Titus Rivas is a writer, philosopher and researcher with a particular interest in near-death experiences and other related anomalous phenomena.

In this interview, he discusses his views on NDEs and cases of the reincarnation type (CORT) as well as responding to critiques of some of the more famous NDE cases including:

• Pam Reynolds
• Denture man

For most contemporary materialists and physicalists, there simply is no serious alternative to ‘naturalism’ and its age-old counterpart (dogmatic Christianity). As they find religion backward and irrational, they wish to protect ‘reason’ and science from reactionary impulses to return to the Middle Ages. Many materialists even name their ontology ‘rationalism’. This is clearly absurd, because many rationalists are not materialists and also because rationalism is not an ontological but an epistemological position. But it certainly shows that in their minds reason and materialism really, intrinsically, belong together.
The self-confidence of materialists within the sciences has been strengthened by their immense success in realms such as Newtonian physics, chemistry, geology, physiology, biochemistry, and astronomy. Of course, this self-confidence is misguided because materialism will probably suffice for realms that are wholly physical, but certainly not for other realms such as ethology, psychology, psychiatry, parapsychology, sociology, and possibly even parts of biology outside ethology as is suggested by scholars such as Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Nahm.

Full article (pdf): Interview with afterlife researcher and philosopher Titus Rivas about near-death experiences, survival of consciousness,
the Pam Reynolds case, the Denture Man case, reincarnation and related matters