The Afterlife Experiments
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A respected scientist uses controlled laboratory conditions to discover astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death?
Risking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues.
Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers alike: a revelation about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Forced by data to abandon skepticism, Schwartz presents this amazing account of his groundbreaking work, compelling from first page to last.
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William L. Simon is a screen and television writer and bestselling author.
Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century."
Content
Foreword by Deepak Chopra
Preface: Are Life and Love Eternal?
Part I You Don't Find a Mission -- a Mission Finds You
1 The Journey Begins
2 Bringing Soul Science into the University
3 Five Words That Changed My Life
4 Here-to-There-and-Back-Again
Part II The HBO Dream-Team Experiment
5 What a Difference a Dinner Can Make
6 Mediums Read While Cameras Roll: The Patricia Readings
7 The Ronnie Readings
Interlude: A Case of Precognition?
8 HBO Results
Part III The Miraval Silent-Sitter Experiment
9 Seeking a New Design
10 The Christopher Readings
11 The Revealing Pat Price Readings
12 Is There Such a Thing as Precognition?
Part IV The Canyon Ranch Totally Silent Sitter Experiment
13 The Canyon Ranch Experiment: What if the Sitters Never Speak?
14 More Canyon Ranch: An Unexpected Visitor
Part V Discovering the Larger Reality
15 What's Fraud Got to Do with It?
Interlude: "Re-Contact"
16 Answering the Skeptics
17 The Campbell White Crow Readings
18 How Our Lives Might Change
19 Looking Forward and Outward
Appendix A: Integrating Science and Spirituality
Appendix B: The Energy Is Love
Appendix C: Journal Article on Accuracy and Replicability of After-Death Communication
Appendix D: Journal Article on Accuracy and Replicability of Anomalous Information Retrieval
Appendix E: Journal Article on the Campbell "White Crow" Readings
Acknowledgments
Recommended Readings
The Contributors/The Research Mediums
Index
