I added much more material to this main page to give people a better high-level overview of how NDEs, Christianity and reincarnation are tied together. This helps when trying to see the forest when in the middle of so many trees.

A lot of people email me to get my opinion on various Christian doctrines and sometimes how these doctrines relate to NDEs. I don't know why I haven't done this until now, but I have added a short summation of my brand of Christianity that encompasses all of life and death, metaphysics, science, and religion. You will find it in the box entitled "The Gospel according to Kevin."

I have built a better NDE online store which is easier to navigate, find the NDE products you are looking for, and buy them online very easily. Included are NDE books, NDE documentaries in VHS and DVD, NDE music on CD, NDE-related movies on DVD, and NDE-related magazines and journals. This will be an ongoing project as I intend to add other products having to do with everything NDE.

Recent additions and updates to www.near-death.com are also listed on the What's New page on this website.

"I passed slowly down a tunnel towards a beautiful golden glow, I didn't pass anyone, but when I was halfway I could hear my Dad's voice calling me and the voice got more and more urgent until it brought me right back."

"The next thing I realize is my vantage point is about ten feet above the water and I see my mother and her friends talking while sitting in their chairs. I then see my mother's friend, Mrs. M., look over in the direction of the water were I was and suddenly dash from her chair towards the water."

"As she came closer, I got the shock of my life. When I looked at her face, I knew who she was. It was my little playmate who died 58 years ago at the age of 10. I could not speak as I tried to understand what was happening."

"Beauty before me, beauty all around me, beauty. But that's a limiting thought because it was so much more than that. I had no body. I was nothing but everything! I felt this great sensation like I was a high vibrating spirit, like I was energy, like I was something out of this world, and words just can't even do it justice!!!"

"Life here pales in comparison to what awaits us. But I was told: "It is not Your time!" ... and like a rebellious child I rebuked this and wanted to remain in this realm of "completeness" but found that it was an effort in vain ... and I can recall returning to my body like a hand in a glove and bouncing on the floor beneath my hospital bed and up back into my body."

"In this lovely place, people were telling me that this was the 'next level' higher than Earth. I went to a lovely quaint church (like an English country church) where I met people who continually prayed for children on Earth. They were male and female but with ageless faces full of wisdom and compassion."

"As she approached the burning pit, a tremendous effort was made to draw her into it; but she felt herself under the protection of her guardian angel. She recognized many in the place of torment whom she had known on Earth, and even some who had been thought to be Christians."

This testimony appears on several websites and was submitted to me for inclusion to this forum. While I was reading it, it became obvious to me that it was a fake. It was written by someone whose only afterlife knowledge comes from the Book of Revelation.�I wasn't going to include it in the forum, but I thought this would be a good opportunity for people too see how I evaluate hellfire-and-brimstone testimonies posing as real NDE testimonies.

"During this time that I was clinically dead, I saw no lights, saw nothing but a lot of images of various things flashing through my head. These images were what I could only guess as "life flashing before my eyes."

"I then heard a voice that sounded like a Catholic mass of a million plus people say "Not yet". It sounded a lot like fast flowing water. Very cool. Then in an instant I was back on the motorcycle."

"I do not have any visual perception at all during this time. I can only say that I feel the most wonderful peace in which nothing material matters at all (not even physical perceptions), and that I feel myself in the presence of someone with whom I am very comfortable."

"All of the sudden the room exploded with millions upon millions of diamond like objects, each with a rainbow inside each of them, and the most incredible love, a love beyond any description I can think of, it filled the room."

"Approximately 10 seconds after being ejected (so to speak) from my body, a MASSIVE white light gently ascended. It was about 40 feet wide and then started to recede until a pencil beam size only the width of my own shoulders remained. I was then lifted upwards up and into this light beam."

"They told me that my suicide would only pass my pain along to others, and that the sum of pain would actually be greater. They also told me that I would eventually have to go back anyway, and live through all the traumas I had already been through. It would be a little easier the second time around since I had already learned some of my lessons in this life, but wouldn't it be better just to go back now and finish what I started?"

Hilton Hotel, Eilat, Israel - Under the auspices of: UNESCO, WAML, WPA, ICHLE, and SMLI. Organized by the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, University of Haifa School of Law.

The International Conference on Science and Consciousness - Albuquerque, NM - Speakers such as Dr. Raymond Moody, Peter Russell, and Stephen Halpern to name a few.

16th Conference of the International Transpersonal Association - Palm Springs, CA - We will explore how the new understanding of the nature and function of myth revealed by the work of Carl G. Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and others has revolutionized thinking in many areas of modern life � psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy, biology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, history, economy, and politics.

Mystics and Scientists Open Conference - Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1, Chair: David Lorimer - A special weekend with Dr. Raymond Moody.

International Association for Regression Research and Therapies Annual International Conference - Colorado Springs, Colorado at the Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel - Speakers include: Walter Semkiw, MD, Dr. Raymond A. Moody, Peter Novak, Judy Goodman, Dr. Janet Cunningham, Captain Robert Snow, Jeffrey Keene, William Barnes, Dr. Julia Ingram, Dr. Ronald P. De Vasto, and Michael J Tamura.

A.R.E. Edgar Cayce Conference - Virginia Beach, VA - Cutting-edge researchers show you how to safely enter expansive internal states, erasing fear of death, enabling deep peace. Speakers include Dr. Raymond Moody, Gilles Bedard, Robert J. Grant, Carol Bush, L.C.S.W.

PMH Atwater will answer questions submitted to her from subscribers to this newsletter.

My research conclusions concerning one of the most interesting aspects of NDEs. Many experiencers discover themselves outside of their body and observe events going on around their lifeless physical body or even around locations at great distances from their physical body.

Juliet has recently become a new member of the IANDS Board of Directors. I am going to create a new page for her where I will add her more detailed account of her NDE and include more information about her and her new role with IANDS.

Ken is the author of the excellent book "Visions of God in the Near-Death Experience" where the wisdom of the sages of the world's religions are superimposed upon the accounts of modern-day NDErs to illustrate the similarities between them. He recently wrote an article for the Journal of Near-Death Studies concerning the NDE and the notion of universal redemption.