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Summing Up: The Evidence for Animal Afterlife

Summing Up: The Evidence for Animal Afterlife

In earlier articles, I’ve summarized the published evidence for animal afterlife provided by near-death experience, evidential mediumship, deathbed visions, after-death communication, ghost sightings, and other areas.  What follows is a brief summary of evidence in each area, followed by strengths and weaknesses, then a verdict. After-Death Communication (ADC)  I found 105 published cases of visual ADCs involving animals.  In 37% of the cases, we just had the person’s word for it; few additional corroborating features was present.  However, in about…

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Physical Mediumship, Astral Travel, and Spirit Photography Evidence

Physical Mediumship, Astral Travel, and Spirit Photography Evidence

To wrap up my survey of the evidence for animal afterlife, I’d like to briefly cover three remaining areas of evidence: physical mediumship, astral travel, and spirit photography.  These areas don’t warrant separate articles, because the evidence isn’t as robust as it is elsewhere, but they deserve mention, because they add incrementally to the case for animal afterlife. Physical Mediumship Physical mediumship is a specialized type of mediumship. In it, a medium reportedly channels “ectoplasm,” which shapes itself into something…

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Visual ADCs with Corroborating Evidence

Visual ADCs with Corroborating Evidence

We covered simple one-on-one encounters, which don’t have additional validity indicators — you basically have to take the person’s word for it. I pointed out some reasons to give them the benefit of the doubt, but ultimately those cases come down to whether you believe the person or not. But that’s only 37% of the cases. In the other 63%, there is additional corroborating evidence, beyond just the person’s word. Let’s talk about those. But before we do that, I…

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Simple Visual ADCs

Simple Visual ADCs

An After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a person experiences the presence of a deceased loved one. ADCs involving deceased humans are well documented and number in the tens of thousands. ADCs involving animals are less common but still prevalent. ADCs can happen through any of the senses. You might see your deceased pet lying in a familiar spot, hear their feet walk across the floor, or feel them jump in bed. We’ll focus on visual ADCs first, because they are…

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Why this Blog?

Why this Blog?

Because I wanted to present evidence and arguments for animal afterlife. If you’d like to get started, look at the menu bar above under “evidence” and “arguments.” If you’d like to know the backstory, keep reading. Why did I start this blog? The short answer is, to help spread the word about evidence for animal afterlife. A lot of people would like to believe, but they aren’t really sure. There is actually plenty of evidence of animal afterlife, but it…

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Mediumship: Research and Evidential Cases

Mediumship: Research and Evidential Cases

In the last section, I reviewed how we have unanimous attestation from mediums, both general and evidential, that animals exist in the afterlife. I will now turn to two other aspects of mediumistic evidence: one scientific study and a large number of specific, evidential cases. Scientific Research Surprisingly, there is one scientific study on this subject. I say “surprisingly,” because it is very difficult to fund and conduct controlled, scientific research on mediumship related to human beings, let alone animals….

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Mediumship: Skeptical Counterclaims

Mediumship: Skeptical Counterclaims

Having skeptics around is a good thing. We need them to keep things balanced and honest. Let’s not kid ourselves, there is a history of fraud in this area. We don’t want to be naive or gullible. If we’re going to believe in animal afterlife, we don’t want that to be a blind faith, or a faith that is just based on emotion and hope. We want beliefs that are based on reason, evidence, and experience. Our beliefs are made…

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Mediumship: Attestation

Mediumship: Attestation

For the purposes of this article, I’m going to take it for granted, as a starting point, that there are some reliable, credible mediums. If you blanch at this idea and think I’m a loon, I’d suggest checking out the vast literature on this subject. Here are some places to begin: The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz, PhD Is There An Afterlife? A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence, by David Fontana, PhD Science and the Afterlife Experience by Chris Carter…

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Animals in Near Death Experience (NDE)

Animals in Near Death Experience (NDE)

The Near Death Experience (NDE) literature provides a good basis for reasonable, evidence-based belief in the afterlife. NDEs occur across all cultures and share remarkable similarities. They are recorded in literature going back millennia. Research on NDEs has exploded over the past 50 years. The common alternative explanations put forward by skeptics — oxygen deprivation, delirium, imagination, hallucination, temporal lobe malfunction, brain damage, wishful thinking, etc. — have all been dispensed with by careful research. If you’re not acquainted with…

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