A Venture in Immortality: I Knew a Phoenix

By David Kennedy

Death has been the skeleton in the cupboard of organised religion for two millennia, and many churches have not been able to provide the comfort needed by the bereaved, or satisfactory answers to their questions. While David Kennedy's wife was still alive, they agreed that whoever died first would endeavour to prove that life after death was a fact. After her death, he showed his friends and associates in the academic world a written record of experiences that took place almost immediately after her passing: he wanted, initially, to be sure that his emotions had not clouded his reasoning. The story this book tells is simple: Ann is 'alive'. Her survival has found expression, not just as a symbol of hope or as an endless prolongation of memory, but as a living, dynamic personality whose activities manifested themselves in such a way that the record of the following six months constitutes most powerful evidence for survival after death. To his narrative, the author added appendices on Prayers for the Dead; Mediumship in the Early Church; A Suggested Funeral Service; and Comments on and prints the Report of the Church of Scotland Committee on Supernormal Psychic Phenomena.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861402847
• ISBN13: 9780861402847
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Colin Smythe
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.