Recommended Reading List

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The deeper you delve into the world of near-death experiences (NDEs), the more fascinating the topic becomes. It truly is an extraordinary phenomenon. One you may find yourself wanting to read more about. So we decided to compile this staggering recommended reading list for you!

This recommended reading list is, for lack of a better word, gargantuan. If there’s a more comprehensive recommended reading list on the topic of near-death experiences, we haven’t seen it. It’s so big, in fact, that just reading this list alone can feel like a challenge. So we recommend exploring the Table of Contents first, to help you find specific content you may be interested in. Happy hunting!

Table of Contents

Near-Death Experiences

• After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond (Bruce Greyson): Memoir of four decades of NDE research by the premier NDE researcher.
• Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience (Kenneth Ring and Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino): What non-NDErs can learn from NDEs.
• Life After Life (Raymond Moody): The book that began it all. Easy reading, basic. An excellent phenomenological treatment of NDEs. Although some findings have since been clarified and expanded by further research, this book remains the basic work in the field of near-death studies.
• NDEs Unveiled: An Insider’s Look into the Mysteries of Near-Death Experiences (Susan Amsden): A summary book by an “insider” who has heard hundreds of NDEs in her many-years role as office manager of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. 
• The Big Book of Near Death Experiences: The Ultimate Guide to What Happens When We Die (PMH Atwater): A popular and prolific author presents a thoroughgoing introduction to the subject of NDEs, along with some of the more controversial and unsubstantiated opinions about causes and effects. 
• The Journey Home: What Near-Death Experiences and Mysticism Teach Us About the Meaning of Life and Living (Phillip L. Berman): A thoughtful, non-sensationalist presentation of NDEs, readable and well-reviewed by book-buyers at Amazon. 
• The Near-Death Experience: An Interview in Overcoming Death: Evidence of the Afterlife (excerpts from The MOON Magazine) (Diane Corcoran): IANDS past-president and retired Army nurse Diane Corcoran covers numerous topics including an explanation of NDEs, NDE aftereffects, childhood NDEs, and NDEs in combat veterans.
• Impressions of Near-Death Experiences (Robert Coppes): Drawing on quotes from more than 100 near-death experiencers from around the world, this book provides an impression of what near-death experiences (NDEs) are like.
• Revelations of Profound Love: New Insights into the Power of Love from Near-Death Experiences (Ann Frances Ellis): Insights from nearly 500 near-death experiencers illustrating the various aspects of love commonly found in NDEs. 
• The Truth in the Light (Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick):  Report by a well-respected neuropsychiatrist and his wife, based on a careful study of over 300 NDEs in the United Kingdom. See his article, “Science and Spirituality”, on this website.
• Adventures in Immortality: A Look Beyond the Threshold of Death (George Gallup Jr., with William Proctor): Overview of NDEs in the context of a Gallup study of American beliefs about death and life after death. Frequently referenced in other works.
• Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences (Jeffery Long, with Paul Perry): Long presents nine lines of evidence that humans survive bodily death, based on an analysis of 1,300 NDE accounts from his NDERF web site.
• What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death (Sam Parnia): Data and theory about what is known about the mind, brain, and consciousness as demonstrated by NDEs.
• Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death (Sam Parnia): Parnia reveals that death is not a moment in time but, rather is a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. He discusses some of the preliminary results of the AWARE multi-hospital study of NDEs during cardiac arrest. 
• Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death (Sam Parnia): Pulmonologist Parnia’s most recent work summarizing his extensive research on REDs—recalled experiences of death (his rename of NDEs)—and its implications for humanity.
• Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation (Michael Sabom): A clearly written and fascinating discussion of “the Atlanta study,” the first physician-conducted hospital study of near-death experiences, with special attention to perceptions during NDEs that are later verified as accurate. Highly recommended. 
• Light and Death: One Doctor’s Fascinating Account of Near-Death Experiences (Michael Sabom): Cardiologist Sabom offers further insights from his Atlanta hospital study. Includes a detailed description of Pam Reynolds’s infamous NDE during hypothermic “standstill” brain surgery. The author takes an evangelical Christian perspective.
• Consciousness Beyond Life: The science of the near-death experience (P. van Lommel): Scientific evidence that the near-death phenomenon is an authentic experience demonstrating that consciousness can be experienced separate from the body.
• Foundations of Near-Death Research: A Conceptual and Phenomenological Map (Alexander Batthyány): Landmark articles from the Journal of Near-Death Studies for anyone wanting a scholarly introduction to basic topics in the field of near-death studies.
• When Ego Dies: A Compilation of Near-Death and Mystical Conversion Experiences (Diane Corcoran): A collection of relatively brief pieces by members of the IANDS local support group of the Houston, TX, area.
• The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives (Bruce Greyson and Charles Flynn): The earliest and still one of the best overviews of the field.

Edited books – containing chapters by different authors

• The Near-Death Experience: A Reader (Lee W. Bailey and Jenny Yates): Comprehensive overview of NDEs, with accounts and interpretations from writers representing a variety of fields.
• The Science of Near-Death Experiences (John C. Hagan III): University of Missouri Press. Evidence-based research on NDEs by physicians and scientists, including those who themselves have had an NDE. The recollections of NDErs often refute attempts to explain how the brain can produce such vivid recollections.
• The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation (Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James): A summary of what was discovered about NDEs in the first three decades of research; presentations from the historic 2006 IANDS conference at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Comprehensive, scholarly.

Autobiographies and Biographies

• Rag Doll: A Journey of Healing and Integration (Alayna): Written by a woman whose NDE as an adult helped her resolve the lifelong traumatic aftereffects of childhood sexual abuse.
• Lessons from the Light: In-Sights from a Journey to the Other Side (Sandi Rogers): An autobiographical account from a woman whose NDE occurred when she attempted suicide.
• Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (Eben Alexander): Former Harvard neurosurgeon Alexander describes his extensive NDE during coma associated with meningitis and how it transformed his former skeptical, materialist viewpoint into insight about the essentially spiritual nature of existence.
• 37 Seconds: Dying revealed heaven’s help (Stephanie Arnold): Like Proof of Heaven and To Heaven and Back, a gripping medical drama with heavenly implications in which a woman receives premonitions of her death that come true, and her discovery of the heavenly help available to everyone.
• Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation (Tricia Barker): A Community College English teacher describes the NDE she had as a college student following a catastrophic car accident and how she has found trauma healing and life inspiration from it.
• Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received (Dannion Brinkley, with Paul Perry): Double NDE with two extensive life reviews. Includes Brinkley’s relationship with Raymond Moody.
• Heaven is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Todd Burpo, with Lynn Vincent): Best-selling story of 4-year-old Colton Burpo who, during an emergency appendectomy, slipped from consciousness and entered heaven. Includes very interesting verifications of his deceased great-grandfather who died 30 years prior to Colton’s birth and his mother’s prior miscarriage, with impossible-to-know details about each. Strong Christian content and interpretation.
• My Last Breath (Matthew Dovel): Distressing NDE associated with a suicide attempt.
• Embraced by the Light (Betty Eadie): One of the most widely read accounts.
• What Tom Sawyer Learned from Dying (Sydney Farr): An informative account about one of the participants in Ken Ring’s classic research.
• Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares Her Experience of Near-Death and Dying (Pamela Kircher): Unique perspective from a physician who is, herself, a childhood NDEr.  
• Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing (Anita Moorjani): Moorjani “died” of stage 4 lymphoma in 2006. During her near-death experience, she received a number of insights about the source of her cancer and was told by her deceased father that she needed to come back. She knew that she would be completely healed if she came back—and she was. Moorjani describes her experience of the nature of reality and consciousness during the NDE and recounts several verified perceptions.
• To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again (Mary Neal): Orthopedist Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident and recounts what happened as she moved from life to death to eternal life, and back again. Her experience in heaven provided a newfound understanding of her purpose on Earth, her awareness of God, her closer relationship with Jesus, and her personal spiritual journey.
• Return from Tomorrow (George Ritchie, with Elizabeth Sherrill): This classic is the account that inspired Raymond Moody to inquire into the phenomenon that he eventually named “near-death experience.”
• After the Light: What I Discovered on the Other Side of Life That Can Change Your World (Kimberly Clark Sharp): The personal story of a social worker who also has been active in IANDS.
• My Descent into Death: A Second Chance at Life (Howard Storm): An autobiographical account by a pre-NDE art professor, and post-NDE minister, with a distressing segment turning into a pleasant NDE.
• A Passage to Eternity: A Mystical Account of a Near-Death Experience and Poetic Journey into the Afterlife (Azmina Suleman): Rare account of a Moslem woman’s near-death experience, including her interpretation based on her upbringing in the mystical Shia branch of Islam.
• The Light After Death: My Journey to Heaven and Back (Vincent Todd Tolman): During 30 minutes of death, Tolman had a near-death experience. He returned from the afterlife with 10 principles for living life.

Special NDE Topics

Specific NDE subtopics, organized alphabetically such as aftereffects of NDEs, cultural diversity and NDEs, disabilities and NDEs, and distressing NDEs.

Aftereffects of NDEs

• Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences (Yvonne Kason): Comprehensive description of the varieties of potentially spiritually transformative experiences, including near-death experiences, addressing their aftereffects and suggestions for coping. Written by a physician who has had more than one transformative NDE. Contains hard-to-find information on the sometimes-alarming symptoms of kundalini awakening.
• Coming Back to Life: Examining the After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience (PMH Atwater): A mingling of observation, analysis, and metaphysical speculation. Experiencers say, “She tells it like it is” about aftereffects and experiencer reactions.
• Transformed by the Light: The Powerful Effect of Near-Death Experiences on People’s Lives (Melvin More, with Paul Perry): Those who return from the brink of death are profoundly changed for the better, both spiritually and physically, for the rest of their lives.
• Heading toward Omega: In search of the meaning of the near-death experience (Kenneth Ring): A classic work documenting changes after a near-death experience. Still an essential read for anyone interested in NDE aftereffects.
• Reborn in the Light (Cheri Sutherland): Examining the effects of near-death experiences, including what experiences have come to believe about life. A collection of case stories offering messages of hope, peace, joy, and life after life.

Children’s NDEs

• Closer to the Light: Learning from the Near-Death Experiences of Children (Melvin Morse, with Paul Perry): A pediatrician’s description of children’s NDEs.
• Transformed by the Light: Life After Near-Death Experiences (Cheri Sutherland): Includes near-death experiences in children.

Cultural diversity and NDEs

• Crossing Over & Coming Home (Liz Dale): Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered near-death experiencers describe their experiences and aftereffects.
• Experiences Near Death: Beyond Medicine and Religion (Allan Kellehear): A cross-cultural and sociological approach to NDEs, their cultural and psychological response, and why they occur. Ken Ring called it “an absolute must read for any serious student of the NDE.”

Disabilities and NDEs

• Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind (Kenneth Ring): Evidence that the blind can see during near-death experiences with sight that has a different quality and is a kind of “transcendental awareness” referred to as “mindsight.”

Distressing NDEs

• Reckoning: Discoveries After a Traumatic Near-Death Experience (Nancy Evans Bush): A foremost expert on distressing NDEs reviews both her personal experience and professional discoveries about this phenomenon that can be disturbing yet ultimately uplifting.
• The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms: Distressing Near-Death Experiences in Perspective (Nancy Evans Bush): Hellish NDEs are often assumed to exist as punishment, but evidence contradicts this assumption. Distressing near-death experiencer and researcher Bush seeks to understand distressing NDEs in the context of NDEs in general, to understand the concept of hell, and to find alternative ways to approach distressing NDEs through religious ideas and psychological insights.
• Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences (Nancy Evans Bush): The first comprehensive exploration of disturbing NDEs and how people interpret them. Packed with solid information and first-person narratives that, although marked by dismaying and even terrifying features, turn out to have something vital to say about life itself.
• The Uttermost Deep: The Challenge of Painful Near-Death Experiences (Gracia Fay Ellwood): Deeply thoughtful analysis of NDE phenomenon. Though actually a book that addresses in general the implications of NDEs, it contains a good chapter (#4) on, and subsequent discussion of, “painful” NDEs.
• Blessing in Disguise: Another side of the near-death experience (Barbara Rommer): Overview of what the author calls “less-than-positive” near-death experiences, written by a physician.

Religion and NDEs

• Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations: The Origins of the World’s Afterlife Beliefs (Gregory Shushan): Shushan reveals near-death experiences from the ancient texts of five ancient civilizations that developed independently of one another yet shared afterlife beliefs too consistent and specific to be mere coincidence. He concludes that afterlife beliefs are not entirely invented by cultures but stem from universal truths derived from NDEs.
• Religion, Spirituality and the Near-Death Experience (Mark Fox): Well-done overview of a complex topic.
• Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions (Gregory Shushan): Shushan explores the relationships between near-death experiences, shamanism, and beliefs about the afterlife in traditional indigenous societies in Africa, North America, and Oceania. Drawing on historical accounts of the earliest encounters with explorers, missionaries, and ethnologists, this study addresses questions about the role of NDEs in the afterlife beliefs of indigenous cultures.

Veridical perception and NDEs

• The Self Does Not Die: Verified paranormal phenomena from near-death experiences (Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf Smit): A compilation of over 125 accounts of paranormal phenomena during NDEs that were later verified as accurate by independent sources. The authors discuss implications of these cases for the question of survival of physical death and address arguments skeptics have raised. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the “objective reality” of near-death experiences.

Afterlife and NDEs

• Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promise, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You (John Burke): A former Christian minister finds evidence that near-death experiences are compatible not only with Christianity but also with biblical accounts of the afterlife.
• Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death (Chris Carter): Philosophical argument based on evidence from near-death experiences, physics, and consciousness research that consciousness survives death.
• The Case for Heaven: Near-Death Experiences as Evidence of the Afterlife (Mally Cox-Chapman): NDEs as evidence of an afterlife.
• Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experience (Jeffery Long, with Paul Perry): The co-founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation draws on over 1,500 NDE accounts to present several lines of evidence indicating the reality of an afterlife.
• God and the Afterlife: Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience (Jerry Long, with Paul Perry): The co-founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation draws on over 3,000 NDE accounts from around the world to present evidence for the existence of God.
• The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences and the Afterlife (Gregory Shushan): Shushan identifies similarities and differences between near-death experiences and shamanic spirit journeys to afterlife realms, intermission states between reincarnations from people who remember past lives, and descriptions of otherworlds by souls of the dead communicating through mediums.
• Heaven and Hell (Emanuel Swedenborg): A description of the spiritual world as experienced by the famous 18th-century Swedish mystic. Somewhat less expensive versions are available online, but this is perhaps the most authoritative.

Shared death experience (SDE)

• At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better (William Peters): The most current, comprehensive, research-based—yet very readable—publication about experiences in which the living in some way accompanying dying persons into the first moments of the afterlife.
• Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from This Life to the Next (Raymond Moody, with Paul Perry): The classic, ground-breaking book on shared death experience in which someone in some way accompanies a dying loved one in their transition to an afterlife.

Spiritual awakening and spiritual emergency

• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (Stanislav and Christina Grof): The classic work in which the term “spiritual emergency” is defined and discussed by authors and experiencers from varied professional backgrounds.
• The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life (Suzanne Giesemann): An evidential medium “combines deep spiritual wisdom and practical tools for living a consciously connected and divinely guided life, helping readers go from an emptiness that can’t be filled to a fullness that can’t be contained”.
• Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (Robert Schwartz): Schwartz explores the premise that each person is an eternal soul who plan their lives, including their greatest challenges, before they are born for the purpose of spiritual growth.
• Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (Robert Schwartz): Following his book Your Soul’s Plan, Schwartz further develops his premise by exploring the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage and abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness.
• Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (Marjorie Hines Woollacott): A neuroscientist documents her transformation from a materialist to a knowing that consciousness is not a product of the brain but, rather, is primary. An engaging tour through challenges to materialist philosophy.

Transpersonal experiences in general

• Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (Etzel Cardeña, Stephen J., and Stanley Krippner): The APA’s first formal acknowledgment of non-ordinary experiences. Excellent chapter on NDEs by a foremost NDE researcher, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson.
• Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling (Ryan D. Foster and Janice Miner Holden): This edited volume presents spiritual and religious perspectives and practices that can be integrated into counseling, written by experts in the field. Includes chapters on near-death experiences, after-death communication, past-life therapy, psychosynthesis, and responding therapeutically to transpersonal experiences.
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (William James): The great classic study of religious and spiritual experiences, by the great classic scholar and pioneer in psychology.

After-death communication (ADC)

• Induced After-Death Communication: A Miraculous Therapy for Grief and Loss (Allan Botkin): A former Veterans Administration psychologist describes his discovery of a counseling/psychotherapy strategy uniquely effective in reducing painful grief symptoms by facilitating after-death communication for most patients/clients. His clinical observation of its effectiveness was recently confirmed by an experimental study.
• Hello from Heaven (Bill and Judy Guggenheim): After completing her dissertation on all published work on after-death communication through 2010, Jenny Streit-Horn was asked: If I were to read only one book on this subject, which one would you recommend? Her answer was this book, a classic that summarizes reports of the frequency and types of after-death communication.
• Love and the Afterlife: How to Stay Connected to Your Human and Animal Loved Ones (Judy Beischel): A foremost researcher of mediumship provides steps for people seeking contact with deceased loved ones to do so.
• Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased (Evelyn Elsaesser): Results of a recent large-scale international study of after-death communication, reaffirming and adding to the body of knowledge about this meaningful experience that occurs so often yet remains widely misunderstood in Western culture.

Psychic abilities

• The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (Dean Radin): A renowned consciousness researcher compiles the extensive evidence indicating that paranormal phenomena such as remote viewing and psychokinesis are real.
• The Secret Science of the Soul: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (Charles Tart): A very readable summary of research on what Tart calls “the big five” psychic phenomena: telepathy, clairvoyance/remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing. Additional chapters on out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, after-death communication, mediumship, and reincarnation. Concludes with an integration supporting a post-materalist perspective.

Mediumship

• The Afterlife Frequency: The Scientific Proof of Spiritual Contact and How That Awareness Will Change Your Life (Mark Anthony): Mediumship experiences and more from the Oxford-educated Psychic Lawyer. Shows how contact with the deceased can be a powerful instrument of healing.
• Investigating Mediums: A Windbridge Institute Collection (Julie Beischel): From a foremost mediumship researcher, this volume combines three books previously available only electronically via Kindle: Among Mediums: A Scientist’s Quest for Answers, Meaningful Messages: Making the Most of Your Mediumship Reading, and From the Mouths of Mediums Vol. 1: Experiencing Communication” – and more.
• Messages of Hope: The Metaphysical Memoir of a Most Unexpected Medium (Suzanne Giesemann): Documents the transformation of a former Naval Commander and Aide to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a full-time evidential medium.
• Mediumship: Sacred Communication with Loved Ones from Across the Veil (Suzanne Giesemann): How mediumship works from a former Naval Commander turned evidential medium. This book is for professional mediums, people considering participating in mediumship as a sitter, or those simply interested in the mediumship process.

Nearing-death awareness and end-of-life care

• Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communication of the Dying (Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley): In this classic work on end-of-life care, two hospice nurses describe the experiences of dying patients.
• Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life (Maggie Callanan): Callanan’s update of her classic co-authored work Final Gifts.
• The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere (Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick): The authors describe their ground-breaking research into the end-of-life phenomena, including near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, deathbed visions of the dying person, and other phenomena surrounding death, as well as the experiences of hospice and palliative care workers and relatives of dying people.
• Death is But a Dream: Hope and Meaning Beyond Cure (Christopher Kerr): Results of the first systematic study of end-of-life experiences among hospice patients.
• On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Families (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross): Although subsequent research has shown that dying people do not go through a lock-step sequence of “stages of grief,” this book remains the classic work that raised American consciousness about the experiences and needs of the dying.
• Early Exits: Spirituality, Mortality and Meaning in an Age of Medical Assistance in Dying (David Maginley): Each chapter of this book begins with a case of a dying patient followed by discussion of existential and spiritual healthcare, with practical suggestions. Includes cases of nearing-death awareness and terminal lucidity.
• At the Hour of Death (Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson): A report of what over 1,000 physicians and nurses have observed in their patients at the time of death.

Terminal lucidity (TL)

• Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death (Alexander Batthyány): To date, the only English book reviewing research about a deathbed phenomenon in which a dying person considered medically incapable of communication becomes—shortly before death—suddenly and temporarily lucid and able to communicate meaningfully with personal and professional caregivers.
• Wenn die Dunkelheit ein Ende findet: Terminale Geistesklarheit und andere ungewöhnliche Phänomene in Todesnähe (Michael Nahm): The landmark text reporting research on a deathbed phenomenon in which a dying person considered medically incapable of communication becomes—shortly before death—suddenly and temporarily lucid and able to communicate meaningfully with personal and professional caregivers. Unfortunately for English speakers, this volume is available only in German.

Reincarnation and life-between-lives

• Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton): Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to people between reincarnated lives.
• Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton): In this follow-up to Journey of Souls, Newton presents 70 additional case histories of people who were hypnotically regressed into their lives-between-lives and more details about various aspects of life “on the other side.”
• Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (Ian Stevenson): In this unique volume, pioneering research Stevenson presents cases in which children who remember previous lives have birthmarks, disabilities, and other physical manifestations that match the traumatic death of the alleged previous person. Includes an inset with photos from several cases.
• Before: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives (Jim B. Tucker): Combines two previous bestselling volumes: Return to Life and Life Before Life. Reviews extensive research at the University of Virginia on children who remember previous lives.

Afterlife beliefs

• The Reasonable Beyond: Valid Afterlife Evidence (Julie Beischel): A renowned mediumship researcher clarifies the true nature of scientific investigation and applies those principles to the question of the survival of consciousness after physical death.

Consciousness/mind-brain relationship

• Expanding Reality: The Emergence of Postmaterialist Science (M. Beauregard): A neuroscientist presents near-death experiences as one of several lines of evidence that mind, consciousness, and spirit cannot be reduced simply to electrical and chemical activity in the brain. An updated version of the author’s 2012 book, Brain Wars.
• Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21^st Century (Edward Kelly and Emily Williams Kelly, with Bruce Greyson): Comprehensive and detailed empirical proof that the reductive, materialistic belief that mind equals brain is not just incomplete but false. A major scholarly work.
• Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality (Edward Kelley, Adam Crabtree, and Paul Marshall): Building on the previous book Irreducible Mind, this volume includes chapters by various authors addressing what model of reality expands upon physicalism/materialism to accommodate phenomena such as the paranormal and near-death experiences.
• Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism (Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall): Various authors contributed chapters to this volume that endorses a post-materialist worldview and addresses the implications of that stance for a more comprehensive view of reality and a broader perspective on human potential.