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  • About Us
  • An Introduction
  • Considering Consciousness
  • The Book
  • The Report
  • The Diary
  • The Documentary
  • The Movie
  • The Phenomena
  • The Experiments
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiment Protocols
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiments Pt 1: Alan Bennett
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiments Pt 2: Alan Bennett
    • Trans-Dimensional Communication Experiments
    • Paranormal Video Experiments: Dr Hans Schaer
  • The Evidence
    • 'Astonishing Mind-Matter Interactions' Witness Testimony: Prof Ernst Senkowski
    • Paranormal Apports Phenomena
    • Paranormal Light Phenomena Evidence
    • Paranormal Photographic Evidence >
      • Paranormal Photographic Evidence 1
      • Paranormal Photographic Evidence 2
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  • The Perspectives
    • Montague Keen: Memorable Moments and Meanings at Scole
    • George Dalzell: An American participant's experience of Scole
    • Jennifer Jones: One a group of fifteen participants at Scole
    • Piers Eggett: Convincing The Scientific Mind
    • David Christie-Murray: The Scole Debate: From a Christian's Point of View
    • Montague Keen: Two Theories to Explain the Daguerre Film
    • Montague Keen: Mental Mediumship: Scole Debate Speech
    • Rosalind Oliver: The Scole Experiments: An Overview
    • David Fontana: The Scole Report Five Years Later
  • The Thirtieth Anniversary
  • Some Blog Posts
  • The Scole Association
    • Charles Crawford III
    • Rory Duff Macquisten
    • Alan Middleton >
      • Exploring Immortality
      • Double Slit Experiment Explained
      • William Shatners Weird or What
    • Brigitte Rix
    • Shannon Taggart
  • The Scole Files
  • Scole Search
  • The Norfolk Experiment
    • BioField Reader Experiments
  • The Torcal Experiment
  • The Siegert Experiment
  • The Claudius Portal
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  • The Arizona Experiment
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  THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT

Scientific Scrutiny

An Extract from Chapter 5 of The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death
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​by Grant and Jane Solomon

Those who were experimenting, investigating and reviewing, whether champions, critics or dispassionate observers, were all limited by a lack of common vocabulary and past experience with which to assess the new spiritual science phenomena.
 
The new energy-based experiments were unique and, as such, there were no procedural precedents.
 
Apparently rational criticisms, such as requests by reviewers for body searches, may illustrate a less-than-complete understanding of the innovative nature of the work undertaken at Scole.
 
To a certain extent of course, we are all scientists, examining any evidence of `reality' which life sends our way. We have various natural and man-made instruments as well as accumulated knowledge and experience at our disposal.
 
However, 'public opinion' is generally more swayed by the findings of scientifically trained (and thus 'qualified') people. Most of us require such qualified people to investigate on our behalf. It was therefore important to the SEG that the independent investigators implemented acceptable scientific procedures so that the Scole Experiment would be taken seriously by both the scientific and lay communities alike.
 
Initially, the main aim of the investigators was to establish control over certain parameters of the experiments, especially the timing and method of production of the photographic films. Montague Keen explained their intentions:
 
We were first out to see whether the phenomena, in the conditions in which they were produced, could have been accounted for by ‘natural’ man-made means. If not, we then wanted to ascertain whether any apparent paranormal force was derived from the group's psyches or from discarnate entities.
 
The 'discarnate entities' explanation would, of course, support the notion of survival, although in theory these entities could still be beings who had never lived on Earth but enjoyed some other type of existence. All in all, though, if every other explanation could be defeated by the thoroughness of the procedures adopted, some might say that this was an important step towards proving that the images on the films must be evidence of survival.
 
Sceptics who do not want to accept any evidence of survival have attempted to infer that the evidence is not paranormal.
 
If all the unique phenomena that the investigators came into contact with at the Scole Experiment were 'normal', then it would imply that the Scole group were performing an elaborate hoax and deliberately lying to the huge number of people who attended sessions and the experts who came to verify what was occurring.
 
So far, the investigators have been unable to produce any evidence of fraud.
 
The Scole Report attempts to answer any criticisms in full.
 
In the absence of a permanent paranormal object (due to the spirit team having their own itinerary), the investigators (and, it would appear, the team) judged that, of all the phenomena produced at Scole, the photographs constituted the best repeatable physical - and potentially 'cast-iron' - evidence available for their scientific scrutiny.
 
Government scientist, Piers Eggett, wrote an article on the question of acceptable evidence, entitled 'Convincing The Scientific Mind', which is also reproduced in the The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death – see ‘Chapter 5: Scientific Scrutiny’.

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For many people, this website or the 86-minute film documentary, The Afterlife Investigations, are the first time they encounter The Scole Experiment.

​In addition to the film documentary, three books - with images, descriptions, and analysis - provide a comprehensive overview of this 'important to science' 5-year experiment.

The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death introduces all 5 years and the key experiments and concepts for the general reader.

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The Scole Experiment Website Managers and Curators of The Scole Files
The managers of this website are Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon. Grant and Jane are also the collators and curators of The Scole Files since 1998, administrators of The Scole Experiment Afterlife Research Association (SEARA or 'The Scole Association'), psi investigators and journalists, SPR members, writers, editors of The Scole Experiment diary ebook, and authors of the internationally best-selling book... The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death.

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All the original material produced and collected during The Scole Experiment - including photographs, objects, audio/video recordings, as well as the records and diaries kept of the events - is owned by the Scole Experimental Group. In 1998, the Scole Experimental Group granted Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon - in their capacities as authors of The Scole Experiment, appointed collators and curators of all The Scole Experiment material, and administrators of SEARA - all rights to use all The Scole Experiment material for their books, articles, films, and other projects. Separately, The Scole Experiment book and other original books, articles, and documents created by Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon, including material provided for the development of The Scole Experiment movie, is owned by Grant Solomon and Jane as the originators and creators of those works.

30th Anniversary in 2023 and publication with universal free access 'for educational purposes only' to all The Scole Files
In 2022, in preparation for the 30th Anniversary of the first significant Scole phenomenon (1993) in 2023, Scole Group members - Robin Foy, Alan Bennett, and Diana Bennett - asked Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon (officially appointed collators and curators of The Scole Experiment material since 1998) to digitally publish - with universal free access for study and discussion ('educational purposes only') - all The Scole Files, including Notes and Transcripts regarding the audio recordings of the 'Communication' during the 500 x 2-hour sessions of The Scole Experiment. Previously, in the book, the report, the diary, the documentary, the commentary, and elsewhere, only approximately 10% of the files had been published. The remaining 90% of the data and evidence will begin to be made universally and freely available 'for educational purposes only' at the start of 2023.

The Scole Experiment Movie
The Scole Experiment Movie is a joint American/British project currently 'in development' with producers @AndrewdDeane of Industry Entertainment Partners (Los Angeles, US) and Rory Rooney (UK).

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