Dr. Gary Schwartz, who trained at Harvard University and is
the author of ?The Afterlife Experiments,? has done
experiments proving that dead people can communicate with
the living?and vice-versa. "Human beings are like stars," he
says. "We are constantly emitting invisible and visible
photons of light. Those photons go into space and are as
consistent as distant stars.?
On the March 9 Dreamland show, Schwartz described studies
that he says prove that some mediums aren?t faking?they
really do receive information from the dead. He thinks most
scientists are too close-minded to consider the evidence that
there is life after death. Before he started experimenting
with mediums, he was a skeptic as well. "I was raised to
believe 'ashes to ashes dust to dust,'? he says, ?and it has
taken a lot of data to convince me otherwise."
Schwartz says communication from the dead can be
explained by the idea that human energy and information
continues. Energy is constantly interacting with other energy
and these constant interactions create changes that persist
throughout time.
Paul Halpern, a physicist at University of the Sciences in
Philadelphia, agrees that energy is neither created nor
destroyed but is converted from one form to another. It's
also true that all people emit photons, but most of them are
absorbed by the air before they reach space. And even if
they could reach us, he says, ?These photons would not carry
much information about us at all, except perhaps our
temperature."
People who have had contact with deceased loved ones are
happy that at least one scientist is studying life after death,
rather than simply dismissing the possibility, because their
own experiences are so overwhelmingly real.
For instance, Andrew Cary, who lost his friend Greg
Rodriguez in the World Trade Center attacks, talks about how
the night before the funeral, he was drinking toasts to
Rodriguez with some of his other friends and the local bar
where they used to all hang out. Another friend, Dave
Hackenburg, got a call on his cellphone. The phone?s caller
ID screen read ?Greg,? followed by Rodriguez? phone
number. When they called the number back, they reached
Rodriquez? sister, who was staying at her brother?s place and
said no one had used his phone. Was this a message from
the dead?
Gary Schwartz doesn?t take this kind of anecdote at face
value?he puts mediums through rigorous tests and makes
them prove their powers. Read about how he does it in ?The
Afterlife Experiments?,
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