and to what they can teach us, and in so doing, expand our understanding of consciousness and of what it means to be human"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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