Survival of Human Consciousness

The late Michael A. Thalbourne worked in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Lance Storm works in the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

• Table of ContentsForeword by James Houran      Preface      SECTION I. HISTORICAL ISSUES1. Refutation of the “Denial of Death” Hypothesis      2. Mystical Experience and the Afterlife      SECTION II. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES3. Mind, Matter and Death      4. Conversations About Survival: Novel Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Approaches to Afterlife Research      5. Hallucination Proneness and Experiences Related to Survival      6. Constructing Time After Death: The Transcendental-Future Time Perspective      SECTION III. EVIDENTIAL ISSUES7. Evidence for Survival from Recent Research into Physical Phenomena      8. On Apparitions and Mediumship: An Examination of the Evidence That Personal Consciousness Persists After Death      9. Getting Through the Grief: After-Death Communication Experiences and Their Effects on Experients      10. Birthmarks and Claims of Previous-Life Memories: The Case of Purnima Ekanayake      SECTION IV. SOCIOLOGICAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ISSUES11. What the Channeled Material of Suicides Tell Us About the Afterlife      12. Some Observations on Spirit Participation in Medium-Sitter Interaction and Its Organization      13. Origins of Belief in Life After Death: The Ritual Healing Theory and Near-Death Experience      SECTION V. CONCLUSIONS14. Where Do We Go from Here?      15. A Solution: Radical Survivalism      About the Contributors      Index

“belief in an afterlife may be one of the most persistent human traits...an eclectic collection of intriguing material...a wide range of phenomena exists that demonstrates human hopes and experiences of an afterlife”—PsycCritiques; “a key book...there can be no volume to be recommended more highly”—Network Review.