Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence for Life After Death

Colin Wilson examines claims that consciousness may survive bodily death, bringing together psychical research, case histories and arguments from psychology. The book considers near-death and out-of-body experiences alongside mediumship, apparitions, telepathy, precognition and reported communication with the dead.

Its wider investigation includes reincarnation, past lives, multiple personalities, the subliminal mind and split-brain research. Wilson also discusses the work and ideas associated with Raymond Moody, Kenneth Ring, Rudolf Steiner, Madame Blavatsky and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, while considering whether such material supports survival or admits more conventional explanations. Reports of paranormal experiences are treated as evidence to assess rather than as settled proof, giving the book an investigative character rooted in late 20th-century psychical research.