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Bruce Greyson
The claims the writer was given for Bruce Greyson, in the order they were given.
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Bruce Greyson is director of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Medical School and one of the world's leading near-death experience researchers.
“Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson, director of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Medical School and one of the world's leading NDE researchers”
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Bruce Greyson says that the core near-death phenomenology is invariant across cultures.
“He says that the core near-death phenomenology is invariant across cultures.”
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Bruce Greyson writes that the invariance of near-death phenomenology across cultures may reflect universal psychological defenses, neurophysiological processes, or actual experience of a transcendent or mystical domain.
“"That invariance may reflect universal psychological defenses, neurophysiological processes, or actual experience of a transcendent or mystical domain."”
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Bruce Greyson writes that the vast majority of near-death experiencers report that during the time their brains were demonstrably impaired, their thinking was clearer and faster than ever before, as if the mind had been freed from the distractions and limitations of the physical brain.
“"the vast majority of near-death experiencers report that during the time that their brains were demonstrably impaired, their thinking, by contrast, was clearer and faster than ever before, as if the mind had been freed from the distractions and limitations of the physical brain."”
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According to Bruce Greyson, a patient under cardiac arrest saw a man he didn't know during a near-death experience.
“For example, according to Greyson, a patient under cardiac arrest saw a man he didn't know during an NDE.”
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The cardiac arrest patient's mother later told him that he had been born as a result of an extramarital affair, and when shown a picture of his biological father, he immediately recognized him as the man he had seen during his near-death experience.
“His mother later told the patient that he had been born as a result of an extramarital affair. When he was shown a picture of his biological father, the patient immediately recognized him as the man he had seen during his NDE.”
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In another case reported by Bruce Greyson, a young girl who was an only child saw a boy during a near-death experience who said he was her brother, and her father then told her she had had a brother who died before she was born.
“In another case, a young girl saw a boy who said he was her brother, but she was an only child. Her father then told her she had had a brother who died before she was born.”
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Bruce Greyson writes that near-death experience data, although not compelling proof of survival, cannot be dismissed as hallucinations based on expectation.
“"Although these data are not compelling proof of survival, they cannot be dismissed as hallucinations based on expectation," Greyson writes.”
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Bruce Greyson wrote that no single physiological or psychological model by itself explains all the common features of near-death experiences, and that a clear sensorium and complex perceptual processes during a period of apparent clinical death challenge the concept that consciousness is localised exclusively in the brain.
“He wrote, “No one physiological or psychological model by itself explains all the common features of near-death experiences…A clear sensorium and complex perceptual processes during a period of apparent clinical death challenge the concept that consciousness is localized exclusively in the brain.””
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Bruce Greyson writes that some near-death experiences are dismissed by sceptics as hallucinations based on expectation.
“"hallucinations based on expectation," Greyson writes / Ibid.”
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Bruce Greyson wrote that consciousness is not localized exclusively in the brain.
“"that consciousness is localized exclusively in the brain" / Greyson, "Cardiac Care Unit."”
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Ian Stevenson, Bruce Greyson, Emily Cook and Jessica Utts attended the meetings Robert Bigelow describes.
“You know, we had Ian Stevenson was there and Bruce Grayson was there and Emily Cook was there. Jessica Utz was there.”
The Evolution of AAWSAP | Bigelow Podcast, Ep. 2 2026-08-11 00:05:40.9-00:05:49.4 testimony first hand