Scientists and science organizations are being disingenuous when they say science can say nothing about the supernatural. They know better.
Posted 04.23.2012
"I Survived ... Beyond And Back" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on Biography) expands on the network's popular "I Survived" series by adding the element of the near...
Posted 04.12.2012
By Piet Levy Religion News Service (RNS) Raymond Moody has spent nearly 40 years looking forward, trying to understand what happens when people di...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2011
It's a question at par with "What happens when we die?" and "Why are we all here?" One of those eternal human mysteries that science has been unab...
Duane Elgin | Posted 09.02.2011
We cannot hide from death. Its embrace will consume our social existence entirely. Job titles, social position, material possessions, sexual roles and images--all must yield to death.
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.14.2011
Despite the gigantic leaps made by science in the last few decades, a comprehensive explanation of what exactly happens to us when we die is yet to em...
Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 08.07.2011
Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain provides a splendid opportunity, for anyone open-minded enough to take it, to sort out the relationship between beliefs and reality, superstition and science.
Eldon Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011
In my mind, the solemnity of major surgery reminds us that our mortal self is not all there is. Once we recognize this -- truly cashing in the meaning, not unlike those near-death experiences -- our lives change.
William Horden | Posted 05.25.2011
Minutes after they placed me on the emergency room table and fit an oxygen mask over my face, I felt my heart stop beating and I sighed my last breath.
Posted 05.25.2011
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Religion News Service Wanda Colie vividly remembers what she saw in 1984 when, at age 28, a condition that produced blood in ...
Michael Shermer | Posted 05.25.2011
If the hereafter is anything like its filmic namesake, then it will turn out to be glacially slow, eternally boring, and pointless, with seemingly random plot lines aimlessly wandering about the ethereal landscape.
TIME.com | Dan Fletcher | Posted 11.17.2011
Using an unorthodox experiment, a researcher thinks he has discovered why time seems to drag in moments where the body thinks it is experiencing extre...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
By Stuart Hameroff, MD and Deepak Chopra, MD The idea that conscious awareness can exist after death, generally referred to as the 'soul', has ...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
Redefined by the new field of quantum biology, the soul could be the link that connects individuals to the universe, a dynamic connection that could explain how consciousness came about.
Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 05.25.2011
Does a person's religious belief affect the likelihood of experiencing such spiritual feelings on the threshold of death?
Posted 05.25.2011
Proof of the afterlife? Radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long's new book, "Evidence of the Afterlife" is a study of 1300 cases in which patients claimed ...
Dinesh D'Souza | Posted 11.17.2011
The best empirical evidence for life after death comes from people who have had "near death experiences." These are people who have gone to the edge and come back with a report.
Psychology Today | Anneli Rufus | Posted 11.17.2011
During near-death experiences, people say they felt more at home and more alive than they ever felt in this life. They describe heightened senses, bea...
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The 'Who am I' feeling is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn't go away at death. One of the axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can't be created or destroyed.
Time | M.J. Stephey | Posted 11.17.2011
A fellow at New York's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week,...
Russ Wellen | Posted 11.17.2011
That we'll be "greeted by loved ones" at death has become conventional wisdom, so for those who define family as people we wouldn't choose to hang with, heaven will require a significant attitude adjustment.
cnn.com | Carol Sorgen | Posted 11.17.2011
Trapped beneath a capsized raft on a churning river in northern California, Galena Mosovich realized her body was "panicking," but not her mind. art.n...
Victor Stenger | Posted 05.16.2012