One thing about doing afterlife research and better understanding our greater reality is that what you learn helps you to 
establish evidence-based opinions on a great many things. At one time, I had little concern about capital punishment. So long as we executed only the guilty, what was the harm? To read of the despicable crimes that some of these criminals had committed made you feel almost as if the government were doing little more than eliminating vermin.
I know better now. Sadly, though, since most of our society remains clueless about how reality works, those responsible for carrying out executions have no way to understand all the harm they are doing! Here are some reasons why executing criminals never is a good idea, no matter how humanely it can be done:
- It is impossible to kill a human mind. Our minds are eternal, and that includes the minds of the most notorious criminals. Eternal. You can execute their bodies, but their minds go on forever.
- A mind freed from the body by death may or may not transition to the afterlife. There is considerable evidence that we have the choice of whether to stay or go, and evidence as well that people fearing judgment for things they may have done in life often decide not to make the trip.
- A mind that stays behind maintains the emotional state that it had at death. We see this problem with men killed in wars. They may jump into a nearby soldier in the heat of battle and possess the mind of that veteran for decades. And they retain the same fighting rage that they had at their moment of death, which seems to be a common cause of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among veterans. Research has shown that sometimes merely coaxing out every possessing dead soldier can cure a veteran of PTSD on the spot.
- The minds of earthbound entities are readily able to occupy the minds of the living. People in their prime have a natural energetic barrier that limits this possibility, but the very young and the very old and those who are drunk or high on drugs often have energetic protections so deficient that for spirits to possess them is easy.
So, to recap, execution frees a mind that is inclined toward evil when it is at the height of fear and rage, and then enables it to roam and perhaps possess an innocent’s unsuspecting mind. Boy, talk about pollution! There is no more horrendous pollution than the freeing of a mind that is bent toward evil.
It is important, too, as loving fellow eternal beings to look at capital punishment from the viewpoint of the one being executed. I have a photo taken in the 1930s of a very young African-American man being strapped into an electric 
chair. Hovering busily, getting him attached to the mechanism that will end his life, are four middle-aged guys who are dwarfed by the robust health and the sheer charisma of the man who is about to die. What gets you is his face. He looks like your son or mine in the principal’s office, close to tears and gazing off into the distance, pretending to be anywhere else. I want to hug and comfort him. Even if I didn’t know how harmful it is to free criminal minds, that one photo would be enough to turn me adamantly against capital punishment.
Executing criminals is more expensive than incarcerating them. It causes incalculable spiritual harm. And it cheapens what evidence tells us is the most important thing there is: an infinitely precious human life.
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whether we can have post-death sex. After all, the whole area of sexual relations is so important to our earthly lives. Isn’t it central to who we are?
research, the rehabilitation of that genitally-injured soldier is the only account I ever have read of actual physical sex after death.
links toward a future post on scientific breakthroughs, and now seems to be the right time to use them. Stay tuned: next week sex is on the way!
wife’s beloved grandfather’s radio – long inoperative – began to play on their wedding day. It worked just that day, then never again. This is a classic sign from the dead, and it was accepted as such by the woman he loved. As he says in the above article, “(I)f we are to take seriously the scientific credo to keep an open mind and remain agnostic when the evidence is indecisive or the riddle unsolved, we should not shut the doors of perception when they may be opened to us to marvel in the mysterious.”
solving technique that scientists now honor mostly in the breach: Occam’s razor. Occam’s razor states that when there are competing hypotheses, the one that requires that we made the fewest assumptions should be selected. Or in other words, the simplest explanation is likely to be the best explanation.
consciousness is primary and pre-existing. All of mainstream physics’s present wounds are self-inflicted.
human evolution is at an end because our culture and our ease of travel make further natural selection impossible. 
a false materiality.
afterlife turns out to be giving us a whole new physics. It isn’t about death at all. Instead, it is the next stage of quantum physics, the end toward which medical practice is tending, the answers to astronomers’ greatest questions, and the final retort to anthropologists who consider people to be just apes. It is the brand-new physics that physicists have been struggling to assemble for a hundred years. It’s a Consciousness Theory of Everything that seems to solve the biggest problems in modern science.
fact that physicists don’t yet realize this is the reason why they have been so long in the weeds. The theory of everything that is most consistent with what the dead are revealing to us is set forth in Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE (2007). If mainstream physicists come to their senses before Dr. Campbell makes his transition, then he is a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize. If you are an ambitious young physicist, then you ought to read Dr. Campbell’s book. He is getting on in years, and the award is never posthumous, so perhaps the Nobel Prize that is going to be given for a Consciousness Theory of Everything might have your name on it!
Perhaps if they will return to that old saw, Occam’s Razor, and rethink reality along simpler lines, they will save themselves some headaches. In fact, courtesy of our beloved dead, the answers to many of their questions have been under their noses for more than a century.
Christian, a Catechism teacher, a Lector, and such a devoted daily reader of the Bible that I have read it cover-to-cover at least a dozen times. Each time I got to the final page of Revelation, I would read the New Testament a second time and then plunge back in with Genesis I. I was a Christian with a Capital “C.”
Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)
One of the things that is most certain about the afterlife evidence is what it tells us is the reason why we even are alive at all. Why are we here? What is human life for? The very fact that there exists such an exquisite and gloriously planned afterlife for each of the seven billion struggling on earth, and the uncounted billions who already are there, strongly suggests that all our lives on earth must have a pretty spectacular purpose.
