Welcome to Our Paranormal Afterlife.

This is an Our Paranormal Afterlife extra episode, and I'm your host Simon Bown.

In this episode, I'm talking to Dr Nicholas Rulow, PhD, about his essay,

An Immortal Stream of Consciousness, the scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness

after permanent bodily death. And this essay was a Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

essay competition winner.

Hi, Nicholas, thanks a lot for coming on the podcast.

Thanks for having me.

So we're going to talk about an essay you wrote for the Bigelow Institute of Consciousness Studies.

Yeah, that's right.

And the title of the essay is an immortalortal Stream of Consciousness, The Scientific

Evidence for the Survival of Consciousness after Permanent Bodily Death.

To begin with, how did it come about that you wrote this essay?

It's always difficult to know where to begin with these stories, but a close friend and colleague of mine told me about

this competition, and I thought it was a great opportunity to get some thoughts out that I had

been sort of digesting for years, having worked in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Persinger, who was a

clinical neuropsychologist who sadly passed away in 2018, but when he was alive and when he

was working on some interesting ideas in the field of neuroscience, he was pursuing all these great ideas around, you know, what is the paranormal really?

What are sci phenomena?

How are these related to physical forces and quantifiable, measurable phenomenon in the world that we can go out and actually report on and really predict and control.

And so I had been thinking about these questions for years because I was his graduate student.

I was his last PhD student.

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