Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Lisa Miller, religion editor at Newsweek magazine and author of, Heaven. During the interview Ms. Miller discusses survival of consciousness:
Alex Tsakiris: Do you believe that the best evidence we have suggests our consciousness survives our death?
Lisa Miller: I don’t believe that’s the best evidence we have. We’re back to where we started.
Alex Tsakiris: So you don’t believe consciousness survives death.
Lisa Miller: I’m saying that it’s possible but I don’t know for sure.
Alex Tsakiris: [Laughs] Well, I don’t know for sure either. And no one…
Lisa Miller: Well, that’s where we all are. That’s where we all are on this stuff. We don’t know. We don’t know whether consciousness survives death. We don’t know what Heaven looks like. We don’t know whether our grandparents are there. What we have is a hope.
Alex Tsakiris: That’s not where most of us are living our lives. Most of us are living our life from making some kind of conclusion from the data we have. So why is it unfair to ask you whether or not…
Lisa Miller: I didn’t say it was unfair and I answered your question. I said I think that there’s a possibility but I don’t know. I think that it’s a great hope of many people.
Alex Tsakiris: Why so noncommittal? I don’t understand that.
Lisa Miller: I’m not noncommittal. I’m answering your question as best as I can. Truly I am.
Alex Tsakiris: No, you’re not. You’re answering a different question. You’re answering the hope question, but you’re not answering whether you personally, based on the evidence you’ve looked at in doing this work and writing this book and being the Senior Religion Editor at Newsweek Magazine, you haven’t told me whether the evidence that you’ve taken in has persuaded you one way or another.
Lisa Miller: I said just as I think about Heaven, I think that it is a possibility and that it is something to hope for.
The Skeptiko interview with Lisa Miller (audio and transcript) is available at:
https://www.skeptiko.com/lisa-miller-heaven-book-uncommitted-to-afterlife/
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