Session # 5 The Light Beyond   by Raymond Moody
New Data - Shared Death Experience - Dutch Research on NDE
"It is this dividing line between life and death that is challenged by the NDE. Many times over the past twenty years, I have watched the fascination on the faces in an audience as someone recounted his or her near-death experience. It seems as though many people never become accustomed to the idea that a person standing before them has not only ?returned from the dead,? but has witnessed something spiritual that many people identify as an afterlife"  p75

Index
Opening
Joan read from PMH Atwater, an NDE researcher, some material about NDE's in eastern culture, showing much is very much the same and some is cultureal.
Presentation
Powerpoint PDF of the slides
Video 1  Raymond Moody at IANDS 2011 introducing the new study of Shared Death Experiences. LINK
Video 2  The Mystery of Perception during and NDE - Pim van Pommel. Full Video.(40m) Edited Video (16m)
Closing
Joan closed. With the east on her mind, she was reminded of the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda who in the '70's was one of the first from the Hindu culture to succeed in North America to explain how east and west were complementary views. Joan read a bit about what Yoganada said about Jesus. That Jesus was a colossus astride east and west and we should not forget that he was an oriental himself and how he spiritual truths of the "bibles" of east and west had the same values.
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