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MARIN Sunrise Center present Ellie Schamber and Lewis Griggs Guest Speaker: * Ellie Schamber explains that "I was an atheist and did not believe that there is a soul that can exist apart from the body." As a teaching assistant at U.C. Berkeley during the sixties, she was involved in the political activities there and taught her students that “religion is the opiate of the people." When she was involved in a fatal car accident, she was shocked to discover that she had been mistaken. "Looking down at my body, I was dumbfounded! I realized that my belief system and all the activities I had based on it had been wrong.” It took many years for Ellie to come to grips with the experiences she had after she died. She explains that when she finally told people about her experiences, it seemed to help them. “This made me more open to talking about the experiences I had when I was on the other side, and the spiritual experiences I have had since then.” Lewis Brown Griggs has an equally remarkable story. Born of direct Mayflower heritage into privileged American aristocracy, his lifestyle reflected that ethnocentric value system. During the first of his two death experiences, Lewis discovered that we are on earth to fulfill a particular Purpose, and that he had not been on the right path. He was told that he must return to earth to teach people to appreciate diversity in our common humanity. Since then, his work has included teaching corporations that valuing diversity, relationship and Spirit maximizes organizational effectiveness. To learn more about the work Lewis was guided to do, visit his website at www.Griggs.com. We hope you can join us for this inspiring event. Both Ellie and Lewis have spoken at the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS.org) and other organizations. The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is the only membership organization in the world devoted exclusively to providing information about near-death and related experiences to experiencers, researchers, educators, health care providers, and the interested public. When: Friday, April 8th 2011, Time: 7:30 pm to 10 pm, Where: Sunrise Center Cost: $20 Suggested Donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). 645 Tamalpais Drive, Suite A Corte Madera, CA 94925 415-924-7824 |
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| Ellie Schamber |
| Lewis Brown Griggs |
| MARIN Sunrise Center present Is There Life After Death? |
Dead and back By Paul Liberatore Marin Independent Journal Lewis Brown Griggs and Ellie Schamber delve into near-death experiences during the monthly series 'Is There Life After Death.' (IJ photo/Robert Tong) Lewis Griggs discovered his calling in life. When he was dead. Griggs, a 62-year-old Stanford MBA and former public television fundraiser, totaled his car in a 1977 Berkeley crash that could have killed him. "My spirit went up into the white light and out of my body," he remembered. "I was very quickly spoken to. I was told, 'Lewis, you were called here to have this conversation and to be sent back because you're not doing your work.' It was very clear, and I remember those were the exact words, even though it was a long time ago." Griggs, a Mayflower descendant and self-described "upper-class yuppie WASP," realized that the work he was supposed to be doing was to travel around the country lecturing on diversity. "Because of my upbringing, I didn't know how to connect on an authentic level with anyone different from me," he said. "That kept me from being my fullest self and from experiencing the gifts of everybody's human spirit. That's what happened in the white light. I had that conversation with God and I discovered that truth, and when I discovered it I was sent back down into my body." Miraculously, Griggs says, he ended up walking away from the wreck of his car, but with his life profoundly changed. In 1983, six years after his near-death experience, he founded Griggs Productions, a diversity training company that markets videos, books and himself as a keynote speaker. "I became one of the founders of the whole diversity movement in the U.S.," he said. "One of the things most of us discover up in the light is the degree, on the spirit level, that we're all one. It's total oneness. " Griggs is one of the facilitators of a monthly speakers series sponsored by the Marin Chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), a 30-year-old organization that claims to be the first in the world devoted to "the study of near-death and similar experiences and their relationship to human consciousness." Titled "Is There Life After Death," the evenings meet on the second Friday of the month at the Sunrise Center in Corte Madera. They regularly feature guest speakers, most of whom claim to have died and returned from death to do their life's work. The talks, begun in October, attract about 50 people, some curius, others believers. About 15 million adults in the United States say they've had a near-death experience, according to a 1997 survey. On March 11, Jane Katra will talk about the failed suicide attempt that transformed her into a spiritual healer. Griggs' partner in the Marin series is Ellie Schamber, a 71-year-old Mill Valley online history teacher. They both talk about their transformative "near-death experiences" at IANDS events throughout the Bay Area. Until now, Griggs and Schamber have been reluctant to tell their stories. On his company's website, he doesn't even mention it, revealing only that he started it "for my own self-interest and self-improvement." "It's a weird thing in the beginning," he said. "I've learned that it doesn't work to tell people. They don't believe you. They think something's wrong with you." When she was involved in a car crash that killed three people, Schamber says she would have died, too, but was given the choice of either returning to her body or not, and she chose to return. But she came back with a new set of spiritual beliefs. She had been an atheist when she was a teaching assistant at UC Berkeley in the '60s, trying to convince her students that religion was the opium of the people. But after her experience of dying and coming back, she realized that everything she used to believe in was wrong. "Looking down at my body, I was dumbfounded," she said. "I was so shocked." She kept quiet about her out-of-body experience for 37 years. Now, though, she's able to speak about what happened to her. "I go and tell my truth," she said, "and help others tell their truth." |
Is There Life After Death? Friday, February 17, 7:30 to 10 PM Celestine Star was 6 years-old when she died. She floated out of her body into a bright light. She had a life review and was told, "You must go back. You must return to your life to fulfill your purpose." Then she was brought to the presence of GOD, who told her precious secrets about the meaning of life. Now Celestine is devoted to healing others. Hosted by Ellie Schamber and Lewis Griggs, who will also share their experiences of death, entering the light, and return. Sunrise Center. Thanks ! :-) Lewis Lewis Brown Griggs Griggs Productions www.Griggs.com 2920 Thorn Road Sebastopol CA 95472 T - 707-827-3910 F - 707-827-3906 |
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