Written by a psychiatrist doctor, who is very interested in “near death experience”, it wasn’t a book that I thought I would read, as I’d have deemed this topic as “unscientific” and “lack of evidence”. But it is such a new book, and I was really curious how this topic can be scientific (since it’s written by a medical specialist) and Penguin actually published this book. So, to be “open and curious” I decided to borrow this and read it!

It’s indeed eye-opening. It has changed so much of how people see “death” and then how they live their lives. For most of those people who experienced near-death experiences, it was such a pleasant and positive journey, everyone would have guessed that then they might long dying, no longer interested to stay and suffer in this physical world, but no, they live life even more fully and compassionately, knowing that death is not scary, it helps people to live even more fully!

Not just that, it’s also important for the rest of us, especially the family members and medical staff to stay open and not too quick to disregard their experiences, or think that they are going nuts. I believe that there are still so much more thing that science can’t explain, yet!

Reading the book also made me contemplate about our mind and consciousness, like really, how does our mind exist and is it really our brain that creates our mind and consciousness? If this is true, how could these people who were almost dead and unconscious have such profound experience at the same time?

So yes, I’d recommend people to read this, especially those sceptics.

On a side note, if you have had near death experiences and would like to connect with others who have similar experiences (based on Dr Greyson’s experience, you wouldn’t need therapy, but it’d probably be of tremendous help for you to be with others who have similar experiences), you may contact me, I’d try to gather you all virtually. Alternatively, you can contact the author!