I.A.N.D.S. East Bay, Berkeley Meeting on the third Monday of each Month at 7:30 pm (You will find the directions below) Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley |
| A $7-$10 donation requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! Thank you! SPIRITUAL BOOK EXCHANGE: For a mere $1, trade in any spiritually-related book for one of ours. These books are not for sale – exchange only. Donations Welcome !!! |
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2009 IANDS National Conference "Transformation in the Light" Helping Humanity with Enhanced Abilities After NDEs at the Mission Valley Resort in San Diego, CA. The regular conference schedule is for Friday and Saturday, October 16 – 17 The 2009 IANDS Leaders Seminaris a pre-conference activity available to all IANDS Group representatives and those individuals interested in starting an IANDS group in their location. Please take this opportunity to have someone from your group at this activity designed specifically for networking with others involved in organizing and operating an IANDS Group. The Leaders Seminar is scheduled for Thursday, October 15 from 9:00 – 4:00 and will consist of a morning training session on group dynamics plus afternoon sessions on tips and techniques for getting the most from your group. The Leaders Seminar registration is only $20 and includes lunch. Register early for a conference discount… http://iands2009conference.worldispnetwork.com/index.html Thanks to all for your continuing support of the IANDS mission. Best wishes, Chuck |
East Bay-Berkeley Internatioal Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) Presents: NDEr & Medium Lawrence Furman: A NIGHT OF CHANNELING Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:30-9:30 PM BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley (NOTE: This meeting will be held in the wheelchair-accessible, first floor BFUU Fellowship Hall on the corner of Cedar and Bonita.) Dear Friend of IANDS, For many near-death experiencers, the NDE isn’t just a confirmation of eternal life, but a source of wisdom as to how to live this life, one that involves the knowledge that we are never alone, that unseen spirits accompany us. Our speaker this month – in our final meeting of this year – has been channeling spirits for almost two decades. Lawrence Furman has had three NDE’ s, and will speak about them, but we’re going to devote most of the meeting to a live channeling session. Says Lawrence, “The Great Spirit—out of whom all our souls emerged -provides each of us with help and guidance along the way in the form of spirit guides. Imbued with personality and as alive as we are, these benevolent beings that live in the bodiless domains of the spirit world, further their own evolution by helping us deal with the rigors of human life. As spirits ourselves, we interact with them whether we know it or not.” Despite a troubled childhood, Lawrence recalls out-of-body experiences at a young age. “In the vastness of that limitless realm,” he says, “from somewhere beyond the Earth, I witnessed massive fiery stars, starred in awe at our beautiful planet moving across the face of the sun, and exhilarated in the joy of flying.” After three NDE’s, he says “I came to experience myself, all of us really, not as various identities defined by our bodies or the collections of thoughts we carry in our heads, but as eternal spirits, no different than the wonderful beings I met on the other side.” After a soul-trying period of life, in 1992 Lawrence went to Hawaii for a retreat. During a period of prayer, something unexpected happened. “Another inner doorway opened guiding my awareness into an intensely focused trance,” he remembers. “Then, day and night, for more than a week, my body became a gathering place for a myriad of spirits.” Says Lawrence, “The angst that delivered me to Hawaii had disappeared, replaced by feelings of astonishment, awe, and wonder. Upon my return stateside, repeated visits from many of these same spirits enticed me to begin channeling, allowing their very tangible yet unseen presence to use my senses to communicate to others their unique and fascinating perspective.” While Lawrence says he does not know what spirits will come through in any channeling session, their communication is always understanding and compassionate. “Rather than rescue us or try to solve our problems, the spirits that come through me as a medium seek to empower us by offering alternate views that give rise to new more imaginative choices. Accessing their wisdom enables us, as humans, to more easily see difficulties as stepping-stones to greater mastery, and challenges as preludes to inspiration.” Come join us for a very special experience! East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. A $7-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! By car: there is plenty of on-street parking near the Fellowship. (Please do be courteous to our neighbors and your fellow parkers.) From I-80 take the University Ave. exit. Go east (toward the hills) on University. Turn left on Martin Luther King (MLK). 2 traffic lights to Cedar. Turn right on Cedar. 1 block east of MLK, at Bonita. On foot or bicycle: We are located within a few minutes walk of the Downtown Berkeley and North Berkeley BART stations. From the North Berkeley BART: Go north on Sacramento to Virginia and turn right onto Virginia. Head east on Virginia, past the McGee traffic diverter, past Edith and Josephine, to Martin Luther King. Walkers turn left, go up to the traffic light at Cedar and cross MLK, and continue to the Fellowship at the end of that short block. Bikers may wish to cross MLK at Virginia and hang a left onto Bonita. BFUU is at the corner of Cedar and Bonita. Station Area Map. From the Downtown Berkeley BART: Go north on Shattuck. Cross Center, Addison, and University. (University is a major street with a traffic light.) Continue north on Shattuck. Cross or pass Berkeley, Hearst, Delaware, Francisco, Virginia, Lincoln. Turn left on Cedar. Heading west on Cedar, pass Henry and cross Milvia street. BFUU is three blocks west of Shattuck on Cedar, at the corner of Cedar and Bonita. Station Area Map. Bus line and additional local public transit information are available from TransitInfo.org. TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED from this mailing list, contact: David Bourdon (JDBourdon@sbcglobal.net) East Bay - Berkeley IANDS Facilitator NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IANDS WEBSITE: http://www.north-ca-iands.org |
Monday-Tuesday, June 28-29, 2010, 7:30-9:30 PM NDEr / Author/Producer/Minister /International Speaker SHARON LUND TWO SPECIAL NIGHTS *Berkeley I.A.N.D.S.* |
| East Bay Int. Assn. for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents: NDEr MARK JACOBY: “I Have Absolutely No Fear of Death” Monday, January 18, 2009, 7:30-9:30 PM BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley (NOTE: This meeting will be held in the wheelchair-accessible, first floor BFUU Fellowship Hall on the corner of Cedar and Bonita.) Dear Friend of IANDS, Mark Jacoby recalls not just the horrific Jeep accident, but how the near-death experience that changed his life began above the hospital bed where his broken body lay. “I looked down on the people in the room. They looked different as well. It was as if their outlines had been traced with a crayon of light, producing an orange glow around the lines of their bodies. The air had become lavender hued fuzz, like the air molecules were a translucent purple. I could see the air, and then I sensed a kind of hissing sound, and a strange perception of fuzzy darkness as I floated through what would have been the ceiling. “I was in the storm now, I could see purple hued snow falling as I continued to merge upward with something to which I was connected. There came a sensation of great attraction. I would not call it speed exactly, more like the world was rapidly moving away from me than I from it. The scene below me seemed to stretch away in an infinite distortion….” Mark wasn’t -- by his own description -- the best type person when he had the accident. The event changed his life. His NDE is particularly instructive because it included what’s known as a “life review” – not merely seeing the events of one’s life, but understanding and feeling how every action and thought had affected others. “I was judging myself,” he says… but he did so with a being by his side comforting him. “I realized I wasn’t who I thought I was,” says Mark. “And I have absolutely no fear of death. The experience of being there is to exist as love, inside love knowing only love. It was as if the emotion of love is what in the end and in the beginning I have always been. Love is what I have only been.” Not all the after-effects of his NDE were pleasant. He returned able to affect electronic equipment, among other things. But he has since integrated many of the insights of his NDE. Come join us to hear greet Mark and hear his story. Afterwards, join in our discussion and ask your own questions! East Bay IANDS monthly meeting are open to near-death experiencers and non-experiencers alike. A $7-$10 donation is requested to help pay for rent and expenses; no one turned away. You are encouraged to bring refreshments for sharing! |
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| David Bourdon East-Bay, Berkeley I.A.N.D.S. |
| Dave Bourdon is a professional writer whose interest in NDE's began with process of writing a screenplay about a politician who has a near-death experience. This path led to IANDS, and a transformative path that resulted in his writing the NDE Paradigm, a spiritual compass based on the highest wisdom of NDErs. Dave has facilitated the East Bay group for two years, and stresses that Berkeley IANDS meetings welcome not just NDErs, but all those interested in the life-altering effect of this phenomenon. |