Many psychical researchers consider that severe difficulties exist in obtaining conclusive evidence of our continuing existence after death. But when Survival of Death was first published Paul Beard was accorded high praise for the analytical detachment with which he discussed the evidence for and against. Such a careful and honest assessment presented many problems especially as the same evidence must be viewed, considered and weighed so differently from the two sides. As a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and former President of the College of Psychic Studies for sixteen years, the author, with great clarity, indicates the way by which the reader can make his own decision. Indeed it has been said of Survival of Death and the other two books of Paul Beard's trilogy - Living On and Hidden Man - that 'anyone seriously interested in this profoundly mysterious and open-ended subject who studied these ... would have an exceptionally fine and reliable grounding.'
About the author
Paul Beard's lifetime study of the psychical field has, as might be expected, given him an exceptionally wide experience of its many aspects. His capacity for in-depth and lucid appraisal is as evident in this book as in the other volumes of his trilogy. The past President of the College of Psychic Studies, London - he was president for sixteen years - he has also been a member of the Society for Psychical Research for thirty years. The author has lectured to both these bodies as well to the Scientific and Medical Network, the Wrekin Trust, the Centre for Psychological and Spiritual Studies, and many other organisations.
