COMMENTARY: THE AIMS OF THE FRIDAY AFTERLIFE REPORT Many people have no idea that there is an emerging science of death, dying, and afterlife communication which is independent of religion.
In The Friday Afterlife Report, we share a great deal of information about afterlife discoveries, classic books and experiments, interviews with researchers and experiencers, reports on newly released books, and information about relevant groups and organisations.
Also, we provide information transmitted from highly credible afterlife teachers and try to connect people so that they can evaluate the credibility of the evidence for themselves and have a personal experience of afterlife contact.
Primarily, our goals are to enlighten people everywhere that:
1. There is irrefutable evidence supported by highly respected professionals from every discipline that the afterlife exists.
2. We now have a huge database of testimonies by competent witnesses of impeccable character that they have communicated with loved ones after they died.
3. Everybody survives death regardless of beliefs or how they die.
4. We are eternal beings and existed before this life.
5. There are ways we can expand our consciousness and raise our level of awareness while we are still alive.
6. Service to others will bring immense rewards both here and in lives to come.
HOW OLD IS PSYCHICAL RESEARCH? Many people think the beginnings of the Spiritualist movement occurred at Hydesville in New York State in the 19th century, but psychic investigation is much, much older than that. This particular video of 22 minutes duration is about the origins of psychical research. Keith Parsons has made numerous 'afterlife evidence' videos and you can see his playlist here.
THEY KNEW ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE PLATO: 400 B.C.
"When death approaches a man, his mortal part dies, but the immortal part departs safe and incorruptible. SOCRATES 400 B.C. "Each person has his guardian angel who takes charge of him during this life, and will lead him after the death of his body, to the place assigned by him."
CICERO: 70 B.C. "They whose minds scorn the limitations of the body are honoured with frequent appearances of gods (spirit people). Their voices have been heard, and they have appeared in form so visible that he who doubts it must be partly bereft of reason. Is not heaven filled with the souls of human beings?"
I REMEMBER MY PRE-BIRTH EXISTENCE
David Michaels talks about his pre-birth memory, his spiritual experiences, and the challenge of integrating these with his religious upbringing.
ROBERT GINSBERG'S "MY LIFE" Bob Ginsberg started researching the evidence for survival of consciousness soon after his daughter died in 2002. Devastated by the loss, he needed science to tell him if she still existed in some form. As a result of his discoveries, in 2004 Bob and his late wife Phran founded Forever Family Foundation, a global not-for-profit that educates the public about evidence that we are more than our physical bodies. Bob hosts the Signs of Life radio show, is the past editor of Signs of Life Magazine, heads the foundation’s Medium Evaluation Certification Program, and writes a blog at beyondthefivesenses.com. Read more about the book "My Life Here and There".
VICKI TALBOTT - THE BIG CIRCLE
Vicki Talbott is a retired TESOL/Linguistics professor. When her only child Braeden died in a kayaking accident in 2000, they both already knew about the afterlife and EVP. So it was not a surprise to Vicki when she started receiving messages from Braeden on her answerphone. What did surprise her, however, was that Braeden had already been coming through to a group of mothers experimenting with EVP.
SKEPTIC CONVINCED BY EVIDENTIAL MEDIUMS
Novelist Jane Merrill Forrest comes across as a very grounded and rational person. When she started experiencing objects being moved in her house she began to investigate all possibilities. This eventually led her to several English mediums whom she initially treated with caution. Through them, she received wonderful evidence of survival from her brother and her father. Read the full story.
TOM HARRISON COMMUNICATES AFTER CROSSING OVER
For forty-three years, Tom Harrison enthralled many people with his accounts of his mother's physical mediumship. He was dedicated to helping people understand that we continue living after death and that we can communicate with the departed. In this video, his wife Ann tells us that he first communicated 17 hours after he passed in 2010. She describes two occasions when he materialised through different physical mediums. The book "Harrison Connections" details how he has communicated in almost every way possible within mediumship.
PROFESSOR ECKHARD KRUSE INVESTIGATES PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP "Séances? Establishing contact with discarnate entities in the darkness? Spirit voices, apports, and ectoplasm...? It is not too long ago when I would have regarded such 'physical mediumship' as unbelievable stories from the past, or subjects for uncanny movies. All those alleged phenomena seemed to be so far off from our everyday experience and what science claims to know about our world...With each of my numerous visits to physical séances my perspective changed slowly but steadily. Skeptical curiosity changed into fascination. Now I am convinced unbiased scientific investigations of séance room phenomena can be very valuable and exciting." Read more
ARE PAST LIVES FANTASY?
Dr. Helen Wambach (1925-1985) was a clinical psychologist at JFK University, California. In "Reliving Past Lives" she explains how she devised a protocol where she chose time-specific periods from 2000 BC to the twentieth century and asked respondents where they were and what they were doing during that specific period. Race, social class, occupation, types of money used, and gender were all explored. Mundane questions were asked such as: "What types of utensils are being used?"
Dr. Wambach hypnotized 1,088 people for her study. After careful analysis of the data, Dr. Wambach concluded that the information collected under hypnosis was "amazingly accurate" except for that given by 11 subjects, nine of whom gave information that deviated only slightly from the historical time frame.
Read "How I Did the Research".
SYDNEY NORTHERN BEACHES SPIRITUALIST CHURCH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 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 international medium Penny Hayward, a UK-based medium and a tutor at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College. She holds a Diploma (DSNU) in Mediumship and Teaching Mediumship & Spiritualism.
A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT A message from a loved one can be an incredible blessing, particularly at this time of year. The president of the above Spiritualist church, medium Paul Hinson,
offers readings to our members every two weeks in a Zoom group. However he is being inspired to also make the experience of "getting a message" available to any of our readers in a private reading via Zoom on Mondays. 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 December 7th, 2024 / Sunday December 8th, 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 8th, 2024/ Monday December 9th, Australia
Mediumship Development with Dr. Susan Barnes CSNU Developing the skills of mental mediumship and blending with spirit.
Meetings: Every 2nd and 4th Sunday
Note: If Dr. Sue is not there at the appointed time, it is probably because she is dealing with an ongoing health issue.
She apologises in advance and will try to be back next time.
Times:
Pacific Time 10 a.m. Sunday
Phoenix time 10 a.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 11 a.m. Sunday
Central Time noon Sunday
Eastern Time (New York) 1 p.m. Sunday
London 6 p.m. Sunday
Rome 7 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 3 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 5 a.m. Monday Check time in your city
Coordinator: Dr. Susan B. Barnes, CSNU susanbbarnes@gmail.com
Online in Zoom https://zoom.us/j/8738817733
Sunday December 8th, 2024/ Monday December 9th, Australia
Global Gathering: Medium Louise Hermann will share her many years of experiencing Altered States and the Importance of Blending with Spirit.
The greater the blend with spirit, the greater the power between the two worlds which then provides an excellent foundation for building evidential mediumship and in-depth healing.
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 December 9th 2024/ Tuesday December 10th Australia GOSH: Gatherings over Strange Happenings with Kim Parker When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays 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.
Times:
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
Tuesday December 10th, 2024 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 December 10th 2024/ Wednesday December 11th Australia
Platform Mediumship with Paul M. Hinson
Please note the change of day (from Wednesday) for this week only.
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. Tuesday
Phoenix 4.30 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain time 4.30 p.m. Tuesday
Central time 5.30 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time 6.30 p.m. Tuesday
London time 11.30 a.m. Tuesday
Perth 7.30 a.m. Wednesday
Singapore 7.30 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/ Melbourne 10.30 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 12.30 p.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Coordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928 Tuesday December 10th 2024/ Wednesday December 11th Australia
Spirit Art We are meeting to create spirit art with messages.
No art experience required.
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday
If Dr. Sue is not there at the appointed time, it is probably because she is dealing with an ongoing health issue.
She apologises in advance and will try to be back next time.
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 2 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Coordinator: Dr. Susan B. Barnes, CSNU susanbbarnes@gmail.com
Online in Zoom https://zoom.us/j/873881773
Wednesday December 11th 2024 2024/ Thursday November 12th, 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 December 12th, 2024/ Friday December 13th, Australia
ZOOM PLATFORM MEDIUMSHIP Our Medium this month is Trish McLaughlin, an English-born medium with 40 years experience. Trish moved to Australia at the age of 22 and is now based in Camden NSW. She will give a short talk followed by uplifting messages. Check time in your city
To access the Zoom code for the meeting we are asking for people to make a donation of any amount.
Contact: paulhinson@gmail.com
INCREDIBLE STORIES OF ANIMALS IN HEAVEN
Numerous people have had heavenly experiences with animals in the afterlife. Listen to these uplifting and encouraging stories from Near-Death Experiencers, NDE researchers, and afterlife communicators who have seen for themselves that our beloved pets live on. They want us to know that we will be reunited with them one day and until then they are safe and happy. If you want to hear more from these guests, look for links below to the episodes where they share their own Near-Death Experiences, Spiritually Transformative Experiences, and NDE Research.
SILVER BIRCH ON SERVICE "When those who are engaged in service say to me 'What can I do?' my heart is full of joy, for it is a recognition that even as they render service they strive to give greater service. Continue to help the weak and the helpless, to give strength to those who need it, light to those in darkness, a helping hand to the lame and struggling. Fight to abolish all cruelty, especially that cruelty that horrifies your soul - the cruelty to mankind's greatest friends, the world of animals".
Silver Birch "A Voice in the Wilderness" Tony Ortzen ed. p.24.
ACTIVATE JOY!! "This is a reminder to let you know that you are not here just to do stuff, just to perform duties and complete tasks.
You are here also to feel happy, and content, and inspired and well within yourself.
You are here to have some fun, create meaningful moments and find the sparkle in your eyes again.
You are here to unravel the magic of being alive, the magic of being you. To heal, to feel whole again.
Do something today that lights you up. That activates your joy. That brings about a genuine smile from your heart.
You are worth the effort".
~ S.C Lourie
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HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC - SO MUCH MAGNIFICENCE
An incredible song of praise and gratitude for All That Is. Deva Premal and Miten with Manose lead us in an ecstatic celebration of life. Beautiful as meditation or background music to raise your vibrations.
FRIDAY
AFTERLIFE REPORT
Many people have no idea that there is an emerging science of death, dying, and afterlife communication which is independent of religion.
PLATO: 400 B.C.
SOCRATES 400 B.C. "Each person has his guardian angel who takes charge of him during this life, and will lead him after the death of his body, to the place assigned by him." 
limitations of the body are honoured with frequent appearances of gods (spirit people). Their voices have been heard, and they have appeared in form so visible that he who doubts it must be partly bereft of reason. Is not heaven filled with the souls of human beings?"
Bob Ginsberg started researching the evidence for survival of consciousness soon after his daughter died in 2002. Devastated by the loss, he needed science to tell him if she still existed in some form. As a result of his discoveries, in 2004 Bob and his late wife Phran founded 
as a very grounded and rational person. When she started experiencing objects being moved in her house she began to investigate all possibilities. This eventually led her to several English mediums whom she initially treated with caution. Through them, she received wonderful evidence of survival from her brother and her father. 
"Séances? Establishing contact with discarnate entities in the darkness? Spirit voices, apports, and ectoplasm...? It is not too long ago when I would have regarded such 'physical mediumship' as unbelievable stories from the past, or subjects for uncanny movies. All those alleged phenomena seemed to be so far off from our everyday experience and what science claims to know about our world...With each of my numerous visits to physical séances my perspective changed slowly but steadily. Skeptical curiosity changed into fascination. Now I am convinced unbiased scientific investigations of séance room phenomena can be very valuable and exciting." 
Centre Innes Road Hall. See 
A message from a loved one can be an incredible blessing, particularly at this time of year. The president of the above Spiritualist church, medium Paul Hinson,
offers readings to our members every two weeks in a Zoom group. However he is being inspired to also make the experience of "getting a message" available to any of our readers in a private reading via Zoom on Mondays. Email paulhinson@gmail.com for an appointment.
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro. 
Developing the skills of mental mediumship and blending with spirit.
Medium Louise Hermann will share her many years of experiencing Altered States and the Importance of Blending with Spirit.
The greater the blend with spirit, the greater the power between the two worlds which then provides an excellent foundation for building evidential mediumship and in-depth healing. 
When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays 7 a.m. (Sydney).
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.
Platform Mediumship with Paul M. Hinson
We are meeting to create spirit art with messages. 
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. 
Our Medium this month is Trish McLaughlin, an English-born medium with 40 years experience. Trish moved to Australia at the age of 22 and is now based in Camden NSW. She will give a short talk followed by uplifting messages. 
"When those who are engaged in service say to me 'What can I do?' my heart is full of joy, for it is a recognition that even as they render service they strive to give greater service. Continue to help the weak and the helpless, to give strength to those who need it, light to those in darkness, a helping hand to the lame and struggling. Fight to abolish all cruelty, especially that cruelty that horrifies your soul - the cruelty to mankind's greatest friends, the world of animals".
"This is a reminder to let you know that you are not here just to do stuff, just to perform duties and complete tasks.
