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What does a scientist think of the afterlife? Robert Schoch has made a careful, deep study of this question, and he discusses his findings with our resident psychic medium Marla Frees in this broad-ranging conversation. He explores questions such as what happens to the soul–if we have one–during states of coma, or as a person?s mind is slowly destroyed by Alzheimer’s disease. And then Marla Frees asks him about what SHE does–coming into contact with the dead friends and relatives of her clients.

What might survive death? How can science measure this? Robert Schoch explores these basic questions with somebody who communicates with the dead on a routine basis, and that is a conversation you literally are not going to find any place in the world except right here.
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Let me begin by saying that it is my fervent hope that I am entirely wrong about what follows. I fear that the opposite is true, though, which is why I’m writing it now.

We must wait two more months before the Democrats take power, and the Bush Administration appears at this point to be actually working to harm the economy during these eight fatal weeks.
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Researchers think that brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are the result of a clash of incompatible genes between the mother and the father.
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That’s because parts of your brain are actually asleep – There’s no control center in your brain that dictates when it’s time for you to drift off to dreamland. Instead, sleep creeps up on you as independent groups of brain cells become fatigued and switch into a sleep state even while you are still (mostly) awake. Eventually, enough of these groups switch and you doze off.

If sleep were being directed by a control center, the whole brain would respond at the same time. Instead, it behaves like a self-directing orchestra in which most sections are more-or-less in sync, but a few race ahead or lag behind at any given time.
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