Scientific Investigation supports idea that ‘dead’ researcher has communicated with his wife

by Michael E. Tymn

Deceased researcher Montague Keen teams up with Arizona scientist Gary Schwartz to contact Keen's wife Veronica.

     ON JANUARY 15, 2004, at the age of 79, Montague 'Monty' Keen, one of Britain's most prominent psychical researchers, collapsed and died while participating in a public debate on telepathy at the Royal Society of Arts in London.

A few weeks later, Veronica Keen, Monty's wife, contacted Dr. Gary Schwartz at his University of Arizona research laboratory and informed him that she had received messages from her husband through several mediums requesting that Schwartz conduct some research with him. While still in the flesh, Keen had met and befriended Schwartz.

Schwartz and Dr. Julie Beischel, his research associate, then designed a two phase, multi-medium experiment with four research mediums participating, one of which was Allison DuBois on whose career as a psychic legal investigator the new NBC series 'Medium' is based.

With Veronica Keen in Britain and 'sitting' by her telephone, DuBois did the reading in Arizona, 'blind' as to whom she was sitting for and apparently unaware of Monty Keen or the manner of his death.

The information relayed to Schwartz by DuBois strongly suggested that Keen was communicating. For example, DuBois said:

" ... he's showing a man falling at the podium. Like [snaps her fingers]. Like [snaps her fingers again] and falls, and he goes down at the podium."

Although Keen was not actually standing at the podium when he collapsed, he was near it and facing it.

DuBois also said he was referencing a dedication to him that he didn't expect or some sort of public acknowledgement that was a surprise to him, apparently a reference to the tribute to him that was then scheduled for June 27, 2004 at the same Royal Society of Arts hall in London. The image of Laurie Campbell, another research medium at Schwartz's laboratory, also came to DuBois. Before his death, Keen had visited Schwartz's lab, had met Campbell, and had observed a public demonstration by her. Sometime after this session, Campbell reported to Schwartz that she was getting messages from Keen on a regular basis.

"He's showing the 'white crow' as being important," DuBois further said.

This was no doubt a reference to the famous quote by Harvard professor William James relative to mediums that "If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to prove that no crows are; it is enough to prove one single crow to be white." It should be kept in mind that DuBois had no idea that she was receiving information from a psychical researcher. In fact, when Schwartz questioned her she did not know the meaning of 'white crow' in the context of psychical research.

There were a number of other veridical facts relayed by DuBois, some of them outside the bounds of telepathy, i.e., facts unknown to either Schwartz or Veronica Keen.

"The pattern of findings provides compelling support for the conclusion that the medium was receiving information related to the designated deceased, particularly in the life questions condition," Schwartz summarized in his report.

In the 'non-life' questions, those not subject to verification, Schwartz asked Keen what he had learned about the afterlife.

"Um... The thing that stood out for him, and that made him so happy is how he could still be here so much after his passing," DuBois related. "And how he would feel energy-wise like he did when he was younger instead of with issues he had accumulated as he got older, um, were stripped away..."
 

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