In his book The Afterlife Unveiled: What the Dead are Telling us About Their World, Dr. Stafford Betty, an afterlife scholar and professor of world religions, summarizes the teachings and wisdom of seven discarnate spirits who communicated via some of the most gifted spiritual mediums of their day. This episode highlights communication from Frederic Myers, AD Mattson, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson and Frances Banks. (For more, listen to episode four.) For those interested in a deeper dive into the work of Dr. Betty and the communication of these spirits: The Afterlife Unveiled: What the Dead are Telling us About Their World, Stafford Betty Heaven and Hell Unveiled: Updates from the World of Spirit, Stafford Betty When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying? Afterlife: The Evidence, Stafford Betty The Afterlife Therapist, Stafford Betty Witness from Beyond, Ruth Mattson Taylor (from AD Mattson) Evidence From Beyond, Ruth Mattson Taylor (from AD Mattson) Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, Frederic Myers The Road to Immortality, Geraldine Cummins (from Frederic Myers) Testimony of Light: An Extraordinary Message of Life After Death, Helen Greaves (from Frances Banks) Life in the World Unseen, Anthony Borgia (from Robert Hugh Benson); may be available for free online

In his book The Afterlife Unveiled: What the Dead are Telling us About Their World, Dr. Stafford Betty, a noted afterlife scholar and professor of world religions, summarizes the teachings and wisdom of seven discarnate spirits who communicated via some of the most gifted spiritual mediums of their day. This episode highlights spirit communication from Imperator Servus Dei, David Hatch and Leslie Stringfellow. For those interested in a deeper dive into the work of Dr. Betty and the communication of these spirits: The Afterlife Unveiled: What the Dead are Telling us About Their World, Stafford Betty Heaven and Hell Unveiled: Updates from the World of Spirit, Stafford Betty When Did You Ever Become Less by Dying? Afterlife: The Evidence, Stafford Betty The Afterlife Therapist, Stafford Betty Spirit Teachings, William Stainton Moses (from Imperator et al) More Spirit Teachings, William Stainton Moses (from Imperator et al) Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side, Elsa Barker (from David Hatch) the Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow: A Nineteenth-Century Southern Family's Experiences with Spritualism, Stephen Chism

When a colleague tells Dr. Raymond Moody about witnessing first-hand a death experience with her mother, the author sets out to learn more about shared death experiences. Dr. Moody, who coined the term "near death experience," writes that while skeptics might scoff at a near-death vision experienced by one person, it's not so easy to pass off an experience where one or more individuals witness the same thing. The author tells us that shared death experiences might just offer a level of proof that a heavenly plane exists.

Although people have been experiencing near-death visions for millennia, it was Dr. Raymond Moody who coined the term, near-death experience (NDE) in the mid 1970s. In his bestselling book, Life After Life, Dr. Moody investigates these phenomena and shares vivid NDE accounts that range from meeting deceased relatives and beings of light to participating in panoramic life reviews. Learn more about this classic book that has become part of a growing body of evidence that consciousness survives physical death.

An overview of the Afterlife Explorers Book Club with host and literary curator Bill Gleeson. This enlightening podcast examines books by physicians, scientists and scholars who are contributing to an ever-increasing body of evidence that our consciousness survives physical death. More specifically, there is a spiritual afterlife; there are people on the earth plane (called mediums) who are able to communicate with discarnate spirits and who serve as a bridge between our two worlds; and we have lived many physical lives.