Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., a college teacher and dream psychologist in Vancouver Washington, is collecting stories of people who have been moved by dreams or sleep state encounters with the departed. The stories will be included in a research presentation on the phenomenon of sleep ADC's and will likely be included in an upcoming book. Participants may request anonymity, and may dictate their stories to be included in the study but not published. If you, or someone you know has experienced such a dream, please contact Gillian at gholloway@lifetreks.com.

R.A.W. (India's equivalent of the C.I.A.) has advanced quite a bit in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi report that R.A.W. is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques to look into foreign intelligence activities within India ... Recent days India has seen a massive amount Pakistan's I.S.I. agents arrested all over the country. The situation has gone so bad for Pakistan and Al-Queda that they are looking for reasons what is really happening. [Read more]

Studies showing that magnetic stimulation of the brain induces spiritual experiences are being queried by researchers who cannot reproduce key results. If the traditional theory is wrong, scientists will be left struggling to explain how such thoughts and sensations are generated. In the past, scientists have claimed that religious or out-of-body experiences result from excessive bursts of electrical activity in the brain. In the 1980s, Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at the Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, began exploring this idea through a series of experiments. [Read more]

A series of scientific experiments in the early 1980s changed forever our understanding of the nature of matter. It is likely that it will also prove to have been the greatest religious discovery of the 20th century. Physicists call it entanglement, and it describes the state of two or more particles once they have interacted with one another. From then on, irrespective of time and space, a correlation will always exist between them. What happens to one will affect the other - even if they are now at opposite ends of the universe. The word entanglement is really a misnomer. Some scientists use "non-separability" to describe the same condition. [Read more]

One of Britain's most prominent atheists has decided that God might exist after all. Prof Antony Flew, a champion of atheist beliefs for more than 50 years, said scientific evidence supports the theory that some sort of intelligence created the universe. Prof Flew, 81, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Reading, said that this was the only explanation for the origin of life ... "I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots - cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said in his new video, "Has Science Discovered God?" [Read more]

      Read about A.J Ayer, the founder of the atheistic philosophy of Positivism, and his conversion.

A completely blind British man has been shown to possess an apparent "sixth sense" which lets him recognize emotions on people's faces, according to British scientists. The researchers say the 52-year-old was able to react to pictures of human faces showing emotions such as anger, happiness or fear. The man, identified only as 'patient X', has suffered two strokes which damaged the brain areas that process visual signals, leaving him completely blind. [Read more]

A co-worker who lost her mother to cancer was leaving the funeral when she saw a swarm of dragonflies. It wasn't even the time of year when the insects are supposed to be out, so it probably won't surprise you that her mother happened to be a big fan of dragonflies. You've heard similar stories. Friends and relatives of those who loved cardinals or wolves, ladybugs or butterflies will see an image of those beings in the most unlikely places and be reminded of the one who's gone. Are they messages from the afterlife or just coincidences? Each of us is free to think what we like. [Read more]

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why. Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today. [Read more]

If it's good enough for ravers, it's good enough for G.I.s. That's the thinking, apparently, behind the Army's decision to test the animal tranquilizer Ketamine as away to soothe injured soldiers. The drug � known in the clubs has "Special K" � has been reducing party-goers to gurgling blobs for more than a decade. This year, the Army has been running final, phase III Food and Drug Administration trials on a quarter-dose nasal inhaler of "K," to see if it can substitute for morphine. [Read more]

This week, the search engine Google announced plans to digitize millions of library books and make them searchable online. Are we getting closer to the day when most of the world's knowledge is a click away? Hear the audio here. [Read more]

In the summer of 2004, the Australian Science Festival hosted "The Nature of Consciousness Debate" between the NDE skeptic Susan Blackmore, astrophysicist Paul Davies, and consciousness studies scholar David Chalmers. They debated such questions as these: Are we conscious now? How do we know? Could this all be a grand illusion? We know about consciousness more intimately than any other experience; yet it remains one of the greatest mysteries of science. Read the radio transcripts on the following websites: [Part 1] [Part 2]

"What the Bleep Do We Know?" a quirky film by a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur that links quantum physics with the teachings of a Washington state guru who channels a 35,000-year-old warrior is breaking attendance records at art houses across the country ... "What the Bleep" weaves cartoon illustrations through interviews with Ivy League scientists and spiritual philosophers to suggests a new spirituality for the 21st century. [Read more]

       Note:  P.M.H. Atwater highly recommends this movie. She states:

Peralta grabbed the grenade and cradled it into his body, Morrison said. While one Marine was badly wounded by shrapnel from the blast, the Marines said they believe more lives would have been lost if not for Peralta's selfless act. "He saved half my fire team," said Cpl. Brannon Dyer, 27, of Blairsville, Ga. The Marines said such a sacrifice would be perfectly in character for Peralta, a Mexico native who lived in San Diego and gained U.S. citizenship after joining the Marines. [Read more]

The following are new NDE videos and DVDs which I haven't had the time to add to my website but deserves mentioning here before the year's end. If you are a NDE video nut like me, you will enjoy these:

"Into The Light" - With Bruce Greyson, Ph.D - Features the stories of six people who faced death yet lived to tell about it. They, like eight million other Americans have had a near-death experience, an event filled with peace and radiant with love. Hear what they have to say about death and the hereafter. "Through The Tunnel & Beyond" with best-selling author - Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D. Called the father of the "near-death experience" Raymond Moody teaches the technique for visionary encounters with deceased loved ones. A superb documentary shot around the world at sacred sights, among them Epyhyra, Greece where Homer described as the Oracle of the Dead. People who have had near death experiences or those who are terminally ill, tell in intimate detail what they have experienced in death and most confess that "it is the most peaceful they have ever felt." After studying the rituals performed there and throughout the ages, Moody replicated the conditions in his own studio.

P.M.H. Atwater's "As You Die" is the only presentation on Earth that talks a person through physical death as he or she is dying, and the soul's separation. It has been field tested for over a decade with hundreds of people, demonstrating that it really does help to alleviate the fear of death, and makes it easier and quicker for someone to die and die at peace.

In this powerful Focus special, acclaimed author and researcher, Dr. P.M.H. Atwater shares her three, life-changing, near-death experiences with FOCUS Host, Mary Lou McCall. Focus Worldwide was started by the Archbishop of New Orleans, Philip Hannan, now retired. The Archbishop, together with TV Host Mary Lou McCall, had made a trip to Medjugorje and both had a mystical experience there that convinced them they must do everything they can to bring the mystical, the spiritual, back into not only into the Catholic Church but religion itself. One of the types of programming they are devoted to is near-death experiences.

In this riveting two-part series, Storm describes his profound NDE in an interview with Mary Lou McCall. From the excruciating pain and terrifying realms of darkness, his journey into the regions of light where he conversed with Jesus, Storm reveals his conversations with heavenly spiritual beings and describes the role of angels, what happens when we die, the real meaning of life and much much more.

Mary Lou McCall interviews Ned Dougherty in which he describes his fascinating NDE where he entered an otherworldly amphitheater of thousands of bright souls, received guidance from his deceased friend, met a Lady of Light who gave him an urgent message for the world. Dougherty also received messages from the Archangel Michael which included a prophecy that was fulfilled on September 11, 2001.

Sondra reveals to Mary Lou McCall more startling visions and revelations from her NDE. After you watch this video, you will understand why those people, who have been called to the light, return on a mission to bring an urgent spiritual awakening to us all.

Sondra Abrahams answers provocative and thought provoking questions about heaven, hell, purgatory, guardian angels, and encounters with deceased friends and relatives. Special Features: One half hour of scenes from other FOCUS shows dealing with the afterlife.

Pam Reynolds' NDE is profiled and includes a professional computer animation of her NDE. This is the only animation based on a NDE that I have ever seen in a documentary. Just viewing this animation is itself well worth the purchase. In the second half of the program, James Van Praagh is tested by the 48 HOURS crew.

Diane Sawyer investigates near-death experiences.

Diane Sawyer investigates near-death experiences.

20/20 reviews the ground-breaking book on after-death communications called "Hello From Heaven" and interviews several people whose stories are in this book authored by Bill and Judy Guggenheim.

This 20 minute short film can be found at the end of the DVD version of the 2003 horror movie, "Final Destination 2." Unlike the horrible movie it comes with, this short film is worth the price of the entire DVD. P.M.H. Atwater has this to say about it:

To view NDE videos online you may need to have the appropriate free software (plug-ins) installed on your computer. Click on the link provided above to learn about watching internet videos. If you don't have a video plug-in installed, you can download one of these: Real Player, Apple Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Windows WinAmp, Adobe Reader (for PDF files).

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