If you have had a near-death experience or other unexplained experience, you are invited to be in communication with Dr. Bruce Greyson and his team of researchers. Dr. Greyson would like to correspond with as many NDErs as possible. The other researchers and their specialties are listed below. When you respond, please send your name and postal address and/or e-mail address. Accounts can be sent as well. If not, they will ask for them later.

You can read about the research Dr. Greyson's team is doing on their website, www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/personalitystudies. This research includes not only NDEs, but deathbed visions, and other phenomena that suggest we may survive bodily death. Visit the website and click on “Types of Experiences We Study” for an interesting read. Then you can respond by contacting Dr. Greyson at (cbg4d@virginia.edu) to report near-death experiences, or Dr. Jim Tucker (jbt8n@virginia.edu) to report children with memories of previous lives, or Dr. Emily Kelly (ewc2r@virginia.edu) to report any other experiences, such as apparitions, deathbed visions, and communications from deceased loves ones.

Dr. Greyson's follow-up involves getting an account of the NDE itself, supplemented by a rather detailed and comprehensive questionnaire that addresses a lot of aspects people often don’t think to include in their narrative accounts, and finally a host of short questionnaires that address spirituality, attitudes and personality traits.

If you respond to Dr. Greyson or to anyone on his team, you can be assured that everything you tell will be completely confidential. For example, Dr. Greyson generally publishes only aggregate numbers (i. e., “x percentage of experiencers report y phenomenon”), and selected anonymous NDE accounts if they are particularly illustrative of certain points. He would never include in any publication or presentation of his research any identifying information, such as someone’s age, location, etc. without their prior written permission.

Dr. Bruce Greyson, M. D. is the Carlson Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Personality Studies of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School in Charlottesville. He has been studying near-death experiences since 1975, when he worked with Raymond Moody, the psychiatrist who coined the term, “near-death experience.” Dr. Greyson was one of the founders of IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies), and was its Research Director and President for many years. He has remained the editor of IANDS’ Journal of Near-Death Studies for the past 23 years, and has published articles about NDEs in mainstream medical journals with the hope of educating doctors and nurses about how common and how normal NDEs are.

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