New Movie: ‘Peace Pilgrim’
May 16
"Peace Pilgrim", the movie, will be a full-length Hollywood feature. Peace Pilgrim awakened and inspired many thousands during her twenty-eight year pilgrimage for peace. Those she touched in a personal way carry very special memories -- talking, laughing, walking together; listening to pilgrimage stories over the dinner table or while driving her to a speaking engagement; waving goodbyes as she quickly departed for her next destination. From 1953 until 1981 this silver-haired woman, with cheerful obedience to her calling, was a server in the world. As she approached each country hamlet or sprawling city she carried to all she met a message of peace expressed so simply: When enough of us find inner peace, our institutions will become more peaceful and there will be no more occasion for war...
Dr. Jan Holden Summarizes 30 Years Of NDE Research
May 10
In this four-part video, Dr. Jan Holden, co-author of "The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation" summarizes what we have learned in the past 30 years of research about NDEs. One highlight: "What near-death experiencers come back from NDEs believing the purpose of life is, is to advance in our capacity to love one another and to aquire knowledge. So, in a nutshell, it's loving and learning."
New Book: ‘Brain Wars’ on NDEs
Apr 25
In Brain Wars, Dr. Beauregard delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the role of the brain and mind. Filled with engaging, surprising, and cutting-edge scientific accounts, this eye-opening book makes the increasingly indisputable case that our immaterial minds influence what happens in our brains, our bodies, and even beyond our bodies. Examining the hard science behind "unexplained" phenomena such as the placebo effect, self-healing, brain control, meditation, hypnosis, and near-death and mystical experiences, Dr. Beauregard reveals the mind's capabilities and explores new answers to age-old mind-body questions...
New Book: ‘Communing With The Gods’
Apr 25
Communing with the Gods presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds...
The Tiny House Movement
Apr 15
All about "The Tiny House Movement" -- websites, blogs, news stories, newsletters, books, interviews, videos...
‘Jesus Tomb’ Controversy Rages As Archaeologists Explore Another 2,000-Year-Old Tomb
Apr 13
Archaeologists working in Jerusalem claim that a discovery they made inside a burial tomb, dating back to the time of Jesus Christ, could shed new light on the origins of Christianity. Biblical historian James Tabor, professor and chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, is working with the team, led by controversial filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici. Using a camera mounted on a robotic arm, the team found a 2,000-year-old engraving, which they claim depicts Jesus' resurrection, on an ossuary -- a limestone burial box that contains human bones -- in a first-century tomb. Their exploration of ancient life in the holy land is told in a new documentary for the Discovery Channel called "The Resurrection Tomb Mystery"...
New NDE Book: ‘Dancing Past The Dark’
Apr 13
Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences is the first book to report on the almost one in five near-death experiences that are not peaceful but are marked by fear, emptiness, sometimes perceptions of hell. Based on 30 years of experience and research, the book is packed with first-person anecdotes and consideration of the myriad questions that swirl around these NDEs and the people who report them. A “first” in the near-death literature, the book includes ways of integrating such an experience into life afterwards and possible interventions for caregivers who may encounter patients having a distressing deathbed vision or NDE. “Engagingly written,” as one reviewer says, Dancing presents ways of thinking about these issues that will be new to many readers. What becomes evident, says Nancy Evans Bush, MA, is that to see these experiences only as a terrible threat about death is to miss an important point: they say something worth hearing about life.
New Book: ‘The I Ching: A Biography’
Apr 09
What makes a classic? First, the work must focus on matters of great importance, identifying fundamental human problems and providing some sort of guidance for dealing with them. Second, it must address these fundamental issues in "beautiful, moving, and memorable ways," with "stimulating and inviting images." Third, it must be complex, nuanced, comprehensive, and profound, requiring careful and repeated study in order to yield its deepest secrets and greatest wisdom. One might add that precisely because of these characteristics, a classic has great staying power across both space and time. By these criteria and by most other measures as well, the Yijing [I Ching] certainly fits the bill. And yet it seems so different from other "classics" that instantly come to mind, whether literary works such as the Odyssey, the Republic, the Divine Comedy, and The Pilgrim's Progress or sacred scriptures like the Jewish and Christian Bibles, the Qur'an, the Hindu Vedas and the Buddhist sutras. Structurally it lacks any sort of systematic or sustained narrative, and from the standpoint of spirituality, it offers no vision of religious salvation, much less the promise of an afterlife or even the idea of rebirth. There is no jealous and angry God in it; no evil presence like Satan; no prophet, sinner, or savior; no story of floods or plagues; no tale of people swallowed up by whales or turned into pillars of salt. The Changes posits neither a purposeful beginning nor an apocalyptic end; and whereas classics such as the Bible and Qur'an insist that humans are answerable not to their own culture but to a being that transcends all culture, the Yijing takes essentially the opposite position. One might add that in the Western tradition, God reveals only what God chooses to reveal, while in traditional China, the "mind of Heaven" was considered ultimately knowable and accessible through the Changes...
New Book: ‘Lucid Immersion Guidebook’
Apr 04
Based on the latest lucid dreaming research, as well as wisdom of ancient cultures, the Lucid Immersion Guidebook provides the tools needed to build your own lucid life practice. Designed for frustrated beginners and advanced lucid dreamers alike, the Lucid Immersion Guidebook lays out a structured plan -- a holistic blueprint --- for waking up in your dreams quickly, safely, and sustainably. This work is the most up-to-date and comprehensive "how to" book on lucid dreaming, drawing from fresh clinical, anthropological, and neurological sources. It's the best of the old and the new.
New Book: ‘Divine Moments…’
Apr 02
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.
New Book: ‘A Mindful Nation’
Mar 27
In one of the most optimistic books to come out of Washington during these trying times, Congressman Tim Ryan presents us with an inspiring and hopeful view of our country’s future -- and a roadmap for how to get there. This new way is based on the timeless and universal practice of mindfulness, the natural capabilities of our brains and minds, and the core American values of self-reliance, stick-to-it-iveness, and getting the job done. And it’s manifesting in every sector of our society -- it’s helping sick people work with their pain, school children improve their learning, veterans heal from trauma, and CEOs become more inclusive and effective leaders. All these benefits -- and more -- are supported by scientific research on mindfulness that is regularly reported by the mainstream media, such as ABC World News with Diane Sawyer...
New Book: ‘Integral Dreaming – A Holistic Approach to Dreams’
Mar 23
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change...
Anita Moorjani & Wayne Dyer On The Aware Show
Mar 14
Best-selling author and teacher Wayne Dyer joins Anita Moorjani to discuss her miraculous recovery from cancer and many other thought-provoking subjects. Topics include: what it's like on the other side of life, how to enter the deeper state of consciousness that permeates all life, past lives, parallel universes, and multi-dimensional realities, how past lives (and future lives) are all happening right now, how every possibility exists right now -- including miraculous healings -- and you can switch from one reality to another by understanding this, how we are all God, how we have become a culture that is pathologically fearful, how there is too much fear around cancer (and illnesses in general), how cancer (and other illnesses) can arise out of our body's attempt to heal itself and should be welcomed as such, how Wayne Dyer has dealt with his leukemia, the importance of being ourselves and living life fearlessly, how to practically apply the information discussed in this interview...
Distressing Psi Is Really Misinterpreted Insight, Vitality, And Developmental Thrust
Mar 08
Sheila Joshi writes: "I just finished reading “Perspectives of clinical parapsychology: An introductory reader,” Kramer, Bauer, and Hövelmann, editors, and I was very struck by how there are a handful of outpatient clinics in Europe and Argentina where people having distressing psychic or spiritual experiences can get help from professionals who are trained in both clinical psychology and parapsychology. As far as I know, there is no such clinic in the U.S., even though it’s a huge country which does have a few parapsychology research centers. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the art of counseling people who are having distressing psi experiences. The other thing that really jumped out at me is that distressing, usually spontaneous, psi experiences can very often be transmuted into quantum leaps of personal development for the experiencer... I would go further and say that the data presented led me to think that the spontaneous psi experiences were distressing because they were being somewhat misinterpreted by the experiencers, and because they contained a developmental thrust that was very much wanted but which was also taboo. To me, these spontaneous experiences really seemed like shoves from the Tao / infinite self / personal unconscious / spirit guides -– or some combination of them all!"
Michael Murphy: The Future Of The Human Body
Feb 28
Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Michael Murphy. Murphy is the founder of Esalen Institute and the author of numerous books including Jacob Atabet, Golf in the Kingdom, The End of Ordinary History, and The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature...
Daniel Simons: ‘Seeing The World As It Isn’t’
Feb 25
Daniel Simons is head of the Visual Cognition Laboratory at the University of Illinois. His research explores the ways in which our beliefs and intuitions about the workings of our own minds are often mistaken and why that matters. He is best known for his experiments revealing striking failures of perception and the limits of visual awareness. His research is exhibited in science museums worldwide and his writing has been published in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune. He recently co-authored the book, "The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us"...
Quote: Raymond Moody
Feb 23
"What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity." -- Raymond Moody, from Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife
Review Of Raymond Moody’s New Book: ‘Paranormal’
Feb 22
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...
Quote: Robert Augustus Masters
Feb 16
"Intimate relationship is perhaps the ashram of the 21st Century -- a place especially ripe with transformational possibility, a combination crucible and sanctuary for the deepest sort of healing and awakening, through which the full integration of our physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions is more than possible." -- Robert Augustus Masters
Why Materialist Science Cannot Explain Near-Death Experiences
Feb 14
Chris Carter writes: "I examined all of the other attempts to explain away the NDE as the product of a malfunctioning brain, and ultimately not one stood up to critical scrutiny. The conclusion I finally arrived at was that the NDE is exactly what it appears to be: a genuine separation of mind from body during the early stages of biological death..."
New Book: Raymond Moody: ‘Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife’
Feb 07
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’
Feb 06
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...
Mimi Alford: ‘My Affair With President John F. Kennedy…’
Feb 05
She always called him "Mr. President" -- not Jack. He refused to kiss her on the lips when they made love. But Mimi Alford, a White House intern from New Jersey, was smitten nonetheless. She was in the midst of an 18-month affair with the most powerful man in the world, sharing not only John F. Kennedy's bed but also some of his darkest and most intimate moments. In her explosive new tell-all, "Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath," Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother and retired New York City church administrator, sets the record straight in searingly candid detail...
Robert Augustus Masters: Spiritual Bypassing
Feb 05
Spiritual bypassing, a term first coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1984, is the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs. It is much more common than we might think and, in fact, is so pervasive as to go largely unnoticed, except in its more obvious extremes. Spiritual bypassing is a very persistent shadow of spirituality, manifesting in many forms, often without being acknowledged as such. Aspects of spiritual bypassing include exaggerated detachment, emotional numbing and repression, overemphasis on the positive, anger-phobia, blind or overly tolerant compassion, weak or too porous boundaries, lopsided development (cognitive intelligence often being far ahead of emotional and moral intelligence), debilitating judgment about one's negativity or shadow side, devaluation of the personal relative to the spiritual, and delusions of having arrived at a higher level of being...
The Near-Death Experience Of Cami Elizabeth Renfrow
Jan 21
Excerpt: "I left my marriage as soon as I could walk again. I experienced ongoing mystical states of consciousness to the point of greatly disrupting my life. I began sensing other people's emotions and physical states. I dropped birth control and influenced my fertility instead through communicating with my unborn children. I experienced major, major neuroendocrine changes, major electrical disruption to the point I had to stop wearing a watch and many holistic medical tests that rely on the electricity of the body do not work on me. Healer after healer in various modalities said they had never seen what they saw was happening in my body (i.e. shaman, clairvoyant, naturopath...). I got stopped on the street more than once to be asked what the light was around my head, or from light healers who just wanted to make contact. I dropped western medicine -- despite a shattered pelvis my children were born at home because they made it clear to me ahead of time that's how it would be safest and healthiest for all of us. My sexuality/libido radically shifted and orgasms began to fill the room around me rather than my body. My family shifted from a middle class normal house to giving our belongings away and living on the road, following intuition rather than society's shoulds. I discovered I could heal with my hands (and we ALL have that ability). When I began going to professional holistic medical conferences without any previous training, the teachers called me aside for encouragement, praise of my questions (the most insightful in twenty years of teaching) etc. without any previous training -- I seemed to know about healing from the inside out. Everything I've learned since has seemed to be remembering rather than learning. We have handled *almost* all of our health challenges as a family with plant medicine, or with our hands. (My healthy five year old son has never needed a doctor -- we've handled all normal emergencies with energy/spirit/plants). I end up running into person after person who is experiencing difficulties with 'kundalini awakening' and I like to help them through."
Apple’s iPad To Kill The Textbook
Jan 19
Apple announced it would update its iBooks platform to include textbook capabilities. It also added a new platform called iBooks Author, which lets anyone easily create and publish their own e-books. Apple's late co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs had hoped to bring relief to the higher education masses in the late 80s and early 90s, but 20 years later, Jobs's legacy lives on in Apple, which hopes to make yet another dent in the education industry...
NDE: Interview With 11-Year Old Colton Burpo (Heaven Is For Real) (Updated)
Jan 18
A burst appendix nearly cost 4-year-old Colton Burpo his life in 2003. Afterwards he began telling his parents about a very vivid trip to heaven, including sitting in Jesus’ lap, watching his parents while he lay seemingly near death, and meeting his great-grandfather. But most poignantly, Colton described meeting a sibling in heaven -- even though he had no way of knowing that his mother had miscarried two years before he was born, since his parents had never told him. Colton's father, Todd Burpo, began telling of his son’s heaven-sent visions from the pulpit of the Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Neb., where he serves as pastor. Word of mouth spread, and the family landed a book deal. The book -- “Heaven Is for Real,” written by Todd with co-writer Lynn Vincent -- has become a best-seller, with some 1.5 million copies in print since its release in November. Here's an interview with Colton (and Colton's parents) who appeared on The Today Show with Matt Lauer...
Book: ‘Near-Death Experiences, The Rest of the Story…’
Jan 17
"Having undergone her own profound transformations in consciousness resulting from three successive Near-Death Experiences in 1977, P.M.H. Atwater set about on her distinguished career of careful, detective-like fieldwork and research into the mysteries of NDEs. Near-Death Experiences: the Rest of the Story is her crowning achievement. In it Atwater places the varied phenomena of NDEs into a broader setting of the natural 'ongoing process of transformative adaptation within the human family as a species'. This is P.M.H. Atwater at her very best, resetting the bar for all future NDE research. She is magnificent in her painstaking role as detective, observer, interrogator, advisor, empathizer, compiler & categorizer of data, and creative formulator of plausible hypotheses in the face of 43 years of research findings...This is Atwater's 10th book, and is an absolute must for anyone interested in how NDEs relate to the transformation of consciousness, spiritual awakening, and our true potential & that of the world. It is destined to become a classic in Near-Death Studies and Consciousness Research, and has my highest recommendation." -- Scott A. Olsen, Ph.D.
New Book: ‘Beyond Religion’ – The Dalai Lama’s Call For Secular Ethics
Jan 17
Ten years ago, in his best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. Now, in Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and outspoken, elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. Transcending the mere "religion wars," he outlines a system of secular ethics that gives tolerant respect to religion -- those that ground ethics in a belief in God and an afterlife, and those that understand good actions as leading to better states of existence in future lives. And yet, with the highest level of spiritual and intellectual authority, the Dalai Lama makes a claim for what he calls a third way. This is a system of secular ethics that transcends religion as a way to recognize our common humanity and so contributes to a global human community based on understanding and mutual respect. Beyond Religion is an essential statement from the Dalai Lama, a blueprint for all those who yearn for a life of spiritual fulfillment as they work for a better world.
The Battle To Define Mental Illness
Dec 31
Allen Frances, lead editor of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (universally known as the DSM-IV), the guy who wrote the book on mental illness, declares “there is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.” Frances has launched a bitter and protracted battle with the people, some of them friends, who are creating the next edition of the DSM. And he criticizes them not just once, and not in professional mumbo jumbo that would keep the fight inside the professional family, but repeatedly and in plain English, in newspapers and magazines and blogs. He accuses his colleagues not just of bad science but of bad faith, hubris, and blindness, of making diseases out of everyday suffering and, as a result, padding the bottom lines of drug companies...
New Movie: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’
Dec 24
All about "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" -- movie trailer, productions videos, background information...
Bob Olson Interviews Anita Moorjani (& Related News)
Dec 12
Bob Olson of AfterLifeTV just posted a new interview Anita Moorjani. The hour-and-a-half long discussion includes Anita describing, in detail, her struggle with cancer -- which ended with the death of her body. While her broken, wasted-away body lay dead, Anita had a near-death experience that helped her understand how and why she contracted cancer, as well as many of the forces of life that shape our waking realities. When she returned to her body, Anita's doctors were astonished at the miraculous healing that took place. After struggling with cancer for four agonizing years, and then slipping into a comma and dying from it, all traces of cancer vanished. Anita's story is one of the most comprehensively documented medical miracles involving a near-death experience that I am aware of...
Regrets Of The Dying (Updated)
Dec 02
For many years I worked in palliative care. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five...
Inspiring Story: ‘A Soft Answer’
Dec 02
A turning point in my life came one day on a train in the middle of a drowsy spring afternoon. The old car clanked and rattled over the rails. It was comparatively empty -- a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks out shopping, a couple of off-duty bartenders studying the racing form. I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedge rows. At one station the doors opened, and suddenly the quiet afternoon was shattered by a man bellowing at the top of his lungs -- yelling violent, obscene, incomprehensible curses. Just as the doors closed the man, still yelling, staggered into our car. He was big, drunk, and dirty. He wore laborer's clothing. His front was stiff with dried vomit. His eyes bugged out, a demonic, neon red. His hair was crusted with filth. Screaming, he swung at the first person he saw, a woman holding a baby. The blow glanced off her shoulder, sending her spinning into the laps of an elderly couple...
Must Watch & Read: Paul Stamets: How Mushrooms Can Save The World (& Cure Cancer)
Nov 24
Mycologist Paul Stamets describes several paradigm-changing breakthroughs in his work with mushrooms, including mathematically perfect engineering, oil and nuclear waste cleanup, controlling insects which spread numerous global diseases, fighting viral infections, and boosting the human immune system. He also describes how mushrooms were used to cure his mother of breast cancer and why our old forests should be saved as a matter of national defense...
Bruce Lipton Discusses ‘The Power Of Consciousness’
Nov 22
Dr. Bruce Lipton uses the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics to illustrate that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking...
Now Available: New Book Explores, In Part, How Justice Always Prevails
Nov 22
As you read this chapter, you may wonder how this information applies to the Casey Anthony case. Bear with me while I describe academic research and my own experience through which I will bring together all this seemingly unrelated material and give us a different and new hope for justice for Caylee, and countless other abused children. As a researcher and author of near-death studies for more than 35 years, and as a person who had my own near-death experience (NDE), I have been engaged in a powerful Life Review that has percolated for decades. This is my first opportunity, and maybe even the first time in the literature that someone is applying the consequences of a Life Review to a murder case to show how justice can prevail in the end...
Is The End Of The World Nigh?
Nov 20
Judging by the run of successful natural disaster films in the past few years, people are fascinated by the idea of the end of the world. In Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, a virus ravaged the UK and beyond; an asteroid was the world-ending threat in Deep Impact and Armageddon; and climate change got a starring role in The Day After Tomorrow. But made-up doomsday tales pale into nothing, creatively speaking, when contrasted with what is actually possible. Look through the lens of science and "the end" becomes much more interesting...
Steve Jobs (The Book) (Updated)
Nov 07
Although the broad outlines of Steve Jobs’s struggle with pancreatic cancer are known, a new biography by Walter Isaacson offers new insight and details. Friends, family members and physicians spoke to Mr. Isaacson openly about Mr. Jobs’s illness and his shifting strategy for managing it. According to Mr. Isaacson, Mr. Jobs was one of 20 people in the world to have all the genes of his cancer tumor and his normal DNA sequenced. The price tag at the time: $100,000. But the 630-page biography spans Mr. Jobs’s entire life, and also includes previously unknown details about his romantic life, his marriage, his relationship with his sister and his business dealings. Mr. Isaacson conducted more than 40 interviews over two years with Mr. Jobs, who died on Oct. 5...
Nanci Danison’s Near-Death Experience
Nov 04
Nanci L. Danison holds a BS in Biology, with a concentration in Anatomy and Physiology, a BA in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence. Until 1994, she was living the life of a successful trial lawyer in a large midwestern law firm. She often lectured on a national level and wrote on legal topics for the health care industry. Nanci, at one time, appeared on the news for local TV stations in public service spots for the Bar Association, one of the activities that earned her a Jaycees Ten Outstanding Citizens Award for community service. After a near death experience, Nanci left the security of her big law firm and started a successful solo practice in health law, where she continues to be recognized for her legal abilities. Nanci’s has started a local chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, Inc.; earning a pilot’s license in 2000 and Private Investigator’s license in 2001; and sharing her near-death experience memories publicly. Nanci still practices law and writes books on what she remembers from her experiences in the Light...
Book: “Who On Earth Was Jesus?”
Oct 31
From the Publisher: "The first fully comprehensive account of the debate between modern scholars on the Jesus of history before he became the Christ of faith. David Boulton surveys all the major schools of historical Jesus scholarship in turn: the liberal Jesus Seminar, the conservative 'New Questers' and the radical skeptics, covering over 30 experts. He lays out the sources, biblical, 'heretical' and secular, taking in the most recent discoveries and explaining where historians agree and disagree in recovering a credible portrait of the man behind 'the greatest story ever told'."
New Book: “Making Sense Of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians”
Oct 29
An Interview with Anthony Peake, co-editor of "Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians" - an accessible guide to the theory and evidence underlying the phenomenon of NDEs. With contributions from leading international experts in the field, it provides an overview of the research into NDEs, the nature of NDEs and how they have been experienced around the world, and the physiological, psychological and medical bases of the phenomenon...
New Book: ‘Living Happily Ever After – Separately’ (Updated)
Oct 24
From the publisher: "If your marriage isn't working and you're contemplating divorce, there might be a gentler, less expensive way to reclaim your life and happiness -- and renew your relationship. After twenty-three years of struggle, Lise Stoessel and her husband, Emil, knew they were fighting a losing battle. Thus began the experiment that would save and revitalize their marriage: living separately. In this inspiring little book, Lise guides you down her own path to marital and personal peace and offers practical advice on making the decision and taking the first steps. You'll witness the remarkable transformation of her marriage and discover how separate spaces may help you and your spouse..."
Science & The NDE: Chris Carter On Skeptiko
Oct 24
Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko interviews Chris Carter, author of "Science and the Near Death Experience" and "Parapsychology and the Skeptics"...
The Good Book: A Secular Bible
Oct 11
Any respectable bible begins at the beginning. But in this one, the Garden of Eden is replaced by Isaac Newton’s garden, and the apple that denotes the downfall of man is replaced by the apple that drops on Newton’s head. The Good Book, an ambitious 597-page volume written by philosopher A.C. Grayling, is a bible without God, with humanism taking the place of religion...
Raymond Moody On Shared-Death Experiences
Sep 11
Raymond Moody discusses his research into shared-death experiences. Presented at the IANDS 2011 Conference, September 2-4, in Durham, North Carolina...
Michael Moore: ‘I Was The Most Hated Man In America’
Sep 10
In his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech, Michael Moore denounced President Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Overnight he became the most hated man in America. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Here Comes Trouble, he tells of the bomb threats, bodyguards and how he fought back...
NDE: Jorgensen, Long, Bennett Appear On ‘Call The Doctor’
Sep 02
NDE expert and researcher Rene Jorgensen appears on the TV show "Call the Doctor" along with Dr. Jeffrey Long and David Bennett to discuss near-death experiences...
NDE: PMH Atwater Launches New Website
Sep 02
PMH Atwater is one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies, having begun her work in 1978, and is a pioneer in subjects like near-death experiences, the aftereffects of spiritual experiences, transformations of consciousness, reality shifts, future memory, and modern generations of children and how they differ from previous generations. Atwater retired as an active fieldworker in near-death studies in 2010, calling for the entire field to recognize near-death states as part of the larger genre of transformations of consciousness and how they change people. Her last book on this subject, which gives her summation, is Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story. Her new website claims to be "one of the internet's most comprehensive sites on the near-death phenomenon."
Andrew Cohen’s New Book: ‘Evolutionary Enlightenment’
Aug 20
Andrew Cohen’s new book, Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening (SelectBooks, September 2011) is now available to pre-order online...
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