"Spirituality and Science of Life After Death: Evidence and Clinical Practice".
This conference examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death. Featured topics of coverage include:
- The belief in life after death in the contemporary world as well as in the history of religions and philosophy.
- The key misguided arguments and prejudices against the academic study of afterlife survival.
- What constitutes empirical evidence for survival after death?
- Scientific investigations on mediumship, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and alleged memories of previous lives.
- The main explanatory hypotheses alternative to survival after death.
- The chief cultural barriers to a fair examination of the available evidence for survival of consciousness after death
The book Science of Life After Death (Springer, 2022) can be obtained at
link.springer.com/book/10.100...
Keynote presentation delivered on June 13, 2022, at the Virtual Meeting of the Section on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association (religionandpsychiatry.org/)
by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Research Center in Spirituality and Health (NUPES), School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
- Chair of the Section on Spirituality of the Latin American Psychiatric Association (APAL)
- Former chair of the Sections on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA 2014-20) and the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP 2014-21)