Science Not Looking at Death Says Near-Death Experience Researcher, Dr. Peter Fenwick

Del Mar, CA, USA (SANEPR.com) March 2, 2009 -- Join Alex Tsakiris for an interview with world-renowned near-death experience researcher and author of The Art of Dying, Dr. Peter Fenwick. During the hour-long interview Dr. Fenwick suggests that recent discoveries on the phenomenology of dying is causing us to question some of the materialistic assumptions of science:

“What has happened in materialistic science is that we’re denying the events. If you’re a materialist, you can’t not look at the phenomenology -- you have to do that. Then of course, it’s a question of creating the theories which will encompass the phenomena into worldview rather than saying they can’t occur, therefore they’re not there.”
 
A complete transcript of the interview is available at: http://www.skeptiko.com/blog/?p=85.

Peter Fenwick, M.D., F.R.C.Psych., is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, and author of The Art of Dying.

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