Deepak Chopra describes life beyond death

UNITED STATES. Indian American author Deepak Chopra, whose books
such as Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, invariably become
best-sellers, has now focused his attention on the afterlife with his
latest volume, Life After Death: the Burden of Proof.
Actually, it is one he has wanted to write for the past 20 years,
according to one interview, but he is said to have waited until research
and documentation of near-death experiences (NDEs) had provided more
information and gained public recognition.

Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called
a miracle, he explains. The miracle, ironically, is that we dont die.
And lifes ultimate purpose, he adds, is to discover who you are. After
death, we see more clearly the goals to be attained.

Chopra sees the soul as a process, not a thing: It is a continuum. It is
a dynamic, constantly evolving bundle of consciousness.
He concludes: The human spirit is degraded when we confine ourselves to
the span of a lifetime and the enclosure of a physical body. We are mind
and spirit first, and that places our home beyond the stars.

Life After Death: the Burden of Proof examines the scientific evidence
for survival of death, including NDEs, reincarnation and the Veritas
after-death communications experiments using mediumship that are being
studied by Prof Gary Schwartz at Arizona University.

In fact, Chopra has been a participant in those experiments and
co-authored a paper with Schwartz and Stephen Grenard, of Staten Island
University Hospitals Sleep Laboratory, titled Evidence of Accuracy and
Specificity for Long-Distance Mediumship: the double-deceased
multi-medium paradigm.

Double-deceased refers to the use of person one who has died in these
experiments it is author Susy Smith being requested mentally by
Schwartz to bring the other experimenters loved ones in the spirit world
to three mediums, based in Arizona, California and New York, all of whom
have successfully communicated with Smith in the past.

In this way the mediums could receive neither visual or audible clues,
since they were long-distant experiments conducted by phone or internet,
nor were they told the identities of the sitters or their loved ones. 
Prof Schwartz acted as a control by also assessing the readings as if
they were intended for him.

The final part of the experiment with Chopra involved each medium
speaking by phone to him, giving additional information to that already
received, but to which he made no verbal responses. Two digital video
cameras and an audio recorder were used to capture these sessions.

Interestingly, Chopra decided he wanted to speak normally to each medium
for the last 15 minutes of each session in other words to have a normal
reading.

The results for both Chopra and Grenard were impressive, with the
mediums scoring an average of 77.3 per cent accuracy across both the
pre-contact and silent sitter sessions, compared with only 26.7 per cent
for Schwartzs control score.
Grenards experiment, which involved only the double-deceased element (no
phone contact) scored 67 per cent accuracy compared with 23 per cent for
Schwartz.