In every case cited by Greyson and his colleagues, the dying person found themselves outside their body and often looking down from above as doctors or bystanders tried to save them. Many also claimed to have perceptions that were not constrained by ordinary human perspectives. “In my wanderings there was a strange consciousness that I could see through the walls of the building,” recorded a British army officer named Alexander Ogston, who almost died of typhoid fever at a military hospital around 1900. “I saw plainly, for instance, a poor Royal Army Medical surgeon, of whose existence I had
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