COMMENTARY:
THE MIND IS NOT THE BRAIN
Materialists claim that once the brain ceases to function,
we cease to exist. In their view, our consciousness,
our sense of ourselves, is an illusion created by the
physical brain and therefore life after death cannot
exist.
Dr.
Craig Hogan Ph.D., President of AREI, has put together
three videos which assemble the evidence that "The
mind is not created by the brain, is not housed in the
brain and does not use the brain to function in the
material realm.' He explains that understanding this
is fundamental to understanding the nature of the
greater reality.
In the
first video, (below) he looks at the evidence that:
1) the brain does not have the capacity to hold a life's
memories
2) remote viewers can see without eyes or brain
3) near-death experiencers, including people blind from
birth, see and hear things without eyes or brain involved.
In the
second video, he shows that:
4) some people function perfectly well without a brain
5) some people with deteriorated brains recover before
passing
6) bodies react to images before the brain processes
them
7) savants display motor skills their brain cannot provide
8) people function normally after leaving the body
9) people can have sudden changes in their whole personality
with a different language and knowledge
10) no electricity or other physical means of transmission
travels over sensory nerves during thinking or sensory
awareness.
In the
third video, Craig concludes that there is only
the mind.
DR. PIM VAN LOMMEL TALKS ABOUT THE FALSE ASSUMPTION
THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS A PRODUCT OF THE BRAIN Mel
Van Dusen interviews renowned cardiologist Pim van Lommel
about his research into the near-death experience and
its implications for a radically new paradigm for living
in the 21st century.
NIKOLA TESLA
a very important scientist and
inventor who is collaborating with ITC researchers from
the afterlife realm said it best:
“The day science begins to study non-physical
phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade
than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
To understand the true nature of the universe, one must
think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
SARAH AND BRENT HINZE: VISIONS OF FUTURE CHILDREN IN
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES For
over 20 years the authors have pioneered a groundbreaking
new area of research: the Pre-birth Experience (PBE).
A PBE is a spiritual experience or vision that involves
contact with one or more unborn souls. A PBE can occur
during an NDE or in other ways. The authors have collected
hundreds of these accounts.
Read more about Pre-birth experiences.
TEMPESTINA TEAPOT BOOKS IS NOW
ONLINE Many
of you who know and love August Goforth's The
Risen books will be pleased to learn that he has
created a small press and is now publishing his own
books as well as
N. Riley Heagerty's two
new books:The Direct
Voice and Spectral Evidence Volume 1.(see
next item). Read
more...
"SPECTRAL EVIDENCE VOLUME 1"
We have often talked
about the importance of preserving the knowledge of
the great mediums of the past and are seriously indebted
to historian N. Riley Heagerty for his books on Emily
French and The
Bangs Sisters. Now he has published a wonderful
new book, Spectral Evidence: Volume 1. It is the first
in a series, about well-documented evidence of some
of the greatest mediums from the astounding records
of Historic Spiritualism. From famous lawyers, doctors
and every walk of life and intellect, these are the
eye-witness documents that for the most part have been
swept under the carpet of prejudice and denial. Read
more...
SANDRA CHAMPLAIN
INTERVIEWS TRACY SOUSSI Helping
Parents Heal is near and dear to Tracy Soussi, an
amazing woman who is an affiliate leader in Helping
Parents Heal Online Group. She’s also a Board
Member for The
SoulPhone Foundation. On this episode, we hear about
her journey from devastating grief to learning that
the afterlife exists and to sharing and making a profound
difference in many lives.
INSTRUMENTAL TRANS-COMMUNICATION
(ITC) WILL REVOLUTIONIZE KNOWLEDGE OF THE AFTERLIFE We
are informed that the afterlife scientists are working
very hard to perfect ITC - and when that happens, an
afterlife revolution will take place because we would
actually watch and hear people - including VIP's - as
they were on earth and with the voices they had on earth.
This, in fact, is going on to-day but those involved
are keeping quiet about it. More about this magnificent
phenomenon later on. See Dr.
Senkowski's magnificent book on ITC
BRILLIANT ITC AND EVP VIDEO
We can't start the year without looking once again at
Dan Drasin's wonderful video about
EVP and ITC Calling Earth firstcame
out in 2014 but he has added sections to it twice. You
can see it on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/101171248.
Lovely to see German physicist and ITC pioneer, Dr.
Ernst Senkowski, Tom and Lisa Butler and Alexander MacRae.
And don't miss the most impressive stunning 5-minute
conclusion "What Does it all Mean?" at 1 hour
and 30 minutes.
AREI ZOOM GROUPS WEEK STARTING 21st January
Like-minded people will be gathering
together all over the world this week to share afterlife
experiences, learn skills and make new friends (See
a short video of a recent discussion below). Wendy
and Karyn will be hosting a group for people in Australia,
UK, and Europe; Susan Barnes and Norma Turner will be
starting mediumship development groups; Sheila Lowe
will be inviting you to explore automatic writing; William
Murray will be exploring ways to have closer connections
with departed soul mates and Joy Collins will be hosting
a group on facebook for people who are relatively new
to afterlife communication. To learn more, contact the
group leaders and read the full program go to victorzammit.com/zoom/
THE AREI GLOBAL GATHERING ON
ZOOM ON SUNDAY
is designed to be a time for AREI special interest groupsto come together to network
and talk with experts in their fields. Next Sunday 21st
January 2018 the very popular Australian medium
Louise Hermann will lead a discussion about developing
different kinds of mediumship (mental/ trance/ physical
and healing). To participate click the link: https://zoom.us/j/7595332928
12 noon Pacific time 1 p.m. Arizona time 2 p.m. Central
time 3 p.m. New York time, 8 p.m. London time, and 7
a.m. Monday Sydney time --
see time in other cities
FORGIVENESS DAY I
suggest that we should have one day a year where we
make an effort to forgive all those who in some way
have hurt us.
Forgiveness is a sure way of gaining spiritual refinement.
On many occasions, I have heard mediums say that, once
people cross over, their perspectives change. Often
people who were separated by small grudges while alive
seem to be reconciled. The more advanced spirits ask
their relatives to forgive the person who was responsible
for their death and not to seek revenge. Forgiveness
seems to be an important lesson for us to learn both
here and when we cross over. So let us pick a day of
the year - and call it FORGIVENESS DAY!
QUESTION: Are mediums reading the minds of the sitters? Victor:
'Proxy sitting’ refers to a situation where a
person attends a mental mediumship session on behalf
of somebody
else. The medium would be giving messages for an unknown
person who not present. Even the sitter may not know
the person they the proxy for. How can that be mind
reading? One afterlife investigator, the Rev. Charles
Drayton Thomas, was involved in many proxy sittings.
Professor Emily
Williams Kelly in her paper Directions
for Mediumship Research reviews the past work on
proxy sittings and argues that there is an urgent need
to conduct more modern studies using this method (p.256
- 279). Raising funds to support
this kind of research is one of the goals of the Afterlife
Research and Education Institute.
QUESTION: Will a family on earth
continue to survive in the afterlife as the same family?
Victor:
There are what one could call 'Family
Soul Groups' - but these groups are not based on 'blood'
relationship at all. They are based on a 'spiritual'
relationship. It is possible, even likely, that a member
of your physical family on earth is from your Soul Group.
Those who study reincarnation claim that we reincarnate
with members of our soul group in different relationships:
fathers become sons, wives become brothers.
But there are some families where the children do not
have a close spiritual relationship with their parents
or siblings and on crossing over they would be just
like other spirits with no special connection to you.
Read
more...
LESSONS FROM THE DYING By
having an opportunity to work closely with the dying,
Marie-Jo Cleghorn learned three lessons that have given
her a unique perspective on why your words matter and
how to make our time count.
TRUE WEALTH AND TRUE NOBILITY "Rank,
title, profession or calling, the colour of skin - what
are these in the sight of the Great Spirit? True wealth
and true nobility are of the soul, the spirit, the mind;
for these are the eternal realities...I know it is hard
for you who are encased in matter to think in terms
of spiritual reality, but that is the purpose of my
return, to try and help you adjust yourselves to get
the true perspective of life." (Ortzen (ed)
A Voice in the Wilderness p. 48)
TOUCHING HEAVEN: MEDIUMSHIP
DEMONSTRATION WITH SUSANNE WILSON This
is a rare opportunity to see this wonderful medium live.
Susanne's events are very popular and sell out fast.
Susanne will explain signs from spirit loved ones &
ways to make your own spirit connection. The majority
of time will be spent giving messages from people &
pets in spirit. Where: Doubletree Paradise Valley/Scottsdale
ARIZONA USA [a chance to check out the venue for the
2018 AREI
Symposium]. WHEN: Wednesday, January 31st 7 p.m.
- 9 p.m. More
details and bookings
1) "Thank you so much Victor &
Wendy. You guys are the best for informing us with vital
information concerning the afterlife evidence, you have
helped me so much with the questions I have sent to
you. Last night in my dream I saw my dad, in a different
appearance, much younger & so happy, I've never
seen him like that, so chilled & happy! He asked
me for a cuddle, something he never did when he was
alive, it was lovely & so lovely to see him unconditionally
happy." Rose xxx
2) "Another Friday already? Thank you Victor and
Wendy!"
Lorrie
3) "I wanted you to know that I will include a
chapter on Rev. James Dickson in my Spectral Evidence
II. Looking forward to Scottsdale. Namaste' & Blessings."
Riley Heagerty
INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: ONE OF THE
MOST BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS OF ALL "Make
me a Channel of Your Peace", sung
by the student choir of Dragon School Oxford,
is attributed to the 13th-century saint, Francis of Assisi.
However, the prayer in its present form cannot be traced
back further than 1912 when it was printed in France in
French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette
(The Little Bell) as an anonymous prayer. Read
more about the "Prayer of St Francis".
Whilst we encourage and we publish many papers and reports
by afterlife researchers, we are not in a position to
guarantee the accuracy of all claims. We accept the
imputed claim that the afterlife and paranormal research
done by the researchers is done in good faith. ALL WORK
IS COPYRIGHT BY THE CONDITIONS SET AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE
ON COPYRIGHT.
COMMENTARY:
THE MIND IS NOT THE BRAIN
Materialists claim that once the brain ceases to function,
we cease to exist. In their view, our consciousness,
our sense of ourselves, is an illusion created by the
physical brain and therefore life after death cannot
exist. 
Dr.
Craig Hogan Ph.D., President of AREI, has put together
three videos which assemble the evidence that "The
mind is not created by the brain, is not housed in the
brain and does not use the brain to function in the
material realm.' He explains that understanding this
is fundamental to understanding the nature of 
and
inventor who is collaborating with ITC researchers from
the afterlife realm said it best:
Many
of you who know and love August Goforth's 
talked
about the importance of preserving the knowledge of
the great mediums of the past and are seriously indebted
to historian N. Riley Heagerty for his books on 
We
are informed that the afterlife scientists are working
very hard to perfect ITC - and when that happens, an
afterlife revolution will take place because we would
actually watch and hear people - including VIP's - as
they were on earth and with the voices they had on earth.
This, in fact, is going on to-day but those involved
are keeping quiet about it. More about this magnificent
phenomenon later on. See 
about
EVP and ITC Calling Earth first came
out in 2014 but he has added sections to it twice. You
can see it on Vimeo at 
January
Like-minded people will be gathering
together all over the world this week to share afterlife
experiences, learn skills and make new friends (See
SUNDAY
is designed to be a time for AREI special interest groups
to come together to network
and talk with experts in their fields. Next Sunday 21st
January 2018 the very popular Australian medium
Forgiveness is a sure way of gaining spiritual refinement.
On many occasions, I have heard mediums say that, once
people cross over, their perspectives change. Often
people who were separated by small grudges while alive
seem to be reconciled. The more advanced spirits ask
their relatives to forgive the person who was responsible
for their death and not to seek revenge. Forgiveness
seems to be an important lesson for us to learn both
here and when we cross over. So let us pick a day of
the year - and call it FORGIVENESS DAY! 
somebody
else. The medium would be giving messages for an unknown
person who not present. Even the sitter may not know
the person they the proxy for. How can that be mind
reading? One afterlife investigator, the Rev. Charles
Drayton Thomas, was involved in many proxy sittings.
Professor 
There are what one could call 'Family
Soul Groups' - but these groups are not based on 'blood'
relationship at all. They are based on a 'spiritual'
relationship. It is possible, even likely, that a member
of your physical family on earth is from your Soul Group.
Those who study reincarnation claim that we reincarnate
with members of our soul group in different relationships:
fathers become sons, wives become brothers. 
"Rank,
title, profession or calling, the colour of skin - what
are these in the sight of the Great Spirit? True wealth
and true nobility are of the soul, the spirit, the mind;
for these are the eternal realities...I know it is hard
for you who are encased in matter to think in terms
of spiritual reality, but that is the purpose of my
return, to try and help you adjust yourselves to get
the true perspective of life." (Ortzen (ed)
A Voice in the Wilderness p. 48) 
This
is a rare opportunity to see this wonderful medium live.
Susanne's events are very popular and sell out fast.
Susanne will explain signs from spirit loved ones &
ways to make your own spirit connection. The majority
of time will be spent giving messages from people &
pets in spirit. 
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