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My guest this week is Stephen Hawley Martin. We have a great discussion about his new book 'Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It'. If you believe it’s likely or even simply possible we humans are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience, this book is a must-read. Author and metaphysician Stephen Hawley Martin interviewed three authorities steeped in the information contained in the more than 14,000 psychic readings given by Edgar Cayce [1877-1944] and received answers to the big questions we humans have been wondering about since we first walked upright on the African savanna. Martin shares the interviews and the answers in this volume along with a book he wrote recently that you can use to help you find and pursue your purpose. Known worldwide during his lifetime as “The Sleeping Prophet,” Edgar Cayce twice-daily put himself into a hypnotic trance and was able to answer any question put to him. As the very extensive record shows, the accuracy of information revealed by Cayce that could be checked and verified was absolutely extraordinary. https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Cayce-Meaning-Life-About-ebook/dp/B07L7GF3HH https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to Lorri Brewer about her book 'Heaven Time: Discovering a New Way of Life After a Near-Death Experience' On September 19, 2010, author Lorri Brewer, was faced with the greatest challenge of her life. Her cardiac condition worsened and she was rushed to the hospital where she lost her life for just almost two minutes. She crossed over from this living plane to another energetic dimension suffering a near-death experience (NDE). Today this verifiable near-death survivor shares her intimate experience with death, the after-effects she continues to suffer from, and her inspirational insights on our world today. "My intentions in writing this book are to tantalize the mind, stimulate the heart's emotion, strengthen the foundations of faith, and inspire personal hope," said Brewer. "I am not attempting to convince anyone of the existence of an afterlife, prove that near-death experiences are real, or change any religious beliefs. Heaven Time is based solely on my personal beliefs since recovering from a NDE and enjoying another energetic dimension on this physical plane." BioLORRI BREWER is a daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend. She is also a successful business woman esteemed and appreciated by both her peers and clients for her strong moral compass and work ethic, integrity, and professionalism. On September 19, 2010, Lorri crossed over from this life to the afterlife and then returned with incredible knowledge and insight, which she now courageously shares with all of us in her book Heaven Time. Before being published, her amazing story and inspired reflections caught the attention of the CBC radio talk show The Current, with host Anna Maria Tremonti, the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), and the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF). These days, with her experience as a Competent Toastmaster, Lorri has created a series of motivational lectures and workshops in which she shares her life-altering experience and encourages others to discover for themselves the meaning of life and death. She is also working on her second book. When she’s not working or writing, Lorri enjoys sharing a simple, quiet life with her husband Larry, her son A.J., and a treasured circle of friends and family in beautiful Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Time-Lorri-Brewer-ebook/dp/B009G1WHRS https://www.lorribrewer.com/ https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm reading from David Allen's book 'Life According to the Soul: Awakening the Hidden Connections Between Your Life and Your Soul’s Eternal Truth' Where ancient soul whispers meet the rhythm of modern life. Awakening the hidden connections where ancient soul whispers meet the rhythm of modern life. Drawing on authentic and previously unpublished transcripts from Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy sessions, Life According to the Soul bridges profound spiritual insights with the realities and challenges of modern life. Step by step, it guides readers to connect their life experiences with an understanding of how they are intimately connected with an eternal spiritual existence. BioMy working life began as an Apprentice Gas Fitter, through technical and managerial rolls to IT consultant, business owner, therapist, and political author, now largely retired, I’ve brought this work to the fore after about 13 years, because it is simply the right time. I had been conducting LBL (Life Between Lives) sessions for about 7 years from 2005, the year I undertook the training with the eminent Michael Newton as the lead trainer, until 2012, when I stopped work to concentrate upon a quite different role as my wife’s (Sandra) carer after her breast cancer diagnosis at the end of 2008. A few years have passed since then and the publication of this quite new perspective on the many spiritual revelations uncovered during these sessions took some time before forming into a realistic prospect for a book. That which I have discovered has been repeated by hundreds of other like-minded and like skilled facilitators. The delay in writing the book was due, in the main, to a need to add a breadth of meaning and understanding not really explored that well in other similar texts. Rather than simply repeat the work that Michael Newton had pioneered, I wanted to connect these spiritual understandings to modern day living. Once I felt I had a sense of what I wanted to achieve with the book I began the onerous task of transcribing a seemingly endless supply of audio files, noting areas of special interest. The rather recent advent of AI, that could accurately turn an audio file into a textual document sped up the last of these quite dramatically. It still took about 18 months to two years to formulate the structure of the book in a way that would achieve these objectives best. Once that was decided in the back of my head, I began to write. There have been three stages in my life where I have “grown” as a person and in my understanding about myself, my world and my spirituality. I came from a very practical background, was very focused on work and my family which I don’t think is too bad a place to start. I would have begun this with the short period as a musician where I went from playing in a group part time to going professional. Having been dabbling and playing since school I took the plunge and in 1969, gave up the full-time job (which actually paid), got married, and spent the next 9 months travelling all over the country for peanuts. All I learnt from that experience was that I wasn’t cut out for that kind of life. That’s not really personal growth so much as abject realism. My first period of enlightenment was a two-year course in management (DMS, Diploma in Management Studies) taken when I was about 26. The course required engagement with people from very different backgrounds, all very able, and immersion in that environment opened my eyes quite a bit. A section of the course covered Psychology which added significantly to how I viewed the world and people. Secondly was the quite unusual involvement (because I was 30 years old) with Kyokushnkai Karate. I took my two young sons along initially and, of course, tried it myself. They soon became bored, but for some bizarre reason I stuck at it, despite the fact that I had never been so physically and mentally stretched ever before. 20 years later, as a 4th Dan, I retired. Joints began to hurt more than before, and it was taking up too much of my time. However, I learnt a lot about myself as a person. The most significant period for me came after selling my small company and re-training as a hypnotherapist in 2003, aged 56. After an initial period, I began doing Past Life Regression and then after having read of the groundbreaking LBL work decided that I just had to train in that discipline as well. The whole period, including reaching trainer level in EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), opened my eyes to different worlds, metaphorically and reality. Throughout my life I’ve done things that could be described as impulsive, or unfounded, but I truly believe now that some of those momentous decisions, including writing this book, weren’t really my ideas at all. Sometimes if you just listen, you’ll know what to do. https://www.amazon.com/Life-According-Soul-Awakening-Connections-ebook/dp/B0GYSRJ5YL https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode I'm talking to Jim Matlock about his book 'Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory' Signs of Reincarnation provides the first comprehensive look at the belief in reincarnation and the evidence for past lives from historical records, anthropological studies, and contemporary research. Matlock discusses various ways the evidence may be interpreted and shows that although reincarnation entails a rejection of the materialist notion that consciousness is generated by the brain, it does not require the acceptance of any radically new concepts or the abandonment of well-established findings in mainstream psychology or biology. This book offers students, scholars, and anyone interested in the possibility of reincarnation an essential grounding in beliefs, cases, and theory, while opening doors for future research into the extension of consciousness beyond our present lives. BioMatlock is an anthropologist and has been studying reincarnation since the early 1980s.  Currently a Research Fellow at the Parapsychology Foundation and Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, he has worked at the American Society for Psychical Research and the Rhine Research Center, including as Acting Director. He has served as Treasurer for the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a unit of the American Anthropological Association.Matlock has published numerous papers and book chapters on reincarnation and related topics, co-authored a book on children’s past lives in 2016  and wrote a solo book providing an overview of reincarnation research in 2019. He writes and edits for the Psi Encyclopedia, having produced more than 31 articles on reincarnation. His dedication to making reincarnation research more widely known is evidenced by his teaching of a post-graduate-level interdisciplinary course on the subject, and his ownership and maintenance of the 62,000-plus-member Facebook page Signs of Reincarnation: Research & Experiences. https://www.amazon.com/Signs-Reincarnation-Exploring-Beliefs-Theory-ebook/dp/B07S1CG1HB https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to David Allen about his book 'Life According to the Soul: Awakening the Hidden Connections Between Your Life and Your Soul’s Eternal Truth' Where ancient soul whispers meet the rhythm of modern life. Awakening the hidden connections where ancient soul whispers meet the rhythm of modern life. Drawing on authentic and previously unpublished transcripts from Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy sessions, Life According to the Soul bridges profound spiritual insights with the realities and challenges of modern life. Step by step, it guides readers to connect their life experiences with an understanding of how they are intimately connected with an eternal spiritual existence. BioMy working life began as an Apprentice Gas Fitter, through technical and managerial rolls to IT consultant, business owner, therapist, and political author, now largely retired, I’ve brought this work to the fore after about 13 years, because it is simply the right time. I had been conducting LBL (Life Between Lives) sessions for about 7 years from 2005, the year I undertook the training with the eminent Michael Newton as the lead trainer, until 2012, when I stopped work to concentrate upon a quite different role as my wife’s (Sandra) carer after her breast cancer diagnosis at the end of 2008. A few years have passed since then and the publication of this quite new perspective on the many spiritual revelations uncovered during these sessions took some time before forming into a realistic prospect for a book. That which I have discovered has been repeated by hundreds of other like-minded and like skilled facilitators. The delay in writing the book was due, in the main, to a need to add a breadth of meaning and understanding not really explored that well in other similar texts. Rather than simply repeat the work that Michael Newton had pioneered, I wanted to connect these spiritual understandings to modern day living. Once I felt I had a sense of what I wanted to achieve with the book I began the onerous task of transcribing a seemingly endless supply of audio files, noting areas of special interest. The rather recent advent of AI, that could accurately turn an audio file into a textual document sped up the last of these quite dramatically. It still took about 18 months to two years to formulate the structure of the book in a way that would achieve these objectives best. Once that was decided in the back of my head, I began to write. There have been three stages in my life where I have “grown” as a person and in my understanding about myself, my world and my spirituality. I came from a very practical background, was very focused on work and my family which I don’t think is too bad a place to start. I would have begun this with the short period as a musician where I went from playing in a group part time to going professional. Having been dabbling and playing since school I took the plunge and in 1969, gave up the full-time job (which actually paid), got married, and spent the next 9 months travelling all over the country for peanuts. All I learnt from that experience was that I wasn’t cut out for that kind of life. That’s not really personal growth so much as abject realism. My first period of enlightenment was a two-year course in management (DMS, Diploma in Management Studies) taken when I was about 26. The course required engagement with people from very different backgrounds, all very able, and immersion in that environment opened my eyes quite a bit. A section of the course covered Psychology which added significantly to how I viewed the world and people. Secondly was the quite unusual involvement (because I was 30 years old) with Kyokushnkai Karate. I took my two young sons along initially and, of course, tried it myself. They soon became bored, but for some bizarre reason I stuck at it, despite the fact that I had never been so physically and mentally stretched ever before. 20 years later, as a 4th Dan, I retired. Joints began to hurt more than before, and it was taking up too much of my time. However, I learnt a lot about myself as a person. The most significant period for me came after selling my small company and re-training as a hypnotherapist in 2003, aged 56. After an initial period, I began doing Past Life Regression and then after having read of the groundbreaking LBL work decided that I just had to train in that discipline as well. The whole period, including reaching trainer level in EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), opened my eyes to different worlds, metaphorically and reality. Throughout my life I’ve done things that could be described as impulsive, or unfounded, but I truly believe now that some of those momentous decisions, including writing this book, weren’t really my ideas at all. Sometimes if you just listen, you’ll know what to do. https://www.amazon.com/Life-According-Soul-Awakening-Connections-ebook/dp/B0GYSRJ5YL https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm reading from Tracy Palm's book 'Heaven Said to Tell You' "What if Heaven had a message... not just for one person, but for all of us? Heaven Said to Tell You is not simply the story of one woman's extraordinary spiritual encounter. It is the message she was entrusted to bring back. During a gathering of faith leaders, Tracy Palm experienced a profound out-of-body journey into the spiritual realm. There she encountered overwhelming darkness, breathtaking love, restored understanding, and a powerful heavenly Presence that revealed timeless revelations about God, humanity, and our purpose. The message was both deeply personal and profoundly universal. She was shown that we were created for relationship with the One God who is the source of all life, and that His love is meant to restore what has been divided-between God and humanity, between each other, and even within ourselves. Rather than offering another story about surviving hardship, Heaven Said to Tell You invites readers to explore questions that touch every life: Why are we here?Who are we?Why is there suffering?What separates us from God-and from one another?Can broken relationships truly be restored?Is love more than an emotion... could it be the very foundation of creation?Through biblical insight, spiritual revelation, and practical wisdom, Tracy shares the teachings she believes Heaven intended for all of us to discover, not to promote a religion, but to point people toward the God whose love reaches beyond every barrier and whose desire is reconciliation, unity, healing, and hope. Whether you have walked with God for years, are searching for answers, or have wondered if there is more to life than what we see, this book offers an invitation to discover hidden parts of yourself and the One who has never stopped pursuing you. Heaven said to tell you... you were created for love, for purpose, and for relationship with God and one another." BioTracy Palm is the author of Heaven Said to Tell You, a deeply personal account of extraordinary experiences that transformed her understanding of God, His unconditional love, and the connection we share with one another. For more than fifteen years, Tracy has quietly shared the teachings and truths revealed through those experiences with individuals, families, and small groups. Over the years, her commitment to serving others took many forms. She became an ordained minister, established a nondenominational church, and founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to help meet the spiritual and physical needs of others beyond the church walls. Along the way, those truths have shaped not only what she believes, but how she sees and loves others—with greater compassion, understanding, and a desire for reconciliation. Through Heaven Said to Tell You, Tracy now shares those teachings with a wider audience. Grounded in biblical truth, her message invites people from every background to discover God's unconditional love, look beyond the things that divide us, and pursue reconciliation with God, ourselves, and one another. https://www.heavensaid.org/ https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Said-Tell-Tracy-Palm-ebook/dp/B0H9VBGBD9 https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The guest this week is Linda Deir. We talk about her book 'Guided: Her Spirit Guide Angels Were Her Best Friends and Life Coaches'. At the hands of her bully mother, just 20 months old, Linda’s life was in danger. Out of options, she ran away from home only to be returned by the Sacramento police. It was the 1950s, a time when there were no child protective services, so the police officers chalked it up as a family matter. After they left, her mother brought her inside and beat her into unconsciousness. Waking up on the floor in a puddle of water, Linda was terrified to find herself right back in the hell she tried to escape. Now, completely out of options, she cried out loud for someone to help her. That’s when her Spirit Guide Angels materialized all around her. As they looked down at her, on her hands and knees, in their calm and steady demeanor they telepathically broke through her amnesia by reminding her what she already knew, that “This world is not all there is.” With that heightened awareness, the pressure was instantly released, and she was connected and easily able to understand them. From that connection, she could now see what her Spirit Guides and Angels saw. There was no separation. Next, her Guides showed her that, “The biggest tragedy of our times is that most people will die having lived fear-based lives.” From that one encounter, fear no longer had a grip on Linda. In fact, from that single encounter with her Spirit Guides and Angels she had a vital connection, a connection she would need to bring the clarity and understanding throughout her difficult childhood. With the help of her Guides, she survived. From this connection to them, her awareness was heightened. She was unwittingly living a “Guided” life, and although she was a target of her mother’s constant assaults she was never a victim of them. That challenging childhood became the boot camp where she mastered the skills necessary to achieve the many successes throughout her adult life all because she was guided. People seek out, author, Linda Deir wanting to learn what her true story, GUIDED teaches, the way guidance works, and how to make the connection to their own Spirit Guides and Angels. GUIDED is a riveting story of triumph over extreme adversity. Confronting bullies on every front, beginning with her dysfunctional family orchestrated by her bully mother. Escaping home as a teen in crisis and becoming a self-taught business phenomenon in a man’s world by age 19 and beyond. She achieved far more than even she imagined … knowing she was being guided. From the beginning of her challenging childhood, her Spirit Guides and Angels repeatedly delivered this prophecy to her, “Life will get better for you as you get older if you can make it through childhood.” Surviving childhood was only possible from a higher way of thinking, influenced by her Spirit Guide Angels, her role models. Using her own life as a template, GUIDED is a roadmap for stepping on board at any point along your life path to join forces with your own Spirit Guides and Angels to create a better life than you could have done on your own. Sprinkled throughout the book, Linda shares 137 universally applicable Tips, Lessons, Learnings, and Awarenesses she shares directly from her life-long relationship with her Spirit Guides and Angels. Now, after a lifetime of being guided, in her books, she shares what she learned, and most importantly, how she learned it. An author, transitional life coach, and dynamic presenter in person, Linda Deir brings through spontaneous insights from your own Spirit Guides and Angels that reawaken the soul’s urge to express itself. Linda lives a guided life with her husband, Ray. https://www.amazon.com/Guided-Spirit-Angels-Friends-Coaches/dp/0692238131 https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to Tracy Palm about her book 'Heaven Said to Tell You' "What if Heaven had a message... not just for one person, but for all of us? Heaven Said to Tell You is not simply the story of one woman's extraordinary spiritual encounter. It is the message she was entrusted to bring back. During a gathering of faith leaders, Tracy Palm experienced a profound out-of-body journey into the spiritual realm. There she encountered overwhelming darkness, breathtaking love, restored understanding, and a powerful heavenly Presence that revealed timeless revelations about God, humanity, and our purpose. The message was both deeply personal and profoundly universal. She was shown that we were created for relationship with the One God who is the source of all life, and that His love is meant to restore what has been divided-between God and humanity, between each other, and even within ourselves. Rather than offering another story about surviving hardship, Heaven Said to Tell You invites readers to explore questions that touch every life: Why are we here?Who are we?Why is there suffering?What separates us from God-and from one another?Can broken relationships truly be restored?Is love more than an emotion... could it be the very foundation of creation?Through biblical insight, spiritual revelation, and practical wisdom, Tracy shares the teachings she believes Heaven intended for all of us to discover, not to promote a religion, but to point people toward the God whose love reaches beyond every barrier and whose desire is reconciliation, unity, healing, and hope. Whether you have walked with God for years, are searching for answers, or have wondered if there is more to life than what we see, this book offers an invitation to discover hidden parts of yourself and the One who has never stopped pursuing you. Heaven said to tell you... you were created for love, for purpose, and for relationship with God and one another." BioTracy Palm is the author of Heaven Said to Tell You, a deeply personal account of extraordinary experiences that transformed her understanding of God, His unconditional love, and the connection we share with one another. For more than fifteen years, Tracy has quietly shared the teachings and truths revealed through those experiences with individuals, families, and small groups. Over the years, her commitment to serving others took many forms. She became an ordained minister, established a nondenominational church, and founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to help meet the spiritual and physical needs of others beyond the church walls. Along the way, those truths have shaped not only what she believes, but how she sees and loves others—with greater compassion, understanding, and a desire for reconciliation. Through Heaven Said to Tell You, Tracy now shares those teachings with a wider audience. Grounded in biblical truth, her message invites people from every background to discover God's unconditional love, look beyond the things that divide us, and pursue reconciliation with God, ourselves, and one another. https://www.heavensaid.org/ https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Said-Tell-Tracy-Palm-ebook/dp/B0H9VBGBD9 https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to reading from Bud Megargee's book, 'The Soul's Afterlife: Inside the Soul Octopus' What does it mean to live with a soul that is both anchor and tide? In The Soul Octopus Analogy, readers are invited on a journey that is part story, part meditation and part mirror. This is not a book of easy answers - it is a philosophical fiction that asks us to sit with questions that shape our lives, identity, grief, memory and the shifting currents of transformation. Through imagery and imagination, the narratives explore how we come to know ourselves in a world that constantly remakes us. The Octopus - fluid, elusive, and infinitely adaptable - becomes a living metaphor for the human condition; stretching into the unknown, retreating into the shadows, and surfacing with new forms of meaning. This is a book for readers who crave depth, who want fiction that lingers after the last page. It is a voyage where philosophy and story intertwine and where readers may find a reflection of their own hidden chambers. Bud Megargee writes in the language of questions, believing that mystery is not something to be solved, but to be lived. His story begins in a working-class town of Pennsylvania, where the grit of industry and the resilience of community shaped his earliest sense of self. From those roots, he turned to psychology and health care, rising into leadership roles that demanded clarity, responsibility, and compassion. Yet beneath the surface of titles and systems, a deeper curiosity stirred, one that asked not only how people live, but how souls endure. The search carried him far beyond the familiar. In the stillness of a Taiwanese monastery, Bud discovered that silence is not emptiness, but a teacher. Monks, patients, and unseen companions became his instructors, each offering fragments of wisdom that resisted neat conclusions. His writings grew out of these dialogues—intimate exchanges that illuminated the fragile beauty of uncertainty, the resilience of spirit, and the mysterious companionship of the soul. Bud’s prose reflects the dual cadence of his life: the precision of a clinician and the wonder of a pilgrim. He writes not to instruct, but to invite—to walk with readers into questions that matter, questions that linger, and questions that remind us that life is larger than the boundaries we draw around it. In the countryside of south-eastern Pennsylvania, Bud lives with his daughter, Case, and continues to explore the mysteries that have always followed him: What lies beyond the near-death experience? How do we hear the voices of the soul? His words are not a map, but a lantern—a companion for those willing to wander into mystery. https://budmegargee.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Afterlife-Inside-Soul-Octopus-ebook/dp/B0HC8SS54C https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Octopus-Analogy-Endless-Creation-ebook/dp/B0H1PFXZ1H https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week my guest is Sharon Rawlette. We talk about possible sources for coincidences such as spirit guides, God, deceased loved ones and what they mean. We go through many different areas and it's a fascinating conversation. This all comes from her new book The Source and Significance of Coincidences: A Hard Look at the Astonishing Evidence. Every now and then, we all have experiences that seem too meaningful to be chance but that we can't explain in any normal way. Now, philosopher Sharon Hewitt Rawlette tackles some of the hardest questions surrounding such coincidences, also known as "synchronicities":    How can we calculate whether a synchronicity is too improbable to be just chance?   What hard evidence is there that these events convey genuine messages from God or our deceased loved ones?   Do ordinary people have the psychic ability to create coincidences, for themselves or others?   Why do coincidences sometimes harm or deceive? Rawlette brings together an immense body of research (drawn from science, statistics, near-death experiences, deathbed visions, and many other extraordinary human experiences) that clearly points to a meaningful reality beyond the bounds of current science and at the same time demonstrates both the promise and peril of interpreting synchronicities as signs from above. Rigorously paradigm-shattering, this volume will leave skeptics and believers alike ruminating for years to come. Sharon is an analytically trained philosopher (PhD from New York University, 2008) who specializes in metaethics and the metaphysics and epistemology of paranormal experiences. My most recent scholarly publication is on the topic of the statistical significance of psychic coincidences and their implications for belief in psychic causation. Her past publications include The Feeling of Value (2016), a defense of analytic descriptivism in ethics, and "What do our intuitions about the experience machine really tell us about hedonism?" (2010). https://sharonrawlette.wordpress.com/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1733995706/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=&linkId=29de1cc4753507027012c600c02d359f&language=en_US https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to Bud Megargee about his books, 'The Soul Octopus analogy: The Soul’s Endless Dance across the Web of Creation' and 'The Soul's Afterlife: Inside the Soul Octopus' What does it mean to live with a soul that is both anchor and tide? In The Soul Octopus Analogy, readers are invited on a journey that is part story, part meditation and part mirror. This is not a book of easy answers - it is a philosophical fiction that asks us to sit with questions that shape our lives, identity, grief, memory and the shifting currents of transformation. Through imagery and imagination, the narratives explore how we come to know ourselves in a world that constantly remakes us. The Octopus - fluid, elusive, and infinitely adaptable - becomes a living metaphor for the human condition; stretching into the unknown, retreating into the shadows, and surfacing with new forms of meaning. This is a book for readers who crave depth, who want fiction that lingers after the last page. It is a voyage where philosophy and story intertwine and where readers may find a reflection of their own hidden chambers. Bud Megargee writes in the language of questions, believing that mystery is not something to be solved, but to be lived. His story begins in a working-class town of Pennsylvania, where the grit of industry and the resilience of community shaped his earliest sense of self. From those roots, he turned to psychology and health care, rising into leadership roles that demanded clarity, responsibility, and compassion. Yet beneath the surface of titles and systems, a deeper curiosity stirred, one that asked not only how people live, but how souls endure. The search carried him far beyond the familiar. In the stillness of a Taiwanese monastery, Bud discovered that silence is not emptiness, but a teacher. Monks, patients, and unseen companions became his instructors, each offering fragments of wisdom that resisted neat conclusions. His writings grew out of these dialogues—intimate exchanges that illuminated the fragile beauty of uncertainty, the resilience of spirit, and the mysterious companionship of the soul. Bud’s prose reflects the dual cadence of his life: the precision of a clinician and the wonder of a pilgrim. He writes not to instruct, but to invite—to walk with readers into questions that matter, questions that linger, and questions that remind us that life is larger than the boundaries we draw around it. In the countryside of south-eastern Pennsylvania, Bud lives with his daughter, Case, and continues to explore the mysteries that have always followed him: What lies beyond the near-death experience? How do we hear the voices of the soul? His words are not a map, but a lantern—a companion for those willing to wander into mystery. https://budmegargee.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Afterlife-Inside-Soul-Octopus-ebook/dp/B0HC8SS54C https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Octopus-Analogy-Endless-Creation-ebook/dp/B0H1PFXZ1H https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This episode I am reading from Rickey Offord's book '33 Days Between Heaven and Hell: A True Miracle Story – One Man’s Near-Death Experience and Visit to the Afterlife' When a routine surgery plunged him into a coma, successful music producer Rickey “Slikk Muzik” Offord began the fight of his life. Given up for dead three times, his body lay unresponsive, but his spirit remained wide awake as he was thrown into a harrowing, thirty-three-day odyssey through the spiritual world. In 33 Days Between Heaven and Hell, Rickey shares his unforgettable journey, taking you to the glowing realm of heaven and into the darkest alleys of hell. You’ll also stand alongside his mother and sister, seeing through their eyes the medical miracle that kept him tethered to this world. Meet the angels and demons he encountered and bear witness to the supernatural war that rages just beyond our senses. Rickey's story is the riveting testimony of a man who returned from the edge of eternity with a powerful message of hope. It will challenge everything you think you know about life and death and leave you with one undeniable truth: miracles still happen. Bio Dallas native Rickey “Slikk Muzik” Offord is a four-time Grammy Award–winning producer and composer. His journey from corporate America to the music industry is one of unwavering determination. After taking a leap of faith, he endured hardship—including a period of homelessness—to pursue his dreams in Hollywood. His resilience was tested further in 2016 when a routine surgery led to three cardiac arrests and a thirty-three-day coma. Emerging from this life-altering experience, Slikk’s faith and passion for music only deepened, inspiring him to create timeless works that transcend Slikk has received Grammy Awards for his groundbreaking work, including Tori Kelly’s Hiding Place (Best Gospel Album) and Never Alone (Best Gospel Performance/Song), as well as Lecrae’s Church Clothes 4 (Best Contemporary Christian Music Album) and DOE’s Heart of a Human (Best Contemporary Christian Album). Beyond these wins, his work has earned seven additional Grammy nominations, including recognition for Ariana Grande’s Yours Truly, GloRilla’s Glorious, and Sheila E.’s Bailar. With over a billion career streams to his credit, an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe for his work on the hit series Atlanta, and twelve Billboard #1 records, Slikk’s mission remains clear: to create music that resonates across generations, cultures, and industries. Instagram @slikkmuzik https://www.amazon.com/33-Days-Between-Heaven-Hell-ebook/dp/B0HFR8Y3WX https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week my guest is Dr Eben Alexander. We talk abut his amazing near death experience. Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.  Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit. In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started reading, and was astonished by the commonalities between his journey and so many others reported throughout all cultures, continents and millennia. His journey brought key insights to the mind-body discussion and to our human understanding of the fundamental nature of reality. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence. His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness. It will have a major effect on how we view spirituality, soul and the non-material realm. In analyzing his experience, including the scientific possibilities and grand implications, he envisions a more complete reconciliation of modern science and spirituality as a natural product. He has been blessed with a complete recovery that is inexplicable from the viewpoint of modern Western medicine. His latest book on the subject of consciousness and reality, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness, co-authored with Karen Newell, will be released in Fall 2017 by Rodale Books.  His first book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (2012), debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and remained in the top ten for over a year. His second book, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion and Ordinary People are Proving the Afterlife (2014), explores humankind’s spiritual history and the progression of modern science from its birth in the seventeenth century, showing how we forgot, and are now at last remembering, who we really are and what our destiny truly is. His story was featured in a series of peer-reviewed medical articles about near-death experiences (NDEs) in Missouri Medicine (2015), now published as the book The Science of Near-Death Experiences (edited by John C. Hagan III, 2017). It concludes with his chapter, “Near-Death Experiences, The Mind-Body Debate, and The Nature of Reality.” A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Alexander received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1980. He taught neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston for fifteen years, and has performed over 4,000 neurosurgical operations. During his academic career he authored or co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals, authored or edited five books on radiosurgery and neurosurgery, and made over 230 presentations at conferences and medical centers around the world. Since Proof of Heaven was released in 2012, he has been a guest on The Dr. Oz Show, Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, ABC-TV’s 20-20 and Good Morning America, FOX-TV’s FOX & Friends, and his story has been featured on the Discovery Channel and the Biography Channel. He has been interviewed for over 400 national and international radio and internet programs and podcasts.  His books are available in over 40 countries worldwide, and have been translated into over 30 languages. Since his NDE, Dr. Alexander has dedicated himself to sharing information about near-death experiences and other spiritually-transformative experiences, and what they teach us about consciousness and the nature of reality. He continues to promote further research on the unifying elements of science and spirituality, and together with Karen Newell, regularly teaches others ways to tap into our greater mind and the power of the heart to facilitate enhancement of healing, relationships, creativity, guidance, and more. http://ebenalexander.com/ https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week I'm talking to Rickey Offord about his book '33 Days Between Heaven and Hell: A True Miracle Story – One Man’s Near-Death Experience and Visit to the Afterlife' When a routine surgery plunged him into a coma, successful music producer Rickey “Slikk Muzik” Offord began the fight of his life. Given up for dead three times, his body lay unresponsive, but his spirit remained wide awake as he was thrown into a harrowing, thirty-three-day odyssey through the spiritual world. In 33 Days Between Heaven and Hell, Rickey shares his unforgettable journey, taking you to the glowing realm of heaven and into the darkest alleys of hell. You’ll also stand alongside his mother and sister, seeing through their eyes the medical miracle that kept him tethered to this world. Meet the angels and demons he encountered and bear witness to the supernatural war that rages just beyond our senses. Rickey's story is the riveting testimony of a man who returned from the edge of eternity with a powerful message of hope. It will challenge everything you think you know about life and death and leave you with one undeniable truth: miracles still happen. Bio Dallas native Rickey “Slikk Muzik” Offord is a four-time Grammy Award–winning producer and composer. His journey from corporate America to the music industry is one of unwavering determination. After taking a leap of faith, he endured hardship—including a period of homelessness—to pursue his dreams in Hollywood. His resilience was tested further in 2016 when a routine surgery led to three cardiac arrests and a thirty-three-day coma. Emerging from this life-altering experience, Slikk’s faith and passion for music only deepened, inspiring him to create timeless works that transcend Slikk has received Grammy Awards for his groundbreaking work, including Tori Kelly’s Hiding Place (Best Gospel Album) and Never Alone (Best Gospel Performance/Song), as well as Lecrae’s Church Clothes 4 (Best Contemporary Christian Music Album) and DOE’s Heart of a Human (Best Contemporary Christian Album). Beyond these wins, his work has earned seven additional Grammy nominations, including recognition for Ariana Grande’s Yours Truly, GloRilla’s Glorious, and Sheila E.’s Bailar. With over a billion career streams to his credit, an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe for his work on the hit series Atlanta, and twelve Billboard #1 records, Slikk’s mission remains clear: to create music that resonates across generations, cultures, and industries. Instagram @slikkmuzik https://www.amazon.com/33-Days-Between-Heaven-Hell-ebook/dp/B0HFR8Y3WX https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode I am talking about Alien Encounters and Near-Death Experiences Alien encounters and near-death experiences are usually treated as completely separate mysteries, but when the experiences and their long-term effects are compared, some striking similarities begin to appear. In this episode, I look at the possible connections between alien contact and the near-death experience. People from both groups have described encounters with intelligent beings, telepathic communication, strange environments, altered perceptions of time and journeys into realities that seem completely separate from everyday life. Some report meeting beings of light, while others struggle to decide whether the entities they encountered were extraterrestrial, spiritual or something that does not easily fit either description. I also explore the remarkable similarities in what happens afterwards. Both near-death experiencers and alien-contact experiencers can report reduced fear of death, increased spirituality, greater compassion, stronger intuition, less interest in material success and a new sense of purpose. Experiences that begin with fear or crisis can sometimes become deeply positive and transformational. The episode looks at the work of several important pioneers who investigated these connections, including Kenneth Ring, R. Leo Sprinkle, Greta Woodrew, Whitley Strieber and Harvard psychiatrist John Mack. Ring’s research was particularly important because he compared the aftereffects reported by near-death experiencers with those described by people claiming UFO encounters and found significant similarities between the two groups. I also examine unusual cases in which near-death experiences appear to include apparent extraterrestrial contact, including encounters with non-human beings, telepathic communication and journeys to other worlds. Could alien encounters and near-death experiences be different expressions of a larger mystery involving consciousness? Whatever their ultimate cause, both can leave people with the powerful feeling that human life is part of a much greater reality. https://simonbown.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Zen AI bit.ly/zenAI_bpp_paranormal Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.