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The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known in recorded history. When the body died, parts of its soul known as ka (body double) and the ba (personality) would go to the Kingdom of the Dead.
Explanations for NDEs vary from scientific to religious. Neuroscience research hypothesizes that an NDE is a subjective phenomenon resulting from "disturbed bodily multisensory integration" that occurs during life-threatening events. [4] Some transcendental and religious beliefs about an afterlife include descriptions similar to NDEs. [2] [5 ...
The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death is a book written by Gary Schwartz and bestselling author William L. Simon, with a foreword by Deepak Chopra. The book, published in 2003, reviews several experiments which aimed to investigate the possibility of life after death through the use of psychic mediums.
Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife was heavily criticized as flawed, both logically and empirically. [8] The psychologist and skeptic James Alcock has noted that "[Moody] appears to ignore a great deal of the scientific literature dealing with hallucinatory experiences in general, just as he quickly glosses over the very real limitations of his research method."
That sense of an alternative belief system underlies the descriptions of near-death experiences, at least as they’re documented by the Christian researchers in "After Death." The floating, the ...
The solidification and commencement of these doctrines were formed in the creation of afterlife texts which illustrated and explained what the dead would need to know in order to complete the journey safely. Egyptian religious doctrines included three afterlife ideologies: belief in an underworld, eternal life, and rebirth of the soul.
Terence Hines commented "such reports are hardly sufficient to argue for the reality of an afterlife." [15] The philosopher Paul Kurtz has written that Moody's evidence for the NDE is based on personal interviews and anecdotal accounts and there has been no statistical analysis of his data. There also is the question of interpreting such data ...
Robert Sapolsky's fellow adherents of determinism — the belief that it's impossible for a person in any situation to have acted differently than they did — have welcomed his scientific defense ...