The Scole Experiment
Scientific Evidence for Life After Death

Grant & Jane Solomon

 


INTRODUCTION from the book

Four people sat in a dark cellar. Two of them went into a trance and conveyed messages from a team of spirit communicators. The other two followed the spirits’ instructions. They put brand new films on the table, films which had never been in a camera. Afterwards the films were developed. Images were found on them – handwriting, hieroglyphs and other symbols and messages...

This was the work of the Scole Experimental Group. It offered thought-provoking evidence in support of the notion that there may be life after death. Similar experiments had been conducted in the past, with ‘mental mediumship’ being used to try to prove that conscious discarnate beings can communicate through a human instrument, the medium. Unfortunately, messages from Aunt Doris might convince her nephew, but they are not always ideal for scientific study. A sceptic can say, ‘That was chance’, ‘coincidence’, ‘intuition’, ‘a good guess’ and so on. So, in 1993, the Scole Experimental Group embarked on a five-year experiment using a revolutionary kind of ‘physical mediumship’ to produce tangible objects from the spirit world. The term ‘tangible objects’ means things recognisable to our senses or our instruments – visible manifestations, lights, sounds, touches, tastes and smells. Some of the tangible objects took the form of messages transmitted onto photographic film, audio-tape and videotape.

The idea behind physical mediumship is simple: physical evidence of survival is transmitted from the spirit world to our world. Then, once something physical is here, it can be scientifically measured and assessed. Mental mediumship is hard to prove scientifically. However, tangible phenomena are different. Experiments can be conducted, tests undertaken, scientific procedures implemented. With such experiments in the past, the aim was always to get a permanent paranormal object, a tangible ‘thing’ that could have only come from ‘somewhere else’, without any possible trickery involved. A fabled example is two interlocking rings made of two different types of wood with no join in the rings. This type of tangible object would be considered ‘convincing proof’ as it could not be produced by ‘normal means’. The aim of the Scole Experimental Group was to produce not just one tangible object but such a huge number and variety that scientists would have to sit up and take notice.

In fact it was not long before a variety of senior scientists, including some very experienced researchers into the unknown, became interested in the phenomena being produced. The Scole group was happy to allow scientific scrutiny of their work, a fact which impressed the scrutineers. Among the investigating team were electrical engineers, astrophysicists, criminologists, psychologists and mathematicians. They were most interested in the photographic films because the time and method of production of these films could be controlled. The scrutineers asked to attend experimental sessions in order to control certain parameters. Stillthe images appeared on the films. Some of the scientists found this hard to explain and suggested that extra precautions be taken, including bringing their own films and putting them in a padlocked box for the duration of the session. Yet again the images appeared on the films. But now they were slightly different. Instead of being simply photos of faces and places, they were cryptic messages, clues to puzzles that the investigators were invited to solve.

Later, even more amazing images were received on videotape and messages were transmitted onto audio-tape. Objects materialised, lights danced, and solid beings appeared before previously sceptical observers.

The unique and revolutionary evidence provided by The Scole Experiment may suggest that solid scientific proof of survival may not be far off. If so, there are unavoidable and far-reaching implications for us all. It would be proof that we do not die ...

UPDATE - 31 May 2008

A documentary is being made about The Scole Experiment. It will be finished soon.

The two mediums involved in The Scole Experiement, Alan and Diana Bennett, have continued to conduct their experimental sessions since the five-year series of experiments at Scole. There have been some more remarkable images collected from these new experiments.

Authors, Grant and Jane Solomon, in association with Alan and Diana Bennett, will be sharing the results of this on-going research in a new book, entitled The Norfolk Experiment.