Apart from the bromides of faith, the idea of life after
death has little purchase in our techno-materialist culture. And yet, anyone with an open mind who
does a little research might be surprised. The fact is that rational, scientific claims sometimes appear
to confirm or certainly suggest the afterlife hypothesis. The research has been
conducted by competent, scientifically trained individuals. There are case
histories of mediumship, apparitions, near-death experiences, and reincarnation
memories, behaviors and physical markings.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
When God Died and Psychical Research Was Born
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by Michael Grosso
1882 was the year that Friedrich Nietzsche announced that
God was dead and added that “we” had killed him. At Cambridge University during the same year, Frederic Myers
with several colleagues officially launched a new scientific discipline called
psychical research. If ever there
was a “meaningful” historical coincidence, this one certainly qualifies.What’s so meaningful about this coincidence? In brief, it speaks loudly to what we
may call the most important crisis in the history of Western consciousness. It
also points to a possible way of coping with that crisis. In Nietzsche’s pronouncement, it is “we”
who have killed God. What does
that mean?
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