CHAPTER 1: The Search for God and Afterlife in the Age of Science - Near-death experiences and other transpersonal experiences point to the existence and nature of God and ongoing personal consciousness following physical death. In this article, the history of these experiences are reviewed prior to 1850 and of their study during three periods of scientific research between 1850 and the present. 
 
CHAPTER 2: Developmental Revelation - There is a parallel between the development of the individual and the progress of whole cultures throughout history and that evidence for this maturation process can be found in the stories of the world's religions. Because the Bible documents a 2000-year period of human development, it is particularly rich with examples of developmental revelation. 
 
CHAPTER 3: Ken's Guide to "Universals" In Religion - Dr. Vincent presents five "universals" common to all religions, the most important being the spiritually transformative experience - the basis for their founder's authority. The world religions continue in large part because a substantial number of believers have their own spiritually transformative experiences. Dr. Vincent explains how this has been demonstrated by over 100 years of scientific research and how, without spiritually transformative experiences, religion would probably cease to exist. 
 
CHAPTER 4: Separating the "Super" from the "Natural" - Ancient religious writings describe "supernatural" experiences which do not occur in the modern world. In this article, Dr. Vincent separates the "supernatural" from "natural" religious experiences by explaining how modern researchers have applied the scientific method to such experiences and discovered they are not limited to the realm of a few ancient saints, prophets, and sages. 
 
CHAPTER 5: Religious Experience of Jesus Compatible with Modern Research - Dr. Vincent documents how the Jesus Seminar used modern scholarship to separate the mythology from the reality regarding Jesus and how Jesus' mystical experiences were no different from modern mystical experiences, except in degree, thereby showing a continuity of religious experience from Jesus' time to the present. 
 
CHAPTER 6: Resurrection Appearances of Jesus as After-Death Communication - Although a bodily resurrection of Jesus is implied by the Gospel writers because of the empty tomb, Dr. Vincent reveals how the "resurrection" appearances of Jesus described in the Bible are more in accord with the phenomenology of modern after-death communications of Jesus, other divine figures and ordinary people. 
 
CHAPTER 7: Resurrection Appearances of Jesus as After-Death Communication: Rejoinder to Gary Habermas - Dr. Vincent uses data from religious/spiritual experience research to defend his thesis about Jesus' resurrection appearances described in the Bible as being visionary after-death communications instead of "reanimated corpse" appearances. Dr. Vincent also describes how, over the past 150 years, religious experience researchers have successfully applied the tools of science and begun to unlock the mysteries of how humans experience God and afterlife. 
 
CHAPTER 8: Religious Experience Research Reveals Universalist Principles - For the past 100 years, social and biomedical scientists have been studying transpersonal experiences (such as NDEs and Mysticism) and though they might not be aware of the theological term "Universalism", their conclusions support it. Dr. Vincent has recognized a recurring pattern of Universalist principles in the writing of his fellow researchers of NDEs and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences, including the Oneness of all things and an Ultimate Reality whose love is inescapable. 
 
CHAPTER 9: Mystical Religious Experiences and Christian Universalism - Christian mystics such as Jesus have often been at odds with the religious leaders when they put religious dogma above mystical experiences of God. Dr. Vincent offers some personal and

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