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Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death

Chances are you're either too willing, or too unwilling, to believe personal consciousness survives death. Some underestimate the evidence, not realizing how impressive the most convincing cases are. Others overestimate, rejecting alternative explanations too readily. In fact, several non-survivalist explanations (hidden or latent linguistic or artistic talents, extreme memory & psychic abilities) are as interesting as the survival hypothesis & may be more plausible. Immortal Remains looks at some of the puzzling cases & considers how to tell evidence for an afterlife from evidence for exotic things done by the living. Braude, who's done much research in parapsychology & dissociation, explores previously ignored issues about dissociation, creativity, linguistic skills, & the nature & limits of human abilities. He concludes we've some reason for believing in life after death.

Survival & Personal Identity

Survival & Anomalous Knowledge

The "Super-Psi" Hypothesis

What Else Is Wrong with the Literature on Survival

Drop-In Communicators

Outline of the Issues

The Cagliostro Case

Runki's Leg: The Case

Runki's Leg: Theoretical Considerations & Nagging Concerns

Trance Mediumship

Outline of Mrs Piper's Mediumship

Examples of Mrs Piper's Mediumship

Mrs Leonard's Mediumship

Mediumship & Super-ESP

Survival & the Causal Nexus

The Cross-Correspondences

The Case of Sharada: Psychopathology & Xenoglossy

Outline of the Case

Objections to Stevenson's Report

Akolkar's Report

Super-Psi & Knowledge-How

Xenoglossy & Dissociation

The Case of Patience Worth

Pearl Curran's Background

The History, Style & Personality of Patience Worth

Writing Samples

The Theoretical Challenge

Non-Survivalist Conjectures

Latency & Creativity: The Case of Helene Smith

Other Cases of Mediumistic Creativity

Survivalist Conjectures

Reincarnation & Possession

The Case of Bishen Chand

A Recent Early-Bird Case

The Antonia Case

The Sumitra/Shiva Case

The Thompson-Gifford Case

Lingering Spirits

Haunting: Preliminaries

Haunting: Comments

Transplant Cases

Transplant Cases: Comments

Out-of-Body Experiences

Why Externalism?

Distinctness & Independence

Apparitions & Reciprocal OBEs

Near-Death Experiences

An Appeal to Systematicity

Ideal Cases

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780742514720
  • Genres
  • psychology, paranormal
  • Release date
  • 2003