- Paperback: 281 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (20 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330353942
- ISBN-13: 978-0330353946
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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By the author of "Jesus: the Evidence". This book investigates the question of whether there is life after death, based on real-life experiences. It explores aspects of the near-death experience, such as the floating "out of body" and the "going back" to physical life.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would respectfully disagree with a previous reviewer who rates the content of the book highly while criticising it as being turgidly written. In my view the book scores extremely highly in both parameters with an entertaining and often gripping prose style.
In refreshing contrast to a lot of authors dealing with this
subject, Ian Wilson is not just happy to sit on the fence, present the facts, and let the reader decide. He clearly and unambiguously, in the closing stages, nails his colours to a pro-afterlife mast. He is also unafraid to ask the inextricably linked questions about God, Heaven, Hell, etc..
What makes this book particularly credible is the fact that not all so-called 'proofs' of the afterlife are accepted. Many are mentioned only to be debunked -for example spurious mediumship and some of the more suspect type of near-death experiences. This adds particular weight to his eventual pro-afterlife contention.
He also draws concordant strands together from disparate areas of the supernatural (for want of a better term) to demonstrate a veridically powerful, internally consistent, pro-afterlife model.
And the author goes one better than merely stating 'there is an afterlife'. In largely,but not completely, drawing upon near-death experiences he outlines the main spiritual/philosophical messages reported by experients and integrates them wonderfully into the Christian worldview.
And he goes one better still. Extrapolating from general NDE reportage the reader is led step-by-step to the inescapable conclusion that an active intelligence is at work here -- i.e. the Christ.
And he goes one better still. He deconstructs further to form a composite mind/body/spirit/universe composite paradigm -- significantly echoing views recently developed via different pathways by authorities such as Gary Schwartz and Dean Radin.
This is a work that hits you right between the eyes -- finishing it you are left not just convinced of the afterlife but feel profoundly challenged in terms of the 'here and now'. Therefore it is not a soft read for wishful thinkers but is healthily disquieting in some ways.
The hallmark of a great book is that you get something new out of it -- no matter how many times you read it. This is very much the case here.
It is interesting to trace the author's development from the view presented another of his books -- 'The After Death Experience' -- published in 1987.The view here,in terms of the afterlife, was a very cautious and qualified positive -- bordering on the agnostic -- in contrast to the subsequent clarity and non-ambiguity of 'Life After Death' .
Is this an echo of what Professor Ken Ring termed the ' benign virus of the
N.D.E.' ?.
Don't bother looking for anything better in this field. It has never been written.
Believe me, I've been searching for years!.
In refreshing contrast to a lot of authors dealing with this
subject, Ian Wilson is not just happy to sit on the fence, present the facts, and let the reader decide. He clearly and unambiguously, in the closing stages, nails his colours to a pro-afterlife mast. He is also unafraid to ask the inextricably linked questions about God, Heaven, Hell, etc..
What makes this book particularly credible is the fact that not all so-called 'proofs' of the afterlife are accepted. Many are mentioned only to be debunked -for example spurious mediumship and some of the more suspect type of near-death experiences. This adds particular weight to his eventual pro-afterlife contention.
He also draws concordant strands together from disparate areas of the supernatural (for want of a better term) to demonstrate a veridically powerful, internally consistent, pro-afterlife model.
And the author goes one better than merely stating 'there is an afterlife'. In largely,but not completely, drawing upon near-death experiences he outlines the main spiritual/philosophical messages reported by experients and integrates them wonderfully into the Christian worldview.
And he goes one better still. Extrapolating from general NDE reportage the reader is led step-by-step to the inescapable conclusion that an active intelligence is at work here -- i.e. the Christ.
And he goes one better still. He deconstructs further to form a composite mind/body/spirit/universe composite paradigm -- significantly echoing views recently developed via different pathways by authorities such as Gary Schwartz and Dean Radin.
This is a work that hits you right between the eyes -- finishing it you are left not just convinced of the afterlife but feel profoundly challenged in terms of the 'here and now'. Therefore it is not a soft read for wishful thinkers but is healthily disquieting in some ways.
The hallmark of a great book is that you get something new out of it -- no matter how many times you read it. This is very much the case here.
It is interesting to trace the author's development from the view presented another of his books -- 'The After Death Experience' -- published in 1987.The view here,in terms of the afterlife, was a very cautious and qualified positive -- bordering on the agnostic -- in contrast to the subsequent clarity and non-ambiguity of 'Life After Death' .
Is this an echo of what Professor Ken Ring termed the ' benign virus of the
N.D.E.' ?.
Don't bother looking for anything better in this field. It has never been written.
Believe me, I've been searching for years!.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a pretty interesting look at the possibility of life after death, mainly focused on those who have had near death experiences.
I found the early chapters quite riveting, telling of many convincing stories, and really made the hairs on the back of my neck tingle, especially if I was reading it late at night.
However, the book starts to bore slightly towards the end. A lot of chapters feel a bit like filler, rehashing stories previously told, and sometimes putting an arbitrary slant on them.
It's worth a read, and some of the stories do really make you think, but don't expect to be convinced by the author's arguments or writing style.
I found the early chapters quite riveting, telling of many convincing stories, and really made the hairs on the back of my neck tingle, especially if I was reading it late at night.
However, the book starts to bore slightly towards the end. A lot of chapters feel a bit like filler, rehashing stories previously told, and sometimes putting an arbitrary slant on them.
It's worth a read, and some of the stories do really make you think, but don't expect to be convinced by the author's arguments or writing style.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book provides some fascinating evidence for life after death. After reading this, most people will probably reject the hypothesis that such near-death-experiences as are related here are merely caused by anoxia of the brain and so forth, although with such a subject there is ample scope for impassioned controversy. Nevertheless one ought to bear in mind that Wilson is himself a Roman Catholic and that his conclusions, al be they reinforced by evidence, fit the Catholic cosmology quite conveniently. Perhaps Catholicism is simply true, but then there is the problem of some quite convincing cases of reincarnation that Wilson has not, to my knowledge, considered here or elsewhere (eg. one interesting middle East case in M Alexander's book on Rev. Donald Omond, the real-life exorcist). He has, admittedly, refuted many claims of reincarnation very well, as indeed the case of many spiritualists, but the search for his 'white crows' cannot be called off just yet. This aside, the central message of the book is an old one and certainly bears repitition: you should 'do as you would be done by', as Kingsley said, for your sins will surely find you out.
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