Contents:
Foreword / Deepak Chopra
Preface: Are Life and Love Eternal?
Part I You Don't Find a Mission
a Mission Finds You
1 The Journey Begins
2 Bringing Soul Science into the University
3 Five Words That Changed My Life
4 Here-to-There-and-Back-Again
Part II The HBO Dream-Team Experiment
5 What a Difference a Dinner Can Make
6 Mediums Read While Cameras Roll: The Patricia Readings
7 The Ronnie Readings Interlude: A Case of Precognition?
8 HBO Results Part III The Miraval Silent-Sitter Experiment
9 Seeking a New Design
10 The Christopher Readings
11 The Revealing Pat Price Readings
12 Is There Such a Thing as Precognition?
Part IV The Canyon Ranch Totally Silent Sitter Experiment
13 The Canyon Ranch Experiment: What if the Sitters Never Speak?
14 More Canyon Ranch: An Unexpected Visitor Part V Discovering the Larger Reality
15 What's Fraud Got to Do with It? Interlude: "Re-Contact"
16 Answering the Skeptics
17 The Campbell White Crow Readings
18 How Our Lives Might Change
19 Looking Forward and Outward

John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson are just a few of the prominent American mediums who have been accused of being frauds. But what if a respected scientist challenged them to make contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions? What if the results not only stunned a skeptical scientist but also offered astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death? THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS Risking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues. Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers alike: a revelation about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Forced by data to abandon skepticism, Schwartz presents this amazing account of his groundbreaking work, compelling from first page to last

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