The Greyson Scale includes sixteen signs that a survivor has truly experienced a near-death experience. American researchers Robert and Suzanne Mays believe that seven of them are incidental. These are just specific cases based on the subjective experiences of individuals. For example, time slowed down or sped up, or the person “suddenly understood everything,” experienced a sense of peace, joy, and harmony with the universe. The authors categorized four more signs as less-common derivatives, but there are five main ones, and all of them confirm that human consciousness is not connected to the body.
After analyzing 565 stories of survivors, the authors concluded that over 98% of cases include at least one of the following:
– an out-of-body experience
– communication with mystical beings
– a visit to a non-earthly realm
– a bright light
– a boundary or point of no return.
At the beginning of their article, the authors ask how they would describe the essence of near-death experiences to a journalist Their answer: a human is an immaterial mind, united with a physical body. This is confirmed by stories of survivors about what they experienced after clinical death; such experiences are caused by the separation of consciousness from the body.
In addition, in an experiment conducted by REMspace, participants intentionally initiated a popular scenario of near-death experiences (flying through a tunnel towards a light) in another phase state—namely, lucid dreaming. Survivors’ memories are often similar simply because people have heard many stories of near-death experiences and may expect to experience similar events themselves.
Do you think the stories of survivors prove that a human is not a body?
The article was published in June 2024 in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
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