The Case for the Afterlife with Chris Carter

Chris Carter is a physics teacher who was educated at Oxford, England. He is author of four books that make him one of the most significant authors today exploring the question of life after death. They include Science and the Near-Death Experience, Science and Psychic Phenomena, and Science and the Afterlife Experience. His most recent book is The Case for the Afterlife: Evidence of Life After Death. Chris argues that science does not speak with a single voice on the afterlife and examines why many prominent scientists have remained open to questions of consciousness beyond death. He explores five major lines of evidence including near-death experiences, deathbed visions, children's memories of previous lives, apparitions, and mediumship while discussing how standards of scientific evidence should be applied to extraordinary claims. Carter contends that a rigorous examination of the evidence invites a broader philosophical understanding of reality and survival beyond bodily death.00:00:00 Introduction00:03:02 Scientists and belief00:08:03 Creator and afterlife00:12:02 Five lines of evidence00:17:32 Skepticism and proof00:22:12 Quantum perspectives00:27:06 Reincarnation research00:32:06 Strongest mediumship cases00:38:16 Deathbed vision evidence00:47:18 ConclusionNew Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.(Recorded on Friday, July 17, 2026)For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.comCheck out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove. If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf. You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)To