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The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death
Updated 2006 edition contains additional material and a new colour plate section of experiments conducted since the cessation of the Scole Experiment.
The Scole Experiment is the best scientific evidence yet collected for the reality of life after death.
Adult non-fiction. Experimental Science/Paranormal/Spiritual
The Scole Experiment is the best scientific evidence yet collected for the reality of life after death.
Adult non-fiction. Experimental Science/Paranormal/Spiritual
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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August 19, 2011
This is a very, very disturbing book. That is said in a positive tone, mind you - there's no Stephen King here.
The book features a set of lay people who decide to see for themselves, just how far they can get when they apply scientifically designed methods to trying to reach the spirit world.
There are natural mediums in the group, and others who have become interested in the spirit world; there's also a healthy dose of sceptisism in the group. They furnish a cellar for research (hence the name "Scole Hole") and go about designing tamper-proof systems for keeping film and other test objects safe.
They make contact with a group of advanced spirits, who deliver an unbelievable range of results: apports (objects transported into the locked room), images on film and video camera, and even a picture of a newspaper that can be verifiable found in the archives.
Now, I write speculative fiction; one of my very favorite topics is the activities of the spirits in this world, and the threshold between the two worlds.
If you don't go for that kind of stuff, I challenge you to read this book. It will offer you compelling evidence of life after death and continuous spiritual develoment.
If you already are interested in this, you will find many interesting examples and facets of this interaction between spirits and this world we can rap our knuckles on.
What really tantalizes me is how the spirit team comes across as a set of individuals, with different tempers, senses of humor, and goals they want to achieve with the research team. This to me as a writer of fiction is invaluable, as I feel myself working within a framework when I write stories of ghosts in medieval churches and so on.
Some of the images are blurry and resemble light leaks in a camera, but when you read about the setup the team used, you will see it is not a possibility. And then there are the perfectly formed, colorful, sharp images of poetry that span many frames in a roll of 35mm film. You need to see them to form your own opinion, but I recommend you have a look.
There's two more such books I must recommend at this point, for the same reasons, both by John G. Fuller: "The Airmen who would not Die", and "The Ghost of Flight 401".
The book features a set of lay people who decide to see for themselves, just how far they can get when they apply scientifically designed methods to trying to reach the spirit world.
There are natural mediums in the group, and others who have become interested in the spirit world; there's also a healthy dose of sceptisism in the group. They furnish a cellar for research (hence the name "Scole Hole") and go about designing tamper-proof systems for keeping film and other test objects safe.
They make contact with a group of advanced spirits, who deliver an unbelievable range of results: apports (objects transported into the locked room), images on film and video camera, and even a picture of a newspaper that can be verifiable found in the archives.
Now, I write speculative fiction; one of my very favorite topics is the activities of the spirits in this world, and the threshold between the two worlds.
If you don't go for that kind of stuff, I challenge you to read this book. It will offer you compelling evidence of life after death and continuous spiritual develoment.
If you already are interested in this, you will find many interesting examples and facets of this interaction between spirits and this world we can rap our knuckles on.
What really tantalizes me is how the spirit team comes across as a set of individuals, with different tempers, senses of humor, and goals they want to achieve with the research team. This to me as a writer of fiction is invaluable, as I feel myself working within a framework when I write stories of ghosts in medieval churches and so on.
Some of the images are blurry and resemble light leaks in a camera, but when you read about the setup the team used, you will see it is not a possibility. And then there are the perfectly formed, colorful, sharp images of poetry that span many frames in a roll of 35mm film. You need to see them to form your own opinion, but I recommend you have a look.
There's two more such books I must recommend at this point, for the same reasons, both by John G. Fuller: "The Airmen who would not Die", and "The Ghost of Flight 401".
March 28, 2017
This is not scientific at all. The "scientists" of this group leave the "psychics" completely to their own devices when setting up and performing the "experiment"; the so-called psychics could manipulate everything and say it was mystical. There was no control or believability and it's laughable to even call this an experiment. I'm very open-minded to the paranormal and was really interested to see their findings, unexplainable as they may be, and from the first few pages it turned into the equivalent of watching "Ghost Adventures": lame and actually based on nothing.
May 19, 2013
It was... interesting I guess? I don't know-- a lot of these "scientific" explorations of supernatural and ghostly phenomena just leave a lot to be desired for me personally. Maybe it's because I approach these things from the perspective of someone who already knows what they believe (as in "yes, there is more after bodily death, duh"), and so I'm always detached and hopelessly cautious.
All of that aside, this book was, really, far longer than it needed to be. Much of the events it describes are the same every time they happen, but it seems that for something as common to their sittings as light phenomena, each and every little thing was described in painfully repetitive detail. Not even scientific, it felt at times, but rather with an almost fetishistic fascination. In the end I wound up skipping about 50 pages of "report" and didn't feel like I missed anything meaningful whatsoever.
All of that aside, this book was, really, far longer than it needed to be. Much of the events it describes are the same every time they happen, but it seems that for something as common to their sittings as light phenomena, each and every little thing was described in painfully repetitive detail. Not even scientific, it felt at times, but rather with an almost fetishistic fascination. In the end I wound up skipping about 50 pages of "report" and didn't feel like I missed anything meaningful whatsoever.
July 29, 2014
Grant and Jane Solomon worked with the Scole Experimental Group to summarize the findings detailed in The Scole Report for general readers. When you read this book, be aware that the full Scole Report is even more wonderful.
November 15, 2021
Hilariously fraudulent. Mediums in Norfolk encounter a circle of higher spiritual beings, all of whom resemble Blackadder characters, eager to train mankind to ascend to higher spheres and utilize 'creative energy' to manifest incredible supernatural phenomenon. A must-read, even if just to awe about why so much trickery and blatant chicanery has taken place.
We have a trickster inside our minds.
We have a trickster inside our minds.
November 9, 2022
I'm not at all sure that psychics should be classed as scientific, given the fact we don't fully understand or know for sure such gifts exists. But, I did enjoy this book and it gave me lots of disturbing things to think about. Really fascinating.
February 20, 2017
This book should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in existence - an amazing study that is sorely missed and cut far too soon. Still contains some of mankind's greatest mysteries on death and afterlife, and amazing to me, we are not exploring the findings fully.
April 24, 2008
Fascinating book. I'll have lots to say about this when I get the time.-MM
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