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“The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation” is now available from Greenwood Publishing Group. The book is essentially the papers from Details can be found in the attached flyer or online. Please promote this important reference on NDEs to your contact lists and in your group meetings. 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 “The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.” Albert Einstein |
Monday, MARCH 15, 2010, 7:30-9:30 PM “Forgive Yourself First,Then Forgive Others” Monday, March 15, 2010, 7:30-9:30 PM TAKASHI TANEMORI *Berkeley I.A.N.D.S.* |
Sunday, February 24 th at 6:30 P.M. This month, and for several months following, we will be showing DVD's: "Teachings of Abraham" (material channeled through Esther Hicks) *El Cerrito I.A.N.D.S.* |
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Interview with Mellen Thomas Benedict |
Treat the earth and all that dwell thereon with respect Remain close to the Great Spirit Show great respect for your fellow beings Work together for the benefit of all mankind Give assistance and kindness wherever needed Do what you know to be right Look after the well-being of mind and body Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good Be truthful and honest at all times Take full responsibility for your actions |
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| Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) 1606 Bonita Avenue (at Cedar), Berkeley |
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.) 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. |
Hello Friends, El Cerrito IANDS will have it's monthly meeting on Sunday, February 24th at 6:30 P.M. at Hillside Community Church, 1422 Navellier St. in El Cerrito. This month, and for several months following, we will be showing DVD's of the "Teachings of Abraham," material channeled through Esther Hicks. The material being presented, while not technically near-death experiences, has very interesting parallels to nde's. In the discussions following the DVD presentations, there will be an opportunity to explore and discuss those parallels. "Abraham", the group of entities speaking through Esther Hicks, describe themselves, as follows: "WE ARE A FAMILY OF NON-PHYSICAL BEINGS NATURALLY ASSEMBLED BY OUR POWERFUL INTENTION TO REMIND YOU, OUR PHYSICAL EXTENSIONS, OF THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE THAT GOVERN ALL THINGS. YOU ARE LIKE A RECEIVING MECHANISM THAT WHEN YOU SET YOUR TUNER TO THE STATION, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR WHAT'S PLAYING. WHATEVER YOU ARE FOCUSED UPON IS THE WAY YOU SET YOUR TUNER, AND WHEN YOU FOCUS THERE FOR AS LITTLE AS 17 SECONDS, YOU ACTIVATE THAT VIBRATION WITHIN YOU. ONCE YOU ACTIVATE A VIBRATION WHITHIN YOU, "LAW OF ATTRACTION" BEGINS RESPONDING TO THAT VIBRATION, AND YOU'RE OFF AND RUNNING -- WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING WANTED OR UNWANTED" -- Abraham This discussion is a departure from our usual programming, but should be lively and interesting, and of extreme value to us in the living of our lives! If you want to know more about the Teachings of Abraham, check out their website: www.abraham-hicks.com. For further information about this meeting, and to get directions to the church, please call: Linda Baker, Church Administrator at (510) 235-3646 Sandy Wright, IANDS Facilitator at (510) 841-0677 |
| Sherry Whitfield & Synergy will be visiting the Bay AREA |
| If you are interested in meeting with Synergy and Sherry, you can contact Nadia McCaffrey: 209-830 9955 cell: 209-627 7644 |
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On the Frontiers of Consciousness… MONDAY, February 15, 2010 7:30-9:30 PM BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley Dear Friend of IANDS, While many near-death experiencers and others with “paranormal” events in their life may view science as blindered or even irrelevant, our speaker this month spends her time breaking down the walls that too often falsely divide spirituality and science. Lisa VanderBoom of Petaluma’s Institute of Noetic Sciences describes IONS as “an organization that takes seriously the things that happen to people that people never talk about.” This month she’ll help us look at IONS’ valuable work in such areas as life-after-death communication, reincarnation and the mind-body connection, among many other areas. We'll also watch the IONS video, “Death, Dying and Beyond.” IONS was founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1973. Mitchell – the sixth man to ever walk on the moon – had an epiphany in space of which he says, "The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident based on random processes. . . . The knowledge came to me directly." IONS now has more then 200 groups spread over five continents. Lisa has worked for IONS for the past eight years, and currently is business manager of the IONS Retreat Center. Raised in Milwaukee, Lisa’s personal life has included after-death communication and several experiences involving reincarnation. A detailed psychic prediction is at the heart of her book, titled, “A Reason for Being Here.” She has been a featured speaker at numerous events and will address the New York Life Expo next month. A cancer survivor, Lisa says of that period, “I accepted death in a way that I hadn’t before. My consciousness took on a partnership with death and I wasn’t really afraid because I was living in the moment.” Come join us to hear greet Lisa and hear her storyinformation. 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 |
| Lisa VanderBoom |
East Bay Int. Assn. for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents: NDEr / Artist / Peace Activist/ Hiroshima Survivor Takashi Tanemori: “Forgive Yourself First, Then Forgive Others” Monday, March 15, 2010, 7:30-9:30 PM BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley Dear Friend of IANDS, For 40 years, Takashi Tanemori was filled with a consuming hatred of America – a desire for vengeance, to make others suffer as he had. Takashi was just 7/10 of a mile away from the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 5, 1945 – a horror that took the lives of his parents, a brother and a sister, and left him a homeless scavenger at the age of 8. It was an anger that would not cease until he had a powerful spiritual epiphany while driving across the Bay Bridge to a Remembrance Rally in 1985. Instead of giving a hateful speech that day, he says, he asked forgiveness of his own heart, and 10 days later his father appeared as a spirit. “He said, ‘Takashi, my son. You have found the greatest way to avenge your enemy, by forgiveness.’ Takashi – our speaker this month - recalls that the Hiroshima blast was “pure white. I covered my eyes, but saw the bones of my fingers, just like you see an X-ray“. Some 98 out of every 100 people within a mile of the blast died. As a teenager, Takashi came to America to seek revenge. He lived a tortuous existence for decades – seemingly blending in as an artist, poet, chef, financial consultant and even as a Baptist minister, but unable to shake the idea that he must avenge his father, a Samurai. He has survived a teenage suicide attempt, three heart attacks and stomach cancer, and has limited vision because of the radiation from Hiroshima. But today, he is a man at peace at last. He authored a remembrance, “Hiroshima – Bridge to Forgiveness,” has had his artwork displayed, and founded the Silkworm Peace Institute. Says Takashi, “My life story demonstrates how a heart twisted by hatred and revenge can be transformed by forgiveness, evolving to a path of peaceful wisdom and the essential work of healing human hearts.” Come join us to hear greet Takashi 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! 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 |
