Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist focused on bringing credible information about hidden, paranormal and “impossible”realities into the mainstream.  Her latest book, Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife (Crown Archetype, 2017) was awarded the Parapsychological Association Book Award and is the basis for a six part documentary series now under production. Kean co-authored a groundbreaking front page story for the New York Times in December, 2017, about a secret Pentagon program investigating UFOs. Her previous book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (Crown Publishing Group, 2010) was a New York Times bestseller and has been published in eight additional languages. Earlier, Kean contributed articles to dozens of publications and was a broadcast journalist for public radio. 

Dr. Debra Diamond, Ph.D. is a natural psychic/medium and medical intuitive who was gifted with her abilities as a child. She provides remarkable insights for her clients to assist in healing and expansion.

Piotr Bienkowski’s disciplinary background is as an archaeologist and museum curator. He has been Professor of Archaeology and Museology at the University of Manchester, Director of Manchester Museum, Chair of the North West Federation of Museums and Galleries, and before that Head of Antiquities at National Museums Liverpool. For many years, he was editor of Levant, the journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant, and editor of the British Academy Monographs in Archaeology series.

It was these words that promoted Lisa Smartt, an English teacher and linguist, to found the Final Words project, an ongoing study devoted to collecting and interpreting the mysterious communications at the end of life.  

It is these words that give us insight and hope about what happens when we die.