"The unconscious psyche believes in life after death" - Carl Jung, M.D.

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Near-Death Newsletter.................................... June 1, 2005
www.near-death.com ..................... Vol. 04, No. 06, Ed. 01
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Table of Contents
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(1) NDEs in the News:
(2) Q & A with Dr. PMH Atwater
(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's Website)
PMH Atwater's next book "Beyond the Indigo Children: The New
Children and the Coming of the Fifth World" will be available in
August/September this year from Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT.
Advance orders for the book can be placed in two months.

--- A New 2-Hour Talk by P.M.H. Entitled "Beyond the Indigo Children":
Any individual or group may sponsor a talk by P.M.H. This new talk
centers around the New Children, Root Races (the genetic stock
of humankind), and the march of generations. Through the traditions
of prophesy and mystical revelation, social sciences, and the in-depth
research of children's near-death experiences and children in general,
we are able to recognize that what is now emerging throughout the
human family and across our planet, challenges the glitsy promotions
of Doomsday Raptures and the exclusivity of specialness promoted
by labels such as indigo, crystal, sky, or star children. What comes
into focus if we look deeper than the glitzy is a picture of ascension
energy, what it means and how it affects humankind, along with a better
understanding of root races and generational markers. By using the
neutral term, "new," Dr. Atwater examines the full range of characteristics
exhibited by our young people. The new children are powerful and they
are powerfully motivated to change things - if - we can help them defuse
and redirect their anger, a peculiar impatience with anything false, overly
exaggerated, or inauthentic. The new children are not like any other
generation of record. How they differ is nothing short of amazing!

--- Read about P.M.H. at the 1st Annual Parapsychology Conference in Istanbul:
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/istanbul.html

--- Announcement from P.M.H.: Our Sacred Journey Cruise to the
Caribbean this September has been cancelled by VanGuard Tours.
Apparently, a certain number of people had to sign up for this Cruise
by June 5th. We did not know this originally, and proceeded promoting
it with the idea that signups could continue until early September.
Although we would love to have done this, and had big plans for the
Cruise, maybe the energy switched and we are needed elsewhere. Both
Terry and I affirm Divine Order in this regard, and are grateful to VanGuard
Tours for giving us this opportunity and to all of you for helping us
promote it!
Thank you.

--- Listen to online streaming audio interviews of P.M.H. Atwater:
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/archive.html
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/interv2.html

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University of Virginia Seeking NDE and Other Paranormal Testimonies
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(June 1, 2005) ------------------ (Univ. of VA Personality Studies)
If you have had a near-death experience or other unexplained
experience, you are invited to be in communication with Dr.
Bruce Greyson and his team of researchers. Dr. Greyson would
like to correspond with as many NDErs as possible. The other
researchers and their specialties are listed below. When you
respond, please send your name and postal address and/or
e-mail address. Accounts can be sent as well. If not, they will
ask for them later. You can read about the research Dr. Greyson's
team is doing on their website (click on the link provided below).
This research includes not only NDEs, but deathbed visions, and
other phenomena that suggest we may survive bodily death.
Visit the website and click on "Types of Experiences We Study"
for an interesting read. Then you can respond by contacting
Dr. Greyson at (cbg4d@...) to report near-death
experiences, or Dr. Jim Tucker (jbt8n@...) to report
children with memories of previous lives, or Dr. Emily Kelly
(ewc2r@...) to report any other experiences, such as
apparitions, deathbed visions, and communications from deceased
loves ones.
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/research.cfm

--- More About the Types of Experiences Researched:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/case_types.cfm

--- Contact Page for the Dept. of Personality Studies:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/contacting_us.c\
fm

--- Books and Articles by Division of Personality Studies Staff:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/publications.cf\
m

--- More about the Division of Personality Studies Staff:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/staff.cfm

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Upcoming NDE Events Around the World
For the full list see: http://www.near-death.com/conferences.html
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--- June 24 - 27, 2005: Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness (ASSC) 9th Annual Meeting, "Problems of
Space and Time in Perception and Action". California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.: http://assc.caltech.edu/assc9/

--- July 1 - 3, 2005: "What The Bleep Do We Know" Prophets
Conference Series, The Benson Hotel, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
http://www.greatmystery.org/bleep-portland.html

--- July 6 - 11, 2005: Institute of Noetic Sciences International
Conference, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis
Highway, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
http://www.noetic.org/events.cfm?Start=11&State=&View=112

--- July 7 - 10, 2005: The Scientific & Medical Network Annual
Gathering, "Science, Consciousness, and Healing in the 21st
Century, Haus Altenberg, Odenthal-Altenberg, Germany
http://www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/

--- July 23 - 24, 2005: A Transdisciplinary Conference, "Altered
States: Transformations of Perceptions, Place and Performance",
Portland Square, University of Plymouth, U.K.
http://www.planetary-collegium.net/conferences/detail/200507

--- Aug. 11 - 15, 2005: Parapsychological Association 48th Annual
Convention, IONS Retreat Center, 101 San Antonio Rd, Petaluma,
California, U.S.A.:
http://www.noetic.org/events.cfm?Start=21&State=&View=140

--- Aug. 12 - 14, 2005 : "What The Bleep Do We Know" Prophets
Conference Series, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
http://www.greatmystery.org/bleep-vancouver.html

--- Aug. 17 - 20, 2005: Toward a Science of Consciousness
Annual Conference, "Methodological and Conceptual Issues"
Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.cfs.ku.dk/tsc2005/

--- Aug. 26 - 28, 2005: "Beyond the Brain VI: Memory Beyond
the Brain", sponsored by The Scientific and Medical Network,
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
http://www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/events/pdf/BB_05.pdf (PDF)

--- Sept. 4, 2005: Society for Psychical Research 29th International
Annual Conference, University of Bath, Bath, UK
http://www.spr.ac.uk/index.php3?page=conferences

--- Sept. 8 - 10, 2005: International Association for Near-Death
Studies (IANDS) North American Conference, "Message and
Meaning: Using the Near-Death Experience as a Tool for Living",
Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.A.
http://iands.org/conference/index.php

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Houstonian Believes He Saw Heaven During Near-Death Experience
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(May 23, 2005) .......................................... (Click2Houston)
Ten years ago, Andreason died as a result of an interaction between
prescription pain pills and dental surgery. "I felt myself being lifted up
and surrounded by this light," he said. In real time, he was only gone
for two minutes, but what he saw felt like it lasted a lifetime. "I was
walking through this garden, looking at all these colorful flowers that
are alive, and there's all this beautiful beyond blue water that is sparkling
and tingling and it sings," Andreason said. He believes the garden
was heaven. While there, he said he was shown his life's review.
"All of a sudden, I found myself in a long hallway of doors," he said.
"One was this beautiful gothic-looking wood door and as I would peer
thru the door, I would literally see an existence I was participating in."
http://www.click2houston.com/news/4520678/detail.html

--- View the video of Christian Andreason describing his NDE:
http://www.click2houston.com/video/4523880/detail.html

--- Christian Andreason's NDE page on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/andreason.html

--- Christian Andreason;s music CD: "The Rhythm of Life" :
(Listen to online MP3 samples of Christian's music)
http://www.allaboutchristian.com/listeningstore/index.html

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Actress Jane Seymour Describes Her NDE on Larry King Live
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(May 23, 2005) ...................................................... (CNN)
"I was looking down at my body. I was looking down. I saw this
man screaming, yelling, "emergency, emergency!" I was now
rolled over, I was half-naked. I had two huge syringes in my backside,
and I was watching from the corner of the room. And I saw this
white light. I had no pain, I had no tension, I just kind of looked,
and then went, "that's very strange. That's me. But that can't be
me if I'm here. And then I realized that I was out of my body and
that I was, you know, going to die ... all of a sudden I just looked,
and I went, no, no, I'm not ready to go away. I want to get back
in that body. I have children I want to raise. And there's so much
I want to do, I want to give back, I want to do so much in the world,
and I'm just -- I'm not ready to go."
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/23/lkl.01.html

--- Read more about Jane Seymour's NDE here:
http://www.near-death.com/famous.html

--- Seymour's Sleep Problems After Near-Death Experience:
http://tinyurl.com/9h3wr

--- The Official Website of Jane Seymour: http://www.friendsofjane.com/

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The Most Startling Development in World History
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(May 24, 2005) ............................................ (WorldNetDaily)
Arjun died at age 5. The gist of his story: At six o'clock on an
April evening in 2001, Arjun was accidentally electrocuted by
220-volt wires touching his head. His parents took him to a
medical clinic where they worked on his body for two hours
without success. They tried CPR, electroshock paddles, adrenaline
shots ­ all the usual. But they couldn't get him off flatline. So the
doctor charged them 5,000 rupees (about $110) and told them
to call an undertaker. But they didn't. Instead they called Rod
at the nearby Deliverance Church. He then called upon Savitri,
one of his staff members. Savitri brought two other Christians to
Arjun's home, and the five of them began praying over the dead body
about 10:00 p.m. They prayed their hearts out for six hours with
pleading and tears. Then, at 4:00 a.m. the next morning, Arjun
snapped back to life with no brain damage, no physical problems.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44416

--- Read all 5 NDE testimonials associated with this article:
http://www.megashift.com/html/Resurrections.html

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Physics Meets Paranormal ­ Finding Nearest Openings to
Seven Parallel Universes ­ Near-Death Experiences
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(May 28, 2005) ............................................. (India Daily)
When our spirit is allowed freedom through death or through
transcendental meditation, the unleashed electromagnetic flux
crates the miracle ­ it finds an immediate opening to the
parallel Universe in the close vicinity ... This has now been
verified by Transcendentalist Kurt Kawohl from the USA. When
he had a near-death experience in 1956 at age fifteen his soul
traveled into a higher-level parallel universe. What happens to
us after death has now been made clear. Kurt twice repeated
this experiment in 2001 when he placed his body in stasis and
used his psychic power via transcendental meditation to again
access this parallel universe where spiritual life thrives. Some
researchers believe that parallel universes exist in our immediate vicinity.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2923.asp

-- Read about Kurt Kawohl's NDE: http://transcendentalists.org

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Getting Intimations of (Im)mortality
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(May 24, 2005) ............................................ (India Times)
On the night of June 10, 1978, Desmond Graveney either died
or didn’t; it’s not very clear. Rushed to hospital after a horrific
car accident in the US, his heart stopped beating on the operating
table. “Suddenly all the pain just went away,” says Graveney, “and
I found myself looking down at my body from a point near the
ceiling. After a while I heard the doctors pronounce me dead
and an uncomfortable buzzing noise started behind my head.
Then I found myself moving swiftly along a long dark tunnel at
the end of which was a brilliant white light that was a loving
spirit of some kind. This being seemed to indicate to me that I
should go back and the next instant I felt a tug and I was back
on the table with all the pain.”
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1119485.cms

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Death a "Thing of the Past"
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(May 23, 2005) ........................................ (News.com.au)
Death could become a thing of the past by the mid-21st century
as computer technology becomes sophisticated enough for
the contents of a brain to be "downloaded" on to a supercomputer,
according to a leading British futurologist ,,, Among other
eyebrow-raising predictions by Ian Pearson, head of the futurology
unit at British telecommunications giant BT, is the prospect of
computer systems being able to feel emotions ... While the
predictions might sound outlandish, they were merely the product
of extrapolations drawn from the existing rate at which computers
are evolving, Mr Pearson said in an interview.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15375641-13762,00.html

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Why I Believe in Higher Dimensions
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(June 1, 2005) ............................................. (Telegraph)
Lisa Randall, one of the world's most influential physicists,
explains why we need more than three dimensions to understand
the cosmos ... Perhaps the best way to understand what these
extra dimensions would be is the way Edwin Abbott described
them in his book Flatland, written in the late 19th century. Suppose
there was a society that, unlike ours, could detect and experience
a world with only two dimensions: the Flatland of the title. Its
inhabitants wouldn't perceive a third dimension, even though the
dimension really did exist. If an object like a sphere were to pass
through their universe, Flatlanders would never perceive it in its
entirety; instead, they would see a succession of disks that grew
in size and then became smaller. Because they register only two
dimensions, Flatlanders could only mathematically piece together
the fact that the object they had seen was the analogue of their disk,
but in one higher dimension. Similarly, the fact that we see only
three dimensions doesn't mean there might not be more.
http://tinyurl.com/956fl

--- Harvard Physics Professor Lisa Randall's Faculty page
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/randall.htm

--- Scientists Propose New Way to Probe Dark Energy:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0505/17darkenergy/

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Jury Hears Intense Tale of Survival From Fiery Crash
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(June 2, 2005) ..................................... (Kansas Ctiy Star)
Michael Nolte sometimes made jurors cry when he testified for
three hours Wednesday about despair, loss and pain he suffered
from a fiery interstate crash involving a trooper's car. He recounted
a near-death experience floating above his body and told of guilt
felt because he lived two years ago, while Missouri Highway Patrol
Trooper Michael Newton died ... During the helicopter ride to a
Columbia hospital, he said he ascended into what he described
as a kind of warm tunnel and watched from above as medics worked
on him. “It was a soft, pleasant and really good place you want to go —
I could hear laughter around the corners.” But then he was back in
his body. Someone on the helicopter asked him the level of his pain,
on a scale of 1 to 10. “It was higher than a 10, but a 10 was all they gave
me.”
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11791813.htm

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A Culture of Death
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(June 2005) ......................................... (Scientific American)
In the underworld of assisted suicide and euthanasia, Russel Ogden
examines the means and methods -- even as he is shunned by
academia and chased by the law ... In 1994 Ogden published his
master's thesis, which documented the inner workings of this illicit network ...
He wants to know who asks for assisted death, who provides it and
how it is done. Such grisly details were revealed in Ogden's first study,
in which 17 individuals, including doctors, nurses, counselors, social
workers and two priests, told him precisely how they had helped AIDS
patients kill themselves ... These people were first- or second-timers,
"not serial death providers," Ogden remarks. "They weren't sure what
they were doing." He concluded that the lack of medical knowledge, as
well as the unavailability of suitable drugs and ignorance of lethal doses,
contributed to the additional suffering. "This study showed that without
medical supervision and formal regulations, euthanasia is happening in
horrific circumstances, similar to back-alley abortions," he declares.
http://tinyurl.com/cq3a5

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Brain Freeze as Medical Strategy
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(May 23, 2005) ..................................... (Pasadena Star-News)
Procedure appears to limit damage. For 24 hours, Hamilton Loeb lay
unconscious inside a cold blue suit that put his brain on ice. Four
times, his heart had stopped beating and he was shocked back to
life. Then doctors essentially refrigerated him, in a bid to avert the
brain damage that too often cripples survivors of cardiac arrest.
Today, the 53-year-old Washington lawyer is back to normal, and
he credits the cold with protecting his brain. Chilling the sick may
sound counterintuitive, but research shows mild hypothermia cooling
the body just a few degrees can significantly improve the odds of
a full recovery after cardiac arrest. Now scientists are trying to prove
whether a cool-down can protect against some of the damage from
other disorders, too:
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~24533~2884364,00.html

--- "Cool Cap" Could Freeze Brain Damage In Newborns:
http://www.nbc10.com/health/4488020/detail.html

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What's It Like Waking Up After 10 Years "Asleep?"
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(May 5, 2005) .............................................. (BBC News)
After a New York fireman who barely said a word for a decade
began talking profusely, what are the experiences of people
who wake up from comas and vegetative states after long periods?
"I want to talk to my wife," was Donald Herbert's first sentence
in a decade. The 43-year-old then began speaking at length to
loved ones, who feared he would never recover after a roof
collapsed on him in 1995. He was initially in a coma, then he
regained consciousness, but his speech was slurred and his
vision unclear, with no memory of relatives. Another American,
Terry Wallis, who came round in 2003 after a 19-year coma,
still thinks it is 1984 and has severe memory problems.
There is a fascination with this deep state of unconscious, a
"twilight zone" between life and death and a place few of us
ever explore. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4515711.stm

--- Miracle Coma Cure Raises Others' Hopes:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3191887

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Scientist Spooked By Ghost Study
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(May 19, 2005) .............................................. (BBC News)
A scientist investigating one of the UK's "most haunted" locations
has said "something quite odd" was going on. Professor Richard
Wiseman used 200 volunteers to carry out a study of Mary King's
Close in Edinburgh. It yielded reports of apparitions, phantom
footsteps, unexplained cold spots and unseen hands ... Prof.
Wisemen sent groups of volunteers to four locations, without
telling them that only two sites had a strong reputation for being
haunted. The aim was to compare reports from the different sites.
About 70% of those visiting the "haunted" locations reported unusual
phenomena. In contrast, only 48% of people exploring the locations
not reputed to be haunted had spooky experiences.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4564383.stm

--- Ghost Reports Are Put to the Test:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4541593.stm

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Lightning Kills Father Visiting His Son's Grave
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(May 30, 2005) ................................... (Arizona Daily Star)
While visiting the grave site of his son, a 70-year-old Tucson man
was struck by lightning Saturday night. His body was found early
Sunday at East Lawn Palms Cemetery. Joseph Cooper's body
was found under a tree at the cemetery, 5801 E. Grant Road. His
son, Oscar, died on Sept. 15, 1996, at the age of 30. A family
representative said relatives were in shock Sunday and declined
comment until later. Maintenance employees at East Lawn found
Cooper's body and called Tucson police at 6:28 a.m., said Sgt.
Kerry Fuller, a police spokeswoman. Homicide detectives and a
doctor from the Medical Examiner's Office confirmed significant
evidence that lightning was the cause of death, Fuller said. Entry
and exit wounds, bruises and other injuries were found on the body,
Fuller said, but an autopsy will be performed to confirm the cause.
Fuller said deaths caused by lightning strikes are unusual in Tucson,
even during severe storms. Local statistics weren't available Sunday,
but the National Lightning Safety Institute reported 17 deaths in Arizona
from 1990 to 2003, according to its Web site.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/77459.php

--- Read about Dannion Brinkley's NDE and learn how wonderful
it is to die from lightning strike:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence11.html

--- Dannion Brinkley Central at News For The Soul:
http://www.newsforthesoul.com/dannion/dannion-article.htm

--- Listen to Dannion Brinkley on online streaming audio:
http://www.newsforthesoul.com/death.htm

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Newly Developed Treatment for Severe Grief Shown More Effective
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(May 26, 2005) .......................................... (Newswise)
A recently developed method for treating complicated grief, which
includes discussing certain aspects of the death of a loved one,
was found more effective than a standard therapy for depression,
according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA ... Bereavement-related
major depressive disorder (MDD) is a well-recognized consequence
of loss. Complicated grief also occurs in the aftermath of loss but is
different from depression. Key features of complicated grief, persisting
more than 6 months after the death of a loved one, include (1) a sense
of disbelief regarding the death; (2) anger and bitterness over the death;
(3) recurrent pangs of painful emotions, with intense yearning and
longing for the deceased; and (4) preoccupation with thoughts of the
loved one, often including distressing intrusive thoughts related to the death.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/512155/

--- JAMA's news release on the grief study:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/21/2601

--- Watch the online video on JAMA's grief study:
http://66.250.77.147/JAMA/JAMA3503_WM.htm

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Study of Compassionate Care
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(May 24, 2005) .................... (Indiana Univ. School of Med.)
Patients approaching the end of life can significantly reduce their
depression symptoms and improve their sense of spiritual well-being
according to a study published in the current issue of the Journal of
Palliative Medicine ... Some were randomly assigned to support
groups, which met monthly progressively discussing more difficult
and challenging issues. They addressed topics such as recognizing
and asserting needs, feelings and emotions, symptom control, living
well while sick, intimate relationships, spiritual needs, end-of-life
planning and decision making, hope and gratitude, and legacy.
Other patients received what is called “usual care,” and received
mailings of standard support materials related to their disease, many
of which could be found in their doctors’ offices. “We were able to
improve depression symptoms and lessen death anxiety, which led
to better spiritual well-being,” says Dr. Miller. “We consider this pilot
work as a promising approach, but a lot of work needs to be done to
fully meet patients’ needs at this most difficult time in their lives.”
http://medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/viewRelease.php4?art=338

--- The Journal of Palliative Medicine:
http://www.liebertpub.com/publication.aspx?pub_id=41

--- Pain Relief for Cancer Patients in Nursing Homes is Inadequate (PDF)
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/jpm.2005.8.273

--- Sedation for Terminally Ill Patients with Cancer with Uncontrollable
Physical Distress: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/jpm.2005.8.20

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It's Official: Love is Kinda Crazy!
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(May 31, 2005) .................................. (The Gainsville Sun)
Researchers analyze love-crazed brains. New love can look for
all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and
obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts
out-of-character behavior - compulsive phone calling, serenades,
yelling from rooftops - that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.
Now for the first time, neuroscientists have produced brain scan
images of this fevered activity, before it settles into the wine and
roses phase of romance or the joint holiday card routines of long-term
commitment. In an analysis of the images appearing in The Journal
of Neurophysiology, researchers in New York and New Jersey argue
that romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal .../
"When you're in the throes of this romantic love it's overwhelming,
you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 a.m.
every day - why? Because she's there," said Dr. Helen Fisher, an
anthropologist at Rutgers University and the co-author of the analysis.
"And when rejected, some people contemplate stalking, homicide,
suicide. This drive for romantic love can be stronger than the will to live."
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050531/WIRE/205310310/11\
17/news

--- Love More Powerful Than Sex, Study Claims:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050531_love_sex.html

--- Those Old Crooners Were Right, Love Really Can Make You Crazy
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=10524

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An Autistic Savant Explains How He Can Instantly Multiply Large Numbers
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(Feb. 12, 2005) .................................... (Guardian Unlimited)
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling
mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other
savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how
he does it ... Ever since the age of three, when he suffered an epileptic
fit, Tammet has been obsessed with counting. Now he is 26, and a
mathematical genius who can figure out cube roots quicker than a
calculator and recall pi to 22,514 decimal places. He also happens
to be autistic, which is why he can't drive a car, wire a plug, or tell
right from left. He lives with extraordinary ability and disability. Tammet
is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn't "calculating": there
is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He arrives at the answer
instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as
shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion,
and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two
shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges.
That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to
think.": http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html

--- Music Does Talking:
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2005/05/31/city/city3.txt

--- Welcome to the Mind-Body Revolution:
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19930701-000031.html

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Astronaut Says Some Events Are Unexplainable
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(May 20, 2005) ................................. (The Gainesville Sun)
The sixth man to walk on the moon spoke about his experience
with unexplainable phenomena Thursday to a skeptical audience
of about 100 scientists. Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut on Apollo 14,
talked of the experiences that led him to research the unexplainable
at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration
at the Best Western Gateway Grand Hotel in Gainesville. "It isn't
science, but personal experience, that stimulates you to do good
science," he said. Mitchell, who holds a doctorate in aeronautics
and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
worked on the first extended research trip to the moon in 1971. He
founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to sponsor the study of
unconventional scientific models, such as intuition and feeling, and
he was inducted into the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut
Hall of Fame in 1998. His interest in the unexplainable began on his
way back to Earth aboard Apollo 14. He gazed out the window and
realized he was connected to the stars, his colleagues and the planet
through his own molecules, he said. "You could see the Earth, the moon
and the stars with each rotation of the spacecraft," Mitchell said. "The
stars were literally brighter for me. It was an awesome, awe-inspiring
view of the heavens."
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/LOCAL/205200322/1\
078/news

--- Institute of Noetic Sciences: http://www.noetic.org/

--- Society for Scientific
Exploration: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts.php

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Physics Principles Too Shortsighted, Nobel Winner Says
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(June 2, 2005) ......................... (Science & Theology News)
Physicists have problems with their belief systems and the field of
physics is in crisis because of it, said Nobel Prize-winner Robert
Laughlin at a recent Boston University lecture ... Laughlin,
co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1998, compared
physicists to monotheists who hold one belief and defend it even
when presented with contradictory evidence. Instead of questioning
their original belief, he said, they would question the validity of the
evidence challenging it ... “Physics is now in the midst of a crisis,
an ideological battle,” he said. “The most fundamental things you
know may not be fundamental" ... Laughlin also argued that, for
mysteries like why atoms are so uniform throughout the galaxy,
physicists form creation myths to explain away these quandaries.
Inflationary cosmology, he said, is the “myth” created to solve this
problem by saying that during the expansion after the big bang,
matter became uniform ... The best chance at solving some of these
mysteries of the universe, Laughlin suggests in "A Different Universe,"
is to avoid the reductionist approach of studying particles too minute
to measure, and to look at the basic realities of the natural world.
The exact characteristics of substances like ice or salt is not fully
understood, he said, but may reveal more about the universe than
the far reaches of space or the first nanofraction of a second after the
big bang.
http://www.stnews.org/articles.php?article_id=591&category=research

--- Robert Laughlin's book "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from
the Bottom Down":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/046503828X/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

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Biggest Ever Cosmos Simulation
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(June 1, 2005) ........................................... (BBC News)
Astronomers have used supercomputers to re-create how the
Universe evolved into the shape it is today. The simulation by
an international team is the biggest ever attempted and shows
how structures in the Universe changed and grew over billions
of years. The Millennium Run, as it is dubbed, could help explain
observations made by astronomers and shed more light on the
Universe's elusive dark energy field. Details of the study appear
in the latest issue of Nature magazine. "We have learned more
about the Universe in the last 10 or 20 years than in the whole
of human civilisation," said Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden
professor of fundamental physics at the University of Durham
and co-author on the Nature report. "We are now able, using the
biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world, to recreate the whole
of cosmic history," he told the BBC. The researchers looked at
how the Universe evolved under the influence of the mysterious
material called dark matter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4600981.stm

--- World's Largest Supercomputer Simulation Explains Growth of Galaxies:
http://www.physorg.com/news4343.html

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Astronaut Asks Congress to Investigate Threatening Asteroid
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(May 19, 2005) ........................................ (Science.com)
The asteroid, named 2004 MN4, was found last year. It orbits the
Sun but crosses the path of Earth. In December, preliminary
observations showed it might strike in 2029, according to NASA
scientists. It briefly had the highest odds ever assigned to a possible
collision. Further investigation ruled out the 2029 impact scenario,
but scientists cannot yet rule out an impact in 2036. The odds of
a collision in 2036 are about 1-in-10,000, Schweickart says.
In fact, there are several scenarios between 2034 and 2065 in
which 2004 MN4 has even smaller odds of striking. Schweickart
and other scientists stress, however, that future observations are
likely to reduce all these odds to zero.
http://www.space.com/news/050519_asteroid_mission.html

--- View the Animation of Asteroid's Close Brush with Earth:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_animation_040319.html

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Delirium in ICU Patients a Predictor of Mortality
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(June 2, 2005) .................................... (News-Medical.net)
There are an estimated 6,000 intensive care units in the United States
caring for approximately 55,000 patients daily. Between 60 percent to
80 percent of these patients develop a brain dysfunction known as
delirium, which according to a group of physicians at Vanderbilt Medical
Center is an independent predictor of mortality ... "The dilemma in
critical care is that people often develop brain dysfunction or delirium
in the ICU setting which is thought to be of no real importance to survival
or long-term quality of life," Ely said. "Frankly, it's been overlooked by
medical teams for years and is simply called 'ICU psychosis ... Five years
ago, we began studying delirium in the ICU at Vanderbilt, after realizing
that older people are more frequently going to ICUs and the added risk
of developing brain dysfunction was present" ... Ely said the first problem
with delirium is the mortality rate. The second is cost. The estimated cost
of treating delirium in the ICU ranges from $4 billion to more than $20 billion
nationwide. Third, Ely and his team assert, is the impact the duration and
severity of delirium will likely have on the neuropsychological deficits of
these patients. http://www.news-medical.net/?id=580

--- Read about the ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group:
http://www.icudelirium.org/

--- Download the PDF ebook "ICU Delirium Training Manual":
http://www.icudelirium.org/delirium/training-pages/CAMICU%20presen.pdf

--- View the online training video on ICU Delirium:
http://www.icudelirium.org/delirium/training-pages/CAM-ICU%20Video%20without%20p\
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California Assisted-Suicide Bill Heads to Assembly Vote
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(May 26, 2005) ........................ (San Francisco Chronicle)
A bill to make California the second state in the nation to allow
physician-assisted suicide cleared a key committee Wednesday,
setting up a first-ever state Assembly vote on the issue ... If signed
into law, certain terminally ill Californians would be able to obtain
a lethal dose of medication from physicians after a waiting period
and multiple medical evaluations ... Despite physician-assisted
suicide consistently polling well, California voters turned down a
ballot measure on the issue in 1992. Also Wednesday, the
committee passed legislation that would legalize same-sex
marriage in California on a 13-5 party line vote, ensuring that
measure, too, will face a full Assembly floor vote.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/26/BAG6QCUL7C1.DTL

--- Follow the Status of the California Assisted-Suicide Bill:
http://www.caforaidindying.org/id2.html

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Curtailing Our Right to Know About the Right to Die With Dignity
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(May 19, 2005) ............................................... (National Forum)
OPINION: If the new Spanish film "The Sea Inside" teaches us
anything, it is that no amount of law and legislation can prevent
a person who wants to die from devising the ways and means
to take their own life ... The life and death of lead character and
real-life person, Ramon Sampedro, has long been a cause celebre
in Spain. Paralysed from the neck down from a diving accident at
26, Sampedro spent his next 28 years as, in his words, a head
attached to a corpse. Deeply resentful of being forced to live a life
that he defined as having little quality, Sampedro repeatedly petitioned
the Spanish and European courts. Repeatedly, Sampedro was
denied permission to ask for assistance to die, a request he believed
he had the right to make. The law disagreed. Most people believe
in death with dignity. In this, Sampedro was not exceptional. At the
end of the day it is of little importance that he was not terminally ill.
Rather, what mattered to him was that his life had so little dignity,
that death was a preferable option.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3472

--- Elderly Denied Dignified Death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4575641.stm

--- Old People "Left to Die in Pain":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1626022,00.html

--- The movie "The Sea Inside" (DVD) at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00080Z53O/ref=nosim/neardeathexpe-20

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Dr. Clifford Pickover on Cloning, Abortion, and Stem Cell Research
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(June 1, 2005) ....................................... (Spiked-Science)
OPINION: The notion that an embryo, or a fertilised egg, should be
considered human is certainly open for debate. As reported in
Science magazine, "zygotic personhood" - the idea that a fertilised
egg is a person - is a recent concept. Before 1869, for example,
the Catholic church believed that the embryo was not a person until
it was 40 days old, at which time the soul entered. Aristotle also
presumed this 40-day threshold. If the early embryo was soulless,
then perhaps early abortion was not murder. Pope Innocent III
determined, in 1211, that the time of ensoulment was anywhere
from three to four months. In Jewish law, the fetus becomes a full-fledged
human being when its head exits the womb. According to the Talmud,
before the embryo is 40 days old, it is 'maya b'alma' or 'mere water'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAA8D.htm

--- Edgar Cayce on How the Soul Incarnates Around the Time of Birth:
http://edgarcayce.org/ps2/soul_life_past_lives.html

---Viable Stem Cells Identified in Failing Hearts:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=571&e=13&u=/nm/20050601/hl_nm\
/stemcells_heart_dc_1

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May is the Month For Suicides
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(May 9, 2005) ................................................. (BBC News)
Summer sunlight helps to trigger a seasonal rise in suicides,
claim UK researchers. The Priory Group says more people
take their lives in May than in any other month, which could
be down to the climate. The extra sunshine, which helps combat
depression, may also provide the people the energy they need
to act on their suicidal feelings, they believe. There is one suicide
every 84 minutes in UK and Ireland. Around 6,300 people take
their lives each year, the Priory Group said. Professor Chris
Thompson, the group's director of healthcare services, said
research showed there was a direct link between the amount of
sunshine and the national suicide rate. In Scandinavia and Canada,
studies have shown that those who commit suicide have low levels
of a "happy" brain chemical called serotonin. Others have shown
that serotonin levels often rise with the amount of sunlight a person
is exposed to. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4528883.stm

--- "Suicidal Genes" Identified: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1263322.stm

--- Suicide "Determined at Birth":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3684702.stm

--- Intellect Linked to Suicide
Risk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4187881.stm

--- On Our Own Terms: Bill Moyers on Dying:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/resources/eol_sites.html

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Five Quick Ways to Make a Difference in Stopping Global Warming
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(June 1, 2005) ................................ (Environmental Defense)
Global warming is the # 1 environmental issue facing the Earth.
NDE visions of the future suggests that there is a high probability
that major natural disasters are coming unless we take better
care of this planet and everyone living on it. So here are five things
you can do to help stop global warming and prevent these horrible
NDE visions of the future from actually happening:

(1) Send a message to car makers:
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(2) Buy only Earth-friendly seafood. Download this wallet-sized list
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(3) Utilize these 20 practices in your daily routine to help undo
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(4) Sign the online petition to tell Congress to sign the Climate
Stewardship Act: http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/globalwarming_petition

(5) Love and respect everything and everybody. NDE insights
suggest that our lovely planet Earth and everything in it is actually
a single living organism. When we do unto others, we do unto Earth.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research02.html

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QUESTION # 1: "I tried to find "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death
Experiences" and found that it is out of print. Is that true? I want to
find out whether the traditional bad NDE trip with fire and demons,
etc., whether such experiencers ever saw other people being rescued
from the fire by angels, spirits?" -- Glenn

QUESTION # 2: "After my NDE five years ago, you were very
generous to answer two questions for me. Your responses have
been very helpful. I would like to ask your opinion about something
which I find very unnerving. I don't know whether it is happening
or is just a product of my imagination. "My nephew married a few
weeks ago. He was born on the day we buried my father, his
grandfather. I felt like my father was sitting in the first pew in front
of me at the wedding. He was just there for the wedding, and I
never felt him around again. Then yesterday, we were at the funeral
of a good friend's 26-year-old son who died, probably from an
accidental overdose of prescription drugs. He had been married
only two months. I believe that I saw him sitting on a step directly
in front of his family through the whole funeral service. I have no
one to ask about these things, so if you have a minute, could you
please give me your opinion on this?" -- Beth

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A Trip to the Stars
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by Melvin Forrester ................................... (Availability: Now)
EXCERPT: "My message is simple; there is life after death.
Upon death we return to the source from whence we came.
The nature of the source can best described with the words
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only have to open up to the inner spirit and remember. We
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I cannot say it enough; you originated from the source, collectively
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Bruce Moen a former engineer who received his original
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--- Bruce Moen's Afterlife Knowledge
website: http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/

--- More information about the "Afterlife Knowledge Guidebook":
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--- The Home Page of Lee Lawson: http://www.leelawson.com/

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Fechner was a 19th-century physicist, psychologist, and
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Fechner explains that death is a "birth" into another form of
existence where the quality of life is determined by one’s
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by William James, arguably the most insightful philosopher
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--- Gustav Theodor Fechner mega-links website:
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