2012 Conference Speakers, Titles, Abstracts


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2	~~ Full List of Speakers and Abstracts as of 8-21-2012 ~~
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6	Alexander	Eben Alexander - Consciousness and the Near-Death Experience: Beyond 2012	Friday
7		The Hard Problem of Consciousness may be the only conundrum in Science and Philosophy that is arguably beyond human solution, at least from a physicalist viewpoint. The clues towards its resolution lie within near-death experiences (NDEs), and similar transcendental mystical journeys over millennia. A crucial key involves an NDE through severe bacterial meningitis, a most efficient model for human death due to its robust destruction of human brain, allowing a transcendental NDE in a neuroscientist. Global awakening to the reality of eternal, non-local consciousness begins in 2012.	Plenary
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9	Alsum & Liester	Steve Alsum & Mitch Liester - Tributaries of Consciousness: From shamanism to near-death experiences	Sunday
10		It is impossible to define the human spirit, soul, nephesh (Hebrew), pneuma and psyche (Greek), ahu and urvan (Persian), Ba (Egyptian), Shen (Chinese),…consciousness (English), because there is nothing higher by which to define it under. Since it cannot be defined, it is often ignored, or confused with psychological pulses, or thought not to exist, or cordoned off to the unprofessional designation of “woo woo” where the Twilight Zone alone welcomes it but mature culture does not. Unfortunately, patients are not treated with wholeness of being but as disparate material entities. Sadly, and to the detriment of all, death is currently defined as the cessation of the beating heart or the termination of the brain’s electrical activity, rather than the continuation to another state of consciousness. Since the Enlightenment, the Western world has de-mystified all reality. We propose to use one term, consciousness, and assist in re-mystifying our world. We propose to “circumscribe” the spirit…rather than define it, using knowledge gained from shamanism, formal religions, philosophy, science, and near-death experiences.	Concurrent
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12	Amsden	Susan Amsden - Envisioning a better life via lessons from near-death experiences	Friday
13		The benefits of listening to the narratives of many near-death & spiritually transformative experiencers can help others achieve similar transformative improvements in the meaning and quality of their lives. This includes how the experiencers were able to reinvent their lives to integrate the lessons from these experiences. The main objective of this presentation is to show by example how this process can work in helping others to achieve similar benefits.	Concurrent
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15	Benedict	Mellen-Thomas Benedict - The Spirit of Gaia: 2012 and beyond	Sunday
16		“The Spirit of Gaia” is the greatest revelation that I have learned from my near death experience. In this visual presentation I will share my insights from my visitations with the Light concerning 2012, 2020, 2040, 2060 and the ultimate fate of mankind. . With humor and a positive prospective I will present a view of a new paradigm that transcends popular concerns of Doom and Gloom. Humanity is in the process of the greatest change in its history and it has nothing to do with conspiracies, plagues or alien rescues. The years between 2012 and 2060 transform our world completely. This change of paradigm would have been impossible in the past and the reasons why may surprise you. We will also explore the Nature of Spirit with a natural perspective of the NDE as an important factor of human and planetary evolution. My insights from the Light have focused me on all the good in this world and the amazing revelation that just as the world is, right now, humanity is 95% better off than at any other time in history and that our collective future is brilliant. I know this may sound impossible and unbelievable, but I have convincing evidence to prove it.	Concurrent
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18	Bennett	David Bennett - Experiences in the Light & Visions of the Future	Sunday
19		I had two NDEs that showed me my future and during the integration of those experiences I was able to see the potentials of what lies ahead for our world and humanity. I will briefly share the portions of my veridical experiences that dealt with the future and then relate the communication I received about potential struggles and possible solutions. I would like to challenge the audience to look at the bigger picture of the world we live in today, realizing that only a few environmental disasters could push our already stressed social, political and economic structures into a very serious condition. The governments of the world could not support their citizens and communities in the ways we have come to rely on. Yet, the spiritual community embodies the qualities to overcome these challenges. Also, through my connection in social media I have found there is hope in the message that STErs around the world are conveying. I will share the ways given to me to circumvent these dire conditions and begin to deliver support that will reduce the stressors before a crisis occur.	Plenary
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21	Branson	Billy Branson - How insight gained from NDE helps those who suffer and those who grieve	Sunday
22		Since my first NDE included a physical healing while out of body, this case study provides help to those suffering injury or loss. Insight derived from the NDEs gave me the ability to assist those almost ready to cross over in a unique way.	Panel
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24	Brinkley	Dannion Brinkley - Mastering Life in this Incredible Time of Shift and Miracles	Saturday
25		There is little doubt that we are living in a time of unprecedented change. Never before has humanity played such a critical and necessary role in helping to shift and elevate mass consciousness. As we all come to understand the multi-dimensional universe we live in, we all become partly responsible for the ascension into higher levels of light and awareness. This is indeed the time long heralded by ancient prophets as the end times. But what is ending is not the world. What is ending is a world motivated by greed, fueled with intolerance, and driven in chaos. Together, we are birthing the Golden Age of Peace as our planet simultaneously ascends into a higher dimension. Dannion Brinkley will present concepts for mastering life in this incredible time of shift and miracles. Dannion's ability to understand and help you achieve empowerment in these wondrous times, comes from being struck by lightning in 1975, dead for 28 minutes. He is considered a "walking miracle," having survived insurmountable odds, including two lightning strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery and a massive grand mal seizure. His three near-death experiences have left him with an extraordinary sense of perception.	Keynote
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27	Brown	Debbi Brown - The Oneness Field: The bonds of Love & our infinite nature	Saturday
28		We live in an infinite field of oneness, in an amazing vibrational field of love, all the time. The near death experience reminds us of our eternal nature and that our consciousness is unlimited. Cosmic awareness is our birth right and we can access those states not only in near death experiences but in transcendental moments, in times of meditation, while under the influence of certain drugs or pharmaceuticals, in moments of birth or death, or times of great physical exertion, pain or grief, etc. The very foundation of human nature is our oneness with all Life. Native peoples know this intrinsically, while we in the western or modern world have forgotten that the stars, trees, rocks and wind talk to us. They are us. We are them. Consciousness can merge or blend with anything – an ant, a planet, another soul… We are unlimited and unbounded in spirit and the bonds of love unite us through all time and space. They are quantum fields of energy alive and interactive even after death. When we live in the awareness of our oneness we access the states of telepathy, instant knowing, prophetic visions, soul travel, and instantaneous manifestation.	Group discussion
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30	Bush	Nancy Evans Bush - Untangling Hellish Visions	Saturday
31		The conventional understanding of hell is as a place of eternal torment after death. This view, which is generally believed to be historical and biblical, colors the public’s interpretations of distressing NDEs, producing enormous fear or outright rejection of the entire concept of hellish experiences. A review of the roots of Western hell shows that the familiar concept is neither historically stable nor biblically accurate. How, then, can hellish visions be interpreted? I contrast the conventional literal/materialistic understanding (external, factual, time-space orientation) with a symbolic/spiritual interpretation (internal, imaginal, occurring in mythic timelessness). By de-literalizing and reframing the interpretation of common hellish symbols (e.g., fire, snakes,monsters), such an experience can be understood as precipitating a developmental thrust, rather than as a vision of punitive torment. This approach opens the most distressing NDEs to being understood as intensely personal events that nonetheless share in the great Mystery of the human unconscious. It can be read in both religious and secular terms.	Concurrent
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33	Cicoria	Tony Cicoria - The "Accidental Pianist": An examination of life's greatest mystery: what happens when you die?	Friday
34		A 42-year-old orthopedic surgeon is struck by lightning and experiences both an NDE and OBE. As a result of that, he develops musicophilia, composes music and performs that music. Dr. Cicoria's presentation will include a performance of his music and a presentation of cases representing conventional neurobiology versus unconventional paranormal phenomena in NDE/OBE.	Keynote
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36	Clark	Nancy Clark - 2012: The Path of One Heart	Sunday
37		The events happening in the world now have been foretold for thousands of years according to indigenous peoples throughout the planet. The main news for the past twenty five years has focused on the Mayan calendar but it is the only one of seventeen Mayan calendars that mentions December 21, 2012 as the end of time – as we know it. (Other calendars continue for another thousand years.) More recently, science and astronomy are verifying these ancient prophecies by revealing that Earth will be in the very center of our Galaxy on 12/21/12. What will this mean to humanity? The areas of education, politics, religion, finance and government will begin to shift and function from a higher level of consciousness. This will result in a population no longer focused on survival. Instead, humans will be living with much less stress and in loving harmony with mother Earth. Amazing and inspirational new people will come forward to lead the population into a compassionate, caring and interconnected awareness. This date is the beginning of an incredible future for our beloved planet.	Keynote
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39	Corbett	Lionel Corbett - Visionary Experiences: Their spiritual and healing potentials in psychotherapeutic practice	Saturday
40		This lecture will describe a variety of types of visionary experience (not necessarily connected to NDE) and explain their connection to the psychology and spirituality of the subject. I will explain why these are normal experiences, how they may be defended against, and why attempts are often made to reduce them to aberrant brain mechanisms or psychological disturbance. I will describe how visionary experiences may be healing and how they are related to other manifestations of the sacred.	Concurrent
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42	Delarue	Frederic Delarue - Through the Eyes of Your Heart	Friday
43		This lecture is based on the two NDEs I had at age 12 and age 40, describing the specific journey of being in the coma to the Near-Death Experience. From my experience in the coma, I will talk about what could have led me to choose to go to the Light, what I learned and how I can help people with awareness in that situation. My vision on my life and life in general totally changed after these experiences. Opening people's eyes of their hearts and how they can choose to have a higher perspective and have a better vision of the events of their life if they choose to do a very easy exercise that can allow them to see things from a much higher angle. Frederic will play a selection of his music during the presentation.	Plenary
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45	Dye	Ellyn Dye - Creating Heaven from Hell: What NDEs, astrology, ancient wisdom and metaphysics reveal about creating Heaven on earth, one soul at a time	Saturday
46		May you live in interesting times is an ancient Chinese curse. And from every standpoint, 2012 is proving to be interesting. But is it a curse… or a blessing? Are we speeding toward global destruction and the end of the world, as some predict… or just the end of the world as we know it, as humanity undergoes the Great Shift in Consciousness? What does it all mean, and what do NDEs reveal about where humanity is heading? Many NDE visions of the future provide a glimpse of a Golden Age, but how can we get there from where we are now—how can we turn things around from what appears to be the Hell on Earth that we have collectively created and, instead, start creating Heaven on Earth? . 2012 is a transformational pivot-point for humanity—a point of choice that only presents itself every 26,000 years. NDE experiencers can help ease the anxiety of dramatic and seemingly chaotic change. From the vision and research of one NDE experiencer, find out what each one of us—whether we’ve had an NDE or not—can do in our own lives to thrive during these chaotic times and help bring Heaven to Earth now.	Concurrent
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48	Fowler	Joan Fowler - The Reconnection	Friday
49		A near-death experience is a gift that we have given ourselves. What is our purpose in this time? Have you ever asked yourself - why now... why in this life time I have given myself this magnificent experience, this peeking behind the curtains. We have the ability to connect on this transparent layer (without interference). We all have the ability to access a new bandwidth of light and information for healing and for creating Heaven on Earth. As near-death experiencers we have the responsibility to humanity to make our stories heard and accentuate the positive aspects of our experiences in the light, void of all 3d distortion.	Poster
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51	Hermosillo	Alex J. Hermosillo - There is No Death; Only Future Beginnings	Saturday
52		Alex will describe his inspiring journey of spiritual awakening through a near-death experience where he gained wisdom from the beings of Light, and how the gift of healing was awakened within him. Through a great knowingness that is now part of him, he shares that we are beings of Light, Love is what created us, and Healing sustains us on Earth. All emotional pain and physical illness that humanity experiences are due to the lack of Light. By loving ourselves and each other, our Light expands and shines brighter, for the Light is a creative life force energy that is all nurturing and all healing. Following Alex’s near-death experience and purification by the Light, he began an incredible journey of self-discovery, surrendering his ego and embracing his gift of healing to assist himself and those who have sought healing from him. Alex is here to bring the messages of awareness: there is no death, we are born with the gift of healing and, despite our challenges, we can raise our consciousness to bring forth more Light into ourselves, and the world, so we all may experience living Heaven on Earth!	Concurrent
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54	Hinze	Brent and Sarah Hinze - Visions of Future Children in Near-Death Experience	Friday
55		For over 20 years the authors have pioneered a ground breaking new area of research, the Prebirth Experience (PBE). A PBE is a spiritual experience and form of vision that involves contact with one or more unborn souls. A PBE can occur during an NDE or in other ways. The authors have collected hundreds of these accounts. This presentation will include inspiring case studies of PBEs as related to NDEs, power point demonstrations, statistical analysis of PBEs, and how lives can be changed through direct PBE/NDE experiences and/or vicarious experiences.	Concurrent
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57	Holden & Kinsey	Janice Holden & Lee Kinsey - Near-Death Experiencers’ Experiences of Disclosure to Healthcare Professionals: Envisioning a More Therapeutic Future	Sunday
58		In an online survey, over 150 near-death experiencers (NDErs) described their experiences of disclosure of their NDEs to healthcare providers – medical, mental, social, and spiritual. Their responses indicated the degree to which they found the disclosures harmful – for example, being disbelieved, discounted, diagnosed as mentally ill, and/or demonized, or helpful – for example, believed, accepted, affirmed, and encouraged. Results reveal areas of need in the education and continuing education of healthcare providers to respond therapeutically to NDE disclosure.	Plenary
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60	Holden & Pace	Janice Holden & Laura Pace - Development of the Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Near-Death Experiences Scale (KANDES)	Friday
61		Research has indicated that healthcare providers’ responses to near-death experience (NDE) disclosure likely play an important role in near-death experiencers’ (NDErs’) subsequent integration of their NDEs. Their harmful or helpful responses are likely related to their knowledge of and attitudes toward NDEs – but no up-to-date instrument exists to assess these factors. In this presentation, we describe how we applied best practices in instrument design to the development of the Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Near-Death Experiences Scale (KANDES). We discuss ways the KANDES can be used in future research.	Concurrent
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63	Holden & Paz	Janice Holden & Michael Paz - Spanish Translation of the NDE Scale: Envisioning a more culturally inclusive future in NDE research	Friday
64		Over 300 million people on Earth speak Spanish as a first language, yet this group has been underrepresented in NDE research. One likely reason is a dearth of Spanish NDE research instruments. In this presentation, we will describe our process translating Greyson’s (1983) Near-Death Experience Scale into Spanish. We will discuss future research on the Spanish NDE Scale and its use with primary Spanish-speaking participants in future studies.	Concurrent
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66	Hudler	Nancy Best Hudler - Stepping Upon the Rainbow Bridge Now: Embodying the gifts of NDE’s and other Visionary experiences	Friday
67		As human beings it appears that we are living in a world of separation from Self and those we perceive as other; thus, we find ourselves perched on the edge of a chasm, our Hearts longing for REUNION with our own True Nature, as well as with those we love that seem to be lost on “the other side.” The visionary components of the NDE and other related experiences offer us a key, a map, a light illuminating our way out of the shadows of our illusions and into REUNION with our Natural State of Being and with one another—into a way of being that is resonant with the deeper Knowing of the Heart and a return to Our Native Oneness. Therefore, NDE’s are far more than profound spiritual experiences that provide evidence that life continues on; moreover, they inform us about Our True Nature, inviting us to take the next step—the step into a new way of being, right HERE and right NOW--offering each one of us a template for embodying a new paradigm and thus being the BRIDGE HOME NOW.	Panel
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69	Jacoby	Mark Jacoby - Scoffing Skeptic to Humble Observer—Random NDE after effects	Friday
70		A wide range of phenomena is commonly reported by NDE Survivors in varying degrees following their experience. Some of these include abilities or knowledge of events seemingly impossible to access through normally accepted sensory mechanisms. This discussion will center around one somewhat scientifically oriented and Skeptical NDE survivor’s real world experiences. Often the NDE survivor will be uncomfortable disclosing these experiences, and may struggle with the nature of their repeated occurrence in their life. These concerns and others surrounding often controversial topics will be presented in a fun and interesting way.	Panel
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72	Kinman	Raymond Kinman - The Ultimate Gift: Living one's purpose	Friday
73		As a result of a profound Near Death Experience at nine years old and a devout Catholic, I was coached by my Parish priest that since I had not seen Jesus, the entire experience was probably a trick of Satan. I would like to present my Near Death Experience in detail and the life story of the resulting 45 years of guilt and non-integration which eventuated in some rather psychological trauma. My story of learning to process such a radical spiritual experience has resulted in penetrating healing and a sense of purpose... offering hope for others to realize their ultimate worth by Loving others.	Group discussion
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75	Liester & Alsum	Mitch Liester & Steve Alsum - The Re-mystification of Visionary Experiences: Understanding the differences between visions & hallucinations	Friday
76		Visions and hallucinations are related but distinct phenomena. For thousands of years, visions were cherished as a doorway to transcendent realities. During the Enlightenment, with the age of reason, and with social and religious changes in Europe, the place of visions became demystified and demonized. Positive Science, a central element in the “cultural air” of the Western World, determined that the use and place of visions were for the “childhood” phase of humankind development, but now with the age of science, we have outgrown our need for them. With the birth of the field of psychiatry, visions came to be viewed as pathological and were incorrectly characterized as “hallucinations.” The demystification and pathologizing of visions results in unnecessary suffering in the individuals who have these experiences and contributes to social ills in their communities. Historical factors leading to the demystification of visions are examined. Five types of death-related visions are presented. Strategies for re-mystifying visionary experiences are offered. Finally, the consequences of demystifying and the benefits of re-mystifying visions are discussed.	Concurrent
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78	Maltby	Deirdre DeWitt Maltby - After the NDE: Living simultaneously in two worlds	Sunday
79		There is probably not a human alive that does not question or has not wondered about what lies beyond these earthly shells we inhabit; what being human truly is all about. Needless to say I was thunderstruck when shaken to my core with a fundamental transformation of my soul after my own NDE. Finding consciousness outside of my physical body I was introduced to the full divine aspect of who I am. I received a type of “knowing” beyond anything I could have ever imagined, and I was held within the palm of the hand that created me. I experienced the vastness of the universe, one of total and complete Unconditional Love. With memories of an earthly body left far behind, I saw how we are all connected by this love, by the force that created us, and how totally glorious is the gift of being human. Part of what was passed to me during both critical and non-critical states were lessons not only for me, but for anyone who draws a breath of life, and desires to seek the wonders of what lies within. Our future depends on using the potential greatness we all carry inside. This is what I can share.	Panel
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81	Maxey	Graham Maxey - The Five (or Six) Great Things Impacting the Future Anyone Can Get From Listening to the Dead, or Those Who Nearly Died: The mental health of after death communication	Friday
82		Our future, and present, depend mainly on who we think we are as human beings, and what we do as a result of those beliefs. NDEs, spontaneous After-Death Communications, Induced After-Death Communication Therapy, and reputable mediumship all confirm consistent realities that have potentially positive transformative effects on how we live now and in the future. Anyone can incorporate these findings through behavioral and cognitive changes. These realities stand on their own as promoting good mental health, and wholesome spirituality, and can be brought to non experiencers through a variety of therapeutic means and practices. Potentially positive transformative effects on how we live now and in the future. Anyone can incorporate these findings through behavioral and cognitive changes.	Panel
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84	Mays	Robert and Suzanne Mays - The Future of NDE and Consciousness Research	Saturday
85		NDE research can make progress by examining the “transcendent” content of NDEs. Four key anchor points in NDEs convey veridical information: (1) perceptions of the earthly realm, (2) communications from apparently deceased persons, (3) presentations during the life review, and (4) precognitive visions that are later proven correct. The veridical character of the information and the nearly universal experience of the hyper-reality of the NDE support the notion that the NDE is a veridical experience throughout. Thus a systematic investigation of the transcendent content of NDEs should be a fruitful research direction. The “hard problem of consciousness” is to explain how neural brain activity can produce subjective phenomenal experience, such as the experience of the quality of red. Evidence from the NDE suggests that the “mind” is an autonomous, non-material energetic entity that is ordinarily united with the brain but separates from it in the NDE. Because the “mind” is the seat of consciousness and works with the brain, the “hard problem” can be solved. The biggest challenge for this research area is to explain how the non-material mind interacts with the brain. Progress is being made in this area. A related problem is more fundamental – what is the ultimate nature of reality? Again the NDE and NDErs can provide a direction for the “harder problem of reality”: Which is more fundamental, the physical or the transcendent? NDErs give a nearly unanimous response: the transcendent realm of the NDE is fundamental and more real than the physical realm. Three paranormal phenomena that occur as aftereffects in NDErs are worth studying to understand the nature of reality: psychokinesis, precognition and teleportation. The tentative model is: there are two realms of existence, with the physical supervenient on the transcendent.	Concurrent
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87	Moore	Saskia Moore – Death Symphony: Sounds & Music of the Near-Death Experience	Saturday
88		Sound is understood to be the last sense present moments before death. UK artist Saskia Moore, is documenting and transcribing the actual music and sound experiences people heard when losing or regaining consciousness during a near-death experience. From the documented collections, she has ascertained the sounds and music heard are like ‘miniature symphonies’ - lyrical, abstract, and beautiful by its very nature. She is arranging and composing these ‘miniature symphonies’ into one continuous Symphony - DEAD SYMPHONY, a composition from many documented accounts of sounds and music heard during near-death experiences. The repetition and looping of the unconscious ‘symphonies’ allows audiences to come in and out of this sound world, shifting and changing upon further listening, eliciting new interpretations of the sounds: looping and embedding into the audiences’ personal memories. Saskia is artist in residence with UK “Sound & Music” Embedded residency. For the residency, she is working with the acclaimed European music ensemble ‘Apartment House’ who will perform DEAD SYMPHONY in the UK, Autumn 2012. The DEAD SYMPHONY is at the frontier of music and the frontiers of the mind.	Concurrent
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90	Schoenbeck	Susan Schoenbeck - The Language of Grief	Friday
91		The world doesn’t stop because you need some time to grieve. Death sometimes is the only thing that brings a halt to our frenetic day-to-day pace. Death makes us stand still and contemplate the reason for our being and our circumstances in life. Death shakes our world upside down as it snatches a loved one away. The near-death experience (NDE) gives us a language for grieving. Most importantly, it reveals that we are in no pain when we die and that a being of light and love welcomes us into our spiritual existence. The NDE calls forth comforting words mourners can say in remembrance of a deceased loved one to make grieving less complicated and more realistic. Those who have lost loved ones no longer need to accept that death is the end of relationships and move on. The process of remembering the deceased in the framework of the near-death event helps mourners adapt to death in a healthy, positive, life-affirming way. Mourners become more understanding of the spiritual form of existence and using NDE concepts can explore their continuing relationship with the person who has died.	Concurrent
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93	Swedrock	Chuck Swedrock - Using Awareness from Spiritual Experiences to Overcome Apprehension about the Future	Sunday
94		Having knowledge of a greater reality gained from the experiences of self and others can infuse a sense of security independent of portended outcomes in the physical realm. Near-death (NDEs) within the broader scope of expanded reality experiences (EREs) illuminate larger perspectives that can be used as conscious tools for lowering stress and apprehension from looming concerns about the future. Visions are one form of touching or sneaking a peek at a larger cosmic truth of existence beyond the veil that clouds ordinary human waking consciousness. Placing those glimpses into a framework of understanding gained from surveying expanded reality experiences (one’s own and other’s), creates a foundation for the awareness of an inherit well-being available to all.	Concurrent
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96	Taylor, S	Scott Taylor - What NDErs tell us about how to live in an uncertain future	Saturday
97		When NDErs leave their physical body, something unique happens. They leave the world of duality and enter a world of Unity…full of ways of being that are quite unlike what we know from our physical world. Embedded in the experience of Unity are “rules” that can guide us on how to be more fully human and navigate consciously in our uncertain future. Join us as we explore what these rules are and how our choices can powerfully affect the future experience of an individual, society and the human race.	Concurrent
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99	Taylor, W	Bill Taylor - The Love Energy Model: A new vision for humanity	Saturday
100		Is it possible to achieve Heaven on Earth without answers to the universal questions: Where did we come from? Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go after physicality? NDE visions of the oneness of creation shed light on our purpose for being. Heaven is coming to earth. There is an evolutionary process at work. Key to understanding this process is to comprehend the most fundamental and basic foundation of existence: Love Energy. It is the fabric of all that is, the elemental building block. The role of the human species is to realize its oneness with this source, and to acknowledge its own Divinity. Humans, therefore, have the choice of extending, or not extending, love into areas where it does not exist. The Love Energy Model provides new definitions of the interconnectedness of all creation and renewed hope for earth and humanity.	Group discussion
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102	van den Bulk	Sabine van den Bulk - The inside of forgiveness after a NDE and how my Fragaria Method can help you cope with it	Sunday
103		When someone has had a near death experience, the memories afterwards will might have changed the insight about nature, humanity and our lives on earth. Health care organizations don't recognize those insights and put them aside. Cultural influences will become more important than any medical diagnose. Start to connect ideas, joined in unity, instead of thinking in separated themes and visions.	Panel
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105	Wegner	William-Thomas Wegner - My Spiritual Contract: Courage is but a part	Friday
106		In my 4th NDE during 1971 (age 23) I was told, “You just don’t get it! You each have a Spiritual Contract and YOU are not coming Home until you have done more work on yours.” As I passed through what I entitle the Veil of Forgetfulness as my body was snapped back to life at the end of that NDE, the only thing that I could remember of the multitude of things I learned as part of my Spiritual Contract during this incarnation was that courage was an important aspect. Over the years since my 4th NDE I have found the courage to step into my own life and not live the energetic patterns of others, be they: my parental modeling, those with whom I have had relationships, my enculturation or my own past trauma(s). I subsequently had some insights about how many more metaphors existed in what I remembered from my 4th NDE that heretofore were not subjectively obvious to me. Of most importance: "Patience is a virtue!" as I am ending my 40 years in the Wilderness.	Group discussion
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108	White	Judith White - Are We Open and Feel the Unseen Surrounding Love that Holds Us All Together	Friday
109		Spiritual guides and often deceased loved ones as well are with us always . . . help is always available; we need to ask the questions. Information is presented to us through dreams, books, heart-insights, other people, nature, events and coincidences.	Panel
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Eben Alexander - Consciousness and the Near-Death Experience: Beyond 2012

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness may be the only conundrum in Science and Philosophy that is arguably beyond human solution, at least from a physicalist viewpoint. The clues towards its resolution lie within near-death experiences (NDEs), and similar transcendental mystical journeys over millennia. A crucial key involves an NDE through severe bacterial meningitis, a most efficient model for human death due to its robust destruction of human brain, allowing a transcendental NDE in a neuroscientist. Global awakening to the reality of eternal, non-local consciousness begins in 2012.

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Alsum & Liester

Steve Alsum & Mitch Liester - Tributaries of Consciousness: From shamanism to near-death experiences

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It is impossible to define the human spirit, soul, nephesh (Hebrew), pneuma and psyche (Greek), ahu and urvan (Persian), Ba (Egyptian), Shen (Chinese),…consciousness (English), because there is nothing higher by which to define it under. Since it cannot be defined, it is often ignored, or confused with psychological pulses, or thought not to exist, or cordoned off to the unprofessional designation of “woo woo” where the Twilight Zone alone welcomes it but mature culture does not. Unfortunately, patients are not treated with wholeness of being but as disparate material entities. Sadly, and to the detriment of all, death is currently defined as the cessation of the beating heart or the termination of the brain’s electrical activity, rather than the continuation to another state of consciousness. Since the Enlightenment, the Western world has de-mystified all reality. We propose to use one term, consciousness, and assist in re-mystifying our world. We propose to “circumscribe” the spirit…rather than define it, using knowledge gained from shamanism, formal religions, philosophy, science, and near-death experiences.

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Amsden

Susan Amsden - Envisioning a better life via lessons from near-death experiences

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The benefits of listening to the narratives of many near-death & spiritually transformative experiencers can help others achieve similar transformative improvements in the meaning and quality of their lives. This includes how the experiencers were able to reinvent their lives to integrate the lessons from these experiences. The main objective of this presentation is to show by example how this process can work in helping others to achieve similar benefits.

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Benedict

Mellen-Thomas Benedict - The Spirit of Gaia: 2012 and beyond

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“The Spirit of Gaia” is the greatest revelation that I have learned from my near death experience. In this visual presentation I will share my insights from my visitations with the Light concerning 2012, 2020, 2040, 2060 and the ultimate fate of mankind.
. With humor and a positive prospective I will present a view of a new paradigm that transcends popular concerns of Doom and Gloom. Humanity is in the process of the greatest change in its history and it has nothing to do with conspiracies, plagues or alien rescues. The years between 2012 and 2060 transform our world completely. This change of paradigm would have been impossible in the past and the reasons why may surprise you. We will also explore the Nature of Spirit with a natural perspective of the NDE as an important factor of human and planetary evolution. My insights from the Light have focused me on all the good in this world and the amazing revelation that just as the world is, right now, humanity is 95% better off than at any other time in history and that our collective future is brilliant. I know this may sound impossible and unbelievable, but I have convincing evidence to prove it.

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Bennett

David Bennett - Experiences in the Light & Visions of the Future

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I had two NDEs that showed me my future and during the integration of those experiences I was able to see the potentials of what lies ahead for our world and humanity. I will briefly share the portions of my veridical experiences that dealt with the future and then relate the communication I received about potential struggles and possible solutions. I would like to challenge the audience to look at the bigger picture of the world we live in today, realizing that only a few environmental disasters could push our already stressed social, political and economic structures into a very serious condition. The governments of the world could not support their citizens and communities in the ways we have come to rely on. Yet, the spiritual community embodies the qualities to overcome these challenges. Also, through my connection in social media I have found there is hope in the message that STErs around the world are conveying. I will share the ways given to me to circumvent these dire conditions and begin to deliver support that will reduce the stressors before a crisis occur.

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Branson

Billy Branson - How insight gained from NDE helps those who suffer and those who grieve

Sunday

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Since my first NDE included a physical healing while out of body, this case study provides help to those suffering injury or loss. Insight derived from the NDEs gave me the ability to assist those almost ready to cross over in a unique way.

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Brinkley

Dannion Brinkley - Mastering Life in this Incredible Time of Shift and Miracles

Saturday

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There is little doubt that we are living in a time of unprecedented change. Never before has humanity played such a critical and necessary role in helping to shift and elevate mass consciousness. As we all come to understand the multi-dimensional universe we live in, we all become partly responsible for the ascension into higher levels of light and awareness. This is indeed the time long heralded by ancient prophets as the end times. But what is ending is not the world. What is ending is a world motivated by greed, fueled with intolerance, and driven in chaos. Together, we are birthing the Golden Age of Peace as our planet simultaneously ascends into a higher dimension.
Dannion Brinkley will present concepts for mastering life in this incredible time of shift and miracles. Dannion's ability to understand and help you achieve empowerment in these wondrous times, comes from being struck by lightning in 1975, dead for 28 minutes. He is considered a "walking miracle," having survived insurmountable odds, including two lightning strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery and a massive grand mal seizure. His three near-death experiences have left him with an extraordinary sense of perception.

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Brown

Debbi Brown - The Oneness Field: The bonds of Love & our infinite nature

Saturday

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We live in an infinite field of oneness, in an amazing vibrational field of love, all the time. The near death experience reminds us of our eternal nature and that our consciousness is unlimited. Cosmic awareness is our birth right and we can access those states not only in near death experiences but in transcendental moments, in times of meditation, while under the influence of certain drugs or pharmaceuticals, in moments of birth or death, or times of great physical exertion, pain or grief, etc. The very foundation of human nature is our oneness with all Life. Native peoples know this intrinsically, while we in the western or modern world have forgotten that the stars, trees, rocks and wind talk to us. They are us. We are them. Consciousness can merge or blend with anything – an ant, a planet, another soul… We are unlimited and unbounded in spirit and the bonds of love unite us through all time and space. They are quantum fields of energy alive and interactive even after death. When we live in the awareness of our oneness we access the states of telepathy, instant knowing, prophetic visions, soul travel, and instantaneous manifestation.

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Bush

Nancy Evans Bush - Untangling Hellish Visions

Saturday

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The conventional understanding of hell is as a place of eternal torment after death. This view, which is generally believed to be historical and biblical, colors the public’s interpretations of distressing NDEs, producing enormous fear or outright rejection of the entire concept of hellish experiences. A review of the roots of Western hell shows that the familiar concept is neither historically stable nor biblically accurate. How, then, can hellish visions be interpreted? I contrast the conventional literal/materialistic understanding (external, factual, time-space orientation) with a symbolic/spiritual interpretation (internal, imaginal, occurring in mythic timelessness). By de-literalizing and reframing the interpretation of common hellish symbols (e.g., fire, snakes,monsters), such an experience can be understood as precipitating a developmental thrust, rather than as a vision of punitive torment. This approach opens the most distressing NDEs to being understood as intensely personal events that nonetheless share in the great Mystery of the human unconscious. It can be read in both religious and secular terms.

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Cicoria

Tony Cicoria - The "Accidental Pianist": An examination of life's greatest mystery: what happens when you die?

Friday

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A 42-year-old orthopedic surgeon is struck by lightning and experiences both an NDE and OBE. As a result of that, he develops musicophilia, composes music and performs that music. Dr. Cicoria's presentation will include a performance of his music and a presentation of cases representing conventional neurobiology versus unconventional paranormal phenomena in NDE/OBE.

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Clark

Nancy Clark - 2012: The Path of One Heart

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The events happening in the world now have been foretold for thousands of years according to indigenous peoples throughout the planet. The main news for the past twenty five years has focused on the Mayan calendar but it is the only one of seventeen Mayan calendars that mentions December 21, 2012 as the end of time – as we know it. (Other calendars continue for another thousand years.) More recently, science and astronomy are verifying these ancient prophecies by revealing that Earth will be in the very center of our Galaxy on 12/21/12. What will this mean to humanity? The areas of education, politics, religion, finance and government will begin to shift and function from a higher level of consciousness. This will result in a population no longer focused on survival. Instead, humans will be living with much less stress and in loving harmony with mother Earth. Amazing and inspirational new people will come forward to lead the population into a compassionate, caring and interconnected awareness. This date is the beginning of an incredible future for our beloved planet.

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Corbett

Lionel Corbett - Visionary Experiences: Their spiritual and healing potentials in psychotherapeutic practice

Saturday

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This lecture will describe a variety of types of visionary experience (not necessarily connected to NDE) and explain their connection to the psychology and spirituality of the subject. I will explain why these are normal experiences, how they may be defended against, and why attempts are often made to reduce them to aberrant brain mechanisms or psychological disturbance. I will describe how visionary experiences may be healing and how they are related to other manifestations of the sacred.

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Frederic Delarue - Through the Eyes of Your Heart

Friday

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This lecture is based on the two NDEs I had at age 12 and age 40, describing the specific journey of being in the coma to the Near-Death Experience. From my experience in the coma, I will talk about what could have led me to choose to go to the Light, what I learned and how I can help people with awareness in that situation. My vision on my life and life in general totally changed after these experiences. Opening people's eyes of their hearts and how they can choose to have a higher perspective and have a better vision of the events of their life if they choose to do a very easy exercise that can allow them to see things from a much higher angle. Frederic will play a selection of his music during the presentation.

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Dye

Ellyn Dye - Creating Heaven from Hell: What NDEs, astrology, ancient wisdom and metaphysics reveal about creating Heaven on earth, one soul at a time

Saturday

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May you live in interesting times is an ancient Chinese curse. And from every standpoint, 2012 is proving to be interesting. But is it a curse… or a blessing? Are we speeding toward global destruction and the end of the world, as some predict… or just the end of the world as we know it, as humanity undergoes the Great Shift in Consciousness? What does it all mean, and what do NDEs reveal about where humanity is heading? Many NDE visions of the future provide a glimpse of a Golden Age, but how can we get there from where we are now—how can we turn things around from what appears to be the Hell on Earth that we have collectively created and, instead, start creating Heaven on Earth?
. 2012 is a transformational pivot-point for humanity—a point of choice that only presents itself every 26,000 years. NDE experiencers can help ease the anxiety of dramatic and seemingly chaotic change. From the vision and research of one NDE experiencer, find out what each one of us—whether we’ve had an NDE or not—can do in our own lives to thrive during these chaotic times and help bring Heaven to Earth now.

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Fowler

Joan Fowler - The Reconnection

Friday

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A near-death experience is a gift that we have given ourselves. What is our purpose in this time? Have you ever asked yourself - why now... why in this life time I have given myself this magnificent experience, this peeking behind the curtains. We have the ability to connect on this transparent layer (without interference). We all have the ability to access a new bandwidth of light and information for healing and for creating Heaven on Earth. As near-death experiencers we have the responsibility to humanity to make our stories heard and accentuate the positive aspects of our experiences in the light, void of all 3d distortion.

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Alex J. Hermosillo - There is No Death; Only Future Beginnings

Saturday

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Alex will describe his inspiring journey of spiritual awakening through a near-death experience where he gained wisdom from the beings of Light, and how the gift of healing was awakened within him. Through a great knowingness that is now part of him, he shares that we are beings of Light, Love is what created us, and Healing sustains us on Earth. All emotional pain and physical illness that humanity experiences are due to the lack of Light. By loving ourselves and each other, our Light expands and shines brighter, for the Light is a creative life force energy that is all nurturing and all healing. Following Alex’s near-death experience and purification by the Light, he began an incredible journey of self-discovery, surrendering his ego and embracing his gift of healing to assist himself and those who have sought healing from him. Alex is here to bring the messages of awareness: there is no death, we are born with the gift of healing and, despite our challenges, we can raise our consciousness to bring forth more Light into ourselves, and the world, so we all may experience living Heaven on Earth!

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Hinze

Brent and Sarah Hinze - Visions of Future Children in Near-Death Experience

Friday

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For over 20 years the authors have pioneered a ground breaking new area of research, the Prebirth Experience (PBE). A PBE is a spiritual experience and form of vision that involves contact with one or more unborn souls. A PBE can occur during an NDE or in other ways. The authors have collected hundreds of these accounts. This presentation will include inspiring case studies of PBEs as related to NDEs, power point demonstrations, statistical analysis of PBEs, and how lives can be changed through direct PBE/NDE experiences and/or vicarious experiences.

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Holden & Kinsey

Janice Holden & Lee Kinsey - Near-Death Experiencers’ Experiences of Disclosure to Healthcare Professionals: Envisioning a More Therapeutic Future

Sunday

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In an online survey, over 150 near-death experiencers (NDErs) described their experiences of disclosure of their NDEs to healthcare providers – medical, mental, social, and spiritual. Their responses indicated the degree to which they found the disclosures harmful – for example, being disbelieved, discounted, diagnosed as mentally ill, and/or demonized, or helpful – for example, believed, accepted, affirmed, and encouraged. Results reveal areas of need in the education and continuing education of healthcare providers to respond therapeutically to NDE disclosure.

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Holden & Pace

Janice Holden & Laura Pace - Development of the Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Near-Death Experiences Scale (KANDES)

Friday

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Research has indicated that healthcare providers’ responses to near-death experience (NDE) disclosure likely play an important role in near-death experiencers’ (NDErs’) subsequent integration of their NDEs. Their harmful or helpful responses are likely related to their knowledge of and attitudes toward NDEs – but no up-to-date instrument exists to assess these factors. In this presentation, we describe how we applied best practices in instrument design to the development of the Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Near-Death Experiences Scale (KANDES). We discuss ways the KANDES can be used in future research.

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Holden & Paz

Janice Holden & Michael Paz - Spanish Translation of the NDE Scale: Envisioning a more culturally inclusive future in NDE research

Friday

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Over 300 million people on Earth speak Spanish as a first language, yet this group has been underrepresented in NDE research. One likely reason is a dearth of Spanish NDE research instruments. In this presentation, we will describe our process translating Greyson’s (1983) Near-Death Experience Scale into Spanish. We will discuss future research on the Spanish NDE Scale and its use with primary Spanish-speaking participants in future studies.

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Hudler

Nancy Best Hudler - Stepping Upon the Rainbow Bridge Now: Embodying the gifts of NDE’s and other Visionary experiences

Friday

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As human beings it appears that we are living in a world of separation from Self and those we perceive as other; thus, we find ourselves perched on the edge of a chasm, our Hearts longing for REUNION with our own True Nature, as well as with those we love that seem to be lost on “the other side.” The visionary components of the NDE and other related experiences offer us a key, a map, a light illuminating our way out of the shadows of our illusions and into REUNION with our Natural State of Being and with one another—into a way of being that is resonant with the deeper Knowing of the Heart and a return to Our Native Oneness. Therefore, NDE’s are far more than profound spiritual experiences that provide evidence that life continues on; moreover, they inform us about Our True Nature, inviting us to take the next step—the step into a new way of being, right HERE and right NOW--offering each one of us a template for embodying a new paradigm and thus being the BRIDGE HOME NOW.

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Jacoby

Mark Jacoby - Scoffing Skeptic to Humble Observer—Random NDE after effects

Friday

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A wide range of phenomena is commonly reported by NDE Survivors in varying degrees following their experience. Some of these include abilities or knowledge of events seemingly impossible to access through normally accepted sensory mechanisms. This discussion will center around one somewhat scientifically oriented and Skeptical NDE survivor’s real world experiences. Often the NDE survivor will be uncomfortable disclosing these experiences, and may struggle with the nature of their repeated occurrence in their life. These concerns and others surrounding often controversial topics will be presented in a fun and interesting way.

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Kinman

Raymond Kinman - The Ultimate Gift: Living one's purpose

Friday

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As a result of a profound Near Death Experience at nine years old and a devout Catholic, I was coached by my Parish priest that since I had not seen Jesus, the entire experience was probably a trick of Satan. I would like to present my Near Death Experience in detail and the life story of the resulting 45 years of guilt and non-integration which eventuated in some rather psychological trauma. My story of learning to process such a radical spiritual experience has resulted in penetrating healing and a sense of purpose... offering hope for others to realize their ultimate worth by Loving others.

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Liester & Alsum

Mitch Liester & Steve Alsum - The Re-mystification of Visionary Experiences: Understanding the differences between visions & hallucinations

Friday

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Visions and hallucinations are related but distinct phenomena. For thousands of years, visions were cherished as a doorway to transcendent realities. During the Enlightenment, with the age of reason, and with social and religious changes in Europe, the place of visions became demystified and demonized. Positive Science, a central element in the “cultural air” of the Western World, determined that the use and place of visions were for the “childhood” phase of humankind development, but now with the age of science, we have outgrown our need for them. With the birth of the field of psychiatry, visions came to be viewed as pathological and were incorrectly characterized as “hallucinations.” The demystification and pathologizing of visions results in unnecessary suffering in the individuals who have these experiences and contributes to social ills in their communities. Historical factors leading to the demystification of visions are examined. Five types of death-related visions are presented. Strategies for re-mystifying visionary experiences are offered. Finally, the consequences of demystifying and the benefits of re-mystifying visions are discussed.

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Deirdre DeWitt Maltby - After the NDE: Living simultaneously in two worlds

Sunday

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There is probably not a human alive that does not question or has not wondered about what lies beyond these earthly shells we inhabit; what being human truly is all about. Needless to say I was thunderstruck when shaken to my core with a fundamental transformation of my soul after my own NDE. Finding consciousness outside of my physical body I was introduced to the full divine aspect of who I am. I received a type of “knowing” beyond anything I could have ever imagined, and I was held within the palm of the hand that created me. I experienced the vastness of the universe, one of total and complete Unconditional Love. With memories of an earthly body left far behind, I saw how we are all connected by this love, by the force that created us, and how totally glorious is the gift of being human. Part of what was passed to me during both critical and non-critical states were lessons not only for me, but for anyone who draws a breath of life, and desires to seek the wonders of what lies within. Our future depends on using the potential greatness we all carry inside. This is what I can share.

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Maxey

Graham Maxey - The Five (or Six) Great Things Impacting the Future Anyone Can Get From Listening to the Dead, or Those Who Nearly Died: The mental health of after death communication

Friday

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Our future, and present, depend mainly on who we think we are as human beings, and what we do as a result of those beliefs. NDEs, spontaneous After-Death Communications, Induced After-Death Communication Therapy, and reputable mediumship all confirm consistent realities that have potentially positive transformative effects on how we live now and in the future. Anyone can incorporate these findings through behavioral and cognitive changes. These realities stand on their own as promoting good mental health, and wholesome spirituality, and can be brought to non experiencers through a variety of therapeutic means and practices. Potentially positive transformative effects on how we live now and in the future. Anyone can incorporate these findings through behavioral and cognitive changes.

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Robert and Suzanne Mays - The Future of NDE and Consciousness Research

Saturday

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NDE research can make progress by examining the “transcendent” content of NDEs. Four key anchor points in NDEs convey veridical information: (1) perceptions of the earthly realm, (2) communications from apparently deceased persons, (3) presentations during the life review, and (4) precognitive visions that are later proven correct. The veridical character of the information and the nearly universal experience of the hyper-reality of the NDE support the notion that the NDE is a veridical experience throughout. Thus a systematic investigation of the transcendent content of NDEs should be a fruitful research direction. The “hard problem of consciousness” is to explain how neural brain activity can produce subjective phenomenal experience, such as the experience of the quality of red. Evidence from the NDE suggests that the “mind” is an autonomous, non-material energetic entity that is ordinarily united with the brain but separates from it in the NDE. Because the “mind” is the seat of consciousness and works with the brain, the “hard problem” can be solved. The biggest challenge for this research area is to explain how the non-material mind interacts with the brain. Progress is being made in this area. A related problem is more fundamental – what is the ultimate nature of reality? Again the NDE and NDErs can provide a direction for the “harder problem of reality”: Which is more fundamental, the physical or the transcendent? NDErs give a nearly unanimous response: the transcendent realm of the NDE is fundamental and more real than the physical realm. Three paranormal phenomena that occur as aftereffects in NDErs are worth studying to understand the nature of reality: psychokinesis, precognition and teleportation. The tentative model is: there are two realms of existence, with the physical supervenient on the transcendent.

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Moore

Saskia Moore – Death Symphony: Sounds & Music of the Near-Death Experience

Saturday

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Sound is understood to be the last sense present moments before death. UK artist Saskia Moore, is documenting and transcribing the actual music and sound experiences people heard when losing or regaining consciousness during a near-death experience. From the documented collections, she has ascertained the sounds and music heard are like ‘miniature symphonies’ - lyrical, abstract, and beautiful by its very nature. She is arranging and composing these ‘miniature symphonies’ into one continuous Symphony - DEAD SYMPHONY, a composition from many documented accounts of sounds and music heard during near-death experiences. The repetition and looping of the unconscious ‘symphonies’ allows audiences to come in and out of this sound world, shifting and changing upon further listening, eliciting new interpretations of the sounds: looping and embedding into the audiences’ personal memories.
Saskia is artist in residence with UK “Sound & Music” Embedded residency. For the residency, she is working with the acclaimed European music ensemble ‘Apartment House’ who will perform DEAD SYMPHONY in the UK, Autumn 2012. The DEAD SYMPHONY is at the frontier of music and the frontiers of the mind.

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Schoenbeck

Susan Schoenbeck - The Language of Grief

Friday

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The world doesn’t stop because you need some time to grieve. Death sometimes is the only thing that brings a halt to our frenetic day-to-day pace. Death makes us stand still and contemplate the reason for our being and our circumstances in life. Death shakes our world upside down as it snatches a loved one away. The near-death experience (NDE) gives us a language for grieving. Most importantly, it reveals that we are in no pain when we die and that a being of light and love welcomes us into our spiritual existence. The NDE calls forth comforting words mourners can say in remembrance of a deceased loved one to make grieving less complicated and more realistic. Those who have lost loved ones no longer need to accept that death is the end of relationships and move on. The process of remembering the deceased in the framework of the near-death event helps mourners adapt to death in a healthy, positive, life-affirming way. Mourners become more understanding of the spiritual form of existence and using NDE concepts can explore their continuing relationship with the person who has died.

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Swedrock

Chuck Swedrock - Using Awareness from Spiritual Experiences to Overcome Apprehension about the Future

Sunday

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Having knowledge of a greater reality gained from the experiences of self and others can infuse a sense of security independent of portended outcomes in the physical realm. Near-death (NDEs) within the broader scope of expanded reality experiences (EREs) illuminate larger perspectives that can be used as conscious tools for lowering stress and apprehension from looming concerns about the future. Visions are one form of touching or sneaking a peek at a larger cosmic truth of existence beyond the veil that clouds ordinary human waking consciousness. Placing those glimpses into a framework of understanding gained from surveying expanded reality experiences (one’s own and other’s), creates a foundation for the awareness of an inherit well-being available to all.

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Scott Taylor - What NDErs tell us about how to live in an uncertain future

Saturday

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When NDErs leave their physical body, something unique happens. They leave the world of duality and enter a world of Unity…full of ways of being that are quite unlike what we know from our physical world. Embedded in the experience of Unity are “rules” that can guide us on how to be more fully human and navigate consciously in our uncertain future. Join us as we explore what these rules are and how our choices can powerfully affect the future experience of an individual, society and the human race.

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Bill Taylor - The Love Energy Model: A new vision for humanity

Saturday

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Is it possible to achieve Heaven on Earth without answers to the universal questions: Where did we come from? Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go after physicality? NDE visions of the oneness of creation shed light on our purpose for being. Heaven is coming to earth. There is an evolutionary process at work. Key to understanding this process is to comprehend the most fundamental and basic foundation of existence: Love Energy. It is the fabric of all that is, the elemental building block. The role of the human species is to realize its oneness with this source, and to acknowledge its own Divinity. Humans, therefore, have the choice of extending, or not extending, love into areas where it does not exist. The Love Energy Model provides new definitions of the interconnectedness of all creation and renewed hope for earth and humanity.

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van den Bulk

Sabine van den Bulk - The inside of forgiveness after a NDE and how my Fragaria Method can help you cope with it

Sunday

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When someone has had a near death experience, the memories afterwards will might have changed the insight about nature, humanity and our lives on earth. Health care organizations don't recognize those insights and put them aside. Cultural influences will become more important than any medical diagnose. Start to connect ideas, joined in unity, instead of thinking in separated themes and visions.

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Wegner

William-Thomas Wegner - My Spiritual Contract: Courage is but a part

Friday

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In my 4th NDE during 1971 (age 23) I was told, “You just don’t get it! You each have a Spiritual Contract and YOU are not coming Home until you have done more work on yours.” As I passed through what I entitle the Veil of Forgetfulness as my body was snapped back to life at the end of that NDE, the only thing that I could remember of the multitude of things I learned as part of my Spiritual Contract during this incarnation was that courage was an important aspect. Over the years since my 4th NDE I have found the courage to step into my own life and not live the energetic patterns of others, be they: my parental modeling, those with whom I have had relationships, my enculturation or my own past trauma(s). I subsequently had some insights about how many more metaphors existed in what I remembered from my 4th NDE that heretofore were not subjectively obvious to me. Of most importance: "Patience is a virtue!" as I am ending my 40 years in the Wilderness.

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White

Judith White - Are We Open and Feel the Unseen Surrounding Love that Holds Us All Together

Friday

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Spiritual guides and often deceased loved ones as well are with us always . . . help is always available; we need to ask the questions. Information is presented to us through dreams, books, heart-insights, other people, nature, events and coincidences.

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