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Is there life after death? Meet the author trying to solve humanity’s greatest puzzle
The Netflix series Surviving Death claims to be a rational look at life after death. But how honest is its approach to the afterlife?
22 January 2021 • 6:00am
Spirit photography is one of ways of contacting the dead explored in Netflix s Surviving Death
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To show her he was thinking of her, Leslie Kean’s brother sent her balloons. She woke up one morning and found three scarlet ones tangled in the tree outside her window.
She was astonished. The balloons themselves weren’t so remarkable; it was a few weeks after Valentine’s Day, after all. There was one unusual aspect to her brother’s gift, though: he was dead.
Published Jan. 21, 2021Updated Jan. 23, 2021
What’s across the River Styx? Robert Thomas Bigelow would like to know. Wouldn’t anyone, especially now? But Mr. Bigelow is not just anyone, or any 76-year-old mourning a wife and confronting his own mortality. He’s a maverick Las Vegas real estate and aerospace mogul with billionaire allure and the resources to fund his restless curiosity embracing outer and inner space, U.F.O.s and the spirit realm.
Now he’s offering nearly $1 million in prizes for the best evidence for “the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death.”
In other words, was Hamlet right to call death an inescapable boundary, “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns?” Or does consciousness in some form survive bodily death what the Dalai Lama called how we merely “change our clothes”?