7 Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife

The author is an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who is well known in France for his work on near death experiences and the afterlife. He poses the question of whether the hypothesis of survival offers a better explanation for the evidence he brings forward than the materialist view of extinction, quoting Ervin Laszlo to the effect that if you are convinced something doesn't exist, you don't see it. The NDE is now well-documented along with its ethical after-effects, and here one can read case histories to back up philosophical argument. The author takes on detractors directly by stating their arguments and refuting them. He has a collection of 124 OBEs without any connection to death and analyses that common factors as well as changes in the subjects' belief systems. Interestingly, there are no accounts of seeing TV images during an NDE. Another chapter deals with perceptions connected to death, often with striking visions at a distance. He draws the conclusion along with other serious investigators that the 'emitter-receptor brain' model allows us to accept all these phenomena in relation to a 'source consciousness'. In addition, an appendix by Emmanuel Ransford explains his concepts of psychomatter and meta- consciousness in a simple form in relation to the evidence base of the book, introducing in the process his very interesting framework consistent with the findings of quantum physics.