Gregory Shushan

Gregory Shushan, PhD, is the leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history. He is the author of Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions (Oxford 2018), and Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations (Bloomsbury 2009). Dr. Shushan has been Perrott-Warrick Researcher at University of Oxford's Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Scholar-in Residence at the Centro Incontri Umani (The Cross Cultural Centre), Ascona, Switzerland, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has lectured at universities in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland and has given numerous talks on his research in nine countries. He holds degrees in Religious Studies (University of Wales Lampeter), Research Methods for the Humanities, Egyptian Archaeology (University College London), and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology (Birbeck College, University of London). Together with his sister Robin Shushan, he is co-creator of an afterlife-themed television drama "Soul Survivors," a second television series about a future far-right (dis)United States, "America, Inc.," and a sci-fi thriller feature "The Graviton Wave" (all in development).