# Jesse Bering
热门播客单集
已更新:
Jesse Michael Bering (born 6 May 1975) is an American psychologist, writer, and academic. He is Associate Professor in Science Communication at the University of Otago (where he serves as Director of the Centre for Science Communication), as well as a frequent contributor to Scientific American, Slate, and Das Magazin (Switzerland). His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and has been featured on NPR, the BBC, Playboy Radio and elsewhere.
Does consciousness survive death?
Professor Jesse Bering has spent almost three decades researching the way we think about the afterlife. That research led him to the work of the psychiatrist Dr Ian Stevenson. Dr Stevenson dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death, travelling the world to investigate cases of ...
The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation
Can memories survive death? It sounds like the kind of question skeptics usually dismiss before the conversation even starts. But Ian Stevenson was not a carnival psychic or a late-night ghost hunter. He was a respected psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who spent decades investigating ch...
The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation
While Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a strong professional reputation, he became known for researching an unusual topic for a behavioural scientist: the afterlife. Investigating questions such as “Can consciousness exist outside the brain?”, his career spanned more th...
Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death
Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange. A new book asks if we're living in an age of 'Muskism'. Plus, the story of Dr Ian Stevenson, the distinguished 1950s psychiatrist who become a leading figure in the controversia...
Spirits, specters, and parapsychological professors with Jesse Bering
Speaking to the dead, academically.
References and suggested readings:
Jesse Bering. 2026. The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul. University of Chicago Press.
Jesse Bering’s w...
The Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation,
This week I'm talking to Jesses Bering about his book 'The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul'
The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his c...
Reincarnation and Birthmarks
This week I'm talking to Jesses Bering about his book 'The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist's Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul'
The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his c...
S3E5: Ghosts, Poltergeists and all things creepy
In this episode of Passing Thoughts, Connie Mason speaks with Jesse Bering, an author and psychology professor, who shares his insights from researching his book 'The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson', delving into reincarnation, poltergeists, and the meticulous paranormal investigations of...
The American Psychiatrist Who Tried To Prove Reincarnation
How a religion explains death and life after death are often as important to an understanding of the religion as is its explanation of God or morality.
The question of how to escape death or how to die well is at the center of nearly all religions.
And one of the oldest ideas about how to beat m...
