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'Proof of Heaven' Author: Science Is Being Forced to Take the Afterlife Seriously

By Eben Alexander and Ptolemy Tompkins — 2014

Ever since Proof of Heaven, the narrative of a life-changing seven-day coma I underwent in 2008, was published two years ago, I have had a front-row seat (and often a seat on the stage itself) at the battle between those who believe in heaven, in a spiritual realm beyond this one, and those who, just as fiercely and adamantly, don’t believe.

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Is There a Jewish Afterlife?

Judaism is famously ambiguous about what happens when we die.

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How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

Surely any support for a belief in an afterlife, no matter how tenuous, is better than none? Isn’t it bound to be a comfort? It may not work out like that.

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Why the “You” in an Afterlife Wouldn’t Really Be You

Memories, points of view and the self.

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Dante and the Divine Comedy: He Took Us on a Tour of Hell

Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world.

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Dr. Brian Weiss on the Patient Who Convinced Him There Is an Afterlife

While undergoing hypnosis for anxiety and depression, Catherine began recalling inexplicable memories from another time and place, and also revealed startling personal details about Weiss that he says she had no way of knowing.

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Ian Stevenson’s Case for the Afterlife: Are We ‘Skeptics’ Really Just Cynics?

If you’re anything like me, with eyes that roll over to the back of your head whenever you hear words like “reincarnation” or “parapsychology,” if you suffer great paroxysms of despair for human intelligence whenever you catch a glimpse of that dandelion-colored cover of Heaven Is For...

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