The Survival Hypothesis

<p> Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy clairvoyance precognition) and psychokinesis. In contrast this cutting-edge anthology assembles an international team of experts from the fields of psychology parapsychology philosophy anthropology and neuroscience to examine critically what is referred to as the <I>survival hypothesis</I>: the tentative statement or prediction that some aspect of our personhood (e.g. consciousness) persists subsequent to the death of the physical body.</p><p> The appraisal of the survival hypothesis will be restricted to the phenomenon of mediumship; that is humans who ostensibly communicate with the deceased. The book has been divided into four main sections: Explanation and Belief; Culture Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; Empirical Approaches; The Present and Future. The issue of postmortem survival is supremely relevant to us all because the human encounter with death is of course a certainty.</p>