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REVIEWS dinosaurs, Zillmer proposes that dinosaurs most "tried and tested" mediums, including did not die out 64 million years ago but George Anderson, John Edward and Suzane lived until quite recently—at least the three- Northrup. Some very moving exchanges Reviewed by Ruth Parnell toed ones did, otherwise those footprints between "sitters" and their close relatives via DARWIN'S MISTAKE would have long ago eroded away. these mediums are reproduced here. The Dr Zillmer presents other anomalous finds, research team was very careful to ensure by Dr Hans J. Zillmer discusses catastrophic events such as mete- that hoaxing was impossible. The sitters Frontier Publishing, Netherlands, AUP, orite impacts and a Great Flood, and consid- were masked from view, and the mediums USA, 2002 (first published in German as ers the possibility of creation by outside were given no details or clues about the sit- Darwin's Irrtum, Müller/Herbig, 1998) influences. But it's easier to accept that ters but came up with details which were ISBN 1-93188-207-X (292pp tpb) Darwin was wrong than Zillmer's contention later confirmed to be accurate and predic- Price: A$38.00; NZ$47.00; £16.50; that the crust is so young. Readers will have tions which eventually were fulfilled. Euro 25.90; US$19.95 + s&h to work out the logic for themselves! While Dr Schwartz applied strict scientific Availability: Aust/NZ/UK/Europe— protocols and analysed the statistical proba- NEXUS offices; USA—AUP, website THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS bilities, he arrived at the unexpected conclu- http://www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com sions that soul science and the love-health In Darwin's Mistake, Dr Hans Zillmer, a by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD with connection cannot be divorced from the German engineer who has been investigat- William L. Simon equation. Most of the contact experiments ing contentious scientific knowledge for Pocket Books, USA, 2002 were attempts by ordinary people, the sitters, over 30 years and participated in many exca- ISBN 0-7434-3658-X (374pp hc) to contact their departed loved ones. This vations, presents anomalous evidence that Price: A$49.95; NZ$65.00; Euro 31.90; led him to deduce that the soul/love connec- would seem to overturn Lyell's uniformitari- US$25.00; C$38.00 tion is an energetic bond that does indeed anism principles and Darwin's theory of evo- Availability: Aust/USA/Canada— Simon & survive beyond death. Quite a change of lution. But he goes further and suggests Schuster, http://www.simonsays.com; heart and mind for a sceptical scientist. what could only be heresy to anyone other NZ—Macmillan; Europe—NEXUS Office than a Creationist: that the Earth's crust is The answer to the timeless question, "Is much, much younger than we think: in the there life after death?", may be a little region of tens of thousands of years, if that, closer with the release of this book. It's rather than hundreds of millions of years! In actually the follow-up to a video documen- other words, apart from evolution being a tary, also called The Afterlife Experiments, myth and catastrophism being the rule, our which was first screened on US cable TV in geological dating system is completely out 1999. The book is as much a record of the of whack. Yet he accepts that the Earth's personal journey of an initially sceptical sci- interior is truly ancient! entist who changed his views—Dr Gary One of Dr Zillmer's claims is that because Schwartz, a professor of psychology, medi- footprints of three-toed dinosaurs, higher- cine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery—as order mammals and very tall humans have it is a revelation of the reality of the afterlife. been found in the same rock strata in and At his Arizona lab Dr Schwartz, with the around the Paluxy River near Glen Rose in assistance of his research partner Dr Linda Texas, USA, this is compelling evidence for Russek, set up what was to be a three-year the coexistence of these species. But rather research project with a series of controlled than conclude that man is as old as the experiments involving some of America's JUNE – JULY 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com NEXUS • 71