Near-Death Experiences and Reincarnation

it is an apparent shared reality, otherwise I wouldn't be able to share anything, and even from the most conservative viewpoint our experience are apparently constructed in our brains (as Edwin Lands work on colour demonstrates).

Great example of the reality created by mind and expressed in the brain's output of physical signals.  The experience of color is independent of physical stimulus, as occurs in dreams and imagination.  There are graduated patterns imprinted in an informational environment that corresponds to the activity of minds perceiving color as a combination of detection of photons and detection of useful meanings.  Of course, useful meanings are not as time/space specific as are photons.  Real-world meanings are probability patterns.  But as real as a photon on the detector.

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Claims of Past-Life Memories in Near-Death Experiences by Bruce Greyson

A new article of interest in the latest issue of the SSE magazine Edgescience, #46, at https://www.scientificexploration.org/do...nce-46.pdf.


I think so. It appears that there are enough cases of past life memories and reliving experiences occuring during NDEs to conclude that both NDEs and reincarnation memories, though they are somewhat different and separate paranormal phenomena, are to be expected because they are both part of the same reality. 

It is a little discouraging that Greyson, one of the leading scientific authorities on NDEs, still poses this as a question, as if he is undecided himself.

I don't think it's accessible to read freely yet (although you can request a pdf from the author, Bruce Greyson, here), but the latest issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies (I got it this week) is about Greyson's book (mostly in a back and forth with a naturalist scholar about psychedelics possibly explaining NDEs), and the last article by Greyson is called "Near-Death Experiences and Claims of Past-Life Memories". I haven't compared it but possibly it delves a bit more into the matter, as the editor's foreword explain this is material for his book that was deleted by his book editors for space considerations.

I see the issue is detailed here (bottom one: Fall 2021):
https://www.iands.org/research/publicati...nds39.html

And you can click on the link of each article within it to see an abstract and the beginning of the paper. Here's the one for the last article:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/675...dc2017035/

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And you can click on the link of each article within it to see an abstract and the beginning of the paper. Here's the one for the last article:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/675...dc2017035/

If my eyes are not confusing me, I think it's possible to read the whole article here.