Despite the plethora of anecdotes and scientific studies suggesting the existence of an ‘afterlife,’ the Western world as a whole is still largely in the dark about this all-important subject. Though good information does continue to present itself, there are many who are all-too-willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater - with a bucket of dogma informed by scientific materialism.
This week on MindMatters we look at some of the most interesting research on the subject, including the recent Netflix docu-series ‘Surviving Death’, based on journalist Leslie Kean’s book of the same name. We also look at its relationship to consciousness, psi and values - and how the largely narrow perspective on these themes only goes to serve to the “modern” trend to accept the nihilistic and toxic strain of ideologies, postmodernism, scientism, and other limiting belief systems.
Kean’s book:
Braude’s bo