The Near-Death Newsletter is a free semi-monthly newsletter which is emailed to subscribers every 1st of the month and on every 15th of the month.

The mission of this newsletter is to inform, enlighten, entertain, and aid the public in understanding the latest in all things concerning the NDE and related phenomena by promoting IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies), NDE researchers, experiencers, multimedia resources, and events. [Disclaimer: This newsletter is not affiliated with IANDS; but the creator of this newsletter, Kevin Williams, is a member of IANDS who is dedicated to the IANDS mission.]

IANDS is the premier organization for NDE research. Membership gives you access to subscribe to their prestigious Journal of Near-Death Studies and their newsletter Vital Signs. You can join online right from their website. Get connected with the people and organization which will likely provide the world with the evidence of our survival after death.

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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck, New York, USA - Featuring with Dr Raymond Moody, Brian Weiss, John Holland and Suzanne Northrop - This special gathering - a favorite at Omega the past several years - is an extraordinary opportunity to explore the evidence for life after death with some of the leaders in soul survival, past-life therapy, reincarnation, communication with the deceased, and the afterlife.

Eighth Annual Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society - St Anne's College, Oxford University, UK - In this conference, we will examine different approaches to meeting the challenges from neuroscience to social constructionism, philosophy and first-person explorations of the self and meaningful action developed in different cultures. Key speakers are Jaak Panksepp (neuroscience), Ciaran Benson (psychology), and Galen Strawson (philosophy).

Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA - Plan to attend this groundbreaking conference � bringing together world-renown scholars, researchers, teachers, religious educators, counselors, community leaders, parents, grandparents and others interested in exploring the remarkable richness of children's spiritual life. Small and large group presentations and discussions on numerous topics focus on educating the whole child, innovative spiritual and religious curriculum, research and theory, intuitive and imaginative development, and spiritual parenting, counseling and community. A partial list of workshops and topics include: Children's Mystical Experiences: Implications for Human Development, Neurobiology and Spirituality, Children's Past Life: Revealing the Souls of Children, Psychic Experiences of Children: Blessing or Curse?, The Sixth Sense of Children, Transcendent Consciousness and the Cultures that Inspire It.

Living The Field Conference 2004 - The Logan Hall, Bedford Way, London, UK - Among the speakers which include Edgar Mitchell, Karl Pribram, Raymond Moody and Stanley Krippner, Cleve Backster, Craig Webb, Skip Atwater, and Joe McMoneagle. It will be two days packed with insights and revelations, and a full workshop programme will also give you the chance to put theory into practice. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see and hear some of the world�s leading physicists, psychics and spiritual pioneers - all in one insight-packed weekend.

Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA - If it's outside of the box, it's all under one roof exclusively at the ParaWorldExpo - Over fifty internationally recognized experts in parapsychology including Dr. PMH Atwater (NDEs), Dr. Stanton Friedman (UFOs), Dr. David Morehouse (Remote Viewing), Dr. Walter Semkiw (Reincarnation), Carol Bowman, MS (Children's past lives), and Dr. Hans Holzer (Parapsychology).

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As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on Earth, passing minister who has also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.

What if you could have a NDE without any risk to your body's well-being? For almost 20 years Dr. Schenk has used hypnosis to help clients have "waking dreams." These interactive dreams, in which the person is always someone else, enables the person to safely experience many of the phenomena associated with a true NDE, without any of the life-threatening risks. The varied case studies in the book, together with extensive transcripts of actual waking dreams, demonstrate a variety of ways that Dr. Schenk has used them to help people resolve problems ranging from the specific to the existential. [ Read Chapter excepts ] [ Good articles from his website ] [ Order the book ]

In SynchroFile, best-selling author Raymond E. Fowler (The Andreasson Affair) applies the same kind of meticulous research into the supernatural-like synchronistic experiences that permeate his life. This book compiles the results of his research into Jungian psychology, the New Physics and his study of a ten-year diary of personal and family experiences of amazing coincidences and paranormal experiences. His research leads to the incredulous conclusion that time is an illusion and that reports of synchronicity, ghosts, out of the body experiences, near death experiences, UFOs, precognition, telepathy, and other extrasensory experiences are all individual expressions of one intelligent-like meta-phenomenon. Dr. Kenneth Ring wrote that Fowler's researched book on Near-Death and UFO experiences "may well have deciphered the ultimate nature and meaning" of these baffling phenomena.

Forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio first began recording the stories told to her by patients, police officers, and other doctors because she felt that no one spoke for the dead. She believed the real experience of death - namely, the spiritual and otherworldly experiences of those near death and their loved ones - was ignored by the medical professionals, who thought of death as simply the cessation of breath. She knew there was more. From the first experience of a patient in her care dying to the miraculous "appearances" of loved ones after death, she began recording these experiences. Dr. Amatuzio found that by telling the story of their death to a loved one, she could help bring some sense of completion to the grieving family and friends. Written by a scientist in approachable, nonjudgmental language for anyone who has lost someone they love, this book offers stories that can't be explained in purely physical terms.

The famous psychic and NDEr journeys even deeper into the Other Side, detailing stirring true encounters, describing visitations with ghosts, in-transition spirits, and other troubled souls seeking peace and closure. She travels to locations as diverse as haunted homes and ships possessed by otherworldly forces. Through these spiritual visits, she explains the reasons behind many of the world's most bizarre and mysterious hauntings, and she shares her own personal, face-to-face experiences with these inexplicable phenomena. From surprising revelations about the spirit world to moving reunions with those who have moved on, Visits from the Afterlife once again illustrates spirits' profound and eternal influence on our earthly lives.