Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach (Author)
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Science & Religion

"Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News

The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive.

• Rank: #22087 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.15" h x .75" w x 5.47" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 311 pages

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Categories: New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2005, Afterlife->Comparative studies, Religion and science. Contributors: Mary Roach - Author. Format: Audiobook

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Unabridged) - Author: Mary Roach; Narrator: Bernadette Quigley; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download)

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Categories: New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2005, Afterlife, Religion and science. Contributors: Mary Roach - Author. Format: Paperback

Proof of Heaven

Proof of Heaven
Eben Alexander III M.D. (Author)
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A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then came the day when Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human— shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander’s recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. This story sounds like the wild and wonderful imaginings of a skilled fantasy writer. But it is not fantasy. Before Alexander underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. That difficulty with belief created an empty space that no professional triumph could erase. Today he is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition. This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.

• Rank: #77 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-10-23
• Released on: 2012-10-23
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

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Harpercollins 9780062079985 Proof of Heaven By Hackett, Mary Curran Description Coming to terms with the reality of his short life, Colm, afraid to tell his religious mother about what he fears may happen after , embarks on a quest to find his long-lost father, which forces them all to confront their fears and their faith. Original. 50000 first printing. *Author: Hackett, Mary Curran *Publication Date: 2011/11/01 *Number of Pages: 297 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 1.00 *W

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Categories: December 2012, Afterlife->Christianity, Near-death experiences->Religious aspects->Christianity. Contributors: Eben Alexander MD - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Proof of Heaven A Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife (Unabridged) - Author: MD, Eben Alexander; Narrator: MD, Eben Alexander; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download)