The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death [Hardcover ed.] 074343658X, 9780743436588

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The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death [Hardcover ed.]
074343658X, 9780743436588

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Gary E. Schwartz
William L. Simon

Table of contents :
Afterlife Experiments TOC
Foreword by Deepak Chopra xi
Preface: Are Life and Love Eternal? xv

Part I You Don’t Find a Mission—a Mission Finds You1
1 The Journey Begins 3
2 Bringing Soul Science into the University 14
3 Five Words That Changed My Life 31
4 Here-to-There-and-Back-Again 38

Part II The HBO Dream-Team Experiment
5 What a Difference a Dinner Can Make 49
6 Mediums Read While Cameras Roll: The Patricia Readings 62
7 The Ronnie Readings 83
Interlude: A Case of Precognition? 117
8 HBO Results 118

Part III The Miraval Silent-Sitter Experiment
9 Seeking a New Design 127
10 The Christopher Readings 145
11 The Revealing Pat Price Readings 155
12 Is There Such a Thing as Precognition? 163

Part IV The Canyon Ranch Totally Silent Sitter Experiment
13 The Canyon Ranch Experiment: What if the Sitters
Never Speak? 175
14 More Canyon Ranch: An Unexpected Visitor 190

Part V Discovering the Larger Reality
15 What’s Fraud Got to Do with It? 205
Interlude: “Re-Contact” 214
16 Answering the Skeptics 216
17 The Campbell White Crow Readings 226
18 How Our Lives Might Change 237
19 Looking Forward and Outward 252

Appendices
Acknowledgments 355
Recommended Readings 361
The Contributors / The Research Mediums 364

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