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The Self Does Not Die

Disciplines:
parapsychology
consciousness
near-death experiences

Summary

Anthology edited by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf Smit — compiling over 100 veridical near-death experience cases where persons clinically dead accurately perceived events they could not have observed through normal sensory means — the most comprehensive case-based argument for consciousness's independence from the brain.

Core Contribution

Presents the most extensive collection of veridical NDE evidence — cases where blind persons reported accurate visual perceptions during clinical death, where patients described events in other rooms, or gave accurate post-mortem information — constituting the strongest case-based challenge to physicalist theories of consciousness.

Historical Influences

Rivas, Dirven, Smit

Intellectual Lineage

Titus Rivas ResearchIANDS

Allied Works

After Irreducible Mind

Contemporaries & Peers

After Irreducible Mind

Minds Influenced

NDE research Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

The Self Does Not Die Veridical NDE cases

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