…running in those early days and continue to support us today’.1Boccuzzi & Beishel (2018). 2008-2016 Until 2016, the Institute ran three research programmes: afterlife science (focusing primarily on mediums and mediumship), basic and applied parapsychology, and non-human animal consciousness. Afterlife Science Research This program, which moved to the Windbridge Research…
…Augustine, 529-69. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield. Appleton, N. (2014). Narrating Karma and Rebirth: Buddhist and Jain Multi-Life Stories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Augustine, K. (2015). Introduction. In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, ed. by M. Martin & K. Augustine, 1-47. Lanham, Maryland,…
…website called the Secular Web, ‘dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview in the Internet’.22https://infidels.org/contact-us/about-us/ Augustine has written about reincarnation chiefly in a blog post and in The Myth of an Afterlife, a book he co-edited.23Augustine (2015), 23-27; Augustine (n.d.). In his writings, Augustine cites critical secondary works by…
…postmortem state: the transition to the afterlife, the afterlife itself, and the nature of the spiritual body. There is a consistent emphasis on the afterlife as a substantial, tangible place, in which individuals, having shed the physical body, take the form of an etherial/spiritual body that retains many of the…
…Mediumship Research Schwartz’s first activity in parapsychology was to test the veridicality of mediumistic communications, reported in his book, the Afterlife Experiments (2002)2Schwartz & Simon (2002). and in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.3Schwartz & Russek (2001);Schwartz et al (2002). In an initial single-blind experiment, funded and filmed…
Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon and brain researcher who underwent a near-death experience in 2008 during a coma caused by bacterial meningitis. In 2012 he published a bestselling autobiographical book about his experience, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. He has subsequently written two follow-up books…
…A Case of Multple Personality with Imaginary Languages. Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press. Flournoy, T. (1902). Nouvelles observations sur un cas de somnambullisme avec glossolalie. Archives de Psychologie 1, 101-255. Fontana, D. (2005). Is There an Afterlife? Hampshire, UK: O Books. Gauld, A. (1968). The Founders of Psychical…
…as pupil size and cardiac response for signs of anticipation before stimuli appeared. He has also explored psychokinetic effects, brain-to-brain communication, out-of-body experience and afterlife-related claims. Meta-analyses form a major part of his contribution, especially in areas where single studies remain small or methodologically contested. Summary Patrizio Tressoldi is an…
…to the doctrine of reincarnation. What is it that reincarnates if the mind is simply a stream of fleeting cognita with no self or observer? Also, the simultaneous postulation of an afterlife and denial of a continuing self seems contradictory. The Buddhist notion of ‘no self’ appears nonsensical. The same…
