The Truth About Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the real Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and other Remarkable Psychics

by Gary E. Schwartz, William L. Simon

Every Monday night millions of Americans tune into Medium , NBC's new hit drama featuring Allison DuBois, an ordinary woman who helps police solve baffling crimes through her ability to communicate with the dead. What most don't know is that this fictional character is based on a true-life medium named Allison DuBois, who is a consultant to the show. For the past four years, DuBois has been the subject of rigorous scientific experiments conducted at the University of Arizona by Harvard-trained psychologist Gary Schwartz. The Truth about Medium chronicles many of those experiments as well as the real-life cases Allison has worked on and reveals hard laboratory evidence that psychic ability and mediumship are real.

Genres: Nonfiction, Spirituality, Paranormal

168 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 2005

About the author

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health and spiritual psychology, he is the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.

Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.

In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.

Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.

Publications and Honors

Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.

The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medial from the Nautilus Book Awards.

Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.

He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.

Reviews

[Waverly Fitzgerald · Rating 2 out of 5]

Turns out this is the second time I've read this book and I think both times I just skimmed as the writing is bland despite the fascinating topic. Schwartz is a scientist who has devised quite complicated studies to test the accuracy of mediums, including Allison DuBois, the medium whose life was used as the basis for the TV show, Medium (which I have never watched). I read it because I'm writing a novel about a Victorian trance medium and I wanted to know more about how mediums worked. I didn't really learn much about that but I did find fascinating the continuing struggle to give this talent legitimacy. It was both the object of scientific scrutiny and efforts to discredit it as fraud in the Victorian times as it is now.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book interesting and it made me realize how much of a skeptic I still was about mediums and mediumship. I was amazed by the people involved and the results from the readings time and agian throughout the book. The way this doctor/author set up, performed and graded the results was brillant so no one could go back and say it was set up or faked in any way. Even if you don't believe at all you should take a look at this book. You may find your beliefs shaken and have to rethink what you think you know.

[Marla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was fascinated by the incidents that happened in Allison DuBois' life that were recreated in the TV show.

The scientific experiments got a little tedious, but you have to appreciate how the scientists tried to preserve the integrity of their experiments and anonymity of the test subjects. How exactly did the mediums even know who to read when it was being done via telephone through a second party?

I don't know how much I believe in psychics and mediums, but it was an interesting book.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first half was interesting but then it devolved into the politics of skeptic/believer, and started listing the author's own grievances, and I suddenly got really really bored.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got about halfway through this book and found I could get no further... It just wasn't what I expected. Too "scientific" yet not convincing.

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the topic very interesting and the book gave me many resources plus things to think about.

[Eltetoc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting Book

It was a bit dry at times. Not enough experiments, and too technical in places. It was all right. Not great.

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[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about whether Mediums are and the experiments that Gary Schwartz performed on whether there is consciousness after death. Belief can either heal or kill. These experiments prove that if you strip all stimuli, and with bare information, do you know what I am thinking and facts not known immediately. There are exceptions with Deepak Chopra and Montague Keen. Gary Schwartz is a tri psychiatrist at University of Arizona. These are the experiments on Alison Dubois of Medium and 10 other Mediums including Laurie Campbell, John Edward and the deceased Suzy Smith and William James. It is an interesting read if you want proof and real life examples of the impossible, just open your mind. It was a quick and easy read with appendices and an index.

[Dee Cee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was quite scientific in nature. The author was the scientist who tested several well known mediums such as Allison Dubois under blind and double blind conditions. I really enjoyed this book. I'm hoping more studies are completed and documented.

[Taron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting read as research for my novel, which has a medium as a main character. If you have any interest in the paranormal and research in the field, highly recommend.

[Louis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting documentary about testing of quality mediums, allowing you the reader to draw your own conclusions on survival of consciousness beyond death.

[Kathryn Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting! I especially liked when they did tests of dead scientists speaking with live people and what came through by to the mediums. Awesome!

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short book, though quite intriguing. The author is an accredited scientist (Harvard PhD), employed in a reputable American university. I thought he explained his careful research methods quite clearly.

Schwartz describes informal or preliminary tests, as well as highly refined experiments — judicious and tightly controlled. Clearly, his enthusiasm and optimism about the implications he proposes are founded upon a great body of research carried out over decades.

I keep an open mind. I found the book's varied accounts, and Schwatz's discussion, readable & compelling. But, as the author anticipates, readers with firmly closed minds are unlikely to be convinced.