‘The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth’ by David Sunfellow (Updated)

Many of you have heard about “The Formula for Creating Heaven on Earth” or “The Formula.” I introduced the idea in my two-part YouTube presentation called “How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World.” Essentially, I’ve been trying to identify the universal truths presented by near-death experiences and wrestle them into “a formula” that we can use to transform our lives. After a year of teaching classes in Sedona that have focused on applying NDE truths in our personal lives, I’ve finally created a chart that illustrates the key aspects of The Formula. Here it is: Version 1.0…

Steven Pinker: Humankind Is Getting Nicer

What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals…

New Movie: ‘Cloud Atlas’ (Updated)

“Cloud Atlas” explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, the film is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell. With an ensemble cast to cover the film’s multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. The film is scheduled to be released on October 26, 2012. Mitchell’s novel won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards…

New NDE Series: ‘What It’s Like To Die’

Collinsville radio producer and announcer Ryan Wiggins is on a quest to answer the age-old question: What is it like to die? Wiggins isn’t trying to answer that question from first-hand experience. He’s on a mission to identify people who have experienced death and came back to life. And he’s producing a show called “What It’s Like To Die,” to capture those experiences…

NDEs Absolutely, Positively NOT Caused By Malfunctioning Brains (Updated)

While many “experts” continue to suggest that malfunctioning brains produce near-death experiences, the evidence is now overwhelming that this is not the case…

New UFO Documentary: ‘Sirius’ (Updated)

’Sirius,’ reportedly the highest documentary crowd-funding raise in history, explores UFO and ET visitations and “the advanced, clean, and alternative energy technology that’s getting them here”. The film debutes April 22.

Gabby Reece On Marriage

In her new book, “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper,” beach volleyball star Gabrielle Reece opens up about her relationship with surfer husband Laird Hamilton. Reece talks about divorce, marriage, sex, relationships with others, and how she used the idea of being of service to her husband and children to save her marriage…

Brene Brown: ‘The Power of Being Vulnerable’ (Updated)

Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame — and a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness, posing the questions: How do we engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to embrace our imperfections and to recognize that we are enough — that we are worthy of love, belonging and joy? Brené is a nationally renowned speaker and has won numerous teaching awards, including the College’s Outstanding Faculty Award. Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and has appeared in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and many other national media outlets. Her 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability (watch here) is one of the most watched talks on TED.com, with over 6 million views…

Must Watch: ‘Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet’

Growing up in New Jersey, Vikram Gandhi was a typical American kid who resented the way his family tried to enforce Hindu beliefs and practices. He found it ironic that Americans began to popularize gurus and yoga just at the time he was growing away from such things. On a trip to India, he says, he found that “real” gurus were no more real than the American frauds who copied them.

That led him into the deliberate deception that he filmed in “Kumare.” He grew a long beard and a pony-tail, exchanged his shoes for sandals, switched his slacks and suits to flowing orange robes, and started carrying an ornate walking stick. Then he moved to Arizona, hired an expert to teach him yoga and a PR woman to promote him as a guru, and began to attract followers in meetings at shopping malls, community centers and around the swimming pools of his affluent clients. His accent was modeled on the way his grandmother spoke English. His teachings were deliberate gibberish: talk of inner blue lights, “finding the guru within,” and chants of fabricated mantras.

Concealing his true identity from everyone he meets, Kumare forges profound and spiritual connections with people from all walks of life. At the same time, in the absurdity of living as an entirely different person, Vikram, the filmmaker, is forced to confront difficult questions about his own identity. At the height of his popularity, Kumare unveils his true identity to a core group of disciples who are knee-deep in personal transformation…

Derren Brown Documentary: ‘Miracles For Sale’ (Updated)

Derren Brown teaches an ordinary British citizen how to adopt the guise of a pastor and miracle worker. After six months of learning the trade, “Pastor James Collins” sets sail for America. With a camera crew documenting all aspects of the adventure, Paster James performs faith healing miracles live in Texas…

1972 Best Documentary: ‘Marjoe’ (Updated)

This post includes the 1972 Oscar winning film, Marjoe. Marjoe Gortner was the first Evangelical preacher to blow the whistle on his profession. In this award-winning documentary Marjoe reveals age-old tricks of the trade and exposed some of the entertainment aspects of the popular movement that have made it big business… From the beginning, his preaching skills were meticulously cultivated. Before he learned to say “Mamma” or “Poppa,” he was taught to sing “Hallelujah!” When he was nine months old his mother taught him the right way to shout “Glory!” into the microphone. At three, he could preach the gospel from memory, and he received drama coaching and instruction in every performing art from saxophone playing to baton twirling. On Halloween, 1948, at the age of four, Marjoe was officially ordained and thrust into a wildly successful career as the Shirley Temple of America’s Bible Belt, the sprawling non-geographic community of strict adherents to the Christian scriptures. In the following decade he preached to packed tents and houses coast to coast, as enthusiastic audiences flocked to see the Miracle Child who allegedly received sermons from the Lord in his sleep…

A Sobering Lesson: Real Mastership Versus Fake Mastership (Updated)

There may be no case more perplexing or egregious than that of Yanagi Ryuken, a purported master of aikido. Master Ryuken apparently believed himself capable of defeating multiple attackers without deigning to touch them. Rather, he could rely upon the magic power of chi. Video of him demonstrating his devastating abilities shows that his students were grotesquely complicit in what must have been a long and colorful process of self-deception. Did these young athletes actually think that they were being hurled to the ground against their will? It is hard to know. What seems certain, however, is that Master Ryuken came to believe that he was invincible; otherwise he wouldn’t have invited a martial artist from another school to come test his powers….

Jesus (Updated)

This page includes Jesus-related links to news articles, special reports, books, movies, videos, modern Jesus scholarship, The Sayings Gospel Q, and more…

The Tiny House Movement (Updated)

All about “The Tiny House Movement” — websites, blogs, news stories, newsletters, books, interviews, videos…

Amazing Animals (Updated)

Animals are amazing — and they have more in common with human beings than most of us suspect. Here’s a collection of some of the best animal videos on planet Earth…

Documentary: ‘Hungry For Change’ (Updated – FREE Online Screening March 21st)

A Documentary Film About Creating Lasting Weight Loss, Abundant Energy and Vibrant Health…

TED: ‘Ron Finley: A Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA’

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”

Quote & 2005 Movie: Sophie Scholl

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control.

“If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

– Sophie Scholl (1921 – 1943), German student, a member of The White Rose Society, a non-violent anti-Nazi resistance group. Died at age twenty-two.

Documentary: ‘Eat, Fast & Live Longer’

Michael Mosley is a medical doctor, journalist and television presenter. He has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. He discovers the powerful new science behind the ancient idea of fasting, and he thinks he’s found a way of doing it that still allows him to enjoy his food. Michael tests out the science of fasting on himself — with life-changing results…

Dr. Bruce Greyson: Science & Postmortem Survival

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

iDoctor: Could A Smartphone Be The Future Of Medicine?

One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine. Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports…

Scientology (Updated)

Pulse Resource Page on Scientology…

Piers Morgan Gets Sick After Flu Shot

This post includes two videos: In the first video, Piers receives a flu shot from Dr. Ox during which Piers says that this is his “first ever flu shot” and Doctor Oz declares that you cannot get the flu from the flu shot. In the second video, Piers, struggling with flu-like symptoms, talks with country western singer Dwight Yoakam. Piers asks Dwight if he has any advice about how to deal with a sore throat. Dwight answers “don’t get a flu shot”. Piers jokingly responds “we’re both doing the math; we both saw him (Dr. Oz) put that thing in my arm and within ten days, I’ve been struck down…”

NHNE Vaccination Resource Page (Updated)

NHNE Vaccination Resource Page…

GravityLight: Light for the Developing World

As part of a research initiative on how to harness off-grid energy for low-power electronics, a pair of U.K.-based designers created a lamp that uses gravity to generate light…

NDE: U.S. Senator Mark Kirk Describes Encounter With Three Angels

Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, 52, lost consciousness when he suffered a debilitating stroke in late January 2012. He also had a near-death experience. There was no white light, and no tunnel. But there were three angels with New York accents asking him if he would like to come with them…

NDE Researcher Kenneth Ring: The Golden Rule Dramatically Illustrated (Updated)

NDE Researcher Kenneth Ring writes: “For [decades] we have been hearing about near-death experiences (NDEs), those transcendental episodes of light and love that so many people who have experienced the beginnings of death have recounted for us upon returning to physical life. By now, these travelers tales have become very familiar to us, and they have certainly helped to fashion a much more positive vision of the nature of death itself. Recently, however, NDE researchers such as myself have been more concerned with the question of what those of us who have never had such experiences ourselves can learn from those who have about how to live our daily lives. In short, what do all these beautiful stories have to contribute in a practical way to how we go about living our ordinary lives in the world? Specifically, how can we make use of this body of knowledge about NDEs so as to live with greater self-awareness and spiritual insight?”

WakaWaka Power

WakaWaka Power is a super efficient personal solar power station that charges your iPhone and any other smartphone or shines 40 hours of excellent reading light, all on just one day of solar charge. A lifesaver for those without electricity. For every WakaWaka Power sold during this pre-sale campaign the creators of WakaWaka will give two WakaWaka Lights (lights only) to Haiti, where 370,000 people still live in makeshift shelters without electricity…

2012: The Greatest Year In The History Of The World (Updated)

It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a golden age. (This post includes Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker providing supporting evidence that humankind is getting dramatically better, very fast.)

Jill Bolte Taylor: Does Our Planet Need A Stroke Of Insight?

I’ve come to understand that the two issues of mental health and global health are closely linked — if not one and the same. Similar processes we use to improve our mental health can help us make better, more responsible decisions as a society — by focusing on the compassion and integrity of our right brain, rather than the judgment, punishment and deception of our left brain…

David Sunfellow: ‘How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World’ (Updated)

On January 27th and March 16th of 2012, David Sunfellow gave two talks in Sedona entitled “How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World”. The following two-hour, two-part video is a summary of the information that David shared during these presentations…

Raymond’s Near-Death Experience

The following near-death experience is told by a man named Raymond, now deceased. It was posted on YouTube by Raymond’s grandson. Raymond recorded his story on a tape recorder for others who might find it helpful. According to Raymond, in May of 1978, when he was 67 years old, he woke up with a severe backache. He was taken to a hospital where doctors and nurses tried, unsuccessfully at first, to figure out what was wrong. As the hours and days wore on, Raymond’s condition worsened to the point where he knew he was going to die. Sensing death was near, Raymond prayed, long and hard, for God to spare his life so he could care for his wife, who was struggling with cancer. Eventually, the illness took Raymond’s life and he passed over to the other side where he encountered a group of angels. At about 23:50 into the story, Raymond says one of the angles told him this…

New NHNE Facebook Page on Relationships!

NHNE now has a new Facebook page on relationships. NHNE’s relationship page is dedicated to the rarest, most valuable of all earthly treasures: conscious, caring, healthy relationships — first, with our fellow human beings, and then with the rest of creation…

Wanda Easter Burch: ‘She Who Dreams’

Wanda Burch dreamt that she would die at a certain age; her dreams foretold her diagnosis of cancer, and then guided her toward treatment and wellness. She took advantage of all the usual medical resources available to her, but believes she is alive because of her intimate engagement with the dreamworld. “She Who Dreams” takes the reader into that healing dreamworld, opening a path to self-diagnosis and physical and psychic health. Through powerful prose and practical exercises, this book describes in compelling detail a life lived and deepened, and a death postponed. In the process it shows that wisdom lives within everyone, and that anyone can tap into that wisdom through dreamwork…

12/18/12 Sedona NDE Class Notes

This update includes information about how the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings is probably viewed from the other side, comments from class members about this horrific event, news about the 20th anniversary of the publication of Betty Eadie’s book, “Embraced by the Light”, news about NDEr Barbara Whitfield’s new book “Another F*king Growth Experience”, and a calendar listing all the classes that will take place in January…

Tour of International Space Station

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory…

Movie Worth Seeing: ‘Jodhaa Akbar’

If you are looking for an interesting movie, with a beautiful message, take this one for a spin. It’s long, but worth it. One Amazon viewer writes: “It is a beautiful story about a wise leader who bucks tradition and chooses compassion over bloodshed, openness and acceptance over intolerance. It is also a wonderful love story.”

60 Minutes: Escaped Prisoner Describes 23 Years In North Korean Concentration Camp

60 Minutes: Tonight we’re going to tell you about a place so brutal and horrific it’s hard to believe it exists. It is, by all accounts, a modern-day concentration camp, a secret prison hidden in the mountains, 50 miles from North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. It’s called Camp 14, and according to human right rights groups, it’s part of the largest network of political prisons in the world today. Some 150,000 people are believed to be doing hard labor on the brink of starvation in these hidden gulags. But it’s not just those who have been accused of political crimes; it’s their entire families — grandparents, parents, and children. A practice called “three generations of punishment.”

Documentary: ‘Overview’ (Watch It Here)

Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside — a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment…

Mr. Happy Man – Johnny Barnes

Johnny Barnes is a Bermuda native found waving to passing traffic at the Foot of the Lane roundabout in Hamilton, Bermuda, from roughly 3:45 am to 10 am, every workday, rain or shine. A Bermuda institution mentioned in several guidebooks and profiled in a documentary film, he is known for waving and saying “I love you, God loves you,” to passing commuters during the morning rush hour into Hamilton…

No GMOs (Updated)

Pulse Resource Page on the harmful effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)…

11/27/12 Sedona NDE Class Notes

This update includes a downloadable December calendar, directions for subscribing to our new mailing list, news about Dr. Eben Alexander, including Alexander’s appearances on Dr. Oz and Oprah’s “Super Soul Sunday” program, David Milarch and Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, Emanuel Swedenborg, the movie “Resurrection”, an update to the Pulse resource page on “NDEs Absolutely, Positively NOT Caused By Malfunctioning Brains”, and finally, the main event: the NDE of Alon Anava…

New Movie: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ (Updated)

The Hobbit is an upcoming film series consisting of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937). The films are, by subtitle, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Read all about it here (movie trailers, productions clips, posters, links, and background information)…

All About Emanuel Swedenborg

All about Emanuel Swedenborg. “People who have had near-death experiences peek through the door of the after-life, but Swedenborg explored the whole house.” — Kenneth Ring, founder of International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS)

Plato’s Cave: ‘A New Worldview After A Near-Death Experience’

NDEr David Bennett writes: “All Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) are unique and personal to each experiencer. They are not like a dream. To many experiencers they are more real and powerful than this physical reality; some call it a hyper reality. By defining NDEs we limit them and I do not wish for that here. I will attempt to give you an idea of what they are and how they affect people…”

Using Psychotropic Drugs On An Integral Spiritual Path

Pulse Resource Page on using Ayahuasca and other psychotropic drugs on an integral path…

Extraordinary Human Capabilities (Updated)

Pulse Resource Page on Extraordinary Human Abilities…

Death & Dying (Updated)

Pulse Death & Dying Resource Page…

11/13/12 Sedona NDE Class Notes

Notes from Sedona’s November 13th, 2012 NDE Class. This update includes information by or about NHNE’s new YouTube Channel, including several NDE play lists and two huge video archives of first-person NDE accounts, David Sunfellow’s “How Near-Death Experiences Are Changing The World” YouTube presentation, Becki Hawkins, Barbara Whitfield, Andy Petro, and a Vietnam War veteran who describes how his NDE left him unable to shoot anyone anymore…

Documentary: ‘Tuning In – Spirit Channelers In America’

Tuning In is a unique feature-length spiritual documentary, the result of 10 years of inquiry into the phenomenon of spirit channeling by filmmaker David Thomas. For the very first time, six of America’s prominent channelers are featured in the same film in order to gain insight into the phenomenon, as well as the information being received. They are Lee Carroll (channel for Kryon), John Cali (channel for Chief Joseph), Shawn Randall (channel for Torah), Darryl Anka (channel for Bashar), Geoffrey Hoppe (channel for Tobias) and Wendy Kennedy (channel for the Pleiadian Collective). The entities coming through — each with a strong and distinct personality — were interviewed at length by the filmmaker…