Among these allegedly paranormal occurrences are out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, ghost sightings, mediums communicating with the dead, and memories of past lives. Some of the most convincing evidence for life after death comes from the many stories and reports of paranormal phenomena. In this article, I explore some of the arguments and evidence for and against survival. The question of whether we survive death is one of the big questions of human life. And contrasting with all these views is the belief that with death we cease to exist in any sense.
Some strains of Buddhism, for instance, hold that the individual mind merges back into a universal mind. Another belief is in impersonal survival. These conceptions of life after death have in common the fact that the individual person survives in some sense. Survival outside the physical body is variously conceived as survival in a non-physical body (an astral or ghost body), or survival as a disembodied mind. The first category includes reincarnation, and the Judeo-Christian and Islamic doctrine that God will resurrect our bodies at some future time. We can distinguish, for instance, between views involving continued existence in a physical body, and those in which survival takes place outside the body. The belief in life after death comes in all shapes and sizes. But more common than the hope that death can be postponed forever is the hope that life will continue after death. People throughout history have sought eternal life, most recently pinning this hope on science.
This tends not to be knowledge they relish. Human beings are the only animals on earth who understand they will one day die. SUBSCRIBE NOW Articles Life After Death Reincarnation? Disembodied survival? Resurection? Steve Stewart-Williams ponders the possible ways in which he could survive his own death, and decides that he doesn’t have a ghost of a chance.
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