I wish I could have the experiences of the guest and the confidence alex has today about nde's, mediumship, even parapsychology.
We don't need better evidence? It's satisfactorily proven? So people don't come to your way of seeing things because of religion, or scientific materialism, or what? Have you run out of questions to ask. I am a bit worried.
I think by now the boot should be on the other foot. Instead of orthodox science endlessly requiring more proof, they should try to explain how their scheme of things can explain a whole range of phenomena that we discuss here.
Claire gives lots of examples in her book, and she may have quoted this in the podcast, I don't know. She describes how at age 4 - totally unaware of the concept of death, she went to the cemetery with her family to visit the grave of her grandfather, whom she didn't know. She wasn't interested and just started pottering around with the stones and things, when she felt enveloped by the presence of someone. This person passed on a message to his wife, which used a private name that only he used for his wife (I think most people have something like that). Obviously she was amazed because only he used that word to address her. I guess you could contrive some fairly implausible conventional explanation to 'explain' that, but it wouldn't be very convincing - however now think about the massed evidence of stories of that sort.
That is before you go through the endless tests of the Gansfelt effect, the presentiment effect, etc etc.
As you know, I don't trust institutional science any more. I think they are just stalling for time right now by asking for more and more evidence. I think a lot of chickens are coming home to roost. Their world is essentially a closed set of particles and fields, and there is no obvious way how consciousness exists in such a world, and the odds are massively against life appearing or evolving by natural selection ( see my discussion of Behe's latest book), etc etc. I suspect they know that something big is going to have to give, but they can still stuff their heads in the sand a bit longer.
If you think more evidence is needed, I have two questions:
Have you read all the evidence that has already been collected?
Precisely how much more evidence would you need to change your mind?
David