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AWAKENING HEALTH FEATURED INTERVIEW EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH? Paul Davids speaks with Miriam Knight Paul Davids is an award-winning Hollywood writer, director, and producer of acclaimed films like The Sci-Fi Boys, Jesus in India, Roswell, and the soon-to-be-released, Marilyn Monroe Declassified. He is the co-author, with Harvard PhD, former Yale Professor and consciousness researcher Gary Schwartz, of An Atheist in Heaven: The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death? Miriam: What made you and Gary Schwartz decide to write this book together? Paul: We worked together on a film called The Life After Death Project. It was released in 2013 and fo- 8 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW cused on the strange case of Forrest J Ackerman, who was my mentor for decades and very, very famous in the world of science fiction – he even coined the term sci-fi.