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Cover of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson.

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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

Bruce Greyson

Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson reviews decades of research and clinical encounters involving near-death experiences, including recurring reports of leaving the body, altered time, light, beings, life review, peace, and lasting changes in values. He considers neurological, psychological, and survival interpretations while arguing that the reports deserve disciplined study rather than automatic dismissal.

Psychological / AcademicApproachable272 pages

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The Expectation Effect

David Robson

Science writer David Robson explores how expectations can shape perception, stress responses, performance, habits, symptoms, and behavior. The book offers a lively account of real mind-body effects while repeatedly distinguishing them from the idea that belief can produce any desired external result.

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How to Think Impossibly

Jeffrey J. Kripal

A scholar of religion asks what models of mind, imagination, and reality become possible when anomalous experiences are neither accepted literally nor dismissed in advance.

Psychological / Academic — religious studies and anomalous experienceDemanding280 pages

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Spiritual Emergency

Stanislav Grof; Christina Grof, editors

Stanislav and Christina Grof gather essays proposing that some crises involving identity, altered states, mystical experience, or radical change may be understood as spiritual emergencies: destabilizing experiences that can sometimes become occasions of transformation when held with care.

Transpersonal psychology — spiritual-emergency frameworkDemanding272 pages

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Varieties of Anomalous Experience

Etzel Cardeña; Steven Jay Lynn; Stanley Krippner, editors

This American Psychological Association volume surveys research on unusual subjective experiences including synesthesia, hallucinations, lucid dreams, out-of-body and near-death experiences, anomalous healing, mystical experience, psi reports, past-life reports, and alien-abduction narratives. It studies the experiences and evidence without assuming that every report shares one cause.

Scientific psychology — anomalous experience researchSpecialist452 pages