Next week's Afterlife Zoom Groups are listed towards the bottom of this report and also here.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL and a special welcome to New Subscribers to our 26th year of weekly Friday Afterlife Reports.
COMMENTARY: WHAT IF YOU REALLY KNEW THAT THERE IS NO DEATH?
We are so fortunate to be living at a time when there is an explosion of information available about what REALLY happens when we die. When we first started researching the afterlife (around 1990), the only relevant books that we could find were in esoteric or occult bookshops and libraries. Today, thanks to the World Wide Web, anyone searching for evidence for life after death will find a huge amount of information if they know what to look for.
The Friday Afterlife Report, now entering its 26th year of weekly publication, provides regular updates and bite-sized items which lead to great websites and recent developments in the field. Our Facebook pages and Afterlife Zoom Meetings provide places where people can build community, share experiences and resources, learn skills, and collaborate on projects.
We look forward to working with all of you in 2025 to continue to spread the knowledge that "there is no death, and that there are no dead".
AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE EVIDENCE
For the benefit of our many new subscribers and those who would like a quick overview of the evidence for the afterlife, we are including Dr. Craig Hogan's excellent talk.
10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
Medium Matt Fraser has put together ten things he has learned through his conversations and visions. Read more.
ITC PIONEER MARCELLO BACCI
Marcello Bacci in Grosseto Italy was a model of quiet service of spirit. He was a leading researcher in Instrumental Transcommunication. Bacci used an old valve radio tuned to white noise in the short wave band. For 35 years, he held free sessions on Friday nights for parents whose children had transitioned. Many claimed to be able to hear the voices of their deceased children responding to questions in real-time. Bacci welcomed scientists and other afterlife investigators. In 2004, a team of researchers including Dr. Anabela Cardoso, Dr. Mario Salvatore Festa, Prof David Fontana, and Dr. Paolo Presi traveled to Grosseto Italy to investigate the voices.
They concluded: "The results of this experiment, taken together with those yielded by the 2002 experiment of Professor Festa and Franco Santi, provide firm evidence of the authenticity of the Bacci voices." Read their report.
ONE NDE EXPERIENCER WHO SHARED HER EXPERIENCES MOST SUCCESSFULLY P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., is one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies, having begun her work in 1978 following three NDEs in 1977. Her research base now covers nearly 4,000 adult and child experiencers and her many books on the near-death and related phenomena have influenced millions. Her The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences was featured in an online version of Newsweek Magazine and remains the only encyclopedia of the entire phenomenon worldwide. She has received many lifetime achievement awards and has travelled the world speaking on all aspects of the near-death experience, transformations of consciousness, and the evolution of the human species. Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story is the summation of 33 years of research. In this fascinating article, Judith Pennington reports on what experiments with the Mind Mirror revealed about Dr. Atwater's brainwave patterns.
ANDY PETRO'S NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
In 1955 when Andrew Petro was 18 he faced death; he would never be the same. He ate a light lunch and then jumped into the cold water with a belly flop. As he was swimming he began to cramp in his stomach and groin. He was drowning and gave in to the voice that asked him to stop resisting death and promised he would return to life. His encounter with an incredibly compassionate being of light led him to a profound realization: that life on earth is just an illusion--truly a grand illusion--but an illusion nonetheless and that there is only One Light, and we are all pieces of that One Light.
"DEATHBED VISIONS"
According to Professor Haraldsson (pictured left) deathbed visions are excellent afterlife evidence and, when combined with other afterlife research, make possible "a fact-based, rational and therefore reasonable belief in the life after death". Although deathbed visions can be found in the literature and lore of all ages, they were rarely mentioned in the scientific literature until the late 1920s, when they were studied by Sir William Barrett, a professor of physics at the Royal College of Science, in Dublin. You can read the experiences of eminent researcher Sir William in Death-Bed Visions - The Psychical Experiences of the Dying. Since then there have been hundreds of books published detailing the observations made by doctors and nurses of dying patients. Read more about deathbed visions.
BEYOND THE FIVE SENSES: SCHMICKER'S PSYCHIC WORLD
This 35-minute video, Dr. Keith Parsons features the work of author Michael Schmicker. Examining Schmicker's 4 popular books provides a great opportunity to dig into psychical topics: There's Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) - clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy; Psychokinesis (PK); the controversial medium Eusapia Palladino; the importance of Quantum Physics & the Afterlife; and more. See the complete playlist of Dr. Parsons' afterlife videos.
BRILLIANT PHYSICIST FEDERICO FAGGIN SAYS SCIENCE IS READY FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
In this fascinating interview Federico Faggin, designer of the first commercial microprocessor and pioneer in the movement to base mathematical theory on consciousness, urges science to embrace consciousness to explain the weirdness of quantum physics and use it as the instrument of scientific investigation. "There need no longer be a duality between mind and matter," he says. "With consciousness, you can reach reality from the inside." He makes a startling suggestion - that matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing.
AFTER DEATH CONTACTS
A huge number of people have seen or heard a person or an animal after they have died. Very often people will tell you that someone they loved appeared at the foot of their bed and told them that they had just died. In many such cases, the death was unexpected and the person had died just before they were seen. In 1973 a University of Chicago sociologist asked a sample of 1,467 Americans if they had ever felt they had communicated with someone who had died. Twenty-seven percent answered that they had (Greenley 1975). A similar survey in Iceland (Haraldsson et al 1976) found that thirty-one percent of respondents said yes. Read more.
AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATIONS
Christine Duminiak is a devout Catholic who had a spontaneous experience of after-death communication when her dead parents-in-law showed up in her bedroom and stayed an hour. A Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, she runs a free online Prayerwave Group to help people process their ADC and pray to have one. Read more.
SIGNS FROM SPIRIT: LIGHTS AND OBJECTS MOVED
A friend in Crete sent this:
"We also continue to help out Carol, whose husband passed over from cancer just last week. She has already had signs from him (possibly). His bedside lamp is one of those electronic ones where you touch the metal base to switch it off/on. Twice this week, Carol has entered the bedroom to find the lamp was on. Of course, such devices are susceptible to interference from "mains spikes," but the lamp has never switched on "by itself" previously in ten years. Carol just told me that she and her husband, Mike, used to watch DVD movies. Two were his favourites. They hadn't been watched for a while, so they were at the back of the cupboard, requiring most of the other DVDs to be pulled out to reach them. Last night, Carol returned home to discover those two DVDs on the coffee table. When she checked, Carol found that the other DVDs in the cupboard had not been disturbed." Read a comprehensive list of 30 signs from spirit.
STEVE FREIER'S BOOK OVERVIEWS Steve Freier has spent the last twenty-plus years exploring the Afterlife, NDEs (near-death experiences), pre-death experiences, and other related metaphysical topics. He has read hundreds of books on these topics and has more always waiting. He has written comprehensive overviews of many of the most popular afterlife books - check out his wonderful blog! From 1992 to 1997 he interviewed some of the leading voices in the afterlife movement in his "Timeless Topics" Radio Shows. He is also the co-editor with his sister Nancy of The Inner Voice Magazine and hosts an After Life Discussion Group in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
Contact Steve at: sgfreier23@gmail.com
THE JANUARY 2025 EDITION OF THE INNER VOICE MAGAZINE
Editor Nancy Freier writes: "Among the enlightening articles this month, featured is a tribute to my late friend, Timothy Wyllie. He enjoyed writing essays (as he called them) for
this magazine. And what is really crazy cool is that this interview was done recently by our friend, Medium Gordon Phinn who brought Timothy through from the Other Side! I hope you will read this entire issue, a bit-at-a-time, if need be. Then, pick up a pen (or keyboard) and let us know how we’re doing. Tell us your thoughts and what you’d like to see in future issues. Every one of us here at the magazine would love to hear from you!" Read the magazine.
SYDNEY NORTHERN BEACHES SPIRITUALIST CHURCH FRIDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 2024
Northern Beaches Spiritualist Church (Sydney, Australia), is having a face-to-face meeting on Friday, December 6th, 2024, at Manly Vale Community Centre Innes Road Hall. See location and transport details.
From 6 p.m. to 6 45 p.m. We will be having our healing service.
And, from 7 p.m., our guest medium Tracie Allan will give messages to some of those present. A small donation helps cover hall hire, insurance and tea and biscuits after the meeting.
MESSAGES FROM SPIRIT
The president of the above Spiritualist church, medium Paul Hinson, offers readings to our subscribers every two weeks in a Zoom group. However, he is being inspired to make the experience of "getting a message" available to any of our readers in a private reading via Zoom on Mondays (Sundays USA). Email paulhinson@gmail.com for an appointment. A donation "to help keep the lights on" in the church would be appreciated.
NEXT WEEK'S FREE AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS - ALL WELCOME
Saturday January 4th 2025/ Sunday January 5th Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro.
A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See videos of previous meetings.
Times:
Pacific time 1 p.m. Saturday
Phoenix time 1 p.m. Saturday
Mountain time 2 p.m. Saturday
Central time 3 p.m. Saturday
Eastern time 4 p.m. Saturday
London 8 p.m. Saturday
Rome 9 p.m. Saturday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Sunday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro.
Just click this link to join.
Sunday December 5th 2025/ Monday December 6th Australia
Global Gathering:Cosmic Voices Network - A New Year and A New Perspective
Please join Regina Ochoa, Jeanne Love, and Dan Drasin for another fantastic Global Gathering. Jeanne, Dan, and Regina will bring forward new messages from a select few of the spirits including Carrie Fisher, John Denver, and Robin Williams whose communications to date are posted on The Messages section of the Cosmic Voices Network website. They are excited to help others remember who they are, why they are here, and how to further "tune in" to the vast resources of spirit that surround us daily. We will even have a few other guest spirits joining in. Can you guess who they might be? It will be a terrific way to bring in the new year.
Times:
Pacific Time 12 noon Sunday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 1 p.m. Sunday
Central time 2 p.m. Sunday
Eastern time 3 p.m. Sunday
London 8 p.m. Sunday
Europe 9 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday 6th January 2025
GOSH: Gatherings over Strange Happenings with Kim Parker
When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesday 7 a.m. (Sydney).
A small group that meets to share and explore the meaning of strange experiences like missing time, seeing scenes from another time, interacting with a person who suddenly wasn't there, bi-location etc. If it's something you cannot share easily with others, bring it to this group to get validation and speculate on its cause. See short video about GOSH
Pacific Time 12 noon Monday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Monday
Mountain Time 1 p.m. Monday
Central time 2 p.m. Monday
Eastern time 3 p.m. Monday
London 8 p.m. Monday
Vienna 9 p.m. Monday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Tuesday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Tuesday
Check the time for your city
Email: Kim at kmrainbow57@yahoo.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday 6th January 2025/ Tuesday 7th January Australia
Life with Ghosts Zoom Chat - with filmmaker Stephen Berkley
A group which now meets bi-weekly on Mondays at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
"We’re doing one LIVE broadcast on the first Monday of the month, as before, but we’ve added one pre-recorded interview that gets posted mid-month, but not on any particular day of the week". See the Life with Ghosts playlist of previous episodes.
Times:
Pacific time 5 p.m. Monday
Phoenix time 6 p.m. Monday
Mountain time 6 p.m. Monday
Central time 7 p.m. Monday
Eastern time 8 p.m. Monday
London 1 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 2 a.m. Tuesday
Sydney/Melbourne 12 noon Tuesday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Stephen Berkley
admin@lifewithghosts.com Click this link to join.
Monday 6th January 2025/ Tuesday 7th January Australia
Australian-based Physical Mediumship Development Circle (Dark Circle)
Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 40 minutes, relax, and listen to music. This is a long-term project and participants must be prepared to sit in harmony without much seeming to happen on the surface.
Times:
Pacific time 1 a.m. Tuesday
Phoenix Time 2 a.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 2 a.m. Tuesday
Central Time 3 a.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 4 a.m. Tuesday
London 9 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 10 a.m. Tuesday
Perth/Singapore 5 p.m. Tuesday
Sydney Australia 8 p.m. Tuesday
Auckland 10 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Email paulhinson@gmail.com for more information and the Zoom link.
Tuesday 7th January 2025/ Wednesday 8th January, 2025 Australia
Army 4 Love: Debra Martin
Debra's Army4Love Gathering welcomes all with compassion and love and embraces everyone, particularly those who may be suffering from emotional, physical and other psychic pain. Debra enables all to safely share their experiences in her Sacred Space. In every Army4Love Gathering Debra welcomes Spirit to speak through her to the group. Each gathering will focus on a relevant topic, and Debra will ask the group to virtually hold one another in the Spirit of hope, healing and love. Debra will also provide a mini-healing for the collective at the end of each gathering. Debra’s intention is that Army4Love will help you have a greater perspective and understanding regarding your adversities while helping you release and alleviate pain.
EMAIL: Via a form on her website to avoid spam: https://www.goldenmiracles.com/contact.php
Times:
Pacific time 2 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix 3 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain time (Denver) 3 p.m. Tuesday
Central time 4 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Tuesday
London 10 p.m. Tuesday
Rome 11 p.m. Wednesday
Melbourne/Sydney 9 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 11 a.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
Tuesday 7th January 2025/ Wednesday 8th January 2025
What If? With Cheryl Page
Cheryl Page is a medical researcher and medium who dares to ask questions about what is possible with mediumship. She suggests that we inadvertently cut ourselves off from the nearly infinite possibilities that Spirit brings when we are rigid about the “right” way to practice mediumship and is looking for interested mediums or those developing to join her in some fascinating experiments.
Times:
Pacific Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Central Time 8 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 9 p.m. Tuesday
London time 2 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Wednesday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Cheryl Page
Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2716017767?
pwd=aGtML2h3d3I5bW9GYnMxQ05scjF3Zz09
Meeting ID: 271 601 7767 Passcode: 54321
Wednesday January 8th 2025/ Thursday January 9th Australia
Platform Mediumship with Paul M. Hinson
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month USA / at 3.30 p.m. Pacific time
Paul is an English medium now based in Sydney. He does "platform readings" giving messages to most people present.
Times:
Pacific Time 3.30 p.m. Wednesday
Phoenix 4.30 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 4.30 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Eastern Time 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
London time 11.30 a.m. Wednesday
Perth 7.30 a.m. Thursday
Singapore 7.30 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/ Melbourne 10.30 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 12.30 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Coordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Wednesday January 8th 2025/ Thursday January 9th Australia
USA-based Physical mediumship development group
Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena.
THIS GROUP IS CURRENTLY TAKING NEW MEMBERS
Times:
Pacific 6 p.m. Wednesday
Arizona 7 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 7 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 8 p.m. Wednesday
New York time 9 p.m. Wednesday
London 2 a.m. Thursday
Europe 3 a.m.
Perth 10 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Thursday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org for meeting guidelines and link.
Thursday January 9th 2025/ Friday January 10th Australia
Pet Communication Group with Gretchen Bickert
Do you have questions about animal care or how to support an animal with a disability or illness? Would you like to be able to communicate better with your fur baby?
Thursday January 9th/ Friday January 10th Australia
Australian Mediumship Demonstrations
We are delighted to announce a Double Event. ROBIN LAMB & PAUL HINSON will be our Zoom Mediums. ROBIN will give us a short talk followed by a Demonstration of uplifting Spirit Messages by both ROBIN & PAUL.
Times: Meeting opens 15 minutes before start.
Sydney 10 a.m. Friday
Pacific time 3 p.mThursday
Phoenix time 3 p.m. Thursday
Mountain time 4 p.m. Thursday
Central time 5 p.m. Thursday
New York time 6 p.m. Thursday
London Thursday 11 p.m.
Sydney/Melbourne 10 a.m. Friday
New Zealand 12 noon Friday Check time in your city
Contact: paulhinson@gmail.com
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5562413788
Meeting ID: 556 241 3788 No Password
The meeting is free of entry charge but a “Donation that feels right by you” will be gratefully accepted to defray church running costs.
PAY ID and PAY PAL – NBSC2024@gmail.com
Bank Donations to
BSB 484-799 A/C # 165 648 823
Account Name – Northern Beaches S C
Overseas Donations - Swift Code METWAU4B
PSYCHIC MEDIUM READS A NON-BELIEVER Psychic medium Matt Fraser gives a convincing message to a skeptic who thought that mediums check out information about clients on Google.
SILVER BIRCH'S BLESSING FOR THE NEW YEAR
"May you all learn to respond to vibrations of the highest planes of spirit. May you all realise that you are never alone, but always encompassed around and about by a host of those who love you, who seek to guard and guide you, and to help inspire you. And may you, as you unfold your own spirits, realise that you are being drawn closer to the greatest Spirit of all, becoming more in unison with His Law. You serve Him by serving the children of matter. When you do that, you are within reach of His infinite arms, you are surrounded by His love, which will bring you to perfect peace."
Silver Birch, "The Spirit Speaks" p. 83
INCREDIBLE ACTS OF KINDNESS CAUGHT ON CAMERA
Feeling down? Get ready to have your faith in humanity restored! Today, we're diving into heartwarming stories of random acts of kindness that will make you smile, laugh, and maybe even shed a tear.
FEEDBACK (3 only)
1) "Hi Wendy and Victor,
In the absence of any other existing broadcast material of which I was aware; back in 2018 I produced what I hoped was a definitive documentary, 'The Rosemary Brown Mystery'. Since then it has garnered over 11,000 views. But your latest Afterlife Report contains a wonderful documentary on her that I had never before known about or watched - better than my own doc since it included so much of her speaking about her musical powers, with highly qualified musicians commenting on her work too. Being able to watch this has made my day! I found it thrilling to discover such excellent material in good technical quality. Thank you so much for finding it and bringing it to my & your readers' attention".
Dr. Keith Parsons.
2)
"Dear friends Victor and Wendy, I would like to thank you for your sustained efforts over so many years in providing us with beautiful and valuable material. What you do is of great value, it helps to awaken spiritual consciousness. Thank you." Carlos.
3)
"You are starseed, universal gossamer, the finest filament and thread. You are ongoing, eternal, there is no dead!" Rosie
HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: A VERY SPECIAL OUR NEW YEAR SONG, 'SAILING'
The writer, Gavin Sutherland, claimed that the song is highly spiritual. "Most people take the song to be about a young guy telling his girl that he's crossing the Atlantic to be with her. In fact, the song's got nothing to do with romance or ships; it's an account of mankind's spiritual odyssey through life on his way to freedom and fulfillment with the Supreme Being".
A nice thought for the beginning of the year. Enjoy Rod Stewart's updated version with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. [Click on the tiny full-screen icon to the left of the word 'Vimeo' for glorious high resolution].
Lyrics "Sailing"
I am sailing
I am sailing
Home again
'Cross the sea
I am sailing
Stormy waters
To be near you
To be free
I am flying
I am flying
Like a bird
'Cross the sky
I am flying
Passing high clouds
To be with you
To be free
Can you hear me, can you hear me
Through the dark night, far away
I am dying, forever crying
To be with you, who can say.
Can you hear me, can you hear me
Through the dark night far away
I am dying, forever crying
To be with you, who can say.
We are sailing, we are sailing
Home again
'Cross the sea
We are sailing
Stormy waters
To be near you
To be free.
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord