Chapter 1 Preliminaries Chapter 2 Drop-In Communicators Chapter 3 Trance Mediumship Chapter 4 The Case of Sharada: Psychopathology and Xenoglossy Chapter 5 The Case of Patience Worth Chapter 6 Reincarnation and Possession Chapter 7 Lingering Spirits Chapter 8 Out-of-Body Experiences Chapter 9 Conclusion
Stephen E. Braude is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Braude takes great care to clearly define concepts and summarize
the case material in sufficient detail for the educated lay reader
to follow his argument. This book does much more than present a
case for personal postmodern survival. Immortal Remains not only
contains Braude's personal perspective, but also highlights the
state of the debate thus far. Even one with just a slight interest
in survival research would do well to get acquainted with Braude
and the philosophers with whom he puts himself into conversation
throughout the book. Finally, he tackles these difficult issues
with clear language and suitable wit, making Immortal Remains both
a thought-provoking and entertaining read.
*Journal of Scientific Exploration*
Stephen Braude is unique among those evaluating the evidence for an
after-life in that he manages to combine a sympathetic
consideration of favorable cases with an honest, penetrating
philosophical critique of them.
*Richard M. Gale, University of Pittsburgh*
[Braude's] research is thorough. He brings credibility to
parapsychology.
*Metapsychology Online*
Braude's treatment is psychologically much more sophisticated than
most previous attempts to evaluate the literature. The book is
worth close study. There are also touches of humor that lighten the
seriousness of the topic. Professor Braude has produced a
prodigious and fascinating work for which we can only offer our
thanks.
*Australian Journal of Parapsychology*
Lucid and comprehensive, Stephen Braude's Immortal Remains is
certainly one of the best assessments ever written—perhaps, the
best ever written—of the evidence for human survival of bodily
death.
*Raymond Martin, Union College*
As one would expect . . . Dr. Braude gives us a solid work of
critical scholarship. He employs considerable philosophical and
psychological sophistication.
*The Christian Parapsychologist*
Imaginative, detailed, and well written.
*Journal of the Society for Psychical Research*
This book is impressive. The author is a respected philosopher and
parapsychologist whose works on psi, multiple personality, and
other subjects are exemplars of scholarship...Superlatives are in
order. This is the best book on survival that I have read.
*Journal Of Parapsychology*
I welcome this book as an important contribution to the debate on
whether or not we survive physical death. Scholarly, carefully
argued and elegantly written, I hope it achieves the success it so
clearly deserves.
*The Scientific and Medical Network*
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