COMMENTARY:
RELIABLE EVIDENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Many people are content to drift
along with a vague belief that there may be "something"
after death, perhaps even keeping an open mind about mediums
and near-death experiences, but putting off any serious
personal exploration.
But, one day, something happens which triggers an awakening.
For some, it is a spontaneous out-of-body experience,
or an experience of oneness, a near-death experience or
something unexplained. It may be an experience of illness
or profound loss - the death of a parent, a partner, or
a child. For others, it might be the realization that
their days on earth are numbered.
At times like these, some people experience a need to
find out what happens when we die, but usually don't know
where to start. Most are not even aware that the afterlife
has been scientifically investigated for nearly two hundred
years.
It is our hope that the Friday Afterlife Report, our Facebook
groups, and Zoom groups, will connect those searching
with the resources that they need. Having access to a
community of spiritual seekers who have had similar experiences,
to evidence-based books, websites, and videos, can reduce
fear and lead to the glorious certainty that death is
simply a transition to another dimension.
VERIDICAL NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
In the video below, Dr. Jan Holden explains the importance
of the book "The
Self Does Not Die," which contains over 100 reliable,
firsthand accounts of perceptions during NDEs, which were
later verified as accurate by independent sources.
At 5.00 mins Tricia
Barker explains how, while "dead," she was
able to see her stepfather eating a candy bar and her
young daughter standing on a table. She recounts how she
was told to return to her body and become a teacher. As
a result, she was able to share knowledge of the afterlife
with her many students.
At 18 mins.45 Stephanie
Arnold shares how she had a strong and detailed premonition
that she would have complications in childbirth, which
would claim her life. She was only saved because one of
the many doctors she had warned had taken additional precautions.
During hypnotic regression, Arnold was able to access
detailed memories of what had happened during the time
she was dead, memories which were verified by the medical
staff who were present.
"PHYSICIANS'
UNTOLD STORIES" After
a miraculous experience where he was given knowledge that
a patient needed a lung scan (that ultimately saved the
patient's life), Dr.
Scott Kolbaba became intrigued by unexplained phenomena
which many doctors see during their professional careers.
He spent three years compiling this anthology of experiences
by 27 physicians (he gathered experiences from 200). Listen
to his interview.
"THIS LIFE - NEXT LIFE"
Keith Parsons' documentary
about the evidence for the afterlife is one of the very
best I have come across. It provides overwhelming evidence
that consciousness exists outside the brain, drawing from
The Cross Correspondences, The 'Scole Experiment', drop-in
communicators, EVP, and the mediumship of Mrs.
Leonora Piper. It features interviews with some of
the giants of afterlife research. Spread it around - the
information is pure gold! Thanks to Keith Clark for hosting
it online.
MAURICE BARBANELL ON SURVIVAL EVIDENCE
"For
a century, in almost every country in the world, evidence
for Survival has accumulated and has reached such a volume
that no impartial person could dismiss it. It belongs
to the category which would be accepted in courts of law
- unless all human testimony is to be dismissed as unreliable.
Every test capable of establishing Survival has been successfully
demonstrated. There are tens of thousands of books written
by people of unimpeachable integrity recording this evidence."
Maurice
Barbanell, Power of the Spirit (1946) p.
8.
JULIE BEISCHEL CLEARING UP THE
MYTHS ABOUT MEDIUMS Dr.
Julie Beischel has become the preeminent researcher of
mediumship and after-death communication.
AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATION The
systematic study of the way our loved ones let us know
that they still are around us goes back to 1882 when a
study was begun in England. Altogether 32,000 cases were
recorded, 17,000 in English. It was published in Volume
X of the Society for Psychical Research Proceedings (1894)
Read
more.
These are some of the most common ways we know that they
are near us:
(1) Sensing their presence
(2) Hearing their voice
(3) Feeling their touch
(4) Smelling them
(5) Seeing them as if they were real
(6) Seeing a flat vision of them like a photo
(7) Experiencing one of these while half-asleep
(8) Having a visit in a dream- but the dream is unusually
vivid, and you do not forget it like a normal dream
(9) Having an out-of-body experience and meeting them
(10) Receiving a telephone call from the person who died
(two-way conversations have actually been reported.)
(11) Experiencing electrical appliances such as lights,
TVs, and radios going on and off
(12) Receiving a symbolic message, sign, meaningful coincidence,
or synchronicity.