The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz

Author:Gary Schwartz [Schwartz, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Re-Contact”

Earlier I offered thoughts about a scene in the movie Contact that showed how difficult it can be to justify scientifically the subjectivity of our first-person consciousness, such as how you would prove that you love your spouse.

There was in this film another scene that also affected me deeply. Both were scenes that expressed the wonder of the visible and invisible universe, and both expressed the coming together of love and integrity.

The second of these scenes comes near the end of the movie. The scientist Dr. Ellie Arroway has risked her life to make contact with the intelligent beings who provided her with the plans for constructing the massive machine that would take her to them.

But when she returns from her remarkable journey, she learns to her dismay that her scientist colleagues insist there is no proof she has gone anywhere. She has experienced a journey to distant stars; yet to the observers on earth, her spacecraft appears to have simply dropped into the sea.

Has she imagined the eighteen hours of her journey, the life-changing epiphany? Has she hallucinated the whole thing? Almost no one believes that her experiences were real. And her scientist colleagues only require from her the very same kinds of proof she has always required from others.

Of course she understands their concerns; she is, after all, a scientist. As a scientist myself, I appreciate their concerns, as well.

But Dr. Arroway also understands that she has undergone a profound set of personal experiences. She cannot, with integrity, simply discount them. She knows that her experiences in the space capsule, and beyond, were as real and strong as the love she experienced for her father.

Another aspect of this fictional episode also affected me strongly. The story portrays how a few select politicians and senior scientists, some her so-called friends, actually see hard data from a video recorder indicating that eighteen hours have, indeed, inexplicably elapsed. Though the camera recorded nothing more than noise, that eighteen hours of noise supports the time frame of her experience. Yet this vital information is deliberately withheld, not only from the public but from Dr. Arroway herself.

Carl Sagan seemed to be writing from his own experience about the deceptive duplicity and the hypocrisy of people in power, including unscrupulous skeptics.

The research we are conducting on the possibility of survival after physical death is not much different from Dr. Arroway’s research in Contact. We, too, are looking for conscious intelligence beyond our limited physical existence and awareness.

But unlike Dr. Arroway's situation, our research journey is documented by many hours of available videotapes that reveal things unexplainable by any currently accepted knowledge— videotapes available for anyone interested in seeing them. These tapes show things that scientists and nonscientists alike have never seen before. We have made the actual raw footage available to the public so that you may see and judge for yourself.

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