Lately, I've been getting a lot of e-mail from fans of Victor Zammit. Here is a representative example: the colors and fonts are all as I received them.

Who is Victor Zammit, you may ask? He is a totally clownshoes Australian lawyer who wrote a book: A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife: Irrefutable Objective Evidence. You can download Zammit's book and read it for free, but really, it's not worth it. He also has a long list of credulous articles you can read…again, not worth it. You can look through his book and all of his articles, and nowhere will you find any evidence, let alone "irrefutable" evidence. If you want a short summary of the quality of his science, take a look at The Seven Laws of Psychic Energy.

First Law of psychic energy:

All 'solid' objects are vibrating energy.

Unseen waves are also vibrating energy- sound, radio, electricity, light, television waves, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays and psychic energy waves.

Second law of psychic energy:

The mind is an 'energy station' which creates transmits and receives energy.

1. The will (of the mind) can change the form of energy.
2. Thoughts and images, which are waves of energy, can be transmitted to and from human minds within the earthplane and to human and other entities in the afterlife in a process called telepathy.

Third law of psychic energy:

All living humans have a body made up of vibrationary energy which is a duplicate of the physical body and will survive physical death.

1. This vibrationary energy body invisible to physical eyes can change form but can never be destroyed and retains consciousness.
2. At the time of physical death, the duplicate body will have reached a certain vibrational level and will go to an energy sphere that can accommodate those vibrations.
3. Selfless spiritual service increases the vibrational energy of the duplicate body.

Fourth law of psychic energy:

The afterlife has different levels of energy which form different spheres according to the speed of vibration.

1. The faster the vibrations of a sphere the higher and more spiritually evolved are the entities which reside there.

Fifth law of psychic energy:

The more spiritually evolved a being is the brighter the energy of the aura.

Sixth law of psychic energy:

Slowing down the speed of the atomic vortices of the energy will result in materialisation. Speeding up the vortices will result in de-materialisation

Seventh law of psychic energy:

The Law of Cause and Effect: for every (energy) action there is a (an energy) reaction ie, energy is a 'boomerang' - the 'energy' you give out will inevitably return to you.

That's it. A series of oddball assertions with nothing to back them up, and most of them are just nuts. It is a common trope among the New Age crowd to babble about "vibrations" and "planes" and "spheres" and "energy", but I don't think a one of them could actually define any of these things, let alone measure them.

I always wonder if these True Believers avoid the Magic Fingers in their cheap hotel rooms out of fear it will make them dematerialize.

As for his book, hoo boy. The evidence for an afterlife consists of avidly gobbled up tales of mediums, ouija boards, poltergeists, electronic voice phenomena, out-of-body experiences, and reincarnation…basically, any bit of trumped up credulous nonsense is grist for his fable. He cites credible sources like the pathetic John Edward, the gullible Gary Schwartz, and Silver Birch, the channeled voice of the psychic teacher from the Other Side. Take a look at the chapter titled "Einstein's E=MC² and materialization", where you'd think he'd give the usual distortion of modern physics to justify his beliefs, but no, it's worse. Much worse. It's gobbledygook.

One possible scientific explanation for materialization is that the vortices of the spirit's atoms are swirling faster than the speed of light and cannot be seen with our physical eyes. But certain energies cause the vortices of the atoms of the spirit body to be lowered to the speed of light. When this happens the spirit becomes visible to our physical eyes. On the other hand whenever the spirit wants to dematerialize the vortices of the spirit atoms increase and it can no longer be seen with our physical eyes and disappears into a different dimension. Ash and Hewitt call this materialization 'transubstantiation' to reflect the change in the substance but not the form of the vortex. Transubstantiation would not change the atomic or molecular structure of a body.

If that's irrefutable, it's only because it doesn't make any sense at all. Zammit seems to have found a formula: shout out nonsense as frenetically as possible, and look for it to resonate in the minds of those only loosely moored to reality.

I expect I'll be hearing more from these crackpots. I'll let you know if they say anything interesting, but for now, I just recommend reading Victor Dammit's page.