Science and the Afterlife Experience

Reveals the evidence of life beyond death , Examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the dead showing these phenomena are real , Reveals the existence of higher planes of consciousness where the souls of the dead can choose to advance or manifest once again on Earth *, Explains how these findings have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with materialist doctrines 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. The author examines historic and modern accounts of detailed past-life memories, visits from the deceased, and communications with the dead via medium and automatic writing as well as the scientific methods used to confirm these experiences. He explains how these findings on the afterlife have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with the prevailing doctrine of materialism. Sharing messages from the dead themselves describing the afterlife, Carter reveals how consciousness exists outside the parameters of biological evolution and emerges through the medium of the brain to use the physical world as a springboard for growth. After death, souls can advance to higher planes of consciousness or manifest once again on Earth. Carter's rigorous argument proves--beyond any reasonable doubt--not only that consciousness survives death and continues in the afterlife, but that it precedes birth as well.

Autorentext

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

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Reveals the evidence of life beyond death

• Examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the dead showing these phenomena are real

• Reveals the existence of higher planes of consciousness where the souls of the dead can choose to advance or manifest once again on Earth

• Explains how these findings have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with materialist doctrines

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.

The author examines historic and modern accounts of detailed past-life memories, visits from the deceased, and communications with the dead via medium and automatic writing as well as the scientific methods used to confirm these experiences. He explains how these findings on the afterlife have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with the prevailing doctrine of materialism. Sharing messages from the dead themselves describing the afterlife, Carter reveals how consciousness exists outside the parameters of biological evolution and emerges through the medium of the brain to use the physical world as a springboard for growth. After death, souls can advance to higher planes of consciousness or manifest once again on Earth. Carter's rigorous argument proves--beyond any reasonable doubt--not only that consciousness survives death and continues in the afterlife, but that it precedes birth as well.

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Foreword by Robert Almeder

Introduction

Psychic Phenomena and the Near-Death Experience: Background**

Part I
Reincarnation

1 Evidence from India to England
2 Characteristics of Reincarnation Cases
3 Alternative Explanations for Reincarnation Evidence
4 The Objections of Paul Edwards
5 Reincarnation in Review

Part II
Apparitions

6 Strange Visits
7 Characteristics and Theories of Apparitions
8 What Underlies Ghostly Visions?
9 Final Thoughts on Apparitions

Part III
Messages from the Dead

10 Ancient Evidence
11 The SPR Investigates
12 Alternative Explanations
13 Super-ESP as an Explanation?
14 Cross Correspondences
15 The Lethe Experiment
16 Evaluation of the Cross Correspondences

Part IV
Conclusions

17 How the Case for Survival Stands Today
18 Is Survival a Fact?
19 What the Dead Say

**Epilogue

Appendix: The Dream Child

Notes

Bibliography

Index**