Bruce Siegel

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'''Bruce Siegel''' is an American [[psychic]], [[spiritualist]] and [[pseudoscience]] promoter who claims to have discovered the [[afterlife]].

Siegel is the owner of the website [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815154901/http://skeptic-discovers-afterlife.com/ "A Militant Skeptic Discovers the Afterlife"]. He says he was an [[atheist]] and [[materialist]] for most of his life but then read some books on [[near-death experience]]s (NDEs) and discovered the afterlife and spirituality.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731210851/http://skeptic-discovers-afterlife.com/religion-vs-spiritualit/ Standing up for Sitting Down (and Meditating)]</ref> According to Siegel:
{{cquote|Was I a "closet believer"? Certainly not in the conventional sense, as with a gay person who knows the truth of their sexuality and is unwilling to go public with it.

The only way you could make that argument at all would be to say that at a very deep, unconscious level, I've known all along that I’m essentially a spiritual being. But my guess is, that’s true for all of us.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731210904/http://skeptic-discovers-afterlife.com/update/#comment-72 An example of Siegel's crackpottery]</ref>}} 

There's no evidence Siegel was ever a [[skeptic]]. He is a long-time contributor to spiritualist [[woo]] blogs and forums and frequently argues with skeptics on the internet. He says he has experienced [[precognitive]] [[dream]]s and is writing a book on the subject.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731210838/http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2013/10/thanks-for-the-memory.html?cid=6a00d83451574c69e2019affddcdfe970b#comment-6a00d83451574c69e2019affddcdfe970b Siegel posting pseudoscience on the spiritualist blog of Michael Prescott]</ref> Siegel has admitted that NDEs are [[anecdotes]] but believes "the plural of anecdote is data". He says he has visited the afterlife by altering his state of consciousness, triggered by meditation, psychedelics and dreams.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140731210851/http://skeptic-discovers-afterlife.com/religion-vs-spiritualit/#comment-59 Siegel claiming he has visited the afterlife]</ref> Siegel has also claimed that fraudulent [[medium]]s such as [[Eusapia Palladino]] and [[Leonora Piper]] were in contact with spirits.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130807230443/http://skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=20769 Militant skeptic(duh!) discovers afterlife essay]</ref>

Siegel has promoted his pseudoscience about the afterlife and spirituality on various [[woo]] websites such as the [[Mind-Energy forum]] and the spiritualist blog of [[Michael Prescott]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110530101419/http://forum.mind-energy.net/members/bruce-siegel.html Bruce Siegel on the Mind-Energy forum]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Craig Weiler]]

==External links==
*[http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.ed.ac.uk/Documents/MobbsWattNDE.pdf There is Nothing Paranormal About Near-Death Experiences] A paper that Siegel should read.

==References==
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