Whitley Strieber - The Afterlife Revolution

by Whitley and Anne Strieber

Walker & Collier, Inc., Publishers

Gary E. Schwartz, PhD

All through history, there have been those who have lived in conscious relationship with Earth and the cosmos. We call them masters. In the future, everybody who enters the physical will do so as a master of being. And why will we still be using the physical? Give somebody a kiss. Thats why. Humanitys destiny in the universe is to bring forth the experience of love, that all may share in it. Objective love, the core creative urgency, is also the essential human energy.Enlightenment is what happens when there is nothing left of us but love .

--Anne Strieber

Incredibly, Anne has managed to provide what for me on a personal level must be final proof. She has done something that once goes to the heart of our relationship and also explores the deepest meaning of death, dying, and living on. I will devote the final chapter of this book to it, but know that, from the time it happened just a few days ago, my position has changed. I now feel certain that Anne still exists, and with her I must also assume the legions of the dead, all still very real, but in ways that we have scarcely even begun to understand .

--Whitley Strieber

Is life after death real? Is there a greater reality beyond our five senses? Can we personally know, for sure, whether our loved ones consciousness continues after physical death? And can we grow into this emerging knowledge and wisdom as individuals and a species ?

According to Anne and Whitley Strieber, the inspired authors of The Afterlife Revolution, the answers to these profound questions are emphatically yes .

I have read many books on near death experiences, after death communications, observations made by gifted evidential mediums, and afterlife science. I have written forewords for some of these books, and I have also written a few spiritual science books myself, including The Afterlife Experiments and The G.O.D. Experiments .

However, the Afterlife Revolution stands out among these books in terms of its scope, beauty, and lessons for all of us. Despite the well-known controversies surrounding the authors of this extraordinary book for example, their reported observations of aliens and maybe because of their historic openness to the existence of intelligent life beyond planet Earth, their personal journey following Annes physical death takes on additional importance and meaning .

One of the reasons I felt compelled to write a foreword for this book was to honor the inspiring nature of the breadth and depth of Anne and Whitleys love for each other, both before and after Annes physical death, coupled with the intense intellectual curiosity they shared for understanding life and the cosmos. We will return to the importance of love, especially objective love, at the end of this foreword .

However, another reason I had to write this foreword was because of the surprising and compelling spontaneous evidence that emerged for the presence of Anne in my professional and personal world following the beginning of my reading of this book !

Lets consider this extraordinary evidence for Annes presence first, and then return to the Afterlife Revolution. I have provided enough details below so that you can appreciate, and appropriately evaluate, the convincing nature of this evidence .

On Thursday morning, September 14, 2017, Rhonda (my wife) and I were preparing to drive to Scottsdale, Arizona, where I would be giving two presentations at the Afterlife Research and Education Institute Conference (www. afterlifestudies.org). The lecture on Friday afternoon was titled Lessons from mediumship science for spirit communication technology research. The other was a Saturday night banquet presentation titled How science is proving that spirits are collaborating with us .

The evening banquet was coincidently hosted by George Noory of Coast to Coast AM. Whitley had co-authored a bestselling book with Art Bell, the prior award winning host of Coast to Coast AM. Their book, The Coming Global Superstorm, inspired the popular movie The Day After Tomorrow .

I had just started reading The Afterlife Revolution, and the thought popped into my head that maybe I could obtain some independent evidence of Annes continued consciousness .

In an early morning meeting with Rhonda and a team of hypothesized collaborating spirits, Rhonda a selective research medium who describes her journey to this unusual profession in her book Love Eternal asked Susy Smith, an active member of the spirit team, if she could locate Anne and bring her to two different evidential mediums who would be presenting at the Scottsdale conference. We call this the double-deceased paradigm, where one deceased person (e.g. Susy) brings another deceased person (e.g. Anne) to a medium under blinded conditions. Rhondas sense was that Susy was present at our meeting and that Susy would try to do so. Susy has successfully employed the double-deceased paradigm with these two mediums on multiple occasions. FYI, unlike Rhonda and Whitley, I do not have mediumistic or channeling skills, and I do not see or hear spirit. In fact, one of my former research colleagues, Dr. Robert Stek, refers to me as the Helen Keller of afterlife research .

Anyway, after our meeting, I was inspired to text two research mediums and alert them to the possibility that Susy might be attempting to contact them with a mystery deceased person. To help them connect with the second deceased person, I provided Annes first name. Since neither medium knew that I was currently reading Whitleys unpublished book, it is probable that they would have no idea that Anne X was actually Anne Strieber. At this point Rhonda did not know that I had texted the two mediums .