Welcome to Our Paranormal Afterlife.

This is our paranormal afterlife and I'm your host Simon Bown.

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This week I'm talking to Stephen Hawley Martin about his book, Afterlife, The Whole Truth,

Second Edition. Powerful evidence you will never die. Stephen has had half dozen titles

achieved bestseller status on Amazon and is the only three-time

winner of the Writers Digest Book Award. In all, he has written 17 books under his own name

and has ghost-written half-dozen more. For two years, he hosted a successful weekly

internet talk show, The Truth About Life, which averaged 30,000 listener downloads every episode.

Hi, Stephen, thanks a lot for coming back to the podcast.

Hey, Simon, I'm glad to be here. Good to be with you again.

So we're going to talk about your book. It's called Afterlife, The Whole Truth, Second Edition.

Powerful Evidence You Will Never Die.

What's the difference between the first edition and the second edition?

Well, the first edition has been a very good seller and still is probably my best seller,

but I decided that there was something missing from it, and that is

the science behind the fact that we are spiritual beings, but non-material beings, that the universe

itself is non-material, that it seems to be solid stuff.

And for certainly many generations, we've learned in school that all that exist is material substance

and that the fact that we have consciousness came about because of

evolution Darwin of the fittest Darwin's survival of the fittest and that eventually that produced

a brain and that the brain produced consciousness and that's why a lot of people think that there's

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