Dying to Live: Science and the Near-death Experience

by SusanBlackmore (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.39

  Near-death experiences hit the popular imagination in 1975, with Raymond Moody's book Life after Life . The appeal was immediate and the idea was born that people could leave their bodies, experience wonderful encounters with a being of light and then pass onto other worlds and still come back to tell the tale. Since then, research has flourished, but a split has developed between those who think that NDEs are evidence for life after death and those who argue that they are just the product of a dying brain. This book attempts to bridge the scientific (reductionist) and spiritual (holistic) viewpoints, arguing that there is no soul and no hope for life after death, but that nonetheless a very special spiritual transformation occurs.