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Reveals the evidence of life beyond death • Examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the dead showing these phenomena are real • Reveals the existence of higher planes of consciousness where the souls of the dead can choose to advance or manifest once again on Earth • Explains how these findings have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with materialist doctrines In this book, Chris Carter shows that evidence of life beyond death exists and has been around for millennia, predating any organized religion. Focusing on three key phenomena--reincarnation, apparitions, and communications from the dead--Carter reveals 125 years of documented scientific studies by independent researchers and the British and American Societies for Psychical Research that rule out hoaxes, fraud, and hallucinations and prove these afterlife phenomena are real. The author examines historic and modern accounts of detailed past-life memories, visits from the deceased, and communications with the dead via medium and automatic writing as well as the scientific methods used to confirm these experiences. He explains how these findings on the afterlife have been ignored and denied because they are incompatible with the prevailing doctrine of materialism. Sharing messages from the dead themselves describing the afterlife, Carter reveals how consciousness exists outside the parameters of biological evolution and emerges through the medium of the brain to use the physical world as a springboard for growth. After death, souls can advance to higher planes of consciousness or manifest once again on Earth. Carter’s rigorous argument proves--beyond any reasonable doubt--not only that consciousness survives death and continues in the afterlife, but that it precedes birth as well.
Excerpt from On the Threshold of the Unseen: An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism and of the Evidence for Survival After Death "A mind unwilling to believe, or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking the evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. The man who announces his intention of waiting until a single absolutely conclusive bit of evidence turns up, is really a man not open to conviction, and if he be a logician he knows it. For modern logic has made it plain that single facts can never be 'proved' except by their coherence in a system. But as all the facts come singly anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the conditions under which the conviction of new truth could ever arise in his mind." During the greater part of the last century, and that which preceded it, the learned world as a whole treated with scorn and contempt all those obscure psychical phenomena which lie between the territory already conquered by science and the dark realms of ignorance and superstition. Many causes have in recent years contributed to lessen this aversion, which is not only passing away but giving place to an earnest desire to know what trustworthy evidence exists on behalf of super-normal, - often, but erroneously, called super-natural, - phenomena. Although many eminent scientific men in the past and present generation, both in England and abroad, have testified to the genuineness and importance of these phenomena official science still stands aloof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This is a book about science, religion, and the world in between. I was born into a Christian family, but fell out of religion and in love with the scientific method. I had little need of faith, I thought, when science could tell me so much more about the world, and ask so little of me in return. But as I aged into young adulthood, a new chapter of my story began. Did I really know why I believed what I believed? How could I be so certain of my convictions when I hadn't even honestly considered the evidence? This book traces my journey through the furthest reaches of thought, a journey that took me through the realms of psychology, biology, physics, and belief. Could I find a place for faith in the modern world? Or was I right to cast it off as I did?
Explore a riveting collection of scientific theories, first-hand experiences, and spine-chilling stories that beg the question: Is there a parallel world that we can?t see? For centuries people have reported odd occurrences that defy explanation. And a fascination with the mystical still exists today. Movies such as Ghost and The Sixth Sense and TV shows like The X-Files entertain our curiosity with the unexplained. The six expert authors of Unseen World will guide you through a wide spectrum of mysterious events. With the help of eyewitness accounts, more than 100 black-and-white photographs, and ?Bare Bones? sidebars?which provide practical definitions of supernatural phenomenon?you will discover a range of claims and counterclaims by sleuths and university professors alike, who have explored the possibility of a nonphysical realm of living spirits. You?ll even discover some hoaxes and frauds along the way. Five information-filled sections will reveal: * The spiritual: Mediums, reincarnation, spirit guides, séances, trance speaking, clairvoyance, and psychic and absent healing * The paranormal: Near-death experiences, hypnotic regression to past lives, prophecies and predictions, déjà vu, intuition and coincidences, and dream interpretation * The scientific: discoveries and experiments for parapsychology, auras, electronic voice phenomena, thoughtography, and extremely low-frequency (ELF) magnetic fields * The psychic: psychokinesis, telepathy, remote viewing, eyeless sight, dowsing, psychic surgery, spirit divination, fortune-telling, palmistry, tarot reading, and voodoo * The haunted: apparitions, ghost hunters, famous sites?Amityville Horror, Gettysburg, Burlington in Ontario, Canada?poltergeists, possession, exorcism, and necromancy>BR> Whether you?re simply curious or seeking answers, Unseen World will bring you closer to understanding our quest to solve the unknown.
Impossible Realities is one of the first books to examine the science behind psychic and paranormal activity. A former Defense Department expert on artificial intelligence, Maureen Caudill provides evidence for a wide range of paranormal phenomena.Impossible Realities presents a wealth of anecdotal and empirical evidence to prove the existence (and power) of:psychokinesis (most famously spoon bending)remote viewingenergy healingtelepathy, animal telepathyprecognitionsurvival after deathreincarnationCaudill presents the strongest case yet for bringing paranormal phenomena from the margins into the realm of the normal and credible. This is a book both for true believers and skeptics alike.
This book addresses the split between spirituality and religion. It follows Psychic Phenomena, peers into both formal and informal religions, science and lies at the crossroads where the author brings you on a voyage of a personal spiritual quest and self-realization. Despite the large variations of belief, method, doctrine and experience which assists the reader from the beginning the author outlines it must be clearly understood that mysticism is distinct from religion and yet; is deeply religious. The prime objective of the author is to illuminate how culture has continually developed and enriched down through the ages. From the beginning of time human consciousness has expanded, improved and grown. As our subconscious awareness has grown the ancient and somewhat cryptic symbolism have, fold upon fold, released the truth and beliefs of our ancestors. Modern mortality builds on this residue and has learned from it. Today, the time has come when the many ancient religions and truths from which they contained must take note of human changed circumstances. While some seekers in our modern era still look back to the past for inspiration they must combine contemporary facts and knowledge of both. Knowledge today is transparent and should be shared and spread with a logical mindset. The failure of the historical elements to withstand modern scientific examination simply can not be ignored. Most religions today practice a belief that the Divine is separate an external to everything in the Universe. This form of religion worships externally where in mysticism the view is held that the Divine is internally linked to every living creature in the Universe. Mystics worship entirely an internal journey with knowledge of a higher self. This brings peace, comfort and solace to the individual worshiper. In Science, mysticism and spiritualism including paranormal phenomena were regarded as archaic and riddled with superstition. Today, this is changing before our very eyes. Science has more respect and pay more attention to the factual rather than the fictional. Based on proven factual evidence, Science can no longer escape the ongoing debate of paranormal activity, UFO's and a plethora of evidence an example; the USA Government's own experiment with time travel, The Montauk Project. The author presents facts backed up with references in a sensible and compelling treasure trove of wisdom in which she gives the reader a modern, informed evaluation of our ultimate question - "Immortality Beyond the Veil" Who should read this book? Anyone who wants to research this question with factual evidence and an extensive reference section which enables you to look up your own areas of interest on every humans mind no matter where your present beliefs lie. An eye-opening book
This volume, intended as the first of four volumes, covers the period before 1882, the year the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was organized and more formal scientific methods were employed.
