In 1975, IANDS was founded by a courageous group of idealistic researchers, intent on sharing revolutionary findings from the study of near-death experiences. What resulted is documentation of countless reports from souls who have witnessed the reality of the spiritual realm. NDEs are the "tip of the spear" in the awakening that is now emerging from the scientific study of consciousness. Age-old mystical traditions have always known the oneness of our existence, a concept long ago left behind by the modern secular world. Coming full circle, Western leading-edge science can validate that we are connected through one, eternal consciousness, and we live in a mental and spiritual universe. Knowledge learned from NDEs not only transforms the individual experiencer, but also brings an opportunity to us all about how to bring oneness into our lives. Experience the rich vibrations of the spiritual realm using the eternal Om audio recording from Sacred Acoustics.
Learn the evidence that demonstrates consciousness is eternal
Discover how oneness is supported by science, ancient mysticism and reports of firsthand experiences.
Experience a meditative sound journey using Sacred Acoustics audio technology to cultivate a connection to the oneness we share.
IANDS originally stood for International Association for Near-Death Studies. However, as the organization has focused more and more on providing support and services to near-death experiencers and less and less on research, it may be time to rebrand IANDS the International Association for Near-Death Services. I will review the history of IANDS from its founding as a collective of researchers to a source of support for experiencers and their significant others, and for reliable information for the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented global death anxiety with persistent societal and psychological consequences. That combined with global climate change and worldwide political and social unrest suggest a greater than ever need for IANDS to promote a larger perspective on life and death today.
Throughout history people have seen “The Light” during Near-Death and Shared-Death Experiences, Death Bed Visions and After Death Communication. Understanding NDEs reveals how these phenomena are interconnected.
Einstein said, “There is no matter there’s only energy which vibrates at different frequencies.” In physical form our consciousness/soul/spirit resides in the slower energetic vibration of the body. Once released it transitions to the higher energetic vibration of the Other Side dimension.
NDEs, SDEs, DBVs and ADC all occur between these two dimensions—The NDE Zone.
In tandem with a dynamic PowerPoint presentation Mark Anthony takes the audience on an illuminating and entertaining journey into the PAST to uncover how contact with the NDE Zone has impacted humanity. From the cosmic to the subatomic Mark will explain our PRESENT understanding of The NDE ZONE through quantum physics and conclude by looking toward FUTURE discoveries yet to be revealed from The NDE Zone.
Based on his own non-ordinary transformational experiences of encounter with other-dimensional realities, Oscar will illumine the relationship between NDE’s, OBE’s and UFO’s as catalysts for global human spiritualization. Understood from a shamanic perspective, all opportunities that allow the 'thinning of the veil' between spiritual and material worlds are best approached as a rite-of-passage—an initiatory befriending of Great Originating Mystery for restoring sacred trust between humankind and our living, sentient earth. Being a respected shamanic elder from Peru, a seasoned researcher of multidimensional anomalous phenomena, and having had three Near Death Experiences of his own, at ages two, ten, and thirty-three, Oscar dives deep into our cosmic soul where the relationship between consciousness, matter and spirit is generously illumined as a divine gift from Source.
In 1975, IANDS was founded by a courageous group of idealistic researchers, intent on sharing revolutionary findings from the study of near-death experiences. What resulted is documentation of countless reports from souls who have witnessed the reality of the spiritual realm. NDEs are the "tip of the spear" in the awakening that is now emerging from the scientific study of consciousness. Age-old mystical traditions have always known the oneness of our existence, a concept long ago left behind by the modern secular world. Coming full circle, Western leading-edge science can validate that we are connected through one, eternal consciousness, and we live in a mental and spiritual universe. Knowledge learned from NDEs not only transforms the individual experiencer, but also brings an opportunity to us all about how to bring oneness into our lives. Experience the rich vibrations of the spiritual realm using the eternal Om audio recording from Sacred Acoustics.
Learn the evidence that demonstrates consciousness is eternal
Discover how oneness is supported by science, ancient mysticism and reports of firsthand experiences.
Experience a meditative sound journey using Sacred Acoustics audio technology to cultivate a connection to the oneness we share.
Events of the last year have affected nearly everyone on the planet. Therapists are seeing record numbers of patients for depression and anxiety, and worries about the future keep people hobbled by fear and uncertainty. Are there ways to easily enhance peace and connection in our lives, ways that derive from the lessons of NDEs? Nancy Rynes discusses a few of her own challenges, and walks the audience through how she used simple NDE lessons and Spiritual Creativity to make life a little easier and a lot more peaceful.
Life changes in seconds. 37 Seconds to be exact. Pregnant with her second child, Stephanie had detailed premonitions she would die giving birth. No one believed her, until it happened. Exactly the way she said it would.
Armed with new information and inquisitive doctors wanting to know how she saw everything before and after her NDE, Stephanie went in search for answers. This led her to a deeper knowledge of understanding, empathy and meaning in her experience. But not without doubting herself and her abilities for many years. Her NDE has opened the conversation between doctors and patients all over the globe and the world as she knew it has permanently changed.
One story can change the world. Stephanie will share the what, when and how it all merged and help give you the best tools to prepare you to tell your own story.
PMH Atwater, L.H.D. began her research of the near-death phenomenon in 1978, after having had three near-death experiences within three months. To date, her work covers nearly 5,000 adult and child experiencers. Some of her findings have been verified in clinical studies, among them the prospective study done in Holland and published in Lancet Medical Journal (12-15-01). For this talk, she combines her work in near-death states with the research she did in the sixties in her home state of Idaho where she started Idaho’s first non-profit metaphysical corporation called Inner Forum. Over 3,000 people learned about altered states of consciousness, mysticism, psychic phenomena, and the transformation of consciousness under this aegis. She has been given many awards, several from IANDS.
Objective: I want audience members to see how to let go of denser energies and move into the light of their own healing. I will give examples of how it is possible to spread love and kindness in this world while also protecting oneself from attack and damaging energies. What kind of future are we collectively imagining? Let’s imagine one of greater light, playfulness, abundance, spiritual community, collaboration, and kindness. Let’s remind the world that our stories from the afterlife are a gift to humanity, and that gift is the ability to bring more heaven to earth in tangible ways. This talk will discuss how the lessons of my near-death experience and the lessons from other near-death experiences can be practically applied to our lives, our businesses, and our communities.
For 40 years, while talking to IANDS and the world at large about the importance of acknowledging distressing NDEs, I have been been working to find a believable understanding of my own experience. That endeavor is discussed in Reckoning: Discoveries after a Traumatic Near-Death Experience. This conference presentation is a look at basic issues which I believe most need attention if we are to move beyond fascination with the horrifying aspects of distressing NDEs into a more developed grasp of what it means to Be.
Dr. Diane Corcoran obtained her PhD in Nursing from the University of TX at Austin in 1981. At that time she was also serving as an Officer in the U. S. Army - with a career that lasted 25 years. She heard her first NDE account from a young soldier. In 1981 a new organization was incorporated and is now known as the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Diane has served on the Board of Directors numerous times and this includes many years as President. She helped facilitate research conducted on the reality of events which we now know as Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Diane now has her own consulting firm and that young soldier in Vietnam -- he had told Diane about his NDE before there was a name for these type experiences.
From my NDE at age two, I became aware of other dimensions of life and was gifted with guidance from Beings of Light. Through my connection with the spirit realm, I’ve been given clear answers to key questions such as: Why are we here? Why do we forget? What is our Purpose? The answers I receive are clear, direct and simple, and include analogies to explain complex and deep subjects in a way that are easy to understand, remember and integrate. This presentation will bring us closer to realizing the spiritual qualities of our true nature. If our essence is that of Love, Peace and Joy then the true question is: What am I doing to disturb it? Through contrast and challenge we show each other where we are in our spiritual evolution. Learn how our challenges don’t need to turn into sufferings, but into a conscious doorway to awareness and awakening. We are the Light of Consciousness and according to the Beings of Light, “Our Purpose is to Be the Light, and our Mission is to Shine It.”
The hardest and often saddest reality that many people come to in their lives is that the life they’re living is not what they envisioned for themselves. What if you could change your life by merely changing how you think? Would you do it?
In this sometimes funny, but moving and compelling story, Randy will share intimate details about his life including many incidents he was involved in during his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His story includes having to take a man's life in the line of duty as well as the personal impact it had on him witnessing first hand the horrific acts of genocide in war torn Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
This interactive journey of self-exploration will demonstrate that life is truly a gift not to be wasted. It will encourage readers to realize that there are no "do-overs" or "rewind" buttons in life.
One of the biggest misconceptions we face in life is believing that we have time to wait for and, create that elusive "Someday".... We don't!
After 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counseling Program faculty, Jan Holden retired in 2019 as Professor Emerita of Counseling. Beginning in 1988 with her doctoral dissertation, her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death and related experiences. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications and over 100 national and international presentations and has received numerous awards and honors. Since 2008 she has served as editor-in-chief of the International Association for Near-Death Studies’s scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies, and she serves currently as that association’s President. Her website is www.janholden.com.
My NDE focused on how repetitive, negative thoughts are the SOURCE of problems in people's lives. I will recount my NDE and how this lesson was illustrated to me, then describe how I released the pattern of “looping” negative thoughts when I returned – and how that increased my happiness, health, and success.
Most of us “loop” on negative past events and future scenarios. What we don't realize, is the tremendous CREATIVE FORCE of those thoughts. Until we understand this, and clean up the “stories” that wreak havoc in our lives, we are fated to continue to create suffering in relationships or finances, health or happiness.
However, we also have the choice and ability to create tremendous positive shifts in all areas of our lives, by consciously working with the creative power of our thoughts.
I will provide techniques to release the negative “stories” we tell that create pain, then lead a meditation to help people begin to use the power of their thoughts for extraordinary joy.
The hardest and often saddest reality that many people come to in their lives is that the life they’re living is not what they envisioned for themselves. What if you could change your life by merely changing how you think? Would you do it?
In this sometimes funny, but moving and compelling story, Randy will share intimate details about his life including many incidents he was involved in during his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His story includes having to take a man's life in the line of duty as well as the personal impact it had on him witnessing first hand the horrific acts of genocide in war torn Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
This interactive journey of self-exploration will demonstrate that life is truly a gift not to be wasted. It will encourage readers to realize that there are no "do-overs" or "rewind" buttons in life.
One of the biggest misconceptions we face in life is believing that we have time to wait for and, create that elusive "Someday".... We don't!
Jeffrey Long, M.D. has scientifically studied over 3500 near-death experiences (NDEs). He will review his NDE research that found powerful evidence of the afterlife. Dr. Long will present his current groundbreaking investigation of the content of NDEs that address humankind’s ageless questions which include: Is there an afterlife? What is the afterlife like? Is heaven a reality? This is the largest scientific investigation of sequentially shared experiences exploring the nature of the afterlife ever reported. Insights into the afterlife from NDEs do not seem explainable by pre-existing cultural or religious beliefs. The evidence-based and inspiring conclusion of this study is that the afterlife is real.
We have felt the need to help individuals come to a greater self-awareness of the work that is laid out in the personalized message of the NDE/STE. We plan a virtual(only) presentation to be followed by a Workshop(also virtual). We will help our attendees understand Identity - and to separate out Ego-Identity and True Self, or Spiritual Identity. We will bring in the similarities between Trauma, and Extraordinary Spiritual Experiences, where transformation can be facilitated through the shattering of Ego boundaries; and the explosive acceleration of creative forces. We plan to show a 3 minute video by Alan Watts(The Dream of Life), and to have other illustrative images which evoke the non-material world consciousness of our human experience. Our final emphasis will be on the need for love - for ourselves, and for our world. We want our participants to come to a visceral, heart-centered knowledge that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
While near-death experiences are increasingly discussed among medical providers, including incidence, proposed mechanisms and long-term impact on experiencers, far less attention is given to shared-death experiences, which may be as common or more common among medical providers. By sharing personal experiences and experiences for colleagues, this presentation will initiate the normalization of shared-death experiences among medical providers and invite collaboration and research into the phenomena.
Father and son (Jeffery Olsen & Spencer Olsen) share their two drastically different experiences of an auto accident that took the lives of half their family. Jeffery (the Father) having profound Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-Body Experiences and After-Death Communications, while Spencer (the Son, only 7 years of age at the time of the accident) had no NDE nor mystical experience at all and was left to navigate grief, loss and trauma as an innocent child. Now, the two come together to share where their paths have taken them and why. And how they are bonded beyond the experience through a unifying knowledge of love.
How do we speak about The Unspeakable or describe The Indescribable? How do we frame the timeless? Or explain the Thingless-ness of Nothingness? Noetic wisdom lingers as an aftereffect of every mystical experience, such as an NDE, or even that time when your dead beloved visited you wordlessly saying, “Love” like a download of pure love to your soul. “My dead sister came to me to say she loved me” carries little of the truth of the experience.
Words can’t carry your experience, but words are all we have. Our languaging problem has plagued mystics geniuses as diverse as Jesus, Rumi, Patanjali, and Loa Tzu. They solved it simply once they understood the keys. Once you know the keys that they used, including metaphor, simile, myth, paradox, and symbol, every book by every genius will open for you and show you hidden truths within. Every mystic was a code-switcher.
“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
― Meister Eckhart
Kirsty Salisbury is a speaker, podcaster and coach exploring the topics of life, death and experiences in between. Following a Near Death Experience at 12 years of age, Kirsty is passionate about widening the conversation around death and the afterlife. Through her podcast ‘Let’s Talk Near Death’ Kirsty shares personal stories of life after near death, and events of significant spiritual transformation.
Kirsty is the NZ (Auckland) Leader of IANDS (The International Association of Near Death Studies), a certified IANDS ISGO Facilitator, and host of the Auckland Online Death Cafe.
Outside of her podcast, Kirsty is a certified Funeral Celebrant and Author. Her books ‘A Life by Design’ and Let’s Talk Life Design’ help to empower others to delve deeper into the topics of resilience, regrets, and how we can create opportunity through effective habits.
Author of “After the Light;” founder and president of Seattle IANDS; named “one of the forty most influential people under the age of 40 in the Pacific Northwest” in 1987 for her contributions to the field of death and dying; founder of the Department of Social Work the world’s first bone marrow transplant center; pioneer in the field of Critical Care Social Work; Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington (retired).
Brian Smith is a life coach and a grief guide. He is the author of the book Grief 2 Growth, and the host of the Grief 2 Growth podcast.
Brian suffered from a debilitating fear of death for most of his life. He researched the afterlife extensively to overcome this fear. In 2015, his daughter, Shayna Elayne, at the age of 15 years old, suddenly transitioned. This accelerated Brian’s search and led to his starting his grief guidance career. Brian is currently a member of the Board of Helping Parents Heal and is the Vice President of the SoulPhone Foundation.
We have felt the need to help individuals come to a greater self-awareness of the work that is laid out in the personalized message of the NDE/STE. We plan a virtual(only) presentation to be followed by a Workshop(also virtual). We will help our attendees understand Identity - and to separate out Ego-Identity and True Self, or Spiritual Identity. We will bring in the similarities between Trauma, and Extraordinary Spiritual Experiences, where transformation can be facilitated through the shattering of Ego boundaries; and the explosive acceleration of creative forces. We plan to show a 3 minute video by Alan Watts(The Dream of Life), and to have other illustrative images which evoke the non-material world consciousness of our human experience. Our final emphasis will be on the need for love - for ourselves, and for our world. We want our participants to come to a visceral, heart-centered knowledge that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
If 5% of the world has had a Near-Death Experience, that’s 60 million more people than live in the United States (2021 USA population is 331,420,000). The global postings of NDEs, indicate a statistically significant percentage of similar attributes. As Experiencers come to grips with this shift in consciousness, they report amusing and frustrating after-effects. This presentation discusses the 3rd phase that follows, the integration of the NDE into one’s life and the challenges in coping with that reality. NDE stories are plentiful but actionable information for the phase of coping is sparse. Every day, the Experiencer wakes up asking, “Is what was true yesterday still true today?” An emerging version of themselves reacts to the world in new ways because they are experiencing themselves differently. Instead of Big Answers, this presentation uses Big Questions as a way orient then navigate the new internal landscape.
I have spent the last 27 years trying to understand my NDE/OBE and what it meant; concluding that we have been lied to by church and state from the beginning of history. My research into Quantum Physics, ancient Summerian writing, pre-biblical writings not included in the Bible, The RA material,and numerous other sources tells me that we are not alone in the universe; and more importantly, man has dualism...a spiritual self and a physical self. The spiritual self is eternal and has non-local consciousness with connection to everything.
This lecture will explore ancient religious and spiritual practices aimed to imitate the near-death experience to bring back spiritual or esoteric knowledge for the benefit of individual healing or the survival of a society. This presentation will explore practices from various cultures throughout ancient and modern history and explore how attitudes and perspectives were impacted by the rise of the scientific method, philosophical materialism, and the industrialization and how these attitudes are changing in the current climate.
If 5% of the world has had a Near-Death Experience, that’s 60 million more people than live in the United States (2021 USA population is 331,420,000). The global postings of NDEs, indicate a statistically significant percentage of similar attributes. As Experiencers come to grips with this shift in consciousness, they report amusing and frustrating after-effects. This presentation discusses the 3rd phase that follows, the integration of the NDE into one’s life and the challenges in coping with that reality. NDE stories are plentiful but actionable information for the phase of coping is sparse. Every day, the Experiencer wakes up asking, “Is what was true yesterday still true today?” An emerging version of themselves reacts to the world in new ways because they are experiencing themselves differently. Instead of Big Answers, this presentation uses Big Questions as a way orient then navigate the new internal landscape.
Claudia Edge and Janet Tarantino will moderate a two-person 60-minute presentation interjecting their similar past/present/future experiences where pertinent. Janet will talk about the past/present/future moments God revealed to her in her 3rd NDE. God told her: “These moments matter. Understand them.” Claudia will interject that she received a similar communiqué in a dream vision when her guide told her, “dreams matter.” Both presenters compare how they both saw—future child/children and how Claudia helped her son pick out his body. Janet will interject about her mother viewing other bodies before she died. Their conversation will cover the coinciding aspects pertinent such as—we have contracts with other souls/specific life moments are preplanned for learning. Every moment matters, and we can utilize our spirit team daily using open awareness to detect their clues, ending our talk with the bigger picture and how our talk can help them.
Spontaneous After-Death Communications (ADCs) occur frequently, with an estimated 50-60% of people, in particular mourners, having experienced one or more spontaneous ADCs. Testimonies collected on all continents and for centuries suggest this phenomenon to be universal and timeless. We have conducted a research project entitled Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs) from February 2018 to January 2020. With 1,004 completed questionnaires in the three languages of the survey (English, French and Spanish), this is the largest multilingual collection of spontaneous ADCs worldwide. Quantitative research findings will be presented, illustrated with ADC accounts. Research findings show that ADCs are deeply consoling and transformative experiences which are highly valued by experients. The impact of these spontaneous contacts on the belief system and the beneficial consequences for the bereavement process will be highlighted.
Respected 18th century scientist and inventor, Emanuel Swedenborg began having extensive spiritual experiences over the course of 31 years. From the age of 53 in 1744 until his death in 1772 at the age of 84 he visited the spiritual realms almost daily.
Swedenborg wrote that the Lord had opened his ‘spiritual eyes’ so that he could freely visit heaven and hell and converse with spiritual beings of all sorts. Today we call these OBEs. He was accompanied by spiritual beings and given ‘guided tours’ of the spiritual realms. He took extensive notes and wrote 19 books detailing his experiences. He brought scientific rigor to his spiritual studies and became known as a philosopher, theologian, and mystic in addition to his extensive scientific credentials.
This presentation provides a detailed examination the extensive similarities between Emanuel Swedenborg’s unparalleled spiritual experiences and the common attributes of what we call “near-death experiences.”
We are two representatives from clinical psychology who wish to help bridge the divide between the mental health field and the IANDS realm. We will discuss spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), with an emphasis on after-death communication (ADC), from the mental health perspective. Our goal is to illuminate some psychological processes that may occur as people process ADC. The first aim of this presentation is to explore how the field has historically trained mental health providers to interpret reports of ADC. Next, we will illustrate some human processes that can occur in relation to ADC, including provider and client perspectives. We will discuss how the mental health field can improve its spiritual literacy, and how mental health providers can support individuals who have ADCs and who also struggle with mental illness. Finally, we will suggest ways in which the clinical and spiritual realms can be complementary.
Tibor Putnoki went through a near-death experience in 1994. His NDE lasted for 9 minutes. This experience not only changed his earlier life entirely, but also gave inspiration for the rest of his life: “People need to be told, they need to know, not to live and act as they do, and I did”.
Since this experience, he walked on the path he called “active love” and he founded and worked at the Light of Love Public Benefit Foundation.
As the leader of the Light of Love Movement, I would like to introduce the acting love in the manifested heritage of Tibor: the activity of our organization and the importance of active love in our everyday life.
Join Cathy as she shares her story of healing from two near-death experiences AND cancer. Discover how Cathy healed from the negative effects of her NDE's and how she found the extraordinary gifts of trauma. Learn how to heal after an NDE and how to manifest your own paranormal gifts!
It is an informative but scientific approach, carried out by a forensic neuropsychiatrist, to the near death experiences (NDE). With numerous testimonies from people all over the world who have suffered the "tunnel effect", the more or less complete sequence of events that precede death is explained. A journey out of life and back to it, in which topics such as: the sounds of death, light, astral travel, visits from relatives who died before death, techniques to approach an NDE are discussed from a scientific point of view but in a very comprehensible manner.
Neurology, brain and spirit are fully compatible and open up new avenues for understanding these spiritual experiences.
An NDE is a doorway to another realm, and it takes some time to recover from the crash course in altered awareness and figure out what to do next. Through words and images take that journey into the past, the present and the future with Joyce Hawkes, a scientist/atheist, who went there and came back utterly changed. Allow yourself to feel the pull and notice how you are drawn to the horizon of your own legacy to humanity – the nudge to serve before you go.
Carl Jung had a mid-life crises in 1913 when his six-year association with Sigmund Freud ended due to a difference regarding the unconscious. He plunged into a crises where all his friends and acquaintances dropped away. He felt his unconscious had an intelligence and he decided to see what he would find if he dropped into it. He discovered his soul.
He also described another painful period of adjustment regarding his NDE which he recalled as a vision. He detached from his physical body and floated in space approximately 1,000 miles above earth. Both painful periods aided in his complete creation of Analytic Psychology. Transpersonal Psychology was created later so spiritual experiences would not be pathologized.
Earth is currently near the end of a planetary period of chaos affecting all aspects of the planet, as seen by biospheric degradation of the planet (weather, oceans, earthquakes), animal species vanishing, social systems deconstruction (religions, financial, political, medical). Some studies indicate we are entering a Sixth Extinction. I suggest we need to revisit our perception of Reality to fully understand the implications of this chaos.
Humanity as a whole has been conditioned to only perceive the external, materialistic world as the
basis for life, many not realizing there is an internal world of energy just as dynamic, which NDE’ers are demonstrating.
Humanities perception of Reality is focused in the wrong direction. Science, religions, and social conventions believe life emerges from the physical. This is not the case. Those who have experienced an NDE show there is another Reality to be experienced.
This presentation draws upon a study of over 100 personal shared death experience reports to compare and contrast SDEs to NDEs. Some researchers have identified SDEs as being identical to NDEs in terms of features, effects, and interpretations. However, there are a number of unique features of SDEs of which audiences familiar with NDEs may be unaware. By comparing and contrasting SDEs and NDES, audiences will have the opportunity to apply knowledge about NDEs in order to better understand SDEs.
This paper reports findings from a retrospective, non-experimental doctoral research study exploring after-death contact (ADC) experiences which occurred to 21 bereaved men and women (the embodied) after they had experienced the death of someone close (the disembodied).
The study utilises a qualitative Heuristic (Moustakas, 1990) research design, methodology and strategy of enquiry, and takes an interpretive approach to data analysis. It acknowledges and responds to the need for empirically robust transpersonal social science research, and draws from and is informed by the grief narratives of the bereaved, who during their bereavement experienced random, unexpected and unsought encounters of those close to them who had died; the returning deceased.
Findings are consistent with humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow’s conception of knowledge gained in what he describes as peak experiences; insights, revelations or mystical illumination (1964, p.19).
A lecture/presentation starting with a description of my 3 very different NDEs; and the 3 timeless lessons learned from each; leading to an exploration into the qualities and differing natures of NDEs—mine and others—as instructive inter-dimensional phenomena; and how these consistent qualities, principles, and “custom-made” phenomena of NDEs describe an underlying Spiritual Technology that informs and directs all of life on Earth, before and beyond. We examine the extra-dimensional properties NDEs share, and how these commonalities describe the field of limitless potential that NDEs arise within.
We explore my three lessons–what an OBE teaches us about our true spiritual nature; what a Life Review teaches us about timeless principles; and what being Forced Back Into Life teaches us about the karmic purpose of our spiritual self within the fundamental field of Consciousness; and how we can we access and interact with this Spiritual Technology to co-create our lives.
When Elizabeth Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons on a rainy night in September 1988, she couldn’t have anticipated she would within seconds be struck by lightning and have a near-death experience. When Elizabeth recovered, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works had been completely transformed. She found herself able to interact with those who had died, and she began to have inexplicable and unwelcome prescient dreams predicting upcoming news events. Elizabeth will discuss surviving the trauma of being struck by lightning, the wonders of her subsequent near-death experience, and how she successfully navigates and thrives in her new life.
Jeffrey Kripal will discuss how we can use information gleaned from a near-death experience as an empowering tool. He will discuss his groundbreaking new idea on how we are shaping our own experiences in the future by how we engage with near-death experiences in the present.
When Elizabeth Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons on a rainy night in September 1988, she couldn’t have anticipated she would within seconds be struck by lightning and have a near-death experience. When Elizabeth recovered, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works had been completely transformed. She found herself able to interact with those who had died, and she began to have inexplicable and unwelcome prescient dreams predicting upcoming news events. Elizabeth will discuss surviving the trauma of being struck by lightning, the wonders of her subsequent near-death experience, and how she successfully navigates and thrives in her new life.
Jeffrey Kripal will discuss how we can use information gleaned from a near-death experience as an empowering tool. He will discuss his groundbreaking new idea on how we are shaping our own experiences in the future by how we engage with near-death experiences in the present.
Your NDE, STE, or Mystical Experiences have the potential to heal people, inspire groups, and transform culture. How do we find effective communication so listeners can be reached in their current state of thinking? How do we watch for clues when it is safe to offer our wisdom story?
Over the last year and continuing on until the conference and into next year, I have been interviewing Near Death Experiencers and taking them through the hypnosis process to access the memories associated with their NDE. I am also taking Experiencer's that don't quite recall their experience to see if they can recover any memories that they might have lost. Hypnosis is a wonderful tool to access the memories and recover any pieces of their NDE that they may have had trouble recalling. After studying NDE's for the last 8 years I have seen how many do not recall as much as they would like, or they feel that lessons or messages are lost afterwards and they often feel lost themselves. Through much research and taking people through the process I am looking to help Near Death Experiencers obtain information that has been lost so they might feel whole again.
In 1994, while working as a firefighter, Bill Letson had a profound NDE. Fifteen years later he set out to discover first-hand the true nature of ourselves and our earthly journey. His story weaves together the notion of the incredible power of our emotions, intentions, thoughts and motivations. How our earthly mission is to align with our infinite & eternal divine mind and to live our lives by the wisdom of a compassionate heart. To strive to be peaceable, friendly, kind, and fearless in our thoughts and emotions and how this highest vibrational living will free us from the cycle of rebirth. The presentation infers this simple message is subtly throughout our popular entertainment media and there for us when we’re ready to receive it.
After effects of the NDE require integration by both the Experiencer and those who are “left behind:” their loved ones and caregivers.
Long time spiritual teacher Elke Macartney will explore the NDE from both the perspective of the experiencer (her husband), as well as being the witness to several Near Death and almost death experiences of her husband.
Upon his return to this side of the veil, Elke’s husband Jim’s near death experience affected him in profound ways—physical, emotional, mentally and spiritually. As the one who was “left behind” and had to perform CPR on Jim, she also experienced profound after effects, including: Post traumatic stress, her new role as caregiver, profound spiritual experiences and more. Since Jim’s death in 2020, Elke continues to experience messages from the other side.
Dr. Mango will define the term nearing death awareness and differentiate it from the term near-death experience. Dr. Mango will share how her educational background in Metaphysics and a lifetime of STEs enabled her to provide the necessary comfort, support and validation of her dying father’s NDA experience during his final weeks in hospice care. Dr. Mango will discuss how her patient-centered compassionate care approach helped facilitate the emotional healing of their relationship, allowing her to experience shared STEs with her father and being a witness to his final transformation from atheist to believer in the afterlife. Dr. Mango will compare and contrast her compassionate care approach with that of relatives who openly shared their denial of the reality of his experiences which exacerbated his level of distress. From a chaplain’s perspective, Rev. Witting will share his observations.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) provide three main areas of evidence that there is no death. First, NDE evidence of veridical perceptions in the physical realm during cardiac arrest or coma imply that the mind separates from the physical body and operates independent of it. In addition, apparitional NDEs show that the mind is an objectively real entity. Secondly, there is strong NDE evidence that the separate mind entity interacts with physical processes including neural activations in the brain to produce awareness. Thirdly, the continuity of awareness throughout NDE, especially involving deceased persons, are implicit evidence of personal survival after death, especially when the decedent was not known to the NDEr or was known but was not known to have died. Shared death experiences (SDEs) including veridical perceptions and shared life reviews show a continuity from an NDE to the transmaterial realm at the time of physical death.
Topics are a description of his death from a drug overdose. He learned about the structure of the physical body as it relates to energy vibration. There is a description of how death felt. He learned about souls, time, thoughts and scenes of the past events in his life. There is a life review and insights concerning reincarnation and David’s personal future. David gained an understanding of the nature of the universe. He felt extreme, indescribable feelings of love, joy and peace. David experienced insights concerning energy dynamics, the light, the senses, and an awareness of the future. Other insights include the world of spirit, the spirit city, guardian angels, Jesus, the structure of the universe with a border. There is a description of a return to the physical life and what happened afterward.
We are two representatives from clinical psychology who wish to help bridge the divide between the mental health field and the IANDS realm. We will discuss spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), with an emphasis on after-death communication (ADC), from the mental health perspective. Our goal is to illuminate some psychological processes that may occur as people process ADC. The first aim of this presentation is to explore how the field has historically trained mental health providers to interpret reports of ADC. Next, we will illustrate some human processes that can occur in relation to ADC, including provider and client perspectives. We will discuss how the mental health field can improve its spiritual literacy, and how mental health providers can support individuals who have ADCs and who also struggle with mental illness. Finally, we will suggest ways in which the clinical and spiritual realms can be complementary.
The NDE literature and popular culture have focused on positive aftereffects of NDEs, such as greatly increased compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of life, as well as decreased fear of death, among others. However, many NDErs may experience challenges in integrating the experience and find it difficult to talk about their NDE with medical professionals or loved ones, for fear of rejection, ridicule, a label of mental illness or simply lack of understanding. At the same time, specialized professional help is limited by the scarcity of counselors or health professionals familiar with NDEs. In this talk, I will present online survey data from an exploratory study of the types of professional help, therapy, and support groups near-death experiencers have sought out to process their experience, and whether those have been helpful. The study included 167 NDErs, as well as a smaller group of counselors who have worked with NDErs in addressing their therapeutic needs.
This presentation draws upon a study of over 100 personal shared death experience reports to compare and contrast SDEs to NDEs. Some researchers have identified SDEs as being identical to NDEs in terms of features, effects, and interpretations. However, there are a number of unique features of SDEs of which audiences familiar with NDEs may be unaware. By comparing and contrasting SDEs and NDES, audiences will have the opportunity to apply knowledge about NDEs in order to better understand SDEs.
If your body perished today, what would your life review be like? What positive changes can you make NOW so your life review is a work of art? Dr. Pitstick will share four ways you can make that happen:
1. Know the life review is a loving and instructive – not judgmental and punitive process.
2. Understand original Aramaic and Hebrew language meanings that clarify what heaven and hell really are.
3. Learn about the Life Review Technique and how it can improve your future life review. Ken Ring PhD, found you don’t have to nearly die to benefit from a life-review. Rather, self-work and visualization during deep relaxation can create lasting positive changes. Dr. Ring gave Mark permission in 2000 to share this technique.
4. Make a ‘mini-life review’ part of your daily selfcare practice. In just a few minutes per day, you can improve your here and now experience whether you seem to be living on earth or elsewhere.
This presentation discusses the findings of a PhD thesis which investigated how NDErs experience psychological challenging aftereffects and how their wellbeing is impacted. This was done through mixed methods involving a questionnaire analyzed via statistical testing, content and thematic analysis, and interviews analyzed via interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings of these multiple analyses discovered relationships between certain features of the NDE, age of when the NDE occurred, and wellbeing domains. It also focused on key challenges that NDErs endorsed to explore what impacts integration of those challenges, and what mental health professionals may need to consider when working with NDErs as clients.
This presentation will explain and contextualize Afterlife Communication. Suzanne will present recent personal
examples from being contacted numerous times shortly after her significant other-partner transitioned in 2020, as well as from spiritual and scientific literature. Suzanne is a frequent speaker for the TeslaTech annual conference and has presented talks for the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), US Psychotronics Association (USPA) and other organizations.
Near-death experiences require a scientific explanation, that is a third person explanation. However, current physics has many missing links so if we try to explain NDEs using the current scientific paradigm we end up with incomplete, contorted, explanations. However, assuming a new paradigm, one which takes consciousness to be everywhere in the universe we should be able to formulate more adequate theories. In this paper it is argued that physics theories should take the NDE and require the whole experience to be explained by physics. It will also be argued that science derives its first hypotheses from experience and that, at the end, a theory of everything should also incorporate experience. In addition, the NDE will be a missing link required to unify physics and understand the nature of fundamental reality. I suggest that in order to model fundamental reality quantum computer simulation will be required and that any such model should be constrained by near-death qualia.
Claudia Edge and Janet Tarantino will moderate a two-person 60-minute presentation interjecting their similar past/present/future experiences where pertinent. Janet will talk about the past/present/future moments God revealed to her in her 3rd NDE. God told her: “These moments matter. Understand them.” Claudia will interject that she received a similar communiqué in a dream vision when her guide told her, “dreams matter.” Both presenters compare how they both saw—future child/children and how Claudia helped her son pick out his body. Janet will interject about her mother viewing other bodies before she died. Their conversation will cover the coinciding aspects pertinent such as—we have contracts with other souls/specific life moments are preplanned for learning. Every moment matters, and we can utilize our spirit team daily using open awareness to detect their clues, ending our talk with the bigger picture and how our talk can help them.
A life with spirit guides is discussed. The experience started at the age of 5 months and continues through the life of the presenter with multiple methods of communication. Included are direct contact with his guardian angel and numerous guidance communications with his spirit guides. His spirit guides have been with him during hard times such as near death and also being on death watch when he gave up but was not allowed to die. The speaker has also been asked by his spirit guides to help others die and to live in critical moments. Hear how his awareness has grown as he has gotten older.
When Rose’s husband committed suicide at their home, she fell into a pit so deep and dark that medical professionals expressed doubts that she would ever recover.
Two years later, Rose was diagnosed with cancer, and during a “minor medical procedure,” she died, and had no heart beat for 10+ minutes.
In heaven, she was told that if she agreed to return to earth, she’d be completely restored to perfect health, physically, emotionally and mentally. As a nice bonus, her friend (who’d witnessed her death) was instantly transformed from an avowed atheist to a believer when an angel visited him while he waited in the hospital hallway.
The story of Rose’s “temporary death experience” has garnered more than 3 million views on a wide variety of video platforms, including a recently released documentary (Life to Afterlife: Death and Back 2) and the prevalent comment shared by viewers is, “This is the best NDE story that I’ve ever heard.”
We are all part of a consciousness transformation. As more and more people are experiencing NDE’s and sharing our stories, as well as the help from all of those that are experiencing a spiritual awakening without an NDE, it is helping us move our fellow humans of our global community to a higher vibrational frequency and consciousness awareness. We are going through an enlightenment process and paving the path for future illumination for all. We are all interconnected through our ancestors DNA and the invisible energetic grid that connects all that is. Our own vibrations affect all that is around us, and as we expand our own consciousness, we not only transform ourselves, but also heal our past ancestral lineage as well as future generations by creating illumination and enlightenment for past, present and future souls.
The clues we drop for ourselves prior to our lifetime on earth are uncanny. Planned during the pre-birth process, they are intended to subconsciously keep us on our chosen path of learning during a given lifetime, and over various incarnations. Join me on a thrill ride as I share awe-inspiring clues from my own and others’ journeys. Then, be inspired to do some soul-sleuthing of your own!
This channeled presentation provides experiential guidance familiar with those who have experienced NDEs that enables them to leverage their NDE into living a more balanced, peaceful, spiritual fulfilling life and fulfill the purpose of their NDE.
Dr. Mango will define the term nearing death awareness and differentiate it from the term near-death experience. Dr. Mango will share how her educational background in Metaphysics and a lifetime of STEs enabled her to provide the necessary comfort, support and validation of her dying father’s NDA experience during his final weeks in hospice care. Dr. Mango will discuss how her patient-centered compassionate care approach helped facilitate the emotional healing of their relationship, allowing her to experience shared STEs with her father and being a witness to his final transformation from atheist to believer in the afterlife. Dr. Mango will compare and contrast her compassionate care approach with that of relatives who openly shared their denial of the reality of his experiences which exacerbated his level of distress. From a chaplain’s perspective, Rev. Witting will share his observations.
In Eastern traditions the spiritually transformative awakening of Kundalini energy is considered the biological mechanism that drives both individual enlightenment and evolution toward higher consciousness. These experiences include spontaneous awakenings, e.g. in meditation, emotional crisis, and during an NDE. An interview questionnaire was used to collect descriptions of both the physical and mystical experiences associated with energetic awakenings in 300+ participants. Subjects reported the experience was mystical, involving feelings of expansion and a sense of being enveloped in light or love. 85% reported unusual flows of energy through or around the body. Transformational changes included increased sensory sensitivity, creativity, and changes in beliefs e.g., a sense of unity, and immortality. Participants reported a lack of understanding of the phenomenon by healthcare professionals, resulting in an inability to address experiencers' needs.
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