can science prove life after death

June 23, 2026•4 min read

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The short answer to the question can science prove life after death is—YES. The problem is not about designing objective and replicable clinical tests or even inventing machines sensitive enough to register organized consciousness outside of matter. All that would be easy in comparison to something like the Hadron Collider built to discover how matter forms at a subatomic level. The collider is a joint effort of European nations (CERN) and its data are sent to some 160 universities throughout the world for analysis. The price tag for the Hadron Collider is already well into billions of euros. Compare this high-level, international government and university sponsored coordination and mind-boggling expense for the Hadron Collider to the small-scale, uncoordinated investigation of life after death, an enterprise which is nearly always conducted privately, and without outside funding. As science routinely invents devices that can “see” the invisible, whether in astrophysics or nuclear physics, why can’t it develop the technology it takes to prove life after death?

The problem is attitude. A Gallup poll on immortality found that only 16% of leading scientists believed in life after death as opposed to anywhere from 67% to 82% of the general population, according to several polls combined. And only 4% of these scientists thought it might be possible for science to prove it. Apparently they have no trouble believing in Multiverses in which a nearly infinite number of parallel universes are imperceptible or String Theory with its 11 dimensions of reality, some of them also imperceptible, and the Hidden Worlds Theory, which again hypothesizes imperceptible universes. But an afterlife? That’s just too crazy. The scorn and ridicule targeted at scientists who might be brave enough to propose testing for an afterlife and the subsequent loss or demotion of their professional positions are costs too high to risk. Even so, funding to test a survival hypothesis would hardly be granted.

So far evidence for survival is coming from the softer sciences, psychiatry, psychology as well as medicine and biology, with specific, potentially revolutionary hints in neurobiology, quantum biology and genetics. I cover all of this in my book, The Last Frontier. Even in the softer sciences, however, a person chances considerable derision if not loss of professional reputation for pursuing research in this area. Ironically, the hard sciences are doing the most to dismantle the assumption that the material universe is the only real universe—a crucial point for any argument for a non-material dimension of the dead. Astrophysics claims that 95.4% of the entire universe is not made up of the kind of matter and energy we call “real.” Less than a third of the 95.4% is composed instead of a mysterious substance called dark matter and more than 2/3rds of it is equally strange dark energy. The universe we are accustomed to thinking of as real amounts to a mere 4.6% and is composed of the kind of matter and energy we know. But quantum mechanics describes the matter that makes up our world, our bodies, and the computer in front of you as barely physical at all. In fact, the ratio of the amount of matter in an atom to the total size of an atom is roughly that of a pea to a football field. The rest is energy in the form of forces and oscillations. If you took all the space out of the atoms making up the human body, the amount of solid matter left would be the size of a microscopic dot. Theoretically then, what separates us from discarnates is that dot.

The two routes scientists could take to investigate postmortem survival are: developing instruments for afterdeath communication and developing instruments for registering non-material organized consciousness, such as non-random electromagnetic energy. As the Hadron Collider project demonstrates, science has already developed the technology to register or see the invisible. I doubt it would be much of a problem to develop a device that could pick up and precisely measure the electrical energy of the dead—an energy my own body registers so strongly—which would yield quantifiable results. The technology sensitive enough to do this already exists. For communication, the private sector that researches Instrumental Transcommunication, as it is called, has already made remarkable progress, sometimes with startling success. For organized consciousness, there is a device that is quietly used in Germany for medical treatment. It has already inadvertently picked up the presence of the disembodied. I’m investigating it now and will tell you more as we go along. If only 1% of the money and expertise that went into the Hadron Collider were available (even better, 1% of the ten trillion spent on developing the atomic bomb), within a matter of a few years science could prove life after death.

Thanks,

Julia

2016

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Julia Assante, PhD

Dr. Julia Assante has been an active medium, life reader and medical intuitive since 1977. She was tested at Columbia University (1981) for telepathy and remote viewing under scientifically controlled conditions. Her accuracy scores were so high above other professional psychics that the researchers created a category for her alone. She is regarded as outstanding within the field of parapsychology. Julia is also the author of The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death. Her book won the Nautilus Gold Award for the category of death, dying and grief. Publisher’s Weekly called it “… the most important book on the enigma of death since the ground-breaking work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.” Her book was endorsed by such stellar authors as Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey and Dean Radin, among others. In The Last Frontier, Julia draws primarily on her own amazing experiences as an active professional intuitive for 47 years. Her strong academic background (Columbia University and Yale) allowed her to include her ground-breaking exploration of the various historical constructions of the afterlife, from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the present. Her book also includes consciousness research, physics, quantum biology, and parapsychology, studies of Near-Death Experiences and Nearing Death Awareness. She also uses the records of past-life therapists, of which she is one, of medical personnel and bereavement counselors. Her book further supports survival after death by including some of the best testaments of the many thousands of people who have experienced communication with the dead. Many readers have called The Last Frontier the Bible of life after death. During the last 47 years, Julia has given private sessions and workshops in English and German, in the US and Europe on remote viewing, healing and medical intuition, after death communication, and recalling past and future incarnations. Furthermore, she has appeared on the TV program “Meine letzte Chance” (“My Last Chance)” which has helped people lead healthier lives. She has also given numerous talks and interviews on topics such as after-death communication, end-of-life research, mediumship, and spiritual transformation. As a certified regression / Past-Life therapist, she has helped many individuals on their profound journeys of self-discovery, which often leads to physical healing from even such dangerous diseases as cancer. Her greatest achievement, however, is the Percy Project in which she scientifically proves the survival of life after death using technology. The result of her last trials were extraordinary, without a single failure but with many mind-boggling surprises. She hopes to continue trials in Vienna soon. For more on this, see The Percy Project on this website. Academically, Julia is an established archaeologist and social historian of the ancient Near East, including ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. She was awarded a PhD by Columbia, but also studied at She taught at Columbia, Bryn Mawr and the University of Münster and has given talks at major universities in the United States and Europe. Her numerous, often revolutionary, scholarly articles (see Academia.edu) continue to influence research on the ancient Near East as well as biblical and Greco-Roman studies. Julia has led a multicultural life. She has lived in the US but also in France, Italy, Germany, Austria and China. She has also studied seven languages, including three cuneiform ones. Today, she lives a quieter life with her partner, dividing her time between Austria and France. Even in retirement, she continues to share her knowledge through talks, interviews and writing, to inspire a new generation to be aware of the next step–nonlocal multidimensional universes! It’s going to be fun!

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