The Heaven Connect blog brings together practice and science: from concrete questions around the mediumship reading – how it unfolds, what it costs, how to judge reputability – through to studies and case analyses from near-death and consciousness research, the philosophy of mind, and the physical foundations of matter.
What is remote viewing? From the CIA Stargate program (1972–1995) and the Stanford Research Institute via Joe McMoneagle and Ingo Swann to Birgit Fischer's account on the {ungeskriptet} by Ben podcast (from 1:21:20): method, history, the Find Me Group's multi-viewer protocol – and what distinguishes remote viewing from classical mediumship.
Read article →Portrait of English medium and teacher Mavis Pittilla (1933–2023): more than 60 years of practice, decades of teaching at Arthur Findlay College, mentor to Gordon Smith, Tony Stockwell, Janet Nohavec and many others. With teaching philosophy (vocation not stage, relationship to the spirit world, responsibility toward the bereaved) and placement in mediumship research.
Read article →Profile of Scottish medium Gordon Smith: from a barber in Glasgow to a tutor at Arthur Findlay College, with the years-long statistical studies by Prof. Archie Roy and Tricia Robertson at the University of Glasgow (Journal of the SPR, 2001/2004). With method description, Smith's style (names, addresses, highly specific details), comparison to Lazar/Beischel/Schwartz and a critical perspective.
Read article →The EREAMS study by Oliver Lazar in detail: 243 participants from six countries, two mediums, a waiting phase as methodological filter, highly specific evidence as the gold standard – over 90 % authenticity and 96 % comforting impact. With comparison to Schwartz, Beischel and Tressoldi and an honest discussion of strengths and limitations.
Read article →The 2001 Lancet study in detail: 344 patients at ten Dutch hospitals, prospective multicentre design, 18 % NDE incidence, the "dentures case", long-term follow-up over 8 years, and the decisive finding that personality change occurs only in the NDE group – not in the control group with the same cardiac arrest.
Read article →Portrait of US psychiatrist Bruce Greyson (University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies): 45 years of NDE research, the Greyson NDE Scale (1983) as the worldwide standard, 27 years as editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, IANDS co-founder and author of "After" (2021). With his central findings on long-term after-effects and veridical perception.
Read article →Reconstruction of the 1991 standstill operation at the Barrow Neurological Institute: body temperature 10 °C, stopped heart, blood drained from the head, flat EEG, absent brainstem potentials. Reynolds reported perceptions during this phase that Spetzler and the surgical team confirmed. With critical discussion of Woerlee's anaesthesia-awareness counter-hypothesis.
Read article →On the 4th floor of the Basel Land Psychiatric Clinic, the door sign "Head physician Dr. Jakob Bösch" sat next to one reading "Healer" – this is where medium Anouk Claes worked. A documented case of integrative psychiatry in the German-speaking world, with sources from DLF, SRF/3sat and Wikipedia, and the UK comparison: since 1985 the NHS has paid for energetic healing on a doctor's prescription.
Read article →Harald Lesch and Josef M. Gaßner explain why elementary particles in the Standard Model must be massless, why the equations would otherwise yield probabilities above 100 %, and how the Higgs field produces what we measure as mass. Plus: 99 % of the proton's mass is QCD binding energy – not "stuff".
Read article →Summary of the interview with Prof. Dr. Oliver Lazar (FOM Düsseldorf) on his EREAMS study: 243 participants, two mediums, highly specific evidence – over 90 % authenticity and 96 % comforting impact. Plus: the personal starting point and two independent confirmations by mediums.
Read article →Five historical cases in which the majority stood against the experts and lost – and why today's AI systems reproduce the same bias, because they weight by frequency rather than expertise. Applied to the NDE debate.
Read article →Summary of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Dr. Godehard Brüntrup SJ (Munich School of Philosophy): five philosophical strategies for dealing with NDEs, the puzzle of perception during flat-line EEG, patterns hard to explain in evolutionary terms, and the NDE as a mystical experience.
Read article →Summary of the Thanatos TV interview with neurologist Prof. Wilfried Kuhn (department head Schweinfurt, Netzwerk Nahtoderfahrung e.V.): why the hallucination label falls short, why endorphins fail as an explanation, flat-line EEG and the puzzling gamma peak shortly before death.
Read article →Summary of the 1981 television interview with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: the moment of death as a liberating experience, blind patients describing colours, and the children study – "in ten years no child has ever given me a wrong name".
Read article →A summary of the interview with Aachen-based physician and scientist Prof. Walter van Laack: why oxygen-deprivation, drug and hallucination explanations fall short, documented flat-line EEG cases, and what clearly distinguishes NDEs from dreams.
Read article →Hans Christian Andersen's Christmas tale (1845) in full – with a short note on the soul-leaving-the-body motif at the end: the grandmother receives the child in the light.
Read article →How police authorities cooperate with mediums – illustrated by Pascal Voggenhuber (Switzerland), Gerard Croiset (Netherlands) and the Etta Smith / Melanie Uribe case (USA). Plus: why Germany officially does not work with mediums – and how it still happens in practice.
Read article →Typical price ranges for mediumship readings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (€80–250), the factors that drive the price, and red flags around dumping and price-gouging.
Read article →A concrete checklist of quality signs, typical red flags of fraudulent providers and questions to ask before booking a mediumship session.
Read article →Training paths from development circles to Arthur Findlay College, foundational exercises for the four clair-senses, and realistic timelines on the path to your own mediumistic practice.
Read article →Introduction to trance mediumship: the difference from mental mediums and channeling, light and deep trance, the typical flow of a trance session and how to recognise a reputable trance medium.
Read article →How a mediumship reading typically unfolds: preparation, the typical phases (building the connection, identification, messages), duration, costs and what to look for when choosing a medium.
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