Most afterlife researchers are skeptics. We have found tantalizing parts of one gigantic truth, and since we know that the rest of it still must be out there, we won’t settle for less. So I have a confession to make. For decades I was skeptical that most psychic mediums actually were in contact with the dead.
Most of the communications that I first read to formulate my understanding of death and the afterlife came from early-
twentieth-century deep-trance mediums who were able to withdraw from their bodies altogether and allow their dead controls to speak using the medium’s vocal cords. There were some amazing deep-trance mediums working in the early twentieth century, and if the evidence of our survival produced by even one of them – Leonora Piper, perhaps, or Gladys Osborne Leonard – had been objectively studied by contemporary scientists, you would have lived your whole life knowing that it never is going to end. They produced such consistent and extensive proofs of what actually is going on that eventually they convinced even me. But, mediums reading the minds of the dead? Not so much.
The wonderful Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona conducted double- and triple-blind experiments on a number of psychic mediums, and he detailed the results in his excellent 2003 book, The Afterlife Experiments. Reading his book convinced me that some physic mediums are indeed in contact with the dead. Dr. Schwartz found that some of the mediums he tested under laboratory conditions in which neither the sitter nor the medium knew who was on the other side of the screen, and sometimes the sitter wasn’t allowed to say anything, produced detailed communications with dead loved ones that the sitters graded as more than ninety percent accurate.
One American medium who received among Dr. Schwartz’s highest scores is John Edward. Here, from Victor and Wendy Zammit’s wonderful Friday Letter, is an engaging clip of this gifted and kindly man at work. Scroll down and enjoy!
By the way, if you have not already subscribed to the Zammit’s Friday Letter, please give yourself that gift! The Zammits are in Australia. Their Friday Letter arrives in Texas on Thursday evening, and I look forward to it as a fount of fresh articles, interesting video clips, and general information about what actually is going on from the viewpoint of a careful attorney who is exploring evidence of the truth and following that evidence wherever it may lead.
So some psychic mediums are indeed able to put you in touch with your dead loved ones. Psychic medium readings are easy to fake, however, so before you hire a medium, be sure to check references. One organization that conducts testing and certifies psychic mediums is The Windbridge Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
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Gospel words of Jesus or the afterlife evidence, I think it may be time for us to consider the possibility that Jesus’s mission may have been different from the one assigned to him by mainstream Christianity.
mainstream Christianity is wrong. I have never in decades of reading hundreds of communications from the dead found any evidence at all that God or any religious figure ever has judged anyone. Neither have I ever found an instance where a dead person says or hints that the death of Jesus redeemed him from punishment for his sins. So Christianity is wrong about that. It’s wrong.
remain skeptical of every new afterlife-related detail, but at least I do investigate things! I look for answers. And after I have assembled enough evidence of all stripes to draw a rational conclusion, I draw that conclusion and explain where it came from. What these scientific Luddites do is to refuse to investigate anything that doesn’t fit their predetermined beliefs. They even presume to post on the Internet flat lies about the afterlife evidence and about those who would investigate the evidence. Have they no self-awareness at all?
beautifully! Quantum physics is a kind of plug that connects the physics operating in the areas of reality that we enter at death with the physics that functions only in this material universe. The earliest quantum physicists realized that consciousness is primary. Scientists today still revere these folks! Why won’t they listen to them? Max Planck and his fellows knew a hundred years ago that the math-based, clockwork model of physics that is still so beloved of mainstream science is insufficient to explain what we know about reality, even if we ignore the afterlife evidence altogether.
core creative force and the only reality. All of this is as scientific as anything could be scientific, and it is at the core of what we all should be thinking as we study reality.
wrong?
either side of the issue. I only note that our culture has become an abortion culture, in which the disposal of fetuses has become an easy substitute for personal responsibility and common sense.
against the fact that she not only lived in a barbaric abortion culture, but she herself had two abortions? I think you can read the above review – or read a host of contemporary comments about the fact that some Founding Fathers were slaveholders – and you already know the answer.
proof that there can be no loving God, while even those who are very religious will sometimes fret and question their beliefs as they try to answer it. But when we answer the question from the point of view of the afterlife evidence, we find that it all makes perfect sense. A lifetime on earth is just a hard day in school.
guides and those significant to us might make adjustments as our lives go on, but the afterlife evidence overwhelmingly tells us that you planned all the bad things that happen to you, and you eagerly planned them as spiritual lessons.
