"The Afterlife Experiments" by Gary Schwartz is a decent book to read inasmuch as it's the first to examine the issue of consciousness after death in under strict scientific protocols. The author has been a professor of psychiatry at Harvard, Yale, and U Arizona. The conclusion is basically that the chances of some of the mediums doing what they did without being in communication with certain deceased people are 1 in trillions. If the skeptics are so sure, they should welcome strict scientific experiments.
""The Afterlife Experiments" by Gary Schwartz is a decent book to read inasmuch as it's the first to examine the issue of consciousness after death in under strict scientific protocols."
a must read
"A Critique of Schwartz et al.'s After-Death Communication Studies"
http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-11/mediums.html Schwartz, Russek, Nelson, and Barentsen (2001) recently reported two studies in which mediums appeared to be able to produce accurate information about the deceased under conditions that the authors believed "eliminate the factors of fraud, error, and statistical coincidence." Their studies were widely reported in the media as scientific proof of life after death (e.g., Matthews 2001; Chapman 2001). This paper describes some of the methodological problems associated with the Schwartz et al. studies and outlines how these problems can be overcome in future research.
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