Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. It’s probably not a spoiler to let readers know that a book about a ...

Some experiences at the edge of life are hard to explain but impossible to ignore. These are the kinds of events or moments that make you pause and think deeper about life and the universe. Ready to ...

Dr. Bruce Greyson can’t say for certain what happens when you die, but he’s talked to many people with unique perspectives: They were technically dead before being revived. “Most who have near-death ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top ...

Near-death experiences are one of the most puzzling phenomena in psychology. A near-death experience is when a person appears to be clinically ‘dead’ for a short period—when their heart stops beating, ...

Maria, as a result of a heart attack, died in the emergency room of a hospital. While doctors and nurses frantically worked to resuscitate her, Maria experienced an out-of-body event that she later ...

The man sitting across from me introduces himself as a house painter. His near-death experience followed a severe fall from a ladder: fractured ribs, internal bleeding, loss of consciousness before ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top ...