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your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi,
I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Episode will discuss the reasons we now know that our
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loved ones have survived physical doubt, and so will we.
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Back in twenty twenty one,
Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace, created a contest looking
for proof of life after death. The Winners were chosen
based on the power of the arguments presented and the
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essays they wrote about the human survival of consciousness beyond
a reasonable doubt, as though you were in a courtroom.
This essay contest was massive and people from all over
the world submitted application something like thirteen hundred people. Those
who completed the final submission were two hundred and four people,
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each creating a twenty five thousand word essay. There were
seven experts who decided on twenty nine winners. One million,
eight hundred thousand dollars in prize money was awarded in
Las Vegas at a big gala in December twenty twenty one.
This contest was a critical turning point that established, beyond
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a reasonable doubt, the proof of survival of human consciousness
after bodily death. So the good news is the website
Bigeloinstitute dot org has released all of the essays and
I'd like to sprinkle in during our upcoming episodes some
of the winners and tell their stories. Where do we start?
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How about with the first prize winner, which is doctor
Jeffrey Mishlov, who is a licensed clinical psychologist. He's an
accomplished radio and television interviewer and an author. He has
dedicated his professional life to exploring profound questions related to consciousness.
Now you can read his full ninety eight page essay
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at Bigelowinstitute dot org. So I encourage you to check
out his website Thinking aloud dot com and his fabulous
YouTube channel new thinking aloud dot Com. His essay, which
won him five hundred thousand dollars first prize, is called
Beyond the Brain The Survival of Human Consciousness after Permanent
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bodily Death. Doctor Mischlov begins his essay not with abstract theories,
but with a deeply personal experience, an event that he
calls his own white crow. Now, I haven't heard of
white crow before, but it's a term coined by psychologist
William James that refers to the idea that to disprove
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all crows are black, you only need to find one
white crow. For doctor Mischlove, his uncle Harry was that
white crow you see. On March twenty sixth, nineteen seventy two,
his great uncle Harry passed away peacefully at the age
of eighty four after attending early Sunday morning religious services
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simultaneously two hours earlier. Where it was seven point thirty
a m Doctor Mishlev, then just twenty five years old,
was sound asleep and found himself absorbed in the most surprising, vivid,
and powerful dream of his life. In this dream, Uncle
Harry appeared and spoke to him about personal life issues
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with a clarity that moved him to his core. Though
he didn't know his uncle well in waking life due
to the significant age difference, the dream felt more real
than reality, like a soul to soul communion that defied description.
He awoke weeping joyful tears, even singing a Hebrew song
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usually reserved for sacred Jewish observances. Something profoundly beautiful and
transformative touched his soul. He immediately wrote home about the dream.
Two days later, his mother phoned him with the news
of Uncle Harry's death, and he died at the precise
time of Jeffrey Mischlove's dream. Doctor Mischlov asserts that extrasensory
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perception alone couldn't account for the overwhelmingly strong emotions tied
to his uncle's presence. This visitation convinced him beyond all
doubt that the soul exists and survives the physical body's death. Later,
he received a book of mystical teachings that had been
his uncle's favorite, revealing a previously unknown mystical side to
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Uncle Harry. This experience was so impactful that it caused
a shift in doctor Mischlv's career focus from criminology to parapsychology.
In nineteen eighty he received what he notes is sadly
the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology ever awarded by an
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accredited American university. This personal white crow highlights the connection
between the afterlife and the dream world, and it's just
one of what doctor Mishlov calls flocks of white crows
that collectively prove consciousness survives death beyond any reasonable doubt.
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This belief in afterlife survival isn't a fringe idea, he says,
it's common to virtually every culture, nationality, religion, and historical period.
In America, for instance, belief in life after death has
remained stable at over seventy percent for seventy five years,
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even as religious affiliation has dropped. This isn't accidental or irrational.
It stems from the universal experience of evidence. These flocks
of white crows are happening with many people. In his essay,
doctor Mischlov uses this white crow for every piece of
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evidence of the survival of consciousness after death. Historically, many
accomplished individuals, early researchers from the Society for Psychical Research,
founded in eighteen eighty two, became convinced of survival after death,
finding their own white crow. Figures like Sir William Crooks,
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discoverer of thallium, Sir Oliver Lodge, a key patent holder
for radio, and F. W. H. Myers, author of a
seminal work on human personality and survival, were among them. However,
doctor Mischlove points out that our current technological belief often
operates under what he calls the dark age of scientism.
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Scientism is the unquestioned belief that a mechanical, materialistic worldview
can explain everything, leading academics and professionals to largely ignore
the massive evidence for life after death. This is not science,
he argues, but its opposite. This materialistic ethos presumes non survival,
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despite consistent historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary. Some
like doctor Carl Jung, suggest this view is at the
root of many modern problems like alienation and violence. To
counter this, doctor Mischlve emphasizes the need for cognitive framework
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to integrate the evidence for consciousness surviving physical death. He
cites a futurist Willis Harmon, who suggested that, like Darwin's
theory of evolution, we need a big picture that incorporates
consciousness and its metaphysical foundations. Interestingly, Alfred Russell Wallace, the
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co discoverer of evolution by natural selection, was himself a
forceful advocate for our souls surviving after death, arguing it
was an experimental science demanding honest examination. Wallace even proposed
that natural selection could operate within a higher law concerning
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consciousness independent of the brain. This aligns with what Houston
Smith called primordial tradition, the shared understanding across cultures that
the phenomenal worlds, including the brain, owe their existence to
a universal mind. The prevailing assumption that the brain creates
consciousness is challenged. Philosopher Bertrand Russell, for example, argued that
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brain injury obliterates memory, so mind couldn't survive brain death,
attributing belief in the afterlife to emotion not rational argument.
Even Nobel laureate Francis Crick, a DNA pioneer, acknowledged that
the religious view failaving an afterlife might well be correct.
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Wilder Penfield, whose work suggested brain function accounts for neither
memory nor free will. A compelling alternative is William james
filtration theory from eighteen ninety seven. It suggests the brain
accesses a larger universal consciousness and then reduces it to
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a level most useful for biological survival, allowing for the
possibility of life after death. This simple yet powerful idea
has substantial evidence based research supporting it, including studies on
psychedelics and terminal lucidity. Building on this, some have proposed
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the brain could be a three dimensional surface of a
much greater, higher dimensional self, with death being the shuffling
off of our mortal coil while the higher dimensional self continues.
Physicist Bernard car explains how higher dimensional space mathematics could
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account for various mental spaces like dream space, out of
body space, and near death space. So when we talk
about this hyperspace approach, the idea that consciousness might exist
in other dimensions, doctor Mischlov notes it's a concept that
different philosophies could try to work with. For instance, materialists
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believe only the physical is real and the brain creates consciousness.
Dualists think mind and body are separate, and idealists believe
consciousness itself is the foundation of all reality. Theoretical physicist
Saul Paul Seiregg in the late nineteen eighties explained that
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consciousness exists in hyperspace and our four D space time
is embedded within it. Thus, the body is in the mind,
not the mind in the body. Another fascinating model is
the orchestrated objective reduction theory by Stuart Hammeroff and Roger Penrose,
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hypothesizing that consciousness occurs at the quantum level inside microtubules
within neurons. Importantly, hammer Off states this theory doesn't conflict
with post mortem survival and speculates that the self, as
a quantum soul could support entanglement and coherence outside the
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physical body, potentially explaining phenomena like reincarnation. Doctor Mischlove's exploration,
fueled by his own experiences and decades of research, shares
a range of evidence that powerfully challenges the modern assumption
that consciousness dies with the body. Lots of great stories
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coming up. We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to cost
Am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandras Champlain, and I'm doing my best to summarize
doctor Jeffrey Mischlove's ninety eight page first prize winning essay
into one episode. So let's continue. Doctor Mischlove's essay, Beyond
the Brain argues for the survival of consciousness after death
through a compelling what he calls bundle of arrows. This metaphor,
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as doctor Mischlove explains, is powerful, just as American founders
used thirteen to symbol the invincible Union of States. He
presents nine distinct domains of inquiry, each containing numerous white
crow examples, all pointing to the reality of an afterlife.
Critics often use a leaky bucket metaphor, suggesting if individual
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arguments are flawed, the collective argument fails. However, researchers like
Colin Rollo and Peter Sturik have shown that the bundle
of arrows approach is consistent with sound scientific method, and
often the criticisms are more prejudiced than the procedures they attack.
Let's begin with one of the most widely discussed categories,
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near death experiences or NDEs. Researchers have collected thousands of
nd reports, and millions are believed to have had these experiences,
which show remarkable consistency across many cultures, all most universe.
Those who have had NDEs report being convinced that consciousness
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survives death. A common criticism is that since these individuals return,
they weren't truly dead, so their experiences can't reflect actual death. However,
a more realistic interpretation is that NDEs reflect the early
stages of the post mortem state. Doctor Bruce Grayson, a
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physician who has researched NDEs for nearly half a century,
claims that because NDEs show mental activity in the absence
of brain function, they strongly point to the survival of
mind after death. The realms described in NDEs are often
incredibly detailed and are typically reported as being more real
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than our waking physical reality. Neurosurgeon doctor Eben Alexander, author
of Proof of Heaven, describes his own end as entering
a super sensible reality where our physical space time is embedded.
He recalls colors beyond the rainbow, golden orbs of light,
and chants and hymns thundering throughout his awareness. As a
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speck of pure awareness, he became one with reality, able
to essentially see through everything. Strong evidence comes from cardiac
arrest to hospital studies. Dutch cardiologist doctor Pym van Lomel
describes controlled studies where of five hundred and sixty two
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patients who survived cardiac arrest, between ten and twenty percent
of them reported an ND. Crucially, neither physiological nor psychological
factors could account for these experiences. During cardiac arrest, there's
effectively no brain function at all, so one would expect
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no conscious experience at all if these profound experiences do occur.
This directly challenges the idea that consciousness is solely a
product of brain activity. A core feature of many near
death experiences is the out of body experience or OBE.
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Elizabeth Crone, co author of Change in a Flash, shares
an amazing story. After being struck by lightning, she found
herself floating outside her body, following her screaming children into
a synagogue lobby. Looking back through a window, she saw
her physical body lying in the parking lot, her umbrella smoking,
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and the soles of her new shoes blown off. Yet,
when she looked at what she termed her spirit body.
Her shoes were in perfect condition. She noticed she was
hovering inches above the ground. This vertical or verifiable perception
of details from a vantage point outside of her body
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is incredibly compelling. Then there are the life reviews. These
events common in NDEs suggest a realm where time is
compressed and the boundaries between individual minds are easily crossed.
Barbara Harris Whitfield, both an nd researcher and experiencer, described
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a life review where she wasn't just replaying her life
from her own viewpoint, She was also able to perceive
and deeply understand the impact of her actions and her
life from her grandmother's perspective. Doctor Eben Alexander explains that
during a life review, one can become one with the
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scenes and objects, a kind of knowledge through identification, allowing
for simultaneous realization of many things, suggesting Earth time isn't
fundamental and that there's a deeper times structure related to
soul growth. Doctor Pim van Lommel notes that people often
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relive every thought combined with an intimate knowledge of how
their behavior affected others, inspiring profound life changes towards becoming
more open and loving. A central theme in many NDEs
is the experience of indescribable love. Elizabeth Crone emphasizes feeling
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an unconditional love more pervasive than anything she has ever known,
even as a mother, a love beyond language that was
so penetrating she became one with it. Remarkably, some ndars
report seeing the future. Elizabeth Crone received extensive precognitive knowledge
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during her end, including the outcome of the nineteen eighty
eight George H. W. Bush presidential election and that of
the Cincinnati Bengals who would play in the nineteen eighty
nine Super Bowl. Doctor Van Lommel also confirms that fore
knowledge is a feature in nd reports, where individuals might
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recognize an event years later as something they foresaw during
their nd Perhaps one of the most astonishing aspects is
the potential near death healing power. Doctor Eben Alexander's case
is a prime example. His cerebral cortex was devastated by
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a rare bacterial meningitis. Pus filled his cranium, and his
Glasgow coma scale indicated minimal brain function. Three physicians, including
doctor Bruce Grayson, who examined over six hundred pages of
medical records, agreed that there was less than one percent
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chance of survival and no possibility of a normal recovery.
Doctor Grayson described him as dead as you can be
without having his heart stop. Yet doctor Alexander made a
full recovery and functions at a high cognitive level today.
When asked how, he suggested he accessed a part of
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himself beyond the ego, a light body or a higher
self with enormous healing power. Other well documented, medically monitored
cases of unexpected recoveries from irreversible conditions linked to NDEs
also exist. These cases are truly amazing and challenge our
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understanding of the mind body relationship and its potential for healing.
These various facets of near death experiences, from verified out
of body perceptions to life altering spiritual insights and inexplicable healings,
form a powerful arrow in doctor Mischlov's bundle, definitely pointing
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towards a consciousness that transcends the physical brain. And before
we move on from near death experiences, I want to
take a moment to truly emphasize a particularly astonishing aspect
that doctor Jeffrey Mischlov highlights that phenomena of the near
death healing power as we discussed with doctor Alexander's own
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remarkable recovery, and as doctor mischlv notes, such extraordinary recoveries
are not entirely unique to his case. He points out
that other unexpected recoveries from conditions thought to be irreversible
have occurred in connection with near death experiences, and importantly,
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these have been well documented and monitored by medical doctors.
Doctor Mischlve specifically references the work of physician doctor Larry
Dossi on this topic, as well as further research compiled
by doctor Alexander himself on other extraordinary cases of miracle
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healing the existence of these medically monitored physiological turnarounds linked
to NDS adds another profound layer of mystery and significance.
It suggests the experience can at times correlate with profound
bodily changes that current medical science struggles to explain within
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a purely materialistic framework. So think about what this implies.
If consciousness can experience vast detailed realities while the brain
is severely compromised or non functional, and then in some
cases be associated with unexplainable physical healing of that same
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brain or body, it strongly suggests that consciousness is not
merely an effect of brain chemistry. This aligns with the
core argument doctor Mischl threats throughout his essay the idea
that the brain might function more like a filter or
receiver for consciousness rather than its generator. If this filter
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is temporarily bypassed or reset during an ND, it could
perhaps allow access to a deeper, more fundamental aspect of ourselves,
A higher self or light body, as doctor Alexander suggested,
that possesses an inherent capacity for organization and healing, far
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beyond what we typically access or understand. These documented healings, therefore,
aren't just heartwarming stories. They are critical pieces of data.
They challenge the bedrock assumptions of conventional neuroscience and open
the door to a more expansive view of who we
are and what is possible when consciousness interacts with the
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physical body. In these extreme circumstances, they reinforce the idea
that the mind or consciousness itself may play a far
more active role in health and healing than is commonly acknowledged.
It's time for our break, But when we come back,
we'll talk about after death communications. We'll be right back.
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You're listening to shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. We are
continuing our exploration of doctor Jeffrey Mischlove's prize winning essay
Beyond the Brain Well. Now turn to another significant category,
after death communications, or ADC's. Doctor Mischlove says these are
spontaneous experiences where people believe they've been contacted by someone
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who has died. Gallup surveys indicate that a significant portion
of the population roughly twenty five to thirty three percent,
believes mental communication with the dead occurs. These experiences range
from sensing a presence, visual or auditory phenomena, powerful dreams,
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to symbolic messages and synchronicities, while some might be attributed
to wishful thinking or projecting meaning onto random patterns. This
is called apopenia. Many ADC's stand as compelling White Crow
examples as far as apo fenia, this might be a
light flickering or a song playing, and we think it's
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a specific message from our deceased loved one, when it
might just be a random occurrence. Doctor Mischlov presents several
historical and contemporary accounts in his essay. One fascinating early
case from eighteen forty two involves Reverend Charles McKay, a
Catholic priest in Perth, Scotland. A Presbyterian woman named Anne
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Simpson approached him about a recurring dream. In it, a
deceased acquaintance named Maloy insisted that Anne Simpson contact this
priest because Malloy owed a small sum three and ten
pence at the time of her death. Simpson didn't know
who the debt was owed to, but Reverend McKay investigated
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and found a local grocer whose records confirmed that Maloy
had an outstanding debt of that exact amount, which McKay
then paid. This case is striking because it shows the
deceased seemingly acting with a specific purpose that couldn't be
attributed to a living person. A truly life transforming ADC
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involved the renowned psychiatrist doctor Elizabeth Koubler Ross, whose work
on the stages of dying is world famous. At a
point when she was experiencing burnout and had secretly decided
to quit her work on death and dying at the
University of Chicago, a woman suddenly appeared and insisted on
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walking with her to her office. Kubler Ross recognized her
as Missus Schwartz, a former patient who had reported the
first near death experience to her, but she had died
ten months prior. Missus Schwartz insisted Kubler Ross mustn't abandon
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her work and demanded a promise then and there. Feeling
astonishing gravity and the most loving smile of Missus Schwartz,
doctor Kubler Ross asked her to write a note. She
kept this signed note as physical evidence of the remarkable event,
which combined evidence of identity, potential, spirit materialization, and clear intentionality,
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leading to a life transforming outcome for doctor Koubler Ross
and her pioneering work. Then there's the incredible story of
a psychotherapy system seemingly born from the grave. Siegfried Fisher
was a psychiatrist who died in nineteen sixty six. A
year later, his former patient, Bob Hoffman, a tailor, awoke
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to find Fisher standing at the foot of his bed.
Fisher's spirit reportedly revealed to Hoffman the missing link in
psychoanalytic therapy, the concept of negative love, explaining how negative
behavior passes unconsciously through generations. Fisher then got gided Hoffman
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through his own psychic therapy, liberating him. Fisher promised to
return to hel Hoffman complete some of Fischer's unfinished work,
and Hoffman heard the phrase doors will open regarding his
entry into professional psychotherapy. Well doors did open. Prominent psychiatrists
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Claudia Nio took an interest, and the Fisher Hoffman process,
later known as the Hoffman process, grew into a worldwide movement.
Psychologist Charles T. Tart, after experiencing the process, reasonably confirmed
the story, realizing his initial negative judgment of Hoffman was
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a projection. This is an amazing example of a discarnate
person seemingly providing purposeful, verifiable action with significant real world impact.
ADCs can happen in unexpected ways. Clinical psychologist Joseph Gallenberger
describes being at a Monroe Institute program where he tried
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to receive a message from an attendee's deceased wife. Later,
while showering, he experienced her spirit showing him a red
and white checkered tablecloth and specific information page two three
eight of a particular book. The husband later confirmed that
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they used to have weekly picnics. With such that Tablecloth
and Page two thirty eight turned out to be their
favorite poem they often read together. Many ADCs occur around
the time of death, like doctor Mischlove's own experience with
uncle Harry. Neuroscientist Peter Fenwick recounts an incident where a
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drowned sailor in England appeared dripping wet to his mother
in Australia, telling her he was fine before disappearing. She
later confirmed with the Navy that he had drowned at
the exact time of this appearance. Physicist Russell Targ shares
a compelling ADC from his deceased daughter Elizabeth. A staff
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member at Duke University approached Targ's writing partner, Jane Cattra,
with a message for Elizabeth's father from a recently deceased woman,
tall with long brown hair. The message was to remind
her father about an obscure incident from when Elizabeth was
a little child where he tried to stuff her into
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a red dress, a traumatic experience for her. This convinced
Targ of Elizabeth's survival, as no other living person knew
of this event. Therapist Paul Leslie describes an ADC within
a psychotherapy session where he felt temporarily the spirit of
a deceased patient's father. During an empty chair exercise, Leslie
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blurted out emotionally powerful and accurate details unknown to him
about the patient's childhood, like eating ice cream pushups by
a lake, providing a therapeutic breakthrough. Lucid dreams also serve
as a conduit. In one study, a lucid dreamer received
a message for a minister's wife from her deceased husband,
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telling her his spirit wasn't to be found in the
portrait she'd been staring at at the church to connect
with him. This deeply moved her as it acknowledged her
private ritual and suggested a better way to connect. Author
Whitley Strieber had a pre arranged ADC with his wife Anne.
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They agreed whoever died first would try to contact the
other through a third person to avoid doubt. Within three
hours of Anne's death, Striyber received a call from a
friend who heard Anne's voice, insisting she contact Whitley immediately.
Several similar calls followed, convincing him of her survival before
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he began experiencing her voice directly, moving to reincarnation, the
University of Virginia's Department of Perceptual Studies has a database
of over two thousand, five hundred cases where young children
report former life memories, with roughly seventeen hundred of these solved,
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meaning the previous person was identified. Doctor Ian Stevenson pioneered
this meticulous research using case study procedures, collecting first hand observations, autopsy,
police reports, and re interviewing witnesses, much like preparing evidence
for a court of law. A fascinating aspect is announcing dreams,
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where a deceased person announces their intention to be reborn
into a particular fame family. A compelling case from Burma
involves the parents of Mongong Fan. The wife dreamed a
deceased friend asked permission to be reborn as her child,
but she refused. Her husband, upon returning from a journey,
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recounted a similar dream where he had welcomed the friend
the child. Mongong Fan later made statements suggesting his father's
acceptance prevailed and provided vivid memories of the deceased friend's
life and murder, along with birth defects corresponding to the
death wounds, intermission memories recollections of an existence between incarnations
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are reported in about twenty percent of reincarnation cases. Psychiatrist
doctor Brian Weiss shares an amazing story where his patient Catherine,
under hypnosis and experiencing this intermission, state communicated with Weiss's
deceased father and child, offering detailed medical and family information
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unknown to her, an experience that transformed doctor Weiss's life.
Peak in derry Anne experiences referred to surprising deathbed or
near death visions of someone not known to be deceased
at the time. Doctor Bruce Grayson describes a hospitalized man
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in South Africa who, during a near death experience saw
a young nurse, Anita, whom he knew. She told him
he had to go back and tell her parents that
she loved them and was sorry she wrecked her car,
the MGB. It turned out Anita had just died instantly
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after crashing her new MGB, a fact unknown at the
hospital at the time of the man's near death experience.
Doctor Eben Alexander also had a peak in dary Anne experience.
During his near death Experiencevarians being accompanied by a beautiful
young woman that he didn't recognize. Four months later, he
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received a photograph of his deceased birth sister Betsy, whom
he'd never known as he was adopted and realized it
was her. This was his ultimate proof of heaven. These
varied accounts, from precise debts revealed in dreams, to life
altering visitations and vertical information from an unknown other side,
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paint a vivid picture of continued, purposeful consciousness after life. Well,
it's time for our break, and when we come back,
we're going to move into another category of instrumental transcommunication.
We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades of the
Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
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Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm
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Sandra Champlain. We're continuing our journey into doctor Jeffrey Mischlow's
first prize winning essay Beyond the Brain. Let's now explore
instrumental transcommunication ITC, which involves communication with the deceased via
electronic devices. Some cases are truly remarkable. An early ITC researcher,
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Constantine Raudeva, who died in nineteen seventy four, reportedly continued
his interest from the other side, with messages and even
pictures from him coming through audio tapes, videotapes, and computer discs.
Mark Macy and ITC author even tape recorded detailed technical
instructions coming from Raudova, whose voice was clear. Annabella Cardosa,
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a former Portuguese diplomat, had made hundreds of audio recordings
using a technique called direct radio voice, tuning radios to
an emergency channel that normally only produces white noise. When
voices appear, she engages in two way conversations, even with
family members calling her by her pet name Bella, despite
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no radio transmission coming from her end. Psychologist David Fontana
witnessed these communications multiple times and attested to their clarity
and directedness, ruling out stray radio voices or tricks or deception.
A two year study at Vigo University in Spain also
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detected and independently verified many anomalous voices under laboratory conditions.
There are also documented phone calls from the dead. Researchers
Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayliss investigated fifty such cases, and
Callum Cooper has analyzed over thirty more. Cooper describes extreme
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cases where a seemingly normal conversation occurs with someone believed
to be alive. Only later to learn the caller was
deceased at the time, with no phone company record of
the call. Doctor Mischlov himself had a minor experience while
lucid dreaming about his deceased friend Elizabeth targ and her
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reported after death communications. Just as he was mentioning physical
manifestations in the dream, his bedside phone rang. Upon answering,
he heard only white noise, an occurrence he doesn't recall
happening any other time. Russell Targo also reported Elizabeth interfering
with electrical circuitry in his house shortly after her death,
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witnessed by two others, where all the lights went off
and on twice at the very moment they speculated she
might be trying to communicate A truly amazing itc case
involves a text message from the dead. Emmy Vadney, author
of Intuitive Development, reports after her mother in law, Sally Dixon,
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died in twenty nineteen, Vadney's stepfather, Donald Emson, received a
text message from Emmy's phone at three point twenty three am,
saying glad it's over badne knew she hadn't sent it,
and her own cell phone records showed no such outgoing
message at the time, although other messages with her stepfather
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were present. The logical conclusion drawn by Vadney and Emson
was at Sally Dixon, whose body was at the crematorium
at that hour, sent the message. Next is zenoglossy, the
ability to understand or speak a language one has never learned,
sometimes in archaic form. In the Jensen Jacobi case, a
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Philadelphia woman of Russian Jewish descent, under hypnosis by her
medical doctor, began speaking in an old form of Swedish,
claiming to be a seventeenth century Swedish farmer named Jensen Jacobi.
He described his life and death, expressing fear of the Russians,
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who he implied killed him. Swedish scholars confirmed the language
as Middle Swedish, and the family testified under lie detector
tests that none of them spoke Swedish. Doctor Mischlev says
mental mediumship also provides a vast trove of evidence. Leonora Piper,
extensively researched by William James and Richard Hodgson, is an example.
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Her spirit control George Pelu, who had died, recognized and
correctly addressed twenty nine out of thirty sitters who had
known him in life, providing intimate details. This convinced the
initially skeptical Hodgson. Frederick Myers reportedly initiated complex experiments called
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cross correspondences after his death in nineteen oh two, lasting
over three decades and involving multiple mediums receiving fragmented messages
that only made sense when combined. Gladys Osborne Leonard's mediumship
convinced Sir Oliver Lodge he was communicating with his son, Raymond,
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who was killed in World War One. An amazing piece
of evidence was Raymond describing through two different mediums a
group photograph taken just before his death, including details like
holding a walking stick and someone leaning on him. The
Lodges received the photograph later, confirming all details. Other client
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of Leonard, Katie Dawson Smith, was told by her deceased
son to find an old leather wallet containing a tiny
check stub, which later proved he had repaid a ten
year old debt when a firm demanded repayment. Forensic evidence
has also come through mediums. After the R one oh
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one dirigible crash in nineteen thirty, medium Eileen Garrett experienced
an unexpected communication from Herbert Irwin the vessel's deceased pilot,
who described technical failures causing the crash. An independent review
by an airship pilot, William H. Wood, previously an atheist,
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convinced him of survival, stating if this case does not
prove survival, then nothing else ever will Murders have also
been solved, like the Terracita Bossa case in Chicago, where
Boss's spirit communicated details leading to her killer's confession, and
the Jaquelin Pool case in London, where Pool's spirit gave
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information to medium Christine Holahan that eventually led to her
murder's conviction years later using new DNA techniques on evidence
identified by the medium. The partnership of George Chapman, a firefighter,
and the spirit of William Lang, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon
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who died in nineteen thirty seven, is perhaps one of
the most evidential cases for sixty years from nineteen forty
six until Chapman's death in two thousand and six, Lang's
spirit reportedly worked through the entranced Chapman conducting healing sessions.
Lang's personality, professional knowledge, and mannerisms were recognized by former
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patients and family, including his daughter and granddaughter and medical
colleagues who held weekly seances for dec aids and were
convinced of Lang's authenticity. The astonishing chess match played between
nineteen eighty seven and nineteen ninety three by living grand
master Victor Korchnoi and gaza At Morozzi, who died in
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nineteen fifty one via medium Robert Rawlins, also stands out.
Marazzi played at grand master level, exhibiting his known style
and provided correct details about his life, convincing even chess
legend Bobby Fischer of its legitimacy. Finally, physical mediumship, though
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controversial due to accusations of fraud, offers phenomena like direct
voice and materializations. The spirit of Walter Stinson, brother of
medium Mina Marjorie Crandon, was known for direct voice phenomena
meticulously verified by researchers using devices to ensure Marjorie's mouth
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was sealed shut one. His spirit reportedly manifested through other
mediums as well, including Mary Ann Marshall in Canada and
producing teleplasmic chords, and currently through UK medium Stuart Alexander,
where journalist Leslie Keene witnessed ectoplasm form into a solid
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human hand that she touched. The Skoll group, studied for
two years by three senior spr researchers, produced a wide
array of phenomena, including apported objects like mint condition nineteen
forty newspapers, tiny animated lights, images on polaroid film, including
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portraits and signatures of known individuals like Thomas Edison which
matched his own signature, and direct voice conversations, all under
strict conditions. The researchers and an observing magician felt ruled
out trickery. Doctor Mischlov concludes that this massive and consist
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bundle of arrows from NDEs ADC's reincarnation studies, ITC, xenoglossy, mediumship,
and more provides no reasonable alternative to the conclusion that
human consciousness can and does survive permanent bodily death. This
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isn't a surprising conclusion, he agrees, as belief in an
afterlife has been prevalent across cultures and history. He also
affirms a framework of metaphysical idealism supported by figures like
Max Planck, suggesting the universe is fundamentally mind like, making
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survival natural and expected. Phenomena like terminal lucidity where brain
damaged individuals regain clarity shortly before death, and findings from
psychedelic research where profound experiences core relate with reduced brain
activity further support the idea that consciousness is not solely
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dependent on the brain, but may be filtered by it.
Doctor Jeffrey Mischlev ends his essay Beyond the Brain with
a call to seriously map these continents of mind at large,
much like Renaissance explorers mapped new physical continents, recognizing the
work of past and present psych nuts who explore these
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inner realms, This essay Beyond the Brain offers a wealth
of documented events and experiences, building an overwhelmingly persuasive case
for what many of us intuitively feel. We are more
than our bodies and that consciousness endures again. You can
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read the entire ninety eight page essay and more at
Bigelowinstitute dot org, and be sure to visit doctor Mischlov's
YouTube channel New Thinking Aloud dot com and remember, come
visit me if we Don't Die dot com. So many
great things coming up, including our free Sunday gathering with
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medium demonstration included. I'm Sandra Champlain and from the bottom
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your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi,
I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been
on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.
Episode will discuss the reasons we now know that our
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loved ones have survived physical doubt, and so will we.
Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Back in twenty twenty one,
Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace, created a contest looking
for proof of life after death. The Winners were chosen
based on the power of the arguments presented and the
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essays they wrote about the human survival of consciousness beyond
a reasonable doubt, as though you were in a courtroom.
This essay contest was massive and people from all over
the world submitted application something like thirteen hundred people. Those
who completed the final submission were two hundred and four people,
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each creating a twenty five thousand word essay. There were
seven experts who decided on twenty nine winners. One million,
eight hundred thousand dollars in prize money was awarded in
Las Vegas at a big gala in December twenty twenty one.
This contest was a critical turning point that established, beyond
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a reasonable doubt, the proof of survival of human consciousness
after bodily death. So the good news is the website
Bigeloinstitute dot org has released all of the essays and
I'd like to sprinkle in during our upcoming episodes some
of the winners and tell their stories. Where do we start?
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How about with the first prize winner, which is doctor
Jeffrey Mishlov, who is a licensed clinical psychologist. He's an
accomplished radio and television interviewer and an author. He has
dedicated his professional life to exploring profound questions related to consciousness.
Now you can read his full ninety eight page essay
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at Bigelowinstitute dot org. So I encourage you to check
out his website Thinking aloud dot com and his fabulous
YouTube channel new thinking aloud dot Com. His essay, which
won him five hundred thousand dollars first prize, is called
Beyond the Brain The Survival of Human Consciousness after Permanent
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bodily Death. Doctor Mischlov begins his essay not with abstract theories,
but with a deeply personal experience, an event that he
calls his own white crow. Now, I haven't heard of
white crow before, but it's a term coined by psychologist
William James that refers to the idea that to disprove
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all crows are black, you only need to find one
white crow. For doctor Mischlove, his uncle Harry was that
white crow you see. On March twenty sixth, nineteen seventy two,
his great uncle Harry passed away peacefully at the age
of eighty four after attending early Sunday morning religious services
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simultaneously two hours earlier. Where it was seven point thirty
a m Doctor Mishlev, then just twenty five years old,
was sound asleep and found himself absorbed in the most surprising, vivid,
and powerful dream of his life. In this dream, Uncle
Harry appeared and spoke to him about personal life issues
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with a clarity that moved him to his core. Though
he didn't know his uncle well in waking life due
to the significant age difference, the dream felt more real
than reality, like a soul to soul communion that defied description.
He awoke weeping joyful tears, even singing a Hebrew song
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usually reserved for sacred Jewish observances. Something profoundly beautiful and
transformative touched his soul. He immediately wrote home about the dream.
Two days later, his mother phoned him with the news
of Uncle Harry's death, and he died at the precise
time of Jeffrey Mischlove's dream. Doctor Mischlov asserts that extrasensory
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perception alone couldn't account for the overwhelmingly strong emotions tied
to his uncle's presence. This visitation convinced him beyond all
doubt that the soul exists and survives the physical body's death. Later,
he received a book of mystical teachings that had been
his uncle's favorite, revealing a previously unknown mystical side to
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Uncle Harry. This experience was so impactful that it caused
a shift in doctor Mischlv's career focus from criminology to parapsychology.
In nineteen eighty he received what he notes is sadly
the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology ever awarded by an
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accredited American university. This personal white crow highlights the connection
between the afterlife and the dream world, and it's just
one of what doctor Mishlov calls flocks of white crows
that collectively prove consciousness survives death beyond any reasonable doubt.
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This belief in afterlife survival isn't a fringe idea, he says,
it's common to virtually every culture, nationality, religion, and historical period.
In America, for instance, belief in life after death has
remained stable at over seventy percent for seventy five years,
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even as religious affiliation has dropped. This isn't accidental or irrational.
It stems from the universal experience of evidence. These flocks
of white crows are happening with many people. In his essay,
doctor Mischlov uses this white crow for every piece of
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evidence of the survival of consciousness after death. Historically, many
accomplished individuals, early researchers from the Society for Psychical Research,
founded in eighteen eighty two, became convinced of survival after death,
finding their own white crow. Figures like Sir William Crooks,
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discoverer of thallium, Sir Oliver Lodge, a key patent holder
for radio, and F. W. H. Myers, author of a
seminal work on human personality and survival, were among them. However,
doctor Mischlove points out that our current technological belief often
operates under what he calls the dark age of scientism.
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Scientism is the unquestioned belief that a mechanical, materialistic worldview
can explain everything, leading academics and professionals to largely ignore
the massive evidence for life after death. This is not science,
he argues, but its opposite. This materialistic ethos presumes non survival,
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despite consistent historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary. Some
like doctor Carl Jung, suggest this view is at the
root of many modern problems like alienation and violence. To
counter this, doctor Mischlve emphasizes the need for cognitive framework
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to integrate the evidence for consciousness surviving physical death. He
cites a futurist Willis Harmon, who suggested that, like Darwin's
theory of evolution, we need a big picture that incorporates
consciousness and its metaphysical foundations. Interestingly, Alfred Russell Wallace, the
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co discoverer of evolution by natural selection, was himself a
forceful advocate for our souls surviving after death, arguing it
was an experimental science demanding honest examination. Wallace even proposed
that natural selection could operate within a higher law concerning
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consciousness independent of the brain. This aligns with what Houston
Smith called primordial tradition, the shared understanding across cultures that
the phenomenal worlds, including the brain, owe their existence to
a universal mind. The prevailing assumption that the brain creates
consciousness is challenged. Philosopher Bertrand Russell, for example, argued that
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brain injury obliterates memory, so mind couldn't survive brain death,
attributing belief in the afterlife to emotion not rational argument.
Even Nobel laureate Francis Crick, a DNA pioneer, acknowledged that
the religious view failaving an afterlife might well be correct.
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Wilder Penfield, whose work suggested brain function accounts for neither
memory nor free will. A compelling alternative is William james
filtration theory from eighteen ninety seven. It suggests the brain
accesses a larger universal consciousness and then reduces it to
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a level most useful for biological survival, allowing for the
possibility of life after death. This simple yet powerful idea
has substantial evidence based research supporting it, including studies on
psychedelics and terminal lucidity. Building on this, some have proposed
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the brain could be a three dimensional surface of a
much greater, higher dimensional self, with death being the shuffling
off of our mortal coil while the higher dimensional self continues.
Physicist Bernard car explains how higher dimensional space mathematics could
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account for various mental spaces like dream space, out of
body space, and near death space. So when we talk
about this hyperspace approach, the idea that consciousness might exist
in other dimensions, doctor Mischlov notes it's a concept that
different philosophies could try to work with. For instance, materialists
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believe only the physical is real and the brain creates consciousness.
Dualists think mind and body are separate, and idealists believe
consciousness itself is the foundation of all reality. Theoretical physicist
Saul Paul Seiregg in the late nineteen eighties explained that
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consciousness exists in hyperspace and our four D space time
is embedded within it. Thus, the body is in the mind,
not the mind in the body. Another fascinating model is
the orchestrated objective reduction theory by Stuart Hammeroff and Roger Penrose,
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hypothesizing that consciousness occurs at the quantum level inside microtubules
within neurons. Importantly, hammer Off states this theory doesn't conflict
with post mortem survival and speculates that the self, as
a quantum soul could support entanglement and coherence outside the
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physical body, potentially explaining phenomena like reincarnation. Doctor Mischlove's exploration,
fueled by his own experiences and decades of research, shares
a range of evidence that powerfully challenges the modern assumption
that consciousness dies with the body. Lots of great stories
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coming up. We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades
of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to cost
Am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.
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I'm Sandras Champlain, and I'm doing my best to summarize
doctor Jeffrey Mischlove's ninety eight page first prize winning essay
into one episode. So let's continue. Doctor Mischlove's essay, Beyond
the Brain argues for the survival of consciousness after death
through a compelling what he calls bundle of arrows. This metaphor,
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as doctor Mischlove explains, is powerful, just as American founders
used thirteen to symbol the invincible Union of States. He
presents nine distinct domains of inquiry, each containing numerous white
crow examples, all pointing to the reality of an afterlife.
Critics often use a leaky bucket metaphor, suggesting if individual
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arguments are flawed, the collective argument fails. However, researchers like
Colin Rollo and Peter Sturik have shown that the bundle
of arrows approach is consistent with sound scientific method, and
often the criticisms are more prejudiced than the procedures they attack.
Let's begin with one of the most widely discussed categories,
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near death experiences or NDEs. Researchers have collected thousands of
nd reports, and millions are believed to have had these experiences,
which show remarkable consistency across many cultures, all most universe.
Those who have had NDEs report being convinced that consciousness
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survives death. A common criticism is that since these individuals return,
they weren't truly dead, so their experiences can't reflect actual death. However,
a more realistic interpretation is that NDEs reflect the early
stages of the post mortem state. Doctor Bruce Grayson, a
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physician who has researched NDEs for nearly half a century,
claims that because NDEs show mental activity in the absence
of brain function, they strongly point to the survival of
mind after death. The realms described in NDEs are often
incredibly detailed and are typically reported as being more real
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than our waking physical reality. Neurosurgeon doctor Eben Alexander, author
of Proof of Heaven, describes his own end as entering
a super sensible reality where our physical space time is embedded.
He recalls colors beyond the rainbow, golden orbs of light,
and chants and hymns thundering throughout his awareness. As a
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speck of pure awareness, he became one with reality, able
to essentially see through everything. Strong evidence comes from cardiac
arrest to hospital studies. Dutch cardiologist doctor Pym van Lomel
describes controlled studies where of five hundred and sixty two
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patients who survived cardiac arrest, between ten and twenty percent
of them reported an ND. Crucially, neither physiological nor psychological
factors could account for these experiences. During cardiac arrest, there's
effectively no brain function at all, so one would expect
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no conscious experience at all if these profound experiences do occur.
This directly challenges the idea that consciousness is solely a
product of brain activity. A core feature of many near
death experiences is the out of body experience or OBE.
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Elizabeth Crone, co author of Change in a Flash, shares
an amazing story. After being struck by lightning, she found
herself floating outside her body, following her screaming children into
a synagogue lobby. Looking back through a window, she saw
her physical body lying in the parking lot, her umbrella smoking,
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and the soles of her new shoes blown off. Yet,
when she looked at what she termed her spirit body.
Her shoes were in perfect condition. She noticed she was
hovering inches above the ground. This vertical or verifiable perception
of details from a vantage point outside of her body
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is incredibly compelling. Then there are the life reviews. These
events common in NDEs suggest a realm where time is
compressed and the boundaries between individual minds are easily crossed.
Barbara Harris Whitfield, both an nd researcher and experiencer, described
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a life review where she wasn't just replaying her life
from her own viewpoint, She was also able to perceive
and deeply understand the impact of her actions and her
life from her grandmother's perspective. Doctor Eben Alexander explains that
during a life review, one can become one with the
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scenes and objects, a kind of knowledge through identification, allowing
for simultaneous realization of many things, suggesting Earth time isn't
fundamental and that there's a deeper times structure related to
soul growth. Doctor Pim van Lommel notes that people often
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relive every thought combined with an intimate knowledge of how
their behavior affected others, inspiring profound life changes towards becoming
more open and loving. A central theme in many NDEs
is the experience of indescribable love. Elizabeth Crone emphasizes feeling
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an unconditional love more pervasive than anything she has ever known,
even as a mother, a love beyond language that was
so penetrating she became one with it. Remarkably, some ndars
report seeing the future. Elizabeth Crone received extensive precognitive knowledge
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during her end, including the outcome of the nineteen eighty
eight George H. W. Bush presidential election and that of
the Cincinnati Bengals who would play in the nineteen eighty
nine Super Bowl. Doctor Van Lommel also confirms that fore
knowledge is a feature in nd reports, where individuals might
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recognize an event years later as something they foresaw during
their nd Perhaps one of the most astonishing aspects is
the potential near death healing power. Doctor Eben Alexander's case
is a prime example. His cerebral cortex was devastated by
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a rare bacterial meningitis. Pus filled his cranium, and his
Glasgow coma scale indicated minimal brain function. Three physicians, including
doctor Bruce Grayson, who examined over six hundred pages of
medical records, agreed that there was less than one percent
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chance of survival and no possibility of a normal recovery.
Doctor Grayson described him as dead as you can be
without having his heart stop. Yet doctor Alexander made a
full recovery and functions at a high cognitive level today.
When asked how, he suggested he accessed a part of
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himself beyond the ego, a light body or a higher
self with enormous healing power. Other well documented, medically monitored
cases of unexpected recoveries from irreversible conditions linked to NDEs
also exist. These cases are truly amazing and challenge our
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understanding of the mind body relationship and its potential for healing.
These various facets of near death experiences, from verified out
of body perceptions to life altering spiritual insights and inexplicable healings,
form a powerful arrow in doctor Mischlov's bundle, definitely pointing
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towards a consciousness that transcends the physical brain. And before
we move on from near death experiences, I want to
take a moment to truly emphasize a particularly astonishing aspect
that doctor Jeffrey Mischlov highlights that phenomena of the near
death healing power as we discussed with doctor Alexander's own
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remarkable recovery, and as doctor mischlv notes, such extraordinary recoveries
are not entirely unique to his case. He points out
that other unexpected recoveries from conditions thought to be irreversible
have occurred in connection with near death experiences, and importantly,
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these have been well documented and monitored by medical doctors.
Doctor Mischlve specifically references the work of physician doctor Larry
Dossi on this topic, as well as further research compiled
by doctor Alexander himself on other extraordinary cases of miracle
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healing the existence of these medically monitored physiological turnarounds linked
to NDS adds another profound layer of mystery and significance.
It suggests the experience can at times correlate with profound
bodily changes that current medical science struggles to explain within
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a purely materialistic framework. So think about what this implies.
If consciousness can experience vast detailed realities while the brain
is severely compromised or non functional, and then in some
cases be associated with unexplainable physical healing of that same
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brain or body, it strongly suggests that consciousness is not
merely an effect of brain chemistry. This aligns with the
core argument doctor Mischl threats throughout his essay the idea
that the brain might function more like a filter or
receiver for consciousness rather than its generator. If this filter
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is temporarily bypassed or reset during an ND, it could
perhaps allow access to a deeper, more fundamental aspect of ourselves,
A higher self or light body, as doctor Alexander suggested,
that possesses an inherent capacity for organization and healing, far
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beyond what we typically access or understand. These documented healings, therefore,
aren't just heartwarming stories. They are critical pieces of data.
They challenge the bedrock assumptions of conventional neuroscience and open
the door to a more expansive view of who we
are and what is possible when consciousness interacts with the
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physical body. In these extreme circumstances, they reinforce the idea
that the mind or consciousness itself may play a far
more active role in health and healing than is commonly acknowledged.
It's time for our break, But when we come back,
we'll talk about after death communications. We'll be right back.
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You're listening to shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio
and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back
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to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. We are
continuing our exploration of doctor Jeffrey Mischlove's prize winning essay
Beyond the Brain Well. Now turn to another significant category,
after death communications, or ADC's. Doctor Mischlove says these are
spontaneous experiences where people believe they've been contacted by someone
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who has died. Gallup surveys indicate that a significant portion
of the population roughly twenty five to thirty three percent,
believes mental communication with the dead occurs. These experiences range
from sensing a presence, visual or auditory phenomena, powerful dreams,
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to symbolic messages and synchronicities, while some might be attributed
to wishful thinking or projecting meaning onto random patterns. This
is called apopenia. Many ADC's stand as compelling White Crow
examples as far as apo fenia, this might be a
light flickering or a song playing, and we think it's
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a specific message from our deceased loved one, when it
might just be a random occurrence. Doctor Mischlov presents several
historical and contemporary accounts in his essay. One fascinating early
case from eighteen forty two involves Reverend Charles McKay, a
Catholic priest in Perth, Scotland. A Presbyterian woman named Anne
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Simpson approached him about a recurring dream. In it, a
deceased acquaintance named Maloy insisted that Anne Simpson contact this
priest because Malloy owed a small sum three and ten
pence at the time of her death. Simpson didn't know
who the debt was owed to, but Reverend McKay investigated
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and found a local grocer whose records confirmed that Maloy
had an outstanding debt of that exact amount, which McKay
then paid. This case is striking because it shows the
deceased seemingly acting with a specific purpose that couldn't be
attributed to a living person. A truly life transforming ADC
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involved the renowned psychiatrist doctor Elizabeth Koubler Ross, whose work
on the stages of dying is world famous. At a
point when she was experiencing burnout and had secretly decided
to quit her work on death and dying at the
University of Chicago, a woman suddenly appeared and insisted on
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walking with her to her office. Kubler Ross recognized her
as Missus Schwartz, a former patient who had reported the
first near death experience to her, but she had died
ten months prior. Missus Schwartz insisted Kubler Ross mustn't abandon
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her work and demanded a promise then and there. Feeling
astonishing gravity and the most loving smile of Missus Schwartz,
doctor Kubler Ross asked her to write a note. She
kept this signed note as physical evidence of the remarkable event,
which combined evidence of identity, potential, spirit materialization, and clear intentionality,
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leading to a life transforming outcome for doctor Koubler Ross
and her pioneering work. Then there's the incredible story of
a psychotherapy system seemingly born from the grave. Siegfried Fisher
was a psychiatrist who died in nineteen sixty six. A
year later, his former patient, Bob Hoffman, a tailor, awoke
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to find Fisher standing at the foot of his bed.
Fisher's spirit reportedly revealed to Hoffman the missing link in
psychoanalytic therapy, the concept of negative love, explaining how negative
behavior passes unconsciously through generations. Fisher then got gided Hoffman
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through his own psychic therapy, liberating him. Fisher promised to
return to hel Hoffman complete some of Fischer's unfinished work,
and Hoffman heard the phrase doors will open regarding his
entry into professional psychotherapy. Well doors did open. Prominent psychiatrists
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Claudia Nio took an interest, and the Fisher Hoffman process,
later known as the Hoffman process, grew into a worldwide movement.
Psychologist Charles T. Tart, after experiencing the process, reasonably confirmed
the story, realizing his initial negative judgment of Hoffman was
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a projection. This is an amazing example of a discarnate
person seemingly providing purposeful, verifiable action with significant real world impact.
ADCs can happen in unexpected ways. Clinical psychologist Joseph Gallenberger
describes being at a Monroe Institute program where he tried
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to receive a message from an attendee's deceased wife. Later,
while showering, he experienced her spirit showing him a red
and white checkered tablecloth and specific information page two three
eight of a particular book. The husband later confirmed that
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they used to have weekly picnics. With such that Tablecloth
and Page two thirty eight turned out to be their
favorite poem they often read together. Many ADCs occur around
the time of death, like doctor Mischlove's own experience with
uncle Harry. Neuroscientist Peter Fenwick recounts an incident where a
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drowned sailor in England appeared dripping wet to his mother
in Australia, telling her he was fine before disappearing. She
later confirmed with the Navy that he had drowned at
the exact time of this appearance. Physicist Russell Targ shares
a compelling ADC from his deceased daughter Elizabeth. A staff
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member at Duke University approached Targ's writing partner, Jane Cattra,
with a message for Elizabeth's father from a recently deceased woman,
tall with long brown hair. The message was to remind
her father about an obscure incident from when Elizabeth was
a little child where he tried to stuff her into
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a red dress, a traumatic experience for her. This convinced
Targ of Elizabeth's survival, as no other living person knew
of this event. Therapist Paul Leslie describes an ADC within
a psychotherapy session where he felt temporarily the spirit of
a deceased patient's father. During an empty chair exercise, Leslie
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blurted out emotionally powerful and accurate details unknown to him
about the patient's childhood, like eating ice cream pushups by
a lake, providing a therapeutic breakthrough. Lucid dreams also serve
as a conduit. In one study, a lucid dreamer received
a message for a minister's wife from her deceased husband,
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telling her his spirit wasn't to be found in the
portrait she'd been staring at at the church to connect
with him. This deeply moved her as it acknowledged her
private ritual and suggested a better way to connect. Author
Whitley Strieber had a pre arranged ADC with his wife Anne.
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They agreed whoever died first would try to contact the
other through a third person to avoid doubt. Within three
hours of Anne's death, Striyber received a call from a
friend who heard Anne's voice, insisting she contact Whitley immediately.
Several similar calls followed, convincing him of her survival before
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he began experiencing her voice directly, moving to reincarnation, the
University of Virginia's Department of Perceptual Studies has a database
of over two thousand, five hundred cases where young children
report former life memories, with roughly seventeen hundred of these solved,
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meaning the previous person was identified. Doctor Ian Stevenson pioneered
this meticulous research using case study procedures, collecting first hand observations, autopsy,
police reports, and re interviewing witnesses, much like preparing evidence
for a court of law. A fascinating aspect is announcing dreams,
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where a deceased person announces their intention to be reborn
into a particular fame family. A compelling case from Burma
involves the parents of Mongong Fan. The wife dreamed a
deceased friend asked permission to be reborn as her child,
but she refused. Her husband, upon returning from a journey,
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recounted a similar dream where he had welcomed the friend
the child. Mongong Fan later made statements suggesting his father's
acceptance prevailed and provided vivid memories of the deceased friend's
life and murder, along with birth defects corresponding to the
death wounds, intermission memories recollections of an existence between incarnations
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are reported in about twenty percent of reincarnation cases. Psychiatrist
doctor Brian Weiss shares an amazing story where his patient Catherine,
under hypnosis and experiencing this intermission, state communicated with Weiss's
deceased father and child, offering detailed medical and family information
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unknown to her, an experience that transformed doctor Weiss's life.
Peak in derry Anne experiences referred to surprising deathbed or
near death visions of someone not known to be deceased
at the time. Doctor Bruce Grayson describes a hospitalized man
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in South Africa who, during a near death experience saw
a young nurse, Anita, whom he knew. She told him
he had to go back and tell her parents that
she loved them and was sorry she wrecked her car,
the MGB. It turned out Anita had just died instantly
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after crashing her new MGB, a fact unknown at the
hospital at the time of the man's near death experience.
Doctor Eben Alexander also had a peak in dary Anne experience.
During his near death Experiencevarians being accompanied by a beautiful
young woman that he didn't recognize. Four months later, he
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received a photograph of his deceased birth sister Betsy, whom
he'd never known as he was adopted and realized it
was her. This was his ultimate proof of heaven. These
varied accounts, from precise debts revealed in dreams, to life
altering visitations and vertical information from an unknown other side,
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paint a vivid picture of continued, purposeful consciousness after life. Well,
it's time for our break, and when we come back,
we're going to move into another category of instrumental transcommunication.
We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades of the
Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
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Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm
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Sandra Champlain. We're continuing our journey into doctor Jeffrey Mischlow's
first prize winning essay Beyond the Brain. Let's now explore
instrumental transcommunication ITC, which involves communication with the deceased via
electronic devices. Some cases are truly remarkable. An early ITC researcher,
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Constantine Raudeva, who died in nineteen seventy four, reportedly continued
his interest from the other side, with messages and even
pictures from him coming through audio tapes, videotapes, and computer discs.
Mark Macy and ITC author even tape recorded detailed technical
instructions coming from Raudova, whose voice was clear. Annabella Cardosa,
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a former Portuguese diplomat, had made hundreds of audio recordings
using a technique called direct radio voice, tuning radios to
an emergency channel that normally only produces white noise. When
voices appear, she engages in two way conversations, even with
family members calling her by her pet name Bella, despite
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no radio transmission coming from her end. Psychologist David Fontana
witnessed these communications multiple times and attested to their clarity
and directedness, ruling out stray radio voices or tricks or deception.
A two year study at Vigo University in Spain also
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detected and independently verified many anomalous voices under laboratory conditions.
There are also documented phone calls from the dead. Researchers
Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayliss investigated fifty such cases, and
Callum Cooper has analyzed over thirty more. Cooper describes extreme
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cases where a seemingly normal conversation occurs with someone believed
to be alive. Only later to learn the caller was
deceased at the time, with no phone company record of
the call. Doctor Mischlov himself had a minor experience while
lucid dreaming about his deceased friend Elizabeth targ and her
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reported after death communications. Just as he was mentioning physical
manifestations in the dream, his bedside phone rang. Upon answering,
he heard only white noise, an occurrence he doesn't recall
happening any other time. Russell Targo also reported Elizabeth interfering
with electrical circuitry in his house shortly after her death,
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witnessed by two others, where all the lights went off
and on twice at the very moment they speculated she
might be trying to communicate A truly amazing itc case
involves a text message from the dead. Emmy Vadney, author
of Intuitive Development, reports after her mother in law, Sally Dixon,
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died in twenty nineteen, Vadney's stepfather, Donald Emson, received a
text message from Emmy's phone at three point twenty three am,
saying glad it's over badne knew she hadn't sent it,
and her own cell phone records showed no such outgoing
message at the time, although other messages with her stepfather
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were present. The logical conclusion drawn by Vadney and Emson
was at Sally Dixon, whose body was at the crematorium
at that hour, sent the message. Next is zenoglossy, the
ability to understand or speak a language one has never learned,
sometimes in archaic form. In the Jensen Jacobi case, a
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Philadelphia woman of Russian Jewish descent, under hypnosis by her
medical doctor, began speaking in an old form of Swedish,
claiming to be a seventeenth century Swedish farmer named Jensen Jacobi.
He described his life and death, expressing fear of the Russians,
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who he implied killed him. Swedish scholars confirmed the language
as Middle Swedish, and the family testified under lie detector
tests that none of them spoke Swedish. Doctor Mischlev says
mental mediumship also provides a vast trove of evidence. Leonora Piper,
extensively researched by William James and Richard Hodgson, is an example.
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Her spirit control George Pelu, who had died, recognized and
correctly addressed twenty nine out of thirty sitters who had
known him in life, providing intimate details. This convinced the
initially skeptical Hodgson. Frederick Myers reportedly initiated complex experiments called
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cross correspondences after his death in nineteen oh two, lasting
over three decades and involving multiple mediums receiving fragmented messages
that only made sense when combined. Gladys Osborne Leonard's mediumship
convinced Sir Oliver Lodge he was communicating with his son, Raymond,
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who was killed in World War One. An amazing piece
of evidence was Raymond describing through two different mediums a
group photograph taken just before his death, including details like
holding a walking stick and someone leaning on him. The
Lodges received the photograph later, confirming all details. Other client
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of Leonard, Katie Dawson Smith, was told by her deceased
son to find an old leather wallet containing a tiny
check stub, which later proved he had repaid a ten
year old debt when a firm demanded repayment. Forensic evidence
has also come through mediums. After the R one oh
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one dirigible crash in nineteen thirty, medium Eileen Garrett experienced
an unexpected communication from Herbert Irwin the vessel's deceased pilot,
who described technical failures causing the crash. An independent review
by an airship pilot, William H. Wood, previously an atheist,
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convinced him of survival, stating if this case does not
prove survival, then nothing else ever will Murders have also
been solved, like the Terracita Bossa case in Chicago, where
Boss's spirit communicated details leading to her killer's confession, and
the Jaquelin Pool case in London, where Pool's spirit gave
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information to medium Christine Holahan that eventually led to her
murder's conviction years later using new DNA techniques on evidence
identified by the medium. The partnership of George Chapman, a firefighter,
and the spirit of William Lang, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon
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who died in nineteen thirty seven, is perhaps one of
the most evidential cases for sixty years from nineteen forty
six until Chapman's death in two thousand and six, Lang's
spirit reportedly worked through the entranced Chapman conducting healing sessions.
Lang's personality, professional knowledge, and mannerisms were recognized by former
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patients and family, including his daughter and granddaughter and medical
colleagues who held weekly seances for dec aids and were
convinced of Lang's authenticity. The astonishing chess match played between
nineteen eighty seven and nineteen ninety three by living grand
master Victor Korchnoi and gaza At Morozzi, who died in
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nineteen fifty one via medium Robert Rawlins, also stands out.
Marazzi played at grand master level, exhibiting his known style
and provided correct details about his life, convincing even chess
legend Bobby Fischer of its legitimacy. Finally, physical mediumship, though
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controversial due to accusations of fraud, offers phenomena like direct
voice and materializations. The spirit of Walter Stinson, brother of
medium Mina Marjorie Crandon, was known for direct voice phenomena
meticulously verified by researchers using devices to ensure Marjorie's mouth
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was sealed shut one. His spirit reportedly manifested through other
mediums as well, including Mary Ann Marshall in Canada and
producing teleplasmic chords, and currently through UK medium Stuart Alexander,
where journalist Leslie Keene witnessed ectoplasm form into a solid
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human hand that she touched. The Skoll group, studied for
two years by three senior spr researchers, produced a wide
array of phenomena, including apported objects like mint condition nineteen
forty newspapers, tiny animated lights, images on polaroid film, including
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portraits and signatures of known individuals like Thomas Edison which
matched his own signature, and direct voice conversations, all under
strict conditions. The researchers and an observing magician felt ruled
out trickery. Doctor Mischlov concludes that this massive and consist
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bundle of arrows from NDEs ADC's reincarnation studies, ITC, xenoglossy, mediumship,
and more provides no reasonable alternative to the conclusion that
human consciousness can and does survive permanent bodily death. This
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isn't a surprising conclusion, he agrees, as belief in an
afterlife has been prevalent across cultures and history. He also
affirms a framework of metaphysical idealism supported by figures like
Max Planck, suggesting the universe is fundamentally mind like, making
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survival natural and expected. Phenomena like terminal lucidity where brain
damaged individuals regain clarity shortly before death, and findings from
psychedelic research where profound experiences core relate with reduced brain
activity further support the idea that consciousness is not solely
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dependent on the brain, but may be filtered by it.
Doctor Jeffrey Mischlev ends his essay Beyond the Brain with
a call to seriously map these continents of mind at large,
much like Renaissance explorers mapped new physical continents, recognizing the
work of past and present psych nuts who explore these
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inner realms, This essay Beyond the Brain offers a wealth
of documented events and experiences, building an overwhelmingly persuasive case
for what many of us intuitively feel. We are more
than our bodies and that consciousness endures again. You can
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read the entire ninety eight page essay and more at
Bigelowinstitute dot org, and be sure to visit doctor Mischlov's
YouTube channel New Thinking Aloud dot com and remember, come
visit me if we Don't Die dot com. So many
great things coming up, including our free Sunday gathering with
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medium demonstration included. I'm Sandra Champlain and from the bottom
of my heart, thank you so much for listening to
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