Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence

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This book presents the most complete survey to date of the evidence, both historical and contemporary, for survival of physical death.It gives a broad and knowledgeable treatment of many fields from which evidence can be drawn as seen in the table of contents listed below. CONTENTS Foreword 4 Introduction 6 Chapter 1 Survival of Death: Questions and Beliefs 10 Chapter 2 Evidence from Modern Parapsychology 16 Chapter 3 Evidence from Apparitions 25 Chapter 4 Hauntings 55 Chapter 5 Mediumship: History and Background 91 Chapter 6 Mental Mediumship 115 Chapter 7 Three Outstanding Mental Mediums 121 Chapter 8 Drop-in Communicators and the Cross-Correspondences 157 Chapter 9 Proxy Cases 190 Chapter 10 Are Statements by Mediums Too General and Too Trivial? 219 Chapter 11 Physical Mediumship: Independent Voice Phenomena 230 Chapter 12 Physical Mediumship: Materializations and Other Phenomena 244 Chapter 13 Physical Mediumship: More Recent Examples and the Question of Fraud 295 Chapter 14 Instrumental Transcommunication 352 Chapter 15 Near-Death Experiences 382 Chapter 16 Out-of-the-Body Experiences 406 Chapter 17 Reincarnation 426 Chapter 18 The Nature of an Afterlife 443 Conclusion 468 References 470 Index 482