Advancing the Evidence for Survival of Consciousness
Adapts a medical evidence-grading framework (A–F) to evaluate nine categories of survival-of-consciousness evidence. Mental and physical mediumship received the highest grades (B+); reincarnation and NDE OBE aspects received B−; EVP/ITC and deathbed visions received C+; apparitions, induced experiences, and ADCs received C. No category achieved grade A, primarily because the psi-vs-survival interpretive confound cannot be resolved with current methods. Proposes ten new experiments and surveys 422 academics: controlled veridical OBEs during NDEs ranked most persuasive (mean 14.4/50), followed by mediumship (9.6) and reincarnation (9.0). A worldwide belief survey (N=2,389) finds the commonly cited 60–70% survival belief rate overstates identity-preserving (Level 2+) belief, which is closer to 40–50%.