COMMENTARY:
IS THERE A GOD? THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT
QUESTION It just does
NOT make sense for the atheistic skeptical scientist
to say that the whole of the universe came by 'chance',
that the trillions of galaxies, stars, planets, solar
systems, gravity - all showing incredible order and
intelligence - created themselves. Although this is
the viewpoint, based purely on speculation, that is
taught to young science students as fact, there are
a number of eminent physicists, astronomers, and cosmologists
who disagree.
One of them is Dr. Bernard Haisch, an eminently qualified
astrophysicist who believes in the existence of God
- not the religious God portrayed as an old man with
long white beard, but a consciousness that has become
the universe to experience itself.
His book 'The
God Theory' claims to show how you can and should
be "a rational, science-believing human being and,
at the same time, know that you are an immortal spiritual
being, a spark of God." He claims to be putting
forward "a world view that offers a way out of
the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet."
BERNARD HAISCH'S
'PROOF
OF GOD' In an effort
to make his argument more easily understood by a popular
audience Dr. Haisch joined with best-selling author
Ptolemy Tompkins to write 'Proof
of God' (2017). It is structured as a very personal
discussion between a curious writer (Tompkins) and a
scientist (Haisch) who sets forth the argument that,
far from having disproved God’s existence, science
has increasingly shown that God is, in fact, the best
explanation so far found for the universe and everything
in it.
QUOTES FROM BERNARD
HAISCH
“It is not matter that creates an illusion of
consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion
of matter.”
“We only understand what we are prepared to understand.”
“And the purpose is for God to experience his
potential. God's ideas and abilities become God's experience
in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose
could there be for each of us humans than that of creating
God's experience? God experiences the richness of his
potential through us because we are the incarnations
of him in the physical realm.” More
quotes...
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS SHAPE PERCEPTION The
Forever Family Foundation presents some of the evidence
for the afterlife. Dean Radin demonstrates why skeptical
scientists have difficulty overcoming the theoretical
framework which shapes their perception. Often it is
only some exceptional personal experience which convinces
such a person that they need to construct a new theoretical
framework to accommodate their new experiences.
JURGEN ZIEWE'S DISCOVERY ABOUT
THE OM
Out-of-body experiencer, Jurgen
Ziewe, tells of an experience he had in 2012 when,
during his regular meditation, he found himself out-of-body
in a different dimension. He decided to continue his
meditation chanting the
'Om'.
He
writes: "The moment I chanted the word, the ground
around me began to reverberate, almost like a minor
earth tremor. With the second chant, I was completely
airborne and lifted into the most sublime sky one can
imagine, with blessing in the form of luminous sparks
raining down on me. I rose higher and higher and as
I rose the chant assumed a life of its own. Very rapidly
I merged with the sound and in no time I entered Samadhi.
I was connected to and one with the core energy of this
most amazing current."
Download a copy of the chant Jurgen recommends...
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CHANGES THE
LIFE OF RUSSIAN ATHEIST SCIENTIST Dr.
George Rodonaia was a psychiatric researcher who worked
for the KGB and later became a dissident. He was a scientist
trained in materialism and did not believe in God. When
he attempted to leave Russia, he was run down by the
KGB, pronounced dead and taken to the morgue for three
days. He returned to life during his own autopsy. When
he left his body he went into a world of light and love
and found out that God exists. He then became an ordained
priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
VERIDICAL ASPECTS OF HIS EXPERIENCE
PMH
Atwater documented two fascinating examples of Dr. Rodonaia's
ability to see things while out of his body that were
later proved to be correct. One of them later proved
quite embarrassing to his wife, to the extent that she
would not sleep in the same room with him for a year
afterward. "He both saw and heard his wife picking
out his grave site. As she stood there looking at the
grave site, in her head, she pictured several men she
would consider being her next husband. She made a list
for herself of their various qualities, pro and con,
to decide which one would be the most suitable."
Read
more...
HOW A READING WITH AN EVIDENTIAL MEDIUM TRANSFORMED
A MOTHER'S GRIEF Suzanne
Giesemann describes the reading that she gave for a
mother who received wonderful validation from her daughter.
Later she was asked by spirit to give healing to the
woman. Read
more about Suzanne.
SOUL SUMMIT SCOTTSDALE SEPTEMBER 12-15th 2019
Kathleen Malone who, together
with Susanne Wilson, is organizing this year's AREI
sponsored conference, explains why the name has been
changed from The Afterlife Symposium. "We’ll
have afterlife aspects to the Summit, but mostly we’re
focused on healing and raising our vibration to a higher
level of living. We’re focused on dissolving the
wounds and lower level frequencies that bind us and
hold us back." Kathleen will be answering all your
questions about this year's event during next Sunday's
Zoom Global Gathering at the
Changed times Sydney 7 a.m.; Los Angeles 2 p.m;
Phoenix 2.p.m; Chicago 4 p.m; New York 5 p.m.; London
10 p.m.
Read more about Soul
Summit Scottsdale 2019
NEXT WEEK'S FREE AFTERLIFE ZOOM
GROUPS With Daylight
Saving, some times have changed. These will now be stable
for the next 6 months. Full details are at www.victorzammit.com/zoom
Saturday 6th April 2019 Love After Life
- must be a member of
the Facebook
group Love After Life
Healing Meditation
Time:10
p.m. Saturday London time; 11 p.m. Spain; 5
p.m. New York; 2 p.m. Pacific; 7 a.m. Sunday
Sydney time Co-ordinator: Peter Sparkes. Try some of
our healing
meditations. https://zoom.us/j/7595332928
Sunday, 7th April 2019 Australia/ UK/
Europe
Topic: Inge Crosson will talk about a seance she has
just organised with physical medium Mychale Shane. Sydney
9 p.m.(changed time); New
York 7 a.m. L.A. 4 a.m. London 12 noon; Spain
1 pm. https://zoom.us/j/7595332928 Sunday,
7th April 2019
Global Gathering (changed
times): Los Angeles
2 p.m.; Phoenix 2 p.m.; Chicago 4 p.m.; New York 5 p.m.;
London 10 p.m. Spain 11 p.m. Sydney 7 a.m. Monday Topic: Organising
Afterlife Conferences - What's involved. Soul Summit
Scottsdale with Kathleen Malone https://zoom.us/j/7595332928
Monday 8th April 2019 Meditation and Intuition
Development with Norma Turner
5 p.m. - 6.30 pm Phoenix U.S. time https://zoom.us/j/3499782616
EVP Practice group Eloy
Flores LCSW efl2432948@aol.com
7 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Chicago (Central) Time. https://zoom.us/j/628328193
Thursday, 11th April 2019 Psychic and Mediumship Development
with Winter Brrok Ryan 8 p.m. New York
time; Door shuts at 10 mins past the hour.https://zoom.us/j/7595332928
Energy Experiments with Keith Clark
Time:
Los Angeles 2 p.m.; Phoenix 2 p.m.; Chicago 4 p.m.;
New York 5 p.m.; London 10 p.m. Spain 11 p.m. Sydney
7 a.m. Sunday The earlier planned Preservation
Committee meeting has been postponed https://zoom.us/j/7595332928 Full details are at www.victorzammit.com/zoom
THE SPIRITIST RELIGIONS OF BRAZIL
Here Stanley Krippner discusses the three
main Spiritist religions of Brazil: Candomblé,
Umbanda,
and Kardecismo. Candomblé and Umbanda are, essentially,
variations of the African Yoruba tradition. The African
slaves in Brazil incorporated Catholic Saints into their
religion in order to disguise the fact that they were
still worshipping the deities of their homeland. The
Kardecismo tradition was imported from Europe, based
on the spiritist writings of the French pedagogue, Allan
Kardec. Krippner describes his own research with spiritist
mediums of these traditions, pointing out that when
they incorporated spiritual entities measurable changes
occurred in their physiology.
THE BRILLIANT MEDIUMSHIP OF ALEC
HARRIS
Alec Harris was a superb Welsh materialization medium
who died in 1974. During the production of materialized
spirit forms, Alec's spirit guides usually took him
into a deep trance, and the sitters were able to see
him clearly sitting on his chair (bound hand and foot)
inside the 'cabinet' - and the whole room was bathed
in good red light while the materialized people walked
around the room and spoke with their loved ones. The
following witness statements are contained in the book
'Alec
Harris The Full Story of his Remarkable Physical Mediumship''
by Alec's wife, Louie Harris.
Maurice
Barbanell the then editor of Psychic News,
wrote of Alec's mediumship that "the spirit forms
not only show themselves in good red light, but they
also hold sustained conversations, after having walked
about ten feet from the cabinet! At a sitting I attended,
I saw thirty forms materialize during two and a half
hours".
Sir Alexander Cannon, 'spoke to two
spirit forms who were Tibetans, and these conversations
were held in their native tongue, which was unknown
to Alec Harris or any of the other persons present'.
Prof. T J Haarhoff,
who was a professor of classics, "conversed with
a materialized spirit who spoke to him in ancient Greek".
Mr. A.G. Fletcher-Desborough,
an expert magician who was an arch-skeptic
attended a sitting. "As he reported later in the
Liverpool Evening Express 'as an illusionist and magician,
I knew exactly where to look for such things as panel
and floor escapes, ceiling and wall slides. I was satisfied
that nothing could make an exit or entrance in any way.
There was no chance of deception'. What followed was
nothing short of miraculous. The skeptic's dead father
materialized and used a pet name known to nobody but
his family. His brother materialized giving his name
and walking with a limp as he did in life. Finally,
his third son, Ronnie, who had been beheaded by the
Japanese after the fall of Singapore materialized."
THE ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR Anna
Breytenbach has dedicated her life to what she calls
'interspecies communication'. She sends detailed messages
to animals through pictures and thoughts. She then receives
messages of remarkable clarity back from the animals.
In this video, we see some remarkable attestations to
her abilities by people who have been personally involved
with her. See also Rick Archer's
new interview with Anna on 'Buddha at the Gas Pump'.
WHO IS THIS SILVER BIRCH YOU
ALWAYS QUOTE?
Silver
Birch was a spirit guide who spoke through Maurice Barbanell
(1902-1981), founder and editor of the Psychic News
of London, England. He was one of the influential spiritual
commentators of the mid-20th Century who drew our attention
to the coming of a miraculous “New World.”
Word of Silver Birch’s teachings first began to
circulate in the late 1930s and, within forty years,
nine books of his teachings had been issued, circulating
widely in the Anglophone world. Read
more...
HANS AND OLA ROSLING ON HOW TO BE MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
THE WORLD Hans Rosling,
with his famous charts about global population, health
and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates
that you have a high statistical chance of being quite
wrong about what you think you know. Play along with
his audience quiz — then, from Hans’ son Ola, learn
four ways to think more optimistically.
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For Change (PFC) is a movement created to inspire and
connect the world through music, born from the shared
belief that music has the power to break down boundaries
and overcome distances between people. The primary focus
of PFC is to record and film musicians performing in
their natural environments and combine their talents
and cultural power in innovative videos called 'Songs
Around The World'.
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