The Ultimate Scientific Discovery

Science has not only given us ways to understand nature but also to channel nature toward improving the quality of life, at least for some of us.  Science has been used to organize and control the material goods of life, a situation that led to the wealth and power of those who owned the new technologies of production. The more evolved the scientific technologies, the greater the means of domination and manipulation of the masses.  True, science has served humanity by means of medicine, but people still suffer from obesity, anxiety, loneliness, alienation, and various forms of addiction.  

 All the benefits pale when viewed against the creation of the atomic bomb. Watchdogs of the nuclear menace are saying we’re closest to doomsday today since Truman A-bombed the Japanese.    Countries around the world are shelling out vast sums of money to arm themselves. Having an A bomb is the growing standard for safety in the world of nations. Science has also given us artificial intelligence whose potential for large scale mischief is vast.  Science gave us the Industrial Revolution, which created a consumer culture and its addictions.  Besides providing the tools for mass murder, the use of technology has wreaked havoc on nature and created an apocalyptic climate crisis.   

But I have yet to say something else about what science can do for us. And this is quite the opposite of the horrors cited above.  Science, it turns out, can tell us something about death that is extremely interesting—and highly personal.  It can change our understanding of reality.  It can, and in my view has, destroyed materialism and revised our view of what happens to us after death.

Most folks are unaware of the enormous amount of evidence for life after death. In my book, Experiencing the Next World Now (available online), I take the reader through types of evidence that show how under certain circumstances people experience the next world.  There’s a branch of science called psychical research that materialists impulsively dismiss. Bad boys just won’t do their homework.

In my view, psychical research points to the possibility of a new layer of human evolution. I’ve published several books exploring this higher dimension of our possible consciousness.  I’m interested in ways we can experimentally activate =our latent psychic powers.  There are ways we can rearrange our consciousness such that we edge our way into an entirely new dimension of reality. I keep returning to this theme of how to transcend an insane world where the lowest characters have the greatest power. So, there is good, bad news.  Thanks to science, we can do two things: one, construct weapons to dominate and/or wipe each other out, bad; but science can also make the case for life after death, good—for anyone who loves life.

In the meantime, we go on living, hopefully in tune with our own take on things. I find myself drawn to art, a little painting and drumming. The arts in general strike me as holding the hope for the necessary advance of consciousness.  Science and religion have obviously failed. In fact, they’ve provided the machinery for our species immolation.  Everything depends on what we do with the greatest scientific discovery: that our consciousness transcends our mortal bodies.