Quote: Emanuel Swedenborg

“Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.”

– Emanuel Swedenborg

The Ghosts of Japan’s 2011 Tsunami

Excerpt: “Reverend Kaneda exorcised 25 spirits from Rumiko Takahashi. They came and went at the rate of several a week. All of them, after the wartime sailor, were ghosts of the tsunami. For Kaneda, the days followed a relentless routine. The telephone call from Rumiko would come in the early evening; at nine o’clock her fiancé would pull up in front of the temple and carry her out of the car. As many as three spirits would appear in a single session. Kaneda talked to each personality in turn, sometimes over several hours: he established their circumstances, calmed their fears and politely but firmly enjoined them to follow him towards the light. Kaneda’s wife would sit with Rumiko; sometimes other priests were present to join in with the prayers. In the early hours of the morning, Rumiko would be driven home. ‘Each time she would feel better, and go back to Sendai, and go to work,’ Kaneda told me. ‘But then after a few days, she’d be overwhelmed again.’ Out among the living, surrounded by the city, she would become conscious of the dead, a thousand importunate spirits pressing in on her and trying to get inside…”

When Loved Ones & Friends Pass From This World To The Next

Many people suffer terribly when a family member or dear friend passes from this world to the next. If you are looking for something to ease your pain and/or lift the pain of another, here are a few resources to explore and possibly share…

Dr. Bruce Greyson: Science & Postmortem Survival (Updated)

An outstanding talk by Dr. Bruce Greyson that provides empirical support, from three different lines of investigation, for the scientific hypothesis of postmortem survival…

New Book: ‘The Angel Effect’

In his previous bestseller, The Third Man Factor, John Geiger examined stories of explorers who found themselves at the edge of death and experienced a benevolent presence that led them out of the impossible. After that book’s publication, Geiger was inundated with firsthand accounts from people who’d had the same experience — a visitation that aided them as they faced crises ranging from physical and sexual assaults to automobile accidents, airplane crashes, critical illness, childbirth, and devastating depression.

In The Angel Effect, Geiger brings together a breathtaking collection of personal stories about people who experienced what he now calls the Angel Effect. He argues that the Angel Effect has the potential to aid us, even to save us, and questions whether or not calling on a benevolent presence is a trainable skill that can be applied in moments of great need…

Judy & Bill Guggenheim on After Death Communications

Judy and Bill Guggenheim discuss their work with after death communications. They are authors of the best-selling book “Hello From Heaven,” which includes more than 350 accounts of after death communications…

Celebrity Near-Death Experiences (Updated)

The near-death experiences of rich and famous people are particularly interesting. They are rolling in the money. They are known all over the world. They are often beautiful, articulate and very talented in what they do. With this in mind, why would such a person reveal to everyone that they were dead and came back to life? Money? They already got that. Fame? They are already famous. In fact, by telling everyone they came back from the dead, they may be risking their own reputation. People who reveal such things to others often become the butt of jokes or thought to be crazy. Why would anyone rich and famous subject themselves to this when it might result in lost fame and fortune? The only rational reason that such people who have nothing to gain is that it really happened to them and they want to share it with the world. The following are rich and famous people who risked it all to tell the world about their near-death experience….

Misc. NDE Videos

NDE videos that are no longer available on YouTube…

Movie: ‘Astral City: A Spiritual Journey’

Based on the best selling book “Nosso Lar: An Account of Life in a Spirit Colony in the World of Spiritis” by medium Chico Xavier, “Astral City: A Spiritual Journey” tells the story of Andre Luiz, a successful doctor who experiences an enlightening spiritual awakening after his death. When he wakes up in the spiritual world, he embarks on a new journey of self-discovery and transformation, from his first days in a dimension of pain and suffering, until when he is rescued and taken to the spiritual Astral City. With magnificent art direction and special effects that have never been seen before in a Brazilian production, and featuring an amazing score by composer Philip Glass, the film brings to the screen what life is like at the Astral City that hovers in the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere…

Fox & Friends: To Heaven & Back

This week, Fox and Friends reported on five people who say that they went to heaven during a near-death experience…

Important: ACISTE Directory Now Available

The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE) now has a directory of certified mental health and spiritual guidance professionals who can help people deal with spiritually transformative experiences…

New NDE Book: ‘I Knew Their Hearts’ by Jeff Olsen

After reading Jeff Olsen’s new book “I Knew Their Hearts,” I wholeheartedly agree with Raymond Moody’s assessment, “Jeff Olsen’s story is one of the most amazing I have ever heard.” Everyone who has an interest in near-death experiences (and related issues) needs to read this book…

Notes from Sedona’s 06/04/13 NDE Class

This update includes information about the 2013 IANDS and ACISTE conferences, a new book by J. Steve Miller called “Near-Death Experiences as Evidence for the Existence of God and Heaven: A Brief Introduction in Plain Language,” a quick list of NHNE’s diverse and growing NDE resources, a video of Reverend Peter Panagore sharing his near-death experience, and, finally, tons of information about NDEr Jeff C. Olsen and his new book, “I Knew Their Hearts”…

05/07/13 NDE Class Notes (Includes The History of “The Formula”)

The NDE classes in Sedona are continuing to produce lots of great content. Here are the class notes from our May 7th meeting. Among other things, this update includes provocative information from Dr. Jeffrey Long, author of “Evidence for the Afterlife,” that offers increasing evidence for the existence of a personal God. This update also includes an important overview concerning how “The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth” came to be…

Quote: Nassim Haramein

“Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer.”

– Nassim Haramein

Death & Dying (Updated)

Pulse Death & Dying Resource Page…

New Book: ‘Science and the Afterlife Experience’

Just how strong is the case for the survival of consciousness beyond death? You may never get a better answer to that question than in the pages of Chris Carter’s Science and the Afterlife Experience, the concluding volume of his masterful trilogy on science and the paranormal. The first two books — Science and Psychic Phenomena and Science and the Near-Death Experience — had been important books for me, so I eagerly awaited this third book. The book is organized around three major lines of evidence: the apparent past-life memories of children, apparitions, and purported messages from the dead through mediums. With each of these three lines, Carter first presents a series of well-researched and well-documented cases. These cases are an education in themselves. They are so impressive that I found many of them stretching my view of what is possible…

Lilou Mace Interviews Raymond Moody

LiLou Mace interviews NDE researcher, Raymond Moody. Moody (born June 30, 1944) is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975…

Twelve “Any Time, Any Place” Survival Tips (v3.2)

So, you live on Planet Earth and are wondering what you can do to insure a graceful passage through whatever changes may come your way. And you want advice that you can use any time, any place, even when faced with the kind of apocalyptic changes that are presently knocking on our global door. Here are a few practical suggestions…

Nancy Pelosi: Spirits of American Suffragists Spoke To Her At White House

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women’s Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House. Pelosi said she heard them say: “At last we have a seat at the table”…

$5 Million Grant Awarded by Private Foundation to Study Immortality

The John Templeton Foundation grant to UC Riverside philosopher John Fischer will fund research on aspects of immortality, including near-death experiences and the impact of belief in an afterlife on human behavior…

Dead Man Reportedly Visits Two Doctors

When Faye Aldridge’s husband, 53 year old Burke Aldridge, was in the final stages of cancer, he promised to send her a fax from heaven. Within hours of being pronounced dead at the hospital, oncologist Dr. Carl Willis and neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Cushman, two men who had never met, both swore Burke Aldridge paid them a visit at their homes before either of them even knew he was dead…

Documentary: ‘Soul Proof’

The Soul Proof Documentary film presents collective evidence — clinical, scientific, religious/spiritual, and firsthand experience in nature — that convincingly proves that you are an infinite spiritual being. It shares life-transformative benefits and action steps to help you more fully know and express your magnificent energetic/spiritual nature. The movie is based on Dr. Mark Pitstick’s twenty-five years of research as described in his book by the same name. Dr. Bernie Siegel wrote the book’s foreword and Drs. Wayne Dyer, Raymond Moody and others contributed exclusive interviews. The documentary features many people who have had after-death contacts, near-death experiences, miracles, ghost sightings and other encounters. It also shares input from pioneers in consciousness studies such as Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., Ken Ring, Ph.D., and Michael Newton, Ph.D. Many people feel that watching this movie allowed them to live with more peace, hope, enthusiasm, purpose and power no matter what is going on around them…

New Book: ‘Divine Moments…’

Nancy Clark’s life was transformed forever by a near-death and a near-death-like experience that resulted in her passion to show us that humans can experience the reality of their true, authentic self — the self that is rooted in the divine and brimming with love for all humanity. She has been researching spiritually transformative experiences for thirty years and now in this groundbreaking book, she has compiled diverse spiritually transformative experiences happening to ordinary people today. The experiences are varied and include near-death and near-death-like experiences, out-of-body experiences, after-death communications, spiritual awakenings, religious conversion experiences, meditative and prayerful experiences, and mystical experiences. Learn how these individuals awakened to a new understanding of their deepest assumptions about the eternal questions: Why am I here? Where am I going? What is the purpose of life? Learn how their inner wisdom can assist all of us in understanding that we are more than biological beings; we are spirits of consciousness that are gifted with a love born of our divine nature.

Review Of Raymond Moody’s New Book: ‘Paranormal’

In his new book Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife, co-written with Paul Perry, Moody gives us the background behind his investigations into NDE’s and other, even more esoteric phenomena. The book is briskly paced, engagingly written, and remarkably open. Perhaps the most surprising revelation is that for most of his life Moody has suffered from a serious thyroid condition that can cause severe mood swings, and that, during one period of intense depression when his thyroid had essentially shut down, he attempted suicide and had a brief, preliminary NDE (or at least the prologue to an NDE) of his own…

The International Conference On After Death Communication

Listen, learn and heal with the top speakers, authors and mediums in the field of after death communication (ADC). Join a sanctuary of like-minded people, where you can hear the stories of others and share your own. A place where you will learn about the latest research into after death communication (ADC), the continuation of consciousness after death, near death experiences (NDE) and other phenomena supporting the soul and life after life…

New Book: Raymond Moody: ‘Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife’

From the bestselling author of Life After Life and pioneer researcher and leading authority on near-death experiences comes Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife, an intimate look at a lifetime spent fearlessly wrestling with humankind’s most important and perplexing question: What happens when we die? In Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife (HarperOne; February 2012), the pioneering researcher reveals how he became the first doctor to extensively study and eventually unveil this previously unknown experience of the near-death experience to the general public. From his childhood curiosity about the soul to his academic exploration of philosophy, from his early research into the afterlife to the publication of the bestselling book Life After Life, Moody’s entire life has been devoted to a deeper understanding of what comes next — and to exploring better ways for the living to encounter the dead…

Annie Cap: ‘Beyond Goodbye’

In her hospital bed in Oregon 5000 miles away, Annie’s mother, Betty, started to gag and suffocate as she came closer to death. At exactly the same time and unaware of what was happening Annie, at work in England, started to choke. Then sensing she must call, Annie urgently telephoned to say “goodbye” one last time. Hearing her mother’s labored breathing, she understood – miraculously her mother had reached across the heavens to be with her as she began to die. Shortly after her mother’s death, more unusual occurrences began to happen. Night after night, her mother reached from the “other-side” to comfort her – and this was only the beginning. Unexpectedly, sharing in her mother’s final moments acted as some kind of catalyst. Annie’s intuitive and psychic abilities instantly and dramatically increased, and ultimately led to a renewal of her faith. As a non-believer, who had rejected religion from a young age, she was completely transformed by her experiences…

2nd Annual ‘Afterlife Awareness Conference’

2012 conference presenters include some of of the field’s leading luminaries, including Dr. Stuart Hameroff, Dr. Raymond Moody, and Dr. Melvin Morse…

Documentary: ‘Supernature: Esalen And The Human Potential’

SUPERNATURE: ESALEN AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL is a documentary film about the influential Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and The Human Potential Movement it spawned. At a time of unprecedented political, social and ideological conflict, we believe the world would benefit from a broad, beautiful, and sophisticated exposure to the ideas and practices fostered by Esalen, particularly those that move us beyond the present schizophrenic split between religion and science…

What To Expect When Witnessing A Loved One’s Death

Nothing prepares you for being present at the death of a loved one. The emotional enormity of the experience and its relative rarity give survivors little frame of reference to draw from. The death experience unfolds differently in each situation. But those who have witnessed “the passing” observe the following…

TED: Peter Finwick: ‘Preparing For A Good Death’

Peter Finwick talks about how to prepare for a good death…

Kathy, Martin, Lisa Share Their NDEs On ‘I Survived…’

A woman dies when a charging bull causes her horse to rear, throwing her head first onto concrete. A teenager commits suicide overdosing on prescription pills. On Christmas Eve a young mother has a heart attack and dies. Watch Kathy, Martin, and Lisa share their NDE’s on “I Survived… Beyond and Back”…

Dale, Margaret & Cindy Share Their Near-Death Experiences

Dale, Margaret and Cindy share their near-death experiences…

‘Crisis Apparitions’ – Messages From Beyond The Grave

“It was very bizarre,” she said of the 2001 encounter. “I went through a period of disbelief. How can you tell someone that you saw this man, solid as ever, walk in and talk to you, but he’s dead?” Today, De Santo has a name for what happened that night: “crisis apparition.” According to paranormal investigators, a crisis apparition is the spirit of a recently deceased person who visits someone they had a close emotional connection with, usually to say goodbye…

What Happens When We Die – From An Experiencer’s Perspective

What happens to us when we die? This is a compelling question that plagues everyone throughout one’s life. I have been on multiple deathbeds and have actually died a few times — having flatlined and lost all vital signs — commonly known as a near-death experience (NDE). Herein, I will share what one goes through as one dies, and everything involved with the dying process, from an experiencer’s perspective…

NDE: Juliet Nightingale: Toward The Light Radio Show

The Rev. Juliet Nightingale, a multiple NDEr, hosted a groundbreaking programme, TowardThe Light from March 6, 2006 – January 25, 2009 focusing primarily on the nature of consciousness and life continuum as revealed through near-death and similar spiritually transformative experiences. The programme archives feature a stellar roster of special guests who are both experiencers and researchers in the realm of NDEs and related topics. This post also includes Juliet Nightingale’s near-death experience…

John Cleese: The Scientists

John Cleese: The Scientists (from 2008)…

Unsolved Mysteries: Dreams Come True

Unsolved Mysteries reports on people who have dreams of literal events…

NDE: Barbara Whitfield (From A 1996 Documentary)

Barbara Harris Whitfield shares the story of her two near-death experiences. According to Barbara, this interview was done for Entertainment Tonight 20 years ago. Barbara’s two near-death experiences happened in a hospital a week apart. Barbara had been an atheist until her experiences and became a theist afterward. In her first NDE, after leaving her body she went to a dark place and met her deceased grandmother. During the second experience, she had a peculiar and insightful life review, seeing scenes of her life in bubbles. She could experience the feelings of all the people she had interacted with. This led to her knowing of the interconnectedness of all people: “We can feel, then, how everything we’ve ever done or said affected others. The sense is that we don’t end at our skin. It is an illusion that we are separate. This deep review of our life shows us that at a higher level of consciousness we are all connected.”

Pam Reynold’s Near Death Experience

This video describes the near-death experience of Pam Reynold, which is one of the most well-documented NDEs on record. Her experience includes this famous quote: “Is the Light God? No, the Light is not God. The Light is what happens when God breaths.”

Pulse on NDEs (Updated)

Here is an updated copy of the Pulse Resource Page on Near-Death Experiences. In contains links to some of the best, most inspiring, comprehensive, and authoritative resources on near-death experiences (and related phenomena)…

Compelling NDE Story (Includes Encounter With Jesus)

Episode 5 of the “I Survived… Back & Beyond” series is now online. If you want to watch this remarkable episode, you need to watch it now! The Biography Channel has already removed Episode 6, which was also outstanding. Today’s post includes an excerpt of an especially compelling story from Episode 5…

NDE: Watch ‘I Survived… Beyond & Back’ Online!

Episode 6 of this unusually well done documentary on near-death experiences is now available online. The Biography Channel has also posted Preview and Web Extra video clips from this documentary on their website…

NHNE NDE Videos: 136 & Counting

NHNE NDE now has 136 videos, most of which are people describing their personal near-death experiences…

Man Pulls Girl From Fiery Car; Later Has Vision Of Her Father

“My wife is next to me in bed. She’s sleeping. Everything is where it’s supposed to be,” says Johnson. “Then there is this man standing right by the bed. He says he needs help with a few things. I say, ‘OK.’ Now, I know it’s him (Kotowicz) even though the only time I had seen him was at the accident, when he didn’t look, you know, normal. He says he wants me to give a message to his wife and to his daughter…”

Movie: Reviews of “Hereafter”

“Everyone has had these thoughts pass across his mind once in a while,” [Eastwood] said. “Is there an afterlife? What’s it like? All the great religions have tried to deal with these questions.” He added that what he liked about the script is that “it has a spiritual feeling without any particular religious touch.” But mostly what appealed to him about “Hereafter” was the storytelling. “I liked the way the script took contemporary events like the tsunami and the London terrorist bombings and used them in a story that tapped into a general curiosity about the hereafter and whether it exists,” he said. “I liked the way the three tales all converged. That’s something I had never tried before. And the reticent hero is always interesting, the hero who doesn’t appreciate the gift he has.”

Book Review: Glimpses of Eternity

I recently finished Raymond Moody’s new book, Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from This Life to the Next. I had looked forward to reading this ever since reading and watching some of the advance material. Just as Moody brought near-death experiences (NDEs) to public awareness 35 years ago, he now said he would bring a new and extremely important phenomenon into view, one that puts to rest the skeptical objections to the NDE. He calls these shared death experiences. They are where a person (sometimes several people) seems to actually share in the crossing over of a loved one. People began sharing their personal stories of these with him even before he published Life After Life. And as time went on, he became even more interested in these shared death experiences than in near-death experiences. Over time he has asked audiences all over the world if they have had such shared death experiences, and he implies he has collected quite a number…

Book: Glimpses of Eternity by Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody, author of the multimillion copy best-seller, Life After Life, reveals new results from his lifelong investigation of what happens when we die. The startling pattern that Moody discovered is that at the time of death, loved ones also have inexplicable experiences. Glimpses of Eternity is the first book to talk about the phenomenon of ‘shared death experiences.’ Readers will discover deathbed moments when entire families see the light or the room changes shape. Others tell of seeing a film like review of a loved one’s life and learning things that they could never have known otherwise. The stories are at once a comfort and a mystery, giving us a new understanding of the journey that we will take at the end of our lives…

NDE: Book Review: Science And The Near-Death Experience

This deserves to become a landmark book in the survival debate. Carter has a real gift for presenting complex, technical issues in simple, layman’s terms. And he has an even more impressive gift of total fearlessness in the face of prevailing dogma. He never flinches, yet he meets this dogma, which depends so heavily on ridicule, without ridicule of his own. His arguments have the feel of a Zen swordsman, dispassionate but deadly accurate. I am simply glad that Carter is out there writing. His book shows that those who believe in survival do not have to apologize, be timid, or take refuge in the mystery of “faith.” On strictly scientific grounds, they are in the stronger position. With more books like this one, our society may start slowly waking up to this fact, with all its immense implications…