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
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.
“Chris Carter addresses the question that is, or should be, the
single most important question for any being that considers
himself—or suspects himself to be—mortal. He argues that this is
not the case. If he is right than this is not only the single most
life-transforming realization for a mortal or perhaps immortal
being, but also one of the most potent realizations that could
prompt such a being to enter on a better path during his or her
known life. And a better path is one that people now absolutely
need to enter upon now if they are to thrive as individuals, and if
humanity is to survive as a species.”
*Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D., author of The New Science and Spirituality
Reader and Science and the Akashic F*
“The evidence in favour of an afterlife is vast and varied. The
evidence from near-death experiences and deathbed visions was
described in two previous books by Chris Carter. Science and the
Afterlife is the final work of his trilogy, and one will see in
this wonderful book that we do indeed have strongly repeatable
evidence for the continuity of consciousness after physical death,
based on children who remember previous lives, reports of
apparitions, and communication from the deceased. What all these
cases show is that human personality survives death and, by
implication, human consciousness can exist independently of a
functioning brain. When one has read the overwhelming evidence as
described in this excellent book it seems quite impossible not to
be convinced that there should be some form of life after death.
Any continuing opposition to the evidence is based on nothing more
than willful ignorance or ideology. Highly recommended.”
*Pim van Lommel, M.D., author of Consciousness Beyond Life*
“Chris Carter’s Science and the Afterlife Experience is a vigorous,
detailed exploration of survival following physical death. It is a
withering rebuttal of the perennial, timeworn, anemic arguments of
skeptics. This book is extraordinarily important-for, as Jung said,
‘The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something
infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.’ This
brilliant book is an antidote to the fear of death and
annihilation. It will help any reader find greater meaning, hope,
and fulfillment in life.”
*Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions and the
New York Times bestseller, Healing W*
“…evidence that consciousness survives bodily death is overwhelming
for those with open minds. Chris Carter has presented some of the
best evidence offered by the near-death experience. In this book,
he astutely examines impressive and irrefutable evidence coming to
us from the study of reincarnation, apparitions, and mediumship.
It’s informative, interesting, intriguing, and inspirational.”
*Michael Tymn, author of The Afterlife Revealed and The Afterlife
Explorers*
“This clearly written book, by one of the world’s few experts on
what evidence actually bears on the survival question, points to
some kind of survival. If that fact doesn’t grab your attention and
make you want to know more – you’re not thinking.”
*Charles Tart PhD., Professor Emeritus of Psychology University of
California, Davis; a Senior Fellow*
“The third volume of Chris Carter’s trilogy may be the best.
Reincarnation, ghostlike visions, and messages from the dead make
for some very stimulating reading. As an historical chronicle alone
this would be a valuable work. But Carter’s historical treatment
also combines philosophy and analysis into an always interesting
and well–organized treatise.”
*Robert Bobrow, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Family
Medicine, Department of Family Medicine,*
“‘Survival of human consciousness past the point of biological
death is a fact.’ That will seem an extraordinary claim to some,
and they may reasonably demand extraordinary evidence to support
it. Carter has both made the claim and provided the evidence.”
*Guy Lyon Playfair, author of This House is Haunted, If This Be
Magic, and Twin Telepathy*
“Scientists and philosophers who have seriously studied the
phenomenon of mediumship have concluded that there are only two
hypotheses that, if true, would account for all the observed
empirical data: either (i) human consciousness survives the death
of its body or (ii) human consciousness possesses extraordinary
abilities known as super–ESP. In Science and the Afterlife
Experience, Chris Carter presents the data supporting survival with
remarkable clarity and shows that the so–called “super–ESP”
hypothesis is pseudo–science, and that its “purpose” is not to
advance knowledge but rather to block an otherwise straight–forward
inference from empirical data to the hypothesis of survival. With
the “super–ESP” hypothesis disposed of, Carter boldly (and
correctly, in my opinion) concludes that the survival of
consciousness after the death of the body is a scientific fact, as
well established as any other scientific fact.”
*Neal Grossman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University
of Illinois at Chicago*
“Addiction to the materialistic paradigm has wreaked immense havoc
upon the world over the last few centuries. Many believe it has
brought us to the brink of an apocalypse. Chris Carter opens this
marvelous book with a statement of concurrence with philosopher
David Griffen on the current dire predicament wrought by this
addiction, and how it has reached a crucial juncture. Coming to
know that our souls do not die with our bodies but they have a much
grander role on the stage of eternity, offers a glorious reprieve
from this ignominious fate that is the inevitable result of limited
materialistic beliefs. This book proceeds through a detailed review
of reincarnation, apparitions and messages from the dead. In my
opinion, he establishes the existence of the afterlife beyond a
reasonable doubt. I congratulate him on such a solid synthesis of
the relevant data and arguments, both for and against.”
*Eben Alexander III, M.D., Director of Research, The Monroe
Institute, Faber, VA, author of Proof of*
“Those who think they already know the answers don’t need to waste
their time with this book. For the rest of us, it is a gem. We
should drop the pretense that the question of survival is not
worthy of the attention of really smart people. It is and always
has been the key question of humans throughout history. Thank you,
Chris Carter, for shedding light on this, the Greatest
Question.”
*Larry Dossey, MD., author of The Power of Premonitions and
Reinventing Medicine*
“[Chris Carter] presents something for everyone in a finely
researched package that comes to its conclusions in a way that
utilizes the scientific method.”
*Jennifer Hoskins, New Dawn, January 2013*
“An intriguing dissection of consciousness and what it means to the
history of our lives and world, Science and the Afterlife
Experience is a strong addition to metaphysical spirituality
collections, recommended.”
*Midwest Book Review, March 2013*
“Carter has seemingly touched all the bases in thoroughly and
effectively examining the evidence for life after death.”
*Michael Tymn s., Fate Magazine, June 2013*
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