It was recently announced that the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) received a £2-million donation (approximately $2.65-million in U.S. currency) from Professor Yew-Kwang Ng, emeritus professor of economics at Monash University in Australia. It is apparently intended specifically for “survival research” and is believed to be the largest endowment ever to fund such research. It was reported that Ng holds chairs in professorship at a number of universities and was the recipient of prestigious awards in economics and social sciences. He has authored books and papers in economics, biology, cosmology, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and happiness studies and recently authored Do We Survive Our Biological Death? A Rational Examination.
While I welcome the news, I have to wonder if future psychical research can really add anything to the past research in mediumship, near-death studies, and other psychic phenomena. I also wonder, as discussed in this my blog of December 29, whether we can erase all doubts about survival. Some of our greatest philosophers and researchers are quoted as saying that absolute certainty is not in the best interest of humanity. That is, some doubt is necessary for the “Divine Plan” to function properly.
In my essay for the Bigelow essay competition of 2021, I argued that we had overwhelming evidence for survival before 1920 (see www.bigelowinstitute.org) The problem was that it was too complex, too convoluted, too confusing, too complicated, and even too conflicting, for the vast majority of people, even skeptical researchers, to understand. It was too much like religion, which Science had supposedly impeached. I’ve encountered a number of modern-day researchers who knew next to nothing about the old research. They had heard about Professors William James, Oliver Lodge, William Barrett and other dedicated researchers, but they had only scratched the surface of the research in attempting to understand it. The little they did read about was usually distorted, twisted, or misrepresented based on false assumptions and ignorance of the anomalies involved with inter-dimensional communication by those reporting on it. They were satisfied with the Wikipediasummaries, nearly all of which debunked the various phenomena. One needs to dig deeply into a particular phenomenon to understand it and that requires the slow digging, sifting, and discernment required in excavating ancient ruins.
Early Research
I initially suspected that Professor Ng is one of those not very familiar with the research of yesteryear. However, when I looked at the bibliography of his 2024 book, I noted that my Bigelow paper was one of the references, as were a number of other Bigelow award winners. Thus, he was and is aware of the early research. He gave special attention to the study of medium Leonora Piper and mentioned the research of Barrett, Lodge, Alfred Russel Wallace, Frederic Myers, Richard Hodgson, and James Hyslop, all of whom saw their research as strongly suggesting survival. Ng further discusses the research of Ian Stevenson, Stephen Braude, Raymond Moody, Bruce Greyson, and many others.
Those familiar with all of the past phenomena and research examined in Ng’s book might wonder what future research can possibly add to it all. Is it simply “reinventing the wheel”? It often seems so. However, the fact is that books about such research, unlike fiction and fantasy best sellers, reach only a small percentage of the population and therefore the vast majority of people remain ignorant or indifferent to the evidence.
Moreover, considering the fact that the scientific world is still caught in the web of simple materialism and for the most part unappreciative of all the past research, it seems clear that efforts must continually be made to educate the masses in the most important matter concerning them – that consciousness does survive death in a larger world. Whether it is attempting to simplify and explain the past research or develop new research, historians and researchers are still required.
Just a week or two ago, I was watching a television program having to do with the paranormal, including the phenomena observed with Daniel Dunglas Home, probably the best known medium of the 19th century. The researcher offering a critique of the Home phenomena seemed to recognize the genuineness of the Home phenomena, including levitations, but concluded that science has yet figure out how he did it, or words to that effect. The researcher made no mention of the possibility that Home didn’t do it. He didn’t levitate himself. He was levitated. As Sir William Crookes, a distinguished scientist who observed three such levitations, said, “he was lifted.” It was observed that when Home was levitated that his arms were extended over his head and he appeared to be grasping someone or something. Home claimed to be feeling an “electric fullness” under his feet.
Credible researchers recorded that when medium Eusapia Palladino was being levitated, she was heard to say, “Now I lift my medium….” This was said to be John King, her spirit control, speaking through her. As she was being lifted, Paladino groaned and said, “John, you’re hurting me.” Of course, if John King was nothing more than a “secondary personality” then Eusapia was really levitating herself and possibly faking John King. But to what end? Why not take credit for being superhuman rather than claiming spirits of the dead were responsible for all of it?
Medium Mina Crandon, aka “Margery,” was studied by a number of scientists and scholars, most of them testifying to the genuineness of her ability. One who wrote her off as a fraud on one sitting only was Joseph Rhine, who detected movement in her legs, which he saw as trickery. However, most experienced researchers saw movement as spirit activity. Karl Gruber, a German physician, biologist and zoologist studied a number of physical mediums and concluded that such “synchronous movements” between the medium and objects out of the medium’s reach were not fraud. “This fact has been repeatedly misunderstood by the skeptical, who have seen in it the unmasking of a frightened medium,” Gruber documented.
Gruber cited the reports of William J Crawford, who studied the mediumship of Irish medium Kathleen Goligher and concluded that the movement of some table or other object out of Goligher’s reach resulted from invisible ‘psychic rods’ extending from the medium to the object being moved. These psychic rods were made of what others called ‘ectoplasm’ or ‘teleplasm’, though Crawford referred to it as ‘psychic stuff’. They originated with what Crawford called ‘operators,’ which he took to be discarnate human beings. “These particular mechanical reactions cause her to make slight involuntary motions with her feet, motions which a careless observer would set down as imposture,” Crawford explained…”The starting point of the rod then seems to be much higher up her body, for the reactionary movements are then visible on the trunk.”
Unscientific
There is no indication that those studying the mediumship of Margery ever considered the ‘synchrony’ aspect or other findings reported by Crawford and Gruber, all of which point to non-materialistic origins. It would not have been ‘scientific.’ In effect, spirits were never a consideration with Margery, even though the Walter voice claimed to be one and the disbelieving researchers played along with ‘him’ in their efforts to expose ‘him’ as nothing more than Margery’s voice disguised.
“There comes a point at which this hypothesis of universal confederacy must stop; or if not this, that the entire present report may be dismissed off-hand as a deliberate fabrication in the interests of false mediumship,” Mark Richardson, a respected Harvard professor of medicine who observed Margery on dozens, if not hundreds, of experiments, wrote. “I respectfully submit that no critic who hesitates at this logical climax may by any means escape the hypothesis of validity. If the present paper is worthy of and if it receives the slightest degree of respectful attention, the facts which it chronicles must constitute proof of the existence of Margery’s supernormal faculties, and the strongest sort of evidence that these work through the agency of her deceased brother, Walter.”
Now, one-hundred years later, science does not appear to have any better grasp on physical mediumship than it did then. Some progress has been made in the area of mental mediumship, near-death studies, and reincarnation, but it is difficult to measure that progress. Based on various surveys, the world doesn’t appear to know any more now than it did back then. I think Ben Boychuk of Tribune News Service summed it up not too long ago when he wrote: “When you have nothing to believe in but yourself, and you’re life is a misery, then it’s hardly surprising that many men – unemployed, childless, aimless – turn to booze, drugs, video games, porn, or whatever else dulls the pain,” he offered. “Our problem isn’t just a lack of meaningful work. It’s the lack of meaning, period.” He further stated: “Nihilism is in the very air we breathe.”
A big part of the problem, I believe, is that the churches resist the research. While 95 percent or more of the research supports the teachings of the churches, primarily the idea of life after death, religions are forced to repudiate it all because some secondary aspects of it all don’t fit into their narrative. Their primary teaching is all about worshipping God while the survival issue is swept under the rug. It’s too complex for the masses and therefore it never catches on.
The bottom line here, as I see it, is that new research must continue as researchers whittle and chip away at the materialism model to which Science has clung so religiously. Along the way, perhaps the churches will begin to understand.
Michael Tymn is the author of The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die, Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife, Dead Men Talking: Afterlife Communication from World War I. and No One Really Dies: 25 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife. His latest book Consciousness Beyond Death: New and Old Light on Near-Death Experiences is published by White Crow books.
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What an excellent blog, Michael; thanks. I agree with your assertion that overwhelming evidence for survival existed in the research done before 1920, but question whether further research can achieve more than merely continuing to justify this conclusion for the already convinced.
A new audience needs to be attracted to this topic, based on evidence. There is a lot that £2 million could be spent on to achieve this, and it seems to me that spreading the word regarding the reasonable conclusion of survival is at least as important as more research. What we need is wider acceptance among humanity of the facts. When more esoteric research is carried out it will tend to appear in specialist journals and be assessed positively mostly by the already convinced, whereas what is needed is more public discussion of the already existing evidence, hopefully leading to wider acceptance.
Interestingly survival is getting good coverage at the moment through Youtube videos, they are proliferating, and with viewing figures that are surpassing my own youtube contributions over the last ten years. This is pleasing- almost as if the topic is taking off. We have to thank the likes of the Zammits for this, together with numerous authors such as yourself, and well publicised conferences that take place annually.
As I see it, we appear to be existing in a moral universe where appropriate behaviour leads to spiritual progress in this dimension and the next. Personally I find this very strange and difficult to explain, but religions need to keep out of this discussion since, with their various ‘flavours’, they carry so much ‘personal godly’ baggage that can cause acceptance to be undermined, when otherwise folk might be persuaded to look more deeply and impartially into the questions of death and the afterlife.
Keith, thanks for the comment. Your You-Tubes are great and no doubt have influenced many more people than the written word in recent times. I agree with you on religion, but at the same time I think that religion is better than nihilism.
Well that was a wonderful gift!
Unfortunately I’m not that interested in concentrating on the question of an afterlife. I think dwelling on the after-life pushes us away from the really puzzling questions that should concern us about the living – which I suspect has been convenient for those who would like to kick the asking of such questions – to the end of our lives. “don’t worry, play nice, be good, follow the rules – it will all be better in the next life”.
Common human anomalous phenomena (Apparitions, ghosts, timeslips, mirror gazing, NDE’s, OBE’s, past-lives, Ouija boards, premonitions, telepathy etc.) seems to give us amazing clues towards finding a more accurate way to think about the nature of the living – and the potential to profoundly affect our shared Experience here.
Max, thanks for the comment. I fully agree with you as to “dwelling” on the afterlife. I like the way the “invisibles” put it to Stewart and Betty White. They stressed the need for Betty to develop what they called “habitual spiritual consciousness.” But they didn’t want Betty to think this meant retirement into a cloistered nunnery. “It means simply that each day, when you finish your practice, you do not close the experience like a book, but carry it around like a treasured possession,” they explained. “Instead of being completely forgotten, it remains in the back of your mind, communicating its influences automatically to your actions and reactions, and ready at any moment, if specifically called upon, to lend a helping hand.”
Michael, this is an outstanding piece of research in a short space. Thank you. I agree that further research on the survival question must be done, but not for the likes of us. For us it is, as you suggest, an interminable reinvention of the wheel. I don’t try to keep up with it. What interests me is the evidence purporting to describe conditions following the mere fact of survival. That’s why I find the reports of those conditions by afterlife travelers like Jurgen Ziewe so valuable. They not only describe what is over there, but at least one traveler, Ziewe, illustrates them. What he describes and pictures is generally the same as reported by hundreds of deceased spirits speaking through mediums over the past 160 years. Can we trust them, however? In my book When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying, I show why we can. Once having established trust, then we can proceed to summarize their descriptions. In my book The Afterlife Unveiled, by far my most popular work, that is what I do. You do likewise in one of yours, Michael. Sadly, these books and quite a few others like them go mostly unread and are not even known by the materialist world. In my view, they never will be. Most people are so absorbed in the world at their feet or in their various religions that they won’t make time for such research. So we are foolish to think we can change the world in any major or permanent way. But for those willing to carve out time to study the research, the reward will be significant and often profound. These are the people we write for. These are our soul sisters and brothers.
Stafford, I agree. I suspect that one Harry Potter edition has outsold all books past and present offering evidence of survival.
In the old days (let’s say before 1920) the life of ordinary people was quite different from now: large families with many children, and no entertainment possibilites as we have today such as radio and TV. While playing music at home was more common at the better-off social strata, for the majority playing games would do, card games or parlour games. This is how family circles started when playing table turning just for entertainment. The Schneider brothers, for example, emerged as finally powerful mediums just from that playing around with the planchette. — Nowadays, there ‘are no’ physical mediums: while one might assume that there are still people bestowed with psychical abilities they remain undedected due to these sociological and environmental changes. Without physical mediums one cannot simply carry on where the 1920ies faded away …
Peter, thanks for the comment. I know of several good physical mediums today, but either they aren’t interested in being studied or there are simply no researchers willing to devote time to studying them. Yes, before 1920, there was little to do at night beyond knitting for women and whittling for men, or just sitting on the front porch and staring at the stars. Actually, I remember many people sitting on their front porches on warm summer evenings during the 1940s, before television. Another factor is that many mediums developed their abilities after some severe illness. Science has eradicated most of those illnesses of yesteryear.
Mike,
It’s just my opinion that no one really wants to know what “works” in the body – that the Soul decides when it’s time for us (pre-timed karma) to leave this earth and it’s an automatic mechanical process just like birth, and using a cord to leave just like we cut a cord to come
in.
Why would churches want you to know this and other people don’t have the brains (most in society) to understand two bodies – with one being etheric.
When I teach to therapists some are enthralled by the news but it’s only teaching 50 people or so at a time and I feel the work I’ve done will never be meaningful except to these few. It is frustrating.
But keep your articles coming !!! I enjoy them
Hugs Blessings, Karen
The church I grew up in, and which ordained me as a young man following seminary, was an American Baptist church. My mainline denomination, which had split with the evangelical Southern Baptist church over the slavery issue, was about as open-minded and open-hearted as a religion can be. Not once in all the years I listened to sermons did I ever hear about the supposed fires of hell. Not once did I hear the message that all those people who did not believe as we believed were headed to those fires.
What I did hear over and over again were bible stories, bible passages, and admonitions that we were to love God as our father, to love our neighbors as we loved ourselves, and to love Jesus as God’s ultimate revelation. As for the bible, it was to be seen as divinely inspired, not divinely dictated. This was my experience of Christianity–a warm and welcoming environment filled with opportunities for both socializing and spiritual growth, childhood through old age.
Thus it pains me to hear religion in general, and Christianity in particular, written off by those whose experience was less enjoyable and edifying than mine, as if one’s bad or abusive marriage justified one in blanketly turning against the institution and sacrament of marriage itself.
While the liberal mainline Christianity I knew and loved has nearly dwindled away, one can still catch its broad outline in the bible of Spiritualism, “Spirit Teachings” c/o Stainton Moses. The gist and thrust of everything I learned in church is there in spades, and also something new. Not the existence of the afterlife, not the warning that how we live in this world will impact our standing in the next, not who Jesus was or what the bible is, etc.
No, the new thing, the thing that galvanized my attention, was the angels, how our departed loved ones and other spirits assigned earthly missions are the principal means by which God relates to our world, continues to work within it, coaxes it to move closer to Him.
A story yet to be told, I suspect, is how 19th Century Spiritualism bled into 20th Century mainline Christianity, maintaining much of its liberal religious content while at the same time shifting focus away from trying to contact the dead. The arena where this meeting and melding occurred, I again suspect, was provided by the great social movements of that era culminating in the Social Gospel, which laid the foundation for the New Deal and the following decades of American prosperity. Sorry to drone on so long, my friends, but that’s what we older folk tend to do. I’ll shorten up the next comment, promise.
Thanks, Newton, for the added history. I grew up in the Catholic Church and also attended Catholic school for five years. While I don’t think they often spoke of hell-fire and damnation, we heard a lot about purgatory being just as bad as hell but not eternal. I think my idea of hell-fire and damnation came from the movies or from Bible-thumpers heard on the radio and in the early TV I don’t recall if Billy Graham was one of them. I’ve heard that the Catholic Church no longer mentions purgatory or hell and avoids any discussion of the afterlife.
Great piece again Mike. I think I agree that the golden age of scientific research into the subject has probably been. The arrogance of modern day scientific researchers and their refusal to give this earlier research the study and appraisal it so well deserves before venturing over new ground speaks volumes. Even if they did give it weight I doubt the scales would be tipped towards the survival hypothesis. I believe there are those on this planet who would deem full knowledge and 100% proof of survival available to the general population counter intuitive to their agendas and plans whether it be for financial gain or control over the minions. I think it’s almost certainly the case in my opinion that a control matrix system is set up to keep the population in a fear frequency as it were by causing turmoil around the planet through various things like wars and civil unrest etc etc. Anything supposedly interfering with this control system would be deemed detrimental and counter productive. This is where governments and the media play a huge part and also the scientific world and specifically the scientific world if a technocatic system of government was in operation and I believe this to be the case certainly in the developing world.
Although I can see future research into things like consciousness studies and quantum physics throwing up clues that might point us more towards understanding who and what we are and what we might become or indeed how we originated. Quantum physics throws up all sorts of possibilities and I think there will be yet another level open up beyond the quantum world possibly utilising Al /virtual reality/ quantum computing and research into particle physics such as that currently being done at CERN and possibly astro physics.
Plus how much is being done from the other side? Are the pioneering scientists of yesteryear in the afterlife still affecting the advancement of technology on earth through their ability to plant ideas and inspiration into the minds of men. Are they still intent on making the spirit world known to us by trying to find more effective ways of communicating maybe through the use of new technology or have they given up realising our current materialistic world is just not going to be convinced in a life beyond this one? Sonia Rinaldi an experimenter in ITC is supposedly in touch with Nicola Tesla and other scientists that are helping her develop simple systems using light and steam to capture images sent from people on the other side. It will be interesting to see how this could evolve in the future.
Thanks, Mark, for your interesting observations. Although I can’t put my finger on the references right now, I’ve read several places that enlightenment from the other side comes in waves or cycles. It’s difficult to look at history and plot the cycles, so I’m somewhat skeptical about that.
Mike,
I agree with what you said:
…”it seems clear that efforts must continually be made to educate the masses in the most important matter concerning them – that consciousness does survive death in a larger world.”
But mostly to try to convince intellectuals.
I’m not discouraged or worried about the young…
In a recent Cornell University article dated 6/23/2025 states:
“A new study conducted by sociologists from Cornell, Tulane, and Oklahoma universities in the US has revealed that young Americans born in the late 1980s and early 1990s are moving away from organized religion. However, this shift doesn’t mean a complete abandonment of belief in God. While young people may be severing their ties with institutional structures like churches or mosques, they continue to engage in spirituality and soul-searching on an individual level.”
I have continously found young people (who know nothing of Spiritism or spiritualism) that I have spoken with who believe in “a higher power” and an afterlife, spirits; and, they speak about positive and negative energies, “spiritual cleansing” of home and work spaces, about being able to feel or have received physical signs from their deceased mother, father, and other relatives. They believe in psychic abilities , and many believe we have had past lives , but are not sure how it all works.
There are so many movies and videos games with all the above spiritual ideas in them as it is all true and nothing unusual. And, people are taking all this in, picking and choosing what they PERSONALLY believe. And most, believe most of it in one way or another.
Take care,
Yvonne Limoges
Mike,
Agree with your blog comments. While you may have proven your case in your essay, the fact remains, sadly, that the general public has yet to uniformly accept the case for consciousness beyond death. In my view, the current evidence requires too much effort for the ordinary person to digest and understand. When continuing research, propelled by new findings, technology and accessibility convince the average citizen to embrace the conclusion with the same confidence they accept that the earth is round, then perhaps research efforts may shift in part or whole to other great questions. However, I agree with you there is currently no more important question facing humanity. In the meantime, we need to continue exploring the issue. There remain way too many flat earthers at this point to call it a day on research.
Gary
I cannot remember the exact quote attributed to Wittgenstein, it was something to the effect that positing an afterlife does not solve the problem of meaning, it is just kicking the can down the road.
Wise comment, John. If we’ve wasted this life, why wouldn’t we waste the next? If we found no meaning here, why would we find meaning there? Thus Jesus talked about storing up in this life not earthly treasure but treasure in heaven to be used and enjoyed in the life to come.
John, I’ve struggled with the same thought, even though progression, perfecting oneself, soul evolution, etc. are often mentioned. Such evolution is not all that appealing to me. However, the various teachings also say over and over again that we should not apply terrestrial standards to celestial matters, that it is all beyond our comprehension. That lends itself to the “doubt” matter discussed in a recent blog. If we were to fully understand it, we might be too anxious to get there. Best we not fully grasp it, but at least know that we might just continue in the next life from where we leave off in this one and not think way ahead to ultimate Oneness, however that plays out. I can’t comprehend a timeless universe or a timeless existence, nor can I comprehend “nothingness.”
You will be much more convinced of the existence of an afterlife after directly encountering and/or interacting with human personalities who are no longer physically embodied than by reading reports of the activities and utterances of mediums, no matter when they were published.
I may be a slow learner — I didn’t have any strong experiences of this nature until fairly late in my life, despite working with a hypnotist (we focused on what at the time I believed were my “past lives”) in the 1970s and meditating for the first time in 1982.
I did have experiences suggestive of “reincarnation” from an early age, it’s true, but of course that’s not the same.
It’s likely that taking a number of classes in mediumship some years ago changed me in some ways, opened me (some would say enabled the creation of new neural pathways) somehow such that on occasion I would have strong perceptions of a person no longer physically embodied.
By implication this suggests that part of us is “dead” now. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that accessing this “dead” part of us — with its sensitivities to non-physical realities — is essential to: a.) Communicating with dead personalities, and b.) Perceiving them in some way.
There are various methods for enabling this. Some form of meditation or mind quieting is most basic, while this may lead to a mild trance condition suitable for forms of communication and, in some cases, perception. There are also some stronger techniques that can enable a deeper trance state.
A friend, a writer who is now deceased, read about “autowriting” and developed her ability to do this, starting with putting a pad of paper under her hand, which held a pen or pencil, and focusing on something else — I believe she was reading the first time she tried this.
Eventually she was amazed to see what she had written. She practiced for two years and this enabled her to enter a state of mild dissociation at will, in which she could access both the dead and something else, which I’ll get into. She wished to be known as an author, not a “psychic” and so never publicized this — only her friends and family knew of her abilities.
(Jane Roberts, a poet and science fiction author who later “channeled” Seth, wrote of a dramatic autowriting experience — in her case, this was accompanied by an OOBE. She titled the resulting essay _The Physical Universe as Idea Construction_.)
The “something else” is what most call the soul. Other names, less religiously freighted, include “essence” and “entity,” also “oversoul.”
So it’s possible to access your own soul or entity. There are those, too, who can access someone else’s and give it voice.
At this time, this knowledge is not generally accepted. I would suggest direct and immediate experience of your own soul or entity is much more valuable than simply reading someone else’s description.
There is a statement by Seth in _Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul_ by Jane Roberts that has long inspired my own pursuits in this area. It’s found in Chapter 21., Session 586:
“His message will be that of the individual in relation to All That Is. He will clearly state methods by which each individual can attain a state of intimate contact with his own entity; the entity to some extent being man’s mediator with All That Is.”
The person referred to is a new incarnation of Saul of Tarsus — per Seth, Saul (St. Paul), Yeshua, and John the Baptist are all aspects of the same larger entity. The prediction — this involves events that won’t culminate until 2075 — is very odd for Seth, who “dissed” predictions, as he was a proponent of both free will and probable realities. Whether this is an accurate prediction or not doesn’t matter for me — if it happens, I’ll be dead; if it doesn’t happen, that doesn’t prevent me from using the quote as inspiration.
As the methods mentioned do not yet exist, my question to myself has long been: What ad hoc methods might I contrive that will achieve the same result?
Note that I don’t consider attaining “intimate contact with entity” as quite the same as simply communicating with my entity in a light trance or utilizing the services of someone else to enable Q&A with me. I believe it is somewhat similar to hearing the “still, quiet voice” (I do occasionally receive what some might call clear “guidance”, especially at very critical moments, such as the time I had a misdiagnosed case of lung cancer) but I like to believe that more is involved.
Considering that our entities are the source of all of our “reincarnational” and probable selves (the numbers can be substantial), that is, consciously aware of and connected directly to them, anyone attaining intimate contact with their entity would be somewhat unusual in our world.
It’s fun to imagine a very different world in which this kind of contact is not unusual at all.
Bill and Michael,
Great to read your comment, old friend. My technique is automatic dictation (dead dictate – I write). It has been around for awhile with Edmund Gurney and Frederick Myers using it with Mrs Willett.
Excellent article and I think of the clever people of the SPR reaching a conclusion about survival many years ago. It is like the old roof on the church. Below the roof is a box for donations to repair the roof. The roof doesn’t get repaired as donations would stop.
Not sure if I know many Australian lecturers with a lazy $2m.
Thanks
Bruce
Further to John’s comment about the lack of meaning in an afterlife. Drawing a quote from my next blog, about Betty White, Stewart While asked his discarnate wife Betty about the initial experience after death. “In the first place, when you come here, one of the things that astounds you most is the lack of difference,” she responded, going on to explain that life in the unobstructed universe is much more vibrant than the earth life. “Think of the most alive and intensely exciting moment of your life, and make it a whole day or week and you will know how I feel over here.” She added that it was beyond practical understanding and that she couldn’t really put words to it. The Betty White material is, in my mind, about as credible as it comes, and if we can’t believe her, there’s no point in bothering with any of it. Reference: “The Unobstructed Way,” just released by White Crow Books.
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