This
week, my friends at Anomalist Books put me in touch with Alex Tsakiris who
wrote, Why Science is Wrong … about
Almost Everything. The book wasn’t exactly what I thought it was going to
be. It was about things that would be more normally found in the world of the
paranormal but with a scientific slant to it. While we began talking about
consciousness, or rather the nature of it, we evolved quickly into a discussion
of Darwin and evolution (yes, I did that on purpose), past lives and eventually
Near Death Experiences. I pressed him on the scientific research and
publication in peer-reviewed journals, and to learn who were the scientists who
are studying these phenomena. He provided answers that included the names and
universities and corporations that sponsored some of the research. You can
listen to the program here:
Because
some of the topics were complicated and we couldn’t do justice to them in the
hour we had, I asked for some links to articles and he provided the following:
and
And for those who might be interested,
I did a book on Near Death Experiences some twenty or so years ago, so it might
be slightly out of date and when talking about past lives, and I did a book, Conversations, several years ago that
has a unique twist on all this. You can find it on Amazon, of course.
Next week’s guest: John Burroughs
Topic: Rendlesham Forest, quite
naturally… if you have questions, let me know.
