"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness,
in a descending spiral of destruction.
The chain reaction of evil must be broken,
or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Near-Death Newsletter......................... February 1, 2005
www.near-death.com .................... Vol. 04, No. 02, Ed. 01
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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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(c) Kenneth Ring turns 70
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IANDS Spiritual Retreat for Near-Death Experiencers to be
Held on April 17-20, 2006, at Mercy Center, St. Louis, Missouri
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(February 1, 2006) (IANDS)
This retreat is open to near-death experiencers who wish to
come together in a peaceful setting to talk about issues
related to coming back and other topics of concern to NDErs.
Sign-up at this IANDS web page: http://tinyurl.com/agtks .
Registration deadline is March 15th, 2006. Price includes
room, breakfast, lunch, dinner and workshops.
http://tinyurl.com/7fea9
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Mercy Center Conference/Retreat: http://tinyurl.com/93mlw

--- Directions to Mercy Center, St. Louis, MO:
(a) Mercy Center directions: http://tinyurl.com/7uxoq
(b) Google Map directions: http://tinyurl.com/baelf

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2006 IANDS Annual North American Conference to be
Held on October 24-29, in Houston, Texas
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(February 1, 2006) (IANDS)
The first day of the conference will focus on the needs and
interests of the medical community. Greater effort will be
made to appeal to physicians and nurses, and other health-care
providers. The remaining three days will cover the gamut of
near-death experiences, their aftereffects and implications.
The public is invited. Details given when available. Advance
information can be obtained through the IANDS office in
Connecticut: phone (860) 882-1211 or email office@....
http://iands.org/

--- Website: IANDS Conference web page: http://tinyurl.com/d2nxw

--- Subscribe to IANDS Mailing List: http://tinyurl.com/al9lq

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New IANDS Multimedia Downloads Now Available
(CD-ROMs, Audiocassettes, PDFs, and MP3s)
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(February 1, 2006) (IANDS)
You can now purchase IANDS Conference presentations
from the following years: 2005 (download or CD-ROM),
2004 (download or CD-ROM), 2003 (download or audio tapes),
2002, 2001 (download or audio tapes), 2000 (download or
audio tapes), 1999 (audio tapes), 1998 (download or audio
tapes), 1997 (audio tapes), 1996 (audio tapes), 1995 (audio
tapes), 1994 (audio tapes), and 1993 (audio tapes). Also
available from IANDS include: NDE Research CD-ROMs,
free downloadable NDE Brochures, Selected Bibliography
of Near-Death Experiences, Near-Death Experiences: Index
to the Periodical Literature through 2001, and the Journal of
Near-Death Studies.
http://tinyurl.com/7gypm
*** Related items of interest:

--- CD-ROMs and Audiocassettes from IANDS: http://tinyurl.com/7gypm

--- PDFs from IANDS: http://iands.org/brochures.html

--- MP3s from IANDS: http://tinyurl.com/8u37n

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Brief Encounters of a Different Kind
(The NDE of Diane Willis)
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(January 30, 2006) Columbia Chronicle Online
In 1994, Diane Willis was sitting at home reading the Chicago
Tribune when it happened. The article she was reading,
"Beyond the crystal ball" by Marya Smith about local psychic
and spiritual author Sonia Choquette, began to do something
Willis hadn't expected ... Willis had a near-death experience
without having been injured or hospitalized. This event, as
well as others, would later influence her to found the Chicago
chapter of the International Association of Near-Death Studies ...
Through a series of events, Willis discovered Transitions, a
spiritual bookstore, and decided to visit it one day when she
had time. Upon arriving at the store, she found out that Choquette
was going to be speaking and signing copies of her book
The Psychic Pathway that following Sunday.
http://tinyurl.com/747ba
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Chicago IANDS: http://chicagoiands.org/

--- Website: The Official Site of Diane Willis: http://dianewillis.com/

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Life Goes On
(Pim van Lommel's NDE Research)
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(January 2006) Ode Magazine
When the The Lancet published his study of near-death
experiences, Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel couldn’t
have known it would make him into one of the world’s
most-talked-about scientists. It seems everyone wants to
know about the man who managed to get his study of this
controversial topic published in one of the leading journals
of medical research. Yet it’s not really surprising that its
publication in 2001 created a stir. Never before had such
a systematic study been conducted into the experiences
of people who were declared dead and then came back to life ...
http://tinyurl.com/9q9q7
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: The Lancet Study on NDEs: http://www.iands.org/dutch_study.html

--- Article: The Continuity of Our Consciousness: http://tinyurl.com/89ro3

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Is There Life After Death?
(Pim van Lommel's Press Release)
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(January 19, 2006) PRWeb
Top cardiologist to talk at London conference about near-death
experiences (NDEs). He claims to have proven the existence
of life after death in scientific trial. A leading cardiologist — who
has become convinced of the existence of life after death
after hearing his patients’ experiences — is talking about
his research and beliefs at a major conference in London in
March. Dr. Pim van Lommel was so inspired by the stories
related by his patients of their NDEs that he became the
first medical practitioner to risk his reputation with a full,
systematic trial into the phenomenon ...
http://tinyurl.com/9a9sf
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Pim van Lommel's reply to pseudoskeptics: http://tinyurl.com/dm83p

--- Event: A Living The Field Conference, London, UK: http://tinyurl.com/78n7q

--- Website: The Official Site of Lynne McTaggart:
http://www.livingthefield.com/

--- Book: Order a FREE copy of Lynne McTaggart's 48-part course in holistic
living:
http://tinyurl.com/apglv

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Former Atheist to Tell How Near-Death Changed Life
(Rev. Howard Storm's discusses his NDE)
(Note: You may need to register to read this article. It's free)
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(January 28, 2006) Dayton Daily News
In 1985, Storm lay dying of a perforated intestine in a Paris
hospital when he underwent "the most amazing experience."
"Doctors said I was on death's door. Then Satan took me
down to hell and tormented me," he recalled. "In that place
I called out to Jesus; not out of faith, out of desperation. I didn't
know what else to do. Jesus grabbed me and took me up
toward Heaven. I saw myself lying in the bed. I couldn't believe
it was me. I kept telling myself 'I'm not crazy.' Jesus and I
conversed, and he gave me a life review. It was so vivid and
profound, it totally changed my life."
http://tinyurl.com/7zlru
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Howard Storm's NDE: http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

--- Book: "My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life":
http://tinyurl.com/avf7t

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World Renown NDEr and Singer Produces a New CD Called
"The Side Effects of Dying"
(The NDE Music of Pam Reynolds & Rob Robinson)
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(January 1, 2006) NDE Records
Review: Many people know of Pam Reynolds because her
NDE is one of the most medically documented and verifiable.
Her NDE testimony has become a benchmark case for the
survival of consciousness after death. Pam's life signs were
absent and by all medical criteria she was dead for almost
an hour. While there are many NDE books available, Pam
has now presented the NDE message in a entirely original
and exciting way. She and her writing and singing partner,
Rob Robinson, have produced a CD called "The Side Effects
of Dying" ...
http://tinyurl.com/7a55c
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Pam Reynold's NDE: http://tinyurl.com/bs2pk

--- Website: The Official Site of Pam Reynolds: http://tinyurl.com/8k9yh

--- Website: Pam's NDE Record Company: http://www.nderecords.com/

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Breathe and Experience God
(The NDE of Julie Lapham)
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(January 15, 2006) News Record
An accident in a chemistry lab when Julie Lapham was 26
changed her life in a way she never imagined. One minute
she was an up-and-coming scientist, and the next she lay
dying from a severed artery and nerve in her wrist. What she
described as a near-death experience ultimately led her
down a new career path. "I remember floating above them
as they worked on me in the hospital, and then I saw a light,
and then something made me turn and the experience was
over," said Lapham, 61 ...
http://tinyurl.com/8vtob
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Themis Institute: http://www.themisonline.org/

--- Book: "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart
Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path": http://tinyurl.com/9mkb9

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Spielberg's "Nine Lives"
(A Steven Spielberg NDE mini-series coming soon)
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(January 17, 2006) Film Stew
DreamWorks and Spielberg have been given the green light
to do another miniseries for the NBC-owned Sci Fi Channel,
by the same team that did Steven Spielberg's "Taken". The
12-hour mini will be called "Nine Lives", about characters in
grief over the loss of loved ones, and how they manage to
reunite with them in near-death experiences ...
http://tinyurl.com/a24qt
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Sci-Fi Channel on "Nine Lives": http://tinyurl.com/c7o4o

--- Website: The Official Site of Dreamworks: http://www.dreamworks.com/

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Laugh? I Nearly Died
(The "NDE" of Hollywood Actor Alan Alda)
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(January 28, 2006) The Standard
When Alan Alda survived a life-threatening operation he felt
like a man reborn. His only illness now, he tells Tom Shone,
is his compulsion to amuse. In autumn 2003, Alan Alda was
in Chile recording a segment for Scientific American Frontiers,
a popular science program he has fronted for almost 20 years.
He was staring up at the Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope
when he came down with fierce abdominal cramps ... The book
started as an account of his near-death experience in Chile, which
he passed to his friend, the actor Charles Grodin, who passed
it to his editor at Random House.
http://tinyurl.com/d7o7k
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Alan Alda: http://www.alanaldabook.com/

--- Website: Scientific American Frontiers: http://www.pbs.org/saf/

--- Book: "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things
I've Learned" by Alan Alda: http://tinyurl.com/8nqvf

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Dante's Inferno: Is It Real? Author Describes Nightmare of
Unimaginable Proportions -- His Near-Death Experience in Hell
(The NDE of B. W. Melvin)
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(December 11, 2005) PRWeb
Containing scenes of the afterlife once repudiated as untrue
and mythical, "A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion" by B.W.
Melvin paints a vivid portrayal of what actually does lie beyond
the grave. The descriptions of hell are incredibly detailed.
Melvin encountered demonic creatures only imagined by
horror movie screenwriters ...
http://tinyurl.com/c2to4
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Xulon Press: http://tinyurl.com/cbg8o

--- Book: "A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion" by B. W. Melvin:
http://tinyurl.com/7f3b3

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Doctor Ossie Launches Near-Death Experience
(A Holographic Explanation of the NDE)
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(December 18, 2005) Jamaica Gleaner
The issue of consciousness in the materialistic and non-materialistic
world has long been a topic of debate among members of the
philosophical and scientific community. In his new book,
"Near-Death Experience ­ A Holographic Explanation," Hon.
Dr. Oswald Harding tackles this question head-on, zoning in
on a particular phenomenon, the near-death experience (NDE) ...
http://tinyurl.com/9586b
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: A Simple Introduction to the Holographic Universe
by Michael Talbot: http://tinyurl.com/3yzq9

--- Article: "Nature’s Mind: the Quantum Hologram"
by Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D.: http://tinyurl.com/9vhlp

--- Articles: Consciousness and Physics articles compiled
by David Chalmers Ph.D.: http://tinyurl.com/a8zle

--- Book: "Near-Death Experience: A Holographic Explanation"
by Dr. Oswald Harding: http://tinyurl.com/cxxah

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Pre-Birth Existence -- New Research and Case Studies
Reveal Truths About Where We Come From and the Meaning
of Human Existence
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(January 12, 2006) PRWeb
When does human existence begin? And, where do we come
from? Insights into these and other significant questions are
revealed in the recently released book, "Songs of the Morning
Stars", by Arizona researcher and author, Sarah Hinze. This
powerful and insightful volume comes as the result of nearly
two decades of extensive research, including in-depth interviews
with hundreds of parents who have had personal encounters
with their children before birth or even before conception.
According to Hinze, “These unborn children can warn, protect
and enlighten us from another plane of existence. Most often
they appear to announce it is their time to be born.”
http://tinyurl.com/dvku9
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Pre-Birth Experiences in the Media: http://tinyurl.com/ch9po

--- Website: The Official Site of Sarah Hinze: http://www.royalchild.com/

--- Book: "Songs of the Morning Stars" by Sarah Hinze: http://tinyurl.com/dt46j

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Can Quantum Physics Explain the Paranormal?
(Has the brain explained the mind fully?)
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(December 1, 2005) Quantum Biocommunication
Two main problems with explaining the paranormal with current
science are: (1) In some paranormal phenomena, telepathy,
for example, there is a transfer of information from one person
to another at a distance but without any obvious physical means.
How does information get from one point of space to another
without the exchange of something physical, a signal for example? ...
http://tinyurl.com/axjjt
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Quantum Biocommunications: http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/

--- Article: "Scientific Proof of the Existence of God":
http://tinyurl.com/9e5n4

--- Book: "The Self-Aware Universe" by Amit Goswami: http://tinyurl.com/b8epd

--- Book: "SynchroFile: Amazing Personal Encounters With Synchronicity And
Other Strange Phenomena" by Raymond E. Fowler: http://tinyurl.com/akuoj

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Is Science Ready For The Conscious Universe?
(Does a science of consciousness exist?)
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(November 7, 2005) Quantum Biocommunication
In science, the acceptance of new ideas follows a predictable,
four-stage sequence. In Stage 1, skeptics confidently proclaim
that the idea is impossible because it violates the Laws of
Science. This stage can last from years to centuries, depending
on how much the idea challenges conventional wisdom. In
Stage 2, skeptics reluctantly concede that the idea is possible,
but it is not very interesting and the claimed effects are extremely
weak. Stage 3 begins when the mainstream realizes that the
idea is not only important, but its effects are much stronger
and more pervasive than previously imagined. Stage 4 is
achieved when the same critics who used to disavow any interest
in the idea begin to proclaim that they thought of it first. Eventually,
no one remembers that the idea was once considered a
dangerous heresy ...
http://tinyurl.com/aqvjh
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Dean Radin: http://www.deanradin.com/

--- Book: "The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic
Phenomena" by Dean Radin: http://tinyurl.com/9jkk3

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Searching for the Memory of the Universe
(How quantum physics reveals life’s biggest mystery)
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(December 10, 2005) Quantum Biocommunication
Quantum physics has long sought after a “Theory of Everything”
(TOE), or a single mathematical equation that could account
for all the laws in the universe. In "Science and the Akashic
Field", Laszlo proposes that a genuine TOE is achievable.
Western scientists are beginning to discover what has been
documented by Eastern sages and mystics for thousands of
years; that within nature exists an interconnecting field that
interweaves every atom, cell, organism, and mind, throughout
time – “The Akashic Record.” This field acts as “the memory
of the universe” and “continuously interacts with matter at every
level from subatomic to cosmic to influence the way every living
thing grows, adapts, and evolves.”
http://tinyurl.com/dmpvc
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Ervin Laszlo at Inner Traditions: http://tinyurl.com/dm3t4

--- Book: "Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory
of Everything" by Ervin Laszlo: http://tinyurl.com/cl5yx

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Magic, Deeds, and Universalism
(NDE researcher Ken R. Vincent's article on Universalism)
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(December 1, 2005) Universalist Herald
In ancient Greece, the Afterlife in very early times was seen
as a very gloomy place where everyone went. But by the time
of Plato, the idea of judgment according to deeds had developed.
In Plato’s Republic, the story is told about Er, the world’s
oldest recorded near-death experiencer, who revives on his
funeral pyre and tells of a judgment at death by three judges.
The good ascend to Paradise, and the evil descend to Hell.
But after a period of time, Plato also mentions the possibility
of reincarnation. Pythagoras also was an advocate of reincarnation.
In the mysteries that were popular in the later Greek and Roman
periods, we are given a chance for an “up-grade” in the Afterlife
via the magical rites of the mysteries of Orpheus, Dionysus,
Demeter and Persephone, Mithra, Isis and Osiris, etc ...
http://tinyurl.com/8sm85
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: "The NDE and Christian Universalism": http://tinyurl.com/9u9nv

--- Website: The oldest continuously published liberal religious periodical
in North America - The Universalist-Herald: http://www.universalist-herald.net/

--- Book: "The Golden Thread: God's Promise of Universal Salvation"
by Ken R. Vincent: http://tinyurl.com/e2ezm

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Top Court Protects Assisted Suicides
(Supreme Court strengthens your right to life and death)
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(January 18, 2006) Daily Record
The Supreme Court Tuesday blocked the Bush administration's
attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die,
protecting Oregon's one-of-a-kind assisted-suicide law ...
The administration improperly tried to use a federal drug law
to pursue Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal doses of
prescription medicines, the court said in a rebuke to former
Attorney General John Ashcroft. The 6-3 ruling could encourage
other states to consider copying Oregon's law, used to end
the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people in that state.
The decision, one of the biggest expected from the court this
year, also could set the stage for Congress to attempt to outlaw
assisted suicide ...
http://tinyurl.com/b4fqf
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: "Suicide and the NDE": http://www.near-death.com/suicide.html

--- Website: End-of-Life Choices Organization: http://tinyurl.com/e2bry

--- Website: Compassion & Choices Action Center: http://tinyurl.com/akrc4

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Preparing for the Coming Influenza Pandemic
(Download your free PDF about "Bird Flu")
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(December 1, 2005) Ancient Visions of Modern Wisdom
An extraordinary event is happening right now in Southeast
Asia that has the potential to affect humanity in ways thought
banished years ago. Scientists are closely monitoring what
looks like the birth of a super strain of one of humankind’s
oldest and most persistent enemies, the influenza virus. This
new strain has the potential to kill hundreds of millions given
the right conditions. According to the World Health Organization
and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
required conditions are now in place. We stand on the verge
of a once a century influenza pandemic, an event quite different
from our routine seasonal flu. Pandemic flu spreads like wildfire
through the human race leaving death, chaos, and civil disorder
in its wake. John Jay Harper is the author of Tranceformers:
Shamans of the 21st Century
http://tinyurl.com/9uamx
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Download your free PDF about "Bird Flu":
http://www.johnjayharper.com/

--- Articles: Centers For Disease Control and Prevention Articles:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/

--- Book: "Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century"
by John Jay Harper: http://tinyurl.com/e3zy3

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Teen Saves Woman Who Once Saved Him
(A good example of karmic debt in action)
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(February 6, 2006) WGRZ
A buffalo teen has saved the life of the same woman who
saved his life years earlier. Seven years ago, Lancaster's
Kevin Stephan was a bat boy for his little brother's little-league
baseball team. A player who was warming up accidentally hit
him in the chest with a bat. Kevin's heart stopped beating ...
"All I remember is that I dropped the bat off, and all of a
sudden just got hit in the chest with something, and I turned
around and passed out," Kevin said. Fortunately, a nurse
whose son played on that team was able to revive Kevin and
save his life.
http://tinyurl.com/b4n98
*** Related items of interest:

--- Articles: Wikipedia's listings of these related topics:
(a) "Karma": http://tinyurl.com/7l2sj
(b) "Synchronicity": http://tinyurl.com/d2jqb
(c) "Nondualism": http://tinyurl.com/7r9ft
(d) "Oneness": http://tinyurl.com/79ymg

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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.
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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.

QUESTION 1: "... When I was back in my body after the emergency
caesarian in which I stopped breathing for 45 minutes and was
stone cold gone. When I came back, for weeks my body felt like
someone had draped a heavy skeleton over me ... but I wonder
if you've ever heard of this strange misfit approach on reintegration
after a near-death experience?" -- Jenny

QUESTION 2: "... There is one important issue I have not been
able to find information about anywhere: the effect of mental illness
on what happens to people when they die ... Could a person die
and find out that they suddenly have a very different personality
than they did on earth, because their personality traits were
conditioned by the health or sickness of the brain, and the brain
is now dead?" -- Eric

P.M.H. ANSWERS HERE: http://tinyurl.com/8wwbv

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P.M.H.'s Online Radio Interviews Archives:
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--- Listen online any time to these interviews with P.M.H.:
(a) http://tinyurl.com/8dtdo
(b) http://tinyurl.com/ckg34

--- Listen to her interviews at Beyond The Ordinary:
(a) http://tinyurl.com/9olo9

--- Listen to her interviews with Mysteries of the Mind:
(a) http://tinyurl.com/7hd4u

--- Listen to her interviews with Psychic Sahar Huneidi on these topics:
(a) "Beyond the Indigo Children": http://tinyurl.com/byu2r
(b) "Future Memory": http://tinyurl.com/95tvt
(c) Adult NDEs: http://tinyurl.com/8zrwz
(d) Children's NDEs: http://tinyurl.com/a6l9p

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--- Her Official Website: http://www.pmhatwater.com
--- Her Multimedia page: http://www.near-death.com/atwater.html
--- Her Marketplace (a public service):
http://www.pmhatwater.com/goddessrunes.html

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

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"What Happens When We Die: A Groundbreaking Study
into the Nature of Life and Death"
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by Sam Parnia (Available: Now)
Dr. Sam Parnia faces death everyday. Through his work as
a critical-care doctor in the emergency room, he became
very interested in some of his patients' accounts of the
experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started
to collect these stories and read all the latest research on
the subject and decided to conduct his own experiments
into the state of the human mind and brain at the end of life,
by using a cardiac arrest model.
http://tinyurl.com/dbtq2
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Horizon Research Fdn: http://www.horizonresearchfoundation.com/

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"Talking With Angel: About Illness, Death, and Survival"
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by Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino (Available: Now)
The author has studied near-death experiences for over twenty
years and collaborated with Ken Ring on "Lessons from the
Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience"
(2000). She is also the author of "On the Other Side of Life:
Exploring the phenomenon of Near-Death Experience" (1997).
"Talking With Angel" is the moving story of a young girl battling
leukemia. She realizes she is going to die and receives hope
and comfort through nightly conversations with her favourite doll
"Angel", who helps her embrace a new perspective on dying
and the possibility that consciousness may survive after death.
Her fear of death is ultimately lifted by new-found spiritual wisdom
and by the account of a near-death experience told to her by a
young companion.
http://tinyurl.com/7gdle
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: The Official Site of Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino:
http://www.elsaesser-valarino.com/

--- Book: All Titles by Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino:
http://tinyurl.com/bko3d

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"Animals and the Afterlife: True Stories of Our Best Friends'
Journey Beyond Death"
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by Kim Sheridan (Available: Now)
Do animals have souls? What happens when they die? This
subject has been the author’s lifelong passion, and she has
made it her personal quest to find the answers. Along with her
own experiences, she has compiled the extraordinary experiences
of ordinary people that provides overwhelming evidence that
their does exist an afterlife for pets and animals. Today she
is a highly respected and sought after expert on this subject.
Much of her time is devoted not only to animals but to those who
are left behind when they pass. Kim’s book provides reassurance
to anyone who has ever lost a beloved pet and provides
insight into the animal kingdom's place in the larger scheme
of things - both on Earth and in the spirit realm.
http://tinyurl.com/bxvv8
*** Related items of interest:

--- Articles: NDEs and Animals: http://www.near-death.com/animals.html

--- Website: The Official Site of Kim Sheridan:
http://www.animalsandtheafterlife.com/

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"Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention"
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by Catherine Lanigan (Available: Now)
In a series of illuminating tales, Lanigan takes us through the
incredible ways in which angels have brought her family and
friends to a greater awareness of the unseen world. Lanigan
shares her own near-death experience, the miraculous cure
of her brother who was in perilous circumstances but narrowly
escaped, and a visit from the afterlife by her grandmother,
along with other tales of ghosts and angels. Through these
experiences, we learn we are not alone and we are always
protected. Be they angels, or loved ones who have become
angels, these forces in our lives renew our faith in the divine.
http://tinyurl.com/9vkvm
*** Related items of interest:

--- Website: Bio of Catherine Lanigan: http://tinyurl.com/azekp

--- Books: All Titles by Catherine Lanigan: http://tinyurl.com/afg6o

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"A Casebook of Otherworldly Music"
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by D. Scott Rogo (Available: Now)
This book is a unique examination of an often-neglected subject:
psychic music. The book was originally titled "NAD: A Study
of Some Unusual "Other World" Experiences." What is NAD?
It's a Sanskrit term signifying transcendental, astral, psychic,
or paranormal music - music heard from no apparent source.
This book is Vol. 1 of "Paranormal Music Experiences." Vol. 2
is entitled "A Psychic Study of the Music of the Spheres."
Also recently released is another book by Rogo called "The
Search for Yesterday" which offers a critical and scientific
examination of reincarnation.
http://tinyurl.com/bswq6
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: A Tribute to the D. Scott Rogo: http://tinyurl.com/7zyr2

--- Article: "Some Personal Thoughts on Survival": http://tinyurl.com/7n62h

--- Books: All Titles by D. Scott Rogo: http://tinyurl.com/bg7hk

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"Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds
Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human"
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by Susan Blackmore (Available: Now)
NDE skeptic Susan Blackmore began conducting interviews
with leading figures in the study of consciousness for a proposed
(but never realized) radio series. Here in book form, organized
alphabetically, are 20 transcripts with scientists such as the
late Francis Crick, Daniel Dennett, Roger Penrose, David
Chalmers, Stuart Hameroff, and others. Blackmore asks, What's
the problem with consciousness? Why does it differ from other
targets of scientific inquiry? Blackmore also asks them why they
chose to study consciousness. Several refer to a fascination with
altered states of consciousness. Many abandoned fruitful research
careers in other areas to pursue these questions. Perhaps the
most extreme case is that of Francis Crick, a physicist who won
the Nobel Prize by decoding DNA's structure and then at age 60
turned his attention to consciousness work for a quarter of a
century. Crick's interview by Blackmore was his last; he died
shortly thereafter, in July 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/78vnc
*** Related items of interest:

--- Article: Susan Blackmore on near-death.com:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts09.html

--- Website: The Official Site of Susan Blackmore:
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/

--- Book: All Titles by Susan Blackmore: http://tinyurl.com/8hte3

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near-death studies. If you haven't yet joined this wonderful
organization, I encourage you to join online at their membership
page. There are many benefits for being a member. Their
quarterly newsletter Vital Signs is alone worth becoming a
member.

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HEADLINES FROM IANDS:
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--- IANDS News Page: http://iands.org/news/?cat=1
(a) The Ultimate NDE Video
(b) IANDS makes "The Day I Died" video available
(c) Expanded Version of Research Bibliography on CD-ROM

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