Editor s Note:
When The Greenville News and Anderson Independent Mail initially published these candidate submissions, we did not apply the same standards to all three candidates.
Candidates were told to submit answers of 200 words or less, and we did not take the time to edit down some answers that came in long.
We recognize that this did not allow all candidates and equal forum to state their views, and gave them the opportunity to expand beyond the initial 200-word limit.
We strive to be fair in our newsgathering, and wanted to be sure all candidates had an equal voice in advance of this special election. Therefore, we are republishing this story with the expanded answers.
Although Michael Prescott is best known as the
New York Times and
USA Today bestselling author of 22 suspense novels, he is also known for his blog dealing primarily with paranormal and life after death subjects. Over the past 20 years he has produced more than 1,600 blog posts with more than 50,000 comments by readers.
The end result is a departure from his fiction writing with his just-released
The Far Horizon: Perspectives on Life Beyond Death, published by White Crow Books. He begins the book by examining some of the best evidence coming to us from psychical research and parapsychology over the past 138 years, since the organization of the Society for Psychical Research, then asking why, if it is so good, it is not more widely known and accepted. He offers four models of after-death consciousness, discussing each one in separate chapters.