HERE AND NOW!!!!!!!!!

 ANNOUNCEMENT

The September 2020 Blog #211 is different.  There have been so many people asking me what’s going on in the world now, that I have decided to devote an entire blog post to “Here and Now,” “Who You Are,” and “What We Can Learn from Near-Death Experiences.” 

Blessings to all, PMH Atwater

Don't miss!

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Don’t miss the June issue of my free monthly newsletter. I talk about the incredible “coincidence” of the planet Uranus moving into the sign of Taurus at the same time the block-buster book Tailspin by Steven Brill came out. Uranus means change, sudden change, that sweeps away the past to make run for the new - the disrupter. Taurus means earth, what we have, banks, investments, stock markets, our homes, our farms, what we eat, how we do things, our pleasures. Into this maelstrom up pops Tailspin, the most important book to come out in decades. Brill shows us exactly how we have been hurting ourselves for the last five decades, what we did wrong, how and why. It’s not Trump. It’s us. What we let happen. Real facts. Real truth. Much of the rest of the June edition focuses on the question, is the universe alive, does it have a consciousness? You’ll be very surprised at what science has discovered. And that’s not half of it. Subscribe now.

And don’t miss the big near-death conference the last part of August and the first few days of September. Really huge. Great speakers. Come! Register now at www.iands.org. Yup, I’ll be there too.

New Clinical Studies: AWARE II

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Dr. Sam Parnia has published clinical research on 2,060 cardiac arrest patients. He calls this work THE AWARE PROJECT. He is now working on a follow-up study called AWARE II. There will be a public announcement about this in about six months. 

Recently, Charlotte Martial, from the University of Liege and University Hospital of Liege, and her team have set out to get a deeper understanding of the NDE experience. They are looking into the main components and if the experience the same for everyone. Refer to Medical News Today, 2017,

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318687.php

Save these Dates!

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Save the date: 

August 30--September 2, 2018
Bellevue, Washington

The next great, huge, near-death conference sponsored by IANDS. 
Come explore the extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!!! Details to come. 
Or you can contact services@iands.org at any time.

Dr. PMH Atwater to give talk and workshop for
IANDS-Virginia Beach, 
Saturday, January 6th, Virginia Beach, VA. 

Morning topic: A Sense of Mission: What Drives Many Near-Death Experiencers. 

Afternoon workshop: A Manual for Developing Humans. 

Full day affair. Contact Neil Helm for details: neil.helm@cox.net.

January 2018 Newsletter to be out soon. Be sure to subscribe. You can easily do this by accessing www.pmhatwater.com, press Newsletter.  There is also an archive of past issues. To connect with her monthly blogspot posts, link to http://pmhatwater.blogspot.com. 

Upcoming Events

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• Please look through the Marketplace on my website when doing your Christmas shopping.  There might be something special there for you to buy and give to others.  I operate the Marketplace as a public service for near-death experiencers and those like them, to display and promote their services and products.  You will be amazed at what all is in there, even shops where you can buy homemade gifts, art places, healing services, magnetic “cradles” for razors to keep blades sharp, architects, a seminary for metaphysical/all faiths training.  Visit the Marketplace.  See for yourself the treasures within and the fantastic people who produce them.  

• December 9 and 10 I will be in Seattle, Washington, giving a talk for the IANDS group there on Saturday, then a workshop the next day at East West Bookstore.  Details in the Engagement Calendar, Home Page of my website at www.pmhatwater.com.  

• January 6th I will be at the A.R.E. Headquarters building giving a talk and workshop for the local IANDS group there.  The next day, the sermon at the Church dedicated to Paul Solomon.  Ask for directions.

Glimpses and Coming Events

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*** The video of my first presentation to a conference of IANDS on the Glimpses of Beyond program (of 40 drawings by NDErs in 6 countries), is now available for viewing at: https://youtu.be/PBL8EcBI17o.

*** Jon Watkins, who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, has started up a new podcast called "7 Minutes in Heaven." On this podcast he is interviewing near-death experiencers - to give hope and comfort to listeners. You can contact him at jwatkins@bwaymedia.com. His first: https://mix1051utah.com/news/7-minutes-in-heaven-ep-1/.

*** October 19-22, 2017, there is a special NDE R&R Retreat at Springhill Suites Marriott, 9th Street at Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA. Not just for NDErs, but others as well who have gone through some type of spiritual transformation. Contact Ellyn Dye for more info: LionMcLeod@msn.com.

*** October 28-29, 2017, there is a conference in London, England on the New Frontiers in Consciousness Research, at Regent's University in London. They have an incredible list of speakers. Contact: info@scimednet.org for more information.

Coming Events

• September 18, 6:00 pm to 9:15, special class on Breathing and Learning Through the Vagus Nerve.
  
  This will be taught by Rev. Dr. Karen Herrick, at the United Methodist Church, 247 Broad Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701. This is a very important class for anyone interest in the near-death experience, because so many experiencers speak afterwards of not needing to breathe that much from the nose and lungs. Herrick believes that the Vagus (Vagal) Nerve is the physical counterpoint to the Silver Cord. There are records and teachings that go back hundreds, if not thousands of years, that refer to adepts who learned how to breathe without involving the normal process of nose/lungs, and continue on with their life normally. Any questions call (732) 530-8513; www.spiritualexperiences.info.
  
  
• September 20, 7:30 pm, Book Signing at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in the Barracks Road Shopping Center (on Emmet Street), in Charlottesville,VA.
  
  A Manual for Developing Humans. Discussion, Q&A, signing.
  
  
• September 29/30, two-day extravaganza at the Oracle Institute, Independence, VA.
  
  Begins with showing of “Glimpses of Beyond” (40 drawings of child and adult near-death experiencers in six countries), plus excerpts from the book Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience on Friday, Sept. 29. Saturday a full day exploring A Manual for Developing Humans, powerpoint of 28 thoughtform drawings in the Manual, exercises from the Manual, discussions of “mission,” our job in life, time/dimensions, what’s coming/dates/revelations. Some meals are covered in cost. Contact Oracle Institute for details and map, at: info@TheOracleInstitute.org, or call (276) 773-3308. Books there.
  
  
• December 9th Special Holiday Presentation at Seattle IANDS. Donations at the door: from 1:30 to 5:30, bring food for potluck.
  
  Dr. Atwater’s talk, I Want to Pour My Soul, will be an intimate sharing of the forty years she spent challenging life followed by the forty years she spent challenging death, and why Seattle is such a special place for her (where she was healed in November of 1977). Some of her books will be available. To contact Seattle IANDS, link to http://www.IANDS.org or contact Kim Sharp at kimnde@aol.com.
  
  
• December 10, A Manual for Developing Humans Workshop, from 1 to 4 pm at East/West Bookshop, 6407 - 12th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115.
  
  Call for details: Angie at (206) 552-8056. Cost is yet undetermined.
  
  Much discussion about “mission” will be held: our job to do in life, time factors (dates), and the making of the Manual. Simple exercises from the Manual will be experienced. Q&A follows. Her major books will be available.
  

New Book and Coming Conference!

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***  A Manual for Developing Humans is now out.  You should be able to

purchase it just about anywhere in the world.  Since if just came out,

there have been some printer errors popping up.  If there is anything

wrong with your copy, notify the publisher right away and he will send

you a good one.  You must include your mailing address for this.  

Contact Bob Friedman at Rainbow Ridge Books:

rfriedman@rainbowridgebooks.com.  

***  NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE IANDS CONFERENCE.

The next big near-death conference will be August 3-6, at The Westin

Hotel in Westminster, Colorado (near Denver).  The theme this year

is “Love, Light & Healing Energy:  Affirming the Near-Death

Experience.”  Register at:  conference@iands.org.  Their website is

www.iands.org.  

***  Be certain to check my Engagement Calendar on the Home Page

of my website from time to time.  I may be coming to a town near

you.  If you or your group would like to sponsor me, please contact

atwater@cinemind.com.  Do subscribe to my free monthly newsletter.

Always all kinds of fascinating news and thoughts to share.

New Thought, Psi, Retreats, Conferences, and the Buddha

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• There is now an outstanding “new thought” channel put out as a guide to spiritual living, and featuring Mitch Horowitz, one of Tarcher’s editors. Details: www.newthoughtchannel.com.
• New online Psi Encyclopedia has a section devoted to Near-Death Experiences. Researchers in this first edition are Penny Sartori, Carlos S. Alvarado, Nancy Evans Bush, and journalist Patricia Pearson. See: http://www.spr.ac.uk/publications/psi-encyclopedia.
• Spiritual Retreat for near-death experiencers April 20-23 at the Mercy Center in St. Louis, MO. Details: www.nderetreat.com.
• Save now for the next big near-death conference put on by IANDS, August 3-6 in Westminster, Colorado. Inquire at services@iands.org or call them at (919) 383-7940.
• A “must read” new book: The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms: Distressing Near-Death Experiences in Perspective by Nancy Evans Bush. Behind all the joyful personal stories of being close to death and going to heaven, there is a rarely discussed fact: that a significant minority of near-death experiences are unpleasant. Please read this. One out of 7 in my research had more frightening or hellish experiences than heavenly, a few of them were children.

NDE R&R Retreat!

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• October 13-16, 2016, there will be a first-of-its-kind NDE R&R Retreat. It will be held at Virginia Beach, VA, and is sponsored by VBIANDS (IANDS of Virginia Beach). Here’s what is on the docket -
• 
  
• . . . hear and share our NDE stories
• . . . share what we’ve learned through integration
• . . . discuss the aftereffects and how to cope
• . . . talk about any new gifts and how to use them
• . . . discuss how to take our new knowledge “on the road”
• . . . simply talk heart-to-heart with others who “get it”
• . . . network and help each other fulfill our mission
• . . . share the love

For more details, to register and make hotel reservations, contact www.NDERandR.com. This gathering is a great opportunity!

• The October newsletter is out early. Be sure to read it. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you can become one online at www.pmhatwater.com. Press Newsletter and there you are. Fill out the form. There is an archive of past issues. The November newsletter will be delayed, as I will be coming back from Istanbul, Turkey. A report about this trip will be in that delayed newsletter.

Questions and Answers (Please!)

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*** Don’t forget to sign up for my free monthly newsletters. All e-mail addresses are kept private. For the curious, the news is always different, sometimes challenging, sometimes surprising. Sign up on www.pmhatwater. Press “News,” then “Newsletter.”

*** I need more questions for my blog. Am running very low on them. If you have a question, just send it to atwater@cinemind.com.

*** Another opportunity to participate in an international research project on near-death experiences. Simone Bianco, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Padua (Italy) is interested in pursuing the NDE as a lived experience and how things change for experiencers afterwards. Questionnaire takes about 20 to 40 minutes to fill out. Survey link: https://skidmore.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8CAH1IxugUPXVpr . 

LAST CALL: July IANDS Conference and Atwater Near-Death Study

*** LAST CALL FOR THE BIG NEAR-DEATH CONFERENCE IN ORLANDO, FL. Dates are July 28-31. Info on www.iands.org, or call them at (919) 383-7940.

*** LAST CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS IN MY NEXT NEAR-DEATH STUDY. Anyone having had a near-death experience or something like it between womb and the age of five, please go to my website, www.pmhatwater.com, on the Home Page is the Call for Volunteers. Download it - a single page - follow the instructions. Note that it is not a quiz but a guidepost to help you go back in time and remember, connect, expand, and describe. You are not limited in pages sent. The last deadline is July 31st. PLEASE PARTICIPATE. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

Conferences, Volunteer Alert, and a New Paper

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·       May 12-15 in The Afterlife Conference, St. Louis, MO.  Large cast of speakers.  To register or inquire, contact www.AfterlifeConference.com.  

·       You can now pre-register for the huge, wonderful Near-Death Conference on July 28-31 in Orlando, FL, put on by IANDS.  Contact www.iands.org.  

·       I have extended the deadline for the study I am doing on child experiencers of near-death or near-death-like experiences from womb to the age of five, because of a request from Marek Frolik in Czech/Slovak.  Use the Call for Volunteers page easily downloaded from the Home Page of www.pmhatwater.com.  Use that page to help you remember, connect, expand, describe.  No limit on pages for reply.

·       This summer the Journal for Near-Death Studies will publish the following paper:  Electromagnetic and Other Environmental Effects Following Near-Death Experiences:  A Primer.  I cannot even begin to say how important this paper is.  The original version of my own research on this topic can be found in the Article Section of my website, www.pmhatwater.com.

Retreats, Reunions, and Reports

Register soon for the Eleventh Annual Spiritual Retreat for Near-Death Experiencers, at the Mercy Center, St. Louis, MO. It runs from March 31 to April 3. The theme this year is “Supporting Each Other in Our Truth.” 

http://cincinnatiiands.org/spiritual-retreat-for-nders/ 

Or Contact: Linda A. Jacquin at (636) 332-9918 or via e-mail at linda@jacquinadv.com.

Bill Guggenheim, co-author of Hello From Heaven, is offering a free class March 19th, from 9 am to 5 pm, at Embassy Suites in Orlando, Florida: The After-Death Communication Course. Anyone who would like to be contacted by a loved one who has died should take this course. Maximum for the class is only 25 people, so hurry. You can contact Bill at (407) 463-3511 or www.theADCcourse.com .

If you’ve had a near-death experience or some other non-ordinary experience that fundamentally altered your beliefs or understanding about death and dying, you might be interested in volunteering to take part in a research project by Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. from John Hopkins University - www.DeathAndDyingSurvey.org.

http://www.psychicstudiesinstitute.org

PSYCHIC   STUDIES   INSTITUTE P.O. BOX 45281 |  KANSAS CITY, MO 64111

*** My two earliest books, Coming Back to Life and Beyond the Light are now available as e-books on Amazon.com. I am so happy about this, because it means these two books can now be available anywhere, anytime, for as long as Amazon.com exists. There are cases in these two books that are rare. You will not be able to read about them in any other books. Coming Back to Life was my initial study. Far more people were involved than I claimed. This was the first near-death book to go in-depth about the full gamet of aftereffects. In fact, there are many firsts in this book, plus a brief rendition of my own three near-death experiences, in three months, in 1977. Coming Back to Life was also a first: to reveal in-depth the four major types of near-death experiences, the near-death-like experience, far more detail about aftereffects - especially electrical sensitivity.

*** The national conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, held in San Antonio, Texas, was a tremendous success!!! Nearly 400 people came. Speakers were from all over - including Iran, where the researcher compared components of the near-death experience with passages from the Qur’an. A fellow was there from Hungary. Through his interpreter, we learned of what happened to him - very evidential. Presenters were also from Canada, India, and Hong Kong. The next big IANDS conference will be the last week of July, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Mark the date. It is slated already to be bigger than the one in San Antonio. If you never attended an IANDS conference, you have missed one of the most loving, most exciting, most miraculous conferences ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing else like them anywhere on earth.

Classes and Conferences for NDEs and Dowsers

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*** There’s a lot about the near-death experience in the February Newsletter. Really important material, including the story of a 71-year-old priest who, in his near- death experience, saw God as feminine… the Holy Mother. Fascinating. That’s just one of many new and surprising facts just now emerging, including the Alex Malarkey near-death experience being a fraud. He recanted, but there’s a whole lot more to the story, suggestive that Tyndale House, the publisher, knew but did not withdraw the book, as it was making so much money. Be sure to sign up for the February Newsletter (subscribe here --- it’s free).

*** The Monroe Institute will sponsor an NDE Intensive (nothing like it has ever been done before), April 11-17. Scott Taylor is in charge (a man who knows his way around both NDE research and as an experiencer). For more information: info@monroeinstitute.org.

*** Sign up now to attend the near-death conference, September 3-6 in San Antonio, TX. Theme: “Explore the Extraordinary 2015, NDEs as Rites of Passage.” It is sponsored by International Association for Near-Death Studies. Contact: conference@iands.org. Website: www.iands.org.

*** The huge conference of the Southern Dowsers Association is March 19-23 at Kanuga Conference Center, Hendersonville, NC. Excellent speakers, vendors, demonstrations, bookstore. Dowsers are the “doers of psi.” Well worth the trip. Contact Brian@Granite-Planet.net for more information or to register.

Dying to Know: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience and the IANDS Conference

*** Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience is now out. You can get a copy at any bookstore or through Amazon.com. If that bookstore does not have the book in stock, they can order it. This will alert them to carrying the book. Early testimonials are fantastic. This little book is changing minds and lives. . . already! Check my Engagement Calendar on the Home Page of my website for the many radio shows I am doing, and appearances. My website is www.pmhatwater.com. The September Newsletter is now out. If you don't subscribe, pleasedo. No money is involved. Just sign up on my website under "Newsletter."

*** The annual conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, held in Newport Beach, California, was outstanding. This time a number of physicians shared their near-death experiences. How's that for a switch. Doctors are being turned around, too. More and more nurses and social workers are getting involved, and are very interested in the aftereffects. The next one will be in San Antonio, Texas for 2015. Start saving your money now. There is absolutely nothing else, no other conference opportunity, that matches the power of a near-death conference - the way it affects people - and the opportunity for experiencers to be with folks "just like them." Really quite incredible, all of it.

ANOTHER MYTH IN PROGRESS, HOW THE MEDIA DEFINES WHAT A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE IS

In l982, the Gallup Poll did the first scientific survey of the near-death experience. Only 9% of those surveyed claimed to have seen or passed through a tunnel to reach "the other side of death."  "Tunnels" became household images after several years of relentless  media campaigns to sensationalize Raymond E. Moody, Jr.'s first book, Life After Life. And, the idea that experiencers always returned more loving and generous, honest and kind, didn't mesh either.  Researchers in Europe claimed to have found that many experiencers went through periods of depressions and confusion afterwards. Because of this, and the lack of tunnel reports, they dubbed the near-death experience an American phenomenon. 

Throughout the world, then and now, the tunnel as a signature feature of the near-death experience exists only in the mythology that the media created.  As far as what comes next, we have since learned that the aftereffects pattern is much more extensive than originally thought - physiologically and psychologically - and can take years to integrate.

Today research is global, and on many fronts, giving us new definitions and a more in-depth understanding of what people describe when they report having encountered life on the other side of death.  The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) keeps up with the latest facts and discoveries on their website at www.iands.org.  Recommended for any reader is the encyclopedic The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences (although originally written by me, the book is now the property of IANDS).  

So, here we go again. . .  the making of another media myth.

Because of a rash of new interest about the phenomenon, caused by a number of best-selling books written by experiencers, the media is busy creating a frenzy of television stories, articles, movies, and news items that firmly establish in the public's mind that the only valid near-death experience is one that happens in a hospital under the watchful eye of doctors and nurses, beeping equipment, and code blue stat.  

Decidedly not true.  Conservative figures for near-death experiences that happen to people in a hospital environment is between 12 to 21%.  That's hardly a majority. Even those researchers who now report upwards of 28%, that still doesn't vindicate the media from stretching facts.  Near-death experiences happen anywhere to anyone at any time.  A few make it to a hospital.  Most never do.

Who does the public believe?  The media version, of course.  Where does that leave the vast majority of near-death experiencers worldwide?  Puzzled.  Differences between what actually occurs and what the media portrays are still vast.  

Certainly, news and entertainment sources, under pressure to feature a story line that fits their allotment of time with sponsor approval, go after subjects that earn them high ratings.  Virtually lost in the shuffle is the range of experience types and how the pattern of aftereffects turns people's lives around physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  This is no small thing.  Neither is it easy for experiencers to be told by television producers that what they experienced is not valid because it never occurred during or after surgery.

Yes, here we go again.  Myths over truth.  

by P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.

www.pmhatwater.com

New Films, a New NDE Book, Spiritual Retreat, & Meditation CD

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Please, please, please, subscribe to my free monthly Newsletter. There's so much in it. You really don't want to miss any of the news and features. You subscribe by getting on my website at www.pmhatwater.com and scrolling over to "Newsletter."  Or use this link directly.   Thanks, PMH

*** This Easter, a major motion picture is coming out entitled "Heaven is for Real." It is the true story of Colton Burpo and his near-death experience at age four. He returned to life with insight and abilities that shocked his family. His dad Todd was a fundamentalist minister. The trailer to the movie can be viewed now - http://youtu.be/N-ewaCVARtM . Excellent acting!

*** Now available is the book The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences by Dr. Penny Sartori. It has been published by Watkins in England, but you can get it here too. Dr. Sartori is a nurse. When working on her doctorate, she tackled the near-death cases around her and throughout the medical community. And she did follow- throughs. She is the first such researcher to validate what I found with tiny ones, that even babies can have NDEs and remember them overtime.

*** Sign up now for the Spiritual Retreat for Near-Death Experiencers. It will be held May 15-18 at the Mercy Center in St. Louis, MO. Limited space. Register with Linda Jacquin jacadv@centurytel.net, Bill Taylor wmmtaylor@gmail.com, Eric Cusimano cusimanoeric@yahoo.com, or David Bennett dharmadb@mac.com.

*** To obtain the new "Into the Light Near-Death Experience Meditation" CD created and voiced by Scott Taylor, in conjunction with the Monroe Institute, access this link - http://www.hemi-sync.com/shopexd.asp?id28.

*** Cavern Films (Heather Dominquez) has released a film of excellent quality for free viewing over YouTube. The film is exceptional: Surviving Death - A Short Documentary, http://youtu.be/lGivZ_7WJUY  

Monroe Institute Meditation, NDE Video and Spiritual Retreat

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***  There is a wonderful new CD available from the Monroe Institute called "Into the Light."  It consists of a meditative experience designed around near-death experiences.  Created by Scott Taylor, it is available through Monroe Products:

http://www.monroeinstitute.org/product/into-the-light

***  Cavern Films has come out with two outstanding YouTube films about near-death experiences.  Extremely well done and very interesting.  They are:

Surviving Death - A Short Documentary, http://youtu.be/pgBdf1GqNIA

Near-Death Experience - A Longer Documentary,

http://youtu.be/318HONXsVk8  

***  The Annual Spiritual Retreat for Near-Death Experiencers in May 15-18 at the Mercy Center in St. Louis, Missouri. There are only 25 slots available, so make your reservation early.  Contact any of the following people:

• Linda Jacquin, jacadv@centurytel.net
• Bill Taylor, wmmtaylor@gmail.com 
• Eric Cusimano, cusimanoeric@yahoo.com 
• David Bennett, dharmadb@mac.com