Psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove in “Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death,” provides evidence of medium communication after death.
José was looking for cigarettes. He didn’t find any, but he came upon his father’s gun instead. He wondered what would happen if he shot at his reflection in a mirror. Mauricio suddenly walked between José and the mirror, at which point the gun went off, fatally wounding Mauricio.
José was arrested and charged with murder. Prior to the trial, Mauricio’s parents had been to see Chico Xavier, the famous Brazilian medium. The message they received from their dead son described what had happened:
José Divino was not guilty, nor was anybody else. We were just playing around, thinking about shooting somebody’s reflection in a mirror, and when I passed in front of my image reflected in the mirror, the shot hit me. If anybody has to ask forgiveness, it should be me – I should have been studying instead of fooling around.
Attorneys presented the message in court, and Judge Orimar de Bastos noted it agreed with the evidence. He concluded:
We must give credibility to the message automatically written by Francisco Candido Xavier where the victim recounts the event, exempting the defendant from any guilt. He describes the scene where he and his friend were playing with the gun, and how the shot came to be fired.
The case was dismissed. Psychical researcher Guy Lyon Playfair writes that this was the first known instance of a criminal case decided on evidence purportedly originating from a deceased person. However, he also reports on three other Brazilian cases where a message from Chico Xavier was enough to influence a murder trial. One case resulted in an acquittal. In the other two, the court reduced the charges because of the mediumistic testimony.
Murders solved by mediums. In a 1977 case in Chicago, the court convicted Allan Showery of murdering a Filipino woman named Teresita Basa. Police arrested him following the claim by another Filipino woman, Remibias Chua. She had communicated with Basa’s spirit in their native language, Tagalog, and was told about the theft of a ring in addition to the murder. Confronted with this evidence, Showery (who had previously been interviewed by police) confessed, and police recovered the ring.
An even stronger case is the 1983 murder of Jacqueline Poole in a London suburb. Poole’s spirit communicated, unbidden, to a young Irish medium, Christine Holohan – who had no other connection to Poole, nor to her friends, or anyone else associated with the case. The information provided by Poole through the medium impressed the police. Although there was insufficient evidence at the time for a conviction of the identified murderer, Anthony Ruark – they saved the suspect’s pullover sweater identified by the medium Holohan. Police reopened the case in 2000 when new laboratory techniques analyzing the sweater enabled police to make a convincing identification of Ruark, who was convicted and jailed for life.
A careful analysis by skilled psychical researchers Guy Lyon Playfair and Montague Keen reached the same conclusion as the police. There was no plausible alternative to the hypothesis that Jacqueline Poole’s spirit had communicated with the medium Christine Holohan.
Jeffrey Mishlove’s essay, “Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death,” received first prize in the 2021 Bigelow Institute’s challenge to provide proof for the survival of human consciousness after death. Footnotes in Mishlove’s essay and videos he refers have been removed in this presentation but are available in his essay, which may be downloaded at https://bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php. Mishlove is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and host on YouTube of “New Thinking Allowed.”
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