Posted: Sep 13, 2012 10:48 am
Since the Doc is being coy, I thought I'd google a bit. I found an interview on Subversive Thinking, a blog, with the Doc. Extract:
Again, throughout the interview, there are numerous comments about the overwhelming evidence, the abundance of evidence, the 'extraordinary' evidence - at the beginning he refers to a mysterious 500 page tome which apparently had a huge effect on him, but which he nevertheless fails to identify. All this apparently amazing evidence and yet all the Doc actually names is the Scole experiment and 5 books which he has found influential.
I also found this very interesting:
3-Have you had any personal, first-hand experience with mediums, psychics or any kind of phenomenon suggestive of afterlife and psi?
No, alas, unfortunately not. A few people I am very close to, and whom I absolutely trust, have, though.
5-In your opinion, which is the most convincing single piece of evidence for survival of consciousness?
It is really difficult for me to pick one. If I really had to, it would probably be the Scole experiment. That is a wide set of pieces of evidence, though. If I were to really chose one piece, just the one, then I would let my heart do the judging, not my mind. There are things that speak to me as a person, as a human being, much more than as a man of science. Look up on YouTube, for example, the video in which medium Gordon Smith does a stage demonstration in the US. You can tell, because the video is in black and white, and he’s wearing a kilt. Or the other video, in which he talks to a couple of bereaved parents. Every time I watch those, my eyes well with tears. All the warmth, the compassion, quite apart from the incredibly accurate information… Then I feel that I don’t really need to know anything else.
7- According to your research, the phenomena of "ghosts" or "apparitions" is a real one? Do ghosts exist?
Quite apart from what I’ve read, which seems clearly to indicate that apparitions are an actual phenomenon, I have at least three people whom I know well and trust beyond any doubt who have indeed seen a ghost.
Again, throughout the interview, there are numerous comments about the overwhelming evidence, the abundance of evidence, the 'extraordinary' evidence - at the beginning he refers to a mysterious 500 page tome which apparently had a huge effect on him, but which he nevertheless fails to identify. All this apparently amazing evidence and yet all the Doc actually names is the Scole experiment and 5 books which he has found influential.
I also found this very interesting:
Although I continue to keenly follow the developments in the field of psychical research, particularly concerning survival, I must admit that I am now completely and thoroughly “sold” on the idea. I do not look for “proof” anymore, and I am not really interested in trying to convince the skeptics.