Towards scientific validation of an afterlife

‘If consciousness is like a limitless ocean, a soul might be likened to a surfer’s wave, albeit one that endures over time.’ Daniel Drasin

With more than thirty years of research into the afterlife and paranormal phenomena, Daniel Drasin surveys the evidence for human consciousness continuing after death and insists on the legitimacy of scientific inquiry into a ‘Greater Reality’.

His book, A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, time and the Consciousness Code (Park Street Press, June 2023), is an easy and commonsensical read of only 110 pages — I read it avidly in a single evening — and valuable for its accessible and concise assessment of the latest science in the field, as well as its itemising of resources and recommending reading.

Drasin asks the reader to prepare for ‘a deep dive into one of today’s most compelling and far-reaching frontiers of scientific exploration’ and discusses fifteen propitious lines of post-materialist investigation being carried out today. Yet he says modestly that his book is only a small contribution to the ‘emerging flood of science-based afterlife-related literature’.

His work represents an inspiring consciousness-based post-materialist worldview in a society dominated by materialism which is (only) an assumption about reality, although one which has…