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Q and A with P. M. H. Atwater,
L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.) |
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An in-depth look at the
near-death phenomenon |
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November 2004 |
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M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.), is one of the original researchers
in the field of near-death studies, having begun her work in 1978. She
is one of the very few top NDE researchers who have actually had a NDE.
Her website is filled with very interesting NDE research information
and articles of hers. Her contribution to near-death studies is
considered to be one of the most important as her first two books,
Beyond the Light
and
Coming Back to Life,
are deemed the Bibles of the near-death experience by researchers
and a multitude of experiencers and enthusiasts.
Using her firm understanding of police investigative
techniques as a protocol, she has specialized in original fieldwork and
research that also included sessions with significant others. Her
findings are contained in six books (see right). Some of her
findings have now been clinically verified. Her research is referenced
in the distinguished Lancet medical journal, December 15, 2001
(the
landmark Dutch study by Pim van Lommel, M.D.).
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more information about P.M.H. Atwater's contribution to near-death
studies,
download her press kit here
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 ANNOUNCEMENT:
I am very sensitive to energy fluctuations in the ethers, changes in
pressure, the air, vibrations, the pulse of life. It's as if when I
returned from death, I came back knowing and responding to a different
language other than English. This "new" language is fluid and
non-verbal. It is a true language in how receptivity to stimuli follow a
"code" or vibrancy that has meaning and can be interpreted and responded
to and used. During my research of near-death states (26 year's worth
with nearly 4,000 people), I found that the majority possessed this new
language skill afterwards, too. With this said, I'd like to share what
I've been "picking up" this year - not just intuitively, but in
accordance with this elemental language that has its own vocabulary.
Global energy shifted in February of 2004. For some, this was subtle,
not particularly noticeable, but a shift nonetheless. I could taste the
change. The saliva in my mouth even tasted differently than before this
shift. I began to notice how this seemed to be affecting others. People
were abruptly turning around in their lives, making decision that seemed
rather radical for them. Many up and moved, and to places that you or I
might regard as unsafe - like smack atop an earthquake fault line or
next to a rumbling volcano. Strange moves. Those who loved solitude
wound up in cities; city dwellers moved to ranch lands and open spaces.
And they were very happy about this, as if they had done exactly what
they should have done - even though they could not explain how they
reached such a decision. They just did it. All manner of switches
occurred: people starting or leaving jobs, the same with relationships.
This shift remained rather subtle until June of 2004, just before or
around the time of the Venus Eclipse, which occurred on June 8th. Now,
things were serious. People were dying right and left, even young people
who were not sick. People were losing jobs, homes, marriages, their
health. Some made sudden gains, too, but most of the shifts were the
twisting kind, troublesome. I did some digging and discovered that we
have now entered, as of June 8th, the eight-year time of preparation
predicated by the Mayan Calendar, a time when light and darkness, good
and evil, struggle with each other and with equal force. This time ends
June 6, 2012, just before the Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012.
I really felt like we, the people of this earth, did indeed pass through
a "doorway" on June 8th. Perhaps you felt it too. These kinds of issues
are the subject of my next book. I am now on Chapter 17, the last
chapter, and hope to be finished in a month. It is interesting to me how
the world around me always reflects where my mind is and what I am
doing. We are in since with each other.
 If
you too have been affected by these changes, these new or strange
feelings, I want to make a few suggestions which may be helpful to you.
Now more than ever before, keep yourself grounded. Eat healthy food. If
you are a vegetarian, be careful to make certain you are receiving the
full eight amino-acids that compile a full protein. Do some research to
learn about what food combinations will do this for you. Beware of
sugars and alcohol. They will really throw you off now. Prayer and
meditation are always important, but include more exercise than usual,
fresh air, and water. Put some fresh lemon or lime in your water once or
twice a day. Drink it right down, as those fruits are very acidic. No
other fruit will do. Lemon or lime steadies the soul in the body and
enables the brain to work better, the emotions to be steady. Go out of
your way to bring laughter into your life (see a funny movie or have a
good time with friends). Be alert, and be cautious. Change is in the
air, globally. Yes, we have an important election coming up - DO VOTE -
but every decision we make during these eight-years will be important as
well.
Conservative Christians call this time "The Hour of God." That's a good
name, actually. It expresses how important are the times in which we
live, a time of faith and a time of action. Just thought I'd share this
with you, so you wouldn't feel as if you were going crazy or becoming
strange with this new energy afoot. You're just fine. It's the world
around you that's a little odd of late. Get used to it. Mother Earth is
making a few changes, whether we like it or not. Keep that in mind as
you build a home, take a trip, or seek to balance your checkbook. Energy
patterns are not returning to their former levels, that means you must
change too.
Many blessings, PMH
 QUESTION:
I have a question that I hope you can answer. Recently, I choked on
coffee in a restaurant and stopped breathing. All I recall is that I was
looking down on 2 or 3 people walking towards me and 2 or 3 people
walking towards the door. I could hear voices but didn't hear what they
were saying. Then, I experienced a strange feeling. It wasn't like being
sucked back into my body. It was like being 'sucked' back into
consciousness. I then sat up and struggled for breath. I coughed twice
which cleared my airway and then I was fine. My friend, who I was with,
was standing at my side with her hand on my shoulder. She told me that
when I stopped breathing, I collapsed on the table and against her as a
dead weight, definitely no consciousness. She said that a couple had
walked over to our table and talked to her while I was out, so it had to
be more than a couple of seconds.
Would that be an NDE or simply an out-of-body experience? It took a
few days before I realized the significance of what I had experienced.
At the time, it just seemed like part of being unconscious. Now, I am
really curious. If I did, in fact, die for a few seconds, it reaffirms
my belief that I don't have to give in to death before I'm finished
raising my son. That is something I've mentioned to you before. I am
strongly determined to
be here until he is grown. I have managed to keep going through stage
four breast cancer several times when they thought I was going to die.
The coolest thing about this experience I had is that, due to the tumor
in my lung and how it has caused breathing problems from time to time, I
have been terrified of being unable to breath. I thought it would be a
torturous experience. Now I know that it won't be. I'm no longer afraid.
Thanks for your time. --
Melissa
 PMH
Atwater's reply: Out-of-body experiences are extremely
common; in childhood, they occur daily, sometimes many times a day. We
spend so much money as a country researching insignificant things, when
we could and should spend that money for out-of-body research. We've
also researched things like coughing, scratching, humming, sneezing, the
sounds we hear and where we hear them, but not a penny goes to one of
the greatest phenomena of them all - the clear and coherent perception
of being able to leave one's body and then return to it. We acknowledge
the mystical, spiritual, psychic aspects of this trait - never once
admitting that it is a normal physical response that happens to us
physically. It is 100% real!
Out-of-body experiences, though, tend to be more frequent during times
of stress or relaxation, especially if you are drunk or on drugs, ill,
threatened in some manner, or at the edge of death. The two most
frequently reported elements of the near-death experience are the light
and the out-of-body component. No other elements are reported with
anything near the frequency of these two. Forget "tunnels," as less than
a third of the people ever see one. The first Gallup Poll Survey done on
near-death experiences in 1982 found that only 9% of the people ever
encountered a tunnel. "Tunnels" only became a popular subject when
Raymond Moody's book, "Life After Life," became a best seller.
There are two camps on where we "draw the line" in research. One sticks
closely with the Moody Model and is considered the core template on
which a researcher can determine whether or not an individual had a
genuine experience. The other model is wide open as far as elements are
concerned, paying more attention to the intensity of the experience, how
real it was to the individual, if there were identifying features that
could have third-person verification, and the spread of aftereffects. I
am solidly with the latter. I have found in 26 years of research that
the Moody Model does not hold up in broad-based studies. That's why I
don't use it. The model I follow recognizes that there are different
types of near-death experiences and that the pattern of aftereffects is
a stronger referent than how many of what element was reported. In this
model, the "Initial Experience" is recognized as valid.
 The
Initial Experience only consists of one, or maybe two or three elements
max. Nothing more. Yet it is so impactual, so intense, that the full
range of aftereffects can and often do follow it. Elements can be such
simple things as an encounter with the friendly dark or the living
nothingness, a friendly voice, a brief out-of-body experience, a
visitation (or greeter). Children have a lot of these, 76% in my
research base, 20% with adults. Yet aftereffects can be life-long for
them and just as intense as with someone whose scenario was long and
complex.
You had or at least started to have an Initial Experience. The way you
know how genuine is with the aftereffects and how intensely it affected
you. Although you made no mention of aftereffects, just the fact that
the experience was so important to you, showing you that loss of breath
is an easy thing, not at all difficult, is a godsend. The fact that you
had been faced with life or death issues before and may soon face them
again, suggests even more to me that this event, losing your breath for
a brief period, was an empowering event - as if a "gift" considering the
depths of what you gained from it. No one can say if you will survive
long enough to raise your son, but considering how meaningful this event
was for you, all that you learned from it, it is as if your own soul is
showing you that you can accomplish your goal.
Get my book
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death
Experiences. It
is truly an encyclopedia to the entire subject and will have many
passages in it I know you will find deeply meaningful - along with an
in-depth discussion of the aftereffects of near-death states.
Many blessings,
P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D.
www.cinemind.com/atwater
or www.pmhatwater.com |
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What we can keep is our memories and our feelings of what we have
integrated into our heart of hearts from the experience of being here,
plus the love we have shared with others."
- Dr. P.M.H. Atwater. |
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Beyond the Indigo
Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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P. M. H. Atwater
connects the arrival of the Indigo Children with the fulfillment of the Fifth
World of the Mayan Calendar and other great prophecies, providing detailed
information about the world changes that will take place before and after
December 21, 2012, and the worldwide ascension of energy now occurring, which
will take humanity to the next level of development.
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We Live Forever: The Real Truth About Death |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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P.M.H. Atwater gives
details and deep insights into what really happens when you die and what it
truly means. She also explores such mysteries as heaven and hell, the soul's
existence after death, and the power of prayer. |
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The New Children and Near-Death Experiences |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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An in-depth study of
children who have experienced an NDE
and the pattern of aftereffects which
follow. Atwater notes that the child who returns from an NDE
is not the same
child as before, but is a "remodeled, rewired, reconfigured, refined version of
the original." Atwater shows that understanding the NDEs of children can help us
prepare for a quantum leap in the evolution of humanity. |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death
Experiences |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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This 480-page single
source book contains all information pertinent to the NDE phenomenon, both
positive and negative, as seen from 360 degrees, including new cases and new
research, combined in a lively yet respectful style, with five appendices. This
book is the "encyclopedia" of the NDE and is the most comprehensive book in the
field of NDE studies. |
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Beyond the Light: The Mysteries and Revelations of Near-Death Experiences |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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An in-depth
investigation of the dynamics of NDE states based on over 3,000 interviews with
NDE survivors over a 16-year period. These survivors include adults and children
from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. Atwater describes the 4 types
of NDEs and the basic profile of the survivors of each type. Included are
descriptions of NDE-like episodes and other anomalies, the full range of NDE
after-effects, "the light" of enlightenment, revelations which NDE survivors
bring back, plus a host of material on topics like electrical sensitivity, black
angels, and brain shift. |
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Coming Back to Life: The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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Based on extensive
interviews with over 200 NDE survivors and thousands of their friends and
relatives. Atwater, herself a survivor of 3 NDEs, examines the major
after-effects which survivors experience, including: a shifted view of physical
reality and disorientation in the world of time and space; expanded intuitive
and psychic abilities; spiritual transformation; difficulty with communication
and relationships and an inability to personalize emotions and feelings,
especially those of love. |
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Future Memory |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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"Future memory"
allows people who have an NDE
to "live" life in advance and remember the
experience in detail when something triggers that
memory. Atwater has experienced the future memory process firsthand following
her own three NDEs. She shows how these "rehearsals" for future events differ
from other modes of futuristic awareness such as clairvoyance, precognition, and
deja vu. Atwater describes how the unifying and permanent effect of the NDE is a
"brain shift" which may be at the very core of existence itself and indicative
of higher evolutionary
development. |
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Children of the New Millennium |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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This
groundbreaking book is the first serious look at the NDEs of children. Atwater
believes these millennial children - who possess heightened sensory and empathic
abilities acquired at birth or as a result of the NDE - herald the presence of a
new race of people on Earth. Atwater explores how these special children will
dramatically impact the human condition by helping humankind rediscover the
spiritual truths needed to survive in our radically changing world. |
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Beyond the Light |
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featuring P.M.H. Atwater |
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This video is
the startling revelation from P.M.H. Atwater who shares her three,
life-changing, NDEs with host Mary Lou McCall. Atwater underwent a
transformation to a higher level of consciousness and returned with a message of
unconditional love for mankind. |
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As You Die |
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featuring P.M.H. Atwater |
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Available in CD-ROM, DVD, and VHS formats!
Atwater leads people through the wonderful
journey which begins as one lays hovering
between life and death, then leads them away
from any fear and despair towards a peace and
unconquerable hope, knowing that as we die ...
we live forever! |
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Ebook by |
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A Book of Columns |
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by P.M.H. Atwater |
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This ebook contains all of
P.M.H. Atwater's columns from the IANDS newsletter
"Vital
Signs" from June of
1981 until 2004. Proceeds go to support IANDS
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