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from the Zammits' weekly report:
COMMENTARY: EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS?
It is sometimes said by skeptics, including Carl Sagan, that those who claim that the paranormal and the afterlife are real, are making 'extraordinary claims' and therefore need to produce 'extraordinary evidence'.
Well, that 'extraordinary evidence' has been produced, it's just that few people know about it. Dr. Edwin May and his associates, combined the results of all the 26,000 trials on 154 experiments with psychic phenomena done at Stanford Research Institute from 1973 to 1988. They found that psychic phenomena had been shown to exist with odds against chance of more than a billion billion to one. (Radin 1997:101; also see Radin's book "The Conscious Universe").
Similarly, evidence for the afterlife has been documented, case by case, over the last 150 years. What can be more extraordinary than when dead people materialise [also see special report on the Zammits' site] and talk to their loved ones in their own voices?
Every culture that has existed anywhere in the world has accepted that the paranormal and the afterlife exist. This has been on the basis, not of wish fulfillment, but of repeated observations over millennia of telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, near-death experiences, deathbed visions, and after-death communications.
When we take this into account, along with the experimental evidence, the existence of the paranormal and the afterlife are not at all 'extraordinary claims'. Far more extraordinary is the claim, made without ANY evidence whatsoever (and in opposition to the lived experience of every culture in the world) that there is no afterlife, no paranormal and that matter can produce consciousness.
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