COMMENTARY: SHARED NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES A GAME CHANGER A few years ago, it seemed like every month or so we would see news headlines claiming that some skeptic has "proved" that NDEs are hallucinations caused by oxygen deprivation, or an effect of the dying brain, or some other fanciful biologically-based explanation.
The fact that during NDEs people see and hear things that they could not possibly have normal access to is one of the most impressive lines of evidence that near-death experiences are far more than this. The book The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences (2016) by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, Rudolf H. Smit, Robert G. Mays, Janice Miner Holden (Editor) contains over 100 reliable, often firsthand, accounts of perceptions during NDEs that were later verified as accurate by independent sources.
Dr. Kenneth Ring and other researchers showed that another feature of many near-death experiences is a life review. The interesting thing about these is that they are not like replaying a video recording. Instead, experiencers see their lives from the perspective of everyone else they interacted with. They access the feelings and memories of the other people involved. These are things that they would have no normal way of knowing. (Ring and Valarino 1998).
There are at least 15 lines of evidence that refute the "dying brain" theory, but the game changer, the final piece of evidence that demolishes the biological argument, is that people can have an experience identical to an NDE when there is nothing physically wrong with them. Also that a bystander who is not ill or injured can share aspects of another person's NDE.
AT HEAVEN'S DOOR - BY WILLIAM PETERS At Heaven’s Door is filled with powerful tales of people who shared the first stages of a loved one's entry into the afterlife. Applying rigorous research, William Peters, director of the Shared Crossings Project, digs into the effect these shared crossing experiences impart—liberation at the sight of a loved one finding joy and a sense of reconciliation if the relationship had problems.
Check out the video of the recent webinar William did with Raymond Moody on the topic How the Shared Death Experience Changes Everything.
JEFFERY OLSEN'S NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE Jeff Olsen courageously shares details of the car accident that claimed half his family. Even though he experienced great loss and suffering he found out this was his soul's plan before incarnating into this physical plane. In his near-death account, he shares why his soul wanted to experience loss and grief in this lifetime and how all of us can choose in every moment to serve the highest good of everyone involved. Watch Part 2 Here.
DR. JEFF O'DRISCOLL AND NURSE BOTH SEE THE SPIRIT OF JEFF OLSEN'S WIFE "Rachel (a nurse) and I stood in the doorway. The room was loud. A team of doctors worked to stabilize the patient (Jeff Olsen). As I watched, the sounds around me faded out. I couldn’t even hear Rachel speaking next to me. I sensed a divine presence in the room. And then I noticed a light. In it was the form of a woman, floating above the patient’s bed. She looked vibrant, otherworldly—I knew innately that this was the man’s wife". Dr. Jeff O'Driscoll.
FAME IN THE AFTERLIFE is vastly different from fame in the earth world. Spiritual fame carries with it distinctions of a very different order from the earthly distinctions, and it is gained in one way only - in the service of others. It sounds almost too simple to be feasible, but such is the case, and nothing will alter it. Whether the earthly famous will reside in the realms of the light immediately after their dissolution remains with themselves. The law applies to all, irrespective of earthly position." (Mons. Hugh Benson - in Anthony Borgia's Life in the World Unseen '97ed. p.214. directly from the afterlife)
A FATHER'S JOURNEY FINDING HIS SON ON THE OTHER SIDE Joe McQuillen, who after the tragic loss of his son began to research the metaphysical and seek out answers to what happens next. His first book My Search For Christopher On The Other Sidetells the story of the journey of discovery over the first 2 years. His 2nd book, We're Not Done Yet Pop, My Lessons From The Other Side takes his audience to the next level of discovery and awakening.
OBE, ASTRAL TRAVELLING AND THE AFTERLIFE WITH GORDON PHINN Gordon Phinn has been experiencing & writing about the afterlife and reincarnation since about 1999, with his first book "Eternal Life And How To Enjoy It". From his home in Oakville, Ontario, Gordon continues to offer services, including distance energy work, spirit communication, past and between life regression, and guidance on psychic and spiritual matters.
His blog is found at http://anotherwordofgord.wordpress.com
Gordon will be our guest on the Zoom Global Gathering next Sunday (see below for details).
Saturday December 3rd 2022/ Sunday December 4th Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study with Ana Castro.
Every Saturday. A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See videos of previous meetings.
Times:
Pacific time 1 p.m. Saturday
Phoenix time 2 p.m.
Mountain daylight time 2 p.m. Saturday
Central time 3 p.m. Saturday
Eastern time 4 p.m. Saturday
London 9 p.m. Saturday
Rome 10 p.m. Saturday
Sydney/Melbourne 8 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 10 a.m. Sunday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
ADVANCE NOTICE - SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER NEXT WEEK Dr Decio Landoli Jr. (physician and professor at the University of Medicine of UNIDERP in Brazil & President of the Medical-Spiritist Association - AME), who is holding a lecture for SLiDS group on December 10th - Reincarnation as a Biological Law - A Scientific Perspective.
Saturday December 3rd 2022 / Sunday December 4th Australia
Practical Metaphysics with Paul and Syann
1st Saturday/ Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. Brisbane time.
This is a monthly interactive group where you can ask questions and discuss any aspect of your spiritual self-development and experiences with Syann and Paul. Between them, they have extensive experience in the following areas:
Mediumship Development (Clairvoyant -Trance - Physical) & all things related to the Spirit Realm
Astral Travel/OBE
Extraterrestrial Contact and Experiences
Energy Work/Chakras/Self Healing/Reiki
Times:
Pacific and Arizona time 5.00 p.m. Saturday
Mountain Daylight time 6.00 p.m. Saturday
Central Daylight time 7 p.m. Saturday
New York time 8 p.m. Saturday
London time 1 a.m. Sunday
Brisbane time 10.a.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 11 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Sunday Check time in your city
Contact: Paul & Syann zeta_events@hotmail.com https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85094256794? pwd=NHZWQlNNS3VSeVdHOS9URDhzVm1xZz09
Meeting ID: 850 9425 6794
Passcode: 833695
Sunday December 4th 2022/ Monday December 5th Australia
Global Gathering: Guest: GORDON PHINN Gordon Phinn is a practicing psychic and spiritual counselor, offering many services from his home in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, Canada. He has spent many years exploring consciousness through out-of-body travel, and the reams of occult and esoteric teachings that have come down to us from earlier civilizations. He has written a series of books on the Afterlife, Reincarnation and the Ascended Masters. Eternal Life And How To Enjoy It", based on a series of lucid dreams, was issued in 2004 by Hampton Roads. This was followed in 2008 by 'More Adventures In Eternity" in which Gordon traces how he learned to communicate with spirits high and low, the human dead, nature spirits, aliens, angels, spirit guides, prophets, and his higher self and then the third in the afterlife trilogy, "You are History: The Soul, The Higher Self, and our Share of Divinity" (White Crow Books 2015).
He has also written a novel set in the afterlife, "An American In Heaven" the essays, "Confronting Your Immortality", a channeled work, "Jesus And The Christ", a second book of essays, "Embracing Your Divinity" and a number of other works.
Gordon
has
recently completed a memoir, Moving Through Many Dimensions, as yet unpublished, which brings all his projection and spirit contact experiences more or less up to date. And his current work, in essays ("Journey To Knowing") and fiction ("Being Born Again"), appears regularly in the online journal Sovereign Abilities, edited by Vickie Acklin.
Times:
Pacific Daylight Time 12 noon Sunday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Sunday
Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) 1 p.m. Sunday
Central Daylight time 2 p.m. Sunday
Eastern Daylight time 3 p.m. Sunday
London 8 p.m. Sunday
Amsterdam 9 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday Check the time for your city
Co-ordinators: karynjarvie@ozemail.com.au and wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday December 5th 2022 /Tuesday December 6th Australia
GOSH: Gatherings over Strange Happenings When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays 7 a.m. (Melbourne).
A small group that meets to share and explore the meaning of strange experiences like missing time, seeing scenes from another time, interacting with a person who suddenly wasn't there, bi-location etc. If it's something you cannot share easily with others, bring it to this group to get validation and speculate on its cause.
See short video about GOSH
Times
Pacific Daylight Time 12 noon Monday
Phoenix 1 p.m. Monday
Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) 1 p.m. Monday
Central Daylight time 2 p.m. Monday
Eastern Daylight time 3 p.m. Monday
London 8 p.m. Monday
Amsterdam 9 p.m. Monday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Tuesday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Tuesday Check the time for your city
Email: Kim at kmrainbow57@yahoo.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Tuesday December 6th 2022 /Wednesday December 7th Australia
Army 4 Love: Every 1st Tuesday/Wednesday of the month People share what is happening in our world, how we are dealing with issues, holding each other’s hands, bringing in laughter and love. To bring in laughter each week one person shares a joke. Debra Martin always ends the gathering with a mini healing meditation. Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
EMAIL: Via a form on her website to avoid spam: https://www.goldenmiracles.com/contact.php
Times:
Pacific Daylight time 3 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix 4 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain daylight time (Denver) 5 p.m.
Central time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern time 7 p.m. Tuesday
London 11 p.m. Tuesday
Rome midnight Tuesday-Wednesday
Melbourne/Sydney 10 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 12 noon Wednesday Check time in your city
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
Tuesday December 6th 2022 /Wednesday December 7th Australia
Question and Answers on Mediumship A series where guest mediums share experiences and answer questions about mediumship held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month US time. We sometimes have a guest medium and questions for an hour and then those who wish to stay have the opportunity to move into small groups to give and receive practice readings.
Guest Medium Nicole Newman
6.00 p.m. Pacific Daylight time
7.00 p.m. Phoenix
7.00 p.m. Mountain daylight time
8.00 p.m. Central time
9.00 p.m. Eastern time
10 a.m. Wednesday Perth time
1 p.m. Wednesday Sydney time.
3 p.m. Wednesday Auckland time Coordinator: Wendy Zammit wendyzammit@gmail.com Check time in your city https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Wednesday December 7th 2022/ Thursday December 8th Australia
Automatic Writing and Mediumship Discussion with Sheila Lowe
Share resources and discuss what participants are experiencing
1st and 3rd Wednesdays.
Wednesday December 7th 2022/ Thursday December 8th Australia
Physical mediumship development group Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena. This is a long-term commitment.
Times:
Pacific time 6 p.m. Wednesday
Phoenix 7 p.m.
Mountain Daylight time 7 p.m. Wednesday
Central Daylight time 8 p.m. Wednesday
New York time 9 p.m. Wednesday
London 2 a.m. Thursday
Amsterdam 3 a.m. Thursday
Perth 10 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 1 p.m. Thursday
New Zealand 3 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Contact Rob Blackburn (rkblack@mtco.com) or Craig Hogan (r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org) before joining the group.
https://zoom.us/j/4381898190
Thursday December 8th 2022 / Friday December 9th Australia
SYNCHRONICITY PUSHED TO AN EXTREME
When you meditate a lot you may begin to experience synchronicities, coincidences so unlikely that they seem way beyond chance. Carl Jung saw them as evidence of "the collective unconscious". Here's a wonderful example.
SERVICE IS OF ETERNAL VALUE
"Your world worships many things and attaches importance to them, whereas here we regard them as insignificant. All that makes people crave position, wealth, authority, and power, we regard as unimportant. When the body dies they all die with it. But the service that has been rendered cannot die because in doing it you increase your own spiritual growth. The service that is given out of love and affection and devotion helps to increase the character, and so makes an eternal hall-mark on the soul". Guidance from Silver Birch p. 72.
BEAUTIFUL CHANNELED MESSAGE
Our good friend Rev. Jimbeau Walsh, a member of the Divine Love Sanctuary Foundation, received this encouraging message from one of his regular spirit communicators.
"I wish to tell you there is much light in the world. Billions praying, meditating, chanting, longing for change, longing for harmony and peace, for sustainability. Your light joins them and collectively you lift the planet and the vibration which I tell you my dear friends can heal the whole planet, and will, in fact, bring the change you so desire, we so desire. This is also why you are drawn to music, a vibration that is easily felt and beautiful music lifts every soul, touches every heart, connects the longings to The Creator. So pray and sing and send out the love. We are with you in this endeavor in this blessing, in healing, and in the beautiful transformation of every soul here in God’s love."
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HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: ROD STEWART 'SAILING' The writer, Gavin Sutherland, claimed that the song is highly spiritual. "Most people take the song to be about a young guy telling his girl that he's crossing the Atlantic to be with her. In fact, the song's got nothing to do with romance or ships; it's an account of mankind's spiritual odyssey through life on the way to freedom and fulfillment with the Supreme Being". It's always good to remember the bigger picture so we don't get too caught up in dramas.
Lyrics to I AM SAILING
I am sailing, I am sailing,
home again 'cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free. I am flying, I am flying,
like a bird 'cross the sky.
I am flying, passing high clouds,
to be with you, to be free. Can you hear me, can you hear me
through' the dark night, far away,
I am dying, forever trying,
to be with you, who can say.
Can you hear me, can you hear me,
throb' the dark night far away.
I am dying, forever trying,
to be with you, who can say. We are sailing, we are sailing,
home again 'cross the sea.
We are sailing stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free. Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free.
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free,
Oh Lord.
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AFTERLIFE REPORT 
A few years ago, it seemed like every month or so we would see news headlines claiming that some skeptic has "proved" that NDEs are hallucinations caused by oxygen deprivation, or an effect of the dying brain, or some other fanciful biologically-based explanation.
powerful tales of people who shared the first stages of a loved one's entry into the afterlife. Applying rigorous research, William Peters, director of the 
FAME IN THE AFTERLIFE is vastly different from fame in the earth world. Spiritual fame carries with it distinctions of a very different order from the earthly distinctions, and it is gained in one way only - in the service of others. It sounds almost too simple to be feasible, but such is the case, and nothing will alter it. Whether the earthly famous will reside in the realms of the light immediately after their dissolution remains with themselves. The law applies to all, irrespective of earthly position." (Mons. Hugh Benson - in Anthony Borgia's 
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study with Ana Castro.
When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays 7 a.m. (Melbourne). 
People share what is happening in our world, how we are dealing with issues, holding each other’s hands, bringing in laughter and love. To bring in laughter each week one person shares a joke. 
A series where guest mediums share experiences and answer questions about mediumship held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month US time. We sometimes have a guest medium and questions for an hour and then those who wish to stay have the opportunity to move into small groups to give and receive practice readings. 
Automatic Writing and Mediumship Discussion with 
Every Wednesday with Rob Blackburn and Craig Hogan. Participants sit in a darkened space in their own homes; the group has been going for some time and members are experiencing phenomena. This is a long-term commitment.
Pet Communication Group with 
SERVICE IS OF ETERNAL VALUE 
This is also why you are drawn to music, a vibration that is easily felt and beautiful music lifts every soul, touches every heart, connects the longings to The Creator. So pray and sing and send out the love. We are with you in this endeavor in this blessing, in healing, and in the beautiful transformation of every soul here in God’s love." 
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