Join me in exploring the scientific principles of success in life and leadership. I'm Hitendra Wadhwa, Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and Founder at Mentora Institute. I strive to bring a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership and human potential. Welcome to my official RU-vid channel.
My NDE was the polar opposite of what is normally reported. No white light, no feelings of love or acceptance, no welcoming group. There are no words to describe what I experienced but it was dark, chaotic, and painful. The closest analogy I can come up with is a full on street fight with a foe I couldn’t see and didn’t understand, and it went on for an eternity. According to the machine’s record my heart was stopped. According to the doctors I fought my way back for reasons they can’t explain, and my heart started an erratic beat. I eventually ended up with a pacemaker and a constant reminder that every moment could, indeed, be my last. But, other than that, my NDE has had little impact on my world view. I have long understood that we are all a part of an evolving experience we tend to call “the cosmos”, that compassion, humility, and the search for wisdom are the things that matter. And though I found the experience of dying unpleasant in the extreme, it isn’t anything I fear. But then, I didn’t fear death before the experience. But, in any case, my NDE wasn’t anything like what appears to be common.
I miss my Son and Daughter (their mother keeps them away after our falling out) miss my late Mum and Dad my sisters my nieces even the mother of my children. I miss you all and only want to be a good father brother uncle and friend. I love you all.
Thank you so much for this. I’ve had a few near-near-death experiences (long story why I use that term) and after one in the late 90’s I remember that everything I did was experienced with crystal clarity. Like, shortly after, doing dishes at my kitchen sink while looking out the window. It was sunny and everything was sparkling and glistening as if I was viewing a fantasy world. My life felt completely different after that. Things I feared (many work related things) suddenly became like a game and/or a puzzle. The fear and worry were gone (I’d even been homeless for a period and feared losing my job and returning to homelessness). After the one in the late ‘90’s I didn’t fear death at all. And when my mother died shortly after that particular experience, I wasn’t sad for her at all, I was happy for her. What I felt bad about was my surviving Dad and how profoundly it effected him. Something I’ve fallen back on in the years since that particular experience was that every day is a bonus. It has become my mantra when going through difficult times. This and eternity - that our lives are barely a blip in relation to eternity, so live every moment as if your last.
It only takes one experience where someone reports being alert and watching an event while ‘unconscious’ to prove that consciousness survives and is independent of the body.
The eloquence in his speech is amazing. He is deeply analytical, and yet even being that way he is able to step outside what he was trained in and can see the validity of people’s experiences. The fact that this man has put decades of work into something he knew would put his academic career in peril potentially… that is amazing. A good man, and I wish I could meet him. God bless, Professor.
Beautiful interview! I had a NDE when I went into respiratory failure in ICU 2 days after a 7 ½ hr surgery. 2 years later I am integrating this profound, life changing experience and the expanded awareness that continues to deepen in value for me.
The reality of NDE being more real than the physical experience. In my opinion, it is to do with the senses. Near Death is experienced with the soul's senses which are not limited. As in physical experience, we perceive with our physical senses which are limited so the experience is not as full as the ND experience.
Thank you, Hitendra, for hosting this enlightening session and thank you, Dr. Greyson, for being such a gracious guest. I'm enjoying your book right now, in part, to this interview. Thank you for all of your work and the way in which you present it.
At 23:21 Dr Greyson mentions that NDEers talk about mistakes and do not mention sins. Interestingly, the root meaning of the Hebrew word for sin means to "miss the mark" as in an archer that does not hit the bullseye. This interpretation opens up a great landscape of discussion on interpreting the bible and various church teachings about sin.
Schizophrenia is not illusions or hallucinations, it is entities. They are real. Look into the work of Dr Jerry Marzinsky as just one psychiatrist who has worked for 30 years in this field.
When you're still a skeptic after all that you've heard from people. there is nothing in the world that will ever make you certain but your own experience.
The 'black void' is exactly what happened to me in Feb 2012 Saturday aged 30. I was there in this black void/space with no pain, no anxiety etc just there neutral, not scared not happy just observing with vision... And to my right was this multi coloured energy of love, beauty and above all WISDOM pumping out the feeling of wisdom to me which overrided the love and beauty. I can't explain how, what or why but it was the energy of wisdom which was alive and all knowing. It was beautiful. How can the thought of wisdom be alive with energy and feeling? I never contimplated wisdom in my life beforehand. Anyway after that I then had my visitation from my loved one who passed away two months prior. Thanks
I've felt, inherently, that we all face a review, video of our lives for lack of a better description, when we transition from this physical life and also feel the effects of our actions with others.
Hi, iam from newzealand Wellington city. Dr could you post a link of the forum or people/group who are into NDE and paste life. I would like to connect to them.
We all want to be Loved, we all want to be respected, we all want to be heard, we all want to be treated fairly and truthfully, we all want good for our families 😊
*The human entity is NOT LIFE... "LIFE The Real Self" is non-Dimensional, and in NO WAY represents nor even remotely looks anything like any species, including the human species...* *In 1973 I was pronounced "DEAD On ARRIVAL" at a medical center ... More than half an hour passed, then my heart started again... During that time I, "LIFE The Real Self", entered the WHITE LIGHT, and have remained in the WHITE LIGHT to this day... Those who claim to have returned, have NOT recognized WHAT, The WHITE LIGHT actually is... When you do, and accept it, you shall remain in The LIGHT as I have...*
We don't " sense" leaving the body, we actually do leave the body. We don't sense peace, security, confidence, euphoria, love, were are all those and much much more
Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter. So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.
NDE are not mainstream. I only found out this year & showed to friends & family. Its incredible how most cling onto life not knowing a beautiful life after our physical life. Its reassuring knowing NDE's
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. A pattern handed down. But I was different . I broke the cycle by loving, caring and nurturing my children. I also experienced a Sleep Paralysis Demon Attack. Later after thinking about it. I believed God allowed it to happen. As to say “See Son, that was just a little taste.
Good stories. My problem is though is that thinking about anything supernatural makes my ocd really bad.. I'm not an atheist but not religious either, I can't follow any belief system, just doesn't come naturally. But I've always believed there is more to reality than just the physical
Dr Greyson! Spot on.. I felt my experience was a reminder to stick to the plan?.. Keep my faith, I could have gone down a bad rd!... All I know is the sense of Love is so overwhelming, Even for the Love of my Daughter I did NOT want to come back! Don't get me wrong I adore her... It was a shock to me.. I watched everything from above.. Sadly in a way I was Tethered back....
