This book is an invitation to embrace Extraordinary Human Experiences (EHE) and the wonders of the unknown. It is a reminder that the pursuit of knowledge and curiosity of unexplained events can lead to enriching experiences, encouraging us to approach life with open minds, recognizing that we are much more than any single perspective or belief system would suggest.

Extraordinary Human Experiences include the near-death and out of body experience, extrasensory perception, synchronicities, reincarnation, spiritual awakenings, effects from psychoactive drugs, altered states of consciousness, and interactions with unidentified aerial phenomena and non-human intelligences, among others. The meaning and implication of EHEs have not been addressed by the scientific community, yet, they have impacted millions who consider them "realer than real," facilitating the enduring fascination and curiosity of the unexplained and the boundaries of human consciousness.

We need to take up the challenge to further knowledge of what we prize as our most unique human characteristic, the untapped potential of our consciousness and connection with each other and reality itself. After all, the positive transformations facilitated by EHEs hold promise for us all, especially since they represent a movement away from destructive behavioral characteristics and the attainment of values which promote individual and collective survival.

Collectively, this book reflects the significance of EHEs and their associated rationale for a needed paradigm shift. This proposed paradigm shift model - The Science of the Self - aligns common interests by minimizing conflict and promoting cooperation, fostering a common worldview that integrates the nature of EHEs with reality, science, and consciousness. After all, despite our modern-scientific principles, we are barely out of the primordial soup from which we evolved. Our knowledge is still in its infancy and we have a long journey ahead to fully understand the true nature and potential of our consciousness connection with the world around us.

Clearly, there is hope, meaning, and joy in this journey of curiosity and discovery.

Bio

Robert Davis is an internationally recognized research scientist and author, and after receiving his doctorate degree in 1981, he conducted research, taught, and was an administrator for the State University of New York for over thirty years. Bob has spoken about his research on the effects of environmental and toxic stimuli on the brain and sensory systems in venues that vary from national and international scientific conferences to over sixty published research articles in scholarly journals. Since his retirement, he has spoken on over one hundred national and international radio shows and podcasts about his recent research publications on the Science of the Subjective and human consciousness. Bob has also written .

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJFDZP2Y

https://bobdavisspeaks.com/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

This book is an invitation to embrace Extraordinary Human Experiences (EHE) and the wonders of the unknown. It is a reminder that the pursuit of knowledge and curiosity of unexplained events can lead to enriching experiences, encouraging us to approach life with open minds, recognizing that we are much more than any single perspective or belief system would suggest.

Extraordinary Human Experiences include the near-death and out of body experience, extrasensory perception, synchronicities, reincarnation, spiritual awakenings, effects from psychoactive drugs, altered states of consciousness, and interactions with unidentified aerial phenomena and non-human intelligences, among others. The meaning and implication of EHEs have not been addressed by the scientific community, yet, they have impacted millions who consider them "realer than real," facilitating the enduring fascination and curiosity of the unexplained and the boundaries of human consciousness.

We need to take up the challenge to further knowledge of what we prize as our most unique human characteristic, the untapped potential of our consciousness and connection with each other and reality itself. After all, the positive transformations facilitated by EHEs hold promise for us all, especially since they represent a movement away from destructive behavioral characteristics and the attainment of values which promote individual and collective survival.

Collectively, this book reflects the significance of EHEs and their associated rationale for a needed paradigm shift. This proposed paradigm shift model - The Science of the Self - aligns common interests by minimizing conflict and promoting cooperation, fostering a common worldview that integrates the nature of EHEs with reality, science, and consciousness. After all, despite our modern-scientific principles, we are barely out of the primordial soup from which we evolved. Our knowledge is still in its infancy and we have a long journey ahead to fully understand the true nature and potential of our consciousness connection with the world around us.

Clearly, there is hope, meaning, and joy in this journey of curiosity and discovery.

Bio

Robert Davis is an internationally recognized research scientist and author, and after receiving his doctorate degree in 1981, he conducted research, taught, and was an administrator for the State University of New York for over thirty years. Bob has spoken about his research on the effects of environmental and toxic stimuli on the brain and sensory systems in venues that vary from national and international scientific conferences to over sixty published research articles in scholarly journals. Since his retirement, he has spoken on over one hundred national and international radio shows and podcasts about his recent research publications on the Science of the Subjective and human consciousness. Bob has also written .

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJFDZP2Y

https://bobdavisspeaks.com/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

Have you ever wondered:

Are there "bonus levels" to our reality?

Is it possible to receive Divine Instruction?

Can we communicate with the dead?

Before I could allow my mind to latch on to certain ideas about life, love, death, fate, ghosts, and God, I needed to see some proof. By conducting a series of "spirit tests," I hoped to get some answers to these and other like mysteries. No one was more surprised than I when my little project actually worked! I had cleared a channel between my mind and the world of spirit—and my life was changed forever!

With my metaphysical tinkering, I put into motion certain elemental "somethings" that brought with them inner peace, elevated intuition, synchronistic messages, and a deeper clarity about my place in this uncertain universe. With Spirit Test, I've found a gold coin buried six inches under the sand. If you're curious to know if there is more treasure to be found, I invite you to open your eyes and mind and join me on this adventure.

At this very moment, something somewhere is reaching out to you; this book might just help you find it.

Bio

Dave grew up in a haunted house. He is a paranormal investigator and medium.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNY2P7PD/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

Have you ever wondered:

Are there "bonus levels" to our reality?

Is it possible to receive Divine Instruction?

Can we communicate with the dead?

Before I could allow my mind to latch on to certain ideas about life, love, death, fate, ghosts, and God, I needed to see some proof. By conducting a series of "spirit tests," I hoped to get some answers to these and other like mysteries. No one was more surprised than I when my little project actually worked! I had cleared a channel between my mind and the world of spirit—and my life was changed forever!

With my metaphysical tinkering, I put into motion certain elemental "somethings" that brought with them inner peace, elevated intuition, synchronistic messages, and a deeper clarity about my place in this uncertain universe. With Spirit Test, I've found a gold coin buried six inches under the sand. If you're curious to know if there is more treasure to be found, I invite you to open your eyes and mind and join me on this adventure.

At this very moment, something somewhere is reaching out to you; this book might just help you find it.

Bio

Dave grew up in a haunted house. He is a paranormal investigator and medium.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNY2P7PD/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

A team of international experts presents the history, recent developments, and controversies in the intriguing study of near-death experience.

Experts from around the world share the history and current state of near-death experience (NDE) knowledge. They explore controversies in the field, offer stories from their research, and express their hopes for the future of investigation into this fascinating phenomenon.

As modern medical techniques for resuscitation advance, NDEs are more frequently reported. These include more than the popular notions of moving through a tunnel or seeing a light. They also include people, once revived, knowing things their knowledge of which can't currently be explained. As The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation makes clear, great controversy exists in the medical and psychological fields concerning NDEs.

Are they caused by physiological changes in the brain, or are they biological reactions to oxygen loss or impending death? Are they a product of changing states of consciousness? Or are they caused by something else altogether? All of these ideas and more are discussed in this unique and comprehensive volume.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0313358648/

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As the bestselling author of Is There Life After Death? and Cheating the Ferryman, Anthony Peake has studied the phenomena surrounding what happens when we die. In Near-Death Experiences, he takes a look at a phenomenon that has garnered great attention from both academics and scientists who study the workings of the brain and the physiological events that are associated with this seemingly inexplicable state.

By marrying up anecdotal evidence with empirical scientific evidence, Peake proffers the latest theories behind what we call 'near-death experiences' and how those investigating them are trying to reconcile an apparent state of awareness on the part of the person concerned with the fact that clinically they are considered by physicians to be in a state of clinical death with no signs of bodily functions.

It makes for a fascinating read that takes us into an area of neuroscientific research that is continually evolving.

Bio

Anthony Peake was a curious child. While his friends were reading Batman and Superman comics Anthony was immersing himself in learning of the most arcane nature (whilst still keeping an eye on the X-Men and Dr. Strange). It was in 1966, at the age of twelve that he, quite by accident, came across a copy of The Sky People by Brinsley Le Poer Trench and from then on there was no stopping him. The British part-series Man Myth and Magic was read with intense interest followed by the discovery of John Keel’s Project Trojan Horse and Jacques Vallee’s Passport to Magonia. What followed was a voracious, and unquenchable, need to know everything about everything.

At university he chose courses that would accommodate his wide interests, specialising in the sociology of religion, the theory of language development and the art of the Italian Renaissance. A post-graduate course in management lead Anthony away from his calling as a writer and into a career as a manager in various UK businesses. His interest in the esoteric continued with a growing fascination for quantum physics and neurology developing over the years.

It was in the year 2000 that his life was to change. A fortuitous set of circumstances allowed him to take a year sabbatical from his business career and he decided that he would focus the fruits of all his reading and research in writing a book. Exactly one year later he surfaced with the manuscript of his first book, then entitled Cheating the Ferryman. This book was a distillation of all his areas of interest, quantum physics, neurology, ancient myths, altered-states of consciousness and the mystery of death.

However, it was to take five years before this work appeared in print. Thanks to the help of Professor Bruce Greyson of the University of Virginia, an article based upon Anthony’s Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis was to appear in the Winter 2004 edition of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the academic periodical of the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). A few months later, in early 2005, British publishing house Arcturus bought the rights to the book and, a year later, and after a substantial re-write, Anthony’s first book, with the new title Is There Life After Death – The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die was published. The rest, as they say, is history. This book has now sold over 60,000 copies world-wide and has been translated into various foreign language editions including Spanish, Russian and Polish. Indeed, Anthony has now had books published in every major European language.

Anthony has now written twelve books. All of them develop his Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis into ever-wider areas of application. His approach has always been to apply science to the mysterious and the enigmatic.

His thirteenth book, an exhaustive review of the history, anthropology and science of the much-discussed Near-Death Experience (NDE) will be published in November 2024.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D6TGHXR8/

https://www.anthonypeake.com/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

As the bestselling author of Is There Life After Death? and Cheating the Ferryman, Anthony Peake has studied the phenomena surrounding what happens when we die. In Near-Death Experiences, he takes a look at a phenomenon that has garnered great attention from both academics and scientists who study the workings of the brain and the physiological events that are associated with this seemingly inexplicable state.

By marrying up anecdotal evidence with empirical scientific evidence, Peake proffers the latest theories behind what we call 'near-death experiences' and how those investigating them are trying to reconcile an apparent state of awareness on the part of the person concerned with the fact that clinically they are considered by physicians to be in a state of clinical death with no signs of bodily functions.

It makes for a fascinating read that takes us into an area of neuroscientific research that is continually evolving.

Bio

Anthony Peake was a curious child. While his friends were reading Batman and Superman comics Anthony was immersing himself in learning of the most arcane nature (whilst still keeping an eye on the X-Men and Dr. Strange). It was in 1966, at the age of twelve that he, quite by accident, came across a copy of The Sky People by Brinsley Le Poer Trench and from then on there was no stopping him. The British part-series Man Myth and Magic was read with intense interest followed by the discovery of John Keel’s Project Trojan Horse and Jacques Vallee’s Passport to Magonia. What followed was a voracious, and unquenchable, need to know everything about everything.

At university he chose courses that would accommodate his wide interests, specialising in the sociology of religion, the theory of language development and the art of the Italian Renaissance. A post-graduate course in management lead Anthony away from his calling as a writer and into a career as a manager in various UK businesses. His interest in the esoteric continued with a growing fascination for quantum physics and neurology developing over the years.

It was in the year 2000 that his life was to change. A fortuitous set of circumstances allowed him to take a year sabbatical from his business career and he decided that he would focus the fruits of all his reading and research in writing a book. Exactly one year later he surfaced with the manuscript of his first book, then entitled Cheating the Ferryman. This book was a distillation of all his areas of interest, quantum physics, neurology, ancient myths, altered-states of consciousness and the mystery of death.

However, it was to take five years before this work appeared in print. Thanks to the help of Professor Bruce Greyson of the University of Virginia, an article based upon Anthony’s Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis was to appear in the Winter 2004 edition of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the academic periodical of the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). A few months later, in early 2005, British publishing house Arcturus bought the rights to the book and, a year later, and after a substantial re-write, Anthony’s first book, with the new title Is There Life After Death – The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die was published. The rest, as they say, is history. This book has now sold over 60,000 copies world-wide and has been translated into various foreign language editions including Spanish, Russian and Polish. Indeed, Anthony has now had books published in every major European language.

Anthony has now written twelve books. All of them develop his Cheating the Ferryman hypothesis into ever-wider areas of application. His approach has always been to apply science to the mysterious and the enigmatic.

His thirteenth book, an exhaustive review of the history, anthropology and science of the much-discussed Near-Death Experience (NDE) will be published in November 2024.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D6TGHXR8/

https://www.anthonypeake.com/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

In this prize-winning essay for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest, Dr. Ruickbie examines the evidence for the survival of consciousness after death (“life after death”). Initially skeptical, he found that there was sufficient evidence from a wide variety of sources, including apparitions, reincarnation, near-death experiences, after-death communication, and premonitions, that met the contest’s criteria of being “beyond reasonable doubt.”

Such claims are often dismissed as contravening the laws of physics; however, Ruickbie takes the ground-breaking approach of organizing the evidence as eye-witness testimony to the "block" universe (in which past, present and future exist at the same time) described by Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski; and finds further support in the latest theories and findings of Quantum Physics for what Ruickbie calls “timetanglement” and “cloud consciousness.” Using a novel framework inspired by Charles Dickens, this is a readable and convincing account of a complex and highly debated subject.

Bio

Dr Leo Ruickbie, FRHistS, FRAI, ARPS, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), ACIQ, Associate of King’s College London, is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is a member of the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies research group.

Described as a ‘leading historian and sociologist of the paranormal’ by the Daily Express newspaper (print) and ‘a leading expert on the paranormal‘ (express.co.uk online), Dr Ruickbie specialises in controversial areas of human belief and experience, sometimes called ‘exceptional human experiences’. A phrase coined by Rhea White in 1990, exceptional human experience is ‘an umbrella term for many types of experience generally considered to be psychic, mystical, encounter-type experiences, death-related experiences, and experiences at the upper end of the normal range, such as creative inspiration, exceptional human performance’ (White, 1994:5).

Dr Ruickbie is closely involved in the work of the Society for Psychical Research as a member of Council, former Editor of its Magazine and a member of its Spontaneous Cases Committee. Established in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research is the world’s largest, oldest and most reputable organisation for the scientific study of what we now call ‘the paranormal’.

He is also a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association. Established in 1957, the Parapsychological Association is affiliated to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In recognition of his contribution to scholarship sustained over the course of his career, Dr Ruickbie has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Dr Ruickbie’s PhD is from King’s College, London, for his thesis on contemporary witchcraft and magic use, building on research that won him an MA with distinction from Lancaster University. He is the author of several books, all based on rigorous research: Witchcraft Out of the Shadows (2004 and 2011), Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (2009), A Brief Guide to the Supernatural (2012), A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting (2013), The Impossible Zoo (2016) and Angels in the Trenches (2018); as well as numerous articles and chapters in scholarly publications.

https://ruickbie.com/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRMN4D41/

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife