Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

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“While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither understood or accepted, even though their reality has profound implications for understanding the true breadth of the human psyche and its possible continuity after death.” So begins Leslie Kean’s impeccably researched, page-turning investigation, revealing stunning and wide-ranging evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death. In her groundbreaking second book, she continues her examination of unexplained phenomena that began with her provocative New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. Kean explores the most compelling case studies of young children reporting verifiable details from past lives, contemporary mediums who seem to defy the boundaries of the brain and of the physical world, apparitions providing information about their lives on earth, and people who die and then come back to report journeys into another dimension. Based on facts and scientific studies, Surviving Death includes fascinating chapters by medical doctors, psychiatrists, and PhDs from four countries. As a seasoned journalist whose work transcends belief systems and ideology, Kean enriches the narrative by including her own unexpected, confounding experiences encountered while she probed the question concerning all of us: Do we survive death? Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Dedication......Page 7 Introduction......Page 8 Part One: Is There “Life” Before Birth?......Page 21 Chapter 1: “Airplane Crash on Fire!”......Page 22 Chapter 2: The Case of James 3......Page 39 Chapter 3: Investigating Cases of Children with Past-Life Memories by Jim B. Tucker, MD......Page 46 Chapter 4: “The Old Me” by Cyndi Hammons......Page 57 Chapter 5: Fifty-five Verified Memories......Page 69 Part Two: To Death and Back Again......Page 81 Chapter 6: The Shoe on the Ledge by Kimberly Clark Sharp, MSW......Page 82 Chapter 7: Journeys out of Body......Page 90 Chapter 8: “Actual-Death” Experiences......Page 98 Chapter 9: The NDE and Nonlocal Consciousness by Pim Van Lommel, MD......Page 111 Chapter 10: Intermission Memories: Life Between Lives......Page 123 Chapter 11: End-of-Life Experiences by Peter Fenwick, MD......Page 128 Photo Insert......Page 143 Part Three: Communications from Nonlocal Minds......Page 168 Chapter 12: My First “Personal Experiment”......Page 169 Chapter 13: An Almost Perfect Reading......Page 178 Chapter 14: Research into Mental Mediumship by Julie Beischel, PhD......Page 186 Chapter 15: How Do They Do It?......Page 196 Chapter 16: Finding George......Page 203 Chapter 17: Trance Mediumship and Drop-in Communicators by Alan Gauld, PhD, DLitt......Page 211 Chapter 18: Seeking the White Crow......Page 235 Chapter 19: After-Death Communications......Page 238 Chapter 20: Interactive Apparitions by Loyd Auerbach, MS......Page 259 Photo Insert......Page 277 Part Four: The Impossible Made Real......Page 299 Chapter 21: Human-Generated Phenomena......Page 300 Chapter 22: From Object Movements to Materialized Hands......Page 311 Chapter 23: Possible Evidence of Survival by Erlendur Haraldsson, PhD......Page 324 Chapter 24: The Enigma of Full-Form Materializations......Page 334 Chapter 25: My Astonishing Second “Personal Experiment”......Page 349 Chapter 26: A Life in Two Worlds by Stewart Alexander......Page 372 Conclusion......Page 383 Notes......Page 389 Acknowledgments......Page 431 About the Author......Page 434