One of the more rational writers out there on the paranormal is Chris Carter (no, not that one, or that one) – his books Parapsychology and the Skeptics (now titled Science and Psychic Phenomenona) and Science and the Near Death Experience are cogent, well-argued explorations of the research into parapsychology and the evidence for an afterlife. So I’m eager to get my hands on his latest book, Science and the Afterlife Experience, released last week. Here’s the back cover blurb:
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 describing the afterlife from the dead themselves, 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 – that consciousness not only survives death and continues in the afterlife but also that it precedes birth as well.
You can find out more about Science and the Afterlife Experience at the Inner Traditions website, which features the table of contents and also an excerpt from the book.
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