Lewis Griggs: An NDE to open Hearts
What Researchers Found
The Story
Lewis Brown Griggs, a privileged white male with degrees from Amherst and Stanford, had his first NDE after totaling his car in a Berkeley, California accident while questioning his life's purpose. He left his body and sped through a tunnel of energy into pure light, which he called The Source of all energy, light, love, spirit, consciousness, and knowledge. He realized all souls originate from this source, creating human diversity through DNA. A deep male voice told him he was sent back because he was not doing his work, which he understood as overcoming ethnocentrism from his upbringing to relate to people different from his tribe. He returned immediately without further instructions. After the NDE, doors opened for him to start the first U.S. diversity training in 1982. He co-founded a company, wrote books like 'Valuing Diversity,' produced videos, and spent 40 years training corporations, institutions, and agencies on inclusion, earning awards for healing racial and class divisions.
“life and that's why I'm back to love and to do that work that's all love it's”
The transcript features one vague veridical claim in the third NDE where the experiencer perceived via a visionary geodesic dome that other ICU patients died, later confirmed as true, but lacks specificity, impossible sensory access details, robust verification method, or timely reporting. Other NDEs involve spiritual insights without concrete physical veridical perceptions, limiting overall evidential strength.
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What Researchers Found
The transcript features one vague veridical claim in the third NDE where the experiencer perceived via a visionary geodesic dome that other ICU patients died, later confirmed as true, but lacks specificity, impossible sensory access details, robust verification method, or timely reporting. Other NDEs involve spiritual insights without concrete physical veridical perceptions, limiting overall evidential strength.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
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Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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