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Surviving Death
Surviving Death is a sensational book certain to affect our views of life and death as profoundly as did Betty Eadie's bestseller Embraced by the Light. Psychic researcher Geoff Viney provides a fascinating new look at the reality of life after death - through examination of scientific evidence, psychic phenomena, and myth.
What really happens when we die? Perhaps no other question has so obsessed people since the beginning of time. Although skeptics claim that death represents the absolute extinction of life, there is overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise. In presenting this evidence, Geoff Viney puts the concept of death itself on trial, using as his witnesses the countless individuals who have experienced some sort of personal contact with the afterlife, contact that has resulted in momentous changes in the quality of their own
With the advance of modern medical technology, thousands of people have been brought back from the brink of death, some after having been literally certified dead. From this group, many have recorded incredible out-of-body voyages during which they encountered long-lost loved ones and glimpsed a mysterious, beautiful, and oddly serene landscape.
Children who are convinced they have lived a former existence in a different time have substantiated their claims with irrefutable knowledge of specific historical periods that was unavailable to them through any conventional explanation.
With this new understanding of exactly what the afterlife means, the concept of ghosts and poltergeists loses its fearsome aspect and becomes one of spiritual transition and questing.
In much the same way that Raymond Moody's Life After Life brought renewed hope to those who read it, Geoff Viney's Surviving Death - by revealing in fascinating detail people's amazing, real encounters with the "supernatural" - offers a new alternative to the age-old definition of death.
What really happens when we die? Perhaps no other question has so obsessed people since the beginning of time. Although skeptics claim that death represents the absolute extinction of life, there is overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise. In presenting this evidence, Geoff Viney puts the concept of death itself on trial, using as his witnesses the countless individuals who have experienced some sort of personal contact with the afterlife, contact that has resulted in momentous changes in the quality of their own
With the advance of modern medical technology, thousands of people have been brought back from the brink of death, some after having been literally certified dead. From this group, many have recorded incredible out-of-body voyages during which they encountered long-lost loved ones and glimpsed a mysterious, beautiful, and oddly serene landscape.
Children who are convinced they have lived a former existence in a different time have substantiated their claims with irrefutable knowledge of specific historical periods that was unavailable to them through any conventional explanation.
With this new understanding of exactly what the afterlife means, the concept of ghosts and poltergeists loses its fearsome aspect and becomes one of spiritual transition and questing.
In much the same way that Raymond Moody's Life After Life brought renewed hope to those who read it, Geoff Viney's Surviving Death - by revealing in fascinating detail people's amazing, real encounters with the "supernatural" - offers a new alternative to the age-old definition of death.
312 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1994
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August 16, 2024
A BRITISH RESEARCHER PUTS THE NOTION OF IMMORTALITY "ON TRIAL"
Geoff Viney is an English journalist and psychic researcher. He wrote in the Introduction to this 1993 book, "In the following chapters I am to put death, or rather the concept of death as final extinction, on trial. I am, if you like, the self-appointed counsel for the prosecution. The witnesses I call upon are those countless individuals who have experienced a personal contact with the unseen---ghost percipients, mediums, parapsychologists and researchers... I must necessarily also examine ... the many alternative explanations for the paranormal mysteries promoted by sceptics and mainstream scientists, some of which undermine the probability of human survival." (Pg. 3-4)
He admits, "Since the early days of the photographic process, attempts to capture phantoms on film have proved decidedly unsatisfactory and much so-called photographic evidence has been exposed as cheap fakery. However, the history of psychic photography is not quite the unmitigated catalogue of 'fraud, folly and fabrication' that one notable critic deemed it to be and some exposures really do seem worthy of the seal of authenticity." (Pg. 34) He also notes, "There can be little doubt that some mediums who claimed clairvoyant powers during those first heady days of spiritualism were in it for the money alone. In other cases, though apparently genuine, the sheer banality of messages given to sitters would make anyone wonder why the dead bothered returning at all." (Pg. 98)
He rejects the confession of fraud by Margueretta [Maggie] Fox, since "Margueretta had, by the time of her self-denunciation, lost her own powers and fallen out with her sister; it is also worth remembering that she had been paid a huge sum of money for her confession at a time when she was virtually destitute. Given the circumstances it is hard to come to any firm conclusion on the basis of her 'confession.'" (Pg. 114)
Of the Bridey Murphy case, he observes, "Speculation of a hoax intensified when it became clear that, as a young woman, she had lived in Chicago next to an aunt whose own maiden name had been Murphy. Sceptics lost no time in claiming that [Virginia] Tighe must have either colluded ... to perpetuate a fraud, or drawn unknowingly upon subconscious recollections of stories told by her elderly Irish relative... [but] whatever doubts remain over the Bridey Murphy enigma, plenty of regression cases since have proved highly resistant to similar suspicions." (Pg. 271)
This book will be of keen interest to anyone researching the issue of life after death.
Geoff Viney is an English journalist and psychic researcher. He wrote in the Introduction to this 1993 book, "In the following chapters I am to put death, or rather the concept of death as final extinction, on trial. I am, if you like, the self-appointed counsel for the prosecution. The witnesses I call upon are those countless individuals who have experienced a personal contact with the unseen---ghost percipients, mediums, parapsychologists and researchers... I must necessarily also examine ... the many alternative explanations for the paranormal mysteries promoted by sceptics and mainstream scientists, some of which undermine the probability of human survival." (Pg. 3-4)
He admits, "Since the early days of the photographic process, attempts to capture phantoms on film have proved decidedly unsatisfactory and much so-called photographic evidence has been exposed as cheap fakery. However, the history of psychic photography is not quite the unmitigated catalogue of 'fraud, folly and fabrication' that one notable critic deemed it to be and some exposures really do seem worthy of the seal of authenticity." (Pg. 34) He also notes, "There can be little doubt that some mediums who claimed clairvoyant powers during those first heady days of spiritualism were in it for the money alone. In other cases, though apparently genuine, the sheer banality of messages given to sitters would make anyone wonder why the dead bothered returning at all." (Pg. 98)
He rejects the confession of fraud by Margueretta [Maggie] Fox, since "Margueretta had, by the time of her self-denunciation, lost her own powers and fallen out with her sister; it is also worth remembering that she had been paid a huge sum of money for her confession at a time when she was virtually destitute. Given the circumstances it is hard to come to any firm conclusion on the basis of her 'confession.'" (Pg. 114)
Of the Bridey Murphy case, he observes, "Speculation of a hoax intensified when it became clear that, as a young woman, she had lived in Chicago next to an aunt whose own maiden name had been Murphy. Sceptics lost no time in claiming that [Virginia] Tighe must have either colluded ... to perpetuate a fraud, or drawn unknowingly upon subconscious recollections of stories told by her elderly Irish relative... [but] whatever doubts remain over the Bridey Murphy enigma, plenty of regression cases since have proved highly resistant to similar suspicions." (Pg. 271)
This book will be of keen interest to anyone researching the issue of life after death.
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