Best survival evidence / Request

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Hey everyone, I was wondering what is the best survival evidence is for different posters here, and was wondering if you'd be kind enough to point me to reading resources regarding whatever you think is the best evidence. I'm myself acquainted with various lines of evidence, but I'm wondering what everyone else considers the best evidence. I would also be interested in knowing what the best evidence is for posters who are not that convinced about survival.
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I'll let others give their answers if they want to. Mine is pretty boring, probably, because not specific. NDEs resonate the most for me - both the combination of the accounts themselves and the science around them. But put that together with the children's memories of past lives, the best of mediumship, and all of the other stuff, it all adds up to something pretty overwhelming.
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I've seen various websites dedicated to listing lots of 'best evidence' in various categories.

For me, the evidence came in two parts. Entirely personal experience. I'm not sure any external cases on their own would convince me of anything.

Part one, first-hand experience of telepathy. This wasn't some deliberate attempt at an experiment. Just experiences, mounting one after another. This allowed me to consider consciousness as independent of time and space.

Part two, first hand past-life recall. This is often caricatured in terms of gathering information. To me the information aspect is a minor side show. The real meat at the heart of the topic is the emotional and literally lived experiences of feeling joys and pains, the things which are fundamental to this life. These are the things which carried over, for better or for worse.

Those two, consciousness independent of time and space, and persistence of the emotional self from one lifetime to another were sufficient.
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1. Personal experiences.

2. Reincarnation, (mental) mediumship, apparitions, shared death experiences.

3. NDEs, OBEs, deathbed visions and end of life experiences.

4. Psi. It is not survival evidence, but it suggests that the materialistic worldview is false.

I'd recommend these books:
Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects
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(2018-12-15, 12:43 PM)Raimo Wrote: 1. Personal experiences.

Would you mind sharing those experiences?
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(2018-12-15, 04:45 PM)xxii Wrote: Would you mind sharing those experiences?

I meant the personal experiences in general. E.g. to a NDEr his/her experience is probably the strongest survival evidence.

I have had one spontaneous OBE and I have also experienced vibrational state. I have had precognitive dreams and witnessed other psi experiences.

Once my sister called me and asked if everything was ok. She was very worried and she was certain that something bad had happened to somebody. She acted like that the whole day. Later that evening she found out that one of her friends had been beaten and robbed. She is not normally worried or nervous and she is also a skeptic.

When my cousin was visiting me, I had to go to upstairs to get a vacuum cleaner. While I was upstairs, my cousin had a strong feeling that he has to warn me. He felt that I was going to get hurt if he doesn't warn me. He ignored this feeling and when I ran back, I fell in the stairs and hurt my shoulder.

I have already wrote on this forum about my auditory apparition of a pet tortoise. A few days ago I visited my parents again and tested my skeptical theories. All of them failed. Now I'm 100 % certain that there wasn't any normal source for that scratching sound.
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I’d recommend the following as an introduction:

On The Edge Of The Etheric by Arthur Findlay 
Is There An Afterlife by David Fontana
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