She Didn't Believe in the Afterlife...Then Her Dead Son Called Her on the Phone

About this episode

Dr. Elisa Medhus shares her transformative journey from skepticism to belief in the afterlife following the death of her son Erik.

What actually happens after we die? It's the question humanity has asked for thousands of years, and for most of us, it stays theoretical. For Dr. Elisa Medhus, it became the most personal investigation of her life. Dr. Medhus spent over thirty years as an internal medicine physician, raised by militant atheists, trained to trust only what she could measure. She had never seriously considered what happens after death...until October 2009, when her twenty-year-old son Erik, who lived with bipolar disorder and Tourette's syndrome, died by suicide. What followed shattered every assumption she had about consciousness, energy, and the nature of reality itself. In this episode, Dr. Medhus walks us through her journey from hardcore skeptic to one of the most well-known voices in afterlife research, not because she went looking for it, but because the evidence kept finding her. A phone call from a twelve-digit number that led to nowhere. Electronic voice phenomena analyzed and confirmed as non-human by audio experts. A militant atheist father... a man who told her Erik would "turn to dust"...calling her three days after the death to report that Erik had appeared, changed into a young…

People in this episode

Hosts: Will, Karen

Guest: Dr. Elisa Medhus

Topics covered

• afterlife
• spiritual awakening
• skepticism
• consciousness
• grief
• electronic voice phenomena

Keywords

• afterlife
• Dr. Elisa Medhus
• Erik
• spirituality
• skepticism
• consciousness
• electronic voice phenomena
• grief
• bipolar disorder
• Tourette's syndrome

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