Dr. Gary Schwartz provided another deeply mysterious observation about himself in the book. He wrote, “It is now Alice in Wonderland time. For many people, it is having … direct personal experiences which leads us to change our minds. However, if a phenomenon is novel, challenging, and especially if it is ‘seemingly unbelievable,’ then having a direct personal experience with the phenomenon is often essential. And for certain phenomena, there is no substitute for experiencing it ourselves. … What I have discovered is that the more unbelievable events are replicated, the greater the level of disbelief one may experience. Often the so-called boggle factor does not decrease with replication, it actually increases. This increased disbelief is not rational; it is emotional. Replication and validation are cornerstones of the scientific method. On the one hand, with each replication we are more convinced that the phenomenon is real, and yet simultaneously the phenomenon feels more unbelievable and seemingly impossible. If any single ‘formally physical person’ illustrates this emotional boggle factor, it is Forry. As the empirical evidence accumulated, the case for Forry being alive and well became stronger and stronger, and yet simultaneously the evidence became more and more difficult to believe.” What is Creator’s perspective on this dilemma and conundrum?

This is a good illustration of the power of belief at work. The more improbable and incredulous an experience such as a beyond-the-veil communication or a miraculous event to save the day happens out of the blue, in a way that seems beyond the possibility of coincidence, the more threatening and powerful it becomes as a challenge to belief of the skeptic and therefore the most unpalatable and even fear-provoking. Not only is it threatening for the skeptic to have their nonbelief put to the test, it becomes more and more an imperative to reject the challenge entirely in honor of the inner disbelief. This is almost a requirement to remain oneself. People simply cannot act contrary to their beliefs unless they are faking something. So, powerful demonstration of divinity will be a headscratcher for sure, but is unlikely to move the nonbeliever because they are unable to change who they are, and a fundamental change within is what is needed to replace a fundamental belief held with conviction. People cannot do this on their own; they need help and, in most cases, a divine intervention in fact. It is only the provisional beliefs that can be retooled and reconfigured to make a change in a new direction. The bedrock beliefs are a basic instruction set defining who you are and you cannot escape from that definition once it is established, at least for long. People can pretend for a while or ignore their true nature in order to gain something, but eventually they will drift back to their so-called "first principles" whether valid or not.