(1) The answer to the question of whether we survive bodily death in some form is of enormous importance to science, indeed to all fields of knowledge, and an answer, even if only pointing strongly in one direction or the other rather than being conclusive, will usually make a great deal of difference as to how people live their lives.

(2) Rigorous scientific research in parapsychology has now established that people sometimes show what are called psi abilities, conventionally termed "telepathy," "clairvoyance," "precognition," and "psychokinesis." (There may be other psi abilities, but they have not been as rigorously documented as these four.)

(3) Although there are grounds for philosophical differences, some of us feel that psi abilities do not fit in with current, conventional materialistic views of the nature of human consciousness, views which are frequently used as a basis for denying the possibility of survival a priori or the worthwhileness of research on the possibility of survival. Thus the existence of psi abilities creates a general scientific but indirect basis for the possibility (not "proof," but possibility) of some aspect of consciousness surviving death.

(4) Direct studies of survival (mediumistic communications and reincarnation memories, e.g.) to date do not prove survival in any absolute sense, but they do make a significant case for it.

(5) There is sufficient evidence that we believe we need extensive, well-funded and sophisticated research on the survival issue. Current resources available for such research are, given the complexity and importance of the topic, negligible.

To promote such research we have created this web site. As limited time and resources allow, we will post various scientific and scholarly articles relevant to the survival question to this website. 

Robert Almeder, Georgia State University 

Carlos Alvarado, University of Edinburgh and Centro de Estudios Integrales de Puerto Rico 

Loyd Auerbach, John F. Kennedy University

William Braud, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

Stephen Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Emily Cook, University of Virginia

Hoyt Edge, Rollins College

Arthur Ellison, University of London

Bruce Greyson, University of Virginia

Michael Grosso, Jersey City State College 

Erlendur Haraldsson, University of Iceland 

Arthur Hastings, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

Jon Klimo, Rosebridge Graduate School

Melvin Morse, University of Washington

Peter Mulacz, Austrian Society for Parapsychology and Border Areas of Science  website

William Roll, West Georgia University

Charles T. Tart, University of California at Davis website

Colin Wilson, Author and Lecturer, England

Sylvia Hart Wright, Professor Emerita, City College
of New York

Nancy Zingrone, University of Edinburgh and Centro de Estudios Integrales de Puerto Rico