Topic Five:  Is there Life after Death?


Introductory Readings

The soul:  etymology and the meaning for Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Religion and science

Primary Sources

A psychological approach:  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:  The Grief Cycle (Please click and read through the various cycles on the home page)

Socrates and the Human Soul - Connections between Christianity and Greek Philosophy from Christian Neuroscience

An Interpretation Of Socrates' Last Argument [102A-107B] in the Larger Context of Plato's Phaedo    by Marc Saner,  Carleton University

An Introduction to the Bardo Thosdol Chenmo - Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate Zone, also known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Joseph Schaeppi

The Buddha and Death:  Story of the Mustard Seed from Sacred Texts

Kierkegaard on the Sickness unto Death  (Original Work and Summary of key Chapters in Kierkegaard's classic)

Alfred North Whitehead in Modes of Thought (please read through to selection 209)

Sociobiology and the soul:  an Interview with E. O. Wilson at Salon.com

Power point

Videographies:

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate Zone Joseph Schaeppi