"Schwartz applies procedures of experimentation that no honest skeptic could argue with." ?Deepak Chopra

A respected scientist uses controlled laboratory conditions to discover astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death?

Risking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues.

Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers alike: a revelation about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Forced by data to abandon skepticism, Schwartz presents this amazing account of his groundbreaking work, compelling from first page to last.

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers and coedited eleven academic books. He is the author of The Afterlife Experiments and The Truth About Medium and coauthor of The Living Energy Universe.

William L. Simon is a screen and television writer and bestselling author.

Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century."

Foreword by Deepak Chopra

Preface: Are Life and Love Eternal?

Part I You Don't Find a Mission -- a Mission Finds You

1 The Journey Begins

2 Bringing Soul Science into the University

3 Five Words That Changed My Life

4 Here-to-There-and-Back-Again

Part II The HBO Dream-Team Experiment

5 What a Difference a Dinner Can Make

6 Mediums Read While Cameras Roll: The Patricia Readings

7 The Ronnie Readings

Interlude: A Case of Precognition?

8 HBO Results

Part III The Miraval Silent-Sitter Experiment

9 Seeking a New Design

10 The Christopher Readings

11 The Revealing Pat Price Readings

12 Is There Such a Thing as Precognition?

Part IV The Canyon Ranch Totally Silent Sitter Experiment

13 The Canyon Ranch Experiment: What if the Sitters Never Speak?

14 More Canyon Ranch: An Unexpected Visitor

Part V Discovering the Larger Reality

15 What's Fraud Got to Do with It?

Interlude: "Re-Contact"

16 Answering the Skeptics

17 The Campbell White Crow Readings

18 How Our Lives Might Change

19 Looking Forward and Outward

Appendix A: Integrating Science and Spirituality

Appendix B: The Energy Is Love

Appendix C: Journal Article on Accuracy and Replicability of After-Death Communication

Appendix D: Journal Article on Accuracy and Replicability of Anomalous Information Retrieval

Appendix E: Journal Article on the Campbell "White Crow" Readings

Acknowledgments

Recommended Readings

The Contributors/The Research Mediums

Index