Overview

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.

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Author:   Lance Storm ,  Michael A. Thalbourne
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780786427727

ISBN 10:   0786427728
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   26 September 2006
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword by James Houran      Preface      SECTION I. HISTORICAL ISSUES 1. Refutation of the “Denial of Death” Hypothesis      2. Mystical Experience and the Afterlife      SECTION II. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES 3. 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 ISSUES 7. 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 ISSUES 11. 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. CONCLUSIONS 14. Where Do We Go from Here?      15. A Solution: Radical Survivalism      About the Contributors      Index     

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."

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.

“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.

Author Information

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.

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