Every once in a great while an author manages to synthesize a vast amount of academic material into a wide-ranging monograph that is beautifully written and immensely valuable. Such authors have a rare gift and provide us with books that are much needed at a time when the pressures of academic specialization force far too much writing of [...]
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There are many who believe that near death experiences (“NDE”) provide evidence of the existence of a spirit-soul and that those who have these close encounters with death have glimpsed another realm. Over at Brain Blogger, Jennifer Gibson discusses some recent studies of NDEs in a post titled “Light at the End of the Tunnel [...]
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