Product Description

This title is a scientist's personal journey from scepticism to wonder and awe, aiming to answer the timeless question: is there life after death? In stringently monitored experiments, some extraordinary and uncanny revelations are revealed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65059 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

This book is a must and very thought-provoking record
this book is a must for anybody who has questioned the existance of life after death. It has a very scientific sounding title but don't be put off by that, it is a very easy book to read offers thought provoking rational insight into the other side. I am not an academic but I found this book, even with it's somewhat profound complicated appendices very easy to read and understand. Even Skeptics should read this book as it also explains some of the reasoning behind skeptism. This book connects science with religion and spirituality and leaves the reader feeling that they are never alone, but in the most warm and loving of contexts

A truly sensational read!!
I must admit that I am only half way through this book and it has turned me into a believer! I have always been cautious to read any books written by American scientists whose intention is to investigate the survival of consiousness, but Gary E Scwartz is a whole different ball game!

This book is very clearly written and easy to understand, his scientific investigations with the mediums are extremely professional and it is good that he constantly questions whether what he is seeing and hearing with his own senses is real. Never for a moment does he suggest that what he is investigating is real - he always remains firmly open minded, but largely more skeptical. He never forgets that he is a scientist whilst writing this book and it's great to know that someone so intelligent and cynical as himself, is looking into the notion of survival of consiousness with an open and scientific mind!

The book has many revelations and it is extremely thought-provoking. It's good that science is pondering the existence of consciousness after death and this book only confirms that this may in fact be a possibility! He has made a believer out of me! And I was once an ardent skeptic!
Dion, Leeds.

A serious challenge for the ultra-sceptics
This book is a highly readable and convincing account of a series of fairly exceptional and important scientific experiments.

Any scientific investigation of the hypothesis of after-death survival of consciousness has to rule out (beyond reasonable doubt), fraud, hallucination, cold-reading, chance or super-psi as opposing hypotheses for the results. With the occasional reservation,these experiments go a long way towards doing just that.

The experimental conditions, controls and data are well documented and the results present a serious challenge to the ultra-sceptics and reductionist-materialists.

Those in search of evidence for the after-life should definitely add this book to their collection. Also highly recommended is David Fontana's comprehensive overview `Is There An Afterlife?'.