Review of Irving Finkel’s study of ghosts in ancient cultures.
Category: A-Level
Scent From Beyond: Olfaction and After-Death Communication
An article exploring olfactory elements reported within after-death communications.
Many Voices; Sacred Spaces: Exploring Religious, Spiritual and Transcendent Experiences within the RERC Archive
Reflections on twenty-five years of research into Spiritual and Religious Experience within the archive of the Religious Experience Research Centre
Reached By The ‘Real’: What Might Religious and Spiritual Experience Be Telling Us About What Reality Really Is?
What might religious and spiritual experiences be telling us? Are they simply tricks of the mind or might they be telling us something about what ultimate reality, ultimately, is?
The Other Side Of Death: C.S Lewis and Near-Death Experiences
What would C.S Lewis have made of what we now call ‘Near-Death Experiences’? Clues from his other writings allow a tantalizing glimpse of what he might have said.
All In The Mind? Psychology and Spiritual Experience
How might psychology contribute to our understanding of religious and spiritual experience?
‘A Sacred Something’ – Spiritual Awareness Within the Great Outdoors
What kinds of religious, spiritual and mystical experiences might the countryside evoke? Text of a talk I gave to the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, September 4th, 2021
Review: ‘Death, The Gateway To Life: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Near-Death Experiences’ by Shirley Firth & Joanna Wilson (eds.)
Review of a published collection of papers given at the conference, ‘Is Heaven for Real? Significant Implications of Near-Death Experiences’ held at the University of Winchester in July 2016.
Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife
Do Near-Death Experiences ‘prove’ life after death? Where does current research stand and what are the implications for science, philosophy, and religion?
Glowing Round in Circles? – Orbs In The Twenty-First Century
What are orbs? What kinds of unusual lights are these? What might experiences of orbs be telling us? Why has orbs research been dormant for so long? Do orbs ‘prove’ life after death?