December 27th, 2019


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COMMENTARY: SHINING MORE LIGHT ON SPIRITUALLY TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES Congratulations to Canadian medical doctor Dr. Yvonne Kason on her election as the President of IANDS.

As well as being an expert in Near-death Experiences (she had five, two in childhood and three in adulthood), she has had more than forty years working in a lesser-known field for which she coined the term "Spiritually Transformative Experiences" or STEs. As well as NDEs, these include out-of-body experiences, visions, spiritual emergencies, awakenings, kundalini, enlightenment, exceptional human experiences, pre-birth memories, past-life experiences, nearing death awareness, after-death communications, empathic or shared near-death experiences, peak experiences, etc. Read more.

Many studies now suggest that these experiences are so common as to be considered normal; according to several researchers, up to 40% of people have them at some time in their life. Dr. Kason claims to have collected nearly a thousand cases from people that she counseled as a doctor and psychotherapist. She details many of these in A Farther Shore (1994) and Farther Shores (2000, 2008) and her latest book, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences (2019).

And yet in our Western culture, without a cultural or religious framework to contain them, such states are barely understood. In many cases, they are viewed by doctors, clergy, family, and friends of the experiencer, as mental illness. Hopefully, Dr. Kason's new position will lead to a much wider understanding of these experiences and ways to help experiencers to integrate them.



THE GIFTS AND GROUNDING OF SPIRITUALLY TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES Dr. Yvonne Kason is interviewed by Dr. Nicole Gruel, author of The Power of NOTEs (non-ordinary transcendent experiences). Dr. Gruel co-leads the newly-formed IANDS Sydney Group.


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SPIRITUAL TEACHER RAM DAS TRANSITIONS
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) was an American spiritual teacher and author. He is known to millions as the stellar young 1960s Harvard psychologist-turned-hippie who experimented with LSD with Timothy Leary and then found his guru in India. His book Be Here Now, published in 1971, sold two million copies and brought Indian mysticism to generations in the West.

His spiritual teacher, Neem Karoli Baba (known as “Maharaj-Ji”), gave him the name "Ram Dass," meaning "Servant of God," and taught him to "love other people and serve them. That is all.”

Ram Dass helped the dying, the blind, and the imprisoned, and considered service as essential as meditation or prayer."We are all manifestations of the same greater Self, we are meant to enjoy our roles here on Earth, and our dying is simply a point of transit". And along our way, as he put it, "We’re all just walking each other home.” Read more.

DEVELOPING HEALING POWER: AWAKENING HIGHER VIBRATION Jane Katra Ph.D. has been a pioneer in spiritually transformative experiences, remote viewing, psychokinesis, and distant mental influence research. She has been a practicing spiritual healer for over forty years. At a time when most academics were hostile to anything beyond the material, she was teaching about after-death contacts. But the thread that underlies all her work is the need to bring forward the evolution of consciousness. She is the author, with Russell Targ, of Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness & Spiritual Healing, and The Heart of the Mind:





PHYSICIST REPORTS ON MATERIALIZATIONS
Professor Jan W. Vandersande is a rare (retired) academic. His book, Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence details what he experienced with a physical medium in South Africa. He mentions observing flying trumpets, seeing ectoplasm, and hearing spirit voices through the trumpet. "Those experiences changed my life in at least two ways," says Vandersande, who holds a doctorate in physics and served professorships at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at Cornell University. "Firstly, it gave me the conviction that there is life after death. Secondly, it made it possible for me to be able to critically read much of the literature about psychic and paranormal phenomena." Read his report on three sittings with physical medium David Thompson.


REINCARNATION BANNED BY THE EMPEROR'S COMMAND Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora were the ones responsible for banning any reference to reincarnation from Christianity. As this video explains, their motives were personal and political.


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SOME ATHEISTS BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE-
A person may have a belief in an afterlife or reincarnation and still be an atheist. My good friend Michael Roll considers himself to be an atheist, by which he means someone who does not believe in a personal god - a god as described by Christians and religionists. But he writes: "Please don’t be too hard on us atheists. It only means somebody who does not believe in a deity. I am having great success in bringing my fellow atheists over to survival. This is my task on Earth."



AKIANE'S PAINTING PRINCE OF PEACE RECOVERED When she was four years old, child painting prodigy Akiane Kramarik, who was raised in an atheistic family, began to have visions of a being, whom she called God, and of heaven. At the age of five, she disappeared and then mysteriously returned to the midst of police who were searching for her (source: video about her early life at 7 mins.15). After that, she became obsessed with drawing and painting. Since then, even though she does not attend any church or have any connection with religion, she claims to have an intensely personal relationship with Jesus. At the age of eight, she painted a portrait of Jesus from a vision. It was very different from the fair haired, light-skinned, blue-eyed representations common at that time in the USA. She called the painting Prince of Peace. However, that painting was allegedly stolen by an art dealer, sold for next to nothing, and, for many years, it was hidden from view. Recently Akiane, at age 25, was reunited with the painting which, in the meantime, had become very famous; it was sold for U.S. $850,000.






WE SALUTE HIGHLY GIFTED MEDIUM BERTHA HARRIS
The vast majority of trance mediums bring through only one, or a small number of, regular communicators, rather than friends and relatives of the sitter. Bertha Harris was an exception. During the decades after WWII, Harris emerged as one of the most prominent of London mediums. In private sittings, she usually went into a trance and was taken over by the communicating spirit. One sitter wrote: "A dead man, my father, had returned, and was talking to me as intimately as in life. Full names, incidents, intimate things only applicable to the one communicating, sometimes predictions, come in a quick flow which starts almost as soon as the sitter comes into her presence, and her gift has given evidence of survival to thousands." Read more.



JAMIE BUTLER, A MEDIUM AND CHANNELER
Kevin Moore is interviewing a number of trance mediums about the process of trance in a series he calls They Call us Channellers. In this episode, number 25, he travels to Atlanta, Georgia, to interview Jamie Butler. We have set the video to start after the preliminaries, where she talks about the challenges of being forced to suppress her natural mediumship, and the trauma of re-discovering it.



You can see more of Kevin's interviews here.



SIGNS FROM SPIRIT: LIGHTS AND OBJECTS MOVED
A friend in Crete sent this:
"We also continue to help out Carol, whose husband passed over from cancer just last week. She has already had signs from him (possibly). His bedside lamp is one of those fancy electronic ones where you simply touch the metal base to switch it off/on. Twice this week, Carol has entered the bedroom to find the lamp was on. Of course, such devices are susceptible to interference from "mains spikes," but the lamp has never switched on "by itself" previously in ten years. Carol just told me that she and her husband, Mike, used to watch DVD movies. Two were his favourites. They hadn't been watched for a while, so they were at the back of the cupboard, requiring most of the other DVDs to be pulled out in order to reach them. Last night, Carol returned home to discover those two DVDs on the coffee table. When she checked, Carol found that the other DVDs in the cupboard had not been disturbed." Read more about signs from spirit.



APPLYING RUDOLF STEINER'S INDICATIONS FOR WORKING FOR, AND WITH, THE DEAD Lyn Stull talks about how she has applied Rudolf Steiner's ideas of being in service to the dead: exchanging and further expanding significant spiritual thoughts; providing consistent, conscious spiritual nourishment for the dead; providing spiritual information/activities which can be used for their future incarnations and co-creating and collaborating with the dead for the earth and spiritual evolution.





THIS WEEK'S AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS

Saturday 28th December 2019

Love After Life: Rebuilding a happy, fulfilling relationship with our **ROMANTIC** soul-mates / twin-flames who have crossed over.
Dates of meetings: Every Saturday (US TIME)
Must be a member of the FB group Love After Life
Coordinators: Mary Beth Spann Mank mbspann@aol.com & William J. William Murray wjmurray@design249.com

Sunday 29th December 2019

Global Gathering Come and join us in our special end of year, end of decade, community get-together. We'll be inviting you to share some of your personal highlights of 2019, challenges that you have been facing, discoveries that you made, people who inspired you, and your hopes and dreams for the next decade.
Los Angeles 12 noon Sunday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Sunday
Chicago 2 p.m. Sunday
New York 3 p.m. Sunday
London 8 p.m. Sunday
Rome 9.p.m. Sunday
Capetown 10.p.m. Sunday
Sydney 7.a.m. Monday
https://zoom.us/j/7595442928



WILLIAM MURRAY'S NEW BOOK FORBIDDEN: ESSAYS ON TRANSDIMENSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
In his book Love After Life, William Murray recounted how the death of his twin flame, his wife Irene, motivated him to find, invent, and develop techniques, practices and methods to reconnect with her. To his surprise, he was not only able to move quickly past the grief but, over the course of a few months, he and Irene managed to develop a happy, joyful, fun and adventurous transdimensional relationship. His new book, Forbidden, deals with the opposition that he, and many of the almost 500 members of the Facebook group which he co-leads, encounter from the secular world and from the spiritual community. Read more.



AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF FORGIVENESS
After being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Michael Morton spent 25 years in jail. Fourteen years into his sentence, he called out for help from God. A few days after his heartfelt prayer, he had a spiritually transformative experience where he says that he was "swept up into the presence of God." And shortly after that, everything started changing. Whereas before he was plotting revenge against the people who had withheld evidence that could free him, he deliberately chose to forgive them. In his book, Getting Life, he writes: "And when I did, I felt as if a burdensome weight was lifted from my shoulders. It was a physical sensation. And I felt joy." And, after that, the wheels started turning so that the wrongs that had been done to him could be rectified.



Michael was freed and exonerated because of the dedication of volunteers through The Innocence Project.

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