{"id":7211,"date":"2016-07-13T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omtimes.com\/iom\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2016-07-20T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:04:42","slug":"atheist-heaven-paul-davids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omtimes.com\/iom\/2016\/07\/atheist-heaven-paul-davids\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist in Heaven with Paul Davids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An Atheist in Heaven with Paul Davids<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/4yifx-611fcd?skin=108\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aired Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 2:00 PM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Star is Paul Davids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hardened to the hard-nosed realities of a life as a Hollywood producer and director, <strong>Paul Davids<\/strong> was dumbfounded when he realized that a deceased friend and mentor was attempting to contact him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About the Guest Paul Davids<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Davids, a Princeton University graduate and noted producer, poet, writer, director, artist and documentarian, found himself receiving communications from his mentor, Forrest J Ackerman, since Ackerman\u2019s passing in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Forrest J Ackerman, a founder of science-fiction fandom (who coined the term sci-fi) and was a Pied Piper for its devotees, was a committed atheist. 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Davids contacted Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., an internationally known expert and author on afterlife research, who collaborated with Davids in this new book, <strong><em>An Atheist in Heaven: The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ackerman not only \u201cdropped a line\u201d to Davids, but he has been at the center of over a hundred instances of unexplained phenomena in the past eight years, many of which have undergone chemical and other forms of technological testing by top university scientists. <em><strong>An Atheist in Heaven<\/strong><\/em>, a non-fiction book, begins with Mr. Davids\u2019 sworn affidavit of the truth of his account, and the 514 pages offer much scientific testimony supporting seemingly impossible incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Davids is also an artist, whose portfolio can be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldavids-artist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.pauldavids-artist.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Atheist in Heaven with Paul Davids Aired Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 2:00 PM ET Today\u2019s Star is Paul Davids Hardened to the hard-nosed realities of a life as a Hollywood producer and director, Paul Davids was dumbfounded when he realized that a deceased friend and mentor was attempting to contact him. &nbsp; About the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[2485,373,372,2484],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-consciousness-review","tag-an-atheist-in-heaven","tag-miriam-knight","tag-new-consciousness-review","tag-paul-davids"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Atheist in Heaven with Paul Davids - OMTimes Radio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today\u2019s Star is Paul Davids. 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