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What are we, physical body or personal consciousness?
Posted on 07 November 2024, 9:17
What are we, physical body or personal consciousness? Most of us would agree it’s the conscious self. The self does the knowing, the feeling, the deciding, the loving, the hating. It makes us who we are. It goes to the essence of our identity. The body can be viewed as a kind of housing with which…
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A Novel set in the Afterlife by Stafford Betty
Posted on 29 January 2024, 13:44
My new novel, Guardians of the Afterworld, has just been released. It’s the third such novel. The others are
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Even if Religion Didn’t Exist There Would be an Afterlife
Posted on 09 May 2023, 14:19
University of Texas philosopher Paul Woodruff recently wrote in an oped, “My death is close. But I do not think of myself as dying.” This is typical…
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A Meditation on War from a Spirit Perspective
Posted on 07 July 2022, 10:28
What follows is a meditation on war. Specifically, what do our spirit friends thing about the war in Ukraine? Is there a clash of wills. Though a work of fiction, it is based on my research, as found in my books The Afterlife Unveiled and
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Toward a Rehabilitation of Purgatory and Hell
Posted on 23 November 2021, 18:58
Elderly Catholics will remember the deep uneasiness they felt at the prospect of going to Purgatory. For them Purgatory sounded like Hell with a happy ending in a very distant future. In their parochial schools they were taught that if they were fortunate enough to avoid Hell, their souls would still…
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A Philosopher’s Salvation
Posted on 21 June 2020, 13:47
The word salvation is seldom met in a work of philosophy, but Luc Ferry, a celebrated French philosopher with a wide following and best-selling books to his credit, thinks he has found it—but not in the usual places. Can we learn from him something new, something we’ve missed that might be helpful…
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Why COVID-19 doesn’t scare me to death
Posted on 11 April 2020, 10:02
Unlike so many of the world’s population, I am not terrified of dying. I respect death and want to avoid it, of course, and I take reasonable precautions to postpone it as long as possible. What leads up to death, as long as it’s not sudden, is usually painful and thoroughly unpleasant, but the moment…
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Murder and Arson in a Secular World
Posted on 22 November 2018, 10:03
As I write, thirteen people, the latest victims of a mass shooting, this time in Thousand Oaks, are dead. Elsewhere in the state we see a different kind of threat. Brush fires are raging in Ventura County, and Malibu has been evacuated. Chico, a city of 90,000, is threatened with the same kind of…
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Our Unreasonable Fear of Death
Posted on 27 January 2018, 15:50
When Samantha was just shy of her fifth birthday—an age when her delight in every manner of living creature was well underway—she noticed a slug on the sidewalk. This was the same slug she noticed just a few hours earlier, slowly crawling down the front steps of her home. Only…
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Is your child’s “imaginary friend” imaginary or real? A case study
Posted on 22 January 2018, 13:30
On a trip home last week to visit family, I met Brenda, aged 67, at a neighborhood gathering. The strange story she told us lit up the dinner table. I had just mentioned I wrote a middle-grade novel about a clairvoyant child, and Brenda’s husband said that Brenda, who was back in the kitchen, had…
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| Mackenzie King, London Mediums, Richard Wagner, and Adolf Hitler by Anton Wagner, PhD. – Besides Etta Wriedt in Detroit and Helen Lambert, Eileen Garrett and the Carringtons in New York, London was the major nucleus for King’s “psychic friends.” In his letter to Lambert describing his 1936 European tour, he informed her that “When in London, I met many friends of yours: Miss Lind af Hageby, [the author and psychic researcher] Stanley De Brath, and many others. Read here |
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