Publications
 
BOOKS, SELECTED ARTICLES, BLOGS, AND VIDEOS

by

Stafford Betty 

BOOKS: 

Vadiraja's Refutation of Sankara's Non-Dualism:  Clearing the Way for Theism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978).

The Rich Man (novel about the Biblical rich man who declines to follow Jesus) (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984).

Sing Like the Whippoorwill (allegorical fable, with illustrations by Sylvia Zimmerman) (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987).

Sunlit Waters (allegorical fable, with illustrations by William Baker) (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990).

Thomas (novel about St. Thomas the Apostle in India) (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1998).

The Afterlife Unveiled: What “the Dead” Tell Us About Their World (Winchester,UK: 0-Books, 2011).

The Imprisoned Splendor (novel set in the afterlife) (Guildford, UK: White Crow Books, 2011)

ARTICLES:  

"The Buddhist-Humean Parallels: Postmortem," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 21, No. 3 (July 1971), pp. 237-253.

"The Radical Pluralism of Arnold Toynbee--Its Implications for Religion," Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (1972), pp. 819-840.

Aurobindo's Concept of Lila and the Problem of Evil," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3 (September 1976), pp. 315-329.

"A Death-Blow to Sankara's Non-Dualism?  A Dualist Refutation," Religious Studies, Vol. 12 (1976), pp. 281-290.

"Towards a Reconciliation of Mysticism and Dualism," Religious Studies, Vol. 14 (1978), pp. 291-303.

"The Importance of Psychical Research for Religion," Intellect, Vol. 106, No. 2389 (October 1977), pp. 168-170.

"The Importance of Psychical Research for Religion," The Journal of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1979), pp. 1-6 (reprint of # 14).

"The Importance of Dvaita for the Christian West," Dr. B. N. K. Sharma's  Seventieth Birthday Commemoration Volume  (1979), p. 2.  Reprinted in Dharmaprakash, Vol. 8, No. 11 (July 1979), pp. 9-10.  Reprinted in Mahāmahopādhyāya Dr. B. N. K. Sharma Commemoration Volume (July 2006), pp. 87-88.

"The Verification Principle in Early Buddhist Philosophy," The Middle Way  (February 1979), pp. 201-205.

"Liang-chih:  Key to Wang Yang-ming's Ethical Monism," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 7 (1980), pp. 115-129.

"Parapsychology in a Religious Studies Curriculum:  After Five Years," The Journal of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 1981), pp. 1-13.

"Personal Survival in the World's Scriptures:  Its Relevance for the Modern Inquirer," The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1982), pp. 4-12.

"Nagarjuna's Masterpiece: Mystical, Logical, Both, or Neither?" Philosophy East and West, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 1983), pp. 123-138.

"The Essence of Spirituality," World Faiths Insight, Summer 1983, pp. 3-5.

"The Impact of Psychical Research on Ultimate Questions," The Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 1984), pp. 21-33.

"An Analysis of Non-Symbolic Experience: The Mystic in Everyman," Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1984-85), pp. 193-217.

"Was Nagarjuna a Philosopher?  A Response to Professor Loy," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 1984), pp. 447-450.

"The Kern City Poltergeist: A Case Severely Straining the Living Agent Hypothesis," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 52, No. 798 (October 1984), pp. 345-364.

"The Kern City Poltergeist: A Reply to Hovelmann and Zorab," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 53, No. 800 (June 1985), pp. 92-96.

"The Kern City Poltergeist: A Reply to Stevenson," ibid., pp. 99-100.

"The Kern City Poltergeist: A Reply to My Critics," ibid., Vol. 53, No. 802 (January 1986), pp. 253-254.

(with Bruce Cordell) "God and Modern Science: New Life for the Teleological Argument," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29 (Dec. 1987),  pp. 409-435. 

"The Glitch in John Hick's Interpretation of Religion," Problems in the Philosophy of Religion: Critical Studies of the Work of John Hick, ed. Harold Hewitt, Jr. (New York: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 98-103.

"The Great Chain of Being in the Lives of the Faithful: The Status of Purgatory Today," Fragments of Infinity: Essays in Religion and Philosophy: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Huston Smith, ed. Arvind Sharma (Dorset, England: Prism Press, 1991), pp. 21-30.

"Making Sense of Animal Pain: An Environmental Theodicy," Faith and Philosophy, Vol 9, No. 1 (January 1992), pp. 65-82.

"Śankara's Fatal Mistake," Asian Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1994), pp. 3-7.

 “The Anthropic Teleological Argument,” Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, eds. Michael Peterson et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 198-210.  Second Edition, 2001, pp. 218-230.  Third Edition, 2007, pp. 235-246.

 “A Death-Blow to Sankara’s Non-Dualism?”  Reprinted in Indian Philosophy: A Collection of Readings, 5 volumes, ed. Roy W. Perrett (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000).

 “Going Beyond James: A Pragmatic Argument for God’s Existence,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2001), pp. 69-84.

“Jung’s Synchronistic Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience:  An Unnecessary Mystification,” The Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer 2004), pp. 261-68. 

 “Mind, Paranormal Experience, and the Inadequacy of Materialism,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3  (September 2004), pp. 373-92.

“What Gandhi Should Mean to the Christian,” Self Realization, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 70-74.

“The Mounting Evidence for ‘Demonic Possession’:  What Should Psychiatry’s Response Be?” Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 44 (Spring 2005), pp. 13-30.

“Five Reasons That NDEs Point to Life after Death: A Dialogue,” The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, Vol. 28, No. 4 (October 2005), pp. 195-202.

“Intelligent design theory belongs in the science classroom,” National Catholic Reporter, Viewpoint, October 21, 2005, p. 23. 

“Offering Pakistan a helping hand:  A global disaster fund can refurbish the U.S. image,” National Catholic Reporter, Viewpoint, January 13, 2006, p. 17.

 “Professor Teaches Religion With Enlightened Approach.”  Interview of Stafford Betty by Michael Tymn.  The Searchlight, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 1-2, 8-9.  

“Are They Hallucinations or Are They Real?  The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions.”  Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, Vol. 53, Nos.1-2 (2006), pp. 37-49.

“Life After death Is Nota Red Herring,” America, Vol. 195, No. 6 (September 11, 2006), pp. 25-26.

 “The Near Death Experience as Evidence for Life after Death.”  Philosophy Now, Issue  59 (January/February 2007), pp. 22-25.

“The Philosopher’s Death:  A Short Story.”  Philosophy Now, Issue 60 (March/April 2007), pp. 50-54.

"How to Expose Fourth and Fifth Graders to Religion and Spirituality in a Public School Classroom."  International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, Vol. 12, No. 3 (December 2007), pp. 325-330.  Co-authored with Southey Lewy.

“‘Spirit release” is a different kind of therapy,” National Catholic Reporter, Viewpoint, December 28, 2007, p. 20.  Reprinted in The Searchlight, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 4, 10.
 
“Accounts of Afterlife from the Dead:  How Useful Are They for the Dying?”  The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 6-13. 

“Letter to a Reluctant Atheist.”  America, Vol. 198, No. 12 (April 14, 2008), pp. 17-18.

“Eckhart Tolle’s message is positive.  But is it Christian?”  National Catholic Reporter, Feature, April 28, 2008, pp. 22-23.

“What Buddhists and Christians Are Teaching Each Other about God.”  CrossCurrents.  Vol. 58, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 108-116.

"A kinder, gentler purgatory."  National Catholic Reporter, June 23, 2008, pp. 17, 24.  Reprinted in The Searchlight, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 4-5.

“After the abortion, mizuko kuyo.”  National Catholic Reporter, July 25, 2008, p. 18.

“Why an Investigation of Paranormal Experience Should Be an Essential Component of a Course on Death,” ed. Christopher M. Moreman, Teaching Death and Dying (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2008), pp. 261-276. 

“Why did God create the universe?”  National Catholic Reporter, September 5, 2008, p. 20.

“Why U.S. Catholics are heading for the exits.”  National Catholic Reporter, October 17, 2008, p. 16.

“Debating Gay Marriage and Proposition 8,”  National Catholic Reporter, October 31, 2008, pp. 16, 21.

“When we embrace the Hindu, we’ll be Catholic.”  National Catholic Reporter, November 28, p. 20.

“Beyond the end of the tunnel.”  National Catholic Reporter, January 9, 2009, p. 23.

“Motherliness should be included in the Godhead.”  National Catholic Reporter, February 6, 2009, p. 21.

“Fear of the Lord, a forgotten truth.”   National Catholic Reporter, April 17, 2009,  pp. 17, 20.

“Science and Religion Can Coexist,” ed. Beth Rosenthal, Atheism (Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2009), pp. 175-179  

“Saints add enchantment to our religion.”  National Catholic Reporter, May 29, 2009, p. 24.

“Ultimate Justice: An Empirical Study of Karma and Rebirth – with a Reflection.”  Spirituality, Science and the Paranormal: 2009 Annual Conference Proceedings (Bloomfield, CT: Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, 2009), pp. 95-100.

Panel:  “If the General Public Widely Accepted Scientific Proof of Survival, What Effects Would It Have on Society?”   Spirituality, Science and the Paranormal: 2009 Annual Conference Proceedings (Bloomfield, CT: Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, 2009), pp. 137-139.

“Bringing value and joy into the universe,” National Catholic Reporter, October 30, 2009, p. 26.

“The lonely will always be with you,” National Catholic Reporter, December 11, 2009, p. 19.

“What Is Life Like after Death?  Ask a Dead Priest,” The Searchlight, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 4-5.

“Dvaita, Advaita, and Viśistādvaita:  Contrasting Views of Moksha,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 2 (July 2010), pp. 215-224.

“Foreword” to Michael Tymn’s The Afterlife Revealed (Guildford, UK: White Crow Books, 2011). 

"The Growing Evidence for ‘Demonic Possession’: What Should Psychiatry’s Response Be?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 23-40.

"Why Catholics Should Open Their Hearts to Reincarnation," The Searchlight, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2012), p. 2.

"Why Catholics Should Join Spiritists in Opening Their Hearts to Reincarnation," The Spiritist Magazine, English Edition, No. 16 (January-March 2012), pp. 6-7.

Blog, White Crow Books, "Stafford Betty"

VIDEOS

"Afterlife: The Suicide and the Atheist" (YouTube Video, Feb 29, 2012)

"The World of Spirits" (PowerPoint)