Debating out-of-body and near-death experiences: Susan Blackmore & Graham Nicholls

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🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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As as student Susan Blackmore had an out-of-body experience that convinced her of the paranormal. However, after years of research, she came to the conclusion that such experiences are a purely brain phenomenon and not evidence of anything supernatural. Her new book 'Seeing Myself: the new science of out-of-body experiences' tells her story.She debates the issues with Graham Nicholls, author of 'Navigating the Out of Body Experience: Radical New Techniques'. A a researcher in the field, he claims to have had many out of body experiences which were objectively verified through seeing things he could not possibly have known otherwise. For Susan Blackmore: https://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/ For Graham Nicholls: http://www.grahamnicholls.com Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and TwitterGet the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:51.4	conversation with telegraph leader writer and Catholic Tim Stanley. He's someone who's
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1:02.3	this afternoon and the profile is of course available as a podcast too as is of course
1:07.0	Unbelievable here on the show we get Christians and non Christians talking on a regular basis
1:11.8	Today though a little bit different. I'll be introducing my two guests
1:15.0	because actually neither of them are Christians today.
1:17.0	We're talking about out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences
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