One Hundred Cases of Survival

This book was first published in 1944, and remains a classic source of cases indicating survival after death, many of which are very difficult to explain using the super ESP hypothesis. The cases are classified under a number of headings such as dreams, apparitions, deathbed visions, cross correspondences, direct voice phenomena and materialisation. The original source is in many cases the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, but there are also cases from Phantasms of the Living published as early as 1886 in two volumes. Sceptics might say that these old cases cannot really be used as evidence, since we cannot check them first hand, but this argument impugns the integrity and competence of the distinguished authors. As readers will be aware, many prominent scientists have reached the conclusion that survival can indeed be established beyond reasonable doubt, but the very concept challenges materialistic physiology and philosophy. Personally, I would argue that the cumulative weight of the kind of evidence presented in this book provides the strongest prima facie case for survival. However, readers need to take the trouble to read such works.