WTF Just Happened?!: All about the afterlife. No woo.

"And the idea that you would sort of blink out of existence or death, as someone like Dawkins might argue, I don't think that's a scientific statement at all. It relies on a philosophy that isn't being talked about underneath."

Despite what science says, it actually doesn't make more sense than our consciousness being downloaded by brain and continuing on after our death, that our consciousness would be created by a brain, which is non-conscious matter. What makes me a me? Where in our body is our consciousness stored? How does the English language, versus French, make us over identify with our bodies and treat temporary states as permanent? When were the first humans and do actions from that time still affect us today? Why was it that monkeys evolved the most? Could there have been a time other species, such as reptiles, evolved to the consciousness level of humans. Will a plastic eating bacteria save us? No you don't need to believe in God to think there is an afterlife.

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Matthew Riddle of Consciousness Matters and Darren McEnaney of Seeking I delve into the philosophy of science, afterlife and consciousness.

What we talk about in this Episode:

- What exactly is philosophy? It seems to mean something different to all three of them, and what role does science play in philosophy.

- Is consciousness created by the brain? That is seemingly the scientifically logical explanation, but when you start examining, it is not necessarily as logical as it seems.

- They discuss one of the biggest philosophical questions, what makes "me myself" or what makes "you yourself." How much are innate personality traits? How much personality is biological? If we have past lives, does that contribute to who we are in any way.

- Where in our body is our consciousness stored? Is it really only our brain? We also feel so much in other parts of our body, such as our gut.

- If we do live previous lives, how does that impact our life today? Every action by every person in history has impacted the world today in some way.

- When were the first humans. Could there have been other civilizations way before the first known humans, who were wiped out? Or self destructed.

- You do not need to believe in God to think there is an afterlife.

- How psychedelics were transformative and eye-opening into other states of consciousness for Matt.

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Don’t you wish you could know what your animal wants to tell you? Or that a medium can connect with your animal who has passed away? What happens to our animals when they die? Sam Rosso @ourwildwithin is a psychic medium and animal communicator. This means she can communicate with living as well as animals who have passed away. She also gets messages from people who have passed away. She also teaches Breathwork. She used to work at Google until she began to learn that she actually had psychic abilities which at first shocked and baffled her.

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What we talk about in this Episode:

- Sam shares how she was in "normal" corporate job at Google. She began a journey of self-discovery where she found her path. She became a coach, helping women grow and develop their businesses. During this time she began meditating frequently and was confused when she began to get "messages." 

- She began to have many "weird" experiences and even began to get messages from her grandmother who had passed away.

- She reached out to other psychic mediums and found both mentorship and frauds. Her story of being scammed will help serve as a warning for what to avoid.

- In what ways was Sam getting messages from spirits. How did she know this was what was going on?

- Sam was terrified at first when she began to get messages from spirits. Why was she scared? Why do people find "ghosts," who are just those of us who have passed away, including our loved ones, scary.

- How did Sam know she was not just hallucinating? Also, if these deceased people appear, how does she know she is not actually seeing a real person?

- Can anyone, even skeptical Liz, have psychic medium abilities?

- How did Sam begin to communicate with animals? How did the adoption and rescue of her wolf-dog help with this?

- What were some of the most evidential examples of animal readings that Sam has given? 

- How can we all better connect with and understand our animals? What is the biggest misconception we have about animals?

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Mariah Kunau, who refers to herself as the Paranormal Concierge discusses channeling, mediumship and what is the strongest evidence of an afterlife that she has encountered. Mariah was in the Netflix, Surviving Death docuseries, where she investigates a haunted house, and gives us a behind the scenes view into her paranormal exploration. She explains ways we can communicate on our own with our loved ones who have passed, answers if mediums who have passed are better communicators with this side than "normal" people and gives her thoughts on why some of us get many more signs and communications from our deceased loved ones, while some of us get very little or none.

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As a psychic, medium and paranormal investigator, Mariah is here to help people discover, understand and unfold the truths and magic about the world of the paranormal. She had dedicated many years to not only properly develop her abilities, but she has studied parapsychology and has investigated numerous 'haunted' locations throughout the country. It's her mission to bridge the knowledge between 'science' and the Spirit World during her paranormal investigations. Mariah takes great pride working with integrity, transparency and authenticity.

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This is a special episode launching WTF Just Happened?!'s Million Dollar Consciousness Challenge of Gilead contest. This is a contest where WTF Just Happened?! will offer one million dollars to anyone who can prove, through a scientific, peer reviewed study that demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that consciousness is created in human beings at the moment of conception. Note this cannot be belief based, it must be scientifically valid.*

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This challenge is inspired by the Amazing Randi's one million dollar challenge, where stage magician James Randi, offered one million dollars to anyone who demonstrated they had psychic, mediumship or any other "paranormal" abilities. No one ever won, which does not mean that no one has these abilities. That is another topic, which has been discussed on this podcast in Episode 14 - The Blue Lady of The Moss Beach Distillery with Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach and Episode 8 - The Evidence that Convinced Two Skeptics There is an Afterlife with Darren McEnaney of Seeking I.

There was another high money challenge that recently was proposed by Robert Bigelow of The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies, offering up to $500,000 for the essay that provided the best evidence of an afterlife. The top three prizes went to: First place $500,000 was awarded to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, 2nd Prize $300,000, Pim van Lommel M.D., 3rd Prize $150,000, Leo Ruickbie Ph.D. There were other awards given to those not in the top three, and their essays are worth reading.

*This means that the scientific community would come to a consensus that this has been proven. Apparently in the United States of America, laws are being passed that apply to women (only in certain states who are only in certain socio-economic income brackets, where they cannot afford to take a day or two off and fly to another state) imposing this what can only now be interpreted as a religious belief. I would be curious to see if there is actual valid evidence that could prove this astronomical claim. To be eligible for the one million dollars, the scientific community must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, as well as me that consciousness is created at conception.

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Jacob Cooper, LCSW, RMT + CH. Author of Life After Breath

When Jacob "died" when he was only 4 years old, he experienced what is called an NDE - Near Death Experience. He stopped breathing from an undiagnosed whooping cough while playing on a slide at the playground. As he was rushed to the hospital, he "crossed over" and experienced what happens when we die. After gaining the wisdom, he had to return to his life a as a child. Years later, (Jacob is now in his 30's) he remembers his NDE as if it was yesterday. To this day, he is not only still transformed from this experience, he is convinced that yes we really do survive death.

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Are Near Death Experiences genuine evidence of what happens when we die, tricks of the brain to help us cope with fear or death, hallucinations based on trauma and oxygen deprivation? Listen to what an expert who has been researching NDE's for years has to say on the topic.

Dr. Jan Holden is an NDE (Near Death Experiences) researcher who is at the top of her field. She has been researching NDE's since the 1970s, is an author on the topic and president of IANDS - International Association for Near Death Studies.

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NDE's (Near Death Experiences) are when someone is clinically dead (or close to it) for a set period of time before being medically resuscitated. During this time people report floating above their body, describe the hospital room and often details of what was going on, such as what doctors and nurses were saying or doing. But are these genuine evidence of what happens when we die or hallucinations with logical and material explanations?

Dr. Holden shares remarkable stories of "veridical perceptions" which is when what people see and perceive during NDE's turns out to be verified by the doctor or other credible witnesses such as their family members. People often report seeing deceased loved ones during NDE's, but when people also see loved ones who died suddenly and no one knew they were deadDoes that mean our loved ones who passed away chose not to be with us? As someone in grief, Liz finds that hard to face, and Dr. Holden discusses her thoughts on that topic. These are just some of the aspects of NDE's that Dr Holden, an expert in the field, discusses with Liz and Darren.

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Annette Marinaccio, author of "Your Soul Focus: You Believe in the Afterlife, Don't You?".

Liz continues her conversation about the evidence of an afterlife that convinced Annette, a logical-minded accountant, not prone to belief or fantasy that there really is an afterlife.

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Annette had been so amazed by some evidential readings she had with two different psychic mediums, that she took her parents to one of the medium's group readings. Her father was just as stunned as Annette was, when her uncle, his deceased brother came through letting everyone know he was still around.

But no matter how much evidence of an afterlife anyone gets, the two discuss that still, no one can really know what is going on. We are still limited by our 3 dimensional human lives. We can't understand things such as other dimensions or infinity. But are we even supposed to know? Maybe it would ruin our lives for us if we did know. Maybe we come here for a purpose and if we knew too much this would distract us from our purpose. Or make everything we were supposed to do while on earth feel irrelevant.

The two discuss time and how time is relative both here and on the other side. While everyone from mediums to people who have had near death experiences all say time is different on the other side, Annette offers her theory as to why. They both discuss past life memories. Why do some people (although very few) actually have strong memories of a past life? .

Annette shares how profoundly her life view has changed since studying all this evince of an afterlife. She also wants to remind people that she really has seen so much paradigm shifting and substantial evidence that yes, we do survive death.

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A left-brained accountant and afterlife evidence. Author of "Your Soul Focus" Annette Marinaccio

Annette Marinaccio is the author of "Your Soul Focus: You Believe in the Afterlife, Don't You?". Annette is a left-brained, logical accountant who had never given the afterlife much thought until after her mother-in-law passed away in 2006 and weird things began to happen. When she shared the inexplicable happenings her friend posed the question, "You believe in the afterlife, don't you?" Annette was baffled. Is that what people believed? What did she think?

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Annette is not the type to just believe without evidence, but so many things began to happen, that she started to think her mother in law must be behind this. Like Liz, she then set out to delve into the possibility of an afterlife and was pretty amazed at what she discovered.

Annette shares how her mother-in-law first gave an inexplicable sign to let her granddaughter (Annette's daughter) know she was still around. At first Annette was worried that her daughter was taking the loss of her grandmother so badly that she was hallucinating. But then too many coincidences happened which culminated in a very evidential medium reading.

She went on to get another medium reading from someone else. Annette even shared what happened in the medium reading with her dad, who verified even further that the reading was accurate. Although he was pretty shocked and confused that this could even happen.

After Annette wrote her book about afterlife evidence, she even had moments where she got some inexplicable information herself. This is not something someone as logical as Annette would say lightly. Annette explains that she has been lucky to always have had good medium readings, unlike Liz, who had some bad ones. Annette shares more amazing and inexplicable information that these mediums got which made her unable to deny something was going on, and that we most likely survive bodily death.

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Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach answers if he will take on any case or reporting of paranormal activity? What are red flags that will cause him to turn down a case? What did a very skeptical ex-Navy Seal Officer tell Loyd about a ghost referred to as The Blue Lady ghost that convinced him this was genuine. He had been working on this case for years and was amazed to get this inexplicable verification. If psychics are real why do they never stop earth quakes and win the lottery? Why has no one won James Randi's offer to give a million dollars to anyone who proves they have "paranormal" abilities.

Parapsychologist, mentalist, and author Loyd Auerbach speaks with Liz of WTF Just Happened?! and Darren of Seeking I. Darren is a self described "lay researcher of consciousness focused on anomalous experience and life beyond physical death." Loyd is a leading parapsychologist in the field with a masters degree in Parapsychology. He is one of the main teachers at The Rhine Education Center and he is Vice President of the Forever Family Foundation. He has been doing this research for over 42 years and has authored and co-authored many books on the remarkable things he has learned and encountered as he examines if we survive death, if there really are ghosts, and many more inexplicable anomalous phenomena. Loyd takes a scientific, healthily skeptical, and logical approach to this phenomena.

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Parapsychologist, mentalist, and author Loyd Auerbach speaks with Liz of WTF Just Happened?! and Darren of Seeking I. Darren is a self described "lay researcher of consciousness focused on anomalous experience and life beyond physical death." Loyd is a leading parapsychologist in the field with a masters degree in Parapsychology. He is one of the main teachers at The Rhine Education Center and he is Vice President of the Forever Family Foundation. He has been doing this research for over 42 years and has authored and co-authored many books on the remarkable things he has learned and encountered as he examines if we survive death, if there really are ghosts, and many more inexplicable anomalous phenomena. Loyd takes a scientific, healthily skeptical, and logical approach to this phenomena.

Full show notes on Lois the Ghost and Evidence of an Afterlife. Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach.

Loyd answers if he always thought there was an afterlife or paranormal abilities and shares who and what influenced his fascination from a young age.

What are the differences between Skeptics vs pseudo skeptics. Loyd had some amazing experiences in his over 40 years of research. He shares two of the most remarkable things he encountered, that also were verified. He credits some of the most remarkable experiences to working with a top psychic medium, Alex Tanous who secretly had worked with the FBI and police. To learn from a true and lifelong expert in the field of parapsychology, this is the episode.

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