Customer Reviews
A truly sensational read!! - By: Mr. D. Child, 18 Dec 2007 
I must admit that I am only half way through this book & it has turned me into a believer! I have always been cautious to read any books written by American scientists whose intention is to investigate the survival of consiousness, but Gary E Scwartz is a whole different balll game!
This book is very clearly written & easy to understand, his scientific investigations with the mediums are extremely professional & it is good that he constantly questions whether what he is seeing & hearing with his own senses is real. Never for a moment does he suggest that what he is investigating is real - he always remains firmly open minded, but largely more skeptical. He never forgets that he is a scientist whilst writing this book & it's great to know that someone so intelligent & cynical as himself, is looking into the notion of survival of consiousness with an open & scientific mind!
The book has many revelations & it is extremely thought-provoking. It's good that science is pondering the existence of consciousness after death & this book only confirms that this may in fact be a possibility! He has made a believer out of me! And I was once an ardent skeptic!
Dion, Leeds.
Scientific after-life experiments - By: Roy J. Candy, 06 Sep 2007 
This is one of the most important series of experiments undertaken in the last 50 years & consequently one opf the most important books. It is encouraging how Gary Schwartz & his associates adapted their methodology in the light of experience.
Convincing and thought provoking - By: Paul Welsh, 01 May 2006 I reallly enjoyed this book. Although the stats bogged me down sometimes I found it very pursuasive & thorough.
A serious challenge for the ultra-sceptics - By: R. Nathan, 06 Mar 2006 This book is a highly readable & convincing account of a series of fairly exceptional & important scientific experiments.
Any scientific investigation of the hypothesis of after-death survival of consciousness has to rule out (beyond reasonable doubt), fraud, halllucination, cold-reading, chance or super-psi as opposing hypotheses for the results. With the occasional reservation,these experiments go a long way towards doing just that.
The experimental conditions, controls & data are well documented & the results present a serious challlenge to the ultra-sceptics & reductionist-materialists.
Those in search of evidence for the after-life should definitely add this book to their collection. Also highly recommended is David Fontana's comprehensive overview `Is There An Afterlife?'.
Disappointing reading - By: , 20 Oct 2003 
Having read hundreds of books on the subject of mediumship & attended numerous seances over the years I was attracted to buy Gary Schwartz's book because of the impressive words "Scientific Evidence" in the title.
The first few chapters gave good ground work hopefully leading to the promised evidence further on in the book. The scientific protocols used were reassuring & eliminated any doubt about fraud.
However, the readings which are the core of the research were, to my mind, no better than some of the better UK reading that you can experience up & down the country. The "blind" & "silent" experiments were interesting & may be a technique that mediums should improve on to eradicate suspicions about cold reading. Apart from this there was no real "Scientific Evidence" presented. Just some good class mediumship results represented by graphs, charts & tables.
A simple technical flaw in the research is the fact that Gary's co researcher & love, Linda Russek, already had strong feeling on the subject due to the death of her father. I don't doubt her sincerity but it's not a plus point when trying to convince the sceptics.
Overalll, a disappointing book for me & certainly no contest for James Randi!
