Survival of Human Consciousness

Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

According to several recent polls, more than 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death. Of those, many adhere to their beliefs because of religious faith. Beyond religion, though, there is increasing scientific examination of life after death hypotheses. Both religious and secular believers are more frequently using empirical research to answer the key questions of how consciousness may transcend corporeal life and death.These essays from leading survival theoreticians scientifically assay the issues and evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, it covers diverse topics including the origins of life after death hypotheses; theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to afterlife research; hallucination experiences; evidence for consciousness survival; birthmarks and previous-life memories; suicide; and spirit participation. Concluding chapters discuss the future of afterlife research and offer a new interpretation of consciousness survival.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:319
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786427727

Utforska kategorier

Ande, kropp och själ inom Ande, kropp och själ
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

The late Michael A. Thalbourne worked in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Lance Storm works in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Recensioner i media

“belief in an afterlife may be one of the most persistent human traits...an eclectic collection of intriguing material...a wide range of phenomena exists that demonstrates human hopes and experiences of an afterlife”—PsycCritiques; “a key book...there can be no volume to be recommended more highly”—Network Review.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsForeword by James Houran Preface SECTION I. HISTORICAL ISSUES1. Refutation of the “Denial of Death” Hypothesis 2. Mystical Experience and the Afterlife SECTION II. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES3. Mind, Matter and Death 4. Conversations About Survival: Novel Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Approaches to Afterlife Research 5. Hallucination Proneness and Experiences Related to Survival 6. Constructing Time After Death: The Transcendental-Future Time Perspective SECTION III. EVIDENTIAL ISSUES7. Evidence for Survival from Recent Research into Physical Phenomena 8. On Apparitions and Mediumship: An Examination of the Evidence That Personal Consciousness Persists After Death 9. Getting Through the Grief: After-Death Communication Experiences and Their Effects on Experients 10. Birthmarks and Claims of Previous-Life Memories: The Case of Purnima Ekanayake SECTION IV. SOCIOLOGICAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ISSUES11. What the Channeled Material of Suicides Tell Us About the Afterlife 12. Some Observations on Spirit Participation in Medium-Sitter Interaction and Its Organization 13. Origins of Belief in Life After Death: The Ritual Healing Theory and Near-Death Experience SECTION V. CONCLUSIONS14. Where Do We Go from Here? 15. A Solution: Radical Survivalism About the Contributors Index