John Cleese on the Afterlife

A great little clip of John Cleese discussing evidence for the afterlife with author and scientist Ed Kelly, from UVA. John Cleese has done wonderful work promoting the scientific evidence for life after death, and this conversation (amongst the many other he has done with the folks at UVA and beyond) is well worth checking out, for any of us interested in evidential mediumship, NDE’s and all sorts of other amazing experiments into the nature of consciousness – and our place in the universe.

A great quote from the Youtube comments as well!

Science is rigidly dogmatic about materialism for good reason: to return to a world run by religious superstition would be terrifying. To base decisions on any kind on data that is not falsifiable would mean going back to a world of abuses and power grabs justified by visions and communications from God. If I had to choose between a world of religious dogmatism and one of scientific dogmatism there is no question which I would take. But John is quite right. The denial of data suggestive of the survival of consciousness after physical death is the result of a completely unscientific set of assumptions. That matter is all that exists and that nothing exists apart from matter is a settled question in science. This may be true; but the anecdotal evidence – and it is evidence- of thousands of people suggests that consciousness is possible apart from the body. It is pure dogmatism on the part of science to deny the possibility that such testimony is anything other than delusion. It is, as John says, precisely the same kind of pre-determined conclusion that sent people to the stake during the Inquisition. Now we simply tar their academic standing, which destroys them in a much subtler and more devastating way than killing them did. Science has mistaken the limits of science for the limits of reality. Science must expand its horizon, or it will become as irrelevant as Catholicism is now.