Survival of Human Consciousness Essays on the Possibilities of Life after Death

Name: Survival of Human Consciousness Essays on the Possibilities of Life after Death
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ISBN: 9780786427727

ISBN-10: 0786427728

ISBN-13: 9780786427727

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lance Storm, Michael A. Thalbourne, James Houran

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 9/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Historical Issues



Refutation of the "Denial of Death" Hypothesis




Mystical Experience and the Afterlife




Theoretical and Experimental Issues



Mind, Matter and Death




Conversations About Survival: Novel Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Approaches to Afterlife Research




Hallucination Proneness and Experiences Related to Survival




Constructing Time After Death: The Transcendental-Future Time Perspective




Evidential Issues



Evidence for Survival from Recent Research into Physical Phenomena




On Apparitions and Mediumship: An Examination of the Evidence That Personal Consciousness Persists After Death




Getting Through the Grief: After-Death Communication Experiences and Their Effects on Experients




Birthmarks and Claims of Previous-Life Memories: The Case of Purnima Ekanayake




Sociological and Phenomenological Issues



What the Channeled Material of Suicides Tell Us About the Afterlife




Some Observations on Spirit Participation in Medium-Sitter Interaction and Its Organization




Origins of Belief in Life After Death: The Ritual Healing Theory and Near-Death Experience




Conclusions



Where Do We Go from Here?




A Solution: Radical Survivalism



About the Contributors


Index