"He who understands nature walks close with God." - Edgar Cayce

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Near-Death Newsletter October 15, 2004
www.near-death.com Vol. 03, No. 10, Ed. 02
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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) Coming attractions
(5) Odds and ends

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(1) NDEs in the News
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*** Reverend George Rodonaia Passes Away
HOUSTON, TX -- (Near-Death Newsletter)
Natia Rodonaia-Peleaez, the daughter of Rev. George Rodonaia,
has informed me that George passed away on October 12, 2004
due to heart failure. He suffered a massive heart attack in July and
it was thought that he had recovered. George was on his way to fly
to Dallas to tape an interview with Trinity Broadcasting about his
NDE when he had a final heart attack and God called him Home.
Natia would like to thank everyone who has shown an interest in
him and his NDE testimony. He will be deeply missed. George is
survived by his wife Nino, his daughter Natia, his son Greg, his
son-in-law Martin, his grandson Levani, and his mother-in-law
Nadia. George Rodonaia's NDE is one of the most profound on
record. He was dead for three days but revived during his autopsy.
His NDE involved one of the most interesting examples of verified
perception while out of the body.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence10.html


*** Vivid Dream Leads Searchers To Missing Girl
SEATTLE, WA -- (The Star)
Sha Nohr, a church member and mother of a friend of Hatch's, said
she had dreams of a wooded area and heard the message "Keep
going, keep going". On Sunday morning, Nohr and her daughter
drove to the area where the crash occurred, praying along the way.
"I just thought, 'Let her speak out to us'." Nohr told The Seattle
Times. Something drew her to stop and clamber over a concrete barrier
and more than 30m down a steep, densely vegetated embankment,
where she barely managed to spot the wrecked car in some trees.
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=2259296


*** Near-Death Patients Tell Nurse of Lights and Jesus-like Figure
LONDON, UK -- (icWales)
She said, "What I found is incredible. One man, whose life signs
completely went, said he floated above his body and saw everything.
"He described our attempts to revive him in perfect detail, even
talking about a doctor who came in while off-duty then left. "The
patient's eyes were not even open when this happened and he
was not only unconscious he was clinically dead.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=14726819&method=fu\
ll&siteid=50082&headline=near-death-patients-tell-nurse-of-lights-and-jesus-like\
-figure-name_page.html


*** Near-Death Drug Experience Changes German Director's Life
BERLIN, GERMANY -- (AFP)
Cult German film maker Wim Wenders said that a near-fatal experience
with drugs when he was a student completely changed his view of life
and death ... "It really changes you, to go right up to that barrier
or one step over it," he said, describing the experience as
wonderful. "Everything became unbelievably bright and white. Light.
The fear went away and it was wonderful," Wenders said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041007/lf_afp/afplifestyle_\
germany_041007144004


*** Surfer Dies; Lifeguards Bring Him Back To Life
SAN DIEGO, CA -- (TheSanDiegoChannel.com)
Ledwig said he had an out-of-body experience. "The first thing I
remember -- the only thing I remember after keeling over in the
surf -- is waking up, floating on the ceiling of the rescue
helicopter and looking down on myself. It was totally quiet," Ledwig
said. Ledwig is now healthy and has a new appreciation for his life
and the people who saved it. "I'm happy to be alive again," he told
Sacht and Bucher.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20041014/lo_kgtv/2411553


*** Could This Be A Picture From Beyond Death?
CAMP VERDE, AZ -- (PRWEB)
"Even in the bitter cold that reached 60 below and more, I was drawn
to deep meditation. I would be `gone' for hours, even days at
a time. When I came back to body awareness on a few occasions, my
body would not respond and it smelled of decomposition; I had to
willfully cram my awareness back into it. It was during this period
that I experienced the multitude of realms and states of being that
most people would call death. I perceived an `afterlife' that
was full of not only my Christian expectations, but my Buddhist and
Hindu belief structures as well."
Visit Devi Delavie's website:
http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=6649


*** Archive of NDEs in the News
Read all the major news articles concerning the NDE and related
phenomenon from 1995 to current. This is a permanent archive to
ensure that these news articles will always be available on the
internet.
http://neardeath.home.comcast.net


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(2) Notes from the Webmaster
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Kevin Williams writes:

Sorry for the short newsletter. I am getting over the flu.
I will be bringing new NDEs for the Forum next month.
Thanks.


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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 website:

*** The NDE and Mental Telepathy
Several years ago, I evaluated 50 NDEs on my website and found
that 65% of them contained a reference to mental telepathy. In the
physical world, you can say something while thinking something
entirely different. This is not possible in the realm where thoughts
are deeds and where we truly are what we think. Communication
in the NDE realm is by telepathy and travel is by thought. It is
virtually impossible in the NDE realm to communicate anything but
what you really think. This explains why so many NDErs report that
there are no secrets there. You cannot hide who you really are
inside. This is why St. Teresa of Avila once said, "After you die,
you wear what you are." Examples of mental telepathy during NDEs are
presented on this page. This page is not yet finished and will be an
on-going project of mine until I cover all examples on my website.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research26.html


*** The NDE and Homecoming
Several years ago, I evaluated 50 NDEs on my website and found
that 21% of them described their NDE in terms of a "homecoming."
The concept of death as a "homecoming" appears frequently in NDE
reports and in other phenomenon such as deathbed visions and
after-death communications. In this sense, death is very much like
birth whereas people go through a tunnel connected to an umbilical
(silver cord in the case of death) which becomes severed and then
where we are received by loved ones. Death is frequently described
as "going home" to our true origins. This web page will present the
many examples of the homecoming motif which appears in NDEs.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research30.html


*** The NDE and Told Not Ready
One of the most remarkable aspects of NDEs is the large percentage
of people who are told "You are not ready" or "It is not time for
you to die" or some variation of this. When I evaluated 50 of the
NDEs on my website, I found that 46% of them involved the
experiencer being told this. This is remarkable because if the NDE
was merely "mental flatulence" produced by the brain as so many
skeptics claim, how do they explain using brain chemicals only how
so many experiencers are told the same thing? Suppose 46% of all
experiencers are told "Seize the day" instead of "It's not your
time." Would it be any more remarkable? I don't think so. What about
if 46% of experiencers are told "Did you have fun?" Such a
remark is just as cryptic as being told "It's not time." And it
should be apparent that brain chemistry cannot explain it.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research31.html


*** The NDE and Guides
There is a wealth of information from many NDEs on my website
concerning spirit guides and this web page will contain as much
as possible on the subject. This page is not yet finished and will
be an on-going project of mine until I cover all examples on my
website.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research34.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) Coming Attractions
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The following articles are coming soon in the next newsletter
and/or following editions:


*** Q and A with Dr. PMH Atwater
PMH Atwater will answer questions submitted to her from
subscribers to this newsletter. Her latest books are entitled
We Live Forever: The Real Truth About Death and The New Children
and Near-Death Experiences. If you have a question which you
would like her to answer for this column, just email your
question to Kevin Williams at webmaster@... for
consideration. For more information about Dr. Atwater's
contribution to near-death studies, download her press kit here:
http://www.near-death.com/atwater.html


*** P.M.H. Atwater's "I Died Three Times"
I recently experienced a remarkable synchronistic event recently
when I was doing a regular MEGA-Search for NDE information
on the internet. I was going through my search results and
scanned through NDE testimony and read the ones I found
interesting. I found one particular NDE testimony which was
lengthy and very interesting. As I continued to read it, I realized
that this was an outstanding testimony which was filled with
remarkable insights. I come across such NDE testimonies
once in a great while. I didn't know who the woman was that
wrote what I was reading at that time, but she was describing
her NDE in a remarkably eloquent and very personal and
touching manner. It was so touching that I came very close to
tears. It was so remarkable. I continued reading and wondered
what this woman's name was. But I continued to read because
I decided I would find out after I read all of it. Then toward the
end of her testimony, I read the name "Phyllis". Phyllis is my
beloved mother's name. But it is also the name of P.M.H. Atwater.
So, when I saw the name I immediately realized that this was
probably P.H.H. Atwater's NDE. What was so surprising to me
was that I thought I had read her NDE testimony! If I did, it was
so long ago that I had forgotten about it. All I knew is that I
thought I knew all about P.M.H's NDEs but I obviously must have read
only a summary of it. Anyway, I had just read perhaps the best
NDE testimony I have ever read and it was P.M.H.'s! All these
years I have been seeking such NDEs to profile on my website
and Atwater's testimony should have been on my website many
years ago. I am not sure what it all means; but I plan to create
a wonderful series of web pages for people to read her outstanding
testimony.


*** More NDE Research Conclusions
The following research conclusions topics are coming soon:
Soul & Spirit, Told not ready, Spirit guides, Telepathy, Homecoming,
Animals, Art, and Angels.

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