PLURALISM

With the recent growth of meta-analysis, all the basic phenomena of experimental parapsychology, ESP, PK, etc have been statistically justified and the prevailing reductionist model of mind has been challenged satisfactorily. The scientists of the early part of the twentieth century took the stance that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to prove the existence of life after death - though of course they would not habitually have adopted such a metaphor as this. Attitudes have evolved, and we are now in a position in which it may be postulated that there is scientific evidence to enable a suspension of disbelief in life after death. The commonly cited types of evidence for discarnate existence are as follows: a. Clinical death experiences, b. Pre-death visions, c. Collective apparitions, d. Some forms of mediumistic incident, e. Children's memories of previous lives. According to survival researchers, there is now as much evidence to justify belief in ...