The Survival of Human Consciousness
Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death
Edited by
Lance
Storm
and Michael A. Thalbourne
Foreword by James Houran ISBN
978-0-7864-2772-7
19 photos, bibliographies, index
319pp.
softcover
2006
Available for immediate shipment
Description
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.
About the Author
Lance Storm works in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Michael A. Thalbourne works in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
Reviews
"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
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