Emmanuel Swedenborg

Body, Mind, and Death with David Lorimer (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedAug 17, 2026

David Lorimer, longtime program director of the Scientific and Medical Network, argues that well-documented phenomena like crisis apparitions, near-death life reviews, and mediumship cannot be explained by the assumption that the brain produces consciousness. He traces this view through the visionary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, William James, and the early Society for Psychical Research, and even describes an automatic-writing message said to come from the late skeptic Bertrand Russell. Lorimer concludes that if all minds are connected at a deep level, then harming others is harming ourselves, which gives the research a direct ethical meaning.