The call admits any researcher who has a history of studies in their competent fields, and who can prove their answer.
Robert Thomas Bigelow, a billionaire from Las Vegas, offered a very considerable sum of money to anyone who manages to answer an existential question.
The call admits any researcher who has a history of studies in their competent fields of at least five years, and who can prove their answer.
Is there life after death? That is the question posed by Bigelow.
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The real estate mogul is no stranger to the cause, as he founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies in June 2020, after his wife Diane Mona Bigelow, 72, died of leukemia.
How should the question be answered?
The initiative will be awarded to those who present evidence of their questioning before the first of August with a thesis of 25 thousand words on the subject and that is closer to reality.
The winner will be announced on November 1 and will receive $ 500,000.
Second place will receive $ 300,000 and whoever is in third place will get $ 150,000.
The judges to select the winners are: Dr. Christopher Green, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State School of Medicine who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , physician Brian Weiss, recognized for the theory of past life regression, and investigative journalist Leslie Kean.
A life full of tragedies
The Bigelow family became interested in the study of consciousness after lamenting the suicide of their son Rod Lee in 1992.
In search of consolation, they met the famous medium George Anderson but did not receive the answers they sought.
After failing to find many scientists who had seriously studied the issue, the couple offered a $ 3.7 million donation to the University of Nevada in Las Vegas in 1997 to investigate.
However, he had to close the program years later to make no progress.