Interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson “Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?”

I’ve been filming people under deep hypnosis for a decade.

It’s an odd gig, but somehow, in the midst of my film career writing and directing theatrical feature films (“Limit Up,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Camera/Dogme#15") I started a documentary about the work of Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist from Los Angeles who had spent his career interviewing people under deep hypnosis to see what they could tell him about the afterlife.

A close friend, Luana Anders, had passed away in 1996, but had started to “visit me” in dreams, sometimes visions and other ways that made me think she must still be “somewhere in existence.” As outline in my book and documentary “Flipside” I had the experience of “finding her” while under deep hypnosis, and I presented my 12 filmed cases to Dr. Greyson at the University of Virginia. (I’ve filmed 45 to date, and have examined the thousands of cases of Dr. Helen Wambach and Michael Newton’s cases a decade later.) They all say relatively the same things about the “afterlife.”

That research led me to Dr. Greyson’s doorstep, where he has been researching near death experiences for decades. He showed me his office where hundreds of case studies remain as of yet unexamined. He’s considered the godfather of the scientific community in this field, and…