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The first section includes expansions of topics that were briefly covered in his earlier nonfiction book, Inquiries: Philosophical (2002). But this nonfiction book contains writings and essays dealing with a wide variety of topics in the areas of science, religion, philosophy, and politics. Steve Propp most often writes novels, with serious intellectual themes. In doing so, he takes readers on an unforgettable spiritual odyssey that will change the way they look at the here and now. He then puts these encounters in an enlightening context as he explores striking patterns of divine intervention in human history as well as in the Bible. Beginning with his own personal story, Shockey goes on to introduce others who relate their miraculous experiences, ranging from visions of heaven to the presence of angels. In Miracles, Angels & Afterlife, Shockey shares the most compelling accounts he has gathered during his years of spiritual investigations and offers profound insight into what the increasing presence of the divine in daily life can mean in this, the first generation of the third millennium. The stories of divine intervention in people’s everyday lives continued to occupy Peter Shockey’s thoughts even after his documentaries on the subject for Hallmark Channel and Discovery’s TLC had been completed and garnered awards and international acclaim.

R.A compelling account of years of spiritual investigations from the director of Life After Life, the award-winning documentary on near-death experiences.

Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz. The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal. An introduction to parapsychology McFarland, p. LaGrand (1999), Messages and miracles: extraordinary experiences of the bereaved, St. ^ Towards the light The Age, March 23, 2004.An introduction to parapsychology McFarland, 2007, p. Review: Beyond Death: The Rebirth of Immortality The Hastings Center Report, Vol. According to Kurtz, "there is no reliable evidence that people who report such experiences have died and returned, or that consciousness exists separate from the brain or body." References The philosopher Paul Kurtz has written that Moody's evidence for the NDE is based on personal interviews and anecdotal accounts and there has been no statistical analyses of his data. The psychologist James Alcock has noted that " appears to ignore a great deal of the scientific literature dealing with hallucinatory experiences in general, just as he quickly glosses over the very real limitations of his research method."

Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife was heavily criticized as flawed, both logically and empirically. Life After Life sold more than 13 million copies, was translated into a dozen foreign languages and became an international best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies. (g) experiencing another world of much beauty.(f) having a rapid succession of visual images of one's past.(e) encountering and perhaps communicating with a "being of light".(c) floating or drifting through darkness, sometimes described as a tunnel.(b) the impression of being located outside one's physical body.(a) an overwhelming feeling of peace and well-being, including freedom from pain.On the basis of his collection of cases, Moody identified a common set of elements in NDEs: The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody.