TWO PART EPISODE:
The renowned physicist and philosopher David Bohm once said, “The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.” Life after death, or the survival of post-mortem consciousness, is one of the areas modern science has tended to shun despite the fact that there is a mountain of evidence that supports it. The volume of evidence is indisputable, from over 1700 solved reincarnation cases, plus countless other examples of out of body experiences, messages received in dreams, and much more, including so-called near death experiences (which are often after clinical death has been noted). 

The evidence is there, so the question becomes: “Why do we not believe it? “ Is it because it upends our current paradigm based on the notion of a fundamentally material universe and consciousness being an epiphenomenon of matter? Or is it because our understanding of time, space, and consciousness is too limited? Our two guests think it is both – and fortunately, Jeffrey Mishlove and Leo Ruickbie, are willing, and able, to stretch the scientific paradigm to a broader vision. Mishlove and Ruickbie are the newly awarded Grand Prize and 3rd place winner of the Robert Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest that asked for hard evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for the existence of the afterlife. Join us as they share some of that evidence with you today, and more, as we explore a new science of life after death.

Here is a link to Jeffrey Mishlove's video channel New Thinking Allowed:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk448YbGITLnzplK7jwNcw

Jeffrey Mishlove is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. He is the author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness.

He is keeping up the flame as host of New Thinking Allowed, an ongoing YouTube based series.

Dr. Mishlove is a past director of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and has served as President of the Intuition Network.

Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university (University of California, Berkeley). A revision of his doctoral dissertation, Psi Development Systems, was released in 1988 as a Ballantine paperback. This book evaluates methods purported to train psychic abilities. He is also author of The PK Man.

Jeffrey teaches parapsychology to ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living (formerly the Church of Religious Science) through their Holmes Institute. His avocations include financial forecasting (see his occasional Forecasting Systems newsletters), hiking in the Mojave desert and karaoke.

Dr Leo Ruickbie is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is involved with the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies Research Group. With a PhD from King’s College, London, on contemporary witchcraft and magic, he has written six books exploring a range of supernatural topics, most recently Angels in the Trenches about Spiritualism, superstition and other paranormal beliefs and experiences during the First World War. In addition, he has contributed almost a hundred articles and presentations in his field. In recognition of this sustained contribution to scholarship, he has been elected a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 2021, he won 3rd prize in the highly competitive essay contest on life after death organized by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. He is currently editing a two-volume academic series on life after death and will be presenting at this year's conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute on the subject of artificial intelligence.