Livet efter döden – jakten på det övernaturliga

Kan spöken och paranormala fenomen finnas på riktigt?

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I tusentals år har människor trott på det övernaturliga, och på ett liv efter detta. Med naturvetenskapens framgångar kom de idéerna att utmanas. Idag menar många att medvetandet är en produkt av hjärnan, som upphör att existera i samma stund som kroppen dör. Men bland materialisterna och skeptikerna finns det forskare som menar att medvetandet visst kan överleva kroppen, och att paranormala fenomen kan vara verkliga.

Vad vet vi egentligen – och vad vet vi inte – om vår egen existens och den verklighet vi lever i? Och vad kan jakten på det övernaturliga göra med oss?

Producent och programledare: Anna Lillkung och Wendela Antepohl

Medverkande

• Ulf Danielsson – professor i teoretisk fysik vid Uppsala universitet
  

• Marina Weiler – neuroforskare på Division of Perceptual Studies vid University of Virginia
  

• Sam Parnia – docent i medicin och forskare i hjärt- och lungräddning vid NYU Langone Medical Center
  

• Ralph Lewis – professor i psykiatri vid University of Toronto
  

• Stuart Hameroff – anestesiolog och medvetandeforskare vid University of Arizona
  

Böcker

• Parapsychology – The Science of Unusual Experience, 2nd Ed. (Ron Roberts, David Groome, 2017)
  

• Debating Psychic Experience (Stanley Krippner, 2010)
  

• Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If the Universe Doesn't (Ralph Lewis, 2018)
  

• Lucid Dying (Sam Parnia, 2024)
  

• Världen själv (Ulf Danielsson, 2020)

Klipp

• Hocus Pocus (1993)

• The Others (2001)

• The Conjuring (2013)

• Ghost (1990)

• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

• Ghostbusters (1984)

• The Shining (1980)

• The Grudge (2004)

• Uncanny (2021)

• Det okända (2019)

• The Sixth Sense (1999)

• Surviving Death (2021)

• The Conjuring Universe – A Life in Demonology (2021)

• Bruce Almighty (2003)

• Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

• Kalla kårar (2025)

Artiklar, studier och övriga källor i urval

• Mental Health and the Paranormal Simon Dein University College London and Durham University (2012)
  

• Mediumship and Mental Health: Investigating Spirit Communication and the Importance of Integration (2023)
  

• A Bayes factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: comment on Storm, Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010)
  

• Tro på paranormala förmågor relativt utbredd i Sverige (SOM-institutet 2023)
  

• The science behind seeing ghosts (2023)
  

• The most likely explanation for haunted houses, according to science (2024)
  
  

• What Neuroscientists Think, and Don’t Think, About Consciousness (2022)
  

• Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study (2022)
  
  

• The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ (The Guardian, 2024)
  

• An experiment on seven dead bodies has found evidence of 'soul leaving the body after death' (2025)
  

• Exploring Life After Death: A Scientific Perspective on Consciousness and the Fourth Dimension (2024)
  
  

• Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife (2014)
  

• Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It. (2025)
  
  

• Is There Life After Death? The Mind-Body Problem (2023)
  

• Thinking About Psychic Powers Helps Us Think About Science (2016)
  

• What is it like to die? The reassuring science of near-death experiences (2025)
  
  

• Near-Death Experiences Evidence for Their Reality (2014)
  

• AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study (2014)
  

• AWAreness during REsuscitation - II: A multi-center study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest (2023)
  

• Defining Cognition Matters for Understanding Consciousness (2025)
  

• The Mind's Eye: Mental Models in Cognition and Consciousness (2025)
  

• How Consciousness Might Emerge From Thinking About Thinking (2025)
  

• Where Do Cognition and Consciousness Begin? (2025)
  
  

• How Sentience Emerged From the Ancient Mists of Evolution (2025)
  

• Ghostbusters: A psychologist explains why we believe in the paranormal (2024)
  

• The science of ghosts (2019)
  

• Are ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence (2023)
  

• Ghosts and the supernatural: three Oxford Brookes University experts discuss their research (2023)
  

• Why are ghosts so popular right now? (2022)
  

• The Science of Hauntings: Psychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe explores whether ghostly encounters are real or in our minds (2024)
  

• The New, Strange Science Behind Felt Presences (2023)
  

• Do Ghosts Really Exist? (2016)
  

• Anomalous information reception by mediums: A meta-analysis of the scientific evidence (2021)
  

• An Investigation of Mediums Who Claim to Give Information About Deceased Persons (2011)
  

• Mediumship accuracy: A quantitative and qualitative study with a triple-blind protocol (2022)
  

• Accuracy and neural correlates of blinded mediumship compared to controls on an image classification task (2020)
  
  

• Frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) activity and mediumship: A comparative study between spiritist mediums and controls (2016)
  

• Afterlife - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005)
  

• Psychic Services in the US industry analysis (2025)
  

• Kontakt med det okända lockar (2017)
  

• Ockultismens återkomst – i vardagen (2025)
  

• Inte religiös men gärna lite andlig (2022)
  

• Ny forskning visar: Fyra av tio tror på det övernaturliga (2024)
  

• När svenskar började tala med andar (2025)
  

• Parapsykologin och dess kritiker – ris och ros (2003)
  
  

• Människor vid gränsen mellan liv och död vittnar om starka ljussken och döda bekanta — nu tror forskarna att de vet vad nära döden-upplevelserna handlar om (2018)
  

• Det här tror svensken händer efter döden (2015)
  

• Ghosts in the Middle Ages (2019)

Musik

• Gustavo Santaolalla - Forgotten Memories

• Michael Andrews - Peter and Sylvie

• Dickon Hinchliffe - Ivan Locke

• James Newton Howard - Mind reading

• Kid Loco - Theme from the Graffiti Artist

• Trent Reznor - What have we done to each other

• Marcus Bagalà - Duco in Mara's Room

• Jay Varton - My kind of Illusion

• Jocelyn Pook, Sophie Harris - Exhumation

• Alessandro Penna - Yoruba (Kardashev Scale 0.1)

• The Reigns of Castamere (Epic version) - Ramin Djawandi, L'Orquestra Cinematique

• Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns

• David Celeste - Cloudbursts

• Alberto Iglesias - Treasure

• Cliff Martinez - A touch of Insanity

• Cliff Martinez - Rubber Head

• Michael Jackson - Thriller

• Cliff Martinez - I don't do fraught

• Cliff Martinez - Placental repair

• Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - Dream Reality

• Marcus Bagalà - 1 Ships III

• Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream

• Cliff Martinez - Don't Blow It

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Empty Places

• Marcus Bagalà - Untitledthingthing

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Marcus Bagalà - Frets: Problem, After Problem

• Cliff Martinez - I'm Sick

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Cliff Martinez - The Birds Are Doing That

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Cliff Martinez - Wear Your Seat Belt

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Daniel Hart - Critical Issue For The Future

• Ramin Djawadi - Light of the Seven

• Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters