"From an endless dream we have come.
In an endless dream we are living.
To an endless dream we shall return." - Kushi

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Near-Death Newsletter May 1, 2004
www.near-death.com Vol. 03, No. 05, Ed. 01
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Table of Contents
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(1) NDEs in the news
(2) Notes from the webmaster
(3) What's new on near-death.com
(4) Discussion on the NDE
(5) Q & A with Dr. PMH Atwater
(6) Books on the NDE
(7) Websites on the NDE
(8) Support the search for the afterlife
(8) Odds and ends

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(1) NDEs in the news
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*** Is There Life After Death?
PHILADELPHIA, PA - (NBC Channel 10 News)
After the 7-year-old girl was resuscitated, she started drawing
pictures. "What she described to me was not a hallucination.
It was a blow-by-blow accurate description of her own resuscitation,
but from a bird's eye point of view," said Dr. Morse.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3253894/detail.html


*** Between life and death
LUBBOCK, TX - (University Daily)
"It wasn't your conventional near-death experience," he said,
"with the light at the end of the tunnel and the family member
spirit guide." Smith said the only "conventional" aspect he
can think of in relation to his experience is the feeling he was
connected to his body by a kite string."
http://www.universitydaily.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/08/4074c6eb0404f


*** Following a Bright Light to a Calmer Tomorrow
SPARTANBURG, SC - (Herald Journal)
Carlene Huesgen is not afraid of death, she says. Not since she
felt herself slip from her body, float to a hospital ceiling and move
toward a bright light three decades ago. "I feel assured that there
is life after death," said Ms. Huesgen, 61, who lives in Tucson.
"There really isn't such a thing as dying."
http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20040413/ZNYT04/404130420/1051/NEWS01


*** Tales from the other side: Woman shares prophecies
in near-death society
LEWISVILLE, TX - (Coppell Gazette)
"I went out to see what she wanted, and I looked up and the angels
were pulling the clouds apart," Loter said. "Jesus came out and I
wanted to see his face, but it was just a light. I said to him, 'I'm
not ready.' I felt love - so much more than romantically, when you
fall in love," she said. "In that moment I felt integrated, I became
a different person. After that...I'm not religious, but I wanted to
go help people."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11362486&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=5281\
93&rfi=6


*** Final value of all spirituality is what we are and what we do
TORONTO, CANADA - (Toronto Star)
"For example, the would-be debunkers of the near-death experiences
so familiar to everyone and witnessed to by millions of people
everywhere of all religions and of none, never cease to amaze me with
the lengths to which they're prepared to go in their debunking
attempts."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T\
ype1&c=Article&cid=1081420330687&call_pageid=991479973472&col=991929131147


*** The long road to justice
LONDON, UK - (footymad.net)
Peter passed out and found himself placed where several of the dead
had been laid by the back wall of the terrace. People around him
thought he was dead. "I had what is called a near-death experience.
The last thought I had before passing out was that I was lifting
myself up above the crowd. I think I was just tilting my head to get
more air, but I was looking down from the clouds on the crowd below
and there is a perfect circle of people all closing in on me."
http://www.footymad.net/leagues/loadfnws.asp?id=154049&teamno=342

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(2) Notes from the webmaster
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Kevin Williams writes: "The NDE of Mary Magdalene"

The popularity of the book "The Da Vinci Code" led me to create
this profile of Mary Magdalene. The Church has given her the title
of "the apostle to the apostles" because of her status as the first
disciple to see the risen Christ. The controversy concerns evidence
which reveals her to be "the disciple whom Jesus loved", the true
author of the Gospel of John, and the wife of Jesus Christ. I also
document the NDE attributed to her in a little known document
associated with the early Christians described in the ancient texts
discovered in 1945. [Read more at the link below]
http://www.near-death.com/newsletters/notes/notes003.html

Peace and Light,
Kevin Williams


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(3) What's new on near-death.com
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The following are the latest additions to near-death.com:

*** Archive of Near-Death Experiences in the News
All the major news articles concerning the NDE from 1995 to current
are archived here.
http://home.comcast.net/~neardeath/


*** The NDE and the Out-of-Body Experience
Three of the most exceptional out-of-body experiences from three
NDEs are profiled. Veridical out-of-body examples are provided as
well as evidence of consciousness expansion outside of the body.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research11.html


*** Real events are witnessed far away from their body
Dr. Raymond Moody's veridical (verified) near-death experiences
from his book "Life After Life" is profiled. This web page is part of
the NDE evidence for the existence of a transcendental consciousness
and survival of consciousness after death.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence02.html


*** What's New page
All the recent additions to this website are also listed on the
"What's New" page on my website.
http://www.near-death.com/whatsnew.html


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(4) Articles on the NDE
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*** Grieving from the loss of a loved one
This is an article I wrote for a national non-profit grief
organization. I discuss the evidence for life after death; what is it
like to die; what experiencers say about God, heaven, and religion;
how a person can contact their loved one on the Other Side through
dreams, prayer, meditation, after-death communications, and a
psychic; how a person can best cope with grief and loss.
http://www.near-death.com/articles/0021.html


*** Search NDE Articles archive
http://www.near-death.com/articles.html


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(5) Q and A with Dr. P.M.H. Atwater
An in-depth look at the near-death phenomenon
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In this section of the newsletter, PMH Atwater will answer a
question submitted to her from subscribers to this newsletter. If
you have a question that you would like her to answer for this
column, just email your question to me at:
webmaster@... for consideration. 


P.M.H. Atwater's latest books are:

"The New Children and Near-Death Experiences"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1591430208/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

"We Live Forever: The Real Truth About Death"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0876044925/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

Question: "Please take a look at these atheism pages -
www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/ghost. Here, Adam describes the
amazing story of how your personality can dramatically alter after
a certain brain disease or terrible accident. He even uses this fact
as evidence that God does not exist. But as I disagree with him,
I'll not go into detail but I haveanother question.

"As you explained a few months ago in the near-death newsletter,
we can talk about our spirit, soul, and mind. Spirit = divine life
energy, our 'life fuel.' Soul = our personality, or just the pure
core of ourself? If it is just the pure core of our being, it means
that we are all the same, and after death, we don't have our
personality and character anymore. We will be just identical balls,
clones of the same divine energy.

"This is the conclusion I draw, reading the amazing and true story
from the website of ebonmusings. Until today, I can be a loving
husband and a social, intelligent business man. Tomorrow I can be
a nervous, disoriented and more violent man who doesn't care about
his wife anymore. This is absolutely stunning, a scary and
embarassing idea that this can happen any time!

"I understand that after brain damage, the interface between soul and
behavior is disturbed. But you also can say, if I would have a much
bigger, more perfect brain, I would have been much more clever and
with more abilities.

"So, who are you and who am I really? Thanks for answering." - Arjan

Answer: "You've asked a big question, one that no one can really
answer in an evidential way except to present data and discoveries
that suggest that there is more to us than our body and our
personality. Nonetheless, I will try.

"Millions of near-death experiencers, testimony from deathbeds,
children who remember past lives, and from various other sources
- all of this - and it is an impressive collection of voices - says
that we are not our bodies nor are we our personalities. We are
divine beings, a soul, currently resident in human form to learn and
grow, help others, and make the world a better place for our being
here. We can check the verdical reports from these people, what they
saw in the out-of-body component of their experience, what they
were told from beings on the other side of death's curtain that
turned out to be accurate (information they could not possibly have
known before), but we cannot check nor verify their philosophical
statements, at least not with our mind. Only our heart can do that ...
[Read more here: http://www.near-death.com/newsletters/atwater/ ]

P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/
http://www.near-death.com/atwater.html
Marketplace (a public service):
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/rosen.html


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(6) Books on the NDE
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*** The NDE Online Store includes NDE books, videos, movies,
documentaries, magazines, and other media.
http://associatesshop.filzhut.de/shop/index.php?ID=62ed2010a2e86954f2f1f2020e105\
6af


*** Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression
by Michael Newton - Over many years, Dr. Newton developed his
own intensive age regression techniques in order to effectively take
hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more
meaningful soul experience between lives. With his blockbuster
books "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls," Newton is considered
to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death
through the use of spiritual hypnotic regression. In this long awaited
follow-up book, Newton now trains other advanced hypnotherapists
in his techniques which gave him the international reputation for
being the regressionist who has mapped out much of our life in heaven
between reincarnations.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738704652/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** Experiencing the Next World Now - by Michael Grosso
From the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning
report on the evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the
world is nothing when compared to actual experience with the place
beyond. This book takes the reader to the next level -- and offers a
more personal kind of journey. If there is a "next world," it must be
nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our own minds.
Philosopher Michael Grosso shows us how to open these passages -- or
at least peek through a keyhole -- and glimpse what may lie beyond.
This is the guidebook for an adventure that nobody can refuse.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743471059/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** If Morning Never Comes - by Bill Vandenbush
This is the powerful story of Bill VandenBush's NDE during combat
in Vietnam and how it affected his life. A tragedy of war nearly
destroyed his life, but a spiritual force intervened and guided him
on an incredible lifelong journey. Learn how the Spirit taught him to
overcome overwhelming odds and find his purpose in life. Bill shares
the insights and lessons learned from his excursion into a dimension
of enlightenment, and his return form the hell of combat.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0972161341/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** Beyond Death: Empirical Evidence of the Human Soul
by Timothy Owe - In the wake of the revolution of quantum physics,
an increasing number of scientists have acknowledged the very real
possibility of the existence of spirit or soul. Beyond Death sets out
to prove the existence of spirit and its survival after death. Mind-
matter interaction, research into healing and remote viewing,
consciousness at the cellular level, near-death experiences and
biological evidence of reincarnation are among the many perspectives
from which this crucial subject is explored.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561841617/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** A Christian Book of the Dead: Accompanying Their Journey
After Death - by Margarete Van Den Brink, Hans Stolp, Margarete
Den Brink - What happens when you die? If there is life beyond
death, what paths open up? And how do the living stay connected
with their loved ones? While many people have near-death experiences
of the world of Light, others recount stories of their profound
encounters with deceased friends and family. The authors draw on
personal experiences to describe the seven steps on the way into the
world of Light.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1903458315/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


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(7) Websites on the NDE
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IANDS is the premier research organization in the field of
near-death studies. If you haven't yet joined this wonderful
organization, I encourage you to join online at their membership
page. There are many benefits for being a member. Their quarterly
newsletter Vital Signs is alone worth becoming a member.

Home page: http://www.iands.org
Join IANDS: https://www.iands.org/joincard.html

JUNE 24 - 26, 2004 - IANDS Annual Conference
Evanston, IL (near Chicago) at the Best Western
Check out the IANDS Conference information page.
http://www.iands.org/conf.html


*** Pam Kircher's website
Pam is a family physician and hospice doctor, an expert on NDEs,
a near-death experiencer, and the author of the book "Love is the
Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares her Experience of Near-death and Dying."
Her website has articles on the NDE, hospice and end-of-life issues.
http://www.pamkircher.com/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0943914760/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** Spiritual Pre-Existence: The Pre-Birth Experience
This website provides information regarding pre-birth experiences
such as pre-birth memories and pre-birth communication. The website
also contains cases of near-death experiences, after-death
communication, reincarnation, and other similar phenomenon, but it is
the main purpose of the website to study specifically the soul's
existence and spiritual life before physical birth.
http://prebirthexperience.com/


*** Death is an illusion
This website provides evidence for survival as well as information
about the philosophy and work of the Danish 20th century intuitive
and mystic Martinus. Dr. Ken Ring had this to say about the
man: "Martinus' work as a whole offers readers a complete "world
picture" that accurately forecast the development of the kind of
spiritual science that has lately come into being. As such, his so-
called "Third Testament" may prove to be the definite spiritual
vision of our age."
http://www.deathisanillusion.com/


*** Near-Death Dialogues
The webmaster of this site is a near-death experiencer who has some
very interesting information on the NDE on his website. This comment
on his site stood out to me: "I've never been completely satisfied
with the term Near Death Experience. It's always felt like being a
"little bit pregnant" and it seems to me one either is or isn't…just
abouts don't count." I couldn't agree more.
http://www.neardeathdialogues.com/


*** If you know of any new NDE website or web article you would
like to see profiled, email to me the address of the website at:
webmaster@...


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