BICS Awards $1.5 M Re: Survival of Consciousness

BICS, Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

BICS was founded in June 2020 by aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow to support research into both the survival of human consciousness after physical death and, based on data from such studies, the nature of the afterlife.

Essay Awards of 1.5 Million

A purpose of the BICS essay awards is to raise public awareness of the survival of human consciousness topic and to stimulate research. As of November 1, 2021, all BICS essay contest winners, runners up, and honorable mentions have been awarded prizes totaling 1.5 million US dollars across 29 essays. BICS will publish all 29 essays on the BICS website and intends to publish them in a set of 5–6 volumes.

BICS Purpose

BICS aims to raise awareness among the public and within the scientific community of the importance and relevance of investigating the survival of human consciousness beyond death. It seeks hard evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” that takes us beyond religion or philosophy and provides a body of knowledge that could be partially unifying in its impact on human awareness and culture.

BICS: History & Structure

Robert Bigelow is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. Despite intriguing evidence, very little high quality research is being conducted on perhaps the most important and fundamental question facing our species. BICS has assembled a competent board of directors with deep experience in the topic, including Christopher C. Green M.D., Ph.D; Leslie Kean, Journalist and Author; Harold Puthoff Ph.D, Theoretical Physicist; Brian Weiss M.D, Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center; and others.

See https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/about.php for original publication. Integrative Mental Health for You, IMHU.org, enthusiastically supports validation of survival of consciousness after death. See our course on Spiritist Therapies for more information.