Abstract

The empirical data of out-of-body experiences, materializations, apparitions, possessions, poltergeist cases, mediumistic communications, regressions to former lives under hypnosis, recollection\'s of former lives without hypnoses, the survival hypothesis that bodily death does not end all and that there is continuity of \'person\' (mind) either discarnately or reincarnately, and ESP hypothesis i.e. by reference to ESP capacities of some human beings. "Before the survival issue can be successfully resolved much more must be known about the metaphysical framework that constitutes a matrix for this sort of inquiry . . . and there is a need for more prima facie data on survival from the field of parapsychology."