12/ 2021 by Tom Butler -- I began preparing my review the first BICS essay, (1) it became obvious that there is some confusion about which phenomenal experience may be proof of information from survived personalities (discarnate) and which may be better explained as psychic access of information from incarnate personalities. As a general statement, personal stories, compilation of case studies and interviews are informative but not necessarily evidence of survival unless they include an account of possible mechanism or processes that make them evidential. “I had a veridical dream,” “spirit told me” or “how could such a complex event be explained otherwise” are not, by themselves, evidential arguments.
Rules of Evidence – Survival
12/ 2021 by Tom Butler -- I began preparing my review the first BICS essay, (1) it became obvious that there is some confusion about which phenomenal experience may be proof of information from survived personalities (discarnate) and which may be better explained as psychic access of information from incarnate personalities. As a general statement, personal stories, compilation of case studies and interviews are informative but not necessarily evidence of survival unless they include an account of possible mechanism or processes that make them evidential. “I had a veridical dream,” “spirit told me” or “how could such a complex event be explained otherwise” are not, by themselves, evidential arguments.