6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Austrian philosopher at Liechtenstein University who studies consciousness, near-death experiences, and Viktor Frankl's logotherapy — co-edited The Self Does Not Die (anthology of veridical NDE cases) and works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and existential psychology.
American psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who is the world's leading researcher of near-death experiences — developing the Greyson Scale for measuring NDE depth, co-editing The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences, and writing After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond.
American woman who had a near-death experience after being struck by lightning in 1988 — the experience transformed her psychologically and resulted in what she reported as precognitive dreams — and who co-authored Changed in a Flash with Jeffrey Kripal describing her experience and its implications.
Bruce Greyson's 2023 follow-up to After — exploring the religious and spiritual dimensions of near-death experiences — examining how NDEs challenge conventional religious frameworks while providing experiential evidence for spiritual realities.
Canadian-American psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who spent 40 years investigating children who claimed to remember previous lives — documenting over 3,000 cases and identifying over 40 where birthmarks corresponded to wounds on the previous personality — whose work remains the most systematic scientific investigation of reincarnation.
Anthology edited by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf Smit — compiling over 100 veridical near-death experience cases where persons clinically dead accurately perceived events they could not have observed through normal sensory means — the most comprehensive case-based argument for consciousness's independence from the brain.