In January I wrote about Robert Bigelow, the billionaire founder of Bigelow Aerospace, and his Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. BICS had announced an essay contest “seeking evidence of the survival of consciousness” after death. At the time I was intrigued but didn’t think I could prove in an essay what my Past Life Journeying has proven to my satisfaction: that our consciousness continues after the death of the physical body, making the case that this non-physical state is the continuity of our consciousness, with occasional forays into the physical by incarnating into physical bodies.
Well, the winner was noted parapsychologist Jeffrey Mishlove, who’s Thinking Allowed TV and video series I was familiar with, since Mishlove has the most extensive interview with Michael Talbot (The Holographic Universe) available. According to the Mystery Wire website, Mishlove’s essay:
“Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness after Permanent Bodily Death” was a unanimous choice by the panel of judges. Mishlove’s essay included video snippets and testimonies regarding near-death experiences, reincarnation cases documented by memories of past lives, and seven other types of evidence that consciousness survives physical death.
(“Video snippets” - Doh! Why didn’t I think of including video links?) Bigelow was so impressed with the quality of the submission that he paid out $1.5 million, almost twice the money allowed, in order to award 11 runners-up and 15 Honorable Mentions. BCIS intends to publish all 29 essays on its website and in print to be made available “for free to hospitals, hospices, religious organizations, and others to be determined.” Gratitude to Robert Bigelow for putting his money to expanding awareness of consciousness after the death of the physical body. And if anyone is keeping score on billionaire’s going into space, Bigelow’s already been there, just not in person. His Bigelow Aerospace has produced “habitable space structures” for NASA and "the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is attached to the Tranquility module of the International Space Station.”