A lady once asked me whether I believed in ghosts and apparitions. I answered with truth and simplicity: No, madam! I have seen far too many myself.
This ex...
"Sunrise doesn’t last all morning, a cloudburst doesn’t last all day,” George Harrison sang on the title track to his first post-Beatles solo album, All Things...
Poltergeist. The word embedded itself in Western culture in the early 1980s with the hit film of the same name, co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg dur...
When scientists and skeptics discuss belief in psychics, mediums and an afterlife, they often frame it in terms of simple 'lay-man' gullibility (who don't have...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is a Tibetan text that describes parts of the afterlife journey at the time of dying, to help guide the dyin...
The Ouija Board remains an object of fascination in the 21st century, despite - or perhaps because of - its 'vintage' feel and rudimentary equipment. A board w...
Regular readers of the Grail will know that legendary comedian and Monty Python alumni John Cleese has a deep interest in research into the survival of conscio...
The field of near-death experience (NDE) research - like many other 'fringe sciences' - has its fair share of opportunists, people who care more about making s...
Does consciousness survive the physical death of the body? That is perhaps the fundamental question of human existence, and one which modern orthodox science w...
Season one of the Netflix series The OA made excellent use of near-death experience research as a core theme. In season two (trailer below) they extend on the ...
