Death and Consciousness

by Lund, David H.

• ISBN13: 9780786467464
• ISBN10: 0786467460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-26
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Does bodily death constitute the complete destruction of a person? The first part of this scholarly book defends the view that the nature of man and the world he encounters implies survival of death as a conceptual possibility. The second part considers the empirical evidence for concluding that at least some persons have survived death. A new kind of understanding, among readers, might result from following the concepts logically developed in this work. It applies real life terminology and experience to the interpretation of death survival experiences.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Scope and Method of the Study	p. 1
The Case Against Belief in Survival	p. 5
The Nature of the Self	p. 10
The Role of the Body	p. 23
Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?	p. 28
A Conception of Surviving in Another World	p. 41
Science and the Paranormal	p. 67
Out-of-the-Body Experience	p. 71
Death-Bed Experiences	p. 95
Apparitions and Hauntings	p. 104
Mental Mediumship	p. 120
Claimed Memories of Prior Lives	p. 155
God and Christianity	p. 169
Concluding Remarks	p. 176
Notes	p. 183
Index	p. 191
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