The Scientific Case for Survival

Although brought up in a Christian background, by my late teens I was an atheistic Leftwing activist in the peace movement.

It was the book ‘Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain’ by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder which alerted me to the possibility of an existence beyond the physical. Soviet scientists had discovered that all living organisms have a bioplasma (i.e. astral) body which was a blueprint for the physical one. Disorders showed up in bioplasma before appearing in the physical body, and experiments showed the bioplasma body could survive damage to the physical one. Kirlian Photography, also a Soviet discovery, was able to photograph this bioplasma.

Meeting my gay life-partner in 1970, a great believer in Spirit, he influenced me while alive, and even more so in direct communications since passing to Spirit. He materialized, talked to me and touched my face at a recent David Thompson physical séance, and he has also materialized spontaneously or talked directly to friends of ours.

I’ve learnt since the early days how many scientists past and present, many skeptical at first, have investigated evidence for the afterlife and found it to be proven beyond doubt. Many of the pioneers of television, radio and other inventions endorsed Spiritualism, including Alfred Russel Wallace, who first came up with the theories of Evolution and Natural Selection.

Not only has physical mediumship been pronounced genuine by many scientists and investigators, there is also instrumental transcommunication (ITC) using technologies such as radio, television, telephones, computers, tape recorders, etc. NDEs and OOBEs also provide strong evidence that the bioplasma/astral body can separate from the physical and survive death. All this was hard evidence for the afterlife, but until recently no scientific theory could account for such a phenomenon.

However, the theories of engineer Ronald Pearson (below) do so because he was able to think ‘outside the box’ imposed upon orthodox scientists and physicists. Seeing all the flaws in Albert Einstein’s theories, which even Einstein himself admitted on his 70th birthday in 1949, Pearson went back to the drawing board.

Orthodox scientists are in a cul-de-sac.

To make their incorrect theories fit the facts, these scientists have tied themselves in knots inventing concepts such as ‘dark energy’ to try to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. Admitting they are wrong and that mavericks like Pearson are right would mean losing their research grants and bar them from publishing in scientific journals. This has happened to other mavericks, like Galileo, for instance.

Up till now, Pearson has only been able to get published privately, on the Internet and in scientific journals in Russia, but he is slowly breaking through, with a recent broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Pearson’s theories go back to before Einstein and revive the concept of the ether permeating the Universe. He calls it the ‘intelligent ether’ or ‘i-ther’, a brain-like matrix composed of pure energy. It accounts for the Intelligent Design obviously behind life, evolution and the multi-verse.

The Campaign for Philosophical Freedom by Michael Roll (below) promotes the theories of Pearson and the rationalist case for the afterlife. They use the term Survivalism to distinguish it from Spiritualism which despite starting from an empirical basis based on experimentation, has become greatly distorted by religious and pseudo-religious trappings. The teachings of Silver Birch and others make clear we are all responsible for our own actions, and the law of cause and effect, or karmic justice, will prevail. There can be no absolution by priests, blood sacrifices or Saviors from on High.