$1 Million Challenge
Preface and Conditions
Preface
One million dollars is offered to any skeptic who can rebut the
evidence for the existence of the afterlife.
The afterlife is not just a speculative claim like there may
be unicorns or there may be green cheese on the other side of
the moon. There have been top scientists, genuine mediums, and
thousands of others including empirical investigators like myself,
who experienced psi and afterlife communication.(See Chapter 2
of my book on the Net)
It is claimed that there is now a substantial body of evidence
which supports the existence of the afterlife and which taken
as a whole cannot be satisfactorily accounted for except by the
existence of the afterlife.
I have had complaints from genuine psychics and those who support
the validity of psychic phenomena that those who reject the existence
of the afterlife have never really examined the evidence.
Psychics claim they experienced a great deal of frustration when
they tried to apply for a highly publicised skeptics' one million
dollar challenge. It was put to me that the skeptics' offer is
not genuine. Also, it was suggested that the psychics ought to
put up a similar challenge reflecting the skeptics' own conditions
for the stated prize.
WHERE IS THE FUNDING? Naturally, the effort
has to be commensurate with the very high cash reward. Legal documentation
that there is one million dollars available will be shown to all
bone fides applicants and to any objective recognized
authority.
Because of the very high cash offer, the applicant has to rebut
the substantive objective evidence presented in Victor Zammit's
A Lawyer Presents
the Case for the Afterlife (http://www.victorzammit.com/book/
4th version) (see chapters 3 to 25) which includes: Materialization,
Electronic Voice Phenomena, Instrumental Transcommunication, the
Scole Experiments, Professor Gary Schwartz' Experiments, Mediumship
- Mental, Physical and Direct Voice, Xenoglossy, the Cross-Correspondences,
Proxy Sittings, Automatic Etheric Writing, Laboratory Experiments,
Poltergeists, Apparitions together with the evidence provided
by Near Death Experiences and Out of Body Experiences which psychics
claim are supportive of and are directly linked with the afterlife.
Further, the applicant has to rebut the technical afterlife evidence
presented by the following: Arthur Findlay's On the Edge of the
Etheric, Sir William Crookes' On Human Personality and Researches
in the Phenomena of Spiritualism; Sir Oliver Lodge's Raymond and
Geraldine Cummins' Swan on a Black Sea and the evidence provided
by the Inner Peace Movement.
Here is the challenge for those skeptics who have been continuously
campaigning in the media that there is no afterlife: those closed-minded
skeptics who have been crusading around the world denigrating,
destroying and demeaning the credibility of gifted psychics, trying
to dismiss the positive evidence being produced for the afterlife;
those skeptics who have been cruelly twisting and manipulating
psychic truth to reduce its effect; those who unconscionably have
tried to destroy the reputations of some of the greatest and most
brilliant 'classical' scientists and psychic writers who ever
walked this planet earth like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver
Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Findlay
and so many others!
I concede that the skeptics' offer has been used very successfully
and has provided huge propaganda against psychics. It has misled
journalists, radio and TV interviewers. It has been a powerful
tool for the dissemination of global darkness. The media's pet
rent-a-skeptic vociferates on behalf of some 2% of the population
who are closed minded skeptics yet these skeptics have been given
exaggerated time and space in the media.
Although there is sponsorship for the offer, I am fully and solely
responsible for the said offer.
Given the circumstances it is only reasonable, fair and equitable
to match and to mirror as far as possible the skeptics' fundamental
conditions one by one as the skeptics have had them on the Internet
for a number of years now. It is reiterated that these conditions
are based on the skeptics' own conditions.
NOTE CAREFULLY: The applicant is not
required to 'prove the negative' as skeptical debunkers try to
deliberately mislead readers: the evidence is positively
expressly stated (as outlined in the subject book A LAWYER PRESENTS
THE CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE). Then the onus is on the applicant
to demonstrate WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW the expressly stated
evidence is not valid.
Conditions
'The challenge' refers to the offer of one million American
dollars. The 'offeror' refers to Victor Zammit who is making the
challenge. 'The Committee' refers to a group of people expert
in afterlife evidence. The 'afterlife evidence' refers to the
evidence mentioned above in the Preface. 'Applicant' refers to
a person applying to meet 'the challenge.' Stage One refers to
the first stage of the challenge where the applicant explains
in clear terms how the applicant is intending to rebut the evidence.
Stage Two, is the stage where the applicant (as in the skeptics'
offer) becomes the claimant and clearly explains in the English
language in academically acceptable format his rebuttal of the
evidence.
1. Stage One- Initial submission.
Because there have been applicants who wasted a great deal of
our precious time and money who had not examined the evidence
in detail, it has become essential and a pre-requisite that prior
to any actual submission of any rebuttals of the evidence in Stage
Two of the Challenge, a potential applicant must initially submit
to the offeror a detailed exposition of how the applicant is going
to rebut the evidence outlined in the above Preface.Further, see
2 below.
2. The offeror and the applicant will agree that the applicant
has demonstrated the technical skills to rebut the evidence. This
is a fundamental and most important condition.
3. In relation to 2 above the decision of the offeror or his
appointed representative will be absolute, irrevocable and final.
4. The applicant agrees that all data of any sort gathered as
a result of the application may be used freely by the offeror
or the Committee in any way they choose.
5) The 'Committee' shall comprise experienced adjudicators qualified
empirically in litigation and empiricism and will be appointed
jointly by the offeror and the applicant.
6. Stage Two- Rebutting the evidence
Once agreement on condition 2 above has been reached the claimant
will submit his/her rebuttals to be placed before the Committee.
7. The applicant and the offeror accept that the decision of
the Committee in relation to the submissions will be absolute,
irrevocable and final.
8. The applicant agrees that the level of proof required to rebut
the evidence will be the Cartesian test, "beyond any doubt".
This means that there has to be absolutely no doubt at all in
the minds of the Committee that the 'evidence' has been rebutted.
9. All correspondence in this challenge must be communicated
in the English language and sent to: The Challenge, P.O. Box 1810
Dee Why, Northern Beaches, NSW Australia 2099 by registered mail.
10. All costs incurred by the applicant in relation to this challenge
will be borne by the applicant.
11. Whilst this rule is independent to and separate from the
awarding of the above stated prize, the applicant agrees not to
take legal action against the committee, the challenger or his
reprentatives in relation to anything outside
the actual challenge - the applicant is unreservedly and unqualifiedly
responsible for the applicant's own risks - physical, emotional,
psychological howsoever caused.
12. The applicant agrees that in context of this challenge the
applicant is not a commercial consumer.
13. Upon successfully proceeding to Stage Two the claimant will
be given all other relevant details.
14. Before the applicant makes a first submission (see paragraph
1 above) he/she must submit a document properly witnessed by a
litigation lawyer that the litigation lawyer has explained to
the applicant the preface and the conditions and that these have
been understood and accepted by the applicant. This submission
is to be forwarded to THE CHALLENGE, PO Box 1810, Dee Why, Northern
Beaches, NSW AUSTRALIA 2099 by registered mail. Staff check mailbox
and vet all mail every day.
Because some applicants have wasted precious time, money
and energy, three fundamental conditions have been added:
15. Because the afterlife evidence is
highly technical, first, the applicant must exhibit understanding
of iScientific Method; secondly, of the admissibility
of evidence - inter alia the differences between
objective, subjective and anecdotal evidence and thirdly, the
applicant must have been identified in recognized public
news-media that the applicant is a genuine, bona fides
investigator of the afterlife.
16. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore stated, the offeror
personally guarantees that payment of one million dollars will
be made on results as determined by the jointly
appointed committee.
-- Victor Zammit (updated 26th November 2007)
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