COMMENTARY: WHERE DID RELIGIONS GET THEIR INFORMATION
ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE? In his book, The
Psychic Stream, historian Arthur Findlay argues
convincingly that all religions got their ideas about
the afterlife in exactly the same way that we do today:
through near-death experiences, out-of body experiences,
after death contacts, transpersonal
experiences and through mediumship. The Bible is full
of accounts of mental and physical mediums; they are called
"prophets".
Today we have the advantage of being able to collect many
more accounts of afterlife contact and to confirm them
through the processes used to sift evidence. We can
examine the credibility and reliability of the witnesses
and triangulate across multiple streams of evidence: NDEs,
OBEs, Apparitions, Clairvoyance and Clairaudience, Deathbed
Visions, After-Death contacts, Mental, Trance and Direct
Voice mediumship, Past Life Regressions, Materialization
and other Physical mediumship, Electronic Voice Phenomena,
Instrumental Trans-Communication, Automatic writing mediumship
and Xenoglossy.
Unfortunately we are unable to do that with the sources
which religions claim to get their information from: fragments
of very old documents, the originals of which are lost
in the mists of time. We are also unable to place many
of the writings in their full context since the original
teachings have been lost or distorted through (sometimes
deliberate) mistranslations.
KEITH PARSONS' BRILLIANT VIDEO ON THE EVIDENCE FOR THE
AFTERLIFE
DR. ROBERT CROOKALL GEOLOGIST AND AFTERLIFE SCIENTIST
In the 1950s, well before the Internet,
Robert Crookall searched the world for accounts of out-of-body
experiences including what we now call near-death experiences.
At the same time he collected hundreds of accounts from
mediums of what people said happened to them immediately
after death. His sources, included books from many different
cultures, in many languages. Astonishingly, what all the
descriptions match, regardless of culture, language, or
time period. The only explanations are: (1) there has
been a worldwide conspiracy by thousands of mediums the
world over, going back many centuries, if not millennia,
to always make sure they describe the same experiences,
or (2), the experiences reported in the many books quoted
really took place. Read
more about his books. and see these video overviews
of Interpretations
of Cosmic and Mystical Experiences and his
Astral Projections and OBEs.
DEATHBED VISIONS WITH PROFESSOR
STAFFORD BETTY Stafford Betty, PhD, is
Professor of Religious Studies at California State University.
He is author of Heaven and Hell Unveiled, The
Afterlife Unveiled, and When Did You Ever Become
Less by Dying?
HOW STRONG IS THE EVIDENCE FOR
DEATH BED VISIONS? There
was a recent debate where one skeptic
said that it is impossible ever to see people who have
crossed over. This is a matter of evidence, not uninformed
opinion. Deathbed visions have been studied since the
1920's - see the most formidable, empirically based Deathbed
Visions study by Professor William Barrett. In
At
the Hour of Death a 1977 book by Dr Osis and
Dr Erlendur Haraldsson there are reports of people seeing
their "dead" loved ones by more than 1,000 doctors
and nurses. Dr Melvin Morse's 1993 book Closer
to the Lightincludes end of life experiences of children. Read
more...
DR MARK PITSTICK TALKS ABOUT PROGRESS
WITH THE SOUL PHONE Sandra Champlain interviews
chiropractor Mark Pitstick a second time for the latest
news about Dr. Gary Schwartz' Soul Phone project.
COMMUNICATING IN THE AFTERLIFE? If there are no telephones,
no emails, no electronic communication,
how can we send messages to our friends in the afterlife?
The highly credible former Monsignor in the spirit world
Hugh Benson explains:
"When we focus our thoughts upon some person in the
spirit world, those thoughts will reach their destination
without fail, and they will be taken up by the receiver
of the message. That is what happens in the afterlife
dimension."
HELP PRESERVE OUR HISTORY OF LIFE AFTER DEATH RESEARCH
150 years of study of Life
After Death. Where is it? Why is the general population
not aware of the enormous amount of evidence of life after
death that has been compiled?
The iDigitalMedium team have created a wonderful
website and are putting in thousands of hours to catalogue
and save these valuable resources. Now they need a little
bit of financial help to lodge the paperwork needed for
their organisation. If those of our readers who can afford
to put in even $1 the team will be well on their way.
See Gofund
me Page.
HELPING PARENTS HEAL MAY NEWSLETTER
Helping Parents Heal is a non-profit organization
dedicated to assisting bereaved parents, giving them support
and resources to aid in the healing process. They facilitate
open discussion of spiritual experiences and evidence
for the afterlife, in a non-dogmatic way. Affiliate groups
welcome everyone, regardless of religious (or non-religious)
background, and allow for open dialogue.
MEDIUM THERESA CAPUTO CONNECTS WITH THE SPIRIT OF A MURDERED
FATHER During a radio interview
the crew and guests are stunned by the evidence.
DR.
JANE KATRA DESCRIBES HER AFTER DEATH CONTACT WITH ELIZABETH
TARG Best selling author
and investigative journalist, Leslie
Kean, has turned her attention to the afterlife in
her new book "Surviving
Death". Chapter 19 contains an account by Dr.
Jane Katra (who will be presenting at the AREI September
Symposium) of a spectacular after death contact. Thanks
to Jane and to Leslie and her publisher for giving us
permission to share it. Read
more...
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Over
the years Victor, you raised very serious concerns about
cruelty to animals. What are the spiritual implications?
Victor:
Someone had asked me about the spiritual value
of being vegetarian. We have been informed, directly
from the afterlife by Silver Birch, that the purest
spiritual food is the food where no cruelty takes place.
He specifically mentions the spiritual value of being
vegetarian. Read
"Vegetarianism and Spirituality".
TITLES IN THE SPIRIT LIFE? "Over
here there
are no religious titles. There are no kings, no queens,
and no nobility. Here we are only noble of the spirit,
noble of the soul. Here we are all one in spiritual truth
and realization. Here there are no barriers between people.
In less advanced spheres, many who had ruled or held high
position on earth delight in retaining their earthly titles,
and many others find reflected glory and importance in
paying homage to them. In such spheres there usually are
barriers between people. On earth, it is those in power
and authority who confer titles on rank and file. In the
higher spirit realms, the reverse is true. It is the rank
and file that confer titles, bestowing them on those they
look up to, those they love and esteem for their wisdom
and spirituality and nobility of purpose or achievements."
from Living in the Spirit World, in Spiritual
Light: Universal Teachings form the Highest Spirit Realms.
QUESTION: Does one have to be spiritually
advanced to be a psychic or a medium? G. Bayliss Victor: Just because a person is psychic
or a medium it does not
mean that he or she is spiritually advanced. Some of them
would be, but not all. I have been fortunate to know some
incredibly dedicated and spiritual psychic mediums. They
show kindness, compassion, gentleness, lack of ego and
a sincere desire to help and heal others. I have also
come across some who did not seem spiritually advanced
at all. But if they focus on their spiritual development
their gifts would certainly become stronger.
SHORT SURVEY ON SPIRITUALITY
Prof. Bettina Schmidt,
Director of the Religious Experience Research Centre,
University of Wales Trinity Saint David needs some people
who are spiritual but not religious to answer a few
questions about spirituality. Should only take about
5 mins. Read
more...
AFTERLIFE AWARENESS CONFERENCE
IN PORTLAND ORGEON June 2nd-4th 2017
Over
15 hours of video featuring the best and the brightest
in end-of-life care, afterlife research, bereavement,
and mystical perspectives on what happens after we die.
Purchase for $97 and watch at your leisure - no time
restraints. Read
more...
1) In my opinion, Gary Zukov is wrong about the destruction
of personality. I respect his (Advaita or noetic monist)
views but there certainly are theoretical alternatives
to it that empirically are at least as plausible, such
as that we are irreducible individual souls who each undergo
our own personal evolution. Such
alternatives are certainly more moving to me, even
though they seem to be less popular in Oprah's circles
;-) See: Titus Rivas
2. My father, the day he passed, was able to share many
beautiful things with us. One of them, his dog, Puddin,
who was 14 and had passed one year before my dad, was
there the day my dad passed. He lay at the foot of his
bed. I know he was there to great him, comfort him and
take the journey of bringing him to the other side. Carla
3) Thank you, Wendy and Victor, for ALL the hundreds of
thousands of hours you have given to education. So much
knowledge might be lost for decades, were it not for your
diligence. I am so glad Victor "Fierce" Zammit
came into the world with fire in his belly, and brilliant
logic, and passion. Susanne
'WE ARE THE WORLD" - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG
EVER RECORDED BY THE GREATEST VOCALISTS IN THE WORLD
This is a very special song, voted one
of the best songs ever recorded by the giants of popular
music. It is a masterpiece, a real delight to listen to.
The music, the lyrics, the feeling for the music are all
very exciting:
"We Are The World"
(performed by USA For Africa)
There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone somewhere will soon make a change
We're all a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love is all we need
We are the world,
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So, let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me
Send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand
We are the world,
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So, let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me
When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well
Let's realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one
We are the world,
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So, let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me
[Repeat with ad-libs until the end]
Whilst we encourage and we publish many
papers and reports by afterlife researchers, we are
not in a position to guarantee the accuracy of all claims.
We accept the imputed claim that the afterlife and paranormal
research done by the researchers is done in good faith.
ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT BY THE CONDITIONS SET AT THE GENEVA
CONFERENCE ON COPYRIGHT.