May 1, 2004

  NEWSLETTER

Vol. 03 No. 05 Ed. 1


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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 Table of contents

(1) NDEs in the news
(2) Notes from the webmaster
(3) What's new at near-death.com
(4) Article on the NDE
(5) Q & A with P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.)
(6) Books on the NDE
(7) Websites on the NDE
(8) Support the search for the afterlife
(9) Odds and ends

(1) NDEs in the news

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.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - (NBC Channel 10 News)

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.

LUBBOCK, TX - (University Daily)

"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."

SPARTANBURG, SC - (Herald Journal)

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."

LEWISVILLE, TX - (Coppell Gazette)

"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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(2) Notes from the webmaster

Kevin Williams writes on:  "The NDE of Mary Magdalene"

The 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


(3) What's new at near-death.com

The following are the latest additions to near-death.com website:
Archive of Near-Death Experiences in the News

All the major news articles concerning the NDE from 1995 to current are archived here.

The NDE and the Out-of-Body Experience

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.

Real events are witnessed far away from their body

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.

What's New page

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


(4) Article on the NDE

Grieving from the loss of a loved one 
 

This is an article I wrote for a national non-profit grief organization. I discuss the evidence for life after death; what is it like to die; what experiencers say about God, heaven, and religion; how a person can contact their loved one on the Other Side through dreams, prayer, meditation, after-death communications, and a psychic; how a person can best cope with grief and loss.

Search "Articles on the NDE" archives


(5) Q & A with P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.)
An in-depth look at the near-death phenomenon

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 webmaster@near-death.com for consideration.

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

P.M.H. 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]

          Blessings to all,  PMH Atwater, L.H.D.

| PMH Atwater's website | Marketplace (a public service) | Her research profiled on this website |


(6) Books on the NDE

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.

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.

Experiencing the Next World Now
by Michael Grosso (Available: Now)

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.

If Morning Never Comes
by Bill Vandenbush (Available: Now)

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.

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.

A Christian Book of the Dead: Accompanying Their Journey After Death
by Margarete Van Den Brink, Hans Stolp, Margarete Den Brink (Available: Now)

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.


(7) Web links on the NDE

International Association of Near-Death Studies website

IANDS is the premier research organization in the field of 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 alone is worth becoming a member. You will also be receiving the only scholarly journal in NDE studies, the Journal of Near-Death Studies. Visit their website by checking out the excellent links below. Also, learn how you can raise funds for IANDS near-death research by merely doing your usual online shopping (and at no extra cost to you - but you get many benefits).

JUNE 24 - 26, 2004 - IANDS Annual Conference
Evanston, IL (near Chicago) at the Best Western
Check out the IANDS Conference information page.
Pam Kircher's Website

Pam is a family physician and hospice doctor, an expert on NDEs, a near-death experiencer, and the author of the book "Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares her Experience of Near-death and Dying." Her website has articles on the NDE, hospice and end-of-life issues.

Spiritual Pre-Existence: The Pre-Birth Experience Website

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.

Death is an illusion Website

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."

Near-Death Dialogues Website

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.

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!


(8) Support the search for the afterlife

How can your usual online shopping raise funds for near-death research without any extra cost to you? By joining the free charity website called iGive.com. Then whenever you shop online and make a purchase at eBay, Barnes & Noble, Land's End, Florist.com, Amazon.com or over 500 other participating websites, iGive.com has arranged to automatically direct up to 27% of the purchase price near-death research (IANDS) as a contribution. Become a part of the family of people who are working to bring proof of life after death to this world! Just click on the graphic for more info.


(9) Odds and ends

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