Science, Philosophy, and the AfterlifewithChris Carter

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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?ean=9780738779 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

(Recorded on August 15, 2025)

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Published on August 25, 2025

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