"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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Near-Death Newsletter...........................................January 15, 2005
www.near-death.com ...................................Vol. 04, No. 01, Ed. 02
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Table of Contents
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(1)....NDEs in the News
(2)....Notes from the Webmaster
(3)....Books on the NDE
(4)....IANDS in the Spotlight
(5)....Odds and Ends

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(1)....NDEs in the News
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News From P.M.H. Atwater
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CHARLOTTSVILLE, VIRGINIA ----- (P.M.H. Atwater'a Website)
*** The Sacred Journey Caribbean Cruise date has been moved up to
September 18-26, 2005. Click on the link provided for more information
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Download the PDF: http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/cruise/SacredCruise.pdf

*** Advance orders available for Atwater's new book "The New Children
and The Fifth World, Prophecy and Evolution," due for release August
2005. Click on the link provided for more information:
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/c5pe.html

*** "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences" is now
out-of-print. The last remaining copies are available at a special discounted
website price and personally autographed.
Read more about "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences":
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/cig.html
Get your copy here: http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/CigOrd.html

*** Have you witnessed a religious apparition? Perhaps of Jesus, Mary,
Moses, etc? Irene Blinston of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in
Palo Alto, California is conducting a research project on apparitions. If you
are
25 years old or older, and you experienced one or more religious apparitional
encounters before the age of 13 years old, please visit her website for more
information on how you can participate in her study:
http://www.apparition-research.com/

*** Have you seen the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" yet?
The sum of what comes from near-death experiences, death-bed visions,
spiritual transformations, and from the depths of the new sciences and
what has been discovered about the universe, is embraced in this film - and
in a manner you can grasp. The DVD is scheduled for release Spring, 2005,
and you can pre-order it at the 20th Century Fox online store:
http://www.foxhome.com/whatthebleep/
Visit the "What The Bleep Do We Know" website: http://www.whatthebleep.com/

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NDE Participants Sought For Research on the Effects of NDEs on Marriage
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DENTON, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS ----- (Near-Death Newsletter)
A reseacher named Rozan Christian is exploring the effects of a
potentially life-changing event on marriage, including a NDE, on one of the
martial partners. If you are married or divorced, and during that marriage you
or your spouse experienced a potentially life-changing event, your
participation in this study is welcomed. Your involvement would require less
than one hour in the comfort of your own home or other location of your
choosing to complete several brief questionnaires regarding your experience
and marriage. Your participation would remain confidential. The types of
life-changing events of interest to the study include the following: a NDE, the
birth of a child, a move to a new home, a career change, a significant change
in financial status, or the death of a loved one. If any of these apply to you
and
your spouse, your participation in this study is welcomed. If you are interested
in participating, please contact Rozan Christian via e-mail at rozanc@...
or telephone at 972-741-8387.
http://www.iands.org/msgboards/messages/1625/104744.html?1106061464

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White Noise: More Fact than Fiction
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND ----- (PRWeb)
When asked about her near-death experience during a brutal attack by the
Rte 29 Corridor Rapist, Sandi recalls the event with remarkable clarity.
"One moment I was fighting him off and the next I remember thinking,
'Oh wow, I'm dead'. I felt exactly the same as I always did, except I had
no body. It felt wonderful and free. But as I saw my lifeless body and
watched my assailant strangling me; I knew he had not meant to kill me ...
Even though he was wearing stocking mask From the other side, I saw his
face," states Athey. "I heard God say, 'You must go back, you have work
to do' So I went back into my body and started fighting for my life."
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw197203.htm
*** Visit Sandi Athey's website: http://www.psychicsandi.com/

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Varied Readings on Arizona Ppsychic
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TUSCON, ARIZONA ----- (The Arizona Star)
"There is no question this is not a fraud - some people really can do
this, and Allison is one of them," said psychology professor Gary E.
Schwartz, who directs the UA's Human Energy Systems Laboratory
where the experiments with Dubois and other well-known mediums -
including John Edward of TV's "Crossing Over" fame - have been conducted.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/57187.php
*** Visit Allison Dubois' website: http://www.allisondubois.com/
*** Visit Dr. Gary Schwart's research website: http://veritas.arizona.edu/

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Hit Maker of the 1950s Sees Her Star Shine Once Again
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HAVERHILL, NEW HAMPSHIRE ----- (Concord Monitor Online)
I had a near-death experience after my children were in college.
(I had) a malignant growth on my parathyroid gland - which is right
next to the vocal chords. (I was unconscious, and) there was a
meadow, and a maypole surrounded by girls dancing, in long, white
dresses. They stopped dancing, and one of them turned around to
face me. It was my mother, and she was waving at me. It was
glorious, and it was beautiful, and then I heard one of the doctors
say, "She's comatose," and I came to..."
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050102/REPOSITORY/501\
020379/1001/NEWS01

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Visions of Mum While Under 13-Tonne Bus
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QUEENSLAND, AUSTRAILIA ----- (The Sunday Mail)
After the 13-tonne bus he was working on fell on top of him, Mr
Culvert clinically died four times. Yesterday the 54-year-old wept as
he remembered seeing a vision of his recently dead mother after the
bus fell on him. "I saw my mum while I was under the bus," Mr Calvert
said. "I really knew something was wrong then. "She was standing
there looking 20 years younger, wearing a floral dress, but the funny
thing was she didn't have any legs and she was shaking her finger
at me saying, "Not yet, not yet."
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,11869368%255E421,0\
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Doctor Explores Belief of Rebirth in Judaism
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MIAMI, FLORIDA ----- (The Miami Herald)
How does a Yale-educated doctor trained in forensic psychiatry become
convinced he was a Babylonian priest in a former life? By conducting
research, evaluating data and approaching results with an open mind,
says Dr. Brian Weiss, a Miami-based psychiatrist and the nation's
foremost practitioner of past-life regression therapy ... Among Orthodox
Jews, particularly the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews who kept much of
the mystical tradition alive while other sects modernized, belief in
reincarnation has persisted, said Rabbi Yonassan Gershom,
author of Jewish Tales of Reincarnation. ''The majority of Reform Jews
are completely unaware that Judaism has teachings about reincarnation,''
he said. ``From the Hasidic standpoint, if you're back here on earth it's
because you didn't do it right the first time.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/10642842.htm?1c
*** Read Dr. Brian Weiss' "Same Soul, Many Bodies":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743264339/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Read Rabbi Gershom's "Jewish Tales of Reincarnation":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765760835/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

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Perspective Gained Through Life Trials
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PROVO, UTAH ----- (BYU NewsNet)
"Technically I was gone, but then I got sent back," he said. "My
cardiologist calls me Elder Lazarus. To this day etched indelibly in my
soul are the words: `Your work is not yet finished.'" He went on to say
that it was both a challenge and a blessing of not knowing why he was
sent back as well as how much time he had left. It had given him a
heightened awareness to everything in life. "You may be asking, `What
does this have to do with me?' Elder Pace said. "To each of you I say,
your work is not yet finished either, and I regret to inform you that you
don't know how much time you've got left."
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/53936

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A Talk With "Hello From Heaven!" Author
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TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA ----- (Tallahassee Democrat)
One testimonial in "Hello From Heaven!" tells of a woman who was sexually
abused as a child by her alcoholic uncle. She, too, became addicted to
alcohol and drugs and realized that to heal herself, she needed to make
peace with her uncle, so she wrote him a letter telling him she forgave him.
She heard nothing for years, then one night she awoke and saw her uncle
and Jesus next to her bed. "Do you hold anything against this man," Jesus
asked. She told him no. Then, she reported, Jesus turned to her uncle and
said. "Neither do I hold anything against him." A couple of days later, she
received a letter from her mother that her uncle had died.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/living/health/10592319.htm
*** Read the Guggenheim's ADC book "Hello From Heaven":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553576348/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Visit Bill & Judy Guggenheim's website: http://www.after-death.com/

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Life After Death
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BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND ----- (The Sunday Mail)
Sitting alone with the body of her mother who had just died, Olivia
Newton-John felt "an incredible presence" in the room. "It was an energy
I'd never felt before," the singer says. Then, recalling a conversation the
pair had some time earlier, she asked her mum to send a signal that she
was OK wherever she now was. "Make the candles move, or flicker, or
something," Newton-John urged. Some small candles in the room moved
a little, enough to reassure her. But then she was called to the living room
where family and friends were gathered. "You'll never believe what happened,"
they said. A candle in that room had just exploded with a fizzing sound right
under the picture of Newton-John's mother.
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,11947522%255E5422,\
00.html
*** Read Mike Agostini's ADC book "The Dying Experience and Learning
How To Live":
http://www.dymocks.com.au/Search/Search.asp?Author=AGOSTINI%20MIKE

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Scientist Claims That Brains Constructed Out of Tinkertoys Could Be
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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK ----- (The Edge)
If we believe that consciousness is the result of patterns of neurons
in the brain, our thoughts, emotions, and memories could be replicated
in moving assemblies of Tinkertoys ... If our thoughts and consciousness
do not depend on the actual substances in our brains but rather on the
structures, patterns, and relationships between parts, then Tinkertoy minds
could think. If you could make a copy of your brain with the same structure
but using different materials, the copy would think it was you. This seemingly
materialistic approach to mind does not diminish the hope of an afterlife, of
transcendence, of communion with entities from parallel universes, or even
of God. Even Tinkertoy minds can dream, seek salvation and bliss—and pray.
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_8.html#pickover

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Humans Are Mere Simulations Actually Living in a Computerized Version
of the World
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM ----- (Channel 4)
All life on Earth is nothing more than an elaborate facade created by
super-intelligent beings. Humans now exist in a computerized version
of the world – a simulation that keeps us happy, while our powers are
drained by our creators for use as fuel in their campaign for dominance
in the "real" world. This is the premise of the cult sci-fi thriller "The
Matrix."
"The simulation hypothesis, that we are currently living in a computer
simulation, should be understood literally, it's not just in a metaphorical
sense whereby one could view the universe as a simulation, but literally
we would be living in a simulation created by some advanced civilization
in a computer they built in their universe. And everything we see and our
brains themselves would just be parts of this simulation." Oxford University
philosopher Dr Nick Bostrom echoes the thoughts of sci-fi writers and
scientists alike. The simulation hypothesis is not sci-fi, it's serious academic
thought.
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/W/what_we_still_dont_know/arewereal.h\
tml
*** Read about the NDE "Matrix":
http://www.google.com/custom?q=matrix&cof=AH%3Acenter%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nea\
r-death.com%3BAWFID%3A3d9f4e23e0502070%3B&domains=near-death.com&sitesearch=near\
-death.com&sa=++Search++
*** Also here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22near-death%22+matrix&btnG=Google+Search

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Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds
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MADISON, WISCONSIN ----- (Washington Post)
Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something
that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries:
Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the
brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness. Those
transformed states have traditionally been understood in transcendent
terms, as something outside the world of physical measurement and
objective evaluation. But over the past few years, researchers at the
University of Wisconsin working with Tibetan monks have been able to
translate those mental experiences into the scientific language of
high-frequency gamma waves and brain synchrony, or coordination.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=8720&article=Meditation+Gives+Brain+a\
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Devices Controlled By Thought Move Closer
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (PhysicsWeb)
Scientists in the US have shown that "electrocorticographic" signals from
the brain can be used to manipulate an external device. The techniques
developed by Daniel Moran of Washington University in St Louis, Eric
Leuthardt from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, also in St Louis, and
colleagues could ultimately lead to artificial limbs that can be controlled
by thought alone.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/1/9/1

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Dead Caught Communicating on Tape
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ----- (WAOI)
A new movie called "White Noise" shows the dead communicating through
high frequency waves, and people with one San Antonio company say the
voices from the dead are not a fabrication of Hollywood. In the movie,
the dead try communicating through household recording devices. The
process is called Electronic Voice Phenomenon, or EVP. Guillermo Fuentes,
with San Antonio Paranormal Investigations, says he has captured the
phenomenon.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=504E221A-41C0-49B3-AD9D-E42\
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*** Visit the San Antonio Paranormal Investigations website:
http://paranormalinvestigations.org/

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Our Sixth Sense
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ASPEN, COLORADO ----- (Aspen Times)
Anthropologists believe that ancient knowledge of the movement of wind,
sea and birds may have saved the five indigenous tribes on the Indian
archipelago from the tsunami that hit the Asian coastline Dec. 26. A local
environmentalist familiar with these reticent people was quoted as saying,
"They can smell the wind. They gauge the depth of the sea with the sound
of their oars. They have a sixth sense which we don't possess." It is the
same sense that wild animals possess, the same sense that accounted
for the survival of elephants, tigers, reptiles, sea birds and other creatures
that found their way inland before the tsunami struck. John Muir spoke of a
sixth sense, an intuitive understanding that alerted him to events affecting
people close to him. Muir, a devout man of nature, had premonitions when
each of his parents was close to death, and he was right both times. A
thousand miles from home, he once had a sense that his daughter was
deathly ill, and he was right again
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20050117/COLUMN/101170003

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Near-Death Experiencer Foresaw Cataclysmic Disaster in Asia
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SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA ----- (Near-Death Newsletter)
On April 16, 2002, Kevin Williams published on his website the near-death
testimony of Alan McDougall which contained the following vision of
the future: "While this omnipotent being was speaking, I could see a
panoramic view of planet earth, as if I was a space man observing the
earth, all the time, from the window of a space vehicle. The voice that I
took as God, was not pleased with what was happening on our planet,
and kept referring to humanity in the terms of "mere mortal man, I am
displeased with you" (I cannot remember why he was displeased). While
this unseen being "God" was speaking, the earth was revolving and
stopping at intervals over each continent, in turn, where a warning message
was given to each continent. What I can remember was that he was
saying to humanity that he was displeased with their evil actions in some
way. The frustrating part is that I could not retain all that was said to
mere mortal man, by this being, while I was with him viewing the earth.
I do, however, clearly, remember two warnings. One that a cataclysmic
event would start from the Indian subcontinent. The other that the Middle
East crises would not be solved by the peacekeeping efforts of man and
that divine direct intervention would eventually come to the earth, sometime
in the future, because of the unbelievable evil that some mere men were
perpetuating and directly responsible for on earth (rape of the planet)."
http://www.near-death.com/forum/coma/000/01.html

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U.S. Officials Must Prepare for Imminent East Coast Tsunami
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HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA ----- (Mission of Angels Foundation)
Ned Dougherty, author "Fast Lane to Heaven", who foresaw the September 11
terrorist attack from his near-death experience vision, recently
issued the following press release: "Warnings of U. S. East Coast Tsunami
Resonate With Future Visions in 'Fast Lane To Heaven.' In the September 11,
2004 edition of "On Angels Wings," a newsletter I publish periodically, I
warned that a devastating and deadly tsunami directed at the eastern seaboard
of the United States was a not if, but when scenario. I became so concerned
with the timing of this possible future event that I traveled to the Canary
Islands
in November 2004 to investigate for myself what has become known as the
La Palma Threat. While I was living on the island of La Palma, I researched
the scientific facts concerning the potential threat and hiked to the top of the
volcanic mountains to personally observe and experience for myself what
may become the next Ground Zero ...
http://www.fastlanetoheaven.com/messages.html
*** Read related news article: Canary Islands Volcano Could Trigger
Monster Tsunami
http://www.cdnn.info/article/a050103a/a050103a.html

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Woman Who Had Near-Death Experience Has Ideas On World's Future
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LATHAM, NEW YORK ----- (Spirit Daily)
More earth changes are likely to be ahead, says Sharon Ritchie, a
California woman who had a near-death experience in 1999. Like many
who have had such an experience (she recounted an alleged discussion
with the Lord as she tottered between the two realities), Sharon received
revelations of future events, particularly that the earth's rotation around
its axis would alter, affecting the entire planet. In fact, after the recent
quake in Asia, the earth's rotation was affected in such a way that the
North Pole moved about an inch and the day was shortened by 2.5
microseconds -- minuscule effects but ones that could have unknown
long-term consequences...
http://www.spiritdaily.org/Quickhive%20articles/ritchiefollow.htm
*** Read Sharon Richie's NDE testimony:
http://www.spiritdaily.org/Life-after-life/richiende.htm

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Arab Astrologer Predicts Bush Assassination
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GRANTS PASS, OREGOM ----- (WorldNetDaily)
A Tunisian astrologer who reportedly predicted the deaths of Princess
Diana, Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Yasser Arafat says
President Bush will be killed by an assassin's bullet in 2005. So seriously
are Hassan al-Sharibi's predictions taken in the Arab world that a similar
prophecy about Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas
(Mabus?) has resulted in increased security around the candidate to replace
Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42142
*** Related article: Astrology and the "Presidential Death Cycle":
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/articles012.html
*** Nostradamus' third antichrist named "Mabus":
http://www.hogueprophecy.com/archiv32.htm

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Archive of NDEs in the News
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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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Someone recently emailed to me the following question:

"Often times I wonder what am I supposed to do with my life. I'm talented,
make good money but am very dissatisfied with my current results. How
do we know what the "Being of Light" wants us to do? Can anyone help
me? I'm not some crazy person, just a desperate man looking for meaning
in my life."

My answer to this question is thr following:

Although we are all on a mission from God, we generally are not supposed
to know what it is. There are many reasons for this but I suppose the
main reason is that if we knew what our missions in life were, it would
somehow not be as satisfying. It would be like receiving the answer to a
test before you take it. For those people who have a near-death experience
and are told they must return to life, it can be a miserable experience. After
seeing the glory of heaven and the very throne of God, they are told to go
back. They have to go back to scrubbing their toilets, taking out the trash,
going to work, changing the diapers, etc.. It can be very devastating. About
4% of experiencers commit suicide because they can't take the apparent
insignificance of physical existence. It is not uncommon for experiencers to
become severely depressed. One man, in particular, discovered after his
near-death experience that he couldn't watch TV anymore. He said that
watching soap commercials especially irritated him because of how insignificant
they were was. He also couldn't watch his boxing anymore because of the
violence. Another example is a minister named Ken Martin who learned after
his near-death experience that everything in life was insignificant. In his
testimony, he said that even his family, his ministry, his church, his calling,
was "insignificant" compared to what he experienced on the Other Side.

But there is also a "flip-side" to this. Kimberly Clark Sharp once shared an
interesting near-death testimony of a woman who saw herself as a child during
her life review. The major lesson she learned from her life review was that even
the seemingly insignificant things we do in life can be far more important than
we can possibly imagine on the Other Side. During her life review, she saw an
incident from her childhood when she saw a tiny flower growing almost impossibly
out of a crack in the sidewalk. She bent down and cupped the flower and gave
it her full unconditional love and undivided attention. During her life review,
she discovered that it was this incident with the flower, which she had long ago
forgotten about, was the most important event of her entire life. The reason was
because it was the moment in her life where she expressed unconditional love in
the greatest manner.

So the big lesson that people receive during their near-death experience is the
]supremacy of expressing unconditional love. Even the apparent insignificant
acts of love which we perform has the power to alter the entire course of
history
and change the world for the good. Unconditional acts of love are the greatest
things we can do in life - even if it is directed at a tiny flower.

So love is the answer to the question, "What is the meaning of life?"
Any other answer pals in comparison to the supremacy of love. When we have
our life review after death, it will be our acts of unconditional love which
will considered the greatest. It is how we are measured on the Other Side
because love is the Almighty Universal Power connecting us all. Near-death
experiences reveal that there is no other God but this love that is
unconditional
and pure. It is as simple and as profound as that.

While we must go about our daily routine -- clipping our toe nails and
scrubbing our toilets -- it is how much we love others that matters. Everyone's
mission has to do with love. We are all here to experience and learn the many
aspects of love in a world where there is very little of it compared to the
Other
Side. I suppose that even the absence of love makes the heart grow fonder and
gives us an education about love that we cannot learn anywhere else. One thing
is clear to me: Love is too immense and profound to be fully understood in this
world. But John Lennon was correct all along. All we need is love.

Peace and Light,
Kevin Williams

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Galactica: A Treatise on Death, Dying and the Afterlife
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by Marilyn Hughes
The author takes you on an out-of-body journey into the worlds of the
galactic heavens -- the worlds beyond death. Traveling the road of
terminal illness, you'll follow the footsteps of a soul preparing for
death, learn from those who have already crossed over, and witness the
after-death experience of a soul as she leaves this world. Opening the
door to the ancestors, you will meet those who have gone before, hear
their stories, be amazed at their watchful care over the current generation,
and see how they live in the world beyond.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1411615867/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

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The Key to Self-Discovery: There is Far More to You and Life Than You
Ever Dared to Dream
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by Russell C. Kick, Ph.D.
In 1968, Russell had a NDE which changed his life. His life's purpose and
potential were explained to him and he was told he would soon meet the
woman who was to be his wife. Two weeks later he met Jane, his wife to
be, and one month later, they were married. Over three decades later,
they remain happily married. Since his NDE, Russell has researched the
farther reaches of human potential and documented the truths he has
discovered in his exploration of other realms. Russell has been told that
now is the time to begin releasing what he learned. The Key to Self-Discovery,
the first book in a series, presents a system of self-discovery and
self-development
created by Russell called "The Holistic Way." This book and system is the first
realization of his research and life's purpose.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/141202577X/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Visit Dr. Russell Kick's website: http://www.thekey.info/index.html

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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
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by Frederick Myers and Aldous Huxley
F. W. H. Myers (1843-1901) was a classics scholar turned scientist by his
interest in psychic phenomena and mediumship. An after-death
communication from his first wife confirmed Myers' belief in the survival of
human
consciousness. In 1882, he co-founded the Society for Psychical Research
and was a major contributor to its success for the next twenty years. Myers
wrote "Human Personality," the culmination of his research, at a time when
scientific pioneering was proceeding toward materialism -- when simply
expressing the belief that man possesses a soul was a very daring act.
Risking even more, Myers declared the soul able to survive the death of the
body. The object of his work was, in his mind, "to do what can be done to break
down that artificial wall between science and superstition."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/048643818X/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Read an excellent biography about F. W. H. Myers:
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/researchers/myers.htm
*** Read about the famous after-death communication from F.W.H. Myers:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/paranormal05.html

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One Cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind & Spirit
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by Robert W. Godwin
This book is the fruit of a lifetime of thought attempting to synthesize
material from a number of diverse domains, including cosmology,
theoretical biology, quantum physics, developmental psychoanalysis,
attachment theory, anthropology, history, mysticism and theology, into
a coherent,self-consistent, non-reductionistic whole. It takes the reader
on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the whole of creation and
dares to venture where language cannot go, into the "mind of God" prior
to the creation, through to the "mind of the saint" who transcends the
culturally conditioned ego, escapes history, and merges with the divine mind.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557788367/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

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An Angel Treasury: A Celestial Collection Of Inspirations, Encounters and
Heavenly Lore
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by Jacky Newcomb
A celestial collection of inspirations, encounters and heavenly lore
for which people have said: "Jacky Newcomb has compiled probably the
most fascinating book on angels yet made available to the public."
"Jacky's book is inspirational, as well as a fascinating source of information
and wisdom." "This is a book I will keep on my shelf forever and refer to
over and over. It really is the ultimate book on angels."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007189540/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Visit Jacky "The Angel Lady" Newcomb's website.
http://www.geocities.com/jackytheangellady/

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Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice
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by Timothy E. Quill, M.D. and M. Pabst Battin, Ph.D
In counterpoint to "The Case against Assisted Suicide" by Foley and
Hendin, medical ethicists Quill and Battin introduce 21 classic and new
arguments for the US legalization of physician-assisted dying. They argue
that pitting "Death with Dignity" laws against palliative care is a false
framing of the debate. Scholars, legal experts, and advocates examine
ethical issues,end-of-life options, the views of patients and people with
disabilities, and the Dutch and Oregon experiences.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080188070X/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20
*** Read the article "The Case For Assisted Suicide and Active Voluntary
Euthanasia":
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/suicide08.html

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 8 - 10, 2005 - IANDS Annual Conference
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Check out the IANDS Conference information page.
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