TSAS Religion, Philosophy and Ethics A Level Website
Mind and Body and Life after Death
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TSAS Religion, Philosophy and Ethics A Level Website
Mind and Body and Life after Death |
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A study of the concept of Life after Death will need a preliminary look at whether the body has a soul. Use these links to support your study, but remember that many sites dealing with Life after Death are likely to be "personal testimonies". Treat them with some caution!!! |
Use these links to support your work. The pages refer to individual sections from the RPE Specifications: Philosophers |
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Near Death Experiences This site includes a huge range of testimones of NDEs. Evidence for Life after Death This is the BBC News report used in class - it details some of the research carried out on the idea of Life after Death. The Case for Life after Death This is an article by Professor Peter Kreef, featured on the Leadership University website. LearderU is a Christian organisation which aims to provide teachers and students with Christian material for their theological and philosophical studies. Soul-Searching Doctors find Life after Death The Daily Telegraph featured this article on thier website - it covers the research by scientists into Near Death Experiences. Death and the Meaning of Life Kieth Augustine has written this article, which appears on the Infidels.Org website. See also his article, called The Case Against Immortality. The Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University One of the most examined claims of religious belief is in Life after Death. Some people claim "evidence" for a life after death - Out of Body experiences, Deja Vue and Remembered past lives. The Koestler Institute investigates these claims. The site hosts the web pages of the Society for Psychical Research - click here to visit. There is also the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, a Private American College which researches in the field. Many of the sites devoted to parapsychology are privately operated - beware!!! Star Trek Voyager - Course: Oblivion John Hick has explained Life after Death in terms of Replicas. He argues that when a person dies, an exact replica is created elsewhere. For a bit of light relief, we use this episode of Star Trek Voyager, in which a replica of the entire ship has somehow been created, and the replica crew struggle to come to terms with their identities when they realise they are not the "original" crew. This link takes you to a synopsis of the episode. |