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Article: Dr. Cook's reply to comments on her review of Parapsychology and Thanatology.
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- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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The last issue of the Journal contained reactions to my review of the Parapsychology Foundation's conference on Thanatology and Parapsychology (Cook, 1996), by six of the eight contributors to that conference.(1)
Before addressing some of the individual comments, I can summarize what I had hoped to convey in my essay by repeating that, for most people, the primary question posed by the survival problem is whether or not our personal consciousness, or self, survives death in some form that is continuous with - although likely also greatly different from - our present consciousness; and that we will make no further progress on that question by continuing to debate from ...