Gregory Shushan, Ph.D.

Gregory Shushan, Ph.D., is a historian of religions specializing in near-death experiences and afterlife beliefs across cultures and throughout history. His books include Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations, the award-winning Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions, and The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife. He is also the editor of Mind Dust and White Crows: The Psychical Research of William James. Shushan has held research posts at the University of Oxford, University College London, University of Wales, University of Winchester, and the Centro Incontri Umani, Switzerland. He is currently working on near-death experiences in classical antiquity at Birmingham Newman and Liverpool Hope Universities.