My full question is: what is the best evidence of survival review book to give to someone who is uninformed about this data, and is anxious or depressed about death because they presume annihilation (and possibly, though not necessarily, the meaningless of their life because of it)? (This can include "religious" believers who attend church but don't have any confidence or information relating to an actual afterlife).
I'm not thinking of something to convince "atheists", or even convince people in general, but just to show those anguished souls, if they're interested, that there's something out there other than: 1) what religion says, 2) what the rest of mainstream culture seems to presume and spread as a message.
I don't read all of these types of books because I prefer reading the source materials.
I'm also thinking of giving someone a title or two that aren't heavy, demanding reads, like Fontana's near-500 pages Is There An Afterlife?
I've read Craig Hogan's Your Eternal Self, which is pretty good. But I'm wondering how it compares with other similar books that I haven't read:
- Zammit's A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife
- Greg Taylor's Stop Worrying There Probably Is An Afterlife
- Patricia Pearson's Opening Heaven's Door
Are there others? (George Meek's After We Die, What Then?, I find, is too mediumship-heavy.) Ideally NDEs, ADCs, deathbed visions, evidential mediumship and past-life memory research would all get covered.
Chris Carter has parts 2 and 3 of his trilogy, but that's 2 books and I find that would be a little overwhelming for many folks.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
EDIT: There's also Braude's Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death, which I have but haven't read. I'm perusing it but it sounds a bit too scholarly for the average joe.
I'm not thinking of something to convince "atheists", or even convince people in general, but just to show those anguished souls, if they're interested, that there's something out there other than: 1) what religion says, 2) what the rest of mainstream culture seems to presume and spread as a message.
I don't read all of these types of books because I prefer reading the source materials.
I'm also thinking of giving someone a title or two that aren't heavy, demanding reads, like Fontana's near-500 pages Is There An Afterlife?
I've read Craig Hogan's Your Eternal Self, which is pretty good. But I'm wondering how it compares with other similar books that I haven't read:
- Zammit's A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife
- Greg Taylor's Stop Worrying There Probably Is An Afterlife
- Patricia Pearson's Opening Heaven's Door
Are there others? (George Meek's After We Die, What Then?, I find, is too mediumship-heavy.) Ideally NDEs, ADCs, deathbed visions, evidential mediumship and past-life memory research would all get covered.
Chris Carter has parts 2 and 3 of his trilogy, but that's 2 books and I find that would be a little overwhelming for many folks.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
EDIT: There's also Braude's Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death, which I have but haven't read. I'm perusing it but it sounds a bit too scholarly for the average joe.
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