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 Schwartz applies procedures of experimentation that no honest skeptic could argue with.

host of "Crossing Over with John Edward"

This book is an absolute must-own and must-read for anyone who struggles with faith, love, death, and aspects of divinity.

spiritual medium, and author of Talking to Heaven

Science meets Spiritualism in this extraordinarily precise and detailed chronicle of experiments, proving once again that the consciousness survives physical death. It is one of the most important books written on this subject.

Daring to risk his worldwide academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked some of the most prominent mediums in America — including John Edward, Suzanne Northrup, and George Anderson — to participate in a series of stringently controlled experiments.

The book, coauthored with bestselling writer William L. Simon, describes in fascinating, fast-reading style how the results banished Dr. Schwartz's skepticism and filled him with a sense of wonder and awe.

Through electrifying transcripts and eye-witness commentary, Schwartz and Simon put readers right on the scene as the mediums contacted dead friends and relatives of "sitters, " people unknown to the mediums and even in remote locations. The messages they received ranged from moving revelations about a son's suicide to a father's thoughts during his last days in a coma, to an uncanny forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Based on the most objective, untainted, and convincing evidence ever collected, The Afterlife Experiments will reshape the way we think about the boundary between life and death.

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