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May 1, 2004
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NEWSLETTER |
Vol. 03 No.
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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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 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 |
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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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 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]
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to all, PMH Atwater, L.H.D. |
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PMH Atwater's
website | Marketplace
(a public service)
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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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the search for the afterlife |
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