Science of Life After Death
SpringerBriefs in Psychology
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 85
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
- EAN: 9783031060557
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Moreira-Almeida, Alexander; Costa, Marianna de Abreu; Coelho, Humberto Schubert
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This book examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death. It begins with a contextual overview of belief in personal survival and refutes misguided historical and epistemological arguments against the notion of survival after death (e.g., irrational, purely religious, impossible to be addressed by science, that has been proved false by neuroscience). The book provides an overview of the scientific evidence regarding the survival of human consciousness after death, focusing on studies on mediumship, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and reincarnation.
Featured topics of coverage include:
- The belief in life after death in the contemporary world as well as in the history of religions and philosophy.
- The key misguided arguments and prejudices against the academic study of afterlife survival.
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