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May 1, 2004
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NEWSLETTER |
Vol. 03 No. 05
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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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NDEs in the news |
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Notes from the webmaster |
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What's new at near-death.com |
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Article on the NDE |
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Q & A with P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.) |
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Books on the NDE |
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Websites on the NDE |
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Support the search for the afterlife |
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Odds and ends |
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 Visit
the
Archive of Near-Death Experiences in the News website
to find all the major news articles concerning the NDE and related phenomena
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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PHILADELPHIA, PA - (NBC Channel 10 News) |
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After the 7-year-old girl was resuscitated, she
started drawing pictures. "What she described to me was not a hallucination. It
was a blow-by-blow accurate description of her own resuscitation, but from a
bird's eye point of view," said Dr. Morse. |
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LUBBOCK, TX - (University Daily) |
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"It wasn't your conventional near-death experience,"
he said, "with the light at the end of the tunnel and the family member spirit
guide." Smith said the only "conventional" aspect he can think of in relation to
his experience is the feeling he was connected to his body by a kite string." |
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SPARTANBURG, SC - (Herald Journal) |
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Carlene Huesgen is not afraid of death, she says.
Not since she felt herself slip from her body, float to a hospital ceiling and
move toward a bright light three decades ago. "I feel assured that there is life
after death," said Ms. Huesgen, 61, who lives in Tucson. "There really isn't
such a thing as dying." |
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LEWISVILLE, TX - (Coppell Gazette) |
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"I went out to see what she wanted, and I looked up
and the angels were pulling the clouds apart," Loter said. "Jesus came out and I
wanted to see his face, but it was just a light. I said to him, 'I'm not ready.'
I felt love - so much more than romantically, when you fall in love," she said.
"In that moment I felt integrated, I became a different person. After that...I'm
not religious, but I wanted to go help people." |
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Notes from the webmaster |
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Kevin Williams writes on:
"The NDE of Mary Magdalene" |
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popularity of the book "The Da Vinci Code" led me to create this profile of Mary
Magdalene. The Church has given her the title of "the apostle to the apostles"
because of her status as the first disciple to see the risen Christ. The
controversy concerns evidence which reveals her to be "the disciple whom Jesus
loved", the true author of the Gospel of John, and the wife of Jesus Christ. I
also document the NDE attributed to her in a little known document associated
with the early Christians described in the ancient texts discovered in 1945
... [Read more at this link]
Peace and Light, Kevin Williams |
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What's new at near-death.com |
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The
following are the latest additions to near-death.com website: |
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The NDE and the Out-of-Body Experience |
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Three of the most exceptional out-of-body
experiences from three NDEs are profiled. Veridical out-of-body examples are
provided as well as evidence of consciousness expansion outside of the body. |
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Real events are witnessed far away from their body |
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Dr. Raymond Moody's veridical (verified) near-death
experiences from his book "Life After Life" is profiled. This web page is part
of the NDE evidence for the existence of a transcendental consciousness and
survival of consciousness after death. |
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What's New page |
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Recent additions and updates to
near-death.com are also listed on this What's New page. |
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Q & 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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 In
this section of the newsletter,
P.M.H. Atwater will answer questions
submitted to her from subscribers to this newsletter.
Atwater's 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
considered to be the "Bibles" of the NDE by researchers and enthusiasts.
Here latest books are entitled
We Live
Forever: The Real Truth About Death
and
The New Children and Near-Death Experiences.
If you have a question which you would like her to answer for this
column, just email your question to Kevin Williams at
http://www.near-death.com/contact.html for consideration.
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Question:
"Please take a look at these atheism pages -
www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/ghost.
Here, Adam describes the amazing story of how your
personality can dramatically alter after a certain brain disease or terrible
accident. He even uses this fact as evidence that God does not exist. But as I
disagree with him, I'll not go into detail but I have another question.
"As you explained a few months ago in the near-death newsletter, we can talk
about our spirit, soul, and mind. Spirit = divine life energy, our 'life fuel.'
Soul = our personality, or just the pure core of ourselves? If it is just the
pure core of our being, it means that we are all the same, and after death, we
don't have our personality and character anymore. We will be just identical
balls, clones of the same divine energy.
"This is the conclusion I draw,
reading the amazing and true story from the website of ebonmusings. Until today,
I can be a loving husband and a social, intelligent business man. Tomorrow I can
be a nervous, disoriented and more violent man who doesn't care about his wife
anymore. This is absolutely stunning, a scary and embarrassing idea that this
can happen any time!
"I understand that after brain damage, the interface
between soul and behavior is disturbed. But you also can say, if I would have a
much bigger, more perfect brain, I would have been much more clever and with
more abilities.
"So, who are you and who am I really? Thanks for
answering." - Arjan
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Atwater's reply:
"You've asked a big question, one that no one can really answer in an evidential
way except to present data and discoveries that suggest that there is more to us
than our body and our personality. Nonetheless, I will try.
"Millions of
near-death experiencers, testimony from deathbeds, children who remember past
lives, and from various other sources - all of this - and it is an impressive
collection of voices - says that we are not our bodies nor are we our
personalities. We are divine beings, a soul, currently resident in human form to
learn and grow, help others, and make the world a better place for our being
here. We can check the veridical reports from these people, what they saw in the
out-of-body component of their experience, what they were told from beings on
the other side of death's curtain that turned out to be accurate (information
they could not possibly have known before), but we cannot check nor verify their
philosophical statements, at least not with our mind. Only our heart can do that
... [Read more at this link]
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PMH Atwater, L.H.D. |
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PMH Atwater's website
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Marketplace
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Her research profiled on this website | |
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At
the
NDE Online Store you can find NDE products such as books, documentaries,
movies, music, magazines, and journals. More NDE media products are coming. |
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Over
many years, Dr. Newton developed his own intensive age regression techniques in
order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a
more meaningful soul experience between lives. With his blockbuster books "Journey
of Souls" and "Destiny
of Souls," Newton is considered
to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the
use of spiritual hypnotic regression. In this long awaited follow-up book,
Newton now trains other advanced hypnotherapists in his techniques which gave
him the international reputation for being the regressionist who has mapped out
much of our life in heaven between reincarnations. |
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From
the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning report on the
evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the world is nothing when
compared to actual experience with the place beyond. This book takes the reader
to the next level -- and offers a more personal kind of journey. If there is a
"next world," it must be nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our
own minds. Philosopher Michael Grosso shows us how to open these passages -- or
at least peek through a keyhole -- and glimpse what may lie beyond. This is the
guidebook for an adventure that nobody can refuse. |
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This
is the powerful story of Bill VandenBush's NDE during combat in Vietnam and how
it affected his life. A tragedy of war nearly destroyed his life, but a
spiritual force intervened and guided him on an incredible lifelong journey.
Learn how the Spirit taught him to overcome overwhelming odds and find his
purpose in life. Bill shares the insights and lessons learned from his excursion
into a dimension of enlightenment, and his return form the hell of combat. |
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In
the wake of the revolution of quantum physics, an increasing number of
scientists have acknowledged the very real possibility of the existence of
spirit or soul. Beyond Death sets out to prove the existence of spirit and its
survival after death. Mind-matter interaction, research into healing and remote
viewing, consciousness at the cellular level, near-death experiences and
biological evidence of reincarnation are among the many perspectives from which
this crucial subject is explored. |
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What
happens when you die? If there is life beyond death, what paths open up? And how
do the living stay connected with their loved ones? While many people have
near-death experiences of the world of Light, others recount stories of their
profound encounters with deceased friends and family. The authors draw on
personal experiences to describe the seven steps on the way into the world of
Light. |
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Spiritual Pre-Existence: The Pre-Birth Experience Website |
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This website provides information regarding pre-birth experiences such as
pre-birth memories and pre-birth communication. The website also contains cases
of near-death experiences, after-death communication, reincarnation, and other
similar phenomenon, but it is the main purpose of the website to study
specifically the soul's existence and spiritual life before physical birth. |
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Death is an illusion Website |
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This website provides evidence for survival as well as information about the
philosophy and work of the Danish 20th century intuitive and mystic Martinus.
Dr. Ken Ring had this to say about the man: "Martinus' work as a whole offers
readers a complete "world picture" that accurately forecast the development of
the kind of spiritual science that has lately come into being. As such, his
so-called "Third Testament" may prove to be the definite spiritual vision of our
age." |
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Near-Death Dialogues Website |
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The webmaster of this site is a near-death experiencer who has some very
interesting information on the NDE on his website. This comment on his site
stood out to me: "I've never been completely satisfied with the term Near Death
Experience. It's always felt like being a �little bit pregnant� and it seems
to me one either is or isn't�just abouts don't count." I couldn't agree more. |
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If you know of any new NDE
website or web article you would like to see profiled, email to me the address
of the website at:
neardeathexperience@earthlink.net Thank you! |
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Support the search for the
afterlife |
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are working to bring proof of life after death to this world! Just click on the
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