Hurmanetar
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Just wanted to make a guest suggestion for a future Skeptiko show... I was listening to Jim Harrold's Paranormal Podcast this morning and heard interviewed Mark Anthony, the psychic lawyer. He has a book out called Evidence of Eternity. Seemed like an intelligent scientifically-minded well-spoken guy and thought that with his background he might be a good future Skeptiko guest.
http://www.healgriefwithbelief.com/
Though I'm sure there would be much agreement with his views, I personally would have a few questions to ask him. In the Paranormal episode he affirmed that there is no hell and that reincarnation is the method of cosmic justice or karma. I wonder how hellish NDEs fit into his model. And although I agree there is much evidence for reincarnation, it leaves me with questions about identity. If one's personality and memories are an integral part of one's identity, and those memories are gone and personality changes in the next life, then what does it really mean to say that one had a past life? If memories and personality disappear or are lessened, then what exactly is it that carries over from one life to the next that is a part of one contiguous identity? I think "soul" is usually the term for that thing that is carried over from life to life, but what exactly is a soul?
http://www.healgriefwithbelief.com/
Though I'm sure there would be much agreement with his views, I personally would have a few questions to ask him. In the Paranormal episode he affirmed that there is no hell and that reincarnation is the method of cosmic justice or karma. I wonder how hellish NDEs fit into his model. And although I agree there is much evidence for reincarnation, it leaves me with questions about identity. If one's personality and memories are an integral part of one's identity, and those memories are gone and personality changes in the next life, then what does it really mean to say that one had a past life? If memories and personality disappear or are lessened, then what exactly is it that carries over from one life to the next that is a part of one contiguous identity? I think "soul" is usually the term for that thing that is carried over from life to life, but what exactly is a soul?