There Is Life After Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who Have Glimpsed the After-Life

This book seeks to explore the concept of life after death from a scientific and historical perspective, but clearly states that it can't be proved scientifically or measured quantitatively. Varghese desires to go beyond what other authors and researchers have stated, from religious beliefs, anecdotes from near-death experiences, metaphysical speculation and communications from "the other side." Varghese reviews various researchers' works and provides pros and cons to concur with the concepts or debunk them. Renowned physician, researcher and author Dr. Raymond Moody provided both a foreword and an afterword to the book. In the end, Dr. Moody states that the book provides progress in a rational inquiry into the topic. Each reader will have to decide if the evidence is compelling. But in the end, we will all find out soon enough the answer to this eternal question. -- Alice R. Berntson, New Connexion

"I am confident that breakthroughs will soon bring genuine advances toward rational comprehension of humankind's deepest mystery." Dr. Raymond Moody, Foreword Life After Death? Do we survive bodily death, as ancients Egyptians firmly believed thousands of years ago? Is death the end of our intellectual activities and spiritual inclinations? Is Life After Death a conceptual idea or could it be proved beyond any doubt? Some critics raise their eyebrows and say they are not sure or can't know if such experiences are illusion or reality. It is not logical to prove faith based belief with paranormal encounters. Historically: An assured answer to the question on afterlife mystery was never universal. Sadducees, Judaica's priestly corpus at the time of Jesus did not believe in one, and Jesus rebuked them, Pharisees had believed in a kind of afterlife following resurrection from death. A projected, not statistical, majority of believers throughout the course of history have taken eternal life for granted, rejecting death as a spiritual end of physical existance. All three Semitic monotheistic religions are based on a life after death, embodied in their traditions and reflected in philosophical thought. The Book! Roy Varghese represents a comprehensive range of data on life after death experiences, and analyzes the data, providing much needed couching to understand the elusive encounters. He has presented such convincing evidence based on the accounts of witnesses as well as data from other sources around world of an afterlife. Varghese seems to abide by the basic logical limitation, ignored by many authors who searched the phenomenon of Near Death (NDE), or Out of Body Experience (OBE). Not one single research, except may be, Moody's successive contributions, has articulated on the subject in this compelling presentation. Jeffery Long's Book published before few months went further in proving Life after Death as a conclusion of his study. Roy A. Varghese has searched on the interface between science and religion for over two decades. His impressive book "Cosmos, Bios, Theos," with 24 Nobel Laureates in science contributions was described in the media as "the year's most intriguing book about God." He was a panelist at the science and religion forum in the Parliament of World Religions, 1993.

I heard these two authors speak on Coast to Coast last week. Roy Abraham Varghese introduced his new book and Raymond A. Moody wrote the foreword, as well as the Afterword. To me this thorough and organized book is based on science and stems throughout recorded time with global recordings. The author list reports that reflect similarity even though the data is not related in time, religion and location. There are recordings of the hereafter; heaven, hell and purgatory. The book lays all the information out for us to interpret. I will copy part of a paragraph of the fourth message from Chapter 4 (The Hereafter Here and Now--Visions of Heaven, Hell, and the Grateful Dead). "We fail the dead by forgetting about them. Life after death is not simply an individualistic affair. It is a state that affirms the solidarity of those who departed this world with their families, friends, and all other humans in the here-and-now."

There Is Life After Death: Compelling Reports From Those Who Have Glimpsed the After-Life comes from an expert on science-religion debates and blends eyewitness accounts with data from sources around the world and throughout history. It provides the basics for an average reader to understand a blend of science and eyewitness accounts, creating a spiritual survey perfect for new age and spirituality collections alike.