For a very intelligent listening experience tune in to skeptiko.com’s podcasts. Skeptiko explores controversial science with leading researchers and their critics. The following is the introduction for a particularly germane interview with Dr. Neal Grossman, associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in which he discusses how people of both scientific and religious mindsets are often threatened by research into near-death experience –

Dr. Neal Grossman explores near-death experience research, consciousness, academic paradigms and why many religious groups are unfriendly toward near-death experience research: “Both the scientistic type and the devote religious person have something in common, they both think belief in a spiritual reality is a matter of faith… To the religious person the very idea that some of their religious beliefs might be capable of being investigated by science to determine whether they are true or false is threatening… This is the kind of mindset that’s deeply threatened by near-death experience research because the concept of God, and the afterlife and how it works is very, very different from what they want to believe…

Listen.

hallway

For more of Grossman’s ideas, read his article from IONS Review – Who’s Afraid of Life After Death?

Share