"It is generally not known that there are qualified scientists who have documented phenomena that are not supposed to be 'real', phenomena that some of their contemporary colleagues claim are literally impossible. That was one of my motivations for writing the book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife.

It goes without saying that genuine, open-minded skepticism is certainly positive, and all research must be scrutinized and debated. But I’m talking about closed-minded, irrational dismissals that create a strange sort of cognitive dissonance... When you have witnessed such 'impossible' events yourself, as I have, these denials from skeptics are especially difficult to ignore." Read more.