The near-death experience scale: Construction, reliability, and validity
Bruce Greyson · 1983 · Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 171(6), 369–375
This source is used as methodology evidence across 2 linked claims and 4 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Construction and validation of the standard 16-item Greyson NDE Scale used by virtually all subsequent NDE research.
How this source is used on the map
Methodological backbone of empirical NDE research — without this scale most later studies could not be compared.
Citation record
- Authors
- Bruce Greyson
- Year
- 1983
- Publication
- Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 171(6), 369–375
- Source type
- Study
- Map role
- methodology
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-198306000-00007
- PubMed
- Recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
A panoramic, often empathic re-experiencing of one's life — common in NDE samples, with strong moral aftereffects.
A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.
Related evidence hubs
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
The nature of subjective experience.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
Related research reports
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
What NDE studies support, what they do not prove, and why the phenomenon remains one of the strongest spiritual-adjacent evidence clusters.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Related sources
Useful authority source for careful language: it separates recalled experiences of death from broad spiritual conclusions and lays out better future-study standards.
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
Standard reference body for NDE-related claims; archives many first-person accounts and links to peer-reviewed work.
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
Modern follow-up to AWARE that keeps the page current and helps distinguish reported awareness during resuscitation from stronger afterlife interpretations.
Most-cited rigorous attempt at empirically testing claims of conscious awareness during clinical death.