COMMENTARY: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
One of the key indicators that a near-death experience is not just the random firings of neurons at the end of life is that experiencers come back with a profound shift in values and a desire to change the world by changing themselves.
NDE experiencer Howard Storm was told that the future is not fixed: “We have free will. If we change the way we are, then we can change the future which they showed me. They showed me a view of the future, at the time of my experience, based upon how we in the United States were behaving at that time. It was a future in which a massive worldwide depression would occur. If we were to change our behavior, however, then the future would be different.”
“All it takes to make a change is one person. One person, trying, and then because of that, another person changing for the better. They said that the only way to change the world was to begin with one person. One will become two, which will become three, and so on. That’s the only way to effect a major change.”
Dannion Brinkley also gives the following advice on how people can change the world: “The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else’s love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.” (Dannion Brinkley)
INGRID HONKALA Ph.D. HAD THREE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
Colombian-born Ingrid Honkala had her first near-death experience at the age of two and came back with knowledge far ahead of her peers. At five she decided that she would work with the oceans and singlemindedly pursued that path becoming an oceanographer. She remained deeply connected to Spirit and is now an inspirational speaker and teacher. In her presentation she shared highlights of her book "A Brightly Guided Life - How a Scientist Learned to Hear Her Inner Wisdom" that show that we are eternal beings, we are never alone, we are more connected than we think we are and we are the Light. You can learn more about Ingrid on her website.
See also Part 2 of the video for the questions and discussion that followed the presentation.
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES?
We highly recommend Kenneth Ring's book Lessons from the Light to anyone interested in theology. After studying thousands of NDEs he writes:
"Everyone is loved infinitely, and with incredible compassion. There is a plan or, a kind of blueprint for everyone's life, and, while we each are free to embrace it or reject it, the Light is there to help us find it. If we can open ourselves to the Light and invoke it into our lives, we will, in time, be shown our way - and we will recognize it as ours unmistakable because it gives us joy. Joy in living is the truest sign that we are living right. What kills is judgment; what heals is love. The Light itself is only love, and it never judges; it gently nudges you toward your essential self. It wants you to realize that your core being is this light - it is not something external to you." See p.198.
"THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AFTER DEATH" WITH PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOREIRA-ALMEIDA
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in Brazil. He is the coauthor 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 as well as 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 (pictured left) 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)
THE CHESS GAME FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist based in Seattle. Here he provides a detailed analysis of a chess match played between a living grandmaster, Victor Korchnoi, and an ostensible deceased grandmaster, Géza Maróczy, whose moves were communicated through a spiritualist medium using automatic writing. Neppe argues that this is a strong case supporting the hypothesis of survival of consciousness after death. It combines an unusual degree of accurate information with a high level of chess skill, plus aspects of personality.
AN ATTEMPT TO VALIDATE THE VOICES FROM A DEEP TRANCE MEDIUM Charles Hapgood was a professor at Keene State in New Hampshire. He spent 15 years investigating the mediumship of Elwood Babbitt (1921 – 2001). Hapgood made recordings of at least 100 different trance entities who spoke through the medium including Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu. He was keen to show that the entities were different from each other and different from the medium. He found that EEGs of the medium's brain showed a completely different pattern according to which entity was in control. He also showed that different entities responded differently to a word association test.
Hapgood coauthored three books with Babbitt. The first, "Voices of Spirit" is a scientific and historical approach to the world of mediumship. The second book "The God Within - A Testament of Vishnu" and the third book "Talks With Christ and His Teachers" are primarily transcriptions of trance lectures claimed to have been given by the Vishnu Force, Jesus Christ, and other figures.
MEDIUM JOHN EDWARD
John Edward's television series "Crossing Over" was broadcast around the world between 2001 and 2004. For many people, it was a first exposure to quality mental mediumship. In this clip, John begins by answering questions including whether it is possible to get messages from someone in a coma. He then does an audience reading where he demonstrates his characteristic ability to get highly specific details and his refusal to give up on placing a message once it is given - something that "cold readers" never do.
DON'T RELY ON WIKIPEDIA FOR AFTERLIFE FACTS Everyone involved in Afterlife research is aware that Wikipedia has been taken over by an organised group of skeptics. Every biography of a medium or psychic or an investigator has been trashed to suggest that they were fraudulent and that there were no investigations carried out apart from those by one or two skeptics who are quoted. See articles by: Dr. Dean Radin;Dr. Rupert Sheldrake; and Craig Weiler's webpage, Skeptical About Skeptics.
As an alternative check out The Psi Encyclopedia, a new collection of articles and case studies about psi research, the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. It's a work in progress, being created by the Society for Psychical Research in London.
HARRY STAYED CLOSE TO EARTH WHEN HE DIED We have many direct first-hand accounts of what happened to people when they died through more than 600 recordings made by Betty Green and George Woods. The information came from people in spirit speaking through the direct-voice medium Leslie Flint.
One of those recordings is of a spirit named Harry, who turned up at a Leslie Flint sitting in 1957. Harry says that he didn't believe in an afterlife and when he died, he stayed around his friends. He went to pubs and then realised he could now travel the world. But no one could hear him, and no one could see him, so it was a lonely existence as an Earth-bound spirit. After some time, he sensed another spirit following him, so he found a quiet place and sent out a thought asking for help.
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 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 will be our guest at
next Sunday's Zoom Global Gathering answering more questions about the afterlife. Pacific Time 1 p.m. Sunday - please note changed times listed below.
Here's Gordon answering a question
during his last visit with us.
See A List of videos of our past meetings. TIME CHANGE ALERT!! CHECK TIMES
Some groups hosted in Australia will be changing times from this week as daylight saving comes in.
Saturday September 30th 2023 / Sunday October 1st, in Australia
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study 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 7 a.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 9 a.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Ana Castro
Just click this link to join.
Sunday October 1st, 2023 / Monday October 2nd, in Australia
Global Gathering - Guest 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. Here's his Short Guide to OBE Exploration.
Times:
Pacific Time 1 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Phoenix 1 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Mountain Time 2 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Central time 3 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Eastern time 4 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
London 9 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Amsterdam 10 p.m. Sunday TIME CHANGED
Sydney/Melbourne 7 a.m. Monday
New Zealand 9 a.m. Monday Check time in your city
Co-ordinators: karynjarvie@ozemail.com.au and wendyzammit@gmail.com https://zoom.us/j/7595442928
Monday October 2nd,2023 / Tuesday October 3rd Australia
Dream Circle A small group meets every two weeks - to share and explore the meaning of their dreams.
Times:
Pacific Time 1 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
Phoenix 1 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
Mountain Time 2 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
Central time 3 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
Eastern time 4 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
London 9 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
Amsterdam 10 p.m. Monday TIME CHANGED
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
Monday October 2nd, 2023 / Tuesday October 3rd 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.
Special Guest this month:
Graham Maxey, the Grief/Trauma specialist and lead expert Life with Ghosts.
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. See a short extract from Stephen's talk about the making of the movie.
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 11 a.m. Tuesday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 1 p.m. Tuesday TIME CHANGED Check time in your city
Co-ordinator: Stephen Berkley
admin@lifewithghosts.com Click this link to join.
Tuesday October 3rd 2023/ Wednesday October 4th Australia.
Army 4 Love: Every 1st Tuesday/Wednesday of the month. 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
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 10 a.m. Wednesday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 12 noon Wednesday TIME CHANGED Check time in your city
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87968366796
Tuesday October 3rd 2023/ Wednesday October 4th Australia.
What If? With Cheryl Page
First Tuesday/ Wednesday of every month
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 12 noon. Wednesday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 2 p.m. Wednesday TIME CHANGED
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 October 4th, 2023 / Thursday October 5th, Australia Automatic Writing and Mediumship ETC. Discussion with
Sheila Lowe
Share resources and discuss what participants are experiencing
1st and 3rd Wednesdays.
Guest Bridgitte Jackson Buckley author of The Gift of Crisis will lead an automatic writing exercise and talk about her journey.
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 11.30 a.m. Thursday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 1.30 p.m. Thursday TIME CHANGED 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 October 4th, 2023 / Thursday October 5th, 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.
Pacific and Arizona time 6 p.m. Wednesday
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
Perth 9.a.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 12 noon Thursday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 2 p.m. Thursday TIME CHANGED Check time in your city THIS GROUP IS CURRENTLY NOT TAKING NEW MEMBERS
Email r.craig.hogan@afterlifeinstitute.org
Thursday October 5th, 2023 / Friday October 6th, Australia
Free monthly Mediumship Development Circle with Nicole Newman
Next meetings November 2nd and 30th. Nicole will lead this 8-session Free Online Development series on Zoom. 12 to 2 p.m. PST. All time zones welcome and all levels welcome, including beginners. Please try to attend all sessions if you sign up, but not mandatory.
Thursday October 5th, 2023 / Friday October 6th, Australia
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
August, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, leads a participatory "Exploratorium" where readers of the book "The Risen" will be encouraged to offer ponderings and ideas on grief and growth. Free pdf copies of the book are available here.
This group meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
Times:
Pacific time 12 noon Thursday
Phoenix 12 noon Thursday
Mountain Daylight time 1 p.m. Thursday
Central Daylight time 2 p.m. Thursday
New York time 3 p.m. Thursday
London 8 p.m. Thursday
Sydney/Melbourne 6 a.m. Friday TIME CHANGED
New Zealand 9 a.m. Friday TIME CHANGED Check time in your city
Contact: Glangley@mcn.org
DO WE UNCONSCIOUSLY KNOW OUR LIFE PLAN? "You chose your path before you came to earth. You then had awareness. It is dimmed by the fact that you have a physical body and a brain that is incapable of probing all the recesses that are in the subconscious part of your mind. You must have the crisis that becomes the catalyst that begins to awaken the awareness you originally had." Light from Silver Birch p. 80.
HENRY SCOTT- HOLLAND'S "Death Is Nothing At All"
"Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it". Read the full poem.
FREE GROUP HEALING WITH CHARLIE GOLDSMITH Charlie Goldsmith, tested Energy Healer has scheduled his next Free Group Healing Session on Saturday 7th october (USA time)/ Sunday 8th October (Sydney Melbourne).
Held on his Facebook Page, the Group Healing will begin ten minutes after the scheduled time below.
Sydney, Australia: 9am on Sunday 8th October
Los Angeles, USA: 3pm on Saturday 7th October
New York, USA: 6pm on Saturday 7th October
London, UK: 11pm on Saturday 7th October Check time in your city
FEEDBACK: (Three only)
1) "Hi Victor & Wendy, I have tried to influence the Wikipedia pages regarding the afterlife and spiritual survival but as you can see all I get is flannel about how well they operate.
Thank you so much for all the brilliant links and information you provide each week a really lift of the spirit for the weekend". Roger
2)
"I'm so glad that this week's report includes a section regarding lower-level spirits influencing vulnerable incarnate people. Many people won’t accept this possibility which is unfortunate". Elizabeth
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"Thank you for this tour de force on negative spirits. Another awesome book is Soul-Centered Healing by Thomas Zinser (a clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist, aided by a benevolent spirit). This is a Kindle book at Amazon, and he was interviewed at Skeptiko: https://skeptiko.com/tom-zinser-clinical-psychologist.../ Zinser's work is quite recent". Analise
BE LOVE: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR EYES, HEART AND MIND
Sean Gallaway's visually stunning music video is based on The Be Love Principles:
* Greet everyone with an open heart, without an agenda.
* See the divine essence in everyone.
* Forgive quickly, completely, and unconditionally.
* Remember you are the light. You never left the light of the ALL.
Maximise the video to soak in the glorious energy.
Whilst we encourage and we publish many papers and reports by afterlife researchers, we are not in a position to guarantee the accuracy of all claims. ALL WORK IS COPYRIGHT BY THE CONDITIONS SET AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON COPYRIGHT
COMMENTARY: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD 
recommend Kenneth Ring's book 
1947. He claims that 
Charles Hapgood was a professor at Keene State in New Hampshire. He spent 15 years investigating the mediumship of 
Everyone involved in Afterlife research is aware that Wikipedia has been taken over by an organised group of skeptics. Every biography of a medium or psychic or an investigator has been trashed to suggest that they were fraudulent and that there were no investigations carried out apart from those by one or two skeptics who are quoted. See articles by: 
We have many direct first-hand accounts of what happened to people when they died through more than 600 recordings made by Betty Green and George Woods. The information came from people in spirit speaking through the 
Spiritist Literature: Directed Study with Ana Castro.
Life with Ghosts Zoom Chat - with filmmaker Stephen Berkley 
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. 
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. 
Nicole will lead this 8-session Free Online Development series on Zoom. 12 to 2 p.m. PST. All time zones welcome and all levels welcome, including beginners. Please try to attend all sessions if you sign up, but not mandatory. 
August Goforth: Exploratorium.
DO WE UNCONSCIOUSLY KNOW OUR LIFE PLAN? 
Charlie Goldsmith, tested Energy Healer 
FEEDBACK: (Three only)