He remembers floating near the ceiling, looking down. "I seen them working on me, trying to resuscitate me," he said. "There was a bright light, I started floating toward it, but then a voice from the bright light said your time ain't up, you have a family that needs you." His next memory is waking up in the hospital's intensive care unit 10 days later. "I am not a religious person — I have to see it for myself," said Ray George. But after what he went through, "That tells me there's got to be a God that watches over you ..." [Read more]

As he fought for his life in an Edmonton hospital after drinking gas line antifreeze, Darcy Gauthier says he got a message from two of his brothers in a dream. "You're the baby, get out of here," Darcy's brothers told him in the dream, he said yesterday. "Mom needs you.""I like it. I want to come," Darcy said to his brothers in the dream, he said yesterday. " 'No, no,' they said, and they pushed me in the face ..." [Read more]

His dissertation, published in a 2002 issue of the "Journal of Cognition and Culture," showed how hard it is for people to escape some type of belief in an afterlife. In his research, Bering asked people questions about a man who had been killed in an automobile accident: Can he experience lust? Can he smell? Does he know he's dead? Bering found that even professed atheists, after answering "no" to other questions about the dead man's abilities, would say that "of course" the man knows he is dead. "It comes into conflict," Bering said. "We try to put ourselves into the shoes of the people who are dead, and make attributions to them. … We really can't conceive of what it's like to not be here, to not exist, to not know whether we exist or not ..." [Read more]

  Note:  The late great psychologist and near-death experiencer, Carl Jung, once said this: "The unconscious psyche believes in life after death." He based this statement partly upon his observation of humanity's acceptance of immortality during the dream state. Read Carl Jung's NDE testimony at this web page.

Gilliland says his window into another world opened 27 years ago when he nearly drowned, a near-death experience that he says allows him to receive extraterrestrial telepathic messages. Throughout the years, he has drawn countless people to his retreat who are hoping to make alien contact, but around the town of Trout Lake, Gilliland is known as 'Cosmic Jim' ... [Read more]

Under the recommendations of Quebec's science and technology ethics committee, people whose hearts have stopped beating would also be considered to be legally dead, and therefore eligible to donate organs. The change means some people who cannot survive without artificial support could be organ donors, said François Pothier, chair of the ethics committee ... The new criteria could create serious ethical dilemmas for hospital staff, who may have to choose between resuscitating accident victims or considering them to be organ donors. Some hospitals in the United States have already expanded the definition, said Pothier ... [Read more]

A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark ... “They started to herd us up, they pushed all four of us together by doing tight circles around us ...” Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a 9-foot great white shark swimming towards the group. “They could have sensed the danger to the swimmers and taken action to protect them,” Orca's Ingrid Visser told NZPA ... [Read more]

England's tough laws against assisting suicide have been thrown into confusion after the husband of a critically-ill woman has won a legal fight to take his wife to Switzerland to end her life ... Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland have each passed various laws allowing assisted euthanasia, but Britons risk up to 14 years in jail for helping a patient die, a penalty that is among the harshest in Europe ... [Read more]

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his authority to stop a Tampa man from removing the feeding tube that has kept his brain-damaged wife alive for nearly 15 years ... Schiavo, now 40, has been kept alive via a feeding tube since suffering a heart attack in 1990. Doctors said her brain was damaged so badly that she would never regain consciousness ... [Read more]

  Some political rhetoric:  Does the government have the right to keep you artificially alive for decades against your wishes? Jeb Bush says "Yes." What do you think? Is the government playing God here? When will the government permit Terri to finally see the light and go home to God? Read all about the controversy on this web page.

Time and again for the past six years, state and federal courts have found that Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery, and that Michael Schiavo, her husband, is representing her wishes in seeking to have her feeding tube removed. Yet, still there has been no resolution. A large part of the blame for this unjustifiable delay rests with Gov. Jeb Bush and former House Speaker Johnnie Byrd. Days after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed in October 2003, a frenzied Legislature, browbeaten by Byrd and extreme right-wing elements, passed "Terri's Law," giving the governor the discretion to reinsert the tube. It was an exertion of raw power, injecting the government into a family matter and disregarding a series of uniform court determinations ... At that point, Michael Schiavo should have easily obtained a court order allowing him to direct the removal of his wife's feeding tube. But that has not happened. Bush and Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, are continuing to press the courts for more delays, and the courts seem to be acceding to their tactics ... It is past time for the courts to end this family's tragedy and allow Terri Schiavo the peaceful end her husband believes she would have wanted ... [Read more]

If you're curious about what will happen to you when you die, author Paul Perry ... will be speaking to the public this weekend. Perry primarily will discuss his newest book, Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of Christ's Childhood Years. But since he co-wrote hugely popular books like Closer to the Light and Transformed by the Light, that detailed hundreds of near-death experiences (and sold about 3 million copies), readers will hear from him about those books, too ... [Read more]

"Ed Murrow's ghost is here," Rather told the Hollywood Reporter. "I've seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he's watching over us." Rather says he chats with the ghost of the legendary CBS newsman but neglected to report what the two talk about ... [Read more]

Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he's saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic "armageddon" ... Roach's analysis isn't entirely new. But recent events give it extra force ... [Read more]

Note:  Read the numerous NDE prophecies of a coming U.S. economic collapse at the NDE and Future research conclusions page.

She was taking classes to become a nurse when her friend went into hospice. During a week-long break she cared for Sister Michelle full time ... She's going to a place she knows through prayer, she says. A place filled with what every one is searching for: Love. "I think that's what most people are suffering from -- lack of love. I think when we die we are going to meet love. "True love," says Sister Michelle, "for the very first time ..." [Read more]

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. Her 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. For more information about P.M.H. Atwater's contribution to near-death studies, download her press kit here.

QUESTION:  "Two years ago a very good friend of mine was very sick (dying). This sickness all came about very quickly. She had sepsis, as well as lupus. We were all called into the hospital because time was getting close. My friend had been taken from her room to the Emergency Room to be monitored. There were no beds in CCU at the time. Her sister was coming in from New York and had asked me to pick her up at the airport. Before leaving the hospital, we were all allowed in the room for a few minutes. I knew she would not make it for her sister to get there. The doctors were working on her to try and stabilize her BP. We were sent out of the room. Standing in the hallway, I could feel this energy. I knew she was gone. On the way out of ER, sitting there was a woman who could have been a twin. I asked my son over and showed him. On the way to the airport, Adam (my son) told me he felt this energy while standing in the hallway outside of Althea's room. He felt like the woman sitting in the Waiting Room was there to take Althea home. I did not tell the sister any of this on the ride back to the hospital. The lady in the Waiting Room was gone and Althea was on life support. We all knew she was gone. The next morning I got a call from the sister asking me to take her back to the hospital, that Althea had just passed on. You know how it is, if there is no response from the respirator, it will shut down by its self. This is what happened with Althea. Do you feel like it really could have been an angel sent here to get her? Allison, the sister, told me she felt this strange feeling during the flight to Richmond, and found Althea on the respirator. I told her what I had seen and said it sure sounded like her sister had passed on." -- Patricia K.

P.M.H. Atwater'S REPLY:  "We can all surmise that indeed the woman in the Waiting Room, who was a twin in appearance to Althea, was sent there to help Althea die. Please know there is no way anyone can be certain of that or prove it in any way. I would, however, like to share what I have found to be true not only in my research of near-death states and transformative states, but in my personal life as well ..."[Read more here]

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This book was published last year but escaped my notice. Description: "Walk of Faith" opens up for the reading audience one person's journey to find God, with God's help, through a series of three NDEs and miracles. These miracles are followed by a supernatural battle leading to appearances of Jesus.

Description: "Christ smiled, his face alight with joy and love as he took my hand." Thus begins one of the most detailed journeys to the spirit world ever recorded. When Suzanne Freeman found herself floating against the ceiling of a hospital operating room in 1999, she knew in an instant that she had died ... As Suzanne turned back toward her body to enter it again, she was stopped abruptly. She turned to see a hand wrapped around her arm - a hand with a puncture wound - the hand of Jesus Christ. The Savior took her by the hand and led her to Paradise, where she was greeted by family, friends and many others, who emphasized simple yet valuable eternal truths.

The leading candidate for Einstein's fabled "theory of everything," M-theory depicts our universe as a "bubble" floating in an expansive eleven-dimensional "multiverse." Leading physicists now envision our universe as one of countless "bubble universes" only millimeters away from each other. In this new picture, Big Bangs create new universes all the time and, if these parallel universes are as close as physicists believe, our universe could eventually collide with one of them--with cosmic consequences.

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience, and yet they are also the most puzzling. Did time have a beginning? Is there space beyond the universe? Would time go on if everything else stopped? Could space exist with nothing in it? Might time travel be possible? Are there parallel worlds? Could time go backwards? Is there a fourth dimension of space? Are space and time just the constructions of our minds? Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating guide through these and many other puzzles and paradoxes.

Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given particularly careful thought to the implications of the theory that lies at the heart of modern physics. In this book, which contains several of his key papers as well as new material, he focuses on the problem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allows causally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural way with the physical brain made of neurons and atoms. The implications of the theory bring some of the most profound questions that mankind has contemplated: How should humans view themselves in a quantum universe? What will be the impact on society of the revised scientific image of the nature of man? The author addresses recent debates about consciousness.

Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the "Akashic record." Recent discoveries in vacuum physics show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in science's zero-point field that underlies space itself. The author conveys the essential element of this information field in language that is accessible and clear. From the world of science he confirms our deepest intuitions of the oneness of creation in the integral Theory of Everything.

Brian Weiss, M.D., is most famous for his fascinating  account of the past lives of one of his patients, Catherine, recorded in Many Lives, Many Masters. For years, Weiss focused only on leading his patients into the past, yet some of them experienced spontaneous pre-cognitive moments -- knowing what will happen before it actually occurs -- a phenomenon which NDE researchers have also written about. Then for awhile, and only on rare occasions, he pro-gressed his patients forward but only in their own lifetimes. At some point, Dr. Weiss had a stunning insight when he came to realize that past, present, and future are one, and what happens in the future can affect the present, just as the past also influences it. The book's basic concept is that the future is flexible, and that we will be present in that future, learning life's lessons.

Dr. Jane Greer, a classically trained therapist, began with the belief that the bond that exists between the living and the dead is not purely a psychological one, but is, in fact, much more dynamic and empowering. In the shattering aftermath of her own mother's death, Dr. Greer learned - and shows us as well - that transcommunication is not simply a "hello from heaven" but a powerful therapeutic tool that is available to any of us. Through this communication, the pain of grieving can be made more bearable, ambivalent relationships can be healed, and a loved one's messages can bring relief and joy.

Last modified on July 10, 2006

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