"The Great Afterlife Debate" - Michael Shermer and Deepak Chopra

Fascinating, if lengthy, debate on evidence for the existence of life after death. It's couched in a "science V religion" or a "science V magic" paradigm, but that's a faulty presupposition, imo. Chopra uses scientific studies as evidence as much as Shermer.

What I found revealing was how it showed how science can be as susceptible to bias as religion is. Science can become it's own religion of 'scientific materialism'.

It's all reality tunnels, and what you are, or aren't, willing to let into yours...

The essays are long, but well worth reading, at the link...

Skeptic: Reading Room: Debates: The Great Afterlife: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra

The following debate between Deepak Chopra and Michael Shermer came about after the widely read and referenced debate the two had last year on the virtues and value of skepticism. Deepak has a new book out on the subject, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof and Michael has written extensively about claims of evidence for the afterlife, so the two of them thought it would be stimulating to have a debate on the topic. Michael read Deepak’s book and goes first in the debate, offering his assessment of the “proofs” presented in Deepak’s book, then Deepak responds...