Hello boys and girls ladies and germs this is Tim Ferris welcome to another episode of the

Tim Ferris show where it is my job to interview world-class performers from all different

disciplines to deconstruct how they do what they do now in this case I wouldn't recommend replicating or attempting to replicate what some of the subjects

Patient's case studies have experienced which is namely dying and then being revived in some capacity.

So don't do that.

But my guest today is Bruce Grayson MD.

He is the Chester F Carlson Professor Emeritus

of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences

and Director Emeritus of the Division of Perceptual Studies

at the University of Virginia,

where he has practiced and taught psychiatry

and carried out research since 1995.

He is also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American

Psychiatric Association and his most recent book is after a doctor explores what

near-death experiences reveal about life and beyond. He has studied, documented more than a thousand near-death

experiences and what made him appealing to me as a guest with this incredibly

unusual terrain is that he was raised with a secular what we could call

rational materialist worldview. So with that introduction I hope you enjoy this

very wide-ranging and unusual conversation, but first just a few words

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