Is There Proof of Life After Death?
Is there any scientific proof of an afterlife? CrowdScience returns to the subject by examining out-of-body experiences and meeting a woman who is alive and dead at the same time.
Is there any scientific proof of an afterlife? Six months ago, CrowdScience tackled a question from a listener who wanted to know whether there was life after death. But following more listener emails, presenter Marnie Chesterton returns to the subject to investigate the world of ghosts, souls and parapsychology. She meets Professor Susan Blackmore, who studies out-of-body experiences and has spent decades hunting for scientific proof of life after death. And she visits the woman who, despite dying in the 1950s, is alive and thriving on a cellular level and helping scientists find cures for cancer, Parkinson’s and other diseases, in laboratories across the world…
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Produced and Presented by Marnie Chesterton
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What causes an out of body experience?
Duration: 02:43
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- Fri 20 Oct 201719:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sat 21 Oct 201722:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sat 21 Oct 201723:32GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Mon 23 Oct 201702:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Mon 23 Oct 201704:32GMTBBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Mon 23 Oct 201706:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa
- Mon 23 Oct 201713:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
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