Proof of Life After Death

Ghosts of Dead Solons Haunt Congress
Rey T. Sibayan
November 1, 2005

Proof of Life after Death. This is my immediate conclusion when I read an article about the hauntings of dead solons sometime in November 1992.

It is reported that “before the start of a regular session of the Ninth Congress, Rep. Vicente Tagle (Peasant Sector) recalled that fellow sectoral Rep. Datu Joseph Sibug (Cultural Communities) wanted to deliver a privileged speech and even showed him a draft of the speech. At the roll call, Sibug was declared present.”

The paper (The Manila Times) further reported, that “during that time, solons see nothing wrong about that, except at the time Tagle was supposed to be talking with Sibug, the latter had been confined since early in the morning at the intensive care unit of the Philippine Heart Center. He died sometime later.”

But at the roll call at the start of the session, Sibug was declared present. Many questions raised when the solons learned the truth about the incident.

Who was present during the regular session that day at the House of Representatives? How could a comatose person at an ICU be at the session hall at the same time? This mystery has never been explained.

To this day, Tagle maintains that he had indeed talked with Sibug. He persistently rejects insinuations that he merely imagined the presence of Sibug, a friend and a seatmate at the session hall. He said that other congressmen even greeted Sibug.

Tagle recalled that he developed goose pimps when he learned that Sibug died that same afternoon. His family said Sibug could not have possibly gone to the House, because he was gravely ill.

It is also reported that Sibug was not the only dead congressman marked present during the roll call at the session hall.

Rep. Elias Lopez Sr. of Davao City was credited by the House Journal with having attended all 61 session days of the Third Regular Session of the Tenth Congress from July 28, 1997, to February 28, 1998. Yet he was already dead in January 1998, weeks before the last session day.

The attendance of Lopez, however, could be easily explained. This was not due to the presence of his spirit at the session hall but to the then common practice of the House of dispensing with the roll call of members. Consequently, all members of the House were marked present, including the dead Lopez.

Scientists Proved There Is Life After Death

Scientists themselves answer their own question if what happens after a person dies, when they succesfully conducted extensive research in this field.

The research of the scientists at the University of Arizona proved people's claim, they have died and come back to life. They claim to have experienced an afterlife, even if for only a short time.

Based on their research the scientists say that they have the proof that when we die we continue to live beyond our physical bodies.

"Almost anyone who sees the data says there's something real here," said one of the researchers.

Allison Dubois is a spiritual medium, or someone thought to be able to communicate with the dead.

Christine Vettore was brought in for a reading with Dubois, who attempted to contact Vettore's dead relatives.

"I'm hopeful that there's an afterlife so I can see everybody I've lost already," said Vettore.

It doesn't take long -- within seconds, Dubois says Vettore's daughter is coming through.

It is a gift Dubois says she's had her whole life, but it comes with a lot of criticism.

"I think there are some people that are Charlatans, and with any profession there's going to be some bad apples, so I mean that just goes with the territory, so the ones that are accurate and are legitimate just have to prove themselves," said Dubois.

This reading is part of a science experiment -- Dr. Gary Schwartz, of the University of Arizona, is observing.

The Harvard-trained doctor looked for what he calls hits and misses, or the accuracy of the reading.

He's building on his hypothesis that there is life after death, and that mediums can talk to those who have died. After Vettore's daughter is contacted, Dubois contacted Vettore's brother and mother.

She is able nail facts, giving details about the relations that she could not have known beforehand.

For instance, Dubois tells Vettore that her mother knows there's a carrot cake and a bowl of peanuts in her house.

"None of those things do I ever have in my house. I have those things in my house this month, carrot cake and peanuts, so that was weird," said Vettore.

The accuracy is amazing to Vettore, because she had never met or talked to Dubois before. She said Dubois was accurate in 80 to 90 percent of everything she said.

Skeptics say that Dubois is just guessing, but Schwartz says it is impossible for someone to guess and be that accurate.

For the past seven years, he has been testing mediums and other things tied to death, using science to explain what happens when we leave our physical bodies.

"Saying that this is against the grain with academia sort of puts it mildly," said Schwartz.
Schwartz has done multiple experiments under very controlled conditions. One of the most intriguing studies included five of the most respected mediums in the world, hooked up to monitors and computers.

In the experiment, 10 people were read by the five mediums. In lab conditions, a medium sat down with an individual and there would be a divider between them.

When that medium finished, the next would come in, until all five mediums had given a reading for the individual.

Schwartz and his staff would then compare the readings. They were astonished to find that in most cases, the mediums would bring through the same people and the same messages, with an 80-90 percent accuracy rate.

"There are so many people that are going to try to find holes in what we've done … there is not a hole to find when we agree, or get a final protocol done," said Schwartz.

The scientists call their findings survival of consciousness -- meaning our physical bodies die, but we continue on.

The research continues with studies that include near-death survivors.

Schwartz says near-death experience research completely dovetails and supports what's coming from the mediums.

He says he will continue his research, and that the data doesn't lie.

"When you look at the totality of the data from our laboratory, the simplest explanation is actually that survival of consciousness is real," said Schwartz.

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