Science and the Afterlife Experience

by Carter, Chris; Almeder, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781594774522
• ISBN10: 1594774528
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-22
• Publisher: Inner Traditions

Summary

In this book Chris Carter shows that evidence of life beyond death exists and has been around for millennia, predating any organized religion. Focusing on three key phenomena-reincarnation, apparitions, and communications from the dead-Carter reveals 125 years of documented scientific studies by independent researchers and the British and American Societies for Psychical Research that rule out hoaxes, fraud, and hallucinations and prove these afterlife phenomena are real.

Author Biography

Chris Carter received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Oxford. The author of Science and the Near-Death Experience and Science and Psychic Phenomena, he is originally from Canada and currently teaches internationally.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Psychic Phenomena and the Near-Death Experience: Background	p. 6
Reincarnation
Evidence from India to England	p. 18
Characteristics of Reincarnation Cases	p. 33
Alternative Explanations for Reincarnation Evidence	p. 41
The Objections of Paul Edwards	p. 51
Reincarnation in Review	p. 65
Apparitions
Strange Visits	p. 72
Characteristics and Theories of Apparitions	p. 78
"What Underlies Ghostly Visions?	p. 93
Final Thoughts on Apparitions	p. 125
Messages from the Dead
Ancient Evidence	p. 130
The SPR Investigates	p. 137
Alternative Explanations	p. 151
Super-ESP as an Explanation?	p. 176
Cross Correspondences	p. 222
The Lethe Experiment	p. 234
Evaluation of the Cross Correspondences	p. 257
Conclusions
How the Case for Survival Stands Today	p. 266
Is Survival a Fact?	p. 279
What the Dead Say	p. 291
Epilogue	p. 319
Appendix: The Dream Child	p. 329
Notes	p. 332
Bibliography	p. 345
Index	p. 360
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