Greg Taylor > Quotes

“How can we account for long-term memory”, van Lommel asks, “if the molecular makeup of the cell membrane of neurons is completely renewed every two weeks and the millions of synapses in the brain undergo a process of constant adaptation?”15”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“As for the theory that these accounts were, perhaps, just stories – confections of creative minds – Gurney’s response was scathing. “When we submit the theory of deliberate falsification to the cumulative test…there comes a point where the reason rebels”, Gurney wrote.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Belief, as the sagacious Robert Anton Wilson once remarked, “is the death of intelligence”.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“The shadow of the Newtonian worldview is promulgated by those who wish, for whatever reason, to reinforce the view of a deterministic Universe with consciousness as a bizarre epiphenomenon.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. – Larry McMurtry”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Though scientists and outspoken atheists often regard belief in an afterlife simply as a natural human reaction to the idea of annihilation, the idea of survival of our consciousness in some discarnate form has been widely held in almost every culture from the beginning of human history – based not on blind faith in some sort of God-like being maintaining a celestial salvatory for souls, as found in Christianity, but instead on direct personal experiences that suggest postmortem survival.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“It’s an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Indeed, during their final days the terminally ill are often said to be almost living in two worlds, swapping nonchalantly between chatting with palliative carers and family physically present in the room, and interacting with visions of previously deceased individuals who appear to be – in some way – there to help them through the dying process.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Nevertheless, the large number of experiences of this type reported by carers suggest that it is an area that deserves far more attention. If it can be shown that patients with significant degradation of their brain tissue (for example, in advanced cases of Alzheimer’s Disease) become lucid, with memories intact, in their final days, what implications does this have for the relationship between mind and brain?”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“For those who think that the NDE has been satisfactorily explained by science, their advice is sobering: “Theories proposed thus far consist largely of unsupported speculations about what might be happening during an NDE”.111”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Käthe was among the most disabled patients in Happich’s asylum: since her birth, she had never spoken a word; her movements were restricted to uncontrolled spasms; she seemingly took no notice of anything happening around her; and the only sounds she made were animal-like utterances. So, when she became seriously ill with tuberculosis, Pastor Happich was astounded to enter her room during her final hours and find her singing. ‘‘We did not believe our eyes and ears,” he recounted. “Käthe, who never spoke one word, entirely mentally disabled from birth on, sang the dying songs to herself. Specifically, she sang ‘Where does the soul find its home, its peace? Peace, peace, heavenly peace!’ over and over again. For half an hour she sang. Then, she quietly died”.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“In 1886 the S.P.R. published their detailed report on such accounts as a book, under the title Phantasms of the Living. More than 1300 pages long and consisting of over 700 cases, the work involved in compiling the two-volume report was enormous: researchers would follow up each case reported to them, interviewing the witness and seeking to verify the account with testimony from third parties, contemporary written reports and so on. The main researcher and author, Edmund Gurney, would often pen 50 to 60 letters a day; locations had to be visited and witnesses interviewed; cases had to be deliberated upon and categorized. And then, of course, the book had to actually be written.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Most of us, even in this digital age, know what a grandfather clock is – but do you know how they got their name? They were once known as long-case clocks, but in 1876 American songwriter Henry Clay Work wrote the song that would give birth to the name that we know them by today: “My Grandfather’s Clock”.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“Of course, if you accept the materialist belief that memories can be created only if the brain is functioning, then that will be your conclusion. But that's exactly the point in question: whether mental functions like perception and memory can occur without the brain.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife