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Description: In this talk, award-winning author Gregory Shushan, PhD, will review his decades-long research into the historical, cultural, and religious dimensions of near-death experiences. Shushan reveals the symbiotic relationship between such experiences and beliefs about an afterlife, exploring and explaining both differences and similarities across cultures. As parallels, mediumistic descriptions of the afterlife are also considered, alongside memories of between-life states in children who claim to remember past lives. While Shushan frames his research within the history of religions, his findings have profound implications for the possibility of an actual afterlife and what it could be like.
Gregory Shushan, PhD, is the author of The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife, Near-Death Experiences in Indigenous Religions, and Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations (forthcoming later this year), and editor of Mind Dust and White Crows: The Psychical Research of William James. He is a historian of religions with degrees in Egyptian Archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Research Methods in the Humanities, and Religious Studies. Dr Shushan is a Visiting Research Fellow at University of Winchester's Centre for Death, Religion and Culture, an Adjunct Professor in Thanatology at Marian University, a Research Fellow of the Parapsychology Foundation, and candidate for a second PhD at Birmingham Newman University, with a project entitled, To Die and Rise Again: Near-Death Experience in Classical Antiquity. He is also the founder and commissioning editor of Afterworlds Press, an imprint of White Crow Books.
