“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.” ThinkingMindHas BeensBodyWould BeTogetherConsciousnessAtheismSurvivalArgumentWeakBasesDestroyedImmortalityPersistInterconnection Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.” BelieveConsciousnessSeriousBehaviorSurvivalKarmaReincarnationImplicationsAfter DeathBeliveI Believe In Karma Author:Stanislav Grof
“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.” PeopleStillsPastPartyConsciousnessMilitaryDisciplineDemandSurvivalEthicsRegardFulfillmentSovietShortcomingsMilitary Discipline Author:Filipp Golikov
“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.” WorldConsciousnessPaintingSurvivalInvisibleGrandfatherTransResearchersDentistChannelingOntarioGreat Grandfather Author:Dan Aykroyd
“There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.” PeopleKindConsciousnessSurvivalBetrayalAnguishSecrecyParcel Author:Chang-Rae Lee