We had the afterlife convention here in Santa Monica last September. Because of the time constraints, I gave a semi-abbreviated version of my Flipside talk, this one is entitled "Here I am."
Enjoy.
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Monday
Afterlife Convention Recap
Amazing day in Santa Monica at the Afterlife Convention. Kudos to all who came who got to hear the latest in this research from people from Princeton, Harvard and Yale, as well as two Doctors with amazing personal stories, an incredible talk from medium Patti Canova, filmaker Paul Davids, professor Gary Schwartz and a live demonstration of past life/between life hypnosis from Scott De Tamble. Hope to put the video up soon - mind blowing and life changing. The veil is thinning indeed.
In Paul David's film, the Princeton grad shows 40 pieces of evidence of contact with the deceased atheist/science fiction writer/punster Forrest Ackerman. (Evidence vetted by science labs used by the FBI).
Prof Gary Schwartz shared his research with triple blind studies where the data shows how "the Michael Jordans of mediums" can be scientifically proven accurate.
Chaplain Savarna Wiley shared "trends" of reports from Michael Newton trained hypnotherapists worldwide that show statistical increases in specific kinds of reports from the other side. She reference the idea of the "veil seems to be thinning" from these reports and an increase in reports of "pools of oneness" where during a session people report the experience of seeing how we are all connected energetically.
Dr Ken Stoller shared his personal experiences, Dr Stoller's son has been communicating with him from the Flipside, and had an email from a woman in St Louis (he'd never met) who claimed her deceased husband had contacted her and was raving about Dr Stoller's and his son's book - and how "everyone over here is talking about it."
Dr Parti had a near death experience where he was shown by "guides" how his life had spun out of control, was given instruction on how to fix that, and came back to alter his life in a dramatic way.
Pattie Canova told of her journey into mediumship, how growing up on the streets of NY had influenced her "no bullshit" style of readings, and how she did not seek a lifetime of helping people in this fashion, but it had sought her.
Certified master hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble led the audience in a group past life regression where one person (who identified themselves as a skeptic,) claimed he saw himself as a Hopi Indian chief with an unusual name in a particular decade - and before the conference ended this scientist found a cite of that particular chief who had indeed lived during that era in the place he had remembered.
I shared some of my own research, filming people under deep hypnosis and how what they say matches up with NDE accounts, and how, as related in "Flipside" I have gathered compelling evidence of reincarnation, including in my own family. The words "the veil appears to be thinning" came up a number of times. What we do with this information as a culture, is for another conference to digest.
In Paul David's film, the Princeton grad shows 40 pieces of evidence of contact with the deceased atheist/science fiction writer/punster Forrest Ackerman. (Evidence vetted by science labs used by the FBI).
Prof Gary Schwartz shared his research with triple blind studies where the data shows how "the Michael Jordans of mediums" can be scientifically proven accurate.
Chaplain Savarna Wiley shared "trends" of reports from Michael Newton trained hypnotherapists worldwide that show statistical increases in specific kinds of reports from the other side. She reference the idea of the "veil seems to be thinning" from these reports and an increase in reports of "pools of oneness" where during a session people report the experience of seeing how we are all connected energetically.
Dr Ken Stoller shared his personal experiences, Dr Stoller's son has been communicating with him from the Flipside, and had an email from a woman in St Louis (he'd never met) who claimed her deceased husband had contacted her and was raving about Dr Stoller's and his son's book - and how "everyone over here is talking about it."
Dr Parti had a near death experience where he was shown by "guides" how his life had spun out of control, was given instruction on how to fix that, and came back to alter his life in a dramatic way.
Pattie Canova told of her journey into mediumship, how growing up on the streets of NY had influenced her "no bullshit" style of readings, and how she did not seek a lifetime of helping people in this fashion, but it had sought her.
Certified master hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble led the audience in a group past life regression where one person (who identified themselves as a skeptic,) claimed he saw himself as a Hopi Indian chief with an unusual name in a particular decade - and before the conference ended this scientist found a cite of that particular chief who had indeed lived during that era in the place he had remembered.
I shared some of my own research, filming people under deep hypnosis and how what they say matches up with NDE accounts, and how, as related in "Flipside" I have gathered compelling evidence of reincarnation, including in my own family. The words "the veil appears to be thinning" came up a number of times. What we do with this information as a culture, is for another conference to digest.
Saturday
The Afterlife Convention in Santa Monica
The Afterlife Convention in Santa Monica
The Afterlife Convention will examine research, people, experiences and the scientific evidence for life after death. The day long symposium will be held Saturday, September 28, 2013 from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Renaissance Hall
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401.
Hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble will do a Live Group Past Life/Afterlife Regression– space is limited.
“The Sacred Promise” “Conversations with Erik” “LightBetweenLives.com”
“My Life After Life” Hypnotherapist from the NYC Medium
Michael Newton Institute
PAUL DAVIDS DR. RAJIV PARTI Conference Chairman RICHARD MARTINI
Filmmaker “Life After Death” NDE/Healer/Coach “Flipside: My Journey into the Afterlife”
call 323-665-8080
Tuesday
The Afterlife Convention in Santa Monica
Hi folks, just a quick note that the Afterlife Convention (www.afterlifeconvention.com) is gearing up for its debut on Sept 28th. It's an all day seminar at the First Pres Church Complex in Santa Monica, with some of the most interesting afterlife study folks around. For more info, or to secure your spot, please visit the website and follow links at http://www.afterlifeconvention.com/
Scott De Tamble will be doing a talk and a live demonstration of hypnotherapy - so if you're curious about it, it's worth checking into. Here's a video of Scott doing a talk recently at IANDS:
Scott De Tamble will be doing a talk and a live demonstration of hypnotherapy - so if you're curious about it, it's worth checking into. Here's a video of Scott doing a talk recently at IANDS:
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Friday
The Afterlife Convention in Santa Monica Sept 28th
Early-bird pricing ends soon on Afterlife Convention tickets.Unlike humans, once it's gone, it's gone! Registration atwww.afterlifeconvention.comThe Afterlife Convention is convening in Santa Monica on Sept 28th...
sign up now to reserve your spot on this fun filled, afterlife referenced day. We have a variety
of authors, filmmakers, scientists, all on the cutting edge of this research.
It promises to be a mind bending day of great stories.
Please join us if you can!!!
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Wednesday
Flipside the Film News
A company has contacted me about representing "Flipside: My Journey Into the Afterlife" in a larger platform. That means it will be available everywhere "throughout the Universe" as they say (at least in the contracts).
Will let you know when and where that is happening.
Meanwhile, we're gathering steam with our Afterlife Convention on Sept 28th in Santa Monica. We have a stellar lineup of people talking about the Afterlife - from various aspects:
We have Doctors of Medicine - one who had an amazing near death experience (Dr. Rajiv Parti, author of “The Four Pillars of Happiness,”) Dr. Elise Medhus ("Conversations with Erik.com) whose son passed away and continues to communicate with her via a medium, and the other, Doctor Ken Stoller (co-author of "My Life After Life") whose son passed and contacted him from the Afterlife about writing a book together - and recently a woman in St. Louis contacted the Doctor and said that her husband had spoken to her "from the other side" and said "They're all talking about this book "My Life After Life" written by a kid over here."
I kid you not.
We'll have renowned psychic from NYC Pattie Canova (PattieCanova.com) who will talk about her journey into the medium world.
Gary Schwartz Ph.D (The Sacred Promise) will be there, talking about his research into the Afterlife. Harvard/Yale Ph.D, currently at the University of Arizona, the prolific author is the keynote speaker.
We also have two hypnotherapists trained in the Michael Newton method of hypnotherapy - Savarna Wiley, (newtoninstitute.org) from the Michael Newton Institute to talk about Michael's work, and Scott De Tamble, an LA based hypnotherapist (LightBetweenLives.com) who will discuss his work and perhaps to a live demonstration of hypnosis. Definitely worth checking into.
We've invited Dr. Annie Kagan, author of "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers" and filmmaker Paul Davids ("Life After Death") to talk about his documentary that proves communication with someone who passed away (from a science point of view).
Anyways, the purpose of the convention is to keep the dialog going with scientists and others who are trying to catalog, understand or create pathways into this arena. Yours truly will be speaking as well, so it should be a fun time in Santa Monica (location to be announced asap).
AfterlifeConvention.com
Will let you know when and where that is happening.
Meanwhile, we're gathering steam with our Afterlife Convention on Sept 28th in Santa Monica. We have a stellar lineup of people talking about the Afterlife - from various aspects:
We have Doctors of Medicine - one who had an amazing near death experience (Dr. Rajiv Parti, author of “The Four Pillars of Happiness,”) Dr. Elise Medhus ("Conversations with Erik.com) whose son passed away and continues to communicate with her via a medium, and the other, Doctor Ken Stoller (co-author of "My Life After Life") whose son passed and contacted him from the Afterlife about writing a book together - and recently a woman in St. Louis contacted the Doctor and said that her husband had spoken to her "from the other side" and said "They're all talking about this book "My Life After Life" written by a kid over here."
I kid you not.
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| Dr. Gary Schwartz Ph.D |
Gary Schwartz Ph.D (The Sacred Promise) will be there, talking about his research into the Afterlife. Harvard/Yale Ph.D, currently at the University of Arizona, the prolific author is the keynote speaker.
We also have two hypnotherapists trained in the Michael Newton method of hypnotherapy - Savarna Wiley, (newtoninstitute.org) from the Michael Newton Institute to talk about Michael's work, and Scott De Tamble, an LA based hypnotherapist (LightBetweenLives.com) who will discuss his work and perhaps to a live demonstration of hypnosis. Definitely worth checking into.
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| Scott De Tamble lightbetweenlives.com |
We've invited Dr. Annie Kagan, author of "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers" and filmmaker Paul Davids ("Life After Death") to talk about his documentary that proves communication with someone who passed away (from a science point of view).
Anyways, the purpose of the convention is to keep the dialog going with scientists and others who are trying to catalog, understand or create pathways into this arena. Yours truly will be speaking as well, so it should be a fun time in Santa Monica (location to be announced asap).
AfterlifeConvention.com
Tuesday
Afterlife Convention and some NDE research
Some exciting news.. we're organizing the Afterlife Convention on Sept 28th here in Los Angeles. The idea is to bring together people from a variety of disciplines to compare stories about the afterlife - about their research into it, with the hopes of helping people on this planet by sharing information about what happens to us after we're on it. Gary Schwartz Ph.D is going to be one of our keynote speakers, yours truly will be speaking, along with Elisa Medhus MD, Ken Stoller MD and others. We won't be the first convention of its kind, but we're aiming at something a bit less new age, and a bit more practical - as in "Ok, so we don't die per se. How does that affect my life now?"
The idea is that with the combination of studying the various modalities that will be represented - ESP, Near Death (NDE), hypnotherapy as practiced by Michael Newton (LBL), first hand accounts of being contacted by loved ones in the Afterlife - these accounts frequently report the same information. So what is that information? And how can it affect our lives here on Earth? And further, how can it help change our mindset so that by considering that we may return here in the future, we leave the planet as clean healthy place to return to?
I note that it's interesting that the two most vocal groups against this research are from opposite ends of the spectrum - the religious right for lack of a better word (people who believe strongly in what their religion has taught them, and I'm not arguing whether it's accurate or not, it's just by way of identifying that group) and on the other spectrum what can be only describe as extreme left, atheists, or people who are convinced that the science community has no evidence for their being consciousness before, after (or by way of logic) during our lifetimes. It's interesting to note that both sides of the coin find this kind of research "nutty" or "heretical" - but I can only state that in the interest of science - in the interest of humanity - we are forging ahead with the best tools that we have to examine this research. Batten down the hatches, here we go!
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AND THEN THIS INTERESTING CLIP FROM IANDS.ORG:
Study finds NDE memories are not of imagined events
Skeptics have long proposed that NDEs are dream-like memories of events that never happened or are altered memories of real events which are partly or fully imagined. A recently published study from the University of Liège in Belgium compared the memories of NDEs with memories of others who were in coma without an NDE. They found that memories of NDEs are significantly different from coma patients without an NDE. In particular they have significantly more characteristics, like visual details, memory clarity, self-referential information (being involved in the event) and emotional content.The researchers propose that NDEs can't be considered as imagined events. which have significantly fewer characteristics. NDE events are really perceived but since the events did not occur in reality and likely result from physiological conditions (e.g., neurological dysfunction), the events are actually hallucinatory (see also ULg video). This conclusion is based on assumptions that are inconsistent with other evidence from NDEs. Other interpretations are possible.
Seven researchers from the University of Liège, led by Dr. Steven Laureys, published a report in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE on the characteristics of memories from near-death experiences compared with the memories from others who were in coma but did not report an NDE. The study also compared NDE memories with memories of real events and imagined events (e.g., past dreams or fantasies).
Skeptics, such as Susan Blackmore and Chris French, have long proposed that NDEs are dream-like memories of events that never happened or are altered memories of real events which are partly or fully imagined.
The researchers included 21 patients who suffered from an acute brain insult and coma. The patients were divided into three groups: those reporting an NDE (≥ 7 on the Greyson scale, N=8), those reporting memories during coma but without an NDE (< 7 on the Greyson scale, N=6) and those reporting no memories of their coma (N=7). These three groups were all similar in etiology of the brain insult (traumatic, anoxic, hemorrhagic, metabolic and encephalopathic etiologies), as well as age and time since insult. The 21 coma patients were also compared with 18 healthy control subjects.
The researchers measured the memory characteristics of patients using the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire (MCQ), comparing the target memories (NDE or coma memories) versus memories of real events and imagined events (e.g., past dreams or fantasies). The memory characteristics included sensory details (visual, auditory, etc.), memory clarity (e.g., mentally reliving the events when remembering), self-referential information (memories of being involved in the event) and emotionality (e.g., feeling the emotions of the event when remembering).
The researchers found that memories of NDEs have significantly more characteristics than both memories of real events and imagined events.
Furthermore, since it is possible that the core components of an NDE are neurophysiologically determined (e.g., temporo-parietal junction dysfunction or deficit), then "the subject really perceived these phenomena". However, since the perceived events did not occur in reality, the perceptions are hallucinatory. Indeed,memories of NDEs are likely 'flashbulb memories' of hallucinations.
CNN also published an in-depth news article on this study.
Commentary
The researchers' conclusions are based on two assumptions that are inconsistent with other evidence from NDEs: (1) that the perceived events do not occur in reality and (2) that NDE phenomena are determined neurophysiologically. Therefore, other interpretations are possible.
The first assumption, that perceived events in an NDE do not occur in reality, is not consistent with the veridical perceptions that are reported by NDErs. In fact, nearly all "apparently nonphysical veridical perceptions" (AVPs) are verified when checked. Janice Holden (2009) reported that of 93 veridical perception cases in the NDE literature, 92% were completely accurate, 6% were accurate with some errors and only one case was completely erroneous. The AVPs are frequently of objects or events outside the NDEr's physical line of sight or at a distant location from the NDEr's physical body.
Furthermore, previously unknown veridical information received during the "transcendent" part of the NDE(e.g. meeting deceased relatives) is frequently later verified. For example, a man saw and interacted with an apparently deceased person and later found out the man was his biological father who had died in the holocaust (van Lommel, 2010, pp. 32-33).
Since the perceived events in fact occurred or accurately conveyed previously unknown information, one cannot conclude that NDE perceptions are hallucinations. If some parts of the NDE events were perceived accurately, where do the NDE perceptions become unreal? If a patient accurately describes the details of operating room events while he had no heart beat or blood pressure, at what point did the other parts of his experience (the tunnel and light) become an hallucination?
Eben Alexander's experience included both veridical perceptions and an episode of "ICU psychosis". During his recovery, he experienced intense delusions and very vivid dreams but both were completely different from the "astonishing clarity and vibrant richness—the ultra-reality" of his NDE (Alexander, 2012, pp. 117-118). His NDE memories are consonant with the results of this study but point out the stark difference between true hallucinations and NDE memories. The finding that NDE memories contain both more emotional and self-referential information than other target memories is more likely due to the hyperreal and veridical qualities of the experience than vice versa.
The second assumption, that NDE phenomena are neurophysiologically determined, is not consistent with the full spectrum of NDE cases. A number of physiological factors are generally cited in explanations of NDEs (Greyson et al., 2009). None of these factors is adequate to explain NDE phenomena, because (1) the reported physiologically-caused experiences bear only a slight resemblance to NDEs, (2) many NDEs occur under conditions without the suggested physiological factor, and/or (3) in cases where the physiological factor is present, NDEs are not reported in even a large percent of cases.
Furthermore, many NDEs occur during cardiac arrest which results in complete cessation of blood flow to the brain. In these cases, heightened, lucid awareness and thought processes are reported, the same kind of experiences as are remembered by patients in this study (van Lommel, 2010, pp. 159–176). In these NDEs, neurophysiological causes of the core components of the NDE could not have occurred because the brain was not functioning. Veridical perceptions of the onset of resuscitation efforts also establish the time of the experience to be when the brain had no electrical activity.
Robert Mays, NDE researcher
References
- Alexander, Eben (2012). Proof of Heaven: A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Greyson, B., Kelly, E. W., & Kelly, E. F. (2009). Explanatory models for near-death experiences. In J. M. Holden, B. Greyson, & D. James (Eds.), The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty years of investigation(pp. 213–234). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
- Holden, Janice M. (2009). Veridical perception in near-death experiences. In J. M. Holden, B. Greyson & D. James (Eds.), The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty years of investigation (pp. 185–211). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
- Thonnard M, Charland-Verville V, Brédart S, Dehon H, Ledoux D, et al. (2013) Characteristics of Near-Death Experiences Memories as Compared to Real and Imagined Events Memories. PLoS ONE 8(3): e57620.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057620.
- van Lommel, P. (2010). Consciousness beyond life: The science of the near-death experience. New York: HarperCollins.
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