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February 1, 2006 |
Vol. 05 No.
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The Near-Death Newsletter is a free monthly newsletter from
www.near-death.com which is emailed to subscribers every 1st of the month and on every 15th of the month. The mission
of this newsletter is to provide the latest news on the subject of near-death experiences and related phenomena and to
promote IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies), near-death researchers, experiencers,
events, and multimedia resources. Disclaimer: This newsletter is not affiliated with IANDS; but the author of this newsletter, Kevin
Williams, is a member of IANDS and is dedicated to the IANDS mission. IANDS is the premier organization for near-death research. Membership gives you access
to their prestigious Journal of Near-Death Studies and
Vital Signs newsletter. You can join IANDS at their website.
Get connected with IANDS because they will probably be the organization who will someday provide the scientific evidence proving that human consciousness
survives death. |
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Table of Contents |
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Archive of NDEs in the News
- Read 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. The Near-Death News
section of this Near-Death Newsletter
will soon be available in syndication so
stay tuned! |
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Dr.
Atwater
is
back
on
tour
promoting
her
latest
book,
Beyond
the
Indigo
Children:
The
New
Children
and
the
Coming
of
the
Fifth
World.
There
will
be
a
delay
while
she
looks
over
her
accumulated
e-mail.
But
she
will
try
to
keep
up
with
her
correspondence
.
And
is
available
for
consultations,
readings,
talks,
workshops,
or
her
Prayer
Chaplaincy
service. |
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LATEST HEADLINES FROM P.M.H: |
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EBOOK FREEBIES FROM P.M.H: |
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WHAT'S NEW ON P.M.H.'S WEBSITE: |
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1,
2006) |
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This retreat is open to near-death experiencers who wish to come together in a peaceful setting to talk about issues related to coming back and other topics of concern to NDErs. Sign-up at this IANDS web page. Registration deadline is March 15th, 2006. Price includes room, breakfast, lunch, dinner and workshops.
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1,
2006) |
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The first day of the conference will focus on the needs and interests of the medical community. Greater effort will be made to appeal to physicians and nurses, and other health-care providers. The remaining three days will cover the gamut of near-death experiences, their aftereffects and implications. The public is invited. Details given when available. Advance information can be obtained through the IANDS office in Connecticut: phone (860) 882-1211 or email office@iands.org.
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(February
1,
2006) |
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You can now purchase IANDS Conference presentations from the following years: 2005 (download or CD-ROM), 2004 (download or audiocassettes), 2003 (download or audiocassettes), 2001 (download or audiocassettes), 2000 (download or audiocassettes), 1999 (audiocassettes), 1998 (download or audiocassettes), 1997 (audiocassettes), 1996 (audiocassettes), 1995 (audiocassettes), 1994 (audiocassettes), and 1993 (audiocassettes). Also available from IANDS include: NDE Research CD-ROMs, free downloadable NDE Brochures, Selected Bibliography of Near-Death Experiences, Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2001, and the Journal of Near-Death Studies.
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(January
30,
2006) |
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In 1994, Diane Willis was sitting at home reading the Chicago Tribune when it happened. The article she was reading, "Beyond the crystal ball" by Marya Smith about local psychic and spiritual author Sonia Choquette, began to do something Willis hadn't expected ... Willis had a near-death experience without having been injured or hospitalized. This event, as well as others, would later influence her to found the Chicago chapter of the International Association of Near-Death Studies ... Through a series of events, Willis discovered Transitions, a spiritual bookstore, and decided to visit it one day when she had time. Upon arriving at the store, she found out that Sonia Choquette was going to be speaking and signing copies of her book "The Psychic Pathway" that following Sunday. [Read more] |
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2006) |
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When the The Lancet published his study of near-death experiences, Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel couldn't have known it would make him into one of the world's most-talked-about scientists. It seems everyone wants to know about the man who managed to get his study of this controversial topic published in one of the leading journals of medical research. Yet it's not really surprising that its publication in 2001 created a stir. Never before had such a systematic study been conducted into the experiences of people who were declared dead and then came back to life ...
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19,
2006) |
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Top cardiologist to talk at London conference about near-death experiences (NDEs). He claims to have proven the existence of life after death in scientific trial. A leading cardiologist — who has become convinced of the existence of life after death after hearing his patients' experiences — is talking about his research and beliefs at a major conference in London in March. Dr. Pim van Lommel was so inspired by the stories related by his patients of their NDEs that he became the first medical practitioner to risk his reputation with a full, systematic trial into the phenomenon ...
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28,
2006) |
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In 1985, Storm lay dying of a perforated intestine in a Paris hospital when he underwent "the most amazing experience." "Doctors said I was on death's door. Then Satan took me down to hell and tormented me," he recalled. "In that place I called out to Jesus; not out of faith, out of desperation. I didn't know what else to do. Jesus grabbed me and took me up toward Heaven. I saw myself lying in the bed. I couldn't believe it was me. I kept telling myself 'I'm not crazy.' Jesus and I conversed, and he gave me a life review. It was so vivid and profound, it totally changed my life."
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1,
2006) |
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REVIEW: Many people know of Pam Reynolds because her NDE is one of the most medically documented and verifiable. Her NDE testimony has become a benchmark case for the survival of consciousness after death. Pam's life signs were absent and by all medical criteria she was dead for almost an hour. While there are many NDE books available, Pam has now presented the NDE message in a entirely original and exciting way. She and her writing and singing partner, Rob Robinson, have produced a CD called "The Side Effects of Dying" ...
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15,
2006) |
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An accident in a chemistry lab when Julie Lapham was 26 changed her life in a way she never imagined. One minute she was an up-and-coming scientist, and the next she lay dying from a severed artery and nerve in her wrist. What she described as a near-death experience ultimately led her down a new career path. "I remember floating above them as they worked on me in the hospital, and then I saw a light, and then something made me turn and the experience was over," said Lapham, 61 ...
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17,
2006) |
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DreamWorks and
Steven Spielberg have been given the green light to do another miniseries for the NBC-owned Sci Fi Channel, by the same team that did Steven Spielberg's "Taken". The 12-hour mini will be called "Nine Lives", about characters in grief over the loss of loved ones, and how they manage to reunite with them in near-death experiences ...
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28,
2006) |
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When
Alan Alda survived a life-threatening operation he felt like a man reborn. His only illness now, he tells Tom Shone, is his compulsion to amuse. In autumn 2003, Alan Alda was in Chile recording a segment for Scientific American Frontiers, a popular science program he has fronted for almost 20 years. He was staring up at the Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope when he came down with fierce abdominal cramps ... The book started as an account of his near-death experience in Chile, which he passed to his friend, the actor Charles Grodin, who passed it to his editor at Random House.
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(December
11,
2005) |
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Containing scenes of the afterlife once repudiated as untrue and mythical, "A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion" by B.W. Melvin paints a vivid portrayal of what actually does lie beyond the grave. The descriptions of hell are incredibly detailed. Melvin encountered demonic creatures only imagined by horror movie screenwriters ...
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18,
2005) |
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The issue of consciousness in the materialistic and non-materialistic world has long been a topic of debate among members of the philosophical and scientific community. In his new book, "Near-Death Experience A Holographic Explanation," Hon. Dr. Oswald Harding tackles this question head-on, zoning in on a particular phenomenon, the near-death experience (NDE) ...
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2005) |
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 In ancient Greece, the Afterlife in very early times was seen as a very gloomy place where everyone went. But by the time of Plato, the idea of judgment according to deeds had developed. In Plato's Republic, the story is told about Er, the world's oldest recorded near-death experiencer, who revives on his funeral pyre and tells of a judgment at death by three judges. The good ascend to Paradise, and the evil descend to Hell. But after a period of time, Plato also mentions the possibility of reincarnation. Pythagoras also was an advocate of reincarnation. In the mysteries that were popular in the later Greek and Roman periods, we are given a chance for an “up-grade” in the Afterlife via the magical rites of the mysteries of Orpheus, Dionysus, Demeter and Persephone, Mithra, Isis and Osiris, etc ...
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2006) |
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The Supreme Court Tuesday blocked the Bush administration's attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, protecting Oregon's one-of-a-kind assisted-suicide law ... The administration improperly tried to use a federal drug law to pursue Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal doses of prescription medicines, the court said in a rebuke to former Attorney General John Ashcroft. The 6-3 ruling could encourage other states to consider copying Oregon's law, used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people in that state. The decision, one of the biggest expected from the court this year, also could set the stage for Congress to attempt to outlaw assisted suicide ...
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An extraordinary event is happening right now in Southeast Asia that has the potential to affect humanity in ways thought banished years ago. Scientists are closely monitoring what looks like the birth of a super strain of one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies, the influenza virus. This new strain has the potential to kill hundreds of millions given the right conditions. According to the
World Health Organization and the
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the required conditions are now in place. We stand on the verge of a once a century influenza pandemic, an event quite different from our routine seasonal flu. Pandemic flu spreads like wildfire through the human race leaving death, chaos, and civil disorder in its wake.
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6,
2006) |
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A buffalo teen has saved the life of the same woman who saved his life years earlier. Seven years ago, Lancaster's Kevin Stephan was a bat boy for his little brother's little-league baseball team. A player who was warming up accidentally hit him in the chest with a bat. Kevin's heart stopped beating ... "All I remember is that I dropped the bat off, and all of a sudden just got hit in the chest with something, and I turned around and passed out," Kevin said. Fortunately, a nurse whose son played on that team was able to revive Kevin and save his life.
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Q & A with P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D. |
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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.
If you have a question that 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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In
this
issue,
P.M.H.
will
answer
the
following
2
questions: |
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QUESTION
1:
"...
When
I
was
back
in
my
body
after
the
emergency
caesarian
in
which
I
stopped
breathing
for
45
minutes
and
was
stone
cold
gone.
When
I
came
back,
for
weeks
my
body
felt
like
someone
had
draped
a
heavy
skeleton
over
me
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but
I
wonder
if
you've
ever
heard
of
this
strange
misfit
approach
on
reintegration
after
a
near-death
experience?"
--
Jenny |
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P.M.H.'s
ANSWER:
"Having
problems
getting
used
to
the
body
after
"reentry,"
sometimes
struggling
to
move
body
parts,
is
a
fairly
common
complaint
...
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more here] |
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QUESTION
2:
"...
There
is
one
important
issue
I
have
not
been
able
to
find
information
about
anywhere:
the
effect
of
mental
illness
on
what
happens
to
people
when
they
die
...
Could
a
person
die
and
find
out
that
they
suddenly
have
a
very
different
personality
than
they
did
on
earth,
because
their
personality
traits
were
conditioned
by
the
health
or
sickness
of
the
brain,
and
the
brain
is
now
dead?"
--
Eric |
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P.M.H.'s
ANSWER:
"Having
problems
getting
used
to
the
body
after
"reentry,"
sometimes
struggling
to
move
body
parts,
is
a
fairly
common
complaint
...
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more here] |
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