London Month of the Dead - Echoes Ever After

ECHOES EVER AFTER - Intimations of immortality A salon in the cemetery with Mark Pilkington and Dr. Christopher Belshaw Sunday 2nd November from 4 to 6 pm Please note the map on your tickets is pointing to the wrong location. Click here for directions to the Dissenters' Chapel Do you believe in Heaven and Hell? All religions provide stories of the afterlife, but what happens to non-believers? There is a growing body of secular testimony about the survival of our personalities after death. Strange Attractor's MARK PILKINGTON goes in search of the afterlife and provides a survey of the evidence including striking accounts drawn from automatic writing and transplant memories. Scientists such as Aubrey De Grey believe ever-lasting life might be within our reach by scientific means. But would you want to live for ever? And in the meantime what can philosophy teach us about death and immortality? PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BELSHAW discusses life without end, with or without a body. Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's Gin Cocktail ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Mark Pilkington is a writer, publisher, curator and musician with particular interest in the fringes of knowledge, culture and belief. He has written two books, Mirage Men (2010) and Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge (2007). Pilkington's writing has also been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Anomalist, Fortean Times, Frieze, Sight & Sound, The Wire, the Time Out Book of London Walks Vol.2 and London Noir. Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and edits its anthology, Strange Attractor Journal. Dr. Christopher Belshaw is a respected philosopher, whose major concerns are with the theoretical side of applied ethics - questions of the value of death, the nature of a person and so on - and with related questions in aesthetics and metaphysics. He is a very experienced speaker and debater, and has written a number of influential books on philosophy.

ECHOES EVER AFTER - Intimations of immortality
A salon in the cemetery with Mark Pilkington and Dr. Christopher Belshaw
Sunday 2nd November from 4 to 6 pm

Please note the map on your tickets is pointing to the wrong location. Click here for directions to the Dissenters' Chapel

Do you believe in Heaven and Hell? All religions provide stories of the afterlife, but what happens to non-believers? There is a growing body of secular testimony about the survival of our personalities after death. Strange Attractor's MARK PILKINGTON goes in search of the afterlife and provides a survey of the evidence including striking accounts drawn from automatic writing and transplant memories.

Scientists such as Aubrey De Grey believe ever-lasting life might be within our reach by scientific means. But would you want to live for ever? And in the meantime what can philosophy teach us about death and immortality? PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BELSHAW discusses life without end, with or without a body.

Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's Gin Cocktail

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Mark Pilkington is a writer, publisher, curator and musician with particular interest in the fringes of knowledge, culture and belief. He has written two books, Mirage Men (2010) and Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge (2007). Pilkington's writing has also been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Anomalist, Fortean Times, Frieze, Sight & Sound, The Wire, the Time Out Book of London Walks Vol.2 and London Noir. Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and edits its anthology, Strange Attractor Journal.

Dr. Christopher Belshaw is a respected philosopher, whose major concerns are with the theoretical side of applied ethics - questions of the value of death, the nature of a person and so on - and with related questions in aesthetics and metaphysics. He is a very experienced speaker and debater, and has written a number of influential books on philosophy.

The Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Ticket includes tour of the catacombs.

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