WHAT IF YOU REALLY KNEW THAT THERE IS NO DEATH? We are so fortunate to be living at a time when there is an explosion of information available about what REALLY happens when we die. When we first started researching the afterlife (around 1990), the only relevant books that we could find were in esoteric or occult bookshops and libraries. Today, thanks to the World Wide Web, anyone searching for information on the evidence for life after death will find a huge amount of information if they know what to look for.
The Friday Afterlife Report, which is now entering its 25th year of weekly publication, provides constant updates and bite-sized items that lead to great websites, books, videos, and recent developments in the field. Our Facebook pages and Afterlife Zoom Meetings provide places where people can build community, share experiences, and resources, and collaborate on projects.
We look forward to working with all of you in 2024 and onwards to continue to spread the knowledge that "there is no death, and that there are no dead".
MATT FRASER TALKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
Matt Fraser is a young medium with a self-described "outrageous personality". Using all the tools of contemporary media, he is taking the message of life after death far and wide with a special appeal to young people.
He has a reality
TV show, does many live interviews, does live readings and chats on YouTube, has a huge presence on social media, writes books, and does extensive touring.
HIGH-LEVEL RESEARCH INTO MEDIUMSHIP "Communication with the deceased is a normal and useful aspect of cultures all over the world. Although it is possible for anyone to experience communication from the deceased, a medium is someone who has this experience regularly, reliably, and often on-demand". Check out the research performed since 2001 with mental mediums as reviewed by Dr. Julie Beischel in the PSI Encyclopedia. Read more.
DON'T TRUST WIKIPEDIA ON ANYTHING PARANORMAL Every entry about a medium or psychic researcher or altenative medicine in Wikipedia is deliberately negative. Their strategy is to ignore years of positive investigations and quote one negative critic. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake explains:
"It's been a battleground for years, where Guerrilla skeptics and other dogmatic activists dominate the content, preventing others from changing the text, even to correct errors, by automatically reversing their edits, banning people who continue to try, and other unsavory tactics". Read more and see Skeptical About Skeptics.
The Psi Encyclopedia is a new collection of articles and case studies about psi research, the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. It’s a work in progress, being created by the Society for Psychical Research in London.
CLASSIC RESEARCH RE-PRESENTED FOR A MODERN AUDIENCE
Dr. Keith Parsons is a retired current affairs radio producer who spent many years with BBC World Service, London, often traveling the world while making documentaries on international politics and economics. In 2008, when he became annoyed about the skeptical bias in TV documentaries about the afterlife, he decided to use his professional skills to do something about it. Since then, he has created 50 wonderful documentaries on evidence for the afterlife. Treating each topic from the point of view of an investigative reporter, he argues logically and eloquently for the evidence to be taken seriously. Read Mike Tymn's excellent interview with Keith.
ONE OF THE GREATEST SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
Silver Birch was a spirit teacher who spoke through Maurice Barbanell (1902-1981), founder and editor of the Psychic News of London, England. He was one of the influential spiritual commentators of the mid-20th Century who drew our attention to the coming of a miraculous “New World".
Silver Birch was not himself an American Indian. He was too far removed from the Earth to communicate directly, so he used a North American Indian in the astral world to relay his messages to Maurice Barbanell. He received his information from a collective of higher spirits. As he put it:
“There is a vast concourse, all with wills perfectly attuned, with minds in harmony, with souls all at one. They use me, even as I use this instrument, to tell your world the truths that have been buried for too long but which are now being restored and given their rightful place in the lives of thousands of men and women." Read more about who Silver Birch is.
HOLIDAY READING FROM STEVE BECKOW Steve Beckow is the creator of the brilliant "New Maps of Heaven", a data-base on life after death compiled from Spiritualism's respected sources (see Bibliography).
He has also compiled a database of the teachings of Silver Birch which you can download in pdf format and search for specific topics. Steve will be co-presenting at the Global Gathering on Sunday 7th January, comparing what "New Maps of Heaven" says with Barbara Peterson's observations from more than 20 years of end-of-life caring.
ITC PIONEER MARCELLO BACCI
Marcello Bacci in Grosseto Italy was a model of quiet service of spirit. He was a leading researcher in Instrumental Transcommunication. Bacci used an old valve radio tuned to white noise in the short wave band. For 35 years, he held free sessions on Friday nights for parents whose children had transitioned. Many claimed to be able to hear the voices of their deceased children responding to questions in real-time. Bacci welcomed scientists and other afterlife investigators. In 2004 a team of researchers including Dr. Anabela Cardoso, Dr. Mario Salvatore Festa, Prof David Fontana, and Dr. Paolo Presi traveled to Grosseto Italy to investigate the voices.
They concluded: "The results of this experiment, taken together with those yielded by the 2002 experiment of Professor Festa and Franco Santi, provide firm evidence of the authenticity of the Bacci voices." Read their report.
WE SALUTE HIGHLY GIFTED MEDIUM BERTHA HARRIS
The vast majority of trance mediums bring through only one, or a small number of regular communicators, rather than friends and relatives of the sitter. Bertha Harris was an exception. During the decades after WWII, Harris emerged as one of the most prominent London mediums. In private sittings, she usually went into a trance and was taken over by the communicating spirit. One sitter wrote: "A dead man, my father, had returned, and was talking to me as intimately as in life. Full names, incidents, intimate things only applicable to the one communicating, sometimes predictions, come in a quick flow which starts almost as soon as the sitter comes into her presence, and her gift has given evidence of survival to thousands." Read more.
MEDIUM JOHN EDWARD CHATS WITH ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT CHAZ PALMINTERI
A relaxed talk between friends about religion, family, psychometry, "ambush readings", being wrong, getting initials rather than names, tarot cards, symbolism, the timing of events, Zoom events, private readings, being accused of using Google, fake psychics, astrology, doing a reading for a Mafioso and how he hears messages.
DO YOU LIVE ON SYDNEY'S NORTHERN BEACHES? WE'D LOVE TO CONNECT
Northern Beaches Spiritualists (Sydney, Australia) is a new spirit-inspired venture having its second face-to-face meeting on Friday 5th January 2024, at Manly Vale Community Centre 2 Innes Road Manly Vale Sydney
Join Victor and Wendy, and Paul Hinson there at 7 p.m. We will be meeting face-to-face on the first Friday of every month and also on Zoom on the 3rd Friday of the month.
The guest medium on Friday 5th January 2024 will be Marcia Quinton. She has been an International Clairvoyant and Medium for over 40 years. She has met with thousands of clients to support and guide them on their spiritual journey. Marcia is also a powerfully advanced trance channeller, Reiki healer, rescue medium, spiritual counsellor, and workshop leader. Marcia is a passionate Inspirational writer.
She can be contacted through her webpage.
Email books@victorzammit.com for more details.
Saturday December 30th 2023 / Sunday December 24th in Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro.
A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See videos of previous meetings
Times:
Pacific time 1 p.m. Saturday
Phoenix time 2 p.m. Saturday
Mountain time 2 p.m. Saturday
Central time 3 p.m. Saturday
Eastern time 4 p.m. Saturday
London 9 p.m. Saturday
Rome 10 p.m. Saturday
Sydney/Melbourne 8 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 10 a.m. Sunday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
Sunday December 31st 2023 / Monday January 1st 2024 Australia
GLOBAL GATHERING - NEW BEGINNINGS The coming of a new year is traditionally a time to recalibrate and set intentions. Join us as we talk about things we want to learn, books, films, and projects we are being prompted to create and set intentions for 2024.
Times:
Pacific Time 12 noon Sunday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 1 p.m. Sunday
Central time 2 p.m. Sunday
Eastern time 3 p.m. Sunday
London 8 p.m. Sunday
Vienna 9 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday January 1st 2024 / Tuesday January 2nd in Australia
Life with Ghosts Zoom Chat - with filmmaker Stephen Berkley
A monthly group meets on the First Monday of the month at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Next meeting Monday 1st January 2024
Special Guest this month: medium Veronica Drake.
Stephen Berkley is the writer/director/producer of the movie "Life with Ghosts" and undertook a seven-year personal journey exploring mediumship, automatic writing, and Induced After-Death Communication at the University of North Texas to produce a film about the latest science involving the importance of continuing bonds.
See a short extract from Stephen's talk about the making of the movie.
Times:
Pacific time 5 p.m. Monday
Phoenix time 6 p.m. Monday
Mountain time 6 p.m. Monday
Central time 7 p.m. Monday
Eastern time 8 p.m. Monday
London 1 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 2 a.m. Tuesday
Sydney/Melbourne 12 noon Tuesday
New Zealand 2 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Stephen Berkley
admin@lifewithghosts.com Click this link to join.
Tuesday January 2nd 2024 / Wednesday January 3rd in Australia
Army 4 Love: Every 1st Tuesday/Wednesday of the month
Debra's Army4Love Gathering welcomes all with compassion and love and embraces everyone, particularly those who may be suffering from emotional, physical and other psychic pain. Debra enables all to safely share their experiences in her Sacred Space. In every Army4Love Gathering Debra welcomes Spirit to speak through her to the group. Each gathering will focus on a relevant topic, and Debra will ask the group to virtually hold one another in the Spirit of hope, healing and love. Debra will also provide a mini-healing for the collective at the end of each gathering. Debra’s intention is that Army4Love will help you have a greater perspective and understanding regarding your adversities while helping you release and alleviate pain.
EMAIL: Via a form on her website to avoid spam: https://www.goldenmiracles.com/contact.php Times:
Pacific time 2 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix 3 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain time (Denver) 3 p.m. Tuesday
Central time 4 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Tuesday
London 10 p.m. Tuesday
Rome 11 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday
Melbourne/Sydney 9 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 11 a.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
Tuesday January 2nd 2024 / Wednesday January 3rd in Australia
What If? With Cheryl Page
First Tuesday/ Wednesday of every month
Cheryl Page is a medical researcher and medium who dares to ask questions about what is possible with mediumship. She suggests that we inadvertently cut ourselves off from the nearly infinite possibilities that Spirit brings when we are rigid about the “right” way to practice mediumship and is looking for interested mediums or those developing to join her in some fascinating experiments.
Times:
Pacific Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Central Time 8 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 9 p.m. Tuesday
London time 2 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Wednesday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Cheryl Page
Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2716017767?
pwd=aGtML2h3d3I5bW9GYnMxQ05scjF3Zz09
Meeting ID: 271 601 7767 Passcode: 54321
Wednesday January 3rd 2024 / Thursday January 4th Australia Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with Sheila Lowe
Share resources and discuss what participants are experiencing
1st and 3rd Wednesdays.
Next meeting - January 17th - Guest Stephen Berkley. Registration form for a screening of Life With Ghosts, https://www.livingwithghostsmovie.com/regsheila Times:
Pacific Time 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Phoenix 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 7.30 p.m. Wednesday
Eastern Time 8.30 p.m. Wednesday
London time 1.30 a.m. Thursday
Perth 9.30 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/ Melbourne 12.30 p.m. Thursday
New Zealand 2.30 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city Coordinator: Sheila Lowe sheila@sheilalowe.com https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87248527074?
pwd=cXNNZERDbGtSc3VWU3hCQ05OSlFndz09
[if the room is not open email Sheila]
Wednesday January 3rd 2024 / Thursday January 4th Australia
USA- based Physical mediumship development group Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena. THIS GROUP IS CURRENTLY TAKING NEW MEMBERS
Times:
Pacific 6 p.m. Wednesday
Arizona 7 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 7 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 8 p.m. Wednesday
New York time 9 p.m. Wednesday
London 2 a.m. Thursday
Perth 10 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Thursday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org
Thursday January 4th 2024 / Friday January 5th Australia
1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
August, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, leads a participatory "Exploratorium" where readers of the book "The Risen" will be encouraged to offer ponderings and ideas on grief and growth. Free pdf copies of the book are available here.
This group meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
Times:
Pacific time 12 noon Thursday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Thursday
Mountain time 1 p.m. Thursday
Central time 2 p.m. Thursday
New York time 3 p.m. Thursday
London 8 p.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Friday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Friday Check time in your city
Contact: Glangley@mcn.org
A FINAL WORD FROM SILVER BIRCH "Keep radiant, optimistic, and cheerful. Try never to allow yourself to be downcast. The best atmosphere in which we can work, help, and guide is one in which there is no gloom, no despondency, no despair, All these blanket the aura and create obstacles that have to be surmounted".
"When things and people seem difficult sometimes, withdraw into the silence. Allow the great love emanating from our world to enfold you in its embrace and to recharge you with its power so that you emerge stronger as a result."
"More Philosophy of Silver Birch" pp.243 and 246.
FEEDBACK
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1)
"Thank you for bringing true hope and certainty in life eternal, and thank you for giving me somewhere to direct seekers and those who are desperate to understand the truth." Frances
2) "Thank you for all you have done for us in providing hope, solace and understanding that life continues on." Elizabeth
3) "As someone who has lost so many loved ones in recent years, your work is very meaningful to me. God bless you both, and happy New Year." Mary
BRILLIANT, HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: 'YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE'!
That is the powerful message for this new year. No matter what happens, you will never be abandoned, you will never be alone, there will always be those who will help you - but you have to sincerely ask for help!
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark. Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk You'll never walk
You'll never walk alone.
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.
We are so fortunate to be living at a time when there is an explosion of information available about what REALLY happens when we die. When we first started researching the afterlife (around 1990), the only relevant books that we could find were in esoteric or occult bookshops and libraries. Today, thanks to the World Wide Web, anyone searching for information on the evidence for life after death will find a huge amount of information if they know what to look for.
"Communication with the deceased is a normal and useful aspect of cultures all over the world. Although it is possible for anyone to experience communication from the deceased, a medium is someone who has this experience regularly, reliably, and often on-demand". Check out the research performed since 2001 with mental mediums as reviewed by 
Every entry about a medium or psychic researcher or altenative medicine in Wikipedia is deliberately negative. Their strategy is to ignore years of positive investigations and quote one negative critic. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake explains:
affairs radio producer who spent many years with BBC World Service, London, often traveling the world while making documentaries on international politics and economics. In 2008, when he became annoyed about the skeptical bias in TV documentaries about the afterlife, he decided to use his professional skills to do something about it. Since then, he has created 
ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE 
Steve Beckow is the creator of the brilliant 
WE SALUTE HIGHLY GIFTED MEDIUM BERTHA HARRIS 
The guest medium on Friday 5th January 2024 will be 
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro.
Debra's Army4Love Gathering welcomes all with compassion and love and embraces everyone, particularly those who may be suffering from emotional, physical and other psychic pain. Debra enables all to safely share their experiences in her Sacred Space. In every Army4Love Gathering Debra welcomes Spirit to speak through her to the group. Each gathering will focus on a relevant topic, and Debra will ask the group to virtually hold one another in the Spirit of hope, healing and love. Debra will also provide a mini-healing for the collective at the end of each gathering. Debra’s intention is that Army4Love will help you have a greater perspective and understanding regarding your adversities while helping you release and alleviate pain. 
Cheryl Page is a medical researcher and medium who dares to ask questions about what is possible with mediumship. She suggests that we inadvertently cut ourselves off from the nearly infinite possibilities that Spirit brings when we are rigid about the “right” way to practice mediumship and is looking for interested mediums or those developing to join her in some fascinating experiments. 
Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with Sheila Lowe 
Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena. 
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
