CLASSIC REBOOT: The Spiritualist Vision of the Afterlife with Stafford Betty
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- Stafford Betty, PhD, is a philosopher and professor of religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield. He is author of Vadiraja’s Refutation of Shankara’s Non-Dualism, The Imprisoned Splendor, The Afterlife Unveiled, and Heaven and Hell Unveiled.
In this video, originally recorded in 2015, he points out that the spiritualist vision of the afterlife has been generated over the past 150 years because of the testimony of ostensible spirits speaking through trance mediums. This literature has been extensively scrutinized by scientists and, in the best instances, is often accompanied by information that offers evidence of either an afterlife or extrasensory perception. Professor Betty describes many common threads that can be found throughout this literature that offer a vivid description of a realm of human existence beyond the physical life on earth. He refers to the stages of spiritual evolution that may occur in the afterlife.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on July 10, 2015)
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Really wonderful interview. Thank you. Well Wishes for you and yours and all. ❤🧡❤
Thank you so much for this reboot. I'm extremely thankful for these reboots because I'm honestly overwhelmed with the amount of selection that I have not seen yet haha
This was great
Thank you!
Great conversation. So full of energy. Thank you gentlemen.
I've had mediumistic experiences and wish to develop it further somehow. This was a great talk and confirmed all of what I knew from my own journey.
You become what you put your time into.
Nice!!!
Thru what mechanism does an earthbound spirit get drunk at a bar? Does it require the human host to first become intoxicated in order for itself to become intoxicated? Or does it somehow siphon off some of the alcoholic content of the drink once the human has swallowed jt? I guess what im asking is - is it easier or harder for the human host to get drunk if an earthbound spirit is involved? Fantastic interview by the way. Thank you.
Carl Jung in a letter to Bill W (founder of AA) 1961. Talks about alcohol as spirits. And he talks about evil. And how to fight it is “Spiritus Contra Spiritum.” Spirit against Spirit. This is a fact that anyone can fact check. I personally believe that I have a spirit attachment being an alcoholic. (sober 7 years). I believe It could have entered me while drinking in a bar. Seriously folks
It's interesting that harder liquors are called "spirits", isn't it? To answer your question more pointedly, I think what might happen is that the earthbound spirit actually possesses the alcoholic drinker to an extent.
Years ago I had a roommate who suffered from alcoholism. She would sometimes get drunk and get into a state of stupor where her facial expressions would change and she'd start speaking in what sounded like a male voice. It was often unintelligible, but sometimes she'd start talking about chemistry or other scientific subjects, referring to things that were beyond her waking understanding. This was before the widespread adoption of cell phones, and I never recorded any of it. But I think that somehow other entities were taking over her consciousness in those states. It was all quite bizarre.
Yes. And only alcoholics have blackouts. Normal drinkers can pass out. But it’s not a blackout. A blackout can last for hours or sometimes days and there is no recollection of any of the events that happened. Something else has taken control.
@@verjanhamilton6287conversation was related to the effects of alcohol being different on an alcoholic.
would love to hear his opinion on why we end up on Earth, life after life?
why our memories are wiped clean each incarnation?
how could anyone "learn" anything here, given the above conditions?
My NDE and every other has proven the afterlife exists.
Ohh😔...no information of what can we do to protect ourselves from demonic spirits
What of the people who are revived and have no memory of being unconscious?
I believe the majority of near death events 'return' without memory of what took place in a different state of consciousness.
Since medical science has advanced, a lot more resuscitations are occuring. Folks are often queried much sooner - immediately upon regaining consciousness - probably since the phenomena is now familiar
worldwide. Spontaneous recollection used to be the only way NDEs were recounted.
I remembered . And others don’t. Some like tv reality shows others like docos . Some like Eminem others like Bach. In other words - who knows 😂❤
This sounds quite a bit like Sweedenborg 👍
The reason that the afterlife must be true is because there is no observable alternative. To pose that there is no afterlife is a theory that is inherently unobservable. If you don't exist in the afterlife, then you cannot possibly observe it in order to confirm that theory. This is not posing that it is just practically unobservable. Nor is that theory only hypothetically unobservable if the means were to exist to observe it. But this theory is the most inherently unobservable even possible, and so it must be considered false by construction. The only alternative left is that there is an afterlife that is observable... when you get there.
I'm impressed seeing such a pragmatic appraisal re: a subject that's often incendiary.
Imo, the largest, overlapping common aspect of NDEs - the presence of immense, yet ineffable, love - seems the best evidence, but it's far from proof.
Since my NDEs were long ago at 4 and 19, sometimes I wonder what I'd believe re: the afterlife if they didn't happen.
In the end, I'm grateful for the experiences not only for the presence of loved ones who had crossed over but
because the 2nd one erased any notion of a deity who loved conditionally, had favorites or damned.
The larger the ego - the more you have to convince yourself that this life IS THE ONE