What Survives : Contemporary Explorations of Life after Death Book

What is it like to die? Do any key aspects of a human being survive death? what do ancient religion and modern science tell us about survival? Are out-of-body experiences a window on survival after death?

With the rise of Western scientific culture, the belief in the immortality of the soul lost all credibility. Recently, however, a revival of interest in near-death experiences has sparked research into altered states of consciousness, mysticism, and shamanistic practices, shedding new light on the possibility of life after death.

In this fascinating exploration of these perennial questions, the reader comes face to face with novel phenomena: apparitions of deceased relatives, sensations of traveling through tunnels of light, apparent memories of earlier lifetimes, even meetings with spirits who inhabit other worlds. Do these experiences portend the fate of human consciousness after death? Or are they nothing but hallucinations induced in an individual's dying brain by the trauma of death?

For lovers of parapsycholoogy, philosophy, and metaphysics, for grieving people faced with the loss of a loved one, or the aged and terminally ill facing their own deaths, this collection of original and authoritative writings traces the belief in survival from native cultures to current insights.

Recently there has been a renewed interest in immortality, sparked by research into altered states of consciousness and mysticism into altered states of consciousness and mysticism. This collection of original writings by Colin Watson. This collection of original writings by Colin Wilson, Ran Dass, Kenneth Ring, and others allows the reader the reader to examine the possibility of survival beyond biological death from many viewpoints.