Updates

This is really an addendum to the previous update, so I'd suggest reading both...

I was interviewed on the Paranormal Awareness Radio Show out of Bradenton, Florida by host Bill Metz recently. I've decided this is the last radio interview I'm going to solicit, and so it could be my last. As my possible "swan song," it went very well. By this time, I have several key points and insights I like to get across, and in a two-hour show I was able to present most of them. If I kept this up, eventually these key points might become stock answers! You can see it happening in yourself.

Paranormal TV, a new station which broadcasts online, is interested in my documentary, "In Another Life". They will have to exclude the U.S. and Canada, because the rights to those territories belong to Films Media Group, which markets to academia. Apparently it is technically possible to do that, and my contact with Paranormal TV writes me that he liked the screening copy I sent him and that he wants to proceed. They're interested in the Asian market.

But what prompted me to write a new "Update" is simply this. I have written this many times over the years while trying to get interest in distribution for "In Another Life," and no-one ever responds. It is as though I had farted in the room. And that is that my documentary contains the first instance in history of a videotaped interview with a man sitting in front of his own grave (first so far as I know).

It is no small thing. It is probably one of the most graphic ways I can think of to put the lie to death itself.

Why does no-one ever respond when I claim this? Because they don't believe it. Pure and simple.

I have studied reincarnation from the Eastern perspective for, what, going on 35 years now. And from perspective of the Western research for going on 11 years, since I started working on the documentary. The case in question, that of Jeff Keene, is almost certainly genuine.

Let's suppose I'm right. Wouldn't you think that a documentary that contains the first ever instance of a man video interviewed on his own grave be worth broadcasting, even if it was absolute crap in every other respect?

That's not the most interesting thing about this program. You know, I'm not going to say what the most interesting thing about it is. Read all the articles on my articles page, and you will run into it. It makes believing in my interview with Jeff Keene child's play. It is also proportionately more significant.

But, let's just stick with the interview. Jeff called me when I was first starting work on "In Another Life". I had recently created this website--it wasn't well-known nor was it prominent in the search engines. He got on the internet at the fire station where he worked, for only the second time in his life, and he searched on keyword "reincarnation" and he found my site. Seeing that I lived in the city where his past-life personality had been governor of the State of Georgia (Atlanta), he called me, and we agreed to the interview. He tells me it was his idea to shoot the interview on his past-life grave; I can't remember. So let's say it was, and I was smart enough or fortunate enough to agree to it.

Some months later, while my project seemed completely stalled, a producer from Actuality Productions in California e-mailed me. They were creating a program titled "Beyond Death" for Arts & Entertainment, and the writer was asking me if I could suggest any cases. I told her to look through my website; she did, and asked for Jeff's contact information. I knew at this point that they would be scooping me; but I also knew that the information would be going nation-wide, and that it needed to get out there, and that this thing was bigger than my personal success or failure. So I gave her the contact info, they shot a segment, they purchased some of my footage, and their program aired a couple of years before I was able to complete "In Another Life". If you ever watch that program, you will see "Gold Thread Video Productions" in the credits.

Jeff subsequently was featured on other nationwide programs, but the most interesting was his segment on Sci-Fi Channel's "Proof Positive". That program, if you missed it, had a significantly different format than the tired "pro vs. con" format most shows on reincarnation have been structured around. This program assumed that one of three "mysteries" they featured was true. Their experts would critically examine each of three cases, and then at the end of the program, they would tell you which one was considered "proof positive". It was a radical departure because they were admitting any of these paranormal phenomena could be real.

Meanwhile, another case I had contact with first was that of Captain Robert Snow. Linda Adler, one of my interviewees and former president of IARRT, had told me about him upon my writing her for leads for "proof cases". I had written about him in articles, and I had also interviewed him by telephone and posted that interview on my website. I wasn't able to film him for my documentary because I literally couldn't afford to fly to Indianapolis--and also because whenever I wrote to the owner of any of the paintings done by his past-life personality, the owners were very friendly until I told them what I wanted copyright permission for. At that point I never heard another word from them.

Anyway, Proof Positive featured two reincarnation cases in two of their programs--that of Jeff Keene, and that of Robert Snow. Both were pronounced by their experts as "proof positive."

So I'm trying to give you a sense of my being ahead of my time, of being a silent force behind the reincarnation awareness movement. Not to toot my own horn, but just to get someone to take this seriously.

Jeff Keene almost certainly was Gen. John B. Gordon. "In Another Life" actually does have a videotaped interview with a man who faces the camera with his own grave behind him. And yet nobody takes this seriously, nor will they give the documentary the time of day.

But as said, Asia has a lot of people, and they are not so prejudiced against this idea as we are. Check back in awhile. And don't forget to read all of those articles.

Music opening this page: "High Landrons," Eric Johnson (Ah Via Musicom album)
All I can say is, if you have a chance to see Eric in concert, don't pass it up...
sell the car and hitch to the concert if you have to.