The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death
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By: Gary E. Schwartz and William Simon
Format: Paperback
From: Atria
Pub. Date: February 2003
From: Atria
Pub. Date: February 2003
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2003-03-18
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 400
Ean: 9780743436595
Isbn: 0743436598
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2003-03-18
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 400
Ean: 9780743436595
Isbn: 0743436598
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson are just a few of the prominent American mediums who have been accused of being frauds. But what if a respected scientist challenged them to make contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions? What if the results not only stunned a skeptical scientist but also offered astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death?
THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS
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.
USER REVIEWS
"If you have any doubt about life after death, read this book, plus Tom Schroder's book "Old Souls." Both have the scientific experiments to prove it. Both are super easy to read despite including scientific methods along with the stories of how things unfolded.
InTthe Afterlife Experiments, scientist Gary Schwartz takes great pains to perfect the experiments to such a degree that would rule out fraud unless there were a conspiracy among five mediums to tap the phones, find out who the sitters were, and then hire detectives to dig up all their personal info. Even then it couldn't explain the fact the many times the mediums would tell the sitter details that the sitter didn't know until he or she could call family. (This also ruled out telepathy.)
On top of that, as the experiments progressed, the mediums had to give the readings with the sitter behind a screen and the sitter unable to talk. This ruled out obtaining cues from the sitters.
The information in the readings was so specific, giving exact names of loved ones, and details such as "You are interested in taking up cattle raising" that guesses would have accounted for all the data only in a one in several trillion chance! The probability of all this happening by chance or guesses is for all practical purposes nil.
These experiments were done so scientifically that the information was published in 3 different articles, published in a scientific journal.
In spite of all this, the author notes, some skeptics seem addicted to their skepticism. Some even make a living off of it! Schwartz points out Occam's Razor which suggests that the simplest explanation is the one usually correct. After all is said and done, the explanation is that we are eternal beings with memories that go on after death.
Finally, Schwartz speculates on the future, as more people come to acknowledge the scientific evidence. Will deceased people be able to testify in court? Will they have legal rights such as partaking in decisions regarding their estate after they die? This, of course, would depend on our perfection of communicating with them. Now we have to rely on mediums. In the future, perhaps we'll have some electronic gadgets that enable ALL of us to do so. (Read "Conversations Beyond the Light" by Kubis & Marcy for more on that!)"
~ Written on 2008-12-01
InTthe Afterlife Experiments, scientist Gary Schwartz takes great pains to perfect the experiments to such a degree that would rule out fraud unless there were a conspiracy among five mediums to tap the phones, find out who the sitters were, and then hire detectives to dig up all their personal info. Even then it couldn't explain the fact the many times the mediums would tell the sitter details that the sitter didn't know until he or she could call family. (This also ruled out telepathy.)
On top of that, as the experiments progressed, the mediums had to give the readings with the sitter behind a screen and the sitter unable to talk. This ruled out obtaining cues from the sitters.
The information in the readings was so specific, giving exact names of loved ones, and details such as "You are interested in taking up cattle raising" that guesses would have accounted for all the data only in a one in several trillion chance! The probability of all this happening by chance or guesses is for all practical purposes nil.
These experiments were done so scientifically that the information was published in 3 different articles, published in a scientific journal.
In spite of all this, the author notes, some skeptics seem addicted to their skepticism. Some even make a living off of it! Schwartz points out Occam's Razor which suggests that the simplest explanation is the one usually correct. After all is said and done, the explanation is that we are eternal beings with memories that go on after death.
Finally, Schwartz speculates on the future, as more people come to acknowledge the scientific evidence. Will deceased people be able to testify in court? Will they have legal rights such as partaking in decisions regarding their estate after they die? This, of course, would depend on our perfection of communicating with them. Now we have to rely on mediums. In the future, perhaps we'll have some electronic gadgets that enable ALL of us to do so. (Read "Conversations Beyond the Light" by Kubis & Marcy for more on that!)"
~ Written on 2008-12-01
"OK, SO I READ THIS BOOK EVEN THOUGH I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF TO FINISH IT. BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME I DON'T SEE WHERE THIS 'BREAKTHOUGH SCIENTFIC EVIDENCE' IS. ITS JUST 5 MEDIUMS DOING READINGS IN A CONTROLLED ENVIROMENT. THEY DO READINGS WHERE THEY NEVER MEET THE SITTER, NEVER SEE, NOR HEAR THEM. BUT I WILL SAY THAT ONE THING THIS BOOK DOES IS IT MAKES YOU WONDER WHERE THE MEDIUMS ARE GETTING THEIR INFORMATION FROM. THOUGH THE INFORMATION THEY 'RETRIVE' TO ME IS NOT CONVINCING. I NEED SOMETHING MORE. I WOULD RATHER READ UP ON NDE'S. WHEN IT COMES TO MEDIUMS I'M STILL NOT CONVINCED. BUT BY SAYING THAT I'M NOT IMPLYING THESE MEDIUMS ARE FULL OF IT. JUST THAT THIS SUBJECT ON MEDIUMS COULD USE MORE RESEARCH."
~ Written on 2008-11-05
~ Written on 2008-11-05
"Dr. Schwartz has worked with noted mediums such as George Anderson, John Edward, and Suzanne Northrop, as well as mediums with shorter professional practice.
His work is often cited as something that might approach a scientific "proof" of afterlife, mediumship contact, similar to what Dr. Ian Stevenson performed in his work related to the topic of reincarnation associated with the Univeristy of Virginia."
~ Written on 2008-05-28
His work is often cited as something that might approach a scientific "proof" of afterlife, mediumship contact, similar to what Dr. Ian Stevenson performed in his work related to the topic of reincarnation associated with the Univeristy of Virginia."
~ Written on 2008-05-28
"This book shows how hard it is to scientifically prove that there is an afterlife, but they do it well and the book was very helpful for my niece and myself to understand the paranormal."
~ Written on 2008-01-17
~ Written on 2008-01-17
"What is valuable about this book is that two very skeptical scientists decided to try to prove that there is an after life and that souls on the other side can communicate with us here and now if we listen.
As a practical engineer who only gets paid if what I design works, I was impressed with the design of the experiments (that proved for me that people like John Edward are the real deal) and also with their reluctance to tell people what they were doing until they could not ignore the results.
Their work validated what I knew was true in my heart and soul.......it pushed me to begin energy healing studies and training.
Of course, some of my family still think that I am crazy, but now my 84 year old mother has let go of her fear (really uncertainty) about death, as I have, which is very liberating."
~ Written on 2007-10-20
As a practical engineer who only gets paid if what I design works, I was impressed with the design of the experiments (that proved for me that people like John Edward are the real deal) and also with their reluctance to tell people what they were doing until they could not ignore the results.
Their work validated what I knew was true in my heart and soul.......it pushed me to begin energy healing studies and training.
Of course, some of my family still think that I am crazy, but now my 84 year old mother has let go of her fear (really uncertainty) about death, as I have, which is very liberating."
~ Written on 2007-10-20