Have you ever sensed the presence of someone no longer alive? If you're a typical American, there's a 40% chance that you have. If you've lost a spouse or longtime partner, those odds increase to over 50%! Experiences of apparent contact with the dead are commonplace around the world. Studies by doctors, psychologists, social workers, and public opinion experts confirm this. Usually such experiences do not involve mediums. They come to healthy, active people when they least expect them.A departed son "talks" his mother through programming her computer. Most of the world's faith traditions assume that we can communicate with our lost loved ones. The Buddhists and Hindus who believe in reincarnation, the Chinese and Africans who practice ancestor worship, the Mexicans who each year celebrate the Day of the Dead, all believe that the spirit survives.This groundbreaking book calmly confronts a hush-hush subject. Can some part of the human personality survive death and reach out to us? Professor Wright offers persuasive proof that indeed it does.