In 1995 he began to experiment with a newly emerging psychotherapy technique called eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). He found that a variation of the technique reliably induced after-death communications (ADCs) in his patients. Since that discovery, Dr. Botkin and his colleagues have induced well over 3,000 ADCs. His article reporting the discovery appeared in the spring 2000 issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.