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Near-Death Newsletter..................................................November
15, 2004
www.near-death.com...............................................Vol. 03, No.
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(1) NDEs in the News
(2) Coming Attractions
(3) IANDS in the Spotlight
(4) Odds and Ends

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(1) NDEs in the News
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*** ABC News 20/20 Seeking NDErs For Documentary
SACRAMENTO, CA -------- (Near-Death Newsletter)
ABC News 20/20 is preparing yet another look at the NDE with particular
emphasis on NDErs who have experienced something like heaven or hell.
They have a particular interest in children's NDEs. To be considered for a
possible interview, email ABC producer Rob Wallace at this email adddress:
Rob.W.Wallace@...
--- Check out the ABC News 20/20 website: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/


*** Two New NDE Documentaries Now Available!
SACRAMENTO, CA -------- (Near-Death Newsletter)
VisionQuest Video has recently released 2 outstanding NDE documentaries
on a single DVD. "The Near-Death Experience: Into The Light" and "Through
The Tunnel & Beyond" is now available on Amazon. In the first documentary,
Dr. Bruce Greyson features the testimony of six people who experienced a
NDE. In the second documentary, Dr. Raymond Moody teaches the technique
for visionary encounters (ADCs) with deceased loved ones. This is a superb
documentary shot around the world at sacred sights, among them Epyhyra,
Greece where Homer described as the Oracle of the Dead. People share
in intimate detail what they have experienced in death. After studying the
rituals performed there and throughout the ages, Moody replicated the
conditions in his own studio.
--- Purchase the DVD here: http://www.alternativehealthvideo.com


*** New Movie Out: "What The Bleep Do We Know?"
NEW YORK, NY -------- (Belief.net)
Movie Review: Experiments have found that particles can appear in two
places at once. Plus the laws of the quantum domain suggest that there
is no distinction between past and future. "It's only in conscious experience
that we seem to go forward in time," explains one of the experts. "In
quantum theory, we can also go backwards in time" ... You can call it
the quantum domain or the spiritual domain. At the very least, as the
movie suggests, these domains are intimately related.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/154/story_15476_1.html
--- Visit the movie's excellent website: http://www.whatthebleep.com/
--- Read related NDE and Science research conclusions:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research08.html


*** The CIA Releases the Stargate Archive
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -------- (Soul Travel Magazine)
After nearly eight years of promises, the Central Intelligence Agency
has at long last released the bulk of the so-called "Star Gate Archive"
to the general public. At 89,901 pages, making up some 11,985
documents, the Archive is a monumental record of the US government's
foray into remote viewing under code-names such as GRILL FLAME,
CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, and others, with the most widely
known being STAR GATE. Also included are the never-before disclosed
reports of the scientific research conducted by scientists such as Harold
Puthoff, Russell Targ, Edwin May, and others at Stanford Research
Institute and at Science Applications International Corporation. It includes
actual operational remote viewing reports containing remote-viewing-derived
information by such legendary remote viewers and NDEr Joe McMoneagle.
http://www.soultravel.nu/2004/041116-stargate/index.asp
--- Order the 7-CD set of the Stargate Archive at the Remote Viewing
Instructional Services website: http://www.rviewer.com/SGArchive.html
--- Visit Joe McMoneagle's excellent website: http://www.mceagle.com/
--- Read an interview with Joe McMoneagle about his NDE:
http://www.soultravel.nu/2003/030214-mcmoneagle-1/index.asp


*** Air Force Report Calls For $7.5 Million to Study Psychic Teleportation
MCLEAN, VA -------- (USA Today)
The 88-page report also reviews a range of teleportation concepts and
experiments: • Quantum teleportation, a technique demonstrated in the
last decade that shifts the characteristics, but not the location, of
sub-atomic particles at great distances. • Wormholes, a highly theoretical
possibility whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could
rip open entrances to distant locales. • Psychokinesis, or psychic
teleportation. In support of the idea, the report cites UFO reports, Soviet
and Chinese studies of psychics and U.S. military studies of the paranormal.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-05-teleportation_x.htm
--- Note: Instantanous travel? Worm tunnels? Telepathy? Mind over matter?
This sounds like the NDE realm to me.
--- Read C.D. Rollin's article entitled: "How the New Physics is Validating NDE
Concepts": http://www.near-death.com/experiences/articles004.html


*** Happy Ever After
SURRY HILLS, AUSTRAILIA -------- (The Sunday Telegraph)
Today, our secular society doesn't accommodate those who genuinely
investigate life after death. But Emma Heathcote-James' new book,
"They Walk Among Us" (Metro Books), argues that modern technology
can now verify another dimension exists. "We now have the capacity to
understand there is a world beyond, and everything paranormal is in fact
a natural occurrence," the British author says.
http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,9353,11295416-22810,00.html
--- Read more about "They Walk Among Us" by Emma Heathcote-James:
http://www.cinephiles.net/cgi-bin/store.php?ASIN=1843580977


*** God Particle ... or God Himself?
SAN ANTONIO, TX -------- (Unknown Country)
The legendary particle that physicists thought explained the basic question
of why matter has mass, often called the "God particle," probably does not
exist, and now a few scientists are beginning to consider the idea that
what might be there is not a particle at all, but some sort of consciousness
or intelligence, that would mean that the universe does indeed have a God.
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4246
--- Read a related excerpt of Michael Talbot's discussion of Emanuel
Swedenborg's NDE visions as they relate to quantum physics in his
outstanding book entitled, "The Holographic Universe":
http://www.soultravel.nu/2004/040907-swedenborg/index.asp
--- Read more about Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060922583/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** Have You Got The Power?
LONDON, UK -------- (The Daily Mirror)
Kelly Brook's new boyfriend Billy Zane boasts that he's able to make
contact with people on the other side of the world during out-of-body
experiences. Kylie Minogue claims that she is often visited by the spirit
of her dead ex-lover Michael Hutchence. And actress Sharon Stone
started dating film producer Bill McDonald after a psychic told her they
had been together in a previous life. But you don't have to be a celebrity
to believe in the paranormal. A recent MORI poll showed that an astonishing
seven out of 10 of us are convinced that psychic powers, telepathy and
communicating with the dead are all possible. And three out of 10 of us
think that near-death experiences prove there really is an after-life.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14873065%26method=full%26siteid\
=50143%26headline=have%2dyou%2dgot%2dthe%2dpower%2d-name_page.html


*** Top Scientist Asks: Is Life All Just a Dream?
LONDON, UK -------- (Times Online)
Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that "life, the universe and
everything" may be no more than a giant computer simulation with
humans reduced to bits of software. Rees, Royal Society professor
of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible
to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire
virtual universe. The possibility that what we see around us may not
actually exist has been raised by philosophers many times dating back
to the ancient Greeks and appears repeatedly in science fiction.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1358588,00.html
--- Note: For many years I have theorized that virtual reality in cyberspace
is a representation of quantum reality (i.e., the afterlife).
--- Read the related NDE of Mellen-Thomas Benedict:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html


*** A New Life Before Dying
DENVER, CO -------- (The Denver Post)
As Rempfer prepared to die, she worried about what would happen to
her soul in the moments immediately after her death. Rempfer believed
in an afterlife, but worried about "getting to the other side," Underwood
says. Rempfer knew about the "white light" described by people who
have had near-death experiences. Yet she was scared about how she
would react when she saw it. She feared taking a wrong turn and getting
lost in the ether of some imagined purgatory. "She believed her time on
Earth was complete. She didn't want to have to come back and do it all
over again," Underwood says.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~171~2524213,00.html


*** Physicists Transfer Information Between Matter and Light
CYBERSPACE -------- (Physorg.com)
A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken
a significant step toward the development of quantum communications
systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two
different groups of atoms onto a single photon. The work, to be published
in the October 22 issue of the journal Science, represents a "building block"
that could lead to development of large-scale quantum networks.
http://www.physorg.com/news1668.html
--- Read T. Lee Baumann's article on "God at the Speed of Light":
http://www.near-death.com/physics.html


*** Point of No Return
MANILA, PHILLIPINES -------- (Sun Star)
Crossing the fragile line between life and death is an irreversible process.
It is a point of no return and a journey towards an entirely new experience.
But we are comforted by the thought that life beyond is so much better
and is in fact a perfect world, where there is neither pain nor hunger. The
testimonies of those who have had near-death experiences validated this
belief. They picture life beyond as heavenly, bright, calm and peaceful.
Perhaps, this is one big consolation for us who mourn the death of our
loved ones and a bigger inspiration for us to live our lives well, considering
that there is an "other side" to the heavenly experience.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ilo/2004/11/02/oped/atty..jobert.pe.aflorida.on\
.the.spot!.html


*** Is There a Sixth Sense?
NEW YORK, NY -------- (Psychology Today)
A handful of colleagues have paved the way for this type of investigation.
In the mid-1960s, psychologist Charles Tart, Ph.D., of the University of
California at Davis, measured skin conductance, blood volume, heart
rate, and verbal reports between two people; called a sender-receiver
pair. He, as the sender, received random electrical shocks to see if
remote receivers could detect those events. Tart found that while they
weren't consciously aware of anything out of the ordinary, the distant
receivers' physiology registered significant reactions to the shocks
he experienced.
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20000701-000034.html


*** Alternative Medicine: Loss
UNION CITY, CA -------- (The Epoch Times)
It is important for those stuck on an unpleasant image of their loved
one at or near death to replace it with images from happier times
showing the valuable qualities and resourcefulness of this person.
Some people do this automatically, but others have a hard time
getting away from macabre images of the end. Steve Andreas has
described on his Web site — www.steveandreas.com/grief02.html
a pattern that enables one to have these happier images of the loved
one as though they were still around. There are many Web sites that
have accounts of near-death experiences that can bring a new light
to those whose beliefs are very materialistic or down to earth.
One is: www.near-death.com.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-11-10/24241.html


*** Man Claims Wife's Near-Death Experience Meant to Save Marriage
LA CROSSE, WI -------- (Gazette Xtra)
A man says he threw a live electrical wire into his wife's bath hoping
a near-death experience would save their marriage. William Dahlby
said in court he was only trying to scare his wife the evening of May 9.
"At no time did I ever intend to kill or hurt my wife," he said. Still, jurors
found him guilty Wednesday of attempted first-degree intentional homicide
and intimidation of a victim.
http://www.gazetteextra.com/wiredbath102804.asp


*** Finding a `Bridge to the Afterlife'
NASHUA, NH -------- (The Telegraph)
After her 22-year-old son died, Karen Mossey wanted to still be able to
hear his voice. Through a ghost-hunting technique called EVP -
electronic voice phenomenon - Mossey believes she has found a way
to hear her son and her father, who died two years ago. About four years
ago, Mossey's son Robert Browning died after having a seizure while
fishing. He suffered from a seizure disorder after a car accident when he
was 16. "I always believed life continues after death," Mossey said.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041031/NEWS01/110310\
113/-1/news
--- For more about the EVP phenomenon visit: http://aaevp.com/


*** Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
LONDON, UK -------- (The Times Online)
Time passes slowly when we are bored or in pain; time vanishes when we
are having a good time. But there is much, much more to it, especially
when the scope of phenomena is widened to include experiences such as
déjà vu, near-death experience, and the strange memory capacities of
mathematical savants who can remember prodigious quantities of numbers.
Douwe Draaisma, a historian of psychology based in the Netherlands, has
set out to report on a medley of scientific accounts of memory and experienced
time with an eye for the bizarre.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1331297,00.html
--- See related NDE and Time research conclusions:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research13.html


*** Parents' Directness Helps Sick Child Deal With Death
MILWAUKEE, WI -------- (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The decision to talk to a sick child about death is never easy. Many
parents struggle to do what's right, but often wonder if they've made the
best choice. Though a Swedish study released in September found parents
who choose to talk to their children have no regrets, it also raises another,
more basic question that all families of children with cancer face: How will
our family handle our child's cancer diagnosis? "Nessa and I would talk
about death and she would ask me things like, `What's heaven like?' or
`Can I fly up there?'" Jensema said. "I was very careful telling her no one
knew for sure what heaven was like - again the honesty issue - but I told
her I often pictured it as the Garden of Eden - beautiful flowers, a river
flowing, sunshine always."
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/10194644.htm


*** Brain Cells in a Dish Fly Fighter Plane
LONDON, UK -------- (NewScientist.com)
An array of rat brain cells has successfully flown a virtual F-22 fighter jet.
The cells could one day become a more sophisticated replacement for
the computers that control uncrewed aerial vehicles or, in the nearer future,
form a test-bed for drugs against brain diseases such as epilepsy.
Enzymes were used to extract neurons from the motor cortex of mature
rat embryos and cells were then seeded onto a grid of gold electrodes
patterned on a glass Petri dish. The cells grew microscopic interconnections,
turning them into a "live computation device", explains Thomas DeMarse,
a biomedical engineer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, who
carried out the research.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996573
--- Read a related archive article, "Brain Implants 'Read' Monkey Minds".
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996127


*** Ancient Star Dust May Point to Human Origins
WASHINGTON DC -------- (Reuters)
Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists
to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly
have helped bring about human evolution. Gunther Korschinek and
colleagues at the Technical University of Munich in Germany reported on
Wednesday they found debris from an exploding supernova that could have
changed the climate on Earth around the time that humanity's ancestors first
began to walk.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6647401&se\
ction=news
--- Read a related article about NDEr Edgar Cayce and his revelations
about human origins: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce03.html


*** Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099
WASHINGTON DC -------- (National Geographic News)
Scientists have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is
melting so rapidly that much of it could be gone by the end of the century.
The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while
low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea
levels. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was released yesterday.
It will be discussed by the Arctic Council (the governments of Canada,
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden,
and the U.S., as well as six indigenous-peoples organizations) at a
meeting in Iceland today.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1109_041109_polar_ice.html
--- See related NDE prophecies concerning the catastrophic rise of the
ocean level: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research32.html


*** Feds Push Challenge to Assisted Suicide Law
PORTLAND, OR --- (The Oregonian)
Supporters of Oregon's law say they don't expect the U.S. Supreme
Court to take up the case based on federal drug rules. Oregon's
one-of-a-kind law allowing doctor-assisted suicide moved toward the
ultimate legal test Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Justice asked
the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that upheld the law.
http://www.deathwithdignity.org/fss/news/or.11.10.04.asp
Protect your right to die with dignity by taking action here:
http://capwiz.com/endoflifechoices/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6626946
Read related articles at the NDE and Suicide section:
http://www.near-death.com/suicide.html


*** Archive of NDEs in the News
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(2) 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"
P.M.H. Atwater's wonderful testimony of her three NDEs will soon be
profiled on this website. For years, I mistakenly overlooked her testimony
because I believed that I had read her NDE testimony already. Just recently
have I read her testimony in its entirety and was astounded by what I read.
Rarely does NDE testimony move me to the point of tears, but Dr. Atwater's
testimony did. I consider it one of the very best - if not the best - I have
ever read.


*** "Scientific Proof of the Existence of God: An Interview with Amit Goswami"
by Craig Hamilton
Dr. Goswami is a professor of physics at the University of Oregon and a
member of its Institute of Theoretical Science. Dr. Goswami is part of a
growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into
the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly
inexplicable findings of their experiments and to validate their intuitions
about
the existence of a spiritual dimension of life. The culmination of Goswami's
own work is his book: "The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates
the Material World."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874777984/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** "SynchroFile: Amazing Personal Encounters With Synchronicity And
Other Strange Phenomena" by Raymond E. Fowler
Dr. Kenneth Ring wrote that Fowler's researched book on the NDE and UFO
experiences "may well have deciphered the ultimate nature and meaning" of
these baffling phenomena. In his book "SynchroFile," Fowler applies the
same kind of meticulous research into synchronistic experiences that permeate
his life. This material is the result of his research into Jungian psychology,
the
New Physics and his study of a ten-year diary of personal and family
experiences of amazing coincidences and paranormal experiences. His
research lead to the incredulous conclusion that time is an illusion and that
reports of synchronicity, ghosts, out-of-body and near-death experiences, UFOs,
precognition, telepathy, and other extrasensory experiences are all individual
expressions of one intelligent-like meta-phenomenon. An excerpt is coming soon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595315895/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20


*** "The Significance of the Near-Death Experience in Western Cultural
Traditions" by Alan Pew
Alan's master's thesis shows the significance by identifying and analyzing
works in the fields of Western fictional literature, art, film and religion
which
contain the NDE as the central theme. This them has been a part of the
literary, artistic and religious foundations of Western cultural traditions
since
early antiquity. The significant and wide-ranging influence of the NDE on
these traditions is evidenced by the presence of the motif throughout the
various genres within each. Examples include some of the most revered
classics of Western civilization. At least one researcher has suggested that
the root of some of these great works may be the result of "NDE-type insights"
experienced by recognized creative geniuses like Dickens, Wilder and Dante.


*** Reverend G. Gordon Allen's "The "Day I Died"
You may have seen the "Day I Died" broadcast in the UK and throughout
Europe on BBC television. The television presentation was also broadcast
across North America on cable systems and the Learning Channel. The
broadcast featured Rev Dr. G. Gordon Allen and his NDE testimony.

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