Science, Philosophy, and the Afterlife with Chris Carter

New Thinkin Aug 24, 2025 Chris Carter is a physics teacher who was educated at Oxford, England. He is author of four books that make him one of the most significant authors today exploring the question of life after death: Science and the Near-Death Experience, Science and Psychic Phenomena, Science and the Afterlife Experience, and most recently The Case for the Afterlife: Evidence of Life After Death. His website is https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php… At this site you can gather more info about The Case for the Afterlife, and also read a short article he wrote titled Can we Prove there is Life after Death? (his answer is a resounding yes!) Here he shares some of the strongest cases supporting postmortem survival of consciousness and also presents the counter-arguments to several philosophical objections. 00:00 Introduction 03:51 Dualism and materialism 05:28 Terminal lucidity 08:47 Pam Reynolds’ near-death experience 14:45 Living agent psi and “superpsi” 21:14 The deceased chess master 27:35 The Roman emperor Constantine 29:17 The easiest one to fool is oneself 35:31 Predisposition to belief 38:07 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on August 15, 2025)

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