The Evidence that Convinced Two Skeptics There is an Afterlife? - Darren McEnaney of Seeking i Part 2 - Episode 8

Darren McEnaney is the host of Seeking i, a podcast that speaks with the top researchers of afterlife evidence, psi, and consciousness. Darren is a self-described "lay researcher of consciousness focused on anomalous experience and life beyond physical death."

Full show notes for The Evidence that Convinced Two Skeptics There is an Afterlife. Darren McEnaney of Seeking I. Part 2: Episode 8

Liz and Darren pick up where they left off last week. Liz continues talking about how she once bent a spoon, which Darren clarifies was with her energy, not strength. Liz also talks about how she could not do it again the next time she went to a spoon-bending event, which actually ended up adding to the evidence that spoon-bending is real.

They both talk about major misconceptions of how mediums get their information and how that makes people think mediums are cheating when they aren't. Liz and Darren both share examples of this from medium readings they have had and they share the best medium reading they had and the worst.

They also talk about NDEs - Near Death Experiences and a remarkable phenomena that has occurred during them referred to as Peak in Darien. This is where someone who has an NDE encounters loved ones who have died, but this includes a loved one who has died suddenly and unexpectedly. The two also discuss skeptics, and what can really be called pseudo-skeptics.

The late James Randi, whose stage name is The Amazing Randi, was a well-known skeptic who set out to catch mediums and other people claiming inexplicable abilities cheating. He set up a one million dollar challenge for anyone who showed abilities to come and try to win this money by demonstrating their abilities. No one ever won. Why is this the case if people really have abilities?

Liz asks Darren to share a time or personal experience he had which blew him away and demonstrated that there was most likely life after death. He shares an amazing and moving story about how after his two dogs passed away, they made sure to let him and his parents know they were still around. Darren's parents were as astounded as he was by these signs from his dogs on the other side.

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