"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land
or a poet who is a stranger among his people." - Kahlil Gibran

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Near-Death Newsletter..........................November 1, 2005
www.near-death.com .....................Vol. 04, No. 11, 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, VA ................. (P.M.H. Atwater's Website)

ANNOUNCEMENT: "Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children
and the Coming of the Fifth World" hit bookstores September 28th.
Get a copy. I know you will be surprised by what is in the book! It
is now time for all of us to move beyond labels such as indigo,
crystal, star, sky, cosmic, and psychic, and take a real look at
the REAL children now entering our world - and the Great Shifting
occurring everywhere!
http://tinyurl.com/7fjp4

LATEST HEADLINES FROM P.M.H:
(1) The Effect of Human Thought and Emotions on Weather Patterns\
(2) The Planetary Peace Gathering
(3) Books For People in Prison - Please Help
(4) Free Mandalas for Creative Spirits
http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/news.html

FREEBIES FROM P.M.H:
(1) Free Indigo "Extras" (web): http://tinyurl.com/8x4yp
(2) Free Indigo "Extras" (PDF): http://tinyurl.com/9rwzg
(3) The Challenge of Sept 11 (web): http://tinyurl.com/8mmpp
(4) The Challenge of Sept 11 (PDFk): http://tinyurl.com/agsnp

WHAT'S NEW ON P.M.H.'S WEBSITE:
(1) Article: "Earth Changes Have Begun": http://tinyurl.com/78ctp
(2) Book Review: "Talking with Angel: About Illness, Death and
Survival," by Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino: http://tinyurl.com/dt7gg
(3) Book Review: "Hear His Voice: The True Story of a Modern Day
Mystical Encounter with God!" by Nancy Clark: http://tinyurl.com/b34dz
(4) Upcoming Radio/Online Interviews: http://tinyurl.com/7b45m

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Halloween Special: A Spirit Photo
(Caution: This photo may shock you.)
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(October 30, 2005) -------------------- (Near-Death Newsletter)
In the spirit of Halloween (pun intended), I found a photograph
on the Internet which is the best "ghost" photo I have ever seen.
A teen was murdered in his home and his mother was so despondent
that she put her home on the market for sale and moved into an
apartment. In the process of selling her home, she took a number
of photographs of the interior of her home. When she received the
developed photographs, she looked through them all to see how they
turned out. When she came across one particular photograph, however,
what she saw shocked her so much that she ...
http://www.near-death.com/special/ghost_photo.html
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: "The Best Ghost Photos Ever Taken" from About.com:
http://tinyurl.com/bzzb4

--- Website: Credibility and Ghost Photos: http://tinyurl.com/d9lt9

--- Book: "Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places":
http://tinyurl.com/8avdj

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Near-Death Experiencers Wanted
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(October 30, 2005) -------------------- (Near-Death Newsletter)
The following organizations are looking for NDErs to share their
story:

(1) A top UK publisher is looking for personal NDE accounts
preferably from experiencers living in the UK. Contact Tammy Cohen
at tammymichael@....

(2) A national magazine called First For Women is seeking to
interview women who have had a NDE. Send a photo and full contact
info to: Christine Coppa, ccoppa@..., Bauer
Publishing, Special Projects, 270 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 07632, phone: (201) 569-6699 x394, fax: (201) 569-6264.

(3) NDErs needed for interview for a History Channel documentary
called "The History of Heaven" to be televised later this year.
Please email Associate Producer Ann LeSchander at annbbp@...
with your name, your testimony and your contact information.
http://www.near-death.com/studies.html
*** Related items of interest:

--- Video: "Hell: The Devil's Domain" (VHS) from the History Channel:
http://tinyurl.com/cdmg7

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Out-of-Body or All in the Mind? (Dr. Sam Parnia's NDE research)
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(September 22, 2005) --------------------------------- (BBC News)
Reports of OBEs and NDEs are often simply anecdotal, but the
hospital environment allows Sam Parnia to monitor and compare
oxygen, carbon dioxide and salt levels in the patients who did
and did not have either experience. His study also involves a novel
method of testing if the "self" actually does leave the body during
an OBE. Sam has suspended boards below the ceiling and these have
images on the upper side. The idea is that if people do look down
from above, they may recall the extra information. As yet, no
patients have reported seeing these images. Whether these phenomena
are visions of a dying brain or paranormal activity, Dr Parnia says
science needs to offer an explanation of what happens when we die.
"I think that NDEs hold the key to finally solving this mystery. In
studying them further we will be able to discover the true nature
of the relationship between the mind and the brain and answer
the wider questions regarding the existence of an afterlife."
http://tinyurl.com/bru58
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Is Out-of-Body All in the Mind?:
http://tinyurl.com/chft8

--- Website: Horizon Research Foundation:
http://www.horizonresearch.org

--- Book: "What Happens After Death" by Sam Parnia:
http://tinyurl.com/dbtq2

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A Tunnel Back to Life (Patrick Tierney's NDE)
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(October 30, 2005) ---------------------------------- (UOL News)
I felt a pinch in my chest and I found myself in a tunnel, what
seemed to be a tunnel. I walked or floated down the tunnel until
I came to ... two more tunnels. One was very bright and the other
one was black. So I took the one on the right, which was light,
and suddenly appeared before a picket fence, similar to the
fences you'd find around the old railway stations ... I was looking
out on an area which was multi-coloured. The colours were
beautiful. I can't describe them. The only way I could describe
them - it was a very, very beautiful garden. What seemed a few
seconds, my parents appeared from the side, were standing in
front of me, smiling. My mother-in-law, she joined them. They're
all smiling and I had the urge to go through the fence, through a
gate into the garden. And my father gave me a look which fathers
give to naughty children. In other words: "Don't do that, or else."
So I didn't go through the gate. Next thing I found I was back in
the tunnel going the way I'd come.
http://tinyurl.com/ccpfh
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: The NDE and the Tunnel on near-death.com:
http://tinyurl.com/chft8

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Seeing The Light (Rev. Elkan Kemp's NDE)
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(October 26, 2005) ----------------------------- (Herald Tribune)
Watching himself die and be resuscitated -- twice -- has brought
the Rev. Elkan Kemp to his own interpretation of a relationship
with God ... "I remember I was in the hospital and they were trying
to resuscitate me," Kemp said. "And I was off in one side of the
room watching what was going on while they were trying to bring
me back to life. At the time, it was not an emotional experience,
but just a matter-of-fact experience of witnessing it." Then there
was the pneumonia incident, when Kemp spent too long a period
on his back. It caused his breathing to become impaired and he
suffocated. "I saw the doctors working on my body, lifting me up.
And I heard the death rattle. The doctor pulled the sheet over my
body and said, 'We're done.' Then the nurse pulled it off and tried
again, and I came back," Kemp said. "It was kind of like a dream
or a nightmare."
http://tinyurl.com/8nzt3
*** Related items of interest:

--- Book: "How to Love Like Jesus Lived" by Rev. Elkan Kemp:
http://tinyurl.com/7rhq4

--- Book: "Breaking Down the Walls of New Jericho" by Rev. Elkan
Kemp: http://tinyurl.com/9md9s

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How Many Dance on the Pin? (Mark Patterson's NDE)
Note: You may have to register to read this article. It's free.
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(September 28, 2005) ------------------------ (The Daily Iowan)
He floated into an "almost blinding white light," he said. "I heard
dolphins clicking, and there was this really white light with a
blue hue," said Patterson, now 35. "Then I saw seven angels,
and they took me into a building. They were your traditional
angels with wings and everything. They were 14 feet tall, and
they were all females." During his time with the angels, Patterson
said he learned that God and angels love people's souls
unconditionally, understanding that the mind is a separate entity
that can force people to make bad decisions. "You feel so
peaceful and loved," he said, describing the angels' presence.
He added the angels explained to him people are reincarnated
until they learn to respond with love in bad situations instead of
anger. When he awoke in his bed the next morning after being
slammed back into his body, he didn't tell anyone about his
experience, but he did change his life. "I try to spend time
meditating, and it made me study religions to find the common truth
among all of them," said Patterson, who earned an undergraduate
degree in psychiatry. "It made me 100 percent responsible for myself."
http://tinyurl.com/c9c4c
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Mark Patterson:
http://tinyurl.com/8svmo

--- Book: "A Mystic's Way" by Mark Patterson:
http://tinyurl.com/doehd

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The Write Time (Graham Taylor's NDE)
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(October 7, 2005) ------------------------------------ (icWales)
"I've always been interested in the paranormal. I had a near-death
experience when I was six years old. I drowned in a river and
was resuscitated by my sister. While I was drowned I saw
another boy in the water. I was being dragged away from him
and I realised that this other boy was me. So I knew at the age
of six that there is some form of other existence and from then
on I've been searching, through every job and life situation I've
had, for this paranormal life ... When I published Shadowmancer
I had a series of dreams that told me what was going to happen
in the future and they've all come true," he explains.
http://tinyurl.com/bfalo
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Website of Graham Taylor:
http://www.shadowmancer.com

--- Book: "Shadowmancer" by Graham Taylor:
http://tinyurl.com/d2zc4

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Back from the Dead (Sgt. David Gratton's NDE)
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(October 3, 2005) --------------------------- (Sheffield Today)
A soldier "died" for 40 minutes after a horrorible car crash -
then amazed his Sheffield family by regaining consciousness.
Sgt. David Gratton was about to be deployed to Iraq when his
Army Land Rover was involved in a serious motorway collision.
The 22-year-old squaddie was brought back to life at a top
intensive care unit ... "My son was clinically dead for 40 minutes
but somehow a surgeon managed to save his life." David, who
was based at Aldershot Army barracks in Surrey, was travelling
in an Army Land Rover when it collided with another vehicle.
Rescue teams who attended the accident on the M3 in Basingstoke
in February failed to detect breathing and thought David had died.
Doctors later conducted a medical test which showed he had
the same level of consciousness as a dead body.
http://tinyurl.com/a37zb

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Near Death Experience (Joanie Thurston's NDE)
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(October 30, 2005) --------------------------- (BellaOnline)
Take Joanie Thurston for instance. She was a 52 year old woman
when she crashed her late model compact car into a light pole.
The force of the impact crushed her chest and caused major
internal damage. Moments later Thurston watched the paramedics
pull her from her car from above. Joanie wrote a book about her
near death experience called Possible Fatal with fellow writer,
Wally Johnston. She candidly reveals that one of the true miracles
of her near death experience is that she was changed for the better.
From everyday personality shifts to eradicating deep emotional
wounds, Thurston's NDE and its aftermath is a powerful biographical
testament.
http://tinyurl.com/d9utw
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Joanie Thurston:
http://www.possiblefatal.com

--- Book: "Possible Fatal" by Joanie Thurston:
http://tinyurl.com/9e6g4

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Tapes of Mellen-Thomas Benedict's NDE Presentations Are Available
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(October 30, 2005) ---------------------- (Virginia Beach IANDS)
On October 1, 2005, Mellen-Thomas Benedict spoke at the
Virginia Beach IANDS and an audiocassette tape and a VHS
videotape of his presentations were made. Copies are available
of his first presentation (a 2-hour audio tape) and his second
presentation (a 3-hour video) through the Virginia Beach IANDS.
For a donation to the Virginia Beach IANDS of $10 (also add $2
for shipping & handling), you can get either the audio tape or the
video tape. For a donation of $20 (also add $2 shipping & handling),
you can get both which is the recommended package from the
Virginia Beach IANDS. Place your order by sending an email to
Dick Dinges at RichardADinges@.... Specify whether you
want the 2-hour audio tape, the 3-hour video, or both (the
recommended package). Make your check out to "VBIANDS" and mail
it to this address: Dick Dinges, VBIANDS, 1285 Paramore Drive,
Virginia Beach, VA 23454.
http://www.vabeachiands.org
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Mellen-Thomas Benedict's NDE Testimony on near-death.com:
http://tinyurl.com/36md6

--- Website: The Official Site of Mellen-Thomas Benedict:
http://www.mellen-thomas.com

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Research to (Nearly) Die For
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(September 10, 2005) --------------------------- (Wired News)
Scientists probing the paranormal said on Wednesday they
hoped to set up a major experiment in Britain trying to find out
once and for all whether the mind can step outside the body
at the brink of death. The proposed study would involve interviewing
people who had survived cardiac arrest to see if they had had an
out of body experience while on the operating table. "Over the
course of a year we hope this would give us 100 people who
leave their bodies," neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick told reporters
at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science. The researchers plan to ask 25 hospitals to place
special objects and pictures around their cardiac units. Each
survivor who then claimed to have an out of body experience --
where they typically hover near the ceiling watching the resuscitation
process -- would be asked if they had noticed any of the objects.
"If they do notice them when the brain is not functioning then it
makes the case for the mind being separate from the brain," he said.
http://tinyurl.com/e4nlj
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Science and Spirituality: A Challenge for the 21st
Century: http://tinyurl.com/8upsm

--- Article: Peter Fenwick on What Is Enlightenment:
http://tinyurl.com/856dh

--- Book: All Titles by Peter Fenwick on Amazon.com:
http://tinyurl.com/dvma5

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Near-Death Experiences With Meningococcal Disease
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(July 2005) ------------ (Journal/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
Near-death experience is a term used to describe a unique
psychological experience in individuals who survive a life-threatening
medical condition such as cardiac arrest and includes one or several
of the following elements: the sensation of seeing one's body from a
vantage point outside the physical body (out-of-body experience);
entering a tunnel; meeting living or dead relatives; a strong
positive affect; encountering "religious" aspects such as a "being of
light," lights and colors, a celestial landscape or a deity; a
panoramic life review; and a ...
http://tinyurl.com/d8lhm
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Journal of of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:
http://tinyurl.com/8kpfd

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Maybe Death Isn't So Bad After All
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(September 15, 2005) -------------------------- (Nashville Scene)
The group, Friends of the International Association for Near-Death
Studies, have been meeting every fourth Saturday for about two
years. In the case of the mediator, Rev. Juliet Nightingale, her
life has slipped precariously from her hands not once, but three
times, from bouts of colon cancer, pneumonia and meningitis.
But these folks aren't concerned with the particulars of how they'd
died, but rather, how to live seeing what they've seen, knowing
what they know ... Nightingale mentions that she jetted around the
universe in death, and while she "saw scenes that were difficult to
look at," she never felt afraid. There is no ego in death, she
explains -- no attachment to people or things. What keeps spirits
around, according to these folks, is the energy of the living, who
refuse to let them pass. So the notion that people live on forever
in our memory, while comforting to us, may not be that great a shake
for those trying to get to more exciting destinations.
http://tinyurl.com/8fa4c
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Juliet Nightingale:
http://www.towardthelight.org

--- Website: Nashville Friends of IANDS:
http://tinyurl.com/88u9q

--- Book: Titles by Nashville NDErs:
http://tinyurl.com/b5hwg

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Out-Of-Body Experiences: Life Changing Benefits
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(September 2005) --------------------------------- (Lightworks)
The following are some of the many benefits that out-of-body
experiencers have reported worldwide in the last three decades ...
Development of a greater awareness of reality ... Personal
verification of our immortality ... Accelerated personal development
... A decreased fear of death ... Increased psychic abilities ...
An increased desire for answers ... Realizations concerning death ...
Accelerated human evolution ... Spontaneous healing ... More
expansive self-concept ... Increased spirituality ... Recognizing
and experiencing past-life influences ... Accelerated psychological
change ... Obtaining personal answers ... Encountering a being
of light, an angel, or nonphysical resident of some kind ... An
increased respect for life ... Increased self-respect,
self-responsibility and inner dependence ... A reduction in hostility,
violence and crime ... Increased knowledge and wisdom ... A profound
sense of knowing instead of believing ... An inner calmness ... An
increased zest for living ... Increased intelligence, memory recall
and enhanced imagination ... A sense of adventure.
http://tinyurl.com/c298z
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of William L. Buhlman:
http://www.astralinfo.org

--- Book: All Titles by William L. Buhlman:
http://tinyurl.com/exx6t

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Academia Embraces Spooky Studies
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(October 11, 2005) --------------------------- (Wired News)
At two of America's best universities, professors and doctors
are studying the existence of the soul, near-death experiences
and reincarnation ... The University of Virginia's Division of
Personality Studies is another hotbed of afterlife inquiry. It's
home to both near-death studies (why do people have visions
on the operating table?) and a researcher who compiles
reports of children who talk about their past lives. Have these
researchers actually found anything to suggest the existence
of a soul or afterlife? Schwartz said his research with about
20 mediums proves that some do indeed have a connection
to the dead, or at least a way to glean details about them.
http://tinyurl.com/by3s6
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: University of Virginia Division of Personality Studies:
http://tinyurl.com/2krrs

--- Website: The VERITAS Research Program:
http://veritas.arizona.edu

--- Book: "A World In A Grain Of Sand: The Clairvoyance Of
Stefan Ossowiecki" by M. Barrington, Ian Stevenson, Z. Weaver:
http://tinyurl.com/7gc68

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Two People Discuss How Dying, Living Changed Them
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(August 11, 2005) --------------------------- (ThisWeek News)
Nancy Clark is not afraid of dying. Neither is Dennis Hale.
Been there. Done that. Came back. Their deaths, they say,
changed their lives, and for the better. Clark, a resident of
Dublin, and Hale, who lives in the small town of Rock Creek
outside of Ashtabula, have both had what they classify as
near-death experiences. Clark is convinced she died during
the birth of her son in 1962. Hale firmly believes he passed
away in 1966 while floating on a life raft in Lake Huron following
the sinking of an ore freighter on which he was a member of
the crew. In addition, Clark had what she terms a "transcendent
experience" while delivering a eulogy in 1979 for a close family
friend who had been killed in a plane crash in Alaska. Clark
had attempted to completely ignore that first experience in 1962,
but not so in 1979 when, she says, once again she lifted out
of her body and saw that bright light. No longer concerned with
what people might think of her mental state, Clark began telling
family and friends what had happened to her in that funeral home.
http://tinyurl.com/9opcb
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Nancy Clark:
http://www.freewebs.com/nancy-clark/

--- Website: Columbus, Ohio Friends of IANDS facilitated by
Nancy Clark: http://tinyurl.com/aau8n

--- Book: "Hear His Voice: The True Story of a Modern Day
Mystical Encounter With God" by Nancy Clark:
http://tinyurl.com/e46pw

--- Book: "Sole Survivor: Dennis Hale's Own Story" by Dennis Hale,
Pat Stayer, Jim Stayer":
http://tinyurl.com/7mxvl

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Racing Veteran Back From the Dead
(The NDE of Rinaldo Maestrelli)
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(October 15, 2005) --------------------------- (The Scotsman)
"For 35 minutes he was dead, the doctors said, but somehow
his heart came back and it started beating again." Roberto
Zanini, a cardiac specialist at the hospital, said: "You do
sometimes get these sort of unusual cases in medicine. "For
25 minutes we had fought to save him with electrocardiogram
and massage but there was no response. "When there was
no sign of heart or brain activity he was declared dead, but
under Italian law he still had to be kept attached to the monitor
for two hours. Then a full 35 minutes later the machine beeped
again and his heart started beating. "Further chest massage
was given and he responded well this time - so much so that
he was able to speak and eat a light meal. "As a matter of
routine we checked the monitor and it was in perfect working order.
"The patient is still in hospital but is responding well to
treatment." Mr Maestrelli is now understood to be recovering.
Yesterday his wife, Anna Maria, said: "We just can't believe it.
This is truly a miracle."
http://tinyurl.com/9dnbp

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A Skeptic's Search For Proof of Afterlife:
"Spook" Applies Science to the Realm of Belief
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(October 9, 2005) ------------------ (San Francisco Chronicle)
And in the last chapter, "Six Feet Over," Roach reports on the
study that most excites her. At the University of Virginia Hospital,
Professor Bruce Greyson has set up a computer screen facing
the ceiling of a defibrillator-insertion surgery room where patients
routinely have "near-death experiences." During such out-of-body
wanderings, people often claim that they float somewhere near
the ceiling, watching their own surgery in progress. If so, they will
be able to see -- and later describe -- the image on Greyson's
computer screen, which would not be viewable from elsewhere
in the room. (Too bad the study is in too early a stage to have
produced any reportable data.) ... Indeed, this personal journey is
what the book most successfully captures: How a skeptic learned to be
a believer (or a possible believer, anyway), and still keep her wit
intact. http://tinyurl.com/8fy4l
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Death Becomes Her: Morbid Curiosity Led Author to
"Spook": http://tinyurl.com/9kauc

--- Article: Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for Survival of
Bodily Death: http://tinyurl.com/cndje

--- Website: University of Virginia Division of Personality Studies:
http://tinyurl.com/2krrs

--- Book: "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" by Mary Roach:
http://tinyurl.com/crqjt

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Robbery Victim Survives With 6 Bullets in Head
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(October 6, 2005) -------------------------- (The Decatur Daily)
The six bullets lodged in Jim Holladay's skull sometime make
his ears ring when he passes through a metal detector. But
he said they also gave him an opportunity to hear a joyful sound
never heard on Earth. For seven minutes that "seemed like
an eternity" Holladay, the victim of a 1992 robbery, said he
was dead. Before doctors at Huntsville Hospital revived him,
he said, he saw heaven approach, only to learn it wasn't his
time to be there. "But I was there long enough to hear the
heavenly choir," he said. "It was the most beautiful thing I ever
heard. It was way better than any rock band." Doctors told
Holladay, 39, at the time, that he seemed upset when his heart
started beating again. Holladay said he was mad because he
couldn't stay in heaven.
http://tinyurl.com/a3wx4

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Dog from the Afterlife Warns Woman of Need for a Mammogram
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(October 19, 2005) --------------------------- (eMediaWire)
In the Andersons' new release "Rainbows & Bridges: An Animal
Companion Memorial Kit", they deal with all aspects of pet loss,
including after-death reunions. McCluskey says in "Rainbows &
Bridges" that her deceased Great Dane Keira communicated
in a dream that her sister, of whom the dog had been fond, needed
a breast exam immediately. McCluskey related the warning to
her sister via an e-mail letter. About a week after the dream,
McCluskey's sister phoned and said that indeed, she had been
putting off having an exam of a lump in her right breast. She hadn't
wanted to alarm McCluskey by telling her about it. After reading
the letter about McCluskey's dream with Keira, the sister got a
mammogram and thankfully, found that the lump was benign.
http://tinyurl.com/c7nlz
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Near-Death Experiences with Animals:
http://www.near-death.com/animals.html

--- Website: The Angel Animals Network:
http://www.angelanimals.net

--- Book: All Titles by Allen & Linda Anderson:
http://tinyurl.com/b43wn

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Comatose Man Could Hear Everything
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(October 6, 2005) ------------------------------ (Cape Times)
An Italian man who spent two years supposedly unconscious
in a deep coma and written off by doctors as nearly dead,
awoke saying he had heard and understood everything
happening around him during his ordeal. Salvatore Crisafulli,
a father of four, is describing his case as a "miracle". His
brother said Crisafulli was "an Italian Terri Schiavo case",
a reference to the brain-damaged Florida woman who died
in March after her feeding tube was removed. Crisafulli, 38,
who had been injured in a road accident in 2003, emerged
from the coma three months ago, but began speaking only
recently. His first word was "Mama".
http://tinyurl.com/c9zax

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Greetings From Beyond: Loved Ones Have a Way of Reaching Us,
Even in the Afterlife
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(October 9, 2005) ---------------------- (Lansing State Journal)
She said that after some of the patients died, she continued
to work with their family members. "They were grieving, but
they were rational," Apollon said. "They were experiencing the
presence of their loved ones. They would sometimes hear them
calling out their names or they would be sitting on the couch and
suddenly the seat next to them would start to go down" ... She's
fascinated by what patients have told her about psychic dreams.
Most dreams are psychological, with issues from daily life and
symbols that may help provide meaning to them. Psychic dreams
are different. "A psychic dream may be one where you said to
your loved one before you go to bed, 'I hope we have a visit,'"
she said. "They're so real, and when you wake up it's a very
different experience than a psychological dream. You know that
you have had a connection with your loved one."
http://tinyurl.com/cfhpc
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Messages From Beyond: 5 Ways Lost Loved Ones
Communicate with Family and Friends:
http://tinyurl.com/a4f7d

--- Website: The Official Site of Susan Barbara Apollon:
http://www.touchedbytheextraordinary.com

--- Book: "Touched by the Extraordinary: An Intuitive Psychologist
Shares Insights, Lessons, and True Stories of Spirit and Love to
Transform and Heal the Soul" by Susan Apollon:
http://tinyurl.com/96ent

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Talk On After-Death Communications to Benefit Katrina Relief
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(October 11, 2005) --------------------------- (Tribune-Review)
Bill Guggenheim, co-author of "Hello from Heaven!," was invited
by Nick Roy, of Greensburg, who for nearly three years has led
meetings at WCCC to discuss purported contact from dead
people ... Guggenheim will talk about reported after-death
communication incidents that people claim helped them through
the loss of loved ones ... Roy's interest in after-death
communication began years ago, when he believes that his dead
brother contacted him by phone. He started a discussion group at
WCCC after he researched after-death communication and found others
with similar experiences. More than 400 people have attended and
enrollment has increased this semester ... His interest began in
1978 at a seminar by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, an expert on
death and dying who said a deceased patient "came back" to her.
Two years later, Guggenheim said, he had an experience that
saved the life of his youngest son, Jonathan, when he was a toddler.
The family had a pool with a locked safety gate, but the boy somehow
got through. Inside the house, Guggenheim claimed, he heard "in
his head" the voice of his dead father. "He told me to go outside
and check the swimming pool," he said. He found Jonathan floating
face down in the water. The boy survived. "That really grabbed my
attention," Guggenheim said.
http://tinyurl.com/dz4zs
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Hello From Heaven! Site:
http://www.after-death.com

--- Book: "Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research-After-Death
Communication Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal" by Bill
& Judy Guggenheim:
http://tinyurl.com/7jzgl

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Family Says Deceased Psychic Writes From Beyond the Grave
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(October 20, 2005) ------------------------------ (Yahoo News)
Rob Macomber and his family say they have been receiving
communications via "automatic writing transmissions" from
the spirit of the deceased psychic, Ruth Montgomery. The
Macombers are writing a book based upon the automatic writing
communications they say they began receiving after Mrs.
Montgomery's June 10, 2001 death. According to the Macombers,
these transmissions occur when the energy of a departed spirit
enters the body and moves the pen in the hand across the paper
on its own ... The book includes: A 3-part action plan that provides
solutions to the planet's greatest troubles. Why 50% of the book's
profits will be donated to help address the world's single most
pressing problem: the plight of the Third World. Ruth's description
of Heaven and the hope that she and the Spirit Guides have for
humanity. In one of her communications, she told the Macombers,
"It is fun doing this work from 'The Other Side.' There is so much
freedom 'up here' . . . I can't wait for the day when humans on Earth
will experience this kind of bliss." In another message, the Spirit
Guides explained: "To give away our many secrets is such a relief."
http://tinyurl.com/8zum3
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Ruth Montgomery on near-death.com:
http://tinyurl.com/aladr

--- Article: A Conversation with Ruth Montgomery:
http://www.tanika.com/ruth.htm

--- Book: "A World Beyond" by Ruth Montgomery:
http://tinyurl.com/axqdw

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A Walk to the Otherside
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(October 27, 2005) ------------------------------- (BBS Radio)
Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon debuted her new radio show, "A Walk
to the Otherside" on October 27th. Carla is the author of
"One Last Hug Before I Go: The Mystery and Meaning of
Deathbed Visions." Her radio show airs every other week
Thursdays 9 pm to 10 pm CST and her topics include healthy
spirituality, life after death research, healing grief and more.
Call-ins are welcome. Carla's up-beat program takes the fear
out of death by focusing in on research and investigation into
the incredible, mystical experiences that often occur around
the time of physical death, such as after death communications,
the paranormal departing visions of the dying and those who
love them, near death experiences and premonitions. For more
information on how to tune in every other Thursday night, visit
her website.
http://tinyurl.com/aamof
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.D.:
http://www.carlawillsbrandon.com

--- Books: All Titles by Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon on Amazon.com:
http://tinyurl.com/c9e4a

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Dreams May Ease Passing: Authors Reveal Theory on Dreams and Dying
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(October 19, 2005) -------------------- (Idaho Mountain Express)
To paraphrase Jane Austen, there are two truths universally
known. Everybody dies and everybody dreams, whether they
can remember them or not. An emerging notion is that the
dreams we have before we die may be particularly significant
and can be used to ease a terminal person and their families'
pain and grief. The Rev. Patricia Bulkley worked as a spiritual
counselor at a hospice in Marin County, Calif., for more than
10 years. What she found when speaking to patients was many
of her patients had stories to tell and dreams to share ... The
authors focus on three types of dreams and the symbols inherent
in them. These are dreaming that one is going on a journey and
all the excitement that entails, seeing dead who act as a guide,
and dreams where the dreamer resolves a conflict or faces a
recurrent sense of anxiety.
http://tinyurl.com/a2f7f
*** Related items of interest:

--- Audio: Listen to Newsweek's audio clip of Rev. Patricia Bulkley:
http://tinyurl.com/desj7

--- Website: International Association for the Study of Dreams:
http://www.asdreams.org

--- Book: "Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death
Dreams and Visions" by Kelly Bulkeley, Rev. Patricia Bulkley:
http://tinyurl.com/d85t3

--- Book: Read the first chapter of "Dreaming Beyond Death" (PDF):
http://tinyurl.com/bs6za

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Inside with Real-Life Ghost Whisperers
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(October 13, 2005) ----------------------- (Yahoo! Entertainment)
"Our research strongly suggests that [Van Praagh] is actually
receiving communication with the consciousness and energy
of the person who died," says Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University
of Arizona. "The simplest explanation that accounts for the largest
amount of information is the survival of consciousness after death."
Van Praagh is on a mission to help people understand that, so
they can evolve to the next life without fear. "The dead have a lot
to teach us," he says. "The dead always leave gifts behind. We
have to be open to receiving them. We are all connected in some
cosmic way. We are all one." "Mediums: We See Dead People"
also follows John Holland to a restaurant in Little Italy where he
"reads" the death of mobster Joey Gallo more than 30 years ago;
we visit the home of psychiatrist Raymond Moody, who is the
leading investigator of what he calls "life after life" and watch
Pam Coronado as she works with police to help solve crimes.
http://tinyurl.com/c9nv6
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Real-Life Ghost Whisperer: James Van Praagh:
http://tinyurl.com/cq4zl

--- Article: Is This Woman A Real-Life Ghost Whisperer?:
http://tinyurl.com/8vdys

--- Article: On The Set of "Ghost Whisperer":
http://tinyurl.com/7rxc3

--- Website: The Official Site of James Van Praagh:
http://www.vanpraagh.com

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Death as a Trip
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(October 28, 2005) -------------------- (Mail & Guardian Online)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a kind of Baedeker (i.e. travel
guide) for the afterlife and, like the best guidebooks, its
reassuring refrain is "Don't panic!" After death, it says, you will
be assailed by thunderous sounds and bewildering apparitions as
first the peaceful deities rise before you, then the wrathful ones,
who drink blood and eat the entrails of bloated corpses. If you are
very unlucky, Yama (representing the forces of impermanence
and the laws of cause and effect) will chop off your head, lick out
your brains and drink your blood, then eat you. The trick is not
to be afraid and to remember that you don't have a body any more,
so he can't hurt you ... This idea fascinated Jung, who revered
The Tibetan Book of the Dead as a great psychological work.
According to Highest Yoga Tantra (from which The Tibetan Book
of the Dead derives), only during the process of dying can we
achieve liberation from the cycle of existence. Advanced yogis
can make trial runs by inducing a deathlike state, but after death
the rest of us must try to remember what we've read in The Tibetan
Book of the Dead and put it into practice.
http://tinyurl.com/begzm
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: The NDEs of Buddhists on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/buddhism.html

--- Article: "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" on About.com:
http://tinyurl.com/7lnly

--- Book: "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" translated by Graham
Coleman, Gyurme Dorje, Thupten Jinpa:
http://tinyurl.com/94yde

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Homicide Police Captain Discusses Past Life as Artist
Carroll Beckwith
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(October 6, 2005) ------------------------- (NewsReleaseWire)
Captain Snow did not believe in reincarnation when he went
for a past life regression on a dare made by a fellow police
officer. To his surprise, in the regression Snow had a vivid
past life memory, which he states was "more real" than waking
consciousness. In the memory, he saw himself as an artist
painting a portrait of a hunchback woman. Snow remembered
20 specific details of this lifetime ... When Snow wandered into
a small art gallery in the French Quarter, he was shocked to find
the portrait of the hunchback woman, exactly as he had seen it
during the past life regression. The portrait was done by the
artist Carroll Beckwith. Snow found that Beckwith had a diary
preserved at the New York Academy of Design and upon reading it,
Captain Snow was able to validate all 20 memories from his
past life regression, which led to his writing, "Looking for Carroll
Beckwith." In this book, Captain Snow states he has proven
reincarnation to be true and remarks that if his reincarnation
case was presented in court, he would win "without plea bargaining."
Captain Snow has the same facial features as Carroll Beckwith.
http://tinyurl.com/8zb57
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Robert Snow's Reincarnation Case in Detail:
http://tinyurl.com/7nwf4

--- Website: The Official Site of Robert Snow:
http://www.robertsnow.com

--- Book: "Looking for Carroll Beckwith: The True Story of a
Detective's Search for His Past Life" by Robert Snow:
http://tinyurl.com/ballz

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Rebirth: Girl Tracks Old Parents
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(October 4, 2005) ----------------------------- (Times of India)
It was almost like living a miracle for a Gujjar family based in
south Delhi -- a four-year-old angel called Manisha walked
into their arms on the shraddh of their daughter who died about
five years ago. Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was
their deceased daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at
the age of 15 on December 14, 2000. The infant, who apparently
has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life
parents" as her own. "She ran into our arms when she saw us. She
pointed to me and said voh nahi yeh mere papa hai ," says
Chaudhary Kamal Singh, her father of the last birth.
http://tinyurl.com/bj829
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: "Reincarnation" on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation

--- Website: The Official Site of Carol Bowman:
http://www.childpastlives.org

--- Book: "Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of
Children's Memories of Previous Lives" by Jim Tucker:
http://tinyurl.com/7m9pz

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Ketamine Fact File
(An anaesthetic that triggers OBEs and NDEs)
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(October 7, 2005) -------------------------------- (BBC News)
The anaesthetic ketamine is growing in prevalence on the UK
dance scene, recent surveys have found. Best known by the
street names K, Special K and Vitamin K, ketamine is a
synthetic "dissociative" anaesthetic used for medical and
veterinary purposes ... Ketamine is dose-specific so the amount
taken determines the level of effect. At low doses the user
may feel euphoric, experience waves of energy, and possibly
synaesthesia - sensations such as seeing sounds or hearing
colours. At higher doses the user might become paralysed,
experience hallucinations and alternate realities, and a feeling
of disassociation giving an "out of body" experience known
as the "K-hole". Dr Susan Blackmore took ketamine in an
experiment - hear her experiences by clicking the audio button
above. "It is an extraordinary thing to be lying on your back,
not to be able to move anything at all except your eyes ..."
http://tinyurl.com/dm6w8
*** Related items of interest:

--- Psychologist Susan Blackmore on taking drugs for inspiration:
http://tinyurl.com/9uzc4

--- Article: Dr. Karl Jansen's Ketamine Research on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/lsd03.html

--- Book: "Ketamine: Dreams and Realities" by Dr. Karl Jansen:
http://tinyurl.com/caftf

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Web Site Takes Hauntings and Ghosts Seriously
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(October 23, 2005) ------------------------ (South Bend Tribune)
Spend some time on the Shadowlands Web site, and you'll
hear plenty of ghost stories ... Carlson counts herself as one
of those people. Now 43, she says she's dealt with ghosts
ever since age 2, when she almost died while stricken with
spinal meningitis. She recalls a "typical" near-death experience
with a twist: moving through a dark tunnel toward a bright light,
then seeing a woman who looked like her grandmother, and
hearing the woman say "you have a lot of people to help and to
make understand." Years later, she says, she was thumbing
through a family photo album and spotted the mysterious woman.
It was her great-aunt, she says, who had died years before her
experience. That was the first of many encounters with ghosts,
she says. Now, she spends much of her time looking for them
as director of the Las Vegas Society for Supernatural Investigation.
She also spends much time helping with the Shadowlands site,
and takes seriously the ghost stories visitors submit.
http://tinyurl.com/c564e
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of the Shadowlands:
http://www.theshadowlands.net

--- Website: South Jersey Ghost Research video archive:
http://www.sjgr.org/video.htm

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Experiences of Life, Death Shape Views in Oregon
(The doctor-assisted suicide debate)
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(October 2, 2005) -------------------------- (Stateman Journal)
Bill Fox, 75, said he supports the law [doctor-assisted suicide]
but that the safeguards -- such as requiring two doctors to ensure
a patient is mentally competent and terminally ill -- are necessary.
"A person in my stage now -- I have a few aches and pains -- no,
I wouldn't want to do it now, and I shouldn't have the right to do it
now," he said. "But if it got to the point of having a tremendous
amount of pain, I'd like the choice. I won't say that I would run to
my doctor and grab pills, but I would like the choice." Fox's
decision to support the law is partly because he survived an auto
accident that killed his wife and left him in a coma for three weeks
when he was 35. "I had an out-of-body experience -- a near-death
experience," he said. "I could look down at the operating table and
see the doctors. There was a sense of peace and calmness and joy
almost." His experience left him with no fear of death, so if
someday he is in terrible pain and dying of a terminal illness, he
said he wants the option of going to that peaceful place again."
http://tinyurl.com/c6h3b
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Compassion in Dying's Political Action page:
http://capwiz.com/compassionandchoices/home/

--- Website: Death With Dignity National Center:
http://www.deathwithdignity.org

--- Book: All Titles on Euthanasia on Amazon.com:
http://tinyurl.com/a823z

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Deep Sleep Can Make You Practically Unconscious
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(September 29, 2005) ---------------------------------- (KSDK)
New research shows some levels of sleep are so deep you're
practically unconscious. Researchers studied the brain activity
of study participants when they were asleep and awake. They
found that when participants were in the deepest levels of sleep,
the brain was not sending messages to other areas of the brain
like it did during wakefulness. Sleep basically cut off communication
between areas of the brain ... In the study, researchers activated
specific areas of the brain with magnetic stimulation, then using
an EEG measured the response to the stimulation. (The "message"
is sent along nerve pathways to many areas of the brain.) During
the day, the stimulation was spread across the brain. During sleep,
the stimulation was contained only to that region and was not
passed along to other areas. According to the lead author, "the
brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another."
http://tinyurl.com/86xjg

--- Article: Dreams and the NDE on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/dreams.html

--- Article: One Woman's Veridical OBE During Sleep:
http://www.near-death.com/tart.html

--- Article: Dream Lucidity and the NDE:
http://tinyurl.com/doopj

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12 Things that Science Can't Explain ... But That Happen Anyway
(Near-Death Experiences is one of them)
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(September 30, 2005) ---------------------- (The Remote Viewer)
In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated
showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken. In the
hard sciences: (1) DARK MATTER of an unknown form makes
up most of the matter of the universe. (2) THE LAW OF GRAVITY
appears to be seriously broken. (3) COLD FUSION. (4) CHARGE
CLUSTERS. Under certain conditions, billions of electrons can
"stick together" in close proximity, despite the law of
electromagnetism that like charges repel ... (5) COSMOLOGY. (6) SPEED
OF LIGHT, once thought unbreakable, has been exceeded in several
recent experiments. (7) ESP. Large-scale experiments by the Princeton
PEAR Lab as well as other laboratories have proven that ESP is
a real, statistically verifiable scientific phenomenon. (8)
PSYCHOKINESIS, or Mind Over Matter. (9) REMOTE VIEWING. (10) TIME AND
PROPHECY. One unusual aspect of ESP, remote viewing and
psychokinesis is that "time" doesn't seem to matter. (11) OUT-OF-BODY
EXPERIENCE. (12) GHOSTS.
http://tinyurl.com/duv3y
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Dr. Claude Swanson:
http://www.synchronizeduniverse.com

--- Book: "The Synchronized Universe: New Science of the Paranormal"
by Dr. Claude Swanson:
http://tinyurl.com/7rpac

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Name That Metaverse
(Virtual Reality as Another Dimension)
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(October 6, 2005) -------------------------------- (CNET News)
When tens of thousands of people can gather in a fully 3D
environment to buy and sell fanciful clothing, defy gravity
by flying, make friends from all over the world, build residential
communities, speculate on land prices, and create and license
software, what do you call it? For three years, Linden Lab, the
publisher of "Second Life," has grappled with that question.
"Second Life" is one of a very small number of so-called
virtual worlds that eschew the traditional medieval fantasy-based
role-playing game play common to such online blockbusters as
"World of Warcraft," "EverQuest" and "Ultima Online." As such,
Linden Lab is loathe to call "Second Life" a game, despite the
accessibility of such a term.
http://tinyurl.com/8h6jv
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: The Pros and Cons of Virtual Reality:
http://tinyurl.com/d394k

--- Article: Brave New World:
http://tinyurl.com/cys8x

--- Website: "Second Life" Virtual World:
http://www.secondlife.com

--- Website: Nick Bostrom's "Simulation Argument":
http://www.simulation-argument.com

--- Book: "Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and
its Implications" by Barrie Sherman, Phil Judkins:
http://tinyurl.com/ar8y3

--- Book: "Maya: The World as Virtual Reality" by Richard Thompson:
http://tinyurl.com/8k9rh

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Blind Woman Recognises Colour by Touch
(NDErs also experience synesthesia)
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(October 2005) -------------------------------------- (Ananova)
A blind woman has baffled scientists after proving on TV that
she can distinguish between colours by touch. Gabriele Simon,
48, from Wallenhorst in Germany, revealed her ability in her
country's most popular TV show Wetten dass. She used her
fingertips to recognise the different colours of various t-shirts
and blouses while blindfolded. She said: "I took me 20 years
to master this skill. It is a combination of pure learning and
concentration." Ms Simon added: "This ability really gives me
more independence, as I don't need to ask my mother about
what to wear anymore."
http://tinyurl.com/c3hkt
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Wikipedia on "Synesthesia":
http://tinyurl.com/b2qax

--- Article: Google search results for "synesthesia" "near-death":
http://tinyurl.com/9bqmd

--- Book: "Synesthesia: Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience"
by Lynn C. Robertson, Noam Sagiv:
http://tinyurl.com/9o3nm

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Quantum Immortality - A Thought Experiment
(Immortality may be possible in the quantum realm)
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(October 10, 2005) --------------- (QuantumBiocommunication)
Imagine that a physicist detonates a nuclear bomb located beside
her. In almost all parallel universes, the nuclear explosion will
vaporize the physicist. However, there should be a small set of
alternative universes in which the physicist somehow survives
(ie. the set of universes which support a "miraculous" survival
scenario). The idea behind quantum immortality is that the
physicist will remain alive in, and thus able to experience, at least
one of the universes in this set, even though these universes
form a tiny subset of all possible universes. Over time the physicist
would therefore consider herself to be living forever ... Proponents
point out that while it is highly speculative, quantum immortality
violates no known laws of physics.
http://tinyurl.com/8nrk3
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: The Man Who Would Murder Death:
http://tinyurl.com/9mume

--- Book: "Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying,
Reincarnation and Immortality" by Amit Goswami
http://tinyurl.com/dg3vz

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Scientists Able to Move an Object Without Touching
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(September 7, 2005) ------------------------------ (Scotsman)
Scientists at Edinburgh University have developed a way of
moving an object without touching it, in breakthrough research
which could be as revolutionary as the discovery of electricity.
The team of researchers has been able to move objects across
flat surfaces and even up a slope with nothing more than a
light beam. In the future, the technology could be developed
to make molecular machines, and with research could eventually
lead to the development of artificial muscles which can perform
specific physical tasks. Scientists believe such machines could
one day be used to control the movement of drugs around the human
body, making sure they go exactly where they are needed. And they
could also find their way into "smart" materials, which can change
their properties in response to a stimulus such as light.
http://tinyurl.com/bluqe
*** Related items of interest:

--- Book: "The Pk Man: A True Story of Mind over Matter"
by Jeffrey Mishlove, John E. Mack
http://tinyurl.com/82dag

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Get Prepared: Preparedness An Everyday Task for Everyday Life
(How to survive the coming Earth changes)
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(October 30, 2005) ------------------------ (American Red Cross)
Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school,
work and in your community. Disaster can strike quickly and
without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood,
workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What
would you do if basic services -- water, gas, electricity or
telephones -- were cut off? Local officials and relief workers
will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach
everyone right away. Therefore, the best way to make you and
your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes ...
Possible disasters include blackouts, chemical emergencies,
drought, earthquakes, fires, floods, heat waves, hurricanes,
mudslides, terrorism, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunami, volcanoes,
wild fires, and winter storms.
http://tinyurl.com/c6f97
*** Related items of interest:

--- Product: "The Guide" Survival Kit by Basic Outdoor Life
Sustainment: http://tinyurl.com/9putk

--- Product: Adventure Medical Backcountry First Aid Kit:
http://tinyurl.com/dhv4g

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

--- Books by P.M.H. Atwater: http://tinyurl.com/bvkmz

QUESTION: "A woman whose sister had an abortion years ago,
then in recent years became very religious and was feeling guilty
and troubled about the abortion she once had, contacted me to
see if there were any insights in near-death research that might
help her sister. "I have never really done much research about
abortions except that I know the Bible is actually pro-choice
because of all the abortions "God" caused in the Old Testament,
and the abortions which the prophet Moses prayed would happen
to Israel's enemies which 'God' answered. And I know about the
story of Josiane Antonette who had an abortion which resulted in a
near-death experience - a wonderful one. I am pro-choice myself
and believe NDErs in general support pro-choice. But to find out,
I spent most of the day searching case histories concerning abortions
and miscarriages. I stumbled across one particular near-death
experience involving a miscarriage that, truly, was one of the best
cases I had ever heard of. It was so full of insights, so very
touching, it just "blew" me away. Then I discovered to my complete
amazement that I had been reading about your near-death experience.
You! One of the many aspects to your testimony that amazed me was
that you chose not to have an abortion, yet you stated that you would
defend any woman's right to choose to have one. This was all the
confirmation I needed to answer the woman concerned about her
sister. But, I'd like to ask you, is there a NDE-position on
abortion? What have you found in your research?" -- Kevin Williams

Read P.M.H.'s answers here: http://tinyurl.com/8wwbv

Blessings, P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.

- P.M.H. Atwater's website:
http://www.pmhatwater.com
- Atwater's research on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/atwater.html
- Atwater's Marketplace (a public service):
http://www.pmhatwater.com/goddessrunes.html

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(3) Books on the NDE
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--- More NDE books available at the Near-Death Online Store:
http://tinyurl.com/bk3td

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New NDE Books Coming Soon!
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The following NDE Books are due for release on January 2006:

"What Happens when We Die: A Groundbreaking Study into the
Nature of Life and Death" by Sam Parnia: http://tinyurl.com/dbtq2

"Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think
about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human"
by Susan Blackmore: http://tinyurl.com/78vnc

"Animals and the Afterlife: True Stories of Our Best Friends'
Journey Beyond Death" by Kim Sheridan: http://tinyurl.com/bxvv8

"Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention by Catherine Lanigan:
http://tinyurl.com/9vkvm

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Is There Life After Death? (2 Compact Discs)
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by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ----------------------- (Available: Now)
In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed the way we think
about the final stage of our lives with her revolutionary book,
"On Death and Dying." Now, in this landmark recording, this
revered researcher speaks about her largely private revelations,
observations, and conclusions on life after death. Dr. Kübler-Ross,
the first scientist to embark upon a genuine inquiry on the
similarities between near-death experiences of people all over the
world, gathered empirical data and personal impressions from
countless studies that informed her opinions on what awaits us all
when we leave this life. From her family archives comes a rare
published audio of this trailblazing author speaking in her own
words, as she engages the oldest question of all: Is There Life
After Death?
http://tinyurl.com/b5oub
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts02.html

--- Website: The Official Site of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:
http://www.elisabethkublerross.com

--- Books: All Titles by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:
http://tinyurl.com/ae5e6

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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by Mary Roach ------------------------------- (Available: Now)
Roach travels the world in search of answers: she heads to
India to conduct research with a doctor who investigates cases
of children whose families claim they are reincarnations of
people from nearby villages and have the memories to prove it;
she goes to the University of Arizona and meets with mediums
currently working today; she tries her hand at telecommunication
with the dead in the forests of California; and she even tries her
hand at getting in touch with her own inner medium at a school
in England. Roach is dogged in her approach as she examines
each phenomenon through the lens of scientific fact. In the end,
she usually walks away skeptical. The journey itself, however,
is gripping, and Roach's witty asides liven up an already
interesting and unusual read.
http://tinyurl.com/crqjt
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: A Book Review of "Spook" by Skeptic's Dictionary:
http://tinyurl.com/awnv9

--- Website: The Official Site of Mary Roach's Spook Site:
http://www.booknoise.net/spook/

--- Website: The Official Site of Mary Roach's Stiff Site:
http://www.booknoise.net/stiff/

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The Truth about Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the real
Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and other Remarkable Psychics
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by Gary E. Schwartz, William L. Simon --------- (Available: Now)
Every Monday night millions of Americans tune into Medium, NBC's
new hit drama featuring Allison DuBois, an ordinary woman who helps
police solve baffling crimes through her ability to communicate with
the dead. What most don't know is that this fictional character is
based on a true-life medium named Allison DuBois, who is a consultant
to the show. For the past four years, DuBois has been the subject of
rigorous scientific experiments conducted at the University of
Arizona by Harvard-trained psychologist Gary Schwartz. The Truth
about Medium chronicles many of those experiments and reveals hard
laboratory evidence that psychic ability and mediumship are real.
http://tinyurl.com/9yhwm
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Gary E. Schwartz:
http://www.openmindsciences.com

--- Website: The Official Site of Allison DuBois:
http://www.allisondubois.com

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The Dreamer's Book of the Dead: A Soul Traveler's Guide to
Death, Dying, and the Other Side
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by Robert Moss ------------------------------ (Available: Now)
In The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains
that we have entirely natural contact with the departed in our
dreams, when they come visiting and we may travel into their
realms. As we become active dreamers, we can heal our
relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of
death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides
for others, helping the dying to approach the last stage of life
with courage and grace, opening gates for their journeys
beyond death, and even escorting them to the Other Side.
http://tinyurl.com/dxrva
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Robert Moss:
http://www.mossdreams.com

--- Book: All Titles by Robert Moss on Amazon.com:
http://tinyurl.com/dk7o9

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Afterlife Encounters: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences
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by Dianne Arcangel, Gary E. Schwartz ----------- (Available: Now)
Afterlife Encounters is the culmination of the Afterlife Encounters
Survey, Arcangel's five-year, international survival study. Arcangel
presents all-new, first-hand accounts from individuals who've
experienced visitations from the dead. Afterlife Encounters reveals
the results of that study and, for the first-time, offers a
systematic categorization of such encounters, explaining when these
encounters are most likely to occur, and what type of apparition is
likely to appear. Arcangel's eye-opening conclusion is that Afterlife
Encounters provide lasting comfort to those who are mourning the loss
of a loved one. http://tinyurl.com/7hs2r
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Dianne Arcangel:
http://www.psychomanteum.com

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Induced After-Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing
Grief and Trauma
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by Allan Botkin, R. Craig Hogan --------------- (Available: Now)
Induced After-Death Communication is a new therapy that has
helped thousands of patients permanently assuage their grief by
allowing them private communication with their departed loved ones.
Botkin, a clinical psychologist, created the therapy while
counseling Vietnam vets in his work at a North Chicago VA hospital.
Induced After-Death Communication presents the story of how Botkin
initially made his discovery and includes 84 cases of patients who
have experienced the therapy's profound healing effects. After more
than two decades as a clinical psychologist specializing in the
treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Botkin founded the
Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss.
http://tinyurl.com/9hgzl
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Dr. Allan Botkin's research on near-death.com
http://tinyurl.com/dg2qg

--- Website: The Official Site of Dr. Allan Botkin:
http://www.induced-adc.com

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