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What Comes Next? : An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis
"I found myself still alive..."
Over nine million Americans have reported a near death experience (NDE). They’re virtually unanimous in their conclusion that the afterlife is real.
Quantum physics suggests they may be right.
In this short, mind-expanding book, veteran investigative journalist Michael Schmicker takes you on his personal journey in search of a hard-science backed argument for an afterlife. Spoiler He found one. With accessible summaries of contemporary scientific thinking and entertaining illustrations, Schmicker walks readers through a hidden, afterlife hypothesis in quantum physics that–to his great surprise and delight–is both grounded in scientific evidence and astonishingly Our consciousness survives death because, contrary to what Newtonian science assumed, consciousness isn't made of matter—it's not a product of the physical brain. Supported by deep research drawn from authoritative publications like Scientific American, Nature, New Scientist, Science Daily, Phys.org, and more, this book demonstrates that the survival of consciousness is both scientifically possible and, in fact, logical. No belief required. An afterlife isn't supernatural woo-woo; it's simply current science.
If you're struggling to choose between the promises of organized religion and the emptiness of contemporary nihilism, you’ve now got a credible, optimistic, 21st-century alternative to carry you through life.
Editorial
“A stimulating, accessible, and optimistic book.”– Physicist Nick Herbert, author of Quantum Reality
“… brilliantly explains how quantum physics supports the findings of Near-Death Experience research. My enthusiastic recommendation.” – Jeffrey Long, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller, Evidence of the The Science of Near-Death Experiences, and founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation.
“ …explores the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness, leading to a surprising affirmation of the afterlife.” – Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of Entangled Minds
“Many assume that survival after death is inconsistent with physics. This book is important because it shows such an assumption is not warranted.” – Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, host of the national public television series Thinking Allowed, and author of The Roots of Consciousness.
Investigative journalist Michael Schmicker started his career as a crime reporter for a Dow-Jones newspaper in Connecticut. He worked as a freelance correspondent in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and as an Op-Ed contributor to the Asian Wall Street Journal. A nationally known writer on frontier science, Michael is the co-author of The Gift, The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People (St. Martin's Press (USA)/Penguin Random House (UK). His first book, Best Evidence, has emerged as a classic in the field of scientific anomalies reporting. Michael has reviewed books for the Journal of Scientific Exploration; contributed to EdgeScience magazine; and served on the Board of Advisers for the Rhine Research Center.
Over nine million Americans have reported a near death experience (NDE). They’re virtually unanimous in their conclusion that the afterlife is real.
Quantum physics suggests they may be right.
In this short, mind-expanding book, veteran investigative journalist Michael Schmicker takes you on his personal journey in search of a hard-science backed argument for an afterlife. Spoiler He found one. With accessible summaries of contemporary scientific thinking and entertaining illustrations, Schmicker walks readers through a hidden, afterlife hypothesis in quantum physics that–to his great surprise and delight–is both grounded in scientific evidence and astonishingly Our consciousness survives death because, contrary to what Newtonian science assumed, consciousness isn't made of matter—it's not a product of the physical brain. Supported by deep research drawn from authoritative publications like Scientific American, Nature, New Scientist, Science Daily, Phys.org, and more, this book demonstrates that the survival of consciousness is both scientifically possible and, in fact, logical. No belief required. An afterlife isn't supernatural woo-woo; it's simply current science.
If you're struggling to choose between the promises of organized religion and the emptiness of contemporary nihilism, you’ve now got a credible, optimistic, 21st-century alternative to carry you through life.
Editorial
“A stimulating, accessible, and optimistic book.”– Physicist Nick Herbert, author of Quantum Reality
“… brilliantly explains how quantum physics supports the findings of Near-Death Experience research. My enthusiastic recommendation.” – Jeffrey Long, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller, Evidence of the The Science of Near-Death Experiences, and founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation.
“ …explores the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness, leading to a surprising affirmation of the afterlife.” – Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of Entangled Minds
“Many assume that survival after death is inconsistent with physics. This book is important because it shows such an assumption is not warranted.” – Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, host of the national public television series Thinking Allowed, and author of The Roots of Consciousness.
Investigative journalist Michael Schmicker started his career as a crime reporter for a Dow-Jones newspaper in Connecticut. He worked as a freelance correspondent in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and as an Op-Ed contributor to the Asian Wall Street Journal. A nationally known writer on frontier science, Michael is the co-author of The Gift, The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People (St. Martin's Press (USA)/Penguin Random House (UK). His first book, Best Evidence, has emerged as a classic in the field of scientific anomalies reporting. Michael has reviewed books for the Journal of Scientific Exploration; contributed to EdgeScience magazine; and served on the Board of Advisers for the Rhine Research Center.
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Published June 10, 2024
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Michael Schmicker
14 books216 followersMichael Schmicker is an investigative journalist, Amazon Top 100 best-selling author, and science writer focused on consciousness research.
Michael began his writing career as a crime reporter for a suburban Dow-Jones newspaper in Connecticut, and worked as a freelance reporter in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and Op-Ed writer for the Wall Street Journal Asia,
A nationally known writer on frontier science, Michael is the co-author of "The Gift, ESP: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People" (St. Martin's Press (USA)/Penguin Random House (UK). His first book, "Best Evidence," has emerged as a classic in the field of scientific anomalies reporting since its first publication in 2000. BBC radio/documentary producer Keith Parsons named it one of the 10 most influential books dealing with the survival of consciousness question. Michael is a member of The Society for Scientific Exploration, where he has reviewed books for the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and contributed to EdgeScience magazine.
His latest book is "What Comes Next? An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis," (May 2024). Over nine million Americans have reported a near death experience (NDE). They’re virtually unanimous in their conclusion that the afterlife is real. Quantum physics suggests they may be right. As I show in this book, we’ve got strong scientific evidence from near-death-experiences research that our consciousness, our spirit, our soul – whatever we choose to call that which ultimately makes us be us – survives death. Quantum physics offers a modern, logical, scientific explanation for why that afterlife is possible. Our consciousness is not made of matter. The death and dissolution of the physical brain doesn’t affect our non-material consciousness.
Michael is also author of "The Witch of Napoli,” historical fiction with a paranormal twist, set in Italy and England in 1899. On March 6, 2015, it made the Amazon Top 100, ranking #41 in paid books out of 3.3 million books available in the Kindle Bookstore. That same day, it hit #1 in both the Historical Fantasy and Victorian Historical Romance categories in three countries simultaneously - the U.S., Canada and England. It spent 68 consecutive weeks as a Top 20 Best Seller in the "Italian Historical Fiction" category, with an Audible audiobook debuting on Amazon in July 2016. Amazon subsequently selected "The Witch of Napoli" as one of 25 Historical Romance Bestsellers to be featured by Amazon's new "Prime Reading" program.
Michael’s interest in investigating the paranormal began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand where he first encountered a non-Western culture and people who readily accept the reality of ghosts and spirits, reincarnation, mediumship, divination and other persistently reported phenomena unexplainable by current Science. He spent his first year in Bangkok teaching English to middle school students at the royal Buddhist monastery of Wat Bowonniwet, and the subsequent two years writing and producing with Thai colleagues a Sesame Street-inspired educational television series for the Thai Ministry of Education.
Before joining Peace Corps, he studied documentary film production at New York University and the British Film Institute. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy; and earned his Master's in Educational Communications (Television) from the University of Hawaii.
He lives and writes in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a mountaintop overlooking Waikiki and Diamond Head crater.
Michael began his writing career as a crime reporter for a suburban Dow-Jones newspaper in Connecticut, and worked as a freelance reporter in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and Op-Ed writer for the Wall Street Journal Asia,
A nationally known writer on frontier science, Michael is the co-author of "The Gift, ESP: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People" (St. Martin's Press (USA)/Penguin Random House (UK). His first book, "Best Evidence," has emerged as a classic in the field of scientific anomalies reporting since its first publication in 2000. BBC radio/documentary producer Keith Parsons named it one of the 10 most influential books dealing with the survival of consciousness question. Michael is a member of The Society for Scientific Exploration, where he has reviewed books for the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and contributed to EdgeScience magazine.
His latest book is "What Comes Next? An Investigative Reporter Uncovers Quantum Physics' Hidden Afterlife Hypothesis," (May 2024). Over nine million Americans have reported a near death experience (NDE). They’re virtually unanimous in their conclusion that the afterlife is real. Quantum physics suggests they may be right. As I show in this book, we’ve got strong scientific evidence from near-death-experiences research that our consciousness, our spirit, our soul – whatever we choose to call that which ultimately makes us be us – survives death. Quantum physics offers a modern, logical, scientific explanation for why that afterlife is possible. Our consciousness is not made of matter. The death and dissolution of the physical brain doesn’t affect our non-material consciousness.
Michael is also author of "The Witch of Napoli,” historical fiction with a paranormal twist, set in Italy and England in 1899. On March 6, 2015, it made the Amazon Top 100, ranking #41 in paid books out of 3.3 million books available in the Kindle Bookstore. That same day, it hit #1 in both the Historical Fantasy and Victorian Historical Romance categories in three countries simultaneously - the U.S., Canada and England. It spent 68 consecutive weeks as a Top 20 Best Seller in the "Italian Historical Fiction" category, with an Audible audiobook debuting on Amazon in July 2016. Amazon subsequently selected "The Witch of Napoli" as one of 25 Historical Romance Bestsellers to be featured by Amazon's new "Prime Reading" program.
Michael’s interest in investigating the paranormal began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand where he first encountered a non-Western culture and people who readily accept the reality of ghosts and spirits, reincarnation, mediumship, divination and other persistently reported phenomena unexplainable by current Science. He spent his first year in Bangkok teaching English to middle school students at the royal Buddhist monastery of Wat Bowonniwet, and the subsequent two years writing and producing with Thai colleagues a Sesame Street-inspired educational television series for the Thai Ministry of Education.
Before joining Peace Corps, he studied documentary film production at New York University and the British Film Institute. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy; and earned his Master's in Educational Communications (Television) from the University of Hawaii.
He lives and writes in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a mountaintop overlooking Waikiki and Diamond Head crater.
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