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According to science, something is said to exist in our universe if it has length, mass, time, temperature, luminescence, or amounts of substance—and if it is verifiably a person, place, or thing. It could still exist with none of those characteristics, but it would be pointless to study it with our limited tools and techniques, because such study would take up a lot of our valuable time in endless investigations and discussions. Afterward, we would still have nothing to hang our hats on. We are immediately left to exclude the existence of life after the death of our bodies, the existence of God, of heaven, and perhaps other persons, places, or things that seem to be very important to more than 80 percent of this world’s population. 42 percent of scientists are among the nonbelievers. About 33 percent of scientists are believers in God, and another 18 percent believe in some form of a spiritual place where our spirits go for additional revelations. 7 percent refused to answer the Pew Research questions.

On the other hand (figuratively speaking), there is a growing body of persons who have told us of their near-death experiences (NDEs). Their tales are very similar regardless of time, place, gender, age, and their prior beliefs. In the US, that number is about 13.2 million. Extrapolated to the world, and this pool of NDE persons expands to 328 million.

Stated very briefly, the NDErs tell us about traveling through a tunnel, then arriving in a glorious new place where virtually all things take on a heightened sense of beauty and peacefulness, where there are a huge number of souls; communication takes place telepathically, and an overwhelming sense of love and tranquility is the norm. There are no judgments, and no punishments as we know them. Moreover, there are no religions, although many religious persons are present. After just a very short time, the great majority of NDErs want to stay, even when given the option to stay or to return to their Earthly bodies. Virtually all have reported that their “heavenly” sense of being was far stronger than their Earthly sense of being, and that their Earthly senses leaned more toward a dream or a psychological phenomenon by comparison.

All are welcomed in heaven including former rich and poor, doctors, lawyers, scientists, philosophers, farmers and atheists. Most also return to Earth or to another planet in the universe for another incarnation. The purpose of these re-incarnations is to acquire more and more worldly experiences, to live in new environments, to suffer pain, hunger, and disease, and to grow into higher and higher versions of our spiritual selves. Ultimately, all are assumed into and become part of the Creator. Atonements take place in the next and future existences where a former rich person, for example, must live a life of poverty, or a healthy person must suffer from deformities and disease.

Much of these existences are also confirmed via dreams and with the aid of counselors who intercede between those who are here and those who are there.

I am in the camp of the NDErs. Heretofore, scientists have taken the position that all things measurable in the universe occur from a long series of random events. In theory, everything can be explained without the need for an unexamined life in another dimension that we cannot verify. To acknowledge an after-life is to eventually stop all scientific investigations of the here and now. I say that we need to put the preceding statement to the test of science. The first rule to any scientific study is this: Science never proves any hypothesis; it merely fails to reject it.