Table Of ContentYour
Eternal
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R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., et alia
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents.....................................................................................iii
Preface.............................................................................................................xi
Links to the youreternalself.com Web Site.........................................xiii
Where Are You?..........................................................................................1
Science Doesn’t Know Where You Are...................................................2
Many Scientists Are Suggesting
Your Mind Is Not in Your Brain..........................................................4
The Brain Doesn’t Have the Capacity
to Hold the Mind or Memories............................................................7
Missing Large Parts of the Brain Doesn’t Affect Memory............9
People Can See, Hear, Smell, Taste,
and Touch Without Using the Brain.................................................10
The Government Found Remote Viewing Is Valid......................10
Credible Sources Involved in Government Remote
Viewing Projects Agreed It Occurred as Described................13
Repeated Research Studies Demonstrated
Remote Viewing’s Validity.........................................................13
I Can See without Using My Eyes..................................................14
What Remote Viewing Means for Where You Are......................21
Evidence We Know Information Without Using the Brain...............22
A Unified Visual Image in Our Mind Canʹt Be
Accounted for with Just Using Brain Neurons........................22
Blind People, Whose Brains Cannot Process Sight
Images, Are Able to See During Near‐Death
and Out‐of‐Body Experiences....................................................23
People Rendered Temporarily Blind Are Able
to Locate Things on a Computer Screen...................................24
Blind People Perform Actions and
Describe Colors that Show Vision..............................................24
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ʺEcholocationʺ Experiments Show Blind
People Can See without Physical Eyeballs...............................25
People See, Hear, and Remember When
the Brain Is Not Functioning..............................................................26
Sample Individual Near‐Death Experiences
Indicate the Brain Is Not Involved.............................................30
People Commonly Describe Separating the Mind
from the Body in Out‐of‐Body Experiences.............................33
Psychics Know Information the Brain and
Body Haven’t Experienced or Sensed...............................................36
The Mind Knows Information before
the Brain Can Even Have Access to It...............................................38
People React to Pictures Seconds Before Seeing Them................38
People Can Successfully Predict ʺTargetsʺ to be Shown
Before a Computer Even Selects the Target..............................39
People Successfully Anticipate Someone’s Call or Visit..............40
People React to a Touch About to Happen
Before It Even Happens to the Body.........................................41
People Prepare to Act Before the Deciding
Part of the Brain Begins to Show Activity.................................41
Scientists Have Become Convinced by the Evidence that
the Mind Knows Before Sensed Information is Available......41
People Draw Creativity from Some
Source Outside of the Brain................................................................42
Child Prodigies Have Abilities that Come
from Somewhere Other than the Brain.....................................43
Creativity Comes from Outside the Brain.....................................44
Savants Have Abilities Outside the Capabilities of Their Brains..46
The Evidence the Mind Knows without the Brain Having
Access to the Information Is Overwhelming...................................48
Dreams Don’t Play Back Memories in the Brain.................................48
How Does the Mind Interact with the Brain?..............................................49
Then Where Are You?...............................................................................50
What Are You?...........................................................................................53
Why Do Some Have Difficulty
Realizing We’re Eternal Beings?........................................................54
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Do Scientists Believe There Is an Afterlife?.........................................57
People Are Coming to Realize that the
Afterlife Is As Real As This Life........................................................61
Millions of Everyday People Are Having
After‐Death Communications............................................................61
People Having After‐Death Communications
Learn Things They Couldn’t Know Otherwise..............................64
Pre‐death and Deathbed Visions Are Common..................................66
We Know Deathbed Visions Are Not
Medical or Psychological Hallucinations..................................69
Visions Are Sometimes of Loved Ones
the Person Couldn’t Know Had Died...............................................73
People in the Room with a Dying Person
Sometimes All See the Same Vision.................................................75
Distant People Appear to Loved Ones
at the Moments of Their Deaths........................................................76
Physicians Working with the Dying Come
to Know the Reality of the Afterlife..................................................80
Skeptical Researchers Studying Mediums
Become Convinced of the Afterlife...................................................83
Distinguished Scientists Become Convinced of the Reality
of the Afterlife When They Study the Evidence......................84
Psychologists and Psychotherapists Become Convinced
of the Afterlife from Their Experiences.....................................90
Professors of the Humanities Researching the
Afterlife Become Convinced of It...............................................95
Attorneys Who Have Studied the Afterlife
Become Convinced of Its Reality...............................................98
Clergy Become Convinced of the Nature of the Afterlife
Described by Mediums, not a Distant Heavenly Realm.......100
A Church of England Committee Studying Mediums
Concluded They Speak with Those in the Afterlife..............101
Debunkers Come to Believe the Afterlife
Experiences with Mediums are Reality...................................102
The Evidence Demonstrates that Mediums Communicate
with Living People in the Afterlife.................................................103
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Researcher Robert Crookall Finds Accounts
of the Afterlife by Mediums to Be Identical...........................103
University of Arizona Experiments Demonstrated
that the Mediums Do Receive Valid Information..................104
A Second Study Also Concluded that Mediums Are Able
to Identify Details About the Deceased in Readings.............105
The Miraval Silent Sitter Experiment Showed
the Same Accuracy by Mediums..............................................105
More Stringent Studies at the University
of Arizona Yielded the Same Results......................................106
The British Admiralty Acknowledged a Medium’s Abilities...107
Medium Readings Have Revealed Information that
Could Not Be Known by the Person Being Read...................108
Family Members Have Verified that Medium Readings are
Genuine Conversations with the Deceased Loved One.......109
Rigorously Tested Physical Mediums Have Been
Shown to Be Speaking to the Deceased.........................................110
Gladys Osborne Leonard...............................................................111
Leonora Piper..................................................................................112
Rudi Schneider................................................................................114
Eileen Garrett...................................................................................115
Shirley Bray......................................................................................116
Elwood Babbitt................................................................................116
Daniel Dunglas Home....................................................................117
Leslie Flint........................................................................................118
David Thompson............................................................................119
The Scole Experiments...................................................................120
Studies of the Material from Mediums that Forms Voice Boxes
Shows Weight Loss in the Medium When It Appears................121
Materializations of Deceased People Have
Been Seen and Verified by Observers............................................122
People with Medium Abilities Have Spoken and
Written in Languages They Could Not Know...............................127
Proof the Mediums Are Speaking to Living
People on the Other Side of Life.....................................................128
Cross Correspondences..................................................................129
Proxy Sittings...................................................................................130
Near‐Death Experiences Reveal the Reality of the Afterlife...........131
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Purely Physiological Explanations for the NDE Accounts
Have Been Shown to Be Insufficient to Account for Them..133
Psychological Explanations for the NDE Accounts Have
Been Shown to Be Insufficient to Account for Them.............137
Suggestions that Descriptions of the Trauma Scene
Come from Other People Are Not Viable...............................139
Another Indication NDEs Are Real Experiences:
Children Describe Their NDEs Matter of Factly....................141
Conclusions About Near‐Death Experiences..............................141
Induced After‐Death Communications Demonstrate
the Reality of the Afterlife................................................................142
The Universe Was Uniquely Made for Us..........................................146
Your Eternal Self Defies Evolution and Entropy..............................150
The Mystics and Sages Have Known About
This Spiritual, Eternal Self for Millennia......................................151
Then What Are We?................................................................................152
How Long Will the Spiritual You Live?..............................................153
What Is Your Relationship to Other People?..........................155
Minds are Linked Outside of the Brain..............................................156
Hundreds of Experiments Have Proven
that Our Minds Are Linked......................................................156
Studies of Telepathy between Subjects Have Demonstrated
Repeatedly that Peopleʹs Minds are Linked...........................160
Other Experiments Measuring Involuntary Responses
Show that People’s Minds Are Linked....................................161
People Influence Each Other Using Their Minds.......................164
Healers’ Intentions to Link with a Receiver of the
Healing Register in the Receiver’s Body Instantly................165
Measures of Brain Waves Show People in the
Same Room Synchronize their Brain Waves..........................165
Experiments Show that Groups of Meditators 200
Kilometers Apart Can Synchronize Brain Waves..................166
Dream ESP Experiments Show Minds Are Linked....................166
People Share Induced After‐Death Communications................167
Subjects Mentally Experienced the Same Fantasy Reality........169
Students Spontaneously Imagined the Same
Images without Communicating About Them......................170
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People Know When Someone Is Staring at Them......................171
Siblingsʹ Minds Are Linked...........................................................172
Twins’ Minds Are Linked..............................................................173
People in Groups Develop a Collective
Sense Greater than the Individuals.................................................174
Data Show We Are Part of Larger Mind......................................175
What Is Your Relationship to Other People?.....................................177
What Is the Relationship of Your Eternal
Self to the Physical Realm?....................................................179
Your Mind Becomes the Experience....................................................180
The Mind Can Influence Healing of the
Body that Is in the Physical Realm..................................................181
The Mind Has Been Shown to Influence Other
Growth and Healing in the Physical Realm..................................184
Data Show the Mind Affects the World Around Us.........................185
Experiments Have Shown that Minds Can Intentionally
Influence Random‐Number Generators........................................186
Random‐Number‐Generator Studies Show that Events
Significant to People Affect the Machines....................................186
Experiments Have Shown that Minds Can Influence
Patterns in Random Noise (White Noise)......................................188
Crystals in Frozen Water Form Differently
Depending on the Attitudes of People...........................................189
We Know Our Minds Are Influencing the Physical World............190
We Are One with Nature.......................................................................191
What Are You to Do with Your Eternal Life?..........................193
What Those on the Next Planes Do Not
Describe as Our Purpose in Life......................................................194
Preparing for the Next Stages of Life..................................................195
We Are to Help Begin the Development
of Heaven on Earth for Our Descendents......................................196
Then What Are You to Do During This
Earth Phase of Your Eternal Life?....................................................196
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What Is Spirituality?............................................................................197
Spirituality Is Who You Are, Not What You Do................................197
We Were Reared to Believe Having Things and
Money Is All Thatʹs Important in Life............................................199
What Do We Really Want to Become?.................................................200
How Do You Grow Spiritually?.....................................................201
Our Assumptions Comprise Our Minds............................................202
The Assumptions Are Deeply Rooted.........................................202
We Change Our Minds from Moment to Moment....................203
We Create a Reality Where There Are Just Atoms.....................205
The Assumptions Come from Our Culture.................................206
Assumptions About the Society of Peace and Brotherhood.....209
Finding Out What Your Assumptions and Perspectives Are...210
How that Will Happen in Real Life.....................................................211
You Grow in Spiritual Maturity by
Changing Your Assumptions...........................................................214
Common Practices that May Not Aid in Spiritual Growth.............214
How Do You Grow to Make These
Assumptions Part of Your Nature?..................................................216
Be Open and Childlike...................................................................216
Be Willing to Look at Your Assumptions and Perspectives.....217
Realize the Hidden Assumptions.................................................218
Move Past Rationalizations...........................................................219
Use Emotions as Clues to Assumptions......................................220
Allow Time for the Realizations to Weave
Through All of Your Assumptions..........................................221
Don’t Judge Your Spiritual Growth as Good or Bad.................224
Emulate the Model Even If You Aren’t Comfortable
with the Assumptions Yet.........................................................225
Fill Your Life with Spiritual Experiences and People................226
Become Part of an Intimate Spiritual Group...........................227
Characteristics of Your Intimate Group.......................................229
What Are the Facts About the Afterlife?...................................233
The Sources of Our Knowledge About the Afterlife........................234
How Our Loved Ones Are.....................................................................235
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Preparation for Death.............................................................................236
At the Moment of Death........................................................................237
Awakening on the Other Side of Life.................................................237
Guides, Rescuers, and Loved Ones......................................................239
Condition after Death.............................................................................239
The Hell Myth..........................................................................................241
Environment.............................................................................................241
Occupations and Preoccupations.........................................................242
The Vastness of the Afterlife................................................................243
Spiritual Development...........................................................................243
Time...........................................................................................................244
Suicides.....................................................................................................244
Imminence of the Afterlife with the Earth Plane..............................244
Ghosts, Poltergeists, and Earthbound Spirits....................................245
Evil, Demons, and Satan........................................................................247
Materializations on the Earth Plane.....................................................248
The Afterlife is a World of Thought....................................................248
Communication from the Afterlife......................................................249
Inspiring People on the Earth Plane....................................................250
Religious Beliefs and the Afterlife......................................................251
Recent Indications the Mind Forms the Brain........................253
The Mind in the Brain Would Have to Create
Electricity to Make the Brain and Body Work,
but It Has No Mechanism to Do So.........................................254
Biophysicists Can Detect No Electrical
Activity in Sensory Neurons....................................................255
The Brain Just Reflects What the Mind Has Already Seen........256
Endnotes.....................................................................................................259
Bibliography.............................................................................................271
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