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Surviving Death: The Evidence

Surviving Death: The Evidence

By: Simon Bown
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Surviving Death: The Evidence dives into one of humanity’s oldest, and most electrifying, questions: does consciousness continue after we die? Each episode guides listeners through compelling real-world accounts and cutting-edge research on near-death experiences, past-life memories, and other phenomena that challenge our understanding of life, death, and what might lie beyond. This podcast invites you to explore the stories, science, and mystery at the edge of existence, where the veil between the living and the dead becomes surprisingly thin. Science Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • A Near Death Experience
    Apr 6 2026

    In this episode I talk to Dr. Alan Hugenot. We talk about his Near Death Experience and his book The Death Experience: What it is like when you die.

    His book describes what you will experience as you die. Giving details of the death process and your journey into the afterlife based on the author's own Near-Death experience where he died, went out-of-body into the afterlife, and returned to a second life in the same body. His experiences are collated with the Tibetan Book of the Dead; the Egyptian Book of the Dead; and current research on the Near Death-experience by the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS); Dr. Ian Stevensens's research on Children who Remember Past Lives at the University of Virginia; and studies of After-Death Communication at the University of Arizona. Giving the current science on consciousness survival while explaining quantum mathematics and the afterlife postulated to exist in dark energy located in alternative dimensions.

    Bio

    Dr. Hugenot began the study of mediumship more than a dozen years ago strictly as a scientist, intending to establish scientifically that this phenomenon was valid, and that communication with deceased surviving consciousness was indeed possible.

    Before giving his first reading he trained as a medium for 7 years within the Spiritualist tradition. This included completing the 4 year course with the Morris Pratt Institute, outside Milwaukie, Wisconsin, and also traveling to Lily Dale outside Buffalo, N.Y. to take week long seminars.

    Finally. he made three separate trips to England attending a total of five weeks of courses at Arthur Findlay College, of psychic science, outside Stansted, Essex, UK. So that today he is a member of the Licentiate Ministers & Certified Mediums Society of the NSAC.

    Currently, he regularly “demonstrates” Evidential Mediumship from the platform at Spiritualist services, and in circles (seances).

    His website is https://afterlife.pro/

    https://www.facebook.com/alanhugenotmedium

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQMYWFHR

    My Book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Hauntings and The afterlife
    Mar 30 2026

    This week I’m talking to Richard Estep. He is a paramedic and paranormal investigator. We discuss his experiences as a paranormal investigator and his books detailing the many places he has witnessed extraordinary events. We focus on his book 'The Devil’s Coming To Get Me, The Haunting of Malvern Manor'.

    Malvern Manor has been many things over the course of its long life. In the late 1800s it was a hotel catering to travelers and businessmen; then it was converted into a rest home for the sick and infirm; and finally, it became a privately-owned care facility, providing a home for the physically and mentally challenged of six counties. It was often the last refuge for those suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, and severe behavioral disorders.

    Long after the building closed its doors for the final time, many people claim that some of those residents never left. Now a magnet for paranormal investigators, it is said that the abandoned rooms and hallways of Malvern Manor are haunted by the restless spirits of those who once called it home.

    Bio

    Richard Estep, author, paranormal investigator, and TV personality. You might have seen me on TV’s Haunted Case Files (Paranormal Investigators in the UK) Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal Revenge, Paranormal Night Shift, Paranormal 911 (that’s a lot of paranormals!) Destination Fear, or A Haunting.

    My love of all things ghostly began at a very young age, fed by staying in my grandparents’ haunted house in England and by a constant stream of binge reading at my local library (Syston Library, you’re the best!) I didn’t begin to actually investigate hauntings until the mid-nineties, but when I started, the bug bit me and hasn’t let go ever since. I took this passion with me when I moved to the United States in 1999, and finally formed the Boulder County Paranormal Research Society in 2006. These days, most of my cases are research projects for books.

    I started to write about my experiences in 2013, and now have north of 30 of books that are either on the market or contracted to be released in the near future. I make my living as a paramedic and clinical educator for a private ambulance company and hospital system. For three years, I gave tours at the infamous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado — inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining.

    In the tiny amount of free time that does not involve paranormal investigation and writing about it, I am an unabashed geek, with a particular bias towards all things Star Wars. I have a Lego problem that may eventually require professional counseling if it gets any further out of hand. Perhaps above all else, I am a collector and reader of books.

    https://www.richardestep.net/

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BKMPPCP

    My Book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP


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    55 mins
  • Reincarnation
    Mar 23 2026

    In this episode I'm talking to Andy Tomlinson about his book 'Healing the Eternal Soul - Insights from Past Life and Spiritual Regression'

    This practical manual covers the theory and techniques needed to heal past lives and includes regression into current life problems, past lives, and the soul memories between past lives. Techniques are clearly explained with a structured approach that makes this an invaluable reference for any healer. Comprehensive and definitive, it synthesizes the work of many pioneers in the fields of regression therapy, past life and between lives regression.

    Bio

    Andy is a Psychology graduate, Psychotherapist, EARTh certified Regression Therapist, MNI certified Life Between Lives Therapist and high vibration energy therapist. Andy is the founder of the Past Life Regression Academy and has been the President of the Society for Medical Advance and Research with Regression Therapy.

    From a background of 10 years as a management trainer Andy is internationally known for his training. He is the author of the book Healing the Eternal Soul which is highly recognised in the field of Regression Therapy, and Exploring the Eternal Soul which takes this further in the new area of Life Between Lives Regression. He is also the editor of Transforming the Eternal Soul which covers advanced techniques to use with regression therapy and co author of Between Lives which has self help exercises to expand consciousness.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789T46PN

    https://www.regressionacademy.com/

    My Book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP


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    1 hr and 1 min
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