Jesse Bering

... you know, there's something going on here.

I did have, uh, Jesse Bering, the psychologist, on the show.

He wrote a book on suicide.

Yeah.

That man's name was Dr. Ian Stevenson, and he devoted his life to the question of whether the scientific method could be used to explain what happens when we die.

This week on the podcast, I spoke with Jesse Bering, who's the author of a new book about the psychiatrist entitled The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Ian Stevenson.

Here's Jesse.

Jesse Bering, thank you so much for, uh, being on the show today.

Really looking forward to talking with you today.

Yeah.

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And all of that can really encourage us to think, well, maybe they're not really gone.

So one of my colleagues in this area who considers himself an atheist actually was inspired, Jesse Bering, who has a post in New Zealand.

He was inspired to get into this area because of the death of his mother and having this experience and this sort of impression that even as an atheist, he thought, my mom is trying to communicate with me after her death.

Wait a minute, I don't believe that stuff.

So my faith then drives what kinds of topics I look to study.

But that should be true of anybody who goes into the sciences.

Question three, how does your faith motivate the particular research methods that you're going to use? How are you going to treat your human subjects if you're studying humans or animals? Or how are you going to obtain the materials for the sciences that you're doing? Are you going to cut corners and be unethical? Are you going to bring glory to God because of doing things at the highest standard? Fourth, how do you interpret your findings? I mentioned my colleague and friend Jesse Bering earlier.

He's an atheist, but he and I agree on the scientific findings almost 90% of the time, probably more.