The existence of an afterlife is a mystery that has plagued religion, philosophy and psychology since their conception - until now. For seven years, Gary Schwartz, a UA professor and director of the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science, has been conducting afterlife experiments and research that he believes prove the survival of human consciousness after death. "When you look at the totality of the data, the simplest and most parsimonious explanation that accounts for the largest amount of data is the survival of consciousness hypothesis," he said. The experiments are performed in a lab with a medium, a sitter and Schwartz. A medium is someone who believes that he or she can communicate with the dead, and a sitter is a person who wishes to gain knowledge about a deceased loved one. The medium receives messages from the dead and then relays them to the sitter, who tells Schwartz if the information is correct or incorrect.

These messages can include the deceased's cause of death, memories that include the deceased and the sitter and "signs" for the sitter that indicate the deceased is around him or her. After the experiment, Schwartz analyzes the data and determines the accuracy of the medium's reading.

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Hmm, very interesting. Though I'm not sure what I think of mediums.

You have to be careful with mediums, as you have no real way of knowing whether or not they are really in contact with anyone, research has been done for example that suggests that many mediums are in fact not in contact with the dead, but are in fact tapping in psychicly to the persons unconscious memories of the person they are reading.

Others are fake, and are making it up as they go along or are getting the infomation through a wire.

As it goes there are only a few that can actually contact the dead. And most of these charge nothing, whereas charlatans usually ask for quite a bit of money.

It's all to true that a lot of mediums are charlatens. One of the most effective ways to spot a pretendy medium is to keep an eye out for cold reading . Cold reading is when the apparent psychic picks up on the way you react to them .
They will use very similar lines to make you feel special , such as " You've allways felt as though you don't quite fit in ". " You've allways felt like people don't really understand who you are " well dah!! this applies to all of us but is a very effective way of setteling a client and creating the environment neccisary to cold read .

OK now before you read this be warned, i am a christian. now there is life after death in the aspect of universale facts, if you were a caterpilare, would you know that you will be flying insted of crawling on branches, in the near future,lol.
As for the aliens and all that of course you can find imortality in the universe
But like the caterpilare we must wait,only we are lucky, some one named Jesus Christ explained to us that we turn into buterflys,lol.
Take care all

interesting comparison spartan ... welcome to the forum by the way

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I stumbled on this site 2day.
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