Pastor and theologian John Piper has pushed back on the idea that Christians enter a state of unconscious “soul sleep” after death and stressed that instead, believers go immediately into the presence ...

In Tibetan Buddhist belief, death is not an instant ending, but the beginning of a mysterious 49-day passage through the bardo, an in-between state between one life and the next. During this journey, ...

The Jewish conception of the soul, or Neshama, is not a monolithic “ghost in the machine” but a five-stage spectrum of light (Ohr) interfacing with vessels (Kelim), as described in Kabbalistic ...

There are few questions where it can be said that literally every answer is second-hand, but the persistence of consciousness after death is one. As sticky and complicated as the issue is, it can be ...

Brendan D. Murphy presents the CTM; the first map of post-mortem consciousness, drawing on NDE research, reincarnation studies and cross-tradition analysis. One of the best synthesis books on this ...

A researcher analyzed papers from more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and found that signs of consciousness persist long after patients are technically declared dead. The findings suggest that death ...

Our ideas about death define how we live our life. Dag Hammerskjöld (1905-1961) Source: Creazilla/pixel2013 Psychiatrist Raymond Moody coined the term near-death experiences in his 1975 book, Life ...