My story : My Dad passed in 2005. My Mom was at the family home with care givers during the funeral. Just as the funeral began, the kitchen door opened and closed. My brothers dog went to investigate. Later : kitchen door opened and closed many times. Noise in the basement where my Dad always worked. So much to report. But in 2012 my 2 children each got married and gave us 3 grandkids between them over several years. At some point I realized that the first letter of each of their first names spells my Dad’s name -BEN. This was not planned - a shock to all.
I was visited by my father the night he passed and me and him had made a deal with each other years ago that if there was a way to let me know he was OK I'm pretty sure he was able to get me that message
I truly appreciate that scientists and philosophers delve into this area. I appreciate that the scientific method is brought to bear on the subject of parapsychology. As a non-scientist, but as a critical thinking medium who has worked repeatedly with hundreds of mediums over seven years, I have noticed an arc within the lives of those in spirit, with whom mediums communicate. That arc is relevant to the inherently dualistic notion Dr. Braude and others often express; that the personality either survives intact as it was when embodied, or that it dissolves into the greater energetic dimension of spirit. From what I have seen-it is neither and both- it is a transitive process. It’s hard to imagine non-physical organisms of consciousness. From what I have surmised, the psyche exists at the quantum level as a unique constellations of interrelated elements. Like living matter, those non-physical organisms of the psyche are in states of continuous evolution. My sense is that the effect on the psyche of the living individual, at the time when it transitions from its physical body, is an experience of it’s new non-physical state, almost as if waking from a dream to a noticeably more lucid state. That state of being is too complex for most “minds“ habituated to dualistic thinking to endure. As a gentle and natural process of integration, there is a period of transition within the psyche, of its own reality in the physical world to its new reality. In other words, we might experience ourselves as in a perfected “etheric body” for a period of time as we absorb the new non-physical reality. Analogous to the way we graduate from successive grades in elementary school, absorbing language and means of expression- in spiral-like hierarchies of complexity. In the 3-D world, that drop of water returned to the ocean may be indistinguishable from surrounding H2O. I wonder if that is the same in the non-physical world for the individual psyche returned to the non physical realm of spirit. Does there have to be that duality, that sense of a wall or border that demarcates the individual personality from the larger energetic “landscape”? Why should it be true that mutually exclusive relationships persist beyond the physical realm? As duality includes the notion of non-duality, so non-duality must include the notion of duality. In physical reality, those two seem like a paradox, but isn’t that only a function of the nature of the physically embodied world, which is after all-built upon the foundation of thought forms? I have never brought through anyone in Spirit further back on the ancestral line than a great grandparent. That has left me to wonder if those “Spirit people” further back on the ancestral line, do not come forward to the living-because they could not longer be recognized through evidence, or-has that personality been in Spirit long enough to have “graduated“ to higher states, from which they no longer require their connection to the physical world in order to understand themselves as consciousness on a trajectory towards who-knows-where, but away from the concerns of the physical experience. The experience of many readings, and the ethos which states that “death is perfectly safe“ have led me to suspect this, and to notice evidence of it as a potential reality of our journey beyond the physical.
Excellent discussion. Wish you could go back to the studio interview format where sound and picture are just right. Always admired the sculpture. The web interviews have unclear transmission in comparison.
I always thought Moody's notion about the afterlife being nonsense was nonsense. Of course the afterlife is non-sense in the sense that it is non-sensory... meaning the physical senses. In my opinion the afterlife is very different to life in this physical realm because its substantial basis is psyche and the physics & mechanics of psyche are different to those of physical & biological matter. Obviously this implies body & psyche are distinct & irreducible realities. All the evidence suggests that psyche survives the death of the body and since the psyche is the person or personality then personal survival is likely a reality.
I must admit I've always been baffled by the "super-psi" argument and I can't get my head around it. If someone is a total materialist who believes that the physical universe is all that exists, that there is nothing after death and that all psi phenomena are due to fraud, wishful thinking or what have you, I may disagree with them but I can understand their stance, it's consistent. But if someone does acknowledge that psychic abilities are possible and real, that already presupposes the existence of a non-physical dimension which a clairvoyant can access somehow, or how else might it work? I know that in the Star Trek universe, certain telepathic alien species are thought to possess some special neurotransmitters in their brains that enable telepathy, but that's fiction and I don't think it would be plausible to have a non-physical ability based on a physical substance in real life - even though psychedelics do exist, which apparently work through physical processes. But if psi abilities were based on neurotransmitters then *all* humans should have them, and not only some few. And conversely, if acknowledging that a non-physical realm exists and that non-local phenomena do occur, then why exclude survival after physical death? That's why "super-psi" makes no sense to me, I find it inconsistent.
My story : My Dad passed in 2005. My Mom was at the family home with care givers during the funeral. Just as the funeral began, the kitchen door opened and closed. My brothers dog went to investigate. Later : kitchen door opened and closed many times. Noise in the basement where my Dad always worked. So much to report. But in 2012 my 2 children each got married and gave us 3 grandkids between them over several years. At some point I realized that the first letter of each of their first names spells my Dad’s name -BEN. This was not planned - a shock to all.
Synchronicity
You are putting meaning to coincidence -
I was visited by my father the night he passed and me and him had made a deal with each other years ago that if there was a way to let me know he was OK I'm pretty sure he was able to get me that message
I truly appreciate that scientists and philosophers delve into this area. I appreciate that the scientific method is brought to bear on the subject of parapsychology.
As a non-scientist, but as a critical thinking medium who has worked repeatedly with hundreds of mediums over seven years, I have noticed an arc within the lives of those in spirit, with whom mediums communicate.
That arc is relevant to the inherently dualistic notion Dr. Braude and others often express; that the personality either survives intact as it was when embodied, or that it dissolves into the greater energetic dimension of spirit.
From what I have seen-it is neither and both- it is a transitive process.
It’s hard to imagine non-physical organisms of consciousness. From what I have surmised, the psyche exists at the quantum level as a unique constellations of interrelated elements. Like living matter, those non-physical organisms of the psyche are in states of continuous evolution.
My sense is that the effect on the psyche of the living individual, at the time when it transitions from its physical body, is an experience of it’s new non-physical state, almost as if waking from a dream to a noticeably more lucid state. That state of being is too complex for most “minds“ habituated to dualistic thinking to endure. As a gentle and natural process of integration, there is a period of transition within the psyche, of its own reality in the physical world to its new reality. In other words, we might experience ourselves as in a perfected “etheric body” for a period of time as we absorb the new non-physical reality. Analogous to the way we graduate from successive grades in elementary school, absorbing language and means of expression- in spiral-like hierarchies of complexity.
In the 3-D world, that drop of water returned to the ocean may be indistinguishable from surrounding H2O. I wonder if that is the same in the non-physical world for the individual psyche returned to the non physical realm of spirit. Does there have to be that duality, that sense of a wall or border that demarcates the individual personality from the larger energetic “landscape”? Why should it be true that mutually exclusive relationships persist beyond the physical realm? As duality includes the notion of non-duality, so non-duality must include the notion of duality. In physical reality, those two seem like a paradox, but isn’t that only a function of the nature of the physically embodied world, which is after all-built upon the foundation of thought forms?
I have never brought through anyone in Spirit further back on the ancestral line than a great grandparent. That has left me to wonder if those “Spirit people” further back on the ancestral line, do not come forward to the living-because they could not longer be recognized through evidence, or-has that personality been in Spirit long enough to have “graduated“ to higher states, from which they no longer require their connection to the physical world in order to understand themselves as consciousness on a trajectory towards who-knows-where, but away from the concerns of the physical experience.
The experience of many readings, and the ethos which states that “death is perfectly safe“ have led me to suspect this, and to notice evidence of it as a potential reality of our journey beyond the physical.
Very important topic. Nice reboot.
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Very good topic
This was top notch. Please continue this conversation in the future.
Observation - the foundation of all science.
Excellent discussion. Wish you could go back to the studio interview format where sound and picture are just right. Always admired the sculpture. The web interviews have unclear transmission in comparison.
I always thought Moody's notion about the afterlife being nonsense was nonsense. Of course the afterlife is non-sense in the sense that it is non-sensory... meaning the physical senses. In my opinion the afterlife is very different to life in this physical realm because its substantial basis is psyche and the physics & mechanics of psyche are different to those of physical & biological matter. Obviously this implies body & psyche are distinct & irreducible realities. All the evidence suggests that psyche survives the death of the body and since the psyche is the person or personality then personal survival is likely a reality.
I must admit I've always been baffled by the "super-psi" argument and I can't get my head around it. If someone is a total materialist who believes that the physical universe is all that exists, that there is nothing after death and that all psi phenomena are due to fraud, wishful thinking or what have you, I may disagree with them but I can understand their stance, it's consistent. But if someone does acknowledge that psychic abilities are possible and real, that already presupposes the existence of a non-physical dimension which a clairvoyant can access somehow, or how else might it work?
I know that in the Star Trek universe, certain telepathic alien species are thought to possess some special neurotransmitters in their brains that enable telepathy, but that's fiction and I don't think it would be plausible to have a non-physical ability based on a physical substance in real life - even though psychedelics do exist, which apparently work through physical processes. But if psi abilities were based on neurotransmitters then *all* humans should have them, and not only some few.
And conversely, if acknowledging that a non-physical realm exists and that non-local phenomena do occur, then why exclude survival after physical death? That's why "super-psi" makes no sense to me, I find it inconsistent.