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Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence | 
 enlarge | Author: David Fontana
Publisher: O Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 496
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 1903816904
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.23
EAN: 9781903816905
ASIN: 1903816904
Publication Date: February 25, 2005
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This book presents the most complete survey to date of the evidence, both historical and contemporary, for survival of physical death.
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 Not an ordinary book! October 29, 2008
With profound wisdom and clarity Dr Fontana manages to tackle one of the most important questions facing all humans. He manages to provide a comprehensive and balance work on the subject and unlike many pseudo intellectuals who are afraid to spell out their conclusions he does that with tremendous intellectual honesty and insight. Dr Fontana is not only quoting the sources but has also been a first hand witness to the phenomena and personalities involved in this field. His writing reveals good sound judgement, courage, rigour and balance as traits of his own personality. These are essential traits for someone credibly writing on this subject that is shrouded in emotions, mystery and prejudice. The best book on the subject period. Highly recommended.
Knows It All! October 22, 2008
Dr David Fontana demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of many things psi, in many countries. If I were to teach psi, I would use this as the textbook. Chapter 17 offers excellent descriptions of the afterlife as experienced by a great many people who for one reason or another are in a position to know what can be known about the afterlife. His conclusion in Chapter 18 invites us to consider choosing whether to say "yes" of "no" to belief in psi, with a very handsome reward in store for those who say YES!!!
Overwhelming and Comprehensive August 31, 2008
David Fontana provides an enormous amount of information concerning research conducted into understanding life after death. The content covers research conducted going all the way back through the early research from members of the SPR, includes research conducted at Duke and Cambridge Universities (among others) through to the present day. The author covers all angles of arguments against an afterlife as much as could possibly done, presenting as a result an overwhelmingly strong case for survival after death. The thoroughness of the data is astonishing and very compelling. I consider this a textbook (without being dry as textbooks often are) for any parapsychology or psychical research student or individuals interested in the paranormal.
Very interesting! August 15, 2008
I'm not an author so I don't know exactly what goes in to creating a book. I can only imagine the hours that David Fontana spent doing the research for this book. It's not a quick read, but absolutely not a boring one. If your on the fence and your still not quite sure that there is an afterlife, you really should take the time and read this book. I've been on a mission the past 6 years, learning about all the different types of religion, so I also began looking at the subject from a scientific point of view. After reading this book, I Am so sure that there is an afterlife, I am no longer afraid to die. Thank you David for all your time writing this Great book!
 Good book, poorly copyedited May 23, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
David Fontana provides a very good overview of the evidence for survival of human consciousness/personality of the physical death of the body. He musters a considerable body of evidence from various areas of parapsychology to suggest, very strongly, that we don't die with our bodies. The literature on this subject is immense, and Fontana does a good job of surveying most of the important works. A notable and admirable feature of the book is that Fontana does not hesitate to point out weaknesses in certain arguments, though in the final analysis he clearly believes (with good reason) that the scientific evidence supports the idea of survival. The implications of survival are enormous and would likely change much about how we lived our lives if it were to be widely accepted.
For me a major flaw in the book is the poor copyediting. The same name is spelled two or three different ways on the same page or within a few pages (for example, at the top of p. 167, Fontana mentions "Australian-born medium Aviva Neumann." Three lines later the first name is spelled Avival, and two pages later it's spelled Avuva), there are lots of typos, the margins go from fully justified to left justified for a few paragraphs toward the end, etc. The biggest flaw in this regard is that almost none of the in-text citations in Chapters 15 and 16 have corresponding references in the bibliography. This makes it virtually impossible to track down the works cited if one wants to read them (as I do). This sloppiness in organizing the book and poor copyediting is not only very distracting and frustrating (since I'm the type of person that would like to read other works, and the missing references happen to be on topics that interest me most in this whole area), but it could provide skeptics with an avenue for criticizing the soundness of the scholarship. In general, these kinds of omissions make me wonder about the scholarship of a particular book, but in this case I don't think it undermines Fontana's argument. But still, they are very disappointing.
Perhaps some people might think three stars is a little harsh for the issues cited, but they are important to me and detract from the book's readability.
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