COMMENTARY: MORE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ARE SHARING AFTERLIFE EXPERIENCES The informal sanctions on professionals who speak out about the afterlife and the paranormal are very real in competitive scientific and academic institutions. The Journal of Scientific Exploration Etzel Cardena of Lund University, Sweden, describes the blatant attempts to suppress and censor parapsychology research and those who are doing it. Instances include raising false accusations, barring access to journals, suppressing papers and data, and ostracizing and persecuting scientists interested in the topic (read a pdf copy of the article). We have, on many occasions, been contacted by scientists who tell us that they feel that they can't say anything about their contacts with the afterlife until they retire.
However doctors and nurses who work close to birth and death every day may be more open-minded as a result of direct personal experience. Although we often hear about doctors being highly skeptical, in a survey of 1,044 doctors in the USA, 76 percent said they believe in God, 59 percent said they believe in some sort of afterlife, and 55 percent said their religious beliefs influence how they practice medicine. A book by Dr. Scott Kolbaba includes 'miraculous' experiences by 27 physicians (chosen from 200 experiences he gathered).
So, although there may still be pressure on medical practitioners to keep these experiences to themselves, we salute those doctors who have conducted and published research on near-death experiences and end-of-life experiences and speak out about their personal afterlife contact experiences.
A SKEPTICAL DOCTOR INVESTIGATED
As a critical cardiologist, Dr. Michael Sabom first thought near-death experiences were "hogwash." After designing and implementing the first scientific study of NDEs in the 1970s, he was stunned at what he found. In this interview, Dr. Sabom discloses his surprising findings and discusses how the professional field of NDEs has radically changed since its inception in the 1970s.
MEDICAL DOCTORS DISCUSSING THEIR OWN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES 00:00 Dr. Mary Neal 07:14 Dr. Anthony Cicoria
12:45 Dr. Stanley Hobish
17:22 Dr. Anoop Kumar
26:40 Dr. Graeme O'Connor
34:55 Dr. Peg Abernathy
EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR TALKS TO PATIENTS AFTER THEY DIE
Dr. Todd Michael, author of The Evolution Angel,The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle, and The Hidden Parables encountered death frequently while working as a trauma physician. Realising that his patients might still be able to hear him after they died, he began to reach out to them after the ER machines had been turned off. In this talk, he explains how he also began communicating with an advanced being who explained why seemingly terrible things happen to good people.
HOW PROFESSOR BARRETT DISCOVERED DEATHBED VISIONS
It was Professor Barrett's wife, Lady Florence Barrett, an obstetric surgeon, (pictured left) whose observations led to the serious study of "deathbed visions." She told her husband about Doris, a woman who had died at her hospital after having a baby. Just before Doris died, she sat up and became very excited about seeing a wonderful place and said that her father had come to take her there. Then she expressed surprise to see her sister with her father. It seems that the sister had died three weeks before, but Doris had not been told. This story was so interesting to Professor Barrett that he undertook a systematic study of death-bed visions.
DR. JEFF O'DRISCOLL - NORMALISING SHARED-DEATH EXPERIENCES IN MEDICAL PRACTICE Dr. Jeff has been sharing his profound afterlife experiences in videos, in his book "Not Yet", in speaking engagements and conference presentations. He feels that doctors will only share their experiences if they have safe spaces to do so and is excited about the potential of social media to create such safe spaces.
DR. IAN RUBENSTEIN MEDICAL MEDIUM
Ian Rubenstein M.D. is an English doctor who successfully combines medicine and mediumship at the local level as a primary care physician. His fascinating book Consulting Spirit is the true story of a general practitioner who was drawn into the world of spirit mediumship and started receiving messages from his patients' deceased relatives. His patients did not object. He says that the only time anyone complained was a woman who told the practice manager she was not happy because she "hadn't been given a message."
"THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AFTER DEATH"
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in Brazil. He is the co-author of the book, "Science of Life After Death". Here he identifies the primary scientific objection to postmortem survival as physicalism, the metaphysical notion that nature is entirely based on matter. He points out that this common notion within academia is not a requirement of science. In fact, it has long been disputed within philosophy, going back to Plato, and is not accepted by many Brazilian psychiatrists and academics. He describes research with Brazilian medium, Chico Xavier. He also describes research on reincarnation and near-death experiences.
FASCINATING EXPERIENCES WITH MATERIALISATION
In this fascinating article from the Theosophical Society's "Journal of Religion and Psychical Research" Volume 11, No 2, April 1988, Mr. John R. Crowley talks about his experiences in a seance with physical medium Rev. Warren Smith in New York in 1947. He claims that William James, the first educator to offer a psychology course in the USA, materialised and told the sitters that he was working with a group of 42 college students and their two professors who had died in a plane crash. "Now", he said, "Would you like to meet one of the students who, as you call it, 'died' in the plane crash, and has been a part of our experiment?" Naturally, we said "Yes!" and a young man materialized and stood next to him. We talked with him and were struck by his total normality...no evidence of trauma to heart or mind caused by his sudden death." Read the full account (Under the heading I SEE ECTOPLASM FOR THE FIRST TIME)
A FORMER COP DIES TWICE AND BECOMES A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING CRUSADER
Robert Bare died twice on the same day and had two different Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). The first one took place shortly after boarding a plane in March, 2009, where he had a massive heart attack and was clinically deceased for approximately 45 minutes. His second NDE was after being taken to the hospital and clinically died once more, this time for approximately 10 minutes. Both NDEs were profiled in the TV show, “I Survived Beyond and Back.”
"LOSING MY HUSBAND AND FINDING HIM AGAIN THROUGH A MEDIUM"
A journalist describes in Elle Magazine her after-death contacts and an accurate telephone reading with a medium. She includes information about the Windbridge Institute (now Windbridge Research Center). Julie Beischel writes "I think it's an important step demonstrative of real change that, in this mainstream magazine, the editor didn't require the author to also talk to a denier who would inevitably discount her powerful after-death communication experiences as coincidence and/or the wishful thinking of a grieving widow". Read the article.
GORDON PHINN'S AFTERLIFE BOOKS 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. The third book in his afterlife trilogy "You are History: The Soul, The Higher Self, and our Share of Divinity" was released in 2015 (White Crow Books).
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 several other works.
Gordon also leads a wonderful Spirit Search and Rescue Group for us via Zoom on 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Eastern time (see below for details).
SYDNEY NORTHERN BEACHES SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - HEALING GROUP STARTING JULY 5th Northern Beaches Spiritualist Church (Sydney, Australia), is having a face-to-face meeting on Friday 5th July 2024, at Manly Vale Community Centre - Innes Road Hall at See location and transport details.
From 6 p.m. to 6 45 p.m We will be having our first healing service. We need healers and developing healers who would like to practice their skills - contact Paul Hinson at Advall@iinet.net.au
And from
7pm [NOTE THE NEW TIME] we will be welcoming our guest medium Denise Litchfield. She is a classically trained psychic medium who is frank, funny, empathetic and deeply insightful. Read more about Denise.
NEXT WEEK'S FREE AFTERLIFE ZOOM GROUPS - ALL WELCOME
Saturday June 29th 2024 / Sunday June 30th Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro.
A free Zoom group about Spiritism, Kardec, and Chico Xavier. See videos of previous meetings
Times:
Pacific time 1 p.m. Saturday
Phoenix time 1 p.m. Saturday
Mountain 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 6 a.m. Sunday
New Zealand 8 a.m. Sunday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
Sunday June 30th 2024/ Monday July 1st Australia
Global Gathering: every Sunday/Monday This week's guests are physical medium Gary Mannion, a world-famous physical medium and healer, and his circle leader Inge Crosson. They have just returned from Europe where they completed more wonderful experiments with Dr. Eckhard Kruse. This week Gary will go into trance and allow his guide Abraham to answer your big-picture questions.
Gary is part of the team organising the LIVE 2025 International Physical Mediumship Conference at the Desmond Hotel
in Albany New York
22nd to 25th April 2025. Read more.
Times:
Pacific Time 2 p.m. Sunday
Phoenix 2 p.m. Sunday
Mountain Time 3 p.m. Sunday
Central time 4 p.m. Sunday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Sunday
London 10 p.m. Sunday
Vienna 11 p.m. Sunday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday July 1st 2024/ Tuesday July 2nd Australia
DREAM CIRCLE with Kim Parker
When: Every two weeks on Mondays (UK EUROPE and USA) and Tuesdays at 7 a.m. (Sydney). A small group meets together to share and find meaning in their dreams.
Times:
Pacific Time 2 p.m. Monday
Phoenix 2 p.m. Monday
Mountain Time 3 p.m. Monday
Central time 4 p.m. Monday
Eastern time 5 p.m. Monday
London 10 p.m. Monday
Vienna 11 p.m. Monday
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Tuesday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Email: Kim at kmrainbow57@yahoo.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928 - Note back in normal room this week.
Monday July 1st 2024/ Tuesday July 2nd Australia
Life with Ghosts Zoom Chat - with filmmaker Stephen Berkley
A monthly group meets on the First Monday of the month at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
An opportunity to discuss all things related to after-death communication as a means of healing grief. Stephen Berkley is the writer/director/producer of the movie "Life with Ghosts" and undertook a seven-year personal journey exploring mediumship, automatic writing, and Induced After-Death Communication at the University of North Texas to produce a film about the latest science involving the importance of continuing bonds. This month's guest is Suzanne Giesemann.
Times:
Pacific Time 5 p.m. Monday
Phoenix Time 5 p.m. Monday
Mountain Time 6 p.m. Monday
Central Time 7 p.m. Monday
Eastern Time 8 p.m. Monday
London 1 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 2 a.m. Tuesday
Sydney/Melbourne 10 a.m. Tuesday
New Zealand 12 noon Tuesday Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Stephen Berkley
admin@lifewithghosts.com Click this link to join.
Tuesday July 2nd 2024
Australian-based Physical Mediumship Development Circle (Dark Circle) Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 40 minutes, relax, and listen to music. This is a long-term project and participants must be prepared to sit in harmony without much seeming to happen on the surface.
Times:
Pacific time 3 a.m. Tuesday
Phoenix time 3 a.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 4 a.m. Tuesday
Central Time 5 a.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 6 a.m. Tuesday
London 11 a.m. Tuesday
Rome 12 noon. Tuesday
Perth/Singapore 6 p.m. Tuesday
Sydney Australia 8 p.m. Tuesday
Auckland 10 p.m. Tuesday Check time in your city
Email Paul Hinson Advall@iinet.net for more information and Zoom link.
Tuesday July 2nd 2024/ Wednesday July 3rd Australia
Army 4 Love:
Debra's Army4Love Gathering welcomes all with compassion and love and embraces everyone, particularly those who may be suffering from emotional, physical and other psychic pain. Debra enables all to safely share their experiences in her Sacred Space. In every Army4Love Gathering Debra welcomes Spirit to speak through her to the group. Each gathering will focus on a relevant topic, and Debra will ask the group to virtually hold one another in the Spirit of hope, healing and love. Debra will also provide a mini-healing for the collective at the end of each gathering. Debra’s intention is that Army4Love will help you have a greater perspective and understanding regarding your adversities while helping you release and alleviate pain.
EMAIL: Via a form on her website to avoid spam: https://www.goldenmiracles.com/contact.php
Times:
Pacific Time 3 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix 3 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time (Denver) 4 p.m. Tuesday
Central Time 5 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
London 11 p.m. Tuesday
Rome 12 midnight Tuesday/Wednesday
Melbourne/Sydney 8 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 10 a.m. Wednesday Check time in your city
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
Tuesday July 2nd 2024/ Wednesday July 3rd, Australia
What If? With Cheryl Page
Cheryl Page is a medical researcher and medium who dares to ask questions about what is possible with mediumship. She suggests that we inadvertently cut ourselves off from the nearly infinite possibilities that Spirit brings when we are rigid about the “right” way to practice mediumship and is looking for interested mediums or those developing to join her in some fascinating experiments.
Times:
Pacific Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Phoenix Time 6 p.m. Tuesday
Mountain Time 7 p.m. Tuesday
Central Time 8 p.m. Tuesday
Eastern Time (New York) 9 p.m. Tuesday
London Time 2 a.m. Wednesday
Sydney/Melbourne 11 a.m. Wednesday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Wednesday
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Cheryl Page
Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2716017767?
pwd=aGtML2h3d3I5bW9GYnMxQ05scjF3Zz09
Meeting ID: 271 601 7767 Passcode: 54321
Wednesday July 3rd 2024 / Thursday July 4th, Australia
Spirit Search and Rescue with Gordon Phinn
Gordon Phinn is an extraordinary medium, poet, scholar, writer, storyteller, and spiritual teacher. He has just released a memoir covering the last ten years of his out-of-body adventures called "Moving Through Many Dimensions" [check out the Contents in the READ SAMPLE]
We have persuaded him to share some of his more interesting experiences of helping people whose minds have not adjusted to the fact that they are dead.
Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with
Sheila Lowe
Share resources and discuss what participants are experiencing
Times:
Pacific Time 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Phoenix 5.30 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 7.30 p.m. Wednesday
Eastern Time 8.30 p.m. Wednesday
London time 1.30 a.m. Thursday
Perth 8.30 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/ Melbourne 10.30 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 12.30 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Coordinator: Sheila Lowe sheila@sheilalowe.com https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87248527074?
pwd=cXNNZERDbGtSc3VWU3hCQ05OSlFndz09
[if the room is not open email Sheila]
Wednesday July 3rd 2024 / Thursday July 4th Australia
USA-based 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 GROUP IS CURRENTLY TAKING NEW MEMBERS
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org for meeting guidelines,
Times:
Pacific 6 p.m. Wednesday
Arizona 6 p.m. Wednesday
Mountain time 7 p.m. Wednesday
Central time 8 p.m. Wednesday
New York time 9 p.m. Wednesday
London 2 a.m. Thursday
Perth 9 a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 11 a.m. Thursday
New Zealand 1 p.m. Thursday Check time in your city
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org for meeting guidelines,
Thursday July 4th 2024 / Friday July 5th Australia
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
Postponed until next week because of the holiday in the USA.
Thursday July 4th 2024 / Friday July 5th Australia
Afterlife Book Club with Gary Langley Postponed until next week because of the holiday in the USA.
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
Some uplifting clips of people and animals.
THE RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is a small nonprofit that creates free resources to inspire kindness at home, school, and work. They believe that all people can connect through kindness and that kindness can be taught. They follow a simple framework:> Empower -> Act -> Reflect -> Share. Their evidence-based Kindness in the Classroom® curriculum gives students the social and emotional skills needed to live more successful lives. Their workplace kindness calendar shows companies how easy it is to change workplace culture through simple kind gestures. Check out the kindness quotes and the kindness videos.
THE TWO WORLDS WERE NOT INTENDED TO BE SO FAR APART
"Neither was it intended that the two worlds, ours and yours, should be as they are now - so far apart in thought and contact. The day will assuredly come when our two worlds will be closely interrelated, when communication between the two will be a commonplace of life." Mons. Hugh Benson through medium Anthony Borgia in "Life in the World Unseen".
1) "I would just like to inform you about a book I came across about the afterlife
and I would like to share it with you and your readers.
The author is William Fergus Martin, and the book is called Afterlife Adventures.
This is one of the best books on the afterlife out there and I highly recommend it to your readers.
My wife and I would also like to say a big thank you for all the work you do for us all
and your marvelous Friday spiritual reports."
Kindest regards always
John and Beatrice
2) "Lovely words. Sad so many pay little attention to this. Even spiritual people here don’t do this. I would love more awareness spread on this. Thank you for sharing." Tina
3)
"Thank you for thrilling us with the gorgeous pictures and artwork! [in the mailout]". Artochokes
SPECTACULAR MUSIC: DEVA PREMAL WITH MANOSE "SO MUCH MAGNIFICANCE"
This exquisite piece begins with the mantra about the ocean and the moves into an ecstatic two-part harmony with halleluiah overlaying the mantra. And finally, it ends with an extended Om with voices blending into oneness. This is definitely one to raise your vibrations.
Whilst we encourage and publish many papers and reports by afterlife researchers, we are not in a position to guarantee the accuracy of all claims. We accept the imputed claim that the afterlife and paranormal research done by the researchers is done in good faith. ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT BY THE CONDITIONS SET AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON COPYRIGHT.
The informal sanctions on professionals who speak out about the afterlife and the paranormal are very real in competitive scientific and academic institutions. The Journal of Scientific Exploration Etzel Cardena of Lund University, Sweden, describes the blatant attempts to suppress and censor parapsychology research and those who are doing it. Instances include raising false accusations, barring access to journals, suppressing papers and data, and ostracizing and persecuting scientists interested in the topic (read a 
Florence Barrett, an obstetric surgeon, (pictured left) whose observations led to the serious study of "deathbed visions." She told her husband about Doris, a woman who had died at her hospital after having a baby. Just before Doris died, she sat up and became very excited about seeing a wonderful place and said that her father had come to take her there. Then she expressed surprise to see her sister with her father. It seems that the sister had died three weeks before, but Doris had not been told. This story was so interesting to Professor Barrett that he undertook a systematic study of death-bed visions.
an Rubenstein M.D. is an English doctor who successfully combines medicine and mediumship at the local level as a primary care physician. His fascinating book 
1947. He claims that 
describes in Elle Magazine her after-death contacts and an accurate telephone reading with a medium. She includes information about the 
Gordon Phinn is a practicing psychic and spiritual counselor, offering 
Northern Beaches Spiritualist Church (Sydney, Australia), is having a face-to-face meeting on Friday 5th July 2024, at Manly Vale Community Centre - Innes Road Hall at See 
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study (SLIDS) with Ana Castro. 
This week's guests are physical medium Gary Mannion,
Every week participants interested in trying to develop physical mediumship sit in a darkened space in their own homes for 40 minutes, relax, and listen to music. This is a long-term project and participants must be prepared to sit in harmony without much seeming to happen on the surface.
Debra's Army4Love Gathering welcomes all with compassion and love and embraces everyone, particularly those who may be suffering from emotional, physical and other psychic pain. Debra enables all to safely share their experiences in her Sacred Space. In every Army4Love Gathering Debra welcomes Spirit to speak through her to the group. Each gathering will focus on a relevant topic, and Debra will ask the group to virtually hold one another in the Spirit of hope, healing and love. Debra will also provide a mini-healing for the collective at the end of each gathering. Debra’s intention is that Army4Love will help you have a greater perspective and understanding regarding your adversities while helping you release and alleviate pain. 
Cheryl Page is a medical researcher and medium who dares to ask questions about what is possible with mediumship. She suggests that we inadvertently cut ourselves off from the nearly infinite possibilities that Spirit brings when we are rigid about the “right” way to practice mediumship and is looking for interested mediums or those developing to join her in some fascinating experiments. 
Spirit Search and Rescue with Gordon Phinn 
Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. 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. 
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
Postponed until next week because of the holiday in the USA.
THE TWO WORLDS WERE NOT INTENDED TO BE SO FAR APART 
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