CLASSIC REBOOT: The Spiritualist Vision of the Afterlife with Stafford Betty

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)

[philipk]

Really wonderful interview. Thank you. Well Wishes for you and yours and all. ❤🧡❤

[MoMoMu]

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

[annelimartini]

Great conversation. So full of energy. Thank you gentlemen.

[kingofthenight]

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.

[WhirlpoolFarmer]

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.

[outoflimitz]

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?

[moonrock]

My NDE and every other has proven the afterlife exists.

[katiec]

This sounds quite a bit like Sweedenborg 👍

[rafaelmelitonrodriguezmigl]

What of the people who are revived and have no memory of being unconscious?

[anica]

Ohh😔...no information of what can we do to protect ourselves from demonic spirits

[tosafmjcom]

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.