Death and its Mystery - Before Death - Proofs of the Existence of the Soul - Volume i: With Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley (in English)
Synopsis "Death and its Mystery - Before Death - Proofs of the Existence of the Soul - Volume i: With Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley (in English)"
First published in 1920, this book contains the first volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion's "Death and its Mystery", which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume, Flammarion concentrates on the soul and explores a variety of historical cases and investigations that purport to prove the existence thereof, examining their validity in light of scientific facts. Contents include: "The Greatest of Problems--Can it Actually be Solved?", "Materialism--An Erroneous, Incomplete, and Insufficient Doctrine", "What is Man? Does the Soul Exist?", "Supra-normal Faculties of the Soul, Unknown or Little Understood", "The Will, Acting Without the Spoken Word, Without a Sign, and at a Distance", "Telepathy and Psychic Transmissions at a Distance", etc. Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (1842-1925) was a French author and astronomer. A prolific writer, he produced over fifty books including science fiction novels, works on astronomy, and works on physical research. Other titles by this author include: "The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds" (1862), "Real and Imaginary Worlds" (1865), and "God in Nature" (1866). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with introductory poems by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
