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| presents two Inerson workshops at the 34th Annual SSF-IIIHS International Conference - AFTER THE DARKNESS DAWNS A NEW LIGHT held in Montreal, from June 26 to July 5, 2009 July 1st : BEING THE SOUND: When Music Opens the Doors of Consciousness (3 hrs) Music creates a place of healing and transformation where one learns to break the illusion of being fragmented. This workshop is designed to attune people to their soul purpose, and the reality of a new Consciousness through Contemplative Music and the wisdom of the psycho-spiritual dimension of death and dying. Experience the healing and spiritual gifts of music in an integral approach. July 4th: INERSON: Into the Resonance of the Soul on Our Way Toward Spirit (3 hrs) Inerson is a set of practices, a method of inquiry into the resonance of the soul on our way toward Spirit! Contemplative in its way of drawing forth from the participant a reflective dimension and transpersonal, addressing depths beyond the personal, Inerson invites you to a most amazing sound journey of awakening and integrating a body wisdom long forgotten. Place : Hotel Delta Centre-Ville 777 University St., Montreal, Qc Information and registration: info@iiihs.org / (514) 937-8359 (Monday to Saturday : 12pm to 8pm) We are looking forward to welcoming you and your friends and colleagues at our 34th International Conference. We have over 60 confirmed speakers and teachers, among them Phan Thi Kim Phúc, Raymond Moody, NASA Astronaut Brian O’Leary, Don Campbell, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Melvin Morse, Bernard Grad, Mark Macy and Peter Roche de Coppens. For more information, see our attached form and visit our Conference web site at www.iiihs.org/conf09/conf09.htm We look forward to welcoming you in Montreal. Peace! Light! Joy! Marilyn & John Rossner, Sr. Leona and the 2009 Conference Team Gilles Bédardis President of IANDS-Quebec Integral. He is also specialist in contemplative music. From 1982 to 1997, he worked as journalist, radio, record and concert producer. His knowledge and expertise, combined with the thoroughness of his research, have made him Canada's New Age music specialist and one of the genre's most active proponents on the international scene. Through the years, Gilles has developed a unique way of working with music. In 1991, after years of research and experimentation, he creates INERSON, a series of workshops and seminars designed to attune people to their soul purpose and the reality of a new Consciousness through music. His study of the psycho-spiritual dimension of death and dying, following a near-death experience in 1973, taught him that the sacredness of life is found in the simplest things of our everyday lives. Since 2004, he works in collaboration with neurosiencist Mario Beauregard, author of The Spiritual www.korprod.com : KOR Prod | Mario Beauregard | Inerson | À l'aube de la lumière (At the Dawn of Light) * notre site est présentement en construction - mise en ligne: septembre 2009 certaines sections sont déjà en ligne * our web site's english section will be on-line in September 2009 |
| Robert Ginsberg Forever Family Foundation 631-425-7707 robert@foreverfamilyfoundation.org Bay Area PR Contact: Sheryl Lane 408-568-2249 sheryl@intuitive-community.com Alternate Bay Area PR Contact: Loyd Auerbach 925-518-4071 |
| Dying to live, Living to Die By Linda Jacquin What happens when we die? What is a "near-death experience" (NDE)? What is nearing-death awareness? What do you say to someone who is dying? Are you afraid of dying? What happens when a loved one commits suicide? How can you live life to the fullest? Linda Jacquin has answers based on personal experience and years of talking to researchers and Near-Death Experiencers. Her special knowledge and understanding are the result of two near-death experiences. The first occurred at age 4½ when she drowned while playing in a creek at a church picnic. Her spiritual experience between drowning and resuscitation would permanently influence the course of her life. Many years later, as an adult, she again experienced clinical death and, among other things, encountered her brother who had died ten days before. The profoundly spiritual understandings she gained from these edge-of-death experiences taught her the true importance of positive life attitudes and actions -- especially: to love yourself; to live everyday as if it were your last; to laugh, play nice, respect those you meet; and above all to enjoy this experience called LIFE. She learned how utterly important it is to Love, Integrate, Forgive, Embrace. Linda Jacquin is a guest lecturer on the near-death experience and a motivational speaker on creating tools with which to live your life to the fullest. She has given talks across the United States, Canada and in Hawaii, and has appeared on US and Canadian radio and TV broadcasts. She was featured on the DVD documentary, ‘Cheating Death -- Beyond and Back,’ a trailer to the movie ‘Final Destination II.’ Linda was the consultant on the Capstone Children’s Book, Near-Death Experiences, and she currently is writing her own book. She is the Editor of Vital Signs, a quarterly publication of The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). From 2000-2006 she was a member of the IANDS board of directors, during which period she also served three years as Vice President. In April 2006 Linda Jacquin fulfilled her longstanding vision to create a retreat where others who have had near-death experiences could gather their NDEs and the life-changing after effects. Twenty-six people from across the United States met for three deeply meaningful days at the Mercy Center in St. Louis, Missouri. One outcome of the retreat is the new website www.neardeathexperiencers.org Since 1984 Linda has headed Jacquin Advertising LLC, a promotional products and marketing company. |
| There is No Death: A Workshop on The Journey of the Soul and Communication with The Other Side This presentation explores the myths and misconceptions that have created a fear of death in our culture, and offers an extraordinary metaphysical perspective on the dying and grieving process. Using interactive exercises, guided meditation and after-death communication techniques (ADC), participants will acquire unique tools and techniques for navigating the dying and grieving process. Based on Terri's experience as a hospice worker, channeler and grief guide who works with assistance from The Other Side, she uses interdimensional journeying to gently guide participants into contact with the higher realms, where out-of-body experience and death itself are seen as simply the continuation of life in another dimension. For more information on workshops in your area, please click here: http://www.afterlifeawareness.com/Wor kshopOverview.htm Many thanks Nadia! Terri Daniel Afterlife Awareness Educator www.DanielDirect.net terri@danieldirect.net 541-549-4004 |
| www.neardeathexperiencers.org The Clan of the FireFlies We are a group of near-death experiencers who came together in April 2006 at an IANDS-sponsored retreat to share our stories, our gifts of healing and compassion, and our unconditional love for each other and all of creation. We call ourselves the Clan of the Fireflies because, like fireflies, we light our own way and light up our surroundings. This we know: That we have been to the Light. Bathed in it. Soaked it in. We have exuded Light and the Love with which it welcomed us. That our Creator, our Source loves each and every one of us with an unconditional, all-encompassing, immense love that we have experienced as bliss. That death of the body is not an end to life. Life is eternal. We are eternal. And when these bodies die we will return to the bliss of the Love in the Light. That life here on Earth is a gift, not a test. It has purpose and meaning unique to each of us. We each have a “mission” to bring love to life. And we each chose to experience this human life in order to grow, evolve, and expand who we really are. That these are not simply “beliefs” to us. We have lived them. Experienced them firsthand. They are as much reality as the reality of your experience reading this website. Nanci Danison 2006 |
| Berkeley & El Cerrito Robert Schwartz Author of Courageous Souls Coming to San Francisco Bay Would you like to understand the deeper meaning of your life's greatest challenges? At some point, everyone has asked "Why?" Why do I have cancer? Why is my son autistic? Why did my brother die in a car accident? So often, when something "bad" happens, it may appear to be a punishment of some kind. But what if your most difficult life experiences were actually rich with hidden purpose – purpose that you yourself had planned before you were born? Could it be that you choose your life's circumstances, relationships and events for the purpose of spiritual growth? Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? tells the true stories of ten individuals who chose to experience some of life's greatest challenges: AIDS, cancer, autism, the death of a child and physical disability. These stories are particularly powerful because the book allows the interviewees to tell their stories in their own words. Working with four gifted mediums and channels, author Robert Schwartz discovers what they chose and why. "In the days before I knew of pre-birth planning, I felt sympathy for others who appeared less fortunate than I," said Robert Schwartz. "Now aware that seemingly 'bad' experiences may have been planned, I feel only deep respect." For more information please consult: http://www.courageoussouls.com |
| Journey Through the Light and Back Mellen Thomas Benedict In 1982 Mellen-Thomas died of terminal brain cancer and survived to tell about it. While in hospice care Mellen “died” and was without vital signs for at least an hour and a half before he returned to his body. Mellen-Thomas is one of the most studied NDE cases in the world and has taken part in more research and think tanks than any other near-deather. While on the “other side” Mellen journeyed through several realms of consciousness and beyond the “light at the end of the tunnel”. He was shown in holographic detail Earth’s past and a beautiful vision of mankind’s future for the next 400 years. He experienced the cosmology of our soul’s connection to Mother Earth (Gaia), our manifest destiny, and was gifted with access to Universal Intelligence. Since his near-death experience, Mellen-Thomas has maintained his direct access to Universal Intelligence, and returns to the light at will, enabling him to be a bridge between science and spirit. With humor and depth of feeling he shares his experience and insights. He brings back a message of hope and inspiration for humanity, delivered with a joy and clarity that is refreshing. His depth of feeling and passion for life is a gift to be shared. Read more about Mellen at www.mellen-thomas.com Information: Quotes About Mellen from NDE Researchers Deepak Chopra has called Mellen-Thomas the “Encyclopedia of the After Life” in his book “Life After Death”. “Mellen is able, while in trance, to see into microcosmic structures. Although he maintains awareness in a hyper-alert state, it is clear that he is able to simultaneously span several octaves of consciousness, from which he can acquire scientific information that is extraordinary.” Lee Pulos, Ph.D., Author of “Miracles and Other Realities,” Former President of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis and Senior Psychologist to the Olympic Team Canada. “Mellen-Thomas has the big picture. His story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in extensive research on near-death experiences. It is very rare that those who have died and returned have seen into the future to the extent that Mellen has. His vision of the future is one of hope. He has participated in studies at a major university, where he contributed to understanding the structure of genes and chromosome coding for a genetic disease, while researchers puzzled over how he could have access to this information.” Dr. Kenneth Ring, Author of “Heading Toward Omega; The Omega Project” “The near-death experience of Mellen-Thomas is the only one I have yet come across where an individual willfully changed the episode’s scenario as it was actually happening. What impresses me the most about Mellen-Thomas is that he dedicated many years, not only to understanding the phenomenon’s after effects, but to controlling and training his newly expended psychic faculties. By opting for discipline instead of notoriety, and keeping himself firmly grounded in the practicality of patented invention, he is now emerging as a clear and steady voice… a solution finder… ready to tackle the most vexing problems of the global community.” P.M.H. Atwater, Researcher and Author of “Beyond the Light” www.mellen-thomas.com CONTACT:Mellen-Thomas Benedict, PO Box 1898, Soquel CA 95073 |
| Eliot Jay ROSEN Author of the book & DVD Best Seller: "Experiencing the Soul" |
| El Cerrito IANDS meeting Sunday May 27nd STEVE ADAMS, May 27th, 6:30 P.M. Hello Friends, We will have a terrific speaker for our El Cerrito IANDS meeting at Hillside Community Church, on Sunday, May 27th at 6:30 P.M. Steve Adams, who has been speaking to local groups for many years, will tell us about his own near-death experience in 1967, and how it radically changed his life. In 1967, at age 20, Steve experienced his NDE while in a hospital for a ruptured appendix. What he experienced in his "visit" to the other side included traveling through the funnel-like entrance to the spirit world, seeing the Light, and meeting with a dear spirit-friend. He was given the choice of staying in the spirit world or returning to his earthly body. Since choosing to return, Steve has had a lifetime of experiences and learning, while being ever mindful of the souls and places waiting for him on the other side. Steve radiates a warm and loving spirituality to all who meet him, and you will very much enjoy hearing his story. Hillside Community Church, a Swedenborgian Church, is located at 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA, 94530. There is a convenient parking lot adjoining the Church. If you want further information about this event, or directions to the Church, please call: Sandy Wright, (510) 841-0677 or Rev. Doug Moss, Pastor, Hillside Community Church, (510) 235-3646 |
| IANDS Group Leaders and Friends Board of Directors Major Move for IANDS Hold your hats IANDS is moving! Following intensive exploratory discussions, IANDS is moving its administrative offices from Connecticut to the Rhine Research Center (An Institute for the Study of Consciousness) in Durham, North Carolina. Both organizations, while remaining totally distinct, will be able to take advantage of the synergy this move provides. IANDS will be sharing facilities with an established research and educational institute with which we have complementary interests. In this urban location, adjacent to the campus of Duke University and close to both the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University, we will once again be able to involve students, assist researchers, and attract on-site volunteers. For the first time in many years we can rebuild a library/reading room for visiting scholars and IANDS members. Further, once the transition is complete, this change is expected to reduce monthly operating expenses, making IANDS more cost effective in delivering member services and our other outreach efforts. Already we are envisioning expanding program offerings in the available meeting rooms and local facilities, including a hotel directly across the street. The relocation will take place over the next two months, with the actual transition date planned for April 1, 2008. Foxcom Anneliese Fox and Janet Scollo who have for fourteen years been both our management team and our friends, will continue to provide IANDS Web services and Vital Signs layout. We hope you will take time to thank them for their involvement in the life of IANDS during these years, which has gone far beyond what was required under their Scope of Services, even enabling IANDS to remain alive through some difficult times in the past. Although this move is being made for carefully thought-out strategic reasons, it is difficult to leave what has been home for so long. During the next few months, we ask that you exercise patience as member services move from Anneliese and Janet to Rhonda Bailey and an intern at the Rhine. We will let you know when the address and telephone number become active in Durham. If you have questions about this move, please contact IANDS President, Diane Corcoran email: dcorcoran@nc.rr.com |
| From: Diane WIllis <docflute@mac.com> To: Info at Chiands <info@chicagoiands.org> Sent: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 8:42 pm Subject: Next Chicago IANDS meeting, Saturday, March 8, 2 pm Guest Speaker: Nadia McCaffrey 3X NDEr; lost her only son in Iraq; leads San Francisco IANDS; created excellent hospice and is now working to end the war and establish a place for returning vets. She picketed Bush's farm in Crawford, TX with Cindy Sheehan. Don't miss this! Nadia McCaffrey has engaged in public speaking for over a decade. She has presented talks on Near Death Experiences and on her service work with the dying at universities including UC Berkeley (2000) and John F Kennedy University (2002), Dominican University of San Rafael, the 2003, etc International IANDS Conference as well as to organizations like the Center for Living with Dying, churches, homeless shelters and at many other events. In addition, she has been featured on many television and radio talk shows; in "Children of the New Millennium" a book of research on children's Near-Death Experiences by PMH Atwater; "We Live Forever" by PMH Atwater , published by A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce's Foundation) and in Vital Signs Magazine. Nadia also appeared on national Television in a new release by Automat Pictures: "Cheating Death, Beyond and Back" a scientific research documentary, rated the best documentary on the Near-Death Experience. Another research documentary for a 2 hour US film to be released in 2008. A research documentary on the Near-Death Experience, made by a German film company was released in 2003 in English and German language, for European Television viewing. The film is to reveal the truth and the impact from the near-death experience after-effects into the Experiencer's life and readjustment to living again. She has also done interviews with the Discovery Channel for a series of documentaries on the NDE. After her son's death, Nadia McCaffrey traveled to the Middle East with filmmaker Mark Manning. They sought answers to what causes wars and met with Iraqi mothers. Nadia explains her purpose, "I wanted to look them in the eye and share their pain." She has since traveled through Europe conducting interviews in Paris with FRANCE3 TV and radio, and ARTE CHANNELS TV (EU). In the US, she interviewed with Good Morning America, The Today's Show, The Paula Zahn Show, The Aaron Brown Show, MSNBC, CNBC, DemocracyNow! TV (3x), Morning on 2, and CNN many times. Her story has been told through documentaries, radio shows, and in magazines (such as Vanity Fair and Newsweek) and newspapers. She has appeared on the front page of USA TODAY (twice), and the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times many times, San Francisco Chronicle, El Jazeera, BBC, La Pravda, etc. Nadia spent 23 days in Belgium and 10 days in Jordan, meeting with magazine, newspaper, radio, and TV media outlets, and major Universities. Her message is sympathy, compassion and peace as the means to ending the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nadia works at this time with the veterans coming home from the Middle East, Healing the inner-wounds, PTSD. She is creating a series of permanent Spiritual and Palliative Care Retreats, an ecologically sound farm totally self-sustained for returning vets, where they can go for healing before they return to society. Nadia has had three NDEs. To read an interview of Nadia McCaffrey with Amy GoodmanT, please go to: www.democracynow.org/2005/8/19/mother_nadia_mccaffrey_showed_the_world Mel Van Dusen presents Nadia McCaffrey receiving the Caring For Soldiers Award for her work with Veteran's Village. To view, copy and paste in your browser, if you cannot click on it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4730260157262141708&pr=goog-sl Nadia's other websites are: www.north-ca-IANDS.org www.veteransvillage.org www.PatrickSpirit.net www.MotherinBlack.org www.GSFSO.org Please, people......we need some help for Penny with hospitality. Call 847.251.5758 or talk to Penny or Diane at the meeting. To attend the 2008 Experiencer's Retreat for those who have had a NDE, please go to: <http://neardeathexperiencers.org/page15.html> CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR-DEATH STUDIES (IANDS) support and study group meets second Saturdays, 2-5 p.m. Near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, losses, research. All are welcome. Suggested Donation - $20. No one is turned away. For more info: 847.251.5758 or www.chicagoiands.org. Chicago IANDS is an IL 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. Location: Frank Auditorium in Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave. (& Central), Evanston. Directions: From the Kennedy Exprswy: Take Edens Expressway to Old Orchard Rd. Go east to Gross Point Rd. Turn Left. Go one block to Central Street. Turn right and stay on Central about a mile, crossing over Green Bay Rd, until you get to Evanston Hospital, which will be on your left. Turn left immediately after you go under the overpass. Then turn right into the parking garage (free). From Sheridan Rd.: Follow Sheridan north along the Lake until you reach Central St. Turn left (W). Ridge Ave will be the first stoplight. Continue one block further to the overpass. Turn right immediately before going under the overpass, then turn right into the parking garage (free). Diane Willis Facilitator, Chicago IANDS 847.251.5758 http://www.chicagoiands.org "When we are capable of stopping, we begin to see." ~Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Near-Death Experiencers ONLY Our Next Retreat will be in Saint Louis MO, at Mercy Center |
Terri Daniel is an author, meditation teacher and grief guidance facilitator who conducts workshops on conscious death and conscious grieving with the assistance of guides on the Other Side. Her book, "A Swan In Heaven: Conversations Between Two Worlds," is based on after-death dialogs between Terri and her son, who left the physical plane in 2006. Her upcoming book, "Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God," examines cultural myths about the afterlife and offers a path to alternative perceptions via meditation, visualization and channeling. |
| From: Kristin Stelmazewski [schmokristin@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:29 PM Subject: update on mom > Dear all, > Thank you so much for all your calls, emails, and most of all your > prayers. We have not had a chance to update everyone on her progress > as much as we would like, so I wanted to give you a brief update. > Within the past week and a half there has been amazing improvement. > When we first saw her last Friday she was badly bruised and unable > to speak coherently. She had trouble > recognizing who we were and even forming sentences. She had no short > term memory and could not remember past events such as Karrie's > wedding and Christmas. The doctors at Ben Taub hospital are known for > treating severe traumas but not so good with the post emergency care. > On Thursday, thankfully, Joe got her moved to a top rehabilitation > center called TIRR. The doctors and therapists there are amazing. > There she will get speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational > therapy. She has made a lot of progress just in the last day or two. > She is having more coherent conversations, remembering who people are, > some significant events, and exhibiting typical mannerisms of herself. > The small things are very encouraging! Even though this process has > been physically and emotionally draining for us and has seemed like an > eternity every doctor we have talked to has told us that it is still > very early in the recovery process and that she is doing well for it > being so soon after the accident. > They expect that she will be at TIRR for about a month and then > continue outpatient speech and physical therapy after that. > > > When she was at Ben Taub, [grandkids] Kegan and Parker were not allowed in her > room. So once she got moved to TIRR she got to see them again...she > just lit up when she saw them. > She has been telling all the nurses and doctors how important her > Kegan is! > > We have attached some pictures the first is from the first day we saw > her (Jan 2nd). The second is from Jan 6 and the last few are from the > rehabilitation hospital when she got to see her beloved grand kids. > > We went to Dallas on Friday to get ready for Kegan's birthday celebration and will head back to Houston on Monday. We cannot thank you enough for your thoughts and prayers. Love, Karrie and Kristin |
| Order these new DVDs direct from PMH Atwater. Visit her Online Bookshop today! WE LIVE FOREVER: THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT DEATH DVD $19.95 Filmed at Transformation Conference 2007, Fayetteville, Arkansas, this two-hour presentation by P. M. H. Atwater focuses on the greatest mysteries of all time - death, heaven and hell, the existence of the soul, and the power of prayer Using this and her research of near-death states as a springboard, she discusses in-depth the existence of the soul, soul groups, soul cycles, leaving the body after death, different energetic layers to the afterlife, borderlands and inbetween spaces, and spirit beings on the Other Side. She shares "What Death Is" and "What It Feels Like To Die" (summarizes from comments of over 3,000 near-death experiencers during her research of the near-death phenomenon). Reference her book: "We Live Forever," A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2004. |
Gold Star mother/ Near-Death Experiencer Nadia McCaffrey at East Bay IANDS BERKELEY "Death of a Son: A Near-Death Experiencer's Continuing Spiritual Journey" MONDAY, March 17, 7:30-9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue, Berkeley When she had her first near-death experience at age seven as the result of a snake bite, Nadia McCaffrey encountered the Light: "You just can't really describe the peace, the love, the well being," she recalls. Ten years later, in a second NDE, she foresaw a future in which she would "become famous, but lose everything." In her third NDE, in 1999, she inexplicably saw herself arriving at an airport in Iraq, a place she'd never been. In 2004, that vision would tragically come true. Her only son, Patrick, had been killed in a war he opposed. The government lied to her about the circumstances surrounding the death. "I lost everything," she says of her son's death. But Nadia's response to her son's death was different from others: she traveled to Iraq to meet with mothers there who'd lost children to war. Back home, she began creating a series of permanent Spiritual and Palliative Care Retreats for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her message is sympathy, compassion and peace as the means to ending the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. In the US, she has appeared on Good Morning America, TODAYSHOW, Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown, MSNBC, CNBC, DemocracyNow! CNN etc. Her story has been told through documentaries, radio shows, and in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, El Jazeera, BBC, La Pravda, and more. Long before then, Nadia's NDE's and work with the dying had been featured in the media. She has been featured on many television and radio talk shows; in "Children of the New Millennium" a book of research on children's Near-Death Experiences by PMH Atwater, along with Atwater's "We Live Forever." Nadia recently appeared in a new release by Automat Pictures: "Cheating Death, Beyond and Back" a scientific research documentary, and is featured in another NDE research documentary to be released in 2008. Following Nadia's talk, we'll have a lively session of your comments and questions. |
| Join us Nadia McCaffrey will present a lecture on Peace & War. How can we forgive? Love instead of hate... Understan ding each other, respecting each other Loving each other |
| Luis Minero (International Academy of Consciousness) BERKELEY-IANDS “Spiritual Evolution and Out-of-Body Experiences” Near-death experiencers don’t have a choice – they have out-of-body experiences, and more. But can just anyone have an OBE? Are there spiritual benefits? Our speaker this month, Luis Minero, says “yes” to both questions. Luis is the director of the Intl. Academy of Consciousness (IAC) California office, as well as its Administrative Director. The IAC is a non-profit research and educational organization that studies consciousness (soul, spirit, essence), placing special emphasis on OBE’s. OBE’s, Luis says, yield some of the same insights and spiritual benefits of near-death experiences, including losing the fear of death. Luis speaks from personal experience. He has his first OBE at age 12, has had “perhaps a thousand” OBE’s since then, and has spent more than 20 years studying OBE’s and other paranormal phenomena. Though he has a scientific background, Luis says, “ The best way to understand the out-of-body experience is… experience it! The moment you leave the body and you realize that you’re as lucid, as sharp, as aware as you are right now, you know this is not a dream, not a hallucination.” Toward that end, IAC teaches courses on how to have productive OBE’s. Luis will discuss those techniques, as well as the scientific case for OBE legitimacy. An experiment last year claiming to produce out-of-body sensations in a lab experiment, Luis says, “was interesting, but it really doesn’t prove anything. “Just because we can stimulate the brain to simulate different experiences doesn’t deny the actual experience. There are experiments where you can stimulate part of the brain and the person starts smelling a lemon. But it doesn’t mean the real smell of lemon doesn’t exist.” Luis graduated with honors (chemistry) from Florida International University. He has lectured at the 1st International Congress on Existential Inversion in 1998, in Florianópolis, Brazil; at the 3rd International Congress of Projectiology and Conscientiology in 2002, in New York, USA; and at the 1st World State Forum in 2006, in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil. He speaks fluent Spanish, English, Portuguese and German and has lectured on several continents. Following Luis’ talk, we’ll have a lively session of your comments and questions. East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non- experiencers alike. A $5-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing - and thank you! |
| International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents… Former Executive Director, A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce), Nancy Eubel: REINCARNATION: The Reality; The Purpose Monday, July 21, 7:30- 9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley Dear Friend, Everyone wonders about the possibility of reincarnation. And many near-death experiencers report witnessing events from past – and potential future – lives. This month, we’ll take a look at reincarnation, and we’re delighted to present as our speaker Nancy Eubel, former executive director of Edgar Cayce’s Assn. for Research and Enlightenment, based in Virginia Beach, Va. “I approach it as a way of understanding our current life,” Nancy says. “These past lives are lessons we can learn from. Past lives influence our current life, and they are opportunities for understanding and healing. Sometime we can gain an understanding of our current life situation.” A master clinical hypnotherapist, Nancy says that she has conducted hundreds of past life regression with clients to eliminate phobias, access previously unknown skills and change people’s relationships with others. She is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies, Inc., the Society for Shamanic Practitioners, and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Nancy’s interest in reincarnation took off after a trip to Tibet in 1991. Shortly afterwards, she joined A.R.E., and helped the organization with her accounting skills. She served as Executive Director for three years in the late ‘90s. In a later trip to the Taj Mahal, she had an indelible personal experience of life after death. She twice encountered her deceased husband. “His image didn’t last long, but there he was at the Taj Mahal, seemingly in the flesh and blood. I was stunned and could barely breathe,” she recalls. After Nancy’s talk, we’ll have a spirited and spiritual discussion – come join us! East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. A $5-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! |
| NDE'r Elizabeth Gutfeldt “The Spiritual Moments of a Lifetime” Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:30-9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley (Previously scheduled speaker had to cancel for logistical reasons) Elizabeth Gutfeldt celebrated her 80th birthday this year – a life that has been rich with challenges and very special blessings. She had her near-death experience late in life as a result of a battle with cancer, but long before then had been blessed with powerful spiritual occurrences in moments of great difficulty. This month at East Bay IANDS, Elizabeth will share the lessons she’s learned in life, and the remarkable spiritual journey she’s traveled. “I was brought up right from the start feeling the reality of eternal life,” says Elizabeth. “”There was no question about it.” She recalls experiencing the spiritual world as early as age two, seeing angels: “The love they radiated was as clear as could be.” This openness to the spiritual world has given Elizabeth relief in what otherwise would be painful situations. When a close friend with a life-long ambition to be a doctor was tragically killed, she mourned and wondered why – and then encountered her deceased friend, who explained the cosmic reasons for the event. Her husband’s death a decade ago became a joyous parting event as he described to her what he was encountering on the other side as he drifted between worlds in his final days. A scholar who spoke 11 languages and delighted in reading, he happily reported that he encountered an infinite number of books on the other side, from which he could instantly derive knowledge. “That was his heaven,” says Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s own encounter with death came as she her condition had seriously deteriorated and she was in great pain. But at some point, she says, she was “surrounded by unconditional love…no pain.” Given the message that her work was not done, Elizabeth would recover enough to leave the hospital days later. Elizabeth has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Rosebridge Graduate Institute in Concord, Ca. She and her late husband Horand founded and built Hillside Community Church, a Swedenborgian Church, in El Cerrito, in the early 1950s. Together they worked to spread the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg in countries behind the Iron Curtain. Elizabeth continues her spiritual quest this coming Monday. Come greet and meet this wonderful lady and her learned observations about this world… and the next. Following Elizabeth’s talk, we’ll welcome audience questions and comments. East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non- experiencers alike. A $5-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! |
| BERKELEY-IANDS International Association for Near-Death Studies Lewis Griggs & Dave Bourdon: “Applying Lessons from the Light to Daily Life” Tuesday, May 20, 7:30- 9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley When difficult, even terrible situations or people come to the forefront of your life, how do you deal with them? Do your spiritual beliefs get put aside – or do you use the force of “God” or “cosmic consciousness“ to alleviate the suffering? And what are those principles, the legendary near-death experience “lessons from the Light”? This month, two people – one a NDEr, one not – discuss applying these lessons to daily life – whether it’s the daily grind or something far more challenging. Lewis Griggs of San Rafael had it made from birth. Born to a wealthy family with a lineage dating back to the Mayflower, he confesses he thought he was “the cat’s meow.” Wealth, health, looks, great parents - “I had everything I wanted,” he says. His 1977 NDE in a car crash changed his life. Entering another dimension of “pure grace,” he was told “Lewis, you have been called here to have this conversation and to be sent back because you are not doing your work.” He would return to found the award-winning Griggs Productions, a company specializing in diversity education, a field he had no knowledge of, and in which he had no previous interest. But even a NDE doesn’t stop life challenges. A rafting accident in 1997 left him in a coma, unsure of who he was, not knowing his parents, not able to talk or walk. “I learned what it was like to be trapped in my body, and not be able to communicate. I had to regain everything. I finally became very humble,” he says. And a greater challenge for him is more recent: after spending his life trying to help his bipolar daughter, he realized he had to cut her loose, and let her find her own way. Dave Bourdon did not a NDE. Raised with no religious background whatsoever, he reacted to life’s travails by hating God. “The worst part is that I didn’t even believe in the God that I hated, that old man in the sky. I was dragged around by the people and events in my life, feeling powerless and angry about life itself.” That began to change when the wisdom of NDErs came into his life. “I was incredibly blessed to run into the wisest people I’d ever known right from the start. When I finally “got it,” my perception of life changed, and when your perception genuinely changes, your internal life, the real you, genuinely changes.” One result was the creation of the NDE Paradigm – a spiritual compass that points to the misunderstandings, the illusions, behind your suffering. “Life is always going to be difficult – it’s meant to be that way for the same reason a gym has heavy weights for lifting. But failure to see life clearly – to live the lessons from the light as naturally as breathing – leads to endless internal pain. And that just isn’t necessary, and anyone can apply the lessons that will change that path,” he says. Come join us and take part in a spirited - and spiritual - discussion! BERKELEY IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. A $5 donation requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! |
BERKELEY International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents…Reverend Doug Moss:“Swedenborgian Beliefs: the NDE Connnection" Tuesday, Sept. 16, 7:30- 9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1722), an eminent scientist whose search for truth led to mysticism, experiential revelations from different realms, and the formation of the faith bearing his name, probably did not have a near-death experience. But for our speaker this month, Rev. Doug Moss, there are striking and important similarities between Swedenborgian beliefs and the conclusions reached by many near-death experiencers. “God is love and love only,” Rev. Doug says. “God absolutely loves every one of his creatures, and there is pre-destination… but the pre-destination is for everybody to go to Heaven. We can screw it up on our own, but not by anything a loving God would ever, ever do to us.” Rev. Doug, who ministers at the Hillside Community Church in El Cerrito, came to the Swedenborgian faith rather late in life after being a small business owner. He felt his questions were unanswered by mainline Christian churches. He describes Swedenborgian beliefs as “rational Christianity.” Rev. Doug finds the NDE life review and the values it reveals quite related to Emanuel Swedenborg’s description of an afterlife partitioned into like-minded spiritual levels. Swedenborg wrote a book, Heaven and Hell, in which he described those realms not as places, but as the spiritual level appropriate for the individual. “You are not assigned or rewarded or condemned –it’s the community that the entire theater of your life has led you to choose freely. You find a community with people who have similar loves (whether of self or of others) and that is your spiritual community,” he says. After Rev. Doug’s talk, we’ll have a spirited discussion – come join us! East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. A $5-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! |
| Berkley International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents: Moderated Discussion by NDEr LEWIS GRIGGS: Synchronicities! - Life Strange Blessings Monday, April 16, 2007 7:30 9:30 PM Unity, 2075 Eunice Street, Berkeley Dear Friend of IANDS, Its appropriate that the term synchronicity was created by a near-death experiencer, famed psychologist Carl Jung. While skeptics see coincidences everywhere down to life itself Jung created synchronicity to suggest that mind and matter, as well as past, present and future, exist in a meaningfully connected way. Many NDErs and other spiritual seekers conclude that each and every moment of life has purpose, and that one way this purpose manifests itself in the material world is through synchronicities - life events and thoughts so strangely and wonderfully connected that we know something must be going on though what, were not quite sure! Synchronicities are sometimes hilariously mysterious, defying millions-to-one odds and sometimes they life-altering. What do synchronicities mean, if anything? How can we become more aware of them, and use them to benefit our lives? If you see life as meaningful and live that way consciously, does that create synchronicities? Or do we just become more aware of them? This month at East Bay IANDS, well share stories of our most amazing synchronicities in a discussion moderated by NDEr Lewis Griggs, whose own life was saved years ago by a passing stranger. Lewis has appeared on more than 80 television and radio programs, including NBC's Today Show, the CBS Morning News, CNN and NPR's All Things Considered. Amidst all its difficulty, life is also wondrously strange. How wondrous and how strange? Join us for an uplifting evening, and let see if we can find or create! new synchronicities on this special night! East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. We provide a respectful place to discuss and voice opinions and experiences. A $5 donation requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! Thank you! |
| El Cerrito IANDS will show a documentary video of Kenneth Ring being interviewed by Jeffrey Mishlove, on the television series "Thinking Allowed," on Sunday, May 25th at 6:30. This excellent documentary goes into a discussion of Ring's book "Lessons From The Light" which has been the subject of Hillside Community Church's Sunday class this month. Kenneth Ring, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and co-founder and former president of IANDS (International Association of Near-Death Studies). He is the author of several works on near death experiences, such as "Heading Toward Omega" and "Lessons From The Light". He has directed different studies of a large number of individuals who have had near-death experiences, and is considered today as a pioneer in research on the subject. The group meets at Hillside Community Church located at 1422 Navellier St., El Cerrito, 94530. There is a convenient parking lot adjoining the Church. The meeting will begin at 6:30 P.M. If you want further information about the event or directions to the Church, Dr. Kenneth Ring In 1977, Kenneth Ring, a brilliant young professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, read Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life, and was inspired by it. However, he felt that a more scientifically structured study would strengthen Moody's findings. He sought out 102 near-death survivors for his research. This web page documents some of Ken Ring's basic insights based on his meticulous research. His latest research involves the ground-breaking work of investigating near-death experiences among blind persons. His findings are detailed in his latest book Mindsight which is bound to become a classic in the annals of near-death research much like his previous books, Lessons From The Light, Heading Toward Omega, Life At Death, and The Omega Project. Ken Ring researched NDEs that involve the experiencer witnessing events while out of their body which is later proven to have taken place. Ken has also researched NDEs that affirms reincarnation. Ken has also examined NDEs among those who attempted suicide. During his extensive research, Ken was also able to examine NDEs where the future was foretold. The following information is Ken Ring's research conclusions from his study. (1) Those cases who came closest to death, or were clinically dead, just as Moody's cases reported, told of being outside of their bodies, of moving through a void or dark tunnel toward a luminous light, of meeting with departed relatives and friends, of having a feeling of great comfort and bliss and of being surrounded by compassionate love, a feeling so beautiful they longed to remain, and when they returned to the "earthly" realm, they were affected by this feeling the rest of their lives. (2) No one type of person was especially likely to have this experience. It cut across race, gender, age, education, marital status, and social class. (3) Religious orientation was not a factor affecting either the likelihood or the depth of the NDE. An atheist was as likely to have one as was a devoutly religious person. (4) Regardless of their prior attitudes - whether skeptical or deeply religious - and regardless of the many variations in religious beliefs and degrees of skepticism from tolerant disbelief to outspoken atheism - most of these people were convinced that they had been in the presence of some supreme and loving power and had a glimpse of a life yet to come. (5) Drugs, anesthesia and medication did not seem to be a factor in inducing these impressions and exquisite feelings of a NDE. Indeed, drugs and anesthesia seemed to be more likely to cause a person to forget memories of a NDE. (6) He definitely concluded that NDEs are not hallucinations because hallucinations are rambling, unconnected, often unintelligible and vary widely, whereas NDEs tend to have similar elements of a clear, connected pattern. (7) Based on the information of those who had reported such incidents, the moment of death was often one of unparalleled beauty, peace and comfort - a feeling of total love and total acceptance. This was possible even for those involved in horrible accidents in which they suffered very serious injuries. Dr. Ring found there was a tremendous comfort potential in this information for people who were facing death. (8) After going through a NDE, people reported a loss of fear of death as well as a greater appreciation of life. They also reported stronger feelings of self-acceptance and a greater concern and sense of caring for other people. They had less interest in material things for their own sake. Many tended to become more spiritual - though not necessarily more involved in organized religion. (9) Almost all subjects who experienced a NDE found their lives transformed and a change in their attitudes and values, and in their inclination to love and to help others. Dr. Ring was convinced that these were absolutely authentic experiences and noted that since returning, many of them had occasion to think about 'what might have been.' And their subsequent lives were powerful testimony to our common ability to live more deeply, more appreciatively, more lovingly, and more spiritually. |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE: PROOF OF AN AFTERLIFE? Forever Family Foundation to present Investigations of Consciousness and the Unseen World January 19-20, 2008 Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center San Francisco, California Oceanside, NY, January 3, 2008 – Forever Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports the premise that life does not end with physical death, will be sharing supportive scientific evidence in a groundbreaking conference January 19-20, 2008 at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California. World renowned scientists, medical doctors, researchers, and mediums will be brought together to raise awareness about the extensive research of consciousness and its implications that we survive our physical deaths. Fact: It has been documented that people have died and returned to talk about it. Fact: It has been documented that people can communicate with the dead. Fact: The CIA has embraced remote viewers who can use only their consciousness to “spy on the enemy.” “The reality is millions of people have experienced these ‘afterlife encounters’ and so-called other phenomena that indicate our minds can act independently of our brains and/or physical bodies,” said Robert Ginsberg, co-founder of Forever Family Foundation. “We can longer dismiss the evidence simply because it cannot be explained by conventional means.” It is unacceptable to classify something as ‘having no explanation’ or putting it away in a box labeled ‘paranormal.’” The two-day conference is designed for the public rather than a scientific audience. The speakers will present bodies of evidence on near-death experiences, reincarnation, the nature of consciousness, quantum physics, ghosts and apparitions, afterlife encounters, mediumship, and other phenomena that suggest an existence beyond our physical lives. “It is time for the scientific community to bring survival of consciousness research out of the labs, files, peer review journals, and private conferences,” said Dianne Arcangel, President of Forever Family Foundation. "By bringing our findings into the public arena, we offer comfort to the bereaved as well as necessary education and hope to the masses.” About Forever Family Foundation Forever Family Foundation is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports the premise that life does not end with physical death, furthers the understanding of Afterlife Science and survival of consciousness, and offers support to the bereaved. . Among the active members of the organization and the executive board are scientists, researchers, medical doctors, philosophers and educators who have devoted substantial parts of their careers to the investigation of the survival hypothesis - an existence beyond this physical world. Interview opportunities ~more~ Confirmed Presenters: Dr. Fred Alan Wolf – Physicist (aka Dr. Quantum), writer, teacher and lecturer, is well known for his many books and appearances in such films as The Secret and What The Bleep. He has a unique perspective on quantum physics and its implications for the survival of the soul. Dr. Dean Radin – Cutting edge scientist, author, and lecturer who is considered to be a world authority on Psi phenomena and consciousness. Senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and former president of The Parapsychological Association. Dr. Gary Schwartz – Harvard trained scientist, professor, author and lecturer who has amassed a huge body of evidence on the subject of mediumship and its suggestion of survival. His book The Afterlife Experiments outlined his groundbreaking research. Dr. Bruce Greyson – Medical doctor, writer and lecturer who has conducted decades of research of near death experiences and is a world authority on the subject. He is the Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia Dr. Jim Tucker – Medical doctor, author, and lecturer who researches past life memories and reincarnation. His book, Life Before Life, is a comprehensive examination of such evidence, and he continues his research at the University of Virginia. Dr. Arthur Hastings – An esteemed faculty member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology who is an author, lecturer and consciousness researcher. His current research includes a modern day psychomanteum chamber that has produced significant data related to encounters. Loyd Auerbach, M.S. – Well known paranormal investigator specializing in ghosts and psychic experiences. He is also an author, lecturer, professor, and Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations. He has also created a certificate program in parapsychological studies at HCH Institute. Dianne Arcangel, M.S. – Independent researcher of afterlife encounters who has compiled the results of a five year international study on the subject. Her book, Afterlife Encounters- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences, is a comprehensive look at the subject with specific case histories. Robert Brown – Accomplished international medium and author who has been providing evidence of an afterlife for three decades. He demonstrates spirit communication all over the world, and is the author of We Are Eternal. Hollister Rand – An evidential medium and lecturer who has a unique perspective of science, vibration and music as it relates to spirit communication. In addition to demonstrations of mediumship, she teaches techniques of facilitating such contact. Conference details: Title: Investigations of Consciousness and the Unseen World – Proof of an Afterlife? Dates: January 19-20, 2008 Location: Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Admission: $225-$275 Conference Website: www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org/SanFrancisco.htm In addition to the two-day conference, Forever Family Foundation also announced a psychic entertainment event, Mindreading by the Bay. This special fundraising event will feature Loyd Auerbach, Professor Paranormal, and other performers. Tickets to this separate event are $25-$45 and are not included with conference admission. Contact: Robert Ginsberg Forever Family Foundation 631-425-7707 robert@foreverfamilyfoundation.org Bay Area PR Contact: Sheryl Lane 408-568-2249 sheryl@intuitive-community.com Alternate Bay Area PR Contact: Loyd Auerbach 925-518-4071 esper@california.com |
GEORGINA TEYROVSKY: My Near-Death Experience in 1969 The term NDE didn’t exist until the late 1970’s – but Georgina Teyrovsky had her near-death experience in 1969. With no reference point to help her integrate the phenomenon in daily life, she was left to find her own way. The native Czechoslovakian will discuss her fascinating story at this month’s IANDS meeting – a story that includes living in Prague during the rebellion against Russia, and a journey from riches to poverty and back. But nothing in her life compared to her NDE, she says Georgina's NDE came as she and her family were climbing Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in North America. Several intestinal parasites she carried caused her to suffer a burst appendix. She would have a NDE during a five-day coma. "The whole experience was so perplexing, so strong, so shaking... but also so uplifting that I did not find the words nor the courage to describe it for many years." Georgina says, "I remember thinking thoughts, not in one brain, but through millions of brains, all of which seemed to be connected. I felt the same way about "eternal wisdom" - I was part of it and the wisdom was part of me." She experienced a timeless dimension and seemed to experience past lives in several settings. She communicated with a spirit and asked if she could see "hell" - and was shown that symbolically. She returned to a body still near death, and a long recovery against long odds. "Though my sickness was a great ordeal, I feel that it was a blessing in disguise. No words, no person, nothing can take away from me the conviction that there is no death. I have been there and back. Come hear Georgina share her story and the wisdom she was given in her NDE. Following Georgina’s talk, we’ll have a open discussion with questions and comments. We hope you’ll join in! Berkeley IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. |
| Rob States from Marin County, will speak at our meeting on Jan 27th, on the subject: "YOUR ENERGY BODIES." In Rob's words: Experience, except those who have had both. For example, David Hawkins, author of Power VS Force, compares the OBE to dreams, but describes the NDE as, "infinitely profound, beyond time and space." "The scientific literature gives us clear differences between them, so different one could conclude they are actually in different dimensions. Indeed, this is a powerful clue that the human soul is actually TWO different energy bodies, one permanent (the NDE part), and one temporary (the OBE part). The basis for this conclusion comes from a variety of sources, including the reincarnation studies of Ian Stevenson, the hypnotic regressions of Brian Weiss, and other researchers." On January 27, we will compare these two phenomena from a scientific perspective with Rob States, engineer with graduate science degrees from the University of Colorado and MIT. Come with your first-hand experiences, with your second-hand stories, and even speculative rumors! Let's compare them with the hard sciences. We will meet as usual at Hillside Community Church, a Swedenborgian Church, located at 1422 Navellier St., El Cerrito, 94530. There is a convenient parking lot adjoining the Church. If you want further information about the event, or directions to the Church, please call: Sandy Wright (510) 841-0677 or Linda Baker (510) 235-3646 |
| El Cerrito IANDS will be showing "Splendors of the Spirit" at it's meeting on October 28th. "Splendors" describes Emanuel Swedenborg's quest for insight into the spiritual ream. "Who are we? What is the meaning and purpose of life? What happens after death?" Two centuries ago in Sweden there lived a man who found remarkable answers to these questions. His name was Emanuel Swedenborg, an imminent scientist, inventor, statesman and philosopher. In 1968, the Journal of the American Medical Association named Swedenborg as a "medical pathfinder" for his research and study of the brain. He authored texts on every subject from astronomy to zoology and wrote the first Swedish texts on algebra and calculus. Zen master D.T. Suzuki called Swedenborg a great king of the mystical realm, a clairvoyant unique in history and a scholar of incomparable vigor. The late Helen Keller called him one of the most important influences of her life. "Splendors of the Spirit," a 60-minute documentary about the life of Swedenborg, will be shown on Sunday, October 28th at 6:30 P.M. at Hillside Community Church, 1422 Navellier St., El Cerrito. |
El Cerrito IANDS will show a video documentary entitled "Transcending the Limits," recorded at the Pacific Northwest Conference on Near-Death Experiences in 1993. Produced by Seattle IANDS, "Transcending the Limits" is a must-see for everyone who has or thinks they may have had an experience; people who work with the issues of death and dying; and those of us who want to expand our personal awareness and come to understand just a little better what we will all ultimately face. days of inspiring presentations from: KENNETH RING, Ph.D., MELVIN MORSE, M.D., KIMBERLY CLARK SHARP, M.S.W., and NANCY EVANS BUSH, M.A. Interwoven throughout are the personal accounts of those who have been there and back--a nine-month old boy (now an adult), a Vietnam vet, an atheistic scientist turned chaplain, and a Canadian filmmaker--all ordinary people who had extraordinary near-death experiences. |
| WE LIVE FOREVER: THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT DEATH DVD $19.95 Filmed at Transformation Conference 2007, Fayetteville, Arkansas, this two-hour presentation by P. M. H. Atwater focuses on the greatest mysteries of all time - death, heaven and hell, the existence of the soul, and the power of prayer Using this and her research of near-death states as a springboard, she discusses in-depth the existence of the soul, soul groups, soul cycles, leaving the body after death, different energetic layers to the afterlife, borderlands and inbetween spaces, and spirit beings on the Other Side. She shares "What Death Is" and "What It Feels Like To Die" (summarizes from comments of over 3,000 near-death experiencers during her research of the near-death phenomenon). Reference her book: "We Live Forever," A.R.E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2004. |
| Featuring: Discovery Channel’s “CONSPIRACY TEST” Timothy Reynold’s documentary “ROUND TRIP: The Near-Death Experience” Monday, November 17, 2008, 7:30-9:30 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley Halloween is gone, Thanksgiving is coming, and so we’ll fill in the space for treats this month by kicking back and enjoying two inspirational and interesting videos about the Near-Death Experience. And yes, there will be popcorn! Our first feature is a TV show aired as part of the Discovery Channel’s “Conspiracy Test” series. It “stars” several NDErs who have made presentations before East Bay IANDS over the years. Lewis Griggs, Mark Jacoby and Nadia McCaffrey are among those who discuss their NDE. It also includes comments by skeptics, and an interesting experiment designed by one such skeptic to “reproduce” the out-of-body experience… in one instance using an actually NDEr to compare the real thing with a simulation. Next…. Director Timothy Reynold’s fascinating documentary “Round Trip: The Near-Death Experience,” which includes first-hand accounts by five NDErs. “Catherine’s body gave out after eight years of debilitating illness. John ran out of oxygen while scuba diving. Mary had serious complications during childbirth. Alena’s tour bus flipped over, tossing her on the pavement. Alan’s heart fluttered, then stopped, during surgery.” Each of these NDErs changed their perceptions of reality after these traumatic yet life-altering events. Their powerful recollections are also discussed by a philosopher, a parapsychologist and a theologian in this 40-minutes.Come join us to see these rarely-shown video |
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