Anthony - Evidence of Eternity: Communicating with Spirits for Proof of the Afterlife

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Evidence of Eternity: Communicating with Spirits for Proof of the Afterlife 2015 by Mark Anthony.

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This book is dedicated to my father, Earl, the bravest man I have ever known. He served his country not only in a time of war but in times of peace by expanding our understanding of the universe through space exploration.

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Contents

by Kenneth Ring

Spiritual Situational Awareness

Inheriting the Double-Edged Sword of Psychic Ability

Entering the Veil of Heaven

Levels of the Other Side

The Other Side and the Collective Consciousness Disconnect

Interdimensional Communication

Multiple-Meaning Messages

of Love

Consciousness and Personality Are Eternal

Homicide and the Other Side of Justice

Suicide and the Other Side

Reincarnation: The Justice and Balance of God

The Death of a Child and the Other Side

Animals and Unconditional Love from Heaven

Inlightenment: Embracing the Inner Light

Foreword

A s a researcher of near-death experiences (NDEs), I never wanted to have that much to do with mediums, particularly during the early stages of my career. My work with near-death experiences and my interest in UFO experiences was outr enough for an academic like me. Besides, I was never interested in trying to prove life after death, anyway, or even make a good case for survival of consciousness after physical death. I was always more interested in showing what we could learn from near-death experiences and letting my students and readers draw whatever conclusions they liked. For an academic to get too close to mediums and talk about the afterlife was to court banishment from the academyit was stuff for the tabloids, not for the halls of ivy.

However, during my years of researching altered states of consciousness and NDEs, I learned a lot about mediums. I have no doubt that some of them can indeed transmit messages from the dead and know things about the people they are reading for that would be impossible to know by normal means. And naturally, I had read about many of the celebrated mediums of the pastLeonora Piper, Gladys Osborne Leonard, and many others. Yet I never sought out a reading for myself until a couple of years ago, when something very peculiar happened to me that, in the end, I could not ignore. Ultimately, it proved to have something to do with my father.

When I was very young, I was separated from my father when he went off to war during the early 1940s. Although he survived the war, for various reasons he never returned home, and then he died young, at forty-one, while working as an artist in New York. As I grew to manhood, I started thinking a lot about my father and began to sense his presence in my life as a kind of guiding influence. As a scientist, my initial reaction was to question this sensation, but on some level I felt the connection was real, so I decided to write a memoir about my father and his putative effect on my life after his death; I called it My Father, Once Removed .

Then, two years ago, I started to hear from a number of my friendsall of them independently of one another and all of them connected in some way with NDE studieswho had recently had some kind of fantastic reading from a medium (never the same medium, mind you) and who were asking me if I ever had considered having a reading myself. Most of them exhorted me to. Of course I demurred, declined, and generally deflected the conversation to other topicsexcept it kept happening !

After the fourth such occurrence, I finally succumbed and arranged for a reading with one of the mediums who had been urged upon me by one of these friends. Afterward I wrote an article about my reading entitled, somewhat humorously, Medium Hot, which I eventually inserted as the last chapter into a revised and expanded version of my memoir about my father.

I will spare you the details, but the reading I received strongly and independently corroborated virtually everything I had learned or speculated about my fathers life, which the medium could not have known by normal means. And not only that, the medium stressed my fathers feelings of deep love for me, which I had previously learned from his half sister, as well as his posthumous role in my life, which I had long sensed. Moreover, the medium was accurately able to tell me some extremely obscure facts about my family life that really blew me away. Its one thing to read about such things in books; its quite another when it happens to you!

In any case, it became apparent to me that science and mediumship are not mutually exclusive, especially when the medium focuses on evidence that can be objectively verified. This is why I have found what Mark Anthony has observed about the Other Side to be very instructive. His observations are based on a logical, scientific approach, rooted in evidence and not on suppositions or jumping to conclusions. This, indeed, is one of the facets of Evidence of Eternity that I find impressive. Mark takes great care to demonstrate why it is important not to bring ones expectations of negativity or fear into the explorations of spirits or normally invisible entities. Of course, the unknown is often frightening, just as the night is, but his accounts of contact with spirits are very telling in this respect, as well as fascinating in their own right.