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Friday
Report May 25th 07
COMMENTARY:
AFTERLIE EVIDENCE: so you don’t believe
in or accept the evidence for the afterlife? Every Sunday
night, we, the members of the Circle of the Silver Cord,
converse with people who have been dead for over a hundred
years. Allison Dubois, on whom the television show MEDIUM
is based, talks to the dead all the time – and she
relates messages to others wanting to hear from their crossed
over loved ones. And there are thousands of gifted mediums
around the world who are making direct contact with those
who crossed over. Scientists have tested gifted mediums
and these results were repeatedly successful. Thousands
of people have confirmed that the mediums’ messages
are totally correct.
LAWYERS WHO ACCEPTED
THE AFTERLIFE More than the members of any
other profession, lawyers and judges are trained to evaluate
the credibility of witnesses, and the strength of evidence.
So I was impressed when I found a number of lawyers and
judges, at the top of their profession, who investigated
the evidence for the afterlife and were prepared to make
a public stand to support it, with absolutely nothing to
gain, and often at great personal cost. These were men of
the highest intellectual caliber who all approached the
subject in a rational and objective manner applying the
legal test of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. All
had been open-minded skeptics to begin with and all maintained
their conviction until their deaths. Read
more…
THE 'SURVIVAL TOP 40':
Once again I am grateful to Michael Tymn for reminding me
of the superb book and website of Miles Edward Allen The
Survival Files who lists the very best cases demonstrating
the survival of the human personality. At the top of his
list he puts an incredible experiment by Dr Wolfgang Eisenbeiss
who set up a chess game between two grand masters, one living
and the other in the spirit world playing through a medium
who know absolutely nothing about chess. The game went on
for many years during which time Maróczy, the grandmaster
in spirit, wrote 38 pages of biographical information in
response to Eisenbeiss' questions. Eisenbeiss then obtained
the services of Laszlo Sebestyén, a historian and
chess expert, to find out if the information could be verified.
Out of 92 statements made by the spirit Maróczy,
Sebestyén, who dug into library records and interviewed
two of Maróczy's surviving children and a cousin,
was able to confirm 85 of them as factual. The remaining
seven may have been factual, but no records could be found
to confirm them. Read
more…
EVIDENCE SCORING SYSTEM
I was intrigued to find that in order to rank the top 40
cases Allen has devised an evidence scoring system that
can be easily applied using a decision tree. A wonderful
contribution to afterlife research!! Check
it out…
1500 ITEMS FOUND
Gregory and Violet Parent followed the directions of dead
missionaries and found not one but 1500 crosses that had
buried by the missionaries in obscure places while they
were living and were trying to convert American Indians
to Christianity. These were relics that nobody alive knew
about. What is even more convincing is that after Gregory
and Violet died another investigator, Hamlin Garland, found
a medium and continued the experiment, connecting with both
the Parents and the missionaries and finding another 15
buried crosses. Read
the full story...
MISSIONARIES HAVE A
CHANGE OF HEART
When the missionaries mentioned in the last item came through
to Garland they told him: “We have all changed our
opinions about many things- not only about the Indians but
about religion. We learn the truth on this side…We
have found now that there is no difference in creed.”
STARTING A PHYSICAL
CIRCLE Several people have emailed that
reading about David Thompson’s mediumship has inspired
them to try to create their own physical mediumship circle.
There are many excellent resources out there but one of
the best to explain what happens in a physical circle like
the Circle of the Silver Cord is Frank Brown’s site
The Voice Box.
NDE’s AND RELIGION
Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience
in Medieval and Modern Times (Paperback) Author Carol
Zaleski demonstrates that modern near-death reports belong
to a vast family of otherworld journey tales, with examples
in nearly every religious heritage.
THE GREAT QUENTON CRISP
– a controversial message – are you a loving
lesbian? Or just plain gay? We had many people from the
other- side materializing to meet loved ones still on this
planet earth. But we had a very special visitor last Sunday
night: a most famous gay performer coming through last Sunday
night – Quentin
Crisp (1908-99). A movie was made about him called,
The Naked Civil Servant. Quentin felt strongly about sexual
freedom at a time when homosexuality was illegal. But underneath
the humor, he stated something very profound: that there
is no condemnation of homosexuality in the afterlife at
the level where he's in. When he came through last Sunday,
he was witty, jovial, very relaxed, laughing and joking
showing he was "in excellent spirit". He showed
that he is exactly how he left this planet earth on crossing
over. Listen to audio
(1 min).
SELFLESS SERVICE
Higher entities repeatedly state that the way to higher
vibrations is by way of selfless service – you can
be male/female and you can be of any occupation or profession
and from any class – from the lowest to the highest.
Conduct of cruelty, exploitation, selfishness and egoism,
dominance, abuse of power – all or any of these will
inevitably reduce your vibrations which, according to transmitted
information, will cause great problems on crossing over.
Loving sexual behaviour between consenting adults where
there is no exploitation is not seen as sinful or immoral.
TIME: we in the West
have a peculiar attitude to TIME. Perhaps because of gross
materialism and commercialism and secularism pushed to its
extreme we are given the impression by the mind-manipulators
that we’re going to live for a thousand years. It’s
later than you think! The reality of life is that time is
short and sooner or later we all have to cross over. Millionaires
and billionaires, the big and powerful and those on the
breadline will suddenly find that life is over. And stunningly,
some of those on the breadline while living will find themselves
in immensely better conditions in the Afterlife than the
billionaires here on earth. And the afterlife is not just
for a few decades. The afterlife is for a long, long time.
According to those informed from the otherside we have eternity
to continue to refine. Read What
Happens When you Die.
IS MEAT EATING REALLY OK?
No decision you make can have as much influence on ecology
and the health of the planet as the decision to become a
vegetarian. See short
video
May
18th 07
Commentary:
MIND/BRAIN DEBATE: A recent television documentary
showed that the human heart carries 'memories'. We watched
a number of patients with heart transplants stating that
their behavior and attitudes changed after their operation.
This was confirmed by a number of doctors, including Professor
Gary Schwartz from Arizona University. When I was doing
psychology at university students in the Western world were
taught that memories were stored in one single area –
in the cortex of the brain. We now know that is incorrect.
These scientific discoveries show clearly that the BRAIN
and the MIND are different. Afterlife empiricists go further
and state that just as memories are stored in physical cells,
they are also stored as vibrations in our counterpart etheric
body. The brain is physical and when you die, your physical
brain dies with you. BUT the MIND survives physical death
and will retain all memories and experiences we had during
our lifetime on this planet earth. Understand the separation
of the mind from the brain by studying the afterlife empirical
evidence: click on BOOK top right.
DAVID THOMPSON
MATERIALIZATION MEDIUM - PROBABLY THE BEST WE HAVE IN THE
WORLD TO-DAY. Some of you will soon be sitting
with David to witness the phenomenon of materialization
mediumship. It is critical to fill in a standard form identifying
who you are and giving a procedural undertaking that you
will abide by the rules - primarily for David's safety.
I can tell you from nearly 20 years of investigating the
paranormal, that David Thompson is risking his life every
time he sits for materializations. This is because of ectoplasm
which is exuded through his nostrils, ear or stomach. We,
the sitters of the Circle of the Silver Cord, have witnessed
in red light this whitish ectoplasm, composed of leucocytes—white
or colorless blood cells—and epithelial cells taken
from the various protective tissues of David's body. We
have seen David unconscious, exhuding this beautiful looking
whitish ectoplasm. But we know that with any sudden light
this ectoplasm will be pulled back into his body at fantastic
speed and could seriously injure and in the worst case scenario,
could even kill David - the way ectoplasm killed Helen Duncan
and injured many other materialization mediums (see chapter
11).
HARRY HOUDINI, THE GREAT MAGICIAN,
PROMISES SPECTACULAR PROOF OF THE AFTERLIFE –
Houdini (from the afterlife): Zammit, you
watch out for what's happening……because I'm
going to knock your socks off, I can tell you that. You
can quote me on that one, Zammit, if you want.
Victor : I sure will,
I sure will. You're making everyone so excited about all
this.
Houdini: Well, that's
the whole point, isn't it? What's the point of me coming
through and just sitting, talking about stupid lily-livered
stuff that doesn't make any difference to anybody .
Victor: That's right,
yeah that's right. Go to audios - top left for full transcript
session Read
transcript. Listen
to Mp3
HOUDINI'S SOUTHERN ACCENT.
When Harry Houdini first materialized through the mediumship
of David Thompson he claimed he was receiving help from
another member of David's spirit team, Louis Armstrong,
which accounted for his Southern accent on that occasion.
Here is an email I received from the U.K about this important
subject:
"A clear example of a communicator at a séance
being helped with their voice production by the spirit organizers
on the "other side", can be heard on one of the
Leslie Flint/Wood/Green tapes, where Jenny Wilson, a young
woman in Victorian times, describes her death in childbirth
whilst working in a field. As she commences her story her
voice is a typical light, woman's voice, but twice in her
narrative the voice gradually drops to the timbre of a man,
and then after a short pause recovers its feminine tone.
At the end of the recording, Mickey the door-keeper says
they had to give her a lot of help to finish her story.
As Louis Armstrong apparently had to help Houdini produce
his voice, it's not surprising that some of his own Southern
accent crept in.
I just thought this is pertinent to the questions being
raised, though I know you be well aware of these facts !
Keep up the good work, all the best, George Smith."
THE SCIENTFIC AND RATIONALIST CASE FOR LIFE AFTER
DEATH -An interview with Michael Roll from 1994
Directed by Sam Giles. This video is now available on YouTube,
split into four parts.
Links are here: http://www.cfpf.org.uk
Please share this video with your contacts.
PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES IN RUSSIA : A book
by Dr J Lee Choron, "FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW –
TALES OF HAUTED RUSSIA.' Received this week: "My name
is Dr. J. Lee Choron. I have just released my most recent
book on the paranormal. This work is a collection of true
and documentable accounts of paranormal incidents in Russia
(where I have resided for the past 20 years). Thank You,
Dr. J. Lee Choron." Read more about these paranormal
experiences in Russia (later).
CRUELTY CAPITAL USA : DO YOU HAVE
THE MORAL COURAGE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO? Actress
Pamela Anderson helps with this most important crusade.
STOP this vicious, cruelty in the United States: "Kentucky
Fried Chicken suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled
factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they
can't even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At
slaughter, the birds' throats are slit and they are dropped
into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they
are still conscious. It would be illegal for KFC to abuse
dogs, cats, pigs, or cows in these ways. KFC's own animal
welfare advisors have asked the company to take steps to
eliminate these abuses, but KFC refuses to do so. Many advisors
have now resigned in frustration. Please join Pamela Anderson,
Sir Paul McCartney, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Rev.
Al Sharpton, and countless other kind people worldwide by
not eating at KFC.
See video: http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/
HUGE SEXUAL PROPLEMS FOR GUYS EATING
KFC? It is reported that that KFC feeds
its millions of chickens chemicals including estrogen to
make the chickens grow bigger and fatter in the minimum
time – for greater profits. I've tried to find out
what food KFC feeds its chickens but did not get any replies.
Try to get in touch with them yourself and if they deny
it I'll put that denial on this website. But if it is true,
as experts claim, that commercially grown chickens are being
given estrogen, then you guys who eat estrogen-loaded chickens
and commercially raised meat will inevitably have sexual
problems – serious impotence - even if you are in
your twenties. Do yourself a huge favor: get off estrogen
loaded food – and you will at also reduce the slaughter,
the pain, the suffering of animals and birds AND you guys,
will have a healthy sex lives – as a choice. Animals
and birds have a consciousness that includes feelings, intelligence
and extreme sensitivity to pain. Become a vegetarian .
QUESTION: I think
your website is great. But tell me, why do you call the
evidence 'empirical'? Eunice Bergin, New York.
Victor: Why not? It is critical for me
to use empirical methodology to obtain objective evidence.
I am also qualified in Scientific Method as an adjunct to
a degree in psychology. As a matter of fact, all those doing
a major in psychology also have to do three years of Scientific
Method and three years of Statistics. The advantage of using
scientific method is that experiments can be repeated over
time and space and, keeping variables constant, yield the
same results. For example, the weekly Sunday night materialization
experiments we do produce effects and results consistent
with hundreds of other materialization experiments done
since the 1850's and being done in different parts of the
world today. That is empirical and that is scientific. Empirically
derived results have more probative value and are more convincing
than personal beliefs – which are subjective, unsupported
by science and subject to complete invalidation.
Where the Hell is Hell?
From PARANORMAL REVIEW "ROME . Where the hell
is Hell? It's a question many Roman Catholics must be asking
themselves after the latest pontification on the subject
from the Pontiff himself, Pope Benedict XVI. Addressing
a parish gathering in a Rome suburb, he said Hell "really
exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much
any more". In doing so, he appears to be contradicting
his predecessor, John Paul II, who said in 1999: "Rather
than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely
and definitively separate themselves from God".ROME.
Where the hell is Hell? It's a question many Roman Catholics
must be asking themselves after the latest pontification
on the subject from the Pontiff himself, Pope Benedict XVI.
"
[full story]
Read Victor's OPEN LETTER on why this Pope
is wrong about hell. Read more
…
FRIDAY REPORT May 11th
07
COMMENTARY:
WHY EMPIRICAL? THE MODERN WORLD relies on
empiricism- the use of scientific method to measure phenomena
– as the way to be more certain about the world we
live in. Accordingly, we, psychic investigators and empiricists,
are confident that the phenomena classed as “psychic”
and “extrasensory” such as mediumship and clairvoyance
do stand up to empirical scrutiny and that the afterlife
can be shown to exist with as much certainty as subatomic
particles. Empirical methodology has removed blind faith,
subjectivity, tradition and beliefs in the endeavour to
obtain enforceable valid remedies for our problems on earth.
When something is repeated over time and space, keeping
variables constant, and yields the same result - that is
mighty powerful!
HAVE SCIENTISTS REALLY
PROVED THAT MAN CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE?
A most interesting article by brilliant British journalist,
Dr Danny Penman looks at new experiments that are showing
that many ordinary people really do have a sixth sense that
can help them 'see' the future.
“Such amazing studies”, he writes, -“
if verified - might help explain the predictive powers of
mediums and a range of other psychic phenomena such Extra
Sensory Perception, dEj vu and clairvoyance.”
According to Dr Penman, “The man behind
the experiments is certainly convinced. 'We're satisfied
that people can sense the future before it happens,' says
Professor Bierman, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam.
'We'd now like to move on and see what kind of person is
particularly good at it.' And Bierman is not alone: his
findings mirror the data gathered by other scientists and
paranormal researchers both here and abroad.
Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist
from Cambridge University, says: 'So far, the evidence seems
compelling. What seems to be happening is that information
is coming from the future.’ “ Read
full article.
PSYCHIC DETECTIVES:
Hermosa Beach Police Department’s senior detective
Raul Saldana stated on television after doing cases with
psychics, such as with Laurie McQuarie (from Oregon), “I
would NOT exclude working with a psychic if any members
of my family had very serious problems …” This
was after the interesting case of Lind Sobek, model who
mysteriously disappeared in California years ago. Senior
Detective Mark Wright worked with the psychic especially
after the psychic Laurie McQuarie was able to locate Linda
Sobek’s black purse. When everything else fails, astute
police engage gifted psychics to help them solve crimes.
Police are the professional crime solvers – but Senior
Detective Mark Wright stated very clearly he always welcomes
information from psychics – which sometimes would
be vital to solving a dead file. Keep on watching PSYCHIC
DETECTIVES on Cable Channel – brilliantly researched
documentary about how gifted psychics help police solve
crime.
JOHN EDWARD AND ALLISON
DUBOIS ON OPRAH This week in Australia we
finally got to see the episode of Oprah where she interviewed
John Edward and Allison Dubois (episode February 15th, 2007).
Oprah was clearly convinced by the evidence and just in
case she had also invited Dr Dean Radin to handle any skeptics
in the audience. To get the flavour read Erin Pavlina’s
review of the show.
The GROUND OF FAITH.
The May Issue of this wonderful newsletter on Exploring
Science, Mysticism and Experience Together put out
by The Rev. Michael Cocks and The Rev. Victor MacGill from
New Zealand is now online. Each month this newsletter contains
book reviews and intelligent discussion of spirituality
from an enlightened Christian perspective. Highly recommended
reading. Read more…
SPIRITUALISM IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT
One fascinating link from this month’s The Ground
of Faith is to a serious analysis of the Bible by a
Christian minister who “for many years has been in
constant contact with discarnate human beings in what is
called "The Other World."…The Bible was
written by Spiritualists--even though they did not call
themselves by that name. It is a psychical or Spiritualistic
book from cover to cover. Its narratives are mainly Spiritualistic.
They deal with visions, voices, dreams, trance, materialization,
dematerialization, levitation, automatic-writing, mediums,
spiritual healings and so forth. This will become transparently
clear to any one who will seriously study the Bible.”
To see familiar things in a new context read
more….
SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF
PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP Lord Charles Hope was
a British investigator of the paranormal, especially physical
mediums. His long series of sittings with Rudi Schneider
convinced him that the phenomena were genuine. He writes:
“There is, of course, nothing new about many of these
strange happenings. They have been alleged to have occurred
for a great many years and you will no doubt recollect very
similar incidents mentioned in the sacred books of various
religions. At any rate, since the beginning of the spiritualist
movement, phenomena of this sort have been consistently
reported from all over the world. Nor has serious investigation
of these things been wanting. Quite a number of eminent
men of science have given their attention to these so-called
supernormal phenomena.” Read
more….
NEW ZEALAND PSYCHIC ARTIST REUNITED WITH DEAD FRIENDS
This week I received a report from a very talented
psychic artist in Auckland who is prepared to witness the
fact that at recent David Thompson seances she was physically
reunited with not one but two "dead" friends.
Read statement.
UNHOLY ALLIANCE:
it is just amazing how two opposing camps- the ignorant
religious and the debunking skeptics can get together against
psychics and mediumship. I can never forget how a Catholic
priest joined forces with a known closed minded debunker
in a radio debate against a medium. A couple of months before
the skeptical debunker was rubbishing anything to do with
religion! This is also a historical event – it’s
been like this for some one hundred and forty years. Feel
pity when you see these ignorant religious people joining
forces with their own enemies to rally against genuine mediumship.
WHY, YOU MAY ASK, ARE
CHRISTIANS SIDING WITH THEIR ENEMIES AGAINST MEDIUMSHIP?
For those who do research about church attendances,
you will read that there is an acute crisis in Christianity
in the ‘civilised’ countries: people are no
longer attending church services. Why not you may ask. People,
especially younger people are being taught empirical methodology
at school and now these young people are no longer prepared
to believe anything not consistent with common sense, with
logic and reasonableness. No longer will youth believe in
absurdities. No longer will youth just blindly repeat or
recite things not understood. One young Christian girl hardly
thirteen told me during Easter about Jesus rising to heaven
in the flesh – “That really did not happen …
it is really symbolic…” As to hell for eternity,
not one single person I met believes in hell for eternity
… the belief seems to be so absurd. Think of it …
billions of billions of billions of years of eternal damnation
for what the Church tells you that’s where you will
go if you commit a ‘mortal sin’ – like
remarrying after a divorce!!!!! The other inconsistency
issue is that there is justification for divorce in the
Bible- one hundred per cent.
REINCARNATION RESEARCH
CONTNIUES
Those of us who were saddened by the recent death of Dr
Ian Stevenson (pictured) will be pleased to know that his
work on the scientific evidence for reincarnation is being
continued by Jim B. Tucker, M.D., a board-certified child
psychiatrist who directs research into children’s
reports of past-life memories at the University of Virginia
Division of Personality Studies. He worked with Dr. Ian
Stevenson, the founder of this research, for several years
before taking it over upon Dr. Stevenson’s retirement
in 2002. His book Life Before Life explores the
evidence. A reviewer, D Buxman writes:
“ It's not your typical new age psuedo-science hodge-podge
of anecdotal accounts, but rather is a legitimate scientific
examination of the possibility of reincarnation, explored
through children's accounts of past lives, usually starting
around the age of 2 or 3 and fading around 7 or 8. Dr. Tucker
has documented over 2,500 cases in countries all around
the globe. He examines different types of accounts and attempts
to address the various explanations for each. While a book
like this could come off about as exciting as reading the
Yellow Pages, Dr. Tucker takes care to discuss interesting
individual accounts in addition to explaining the results
of his studies. If you have an open mind concerning reincarnation,
this book will raise your awareness and provide you with
the information necessary to develop your own informed opinion.”
Read more about Jim
Tucker…
UPSURGE IN PEOPLE GOING
TO PSYCHICS
At the same time as there has been a downturn in Church
attendances in the last fifteen years there has been a huge
increase in people seeking psychic help. It is now a multi-billion
dollar industry. As always, I tell people to be VERY CAREFUL
where to go. Make sure you go to a reputable medium who
has a reputation for being accurate. WATCH OUT- there are
quacks NOT psychics, pretending to be psychic.
THE PSYCHIC AND THE
SPIRITUAL
I have always pointed out that while we all have psychic
abilities to some extent there is a big difference between
been psychic and being spiritual. “Like attracts like”
in the spirit world and the more that a medium learns to
live in a spiritually admirable way the more they will be
used as a channel for the highest teaching from elevated
spiritual beings. One such medium was Grace Cook who brought
through the teachings of a wonderful spiritual entity who
called himself White Eagle. These much loved teachings have
been published in a number of books which are available
from White Eagle Centres
which conduct meditation retreats and healing in a number
of countries.
QUESTION
- I get many questions every day: this is the cutest one
I picked up for this week: From your knowledge and experience,
are lawyers and judges corrupt? Jeremy T Kuter, Los Angeles.
Victor: That’s a loaded question
if I ever came across one. When you are dealing with the
human condition, you are dealing with corruption. You can
be a lawyer, a judge, a general, a priest, a rabbi, a Mullah,
a politician, police officer or police senior administrator,
physician – you can be in any kind of work –
and you will find corruption. Wherever there are humans
you are likely to get corruption- it’s part of the
human condition. We’ve seen corruption at the highest
places – in the Presidency, Royalty, Vatican –
and corruption is certainly exists at the lower end of the
social scale. But that does not mean that every human being
is corrupt. Corruption is independent of profession and
occupation. Yes, sadly on my time in the courts, I did come
across lawyers, judges, magistrates and policemen who were
caught being corrupt – these cases are common knowledge.
And I am aware that abuse of power and trust are highly
karmic and feel sad that these individuals are in for a
rough future.
CHINESE TRANSLATION NEEDED According
to the ShangHai Daily, concerned about a survey that showed
more than half of middle school students believe in life
after death, “Bad teaching from families may lead
innocents to believe in life after death, several experts
who participated in the survey told the newspaper.”
Clearly there is a need to translate my book into Chinese!!
Any volunteers? Read
more…
10th
MONTH!! A SEPARATE - $500.000 OFFER TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP!
Half a million dollars is being offered
by my sponsors to anyone to duplicate our materialization
results - not only to the debunkers and other materialists,
but the offer is open to the most advanced scientists and
anybody else in the world to-day . But if they they fail,
a legal requirement is that they will have to hand over
half a million dollars to our medium David Thompson. After
TEN long months, I am still waiting!!!
May
4th 07
COMMENTARY:
POLICE IN BRITAIN ARE SECRETLY USING GIFTED PSYCHICS TO
SOLVE CRIME: Danny Penman, senior British journalist
reports on his website, “Psychics and mediums are
not something the police wish to talk about. It’s
their guilty little secret. The police take pride in solving
crimes using rational detective work and forensic science.
When quizzed, they prefer to talk about DNA fingerprinting
and high-tech surveillance rather than the help they receive
from beyond the grave. But the Daily Mail has learned that
the police are increasingly turning to psychics and mediums
for help in their battle against crime. Sources in the National
Criminal Intelligence Service say that officers turn to
mediums to help them solve the more difficult cases. There
is even a database containing the names of ‘official’
psychics that officers can tap into 24 hours a day. These
psychics have helped the authorities solve murders and trace
missing persons. They have also helped the innocent walk
free from jail. Read
more…
NEW EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
ON MEDIUMSHIP FROM PROFESSOR GARY SCHWARTZ In
January of 2007, a paper describing a triple-blind study
conducted by the VERITAS Research Program into Mediumship
that achieved positive results was published in the peer-reviewed
journal. See "Anomalous information reception by research
mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol."
in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing.
2007;3(1):23-27.
View paper on-line
Download the PDF version
Another paper titled "Methodological advances in laboratory-based
mediumship research" and co-authored by Gary E. Schwartz,
PhD, was presented by Julie Beischel, PhD, at the Rhine
Research Center Conference "Consciousness Today"
(March 23-25, 2007).
Download the PDF version
A presentation titled “Claimant mediums, threshold
consciousness, and purported communication with discarnates:
A phenomenological study” was presented by Julie Beischel,
PhD, at the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
2007 Spring Meeting, April 4-8, 2007. This study was co-authored
by Adam Rock, PhD, of Deakin University and Gary E. Schwartz,
PhD.
INTERVIEW WITH GARY SCHWARTZ AND
JULIE BIESCHEL. Julie Beischel and Gary
Schwartz were interviewed late last year on Signs of
Life, a radio program by the Forever Family Foundation.
September 21, 2006: Julie Beischel, PhD Listen
Here
November 23, 2006: Gary E. Schwartz, PhD
Listen Here
COMMUNICATING WITH INTELLIGENCES FROM THE AFTERLIFE DIMENSION
– a most interesting perspective from Sir William
Barrett. Of all the evidence gathered supporting communication
with afterlife intelligences, the book and newspapers tests
rank near the very top. “It is, of course, easy for
the vociferous Sadducees of to-day to shrug their shoulders
and assert that, as no evidence can establish such an impossible
belief, they decline to waste their time in listening to
nonsense,” wrote Sir William Barrett, a distinguished
professor of physics at the Royal College in Dublin. “They
waive the whole matter aside with a superior gesture, confidently
asserting that what cannot be explained by fraud, delusion,
or subconscious memory is simply due to the ‘will
to believe.' But surely such agnostics might remember the
ancient proverb; ‘He that answereth a matter before
he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.'” Read
more …
AUSTRALIAN EXPERT ON EVP Australia's
foremost expert on EVP is Rob Smith. Rob's in-depth understanding
and research of the EVP phenomenea has led to appearances
on Radio and Television as well as establishing himself
as a firm favorite and regular contributor to 'Haunted Australia'.
He is also a Australian member of the American Association
of Electronic Voice Phenomenon www.aaevp.com , currently
managed by Tom and Lisa Butler. He is 59 years old, lives
in Melbourne, a former Uniting Church Minister and a Funeral
Celebrant who currently works for Foxtel Subscription TV.
How did he get involved in the world of psychics, mediums
and voices from other dimensions? Rob believes his years
as a Uniting Church minister and the traumas related to
his real life and death experiences have made him more receptive
to contacts in the ethereal realms. A daily life entrenched
in the day-to-day traumas of death and loss - and the many
personal grief issues surrounding the loss of loved ones
seems to have opened a door to afterlife communication.
Listen to an archived interview with Robert on Ghost
Radio Australia
Contact Robert at: robevpau@yahoo.com.au
EVIDENCE FOR THE AFTERLIFE NOT ANECDOTAL Anecdotal
evidence is an untestableaccount of some event. Often the
person who made the statement is unnamed or cannot be contacted
and there is no independent evidence to support it. It is
very much like hearsay -what somebody else has supposedly
said or seen or done. Hearsay and anecdotal statements are
totally unacceptable and inadmissible in courts. Anecdotal
evidence cannot be scrutinized for accuracy, it cannot be
objectified for validation. But the evidence for the afterlife
does not fall into this category. The evidence presented
in my book is empirical where there is experimentation with
strict adherence to scientific methodology, where the results
are scientifically elicited and where the results can be
tested for reliability and validation. And often successful
results are repeatable. For example, in chapter four of
the BOOK – Voices On Tape (Electronic Voice Phenomena),
click top right, there was strict adherence to scientific
method where scientists and engineers controlled all extraneous
variables that could interfere with the results e.g .where
the test was conducted, engineers were able to prevent stray
radio signals to penetrate the experimenting laboratory.
Other evidence consists of formal reports by named highly
qualified investigators with scientific training (See Montague
Keen’s Report on David Thompson ) All evidence
presented in the BOOK has the substance of it being independently
verified. As an empiricist I was careful to include ONLY
empirical and other objective evidence which could be subject
to the strictest scientific testing.
WARNING:
GIFTED PSYCHICS AND QUACK PSYCHICS: just
for the record, I repeat that I do not consider that all
those who claim to be psychics and mediums are genuine.
Far from it. There are so many who call themselves ‘psychics’
who are nothing but con/men/women out there to steal your
hard-earned cash. You get quacks everywhere even in medicine
and scientific research. So, my advice is be careful of
fake psychics who rely on techniques like cold reading.
Insist on detail that the mediums could not possibly know…Read
Bob Olson’s story below.
OPEN MINDED SKEPTIC DISCOVERS THE
AFTERLIFE Bob Olson was a skeptical private
investigator who was thoroughly trained in the need for
evidence. When he began to seek evidence for the afterlife
he was initially skeptical. However he received personal
recommendations to a particular medium (an essential ) he
was open-minded enough to investigate. This was the level
of detail he got in his reading: “The spirit messenger
delivered names, dates and memories about my life she could
not possible have known: that I played a saxophone solo
in my middle school band concert; that my birthday was in
May and that my father died during that month, that my mother’s
name was Carol, my sister’s name was Bonnie and my
wife’s name was Melissa; that I was considering getting
a dog, specifically a yellow lab; and that I had a brother
named Brian who wasn’t really my brother (Brian was
my cousin who moved in with my family when he was ten and
I was thirteen because his parents died in a plane crash).”
Bob has gone on to create a
list of US mediums he has personally tested
and The Grief
and Belief Page. Have a look at its really excellent
list of resources.
WORLD’S GREATEST
COWARD ATTACKS MEDIUMSHIP! – He’s
a stage entertainer from the UK. Perhaps like a clown, he
can make you laugh and can entertain you. But he knows NOTHING
about admissible evidence or scientific study of mediums.
As a magician he knows a great deal about how to DECEIVE,
to TRICK, to professionally CHEAT and LIE- these are the
tools-in-trade of stage entertainers and magicians. But
he shows he does not have the stomach and the testes to
take up my challenge. This fifth rate Houdini attacked mental
mediumship claiming it is ALL ‘cold-reading.’
That’s not fair. That’s dishonest, deceitful
and disgusting. In doing that he tried to insult some of
my best friends- including our medium David Thompson –
who is also a mental medium. He sends me an email in which
he boasts he is “filthy rich” !!! but he cowardly
concocts something where I cannot reply to his blabberings.
He can never do his silly cold reading trick under empirically
CONTROLLED CONDITIONS similar to the ones
employed by Professor Archie Roy and Tricia Robertson and
Professor Gary Schwartz. Like those aggressive skeptical
debunkers full of hot air, full of aggression, hostility
and violent behavior – they can cheat, negatively
manipulate, they con and trick, they lie, they indulge in
all kinds of dirty provocations – but do NOT have
the masculinity and the stomach, the courage, the effrontery
to take on my MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE regarding my afterlife
evidence or to take on my HALF A MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENEGE
regarding the sensational materializations of David Thompson’s
every Sunday night. Read his email and my reply….
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO
DIE? PMH Atwater knows. She died three times.
Read her account here…
Jeff and Jody Long are also doing some fascinating research
on other first hand accounts
of Near Death Experiencers
AFTERLIFE 101 and 102
One of the best sites on the Internet about the Afterlife
. It contains a comprehensive 240-page book describing the
afterlife has been prepared by spirit guides, speaking through
a medium, for the website. It provides a high quality and
challenging look at the circle of spiritual evolution--death,
life in the spirit world, reincarnation, life on earth,
and death again. It defines failures of our earth's civilization
today, and describes future earth changes which may occur.
Read more…
JESSICA TURNER: an
entity calling herself Jessica Turner came through at our
Circle some weeks ago. She said she died in 1842 and she
worked on the stage. Does anyone know anything about her?
If you do, kindly let me know:victor@victorzammit.com
ACTIVITIES AT NIBBANA
HQ SYDNEY Julie Ann Storr - "Chief
Inspiration Officer" at Nibbana asked me to pass on
to readers a link to their homepage which contains an interviews
with Neale Donald Walsch and John Demartini on Using The
Secret, plus news of more events coming up, the launch of
a new online shopping cart and our colourful new range of
soul-inspiring nibbana T's with slogans. Read
more...
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