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(June 1, 2005)

AID TO KATRINA HURRICANE VICTIMS:

For those people who would like to help the victims of Katrina, here is a message from the Unity Church:

"Dear Friends, In response to many questions we have been receiving about how to help people affected by Hurricane Katrina, this just in from the Association of Unity Churches: Many have called to ask how can I help, and we first ask you to join us in prayer and secondly if you want to bless folks through gifts, our Association of Unity Churches International has set up a Relief Fund. Be guided by your own Christ Spirit and send gifts marked clearly to: Relief fund / Association of Unity Churches International, P. O. Box 610, Lee's Summit, MO 64063. This fund will be set up specifically for aid to those affected, and will not be used for general operating expenses. Blessings, Revs. Don and Patricia."

"BEYOND THE INDIGO CHILDREN" TO BE RELEASED THIS MONTH:

P.M.H. Atwater's latest book "Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World" will be released this month. You can order the book now from these sources: (1) The Inner Traditions Publishing website (2) P.M.H. Atwater's Beyond the Indigo Children page (3) The book's listing at Amazon.com (4) Go to your local Barnes & Noble Bookstore (5) Phone your local Barnes & Noble Bookstore

If people contact their favorite local bookstore and order the book there, it will build demand for the book and more bookstores will carry it. This book is a powerful treatise on the new children, their characteristics - positive/negative, generational markers; but more importantly it puts their appearance on the earthplane in perspective to the advance of root races (our gene pool as humans), the great shifting, and the great ages. Should your group want P.M.H. Atwater as a speaker on this subject, refer to her website for details then contact her directly at atwater@cinemind.com.

FREE BEYOND THE INDIGO CHILDREN "EXTRAS":

P.M.H. states: "I am very excited about "Beyond the Indigo Children," so much so that I have created a Beyond the Indigo Children EXTRAS web page and FREE ebook so some of the ideas and resources left over from the original printing could be listed. Of concern to me is that you read everything in the Notes Section of the book. That's because Notes functions as a Resource Guide, filled with wonderful books, websites, contacts, and groups of all kinds that will be most helpful to you and to kids. EXTRAS is really more of a hodgepodge than anything else. Enjoy scrolling through it." The Beyond The Indigo Children EXTRAS web page can be found at http://tinyurl.com/8x4yp.

FREE "CHALLENGE OF SEPTEMBER 11" MINI-BOOK NOW AVAILABLE:

Visit the web page at http://tinyurl.com/8mmpp to read the free 28-page mini-book by P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D. It is the full account of what P.M.H. saw on the "inner planes" over New York City while she was there in spirit form as the second plane hit the North Tower. This material was originally part of a book on death and dying, but was immediately censored by numerous New York publishers, as they felt the public was not ready to hear such things. States P.M.H.: "The publishers are wrong, so here it is in mini-book form, free to all. This Memorial may be quoted and used by anyone who is respectful of what it contains. Just give proper credits." It is also available in PDF ebook format at this address: http://tinyurl.com/agsnp.

On September 10, 2005, the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presented P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D. with their "Outstanding Service Award," accompanied by a film tribute to her in recognition of what she has achieved during the last three decades. Her husband, Terry Atwater, was honored as the unsung hero behind her work. Dr. Atwater told the audience: "Near-death experiencers talk about angels. I want you all to know I married mine." This award and tribute is especially meaningful to Dr. Atwater because Pim van Lommel, M.D., the cardiologist from Holland whose paper was published in "Lancet" medical journal was presented the Bruce Greyson Research Award during the same ceremony. She had been instrumental with several others in suggesting that he publish his paper and that he send it to "Lancet." In 2001, when she was staying with Pim and his wife at their home in Holland, she "broke the rules of etiquette" and nagged him until he finally mailed in his paper. It was published in "Lancet" on 12-15-01, the largest and most thorough research ever done on near-death experiences, a paper that has garnered global attention and has gone on to establish near-death states as a real phenomenon, unrelated to oxygen deprivation, drugs, hallucinations, and so forth. Seeing him receive such a well-deserved award capped off the ceremony for her.

The Friends of IANDS Nashville coordinator Rev. Juliet Nightingale has started an online meeting place for their Nashville NDE support group using the free online service MeetUp.com. This online service is ideal for groups that regularly meet face-to-face and need a website to coordinate their activities and post messages but do not want to hire a webmaster to build it. By using blog technology, local groups can focus on their common interests without have to be computer geeks. As an example, one of the most interesting success stories of the 2004 presidential election was Howard Dean's use of blogs to bring a lot of people together for a cause. Although his campaign fizzled, his network of blogs was able to mobilize people in a manner that had political organizations all over the U.S. take notice. Now, IANDS support groups have a tool they can use to inform and promote their organizations. Registration is free and any IANDS support group can now freely have a website and online meeting place. On September 24, 2005, FOI Nashville has scheduled a United Near-Death Experience Meetup Day to create public awareness of this new resource and their online meeting place and to bring NDE enthusiasts all over the world together.  [Read more here]

   Near-Death Experiencers Needed For Documentary on History Channel

Bill Brummel Productions in Los Angeles, CA, is gathering testimonials for an upcoming 1-hour documentary entitled "The History of Heaven" to be televised on The History Channel later this year. Please email your name, your testimony, and your contact information to Associate Producer Ann LeSchander at annbbp@earthlink.net. The History Channel is currently airing another documentary by Bill Brummel Productions called "Hell: The Devil's Domain" on September 15, 16, and 23. It has a nice segment on hellish NDEs and includes the Rev. Howard Storm giving his outstanding testimony. The documentary also includes an in-depth history of Hades that traces the development of Christian, Moslem, Jewish, and Buddhist conceptions of hell. It also features a church in Texas where "demons" are cast out of people. The modern Church of Satan is profiled as well as current portrayals of Satan in popular culture.  [Read more here]

   Prominent NDEr Who Lost a Son in Iraq Receives National Attention For War Protest

Nadia McCaffrey is an NDE r and the facilitator for the San Francisco-Bay Chapter of IANDS, AngelStaff International, and directs the organization Changing the Face of Death, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to public awareness, consciousness and service towards the dying. On June 22, 2004, her son, Army National Guard Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey was killed in an ambush in Iraq. At the time, the Defense Dept. had a ban on press photos of coffins returning from Iraq; but this ban didn't apply to Patrick's coffin because it was returning to California on a commercial flight. Nevertheless, Nadia received national attention for this perceived defiance of the ban. In January 2005, Nadia and other mothers of fallen heroes founded Gold Star Families For Peace headed by Cindy Sheehan. They are working actively to stop the war and bring our troops home. Nadia is also a Coordinator for Gold Stars Speakers Bureau, a peaceful pro-people organization that works with Gold Star Mothers.  [Read more here]

On April 26, 2005, webmaster Kevin Williams received an email from near-death experiencer Alan McDougall informing him of a dream he had the previous night. The subject of the email was "Dream of a disaster from Alan" and this was the contents of the email (verbatim):

"Dear All, Last night the 26/4/2005 at 4 a.m. I dreamed of a disaster happening somewhere on the Earth at the time that the young peaches are still green in South Africa. This is between August and October. Love, Alan."

Alan also predicted the Tsunami Disaster that hit Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004 (see Near-Death Newsletter Jan. 15, 2005).

Another NDEr by the name of Howard Storm was given the following information during his NDE in 1985:

"The United States has been given more of everything than any other country in the history of the world and it has failed to be generous with the gifts. If the United States continues to exploit the rest of the world by greedily consuming the world's resources, the United States will have God's blessing withdrawn. Your country will collapse economically which will result in civil chaos. Because of the greedy nature of the people, you will have people killing people for a cup of gasoline. The world will watch in horror as your country is obliterated by strife." Storm asked the beings of light how this would come about and they replied that "our society is very dependent on a lot of very fragile things -- energy grid, transportation. In each geographical area of the United States people used to be relatively self-sufficient as far as agricultural products. Now, how long would any state survive without the transport of food and energy?" Storm states, "What would happen is these very complex and delicate grids of our economic system would begin to break down. We've created a society of such cruel and self-centered people that the very nature of civilization would begin to break down. The angels showed me that what would happen is that people would begin robbing the grocery stores, hording goods, and killing one another for gasoline and tires, and as a consequence everything would break down and would end up in chaos."

That's if we don't change for the better. Such visions of the future are always conditional and based on current trends and free will.

Ned Dougherty, another NDEr, has been receiving messages from the Archangel Michael which have a remarkable relevance to today's headlines. [Read more here]

Ken Vincent, Ed.D., is the author of "Visions of God from the Near-Death Experience" - a book which superimposes the wisdom of the sages of the world's religions upon accounts of modern-day near-death experiences to illustrate the similarities between them. He is also the author of "The Magi: From Zoroaster to the Three Wise Men” in which he compares the Zoroastrian religion of the Magi to Christianity to show the parallels of Universal Restoration in both faiths. The idea of salvation for all humanity is known as "Universalism" and the idea that all people will be saved - either immediately or eventually - is called "Universal Restoration." Ken's writings all contain a strong undercurrent of universalist thought and his latest book, which has just been released, is entitled "The Golden Thread: God's Promise of Universal Restoration." Arguing that God is too good to condemn anyone to an eternal hell, "The Golden Thread" offers a Biblical interpretation present in the Christianity of the earliest followers of Jesus to the Christianity of the 21st century. Proponents of Universalism can be found today within a wide variety of denominations from post-Vatican II Catholics to Primitive Baptists. "The Golden Thread" brings together the Bible verses that ancient and modern Universalist theologians have used to show that God is the parent of all and, in the end, will save the “lost sheep” and the “prodigal son.” "The Golden Thread" continues with 2,000 years of Christian mystical religious experience and modern-day near-death experiences - testimony to God's abiding love for all.  [Read more here]

The Safar scientists have developed a way to put the dogs into a hypothermia-like state - also known as suspended animation - which puts the animals' metabolism on hold. The process involves draining the dogs' veins of blood and then filling them with a near ice-cold salt solution, which lowers body temperature to 7C (usually 37C). They stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity, so are considered clinically dead. Three hours later, the dogs' blood is replaced and they are brought back to life with a gentle electric shock. The Safar scientists have since announced that they hope to test their hypothermic cooling techniques on humans and have gone as far as talking to hospitals about starting trials on emergency patients.  [Read more here]

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is best known for her work with death and dying, and her fame is well earned. More than any other individual in the Western world, she has helped shatter the taboo that - as recently as 20 years ago - isolated the terminally ill in an atmosphere of nervous silence. Meanwhile, the Swiss-born physician devised her celebrated five-stage (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) model of the dying process ... authored the classic book On Death and Dying (as well as a number of other volumes on the subject) ... sparked the hospice movement in the United States ... and helped millions of people learn to see dying as "the final stage of growth" an integral part of life itself.  [Read more here]

"Words can't really describe the magnitude of the all-consuming love experienced when being in the light. And not only love but perfection, peace, serenity, calmness and beauty. I felt that I was safely home. I was over-awed with the experience. The wisps of cloud are the things I can still remember most clearly - I just put my arms out to feel these clouds and I couldn't feel anything, then I looked and I had no arms and then I looked down and I had no body. Strange as it must seem I had 360-degree vision because I looked behind me and saw I had no back. But I did fully comprehend the fact that I was probably the size of a ball, but it didn't frighten me it was a feeling of "oh well, so what" ... The experience is just so powerful, so all-consuming that the difficulty I had as a free spirit was fitting back into the human physical form. I just didn't seem to fit - I'm not talking size - it just didn't seem right. I'd gone back home; back where I came from and then I had to come back here and do this mission - to help people by telling them that in death your mind, soul, spirit never cease."  [Read more here]

They apparently laid me out on a table, tennis table, and started to work on me. The interesting thing for me is that I remember watching them do it. I was basically - I was in a hangar at the airport and it has a metal roof. Obviously, if I was above the building I couldn't see them, but I actually remember seeing everybody work on me. I remember seeing the nurse who was called, coming from the first aid centre. She was walking along and she stopped to walk to somebody along the way for a couple of minutes. About a month later, when I went back to work, I asked her about that and she was rather blown away. She said, "How do you know that?" I said, "Well, I saw you." She goes, "You can't have seen me, nobody saw me," and I said, "Well I did," and I explained exactly what I saw had happened. She didn't speak to me for a while after that.  [Read more here]

Gay Hamm of Upland, was dead at San Antonio Community Hospital and brought back to life after the Emergency Room and paramedic worked on her for 45 minutes ... She wasn't breathing. Her heart had stopped beating. She was, in fact, clinically dead ... It took 45 minutes of constant CPR, electric shock therapy and powerful drug injections, but the team saved Gay Hamm ... She then related a dream she had a few weeks before her collapse. "My mother and grandmother, who are both deceased, came to me and wanted me to go with them," she said. "I said no. I still had things to do here."  [Read more here]

Curtis Boyer didn't hear the dire predictions. A soothing source of peace ran through his mind. Boyer, who wrecked violently in last year's Knoxville Nationals, spent 17 days in a coma with severe head injuries. A doctor eventually told him he died three times. And during those moments, Boyer said God spoke to him. "I can remember being happy, excited, not sad or depressed," said Boyer, who watched this year's Nationals from a Knoxville Raceway suite. "I was like, 'Wow, I get to see dad and grandma - loved ones who went to heaven. I remember looking forward to going to heaven and the Good Lord came to me and his exact words to me were, 'Curtis, you're not coming home yet. You've got some more work for me to do here.' I was like, 'Wow, I'm not going to die.' That's all I really remember about the death part of it."  [Read more here]

While best known for his "Miracle on the Mat" at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Gardner's book is themed around the "Miracle in the Mountains," title of the 18th chapter. Recollections from his near-death experience preface almost every chapter, but the details about his misguided snowmobile journey in western Wyoming take up 53 pages of the book. "Now it's one of my best experiences," Gardner said. "I can reflect on it now and see some joy and happiness from that night because I'm here to talk about it."  [Read more here]

Seymour, 57, says she was dead for at least 30 seconds. Question: Many people who have near-death experiences say they saw a white light. Did this happen to you? Seymour: Absolutely. I left my body. I saw the white light but refused to go to it. I stayed in a corner of the hospital room watching the doctors try to resuscitate me ... Question: I guess it's an understatement to say this was a profound experience, but what did you take away from such an amazing event? Seymour: When you almost lose your life you finally understand how precious life is. It gave me such an incredible perspective on life. I vowed I would never waste a moment of the life I was given back.  [Read more here]

In 2003 Mr. Dovel wrote “My Last Breath,” his autobiography about two near-death experiences he has had, an inspirational book. His two separate near-death experiences took place one at the age of twelve and one at the age of twenty-five. The first was as a result of him drowning in a neighbor's swimming pool. He experienced the joy and piece that only heaven could give as a result of his soul passing over to the other side. Enraged at having to leave heaven, to return to Earth, Mr. Dovel spent the next twelve years drinking and drugging to cope with living in what he believed was now hell. At the age of twenty-five Mr. Dovel had attained a thousand dollar a week habitual drug habit. Mr. Dovel thought that if he killed himself he would once again return to heaven, but little did he know that he would spend three days in hell as a result of his suicide. Upon returning to Earth, once again, he was forever changed and literally scared straight.  [Read more here]

When my grandmother was younger, she was having abdominal surgery and her heart stopped. Keep in mind she was telling me this story long before people ever talked about “near-death” experiences. I had never known anybody who died, then lived to tell about it. I remember the look in my grandmother's eyes when she told me the story. She wasn't scared. She wasn't nostalgic. She was just telling me about dying the way a history teacher would tell you about the American Revolution. “I remember seeing a light.” (Yes, that familiar white light.) “It was like a tunnel, and I followed it into a dining room with a big table.” And here's where Grandma's face lit up. “I remember walking to the room and seeing your grandfather and your aunt. Then I saw my father and my mother and Esther and . . . ” (She went on to name each of her five siblings that had died before her.) “They were eating this wonderful meal. It looked and smelled so delicious. I was hungry, and they kept inviting me to sit down and eat with them. I wanted to. I really wanted to. But I knew that if I sat, I'd never come back. So I told them I wasn't ready yet and that I hoped I would see them again. They assured me that I would. And then I woke up on the operating table.”  [Read more here]

Chavez said he had a near-death experience when he was declared clinically dead on the operating table. He said he saw God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Chavez said he was in a beautiful garden and saw his uncle who died years ago. His uncle told him, "It is not your time yet." "It was so joyful," Chavez said. "There are no words for it. It is beyond anything you could imagine." Chavez said he understood everything and the meaning of life but lost it when he came back to life. "I didn't want to come back," Chavez said. "I wanted to kill the doctor who saved me." Chavez said his heart is getting worse but he still has hope. "The hardest part is not to remember what you used to do," Chavez said. "Do what you can and be happy with it, even with your limitations." Chavez said he is not satisfied but he is happy.  [Read more here]

In November 1973, when she was 31, Betty Jean Eadie entered a hospital for a partial hysterectomy. Complications ensued, and she believes she died in her hospital room, soon finding her spirit in the presence of angels, Jesus and God. They gave her a "tour" of the afterlife, delivering profound messages and answering universal questions. Then Eadie's spirit was returned to her body. In 1992 - after a long bout with depression, followed by years of studying psychology and hypnotherapy and consulting with other survivors of near-death experiences, or NDEs - Eadie published "Embraced by the Light", a phenomenal best-seller. She has published three follow-up books, "The Awakening Heart," "The Ripple Effect" and "Prayers and Devotions."  [Read more here]

“One day I woke up in a morgue, in Iqaluit, with a toe tag on,” Toonoo recounts. Ten years ago, during minor surgery, his heart stopped. He was declared dead and wheeled away. Toonoo describes his near-death experience, the sensation that his body was made of jelly, that he had no bones, no legs, no arms, no hands. He heard a booming voice behind him, telling him he never had to work again - and he was very, very happy. “It's the best thing that can happen to a person,” he says now. “To die.”  [Read more here]

The results of the biopsy revealed he might have only 6 months to live but I kept the information to myself. He announced to his grief-stricken family that he was prepared to meet his Maker after living a full life. However, within a month after starting medications he responded to treatment and was well until the middle of 2004. After his 80th birthday, a scan revealed the cancer had spread to his bones ... He would have left on July 2004, were it not for God's will, the prayers of his loved ones and those who loved him and the skillful hands of his doctors. He had a near-death experience while undergoing one of only two dialysis treatments. He claimed to have seen Jesus Christ shielding him from balls of fire rolling towards him on a hillside. And God gave him back to us for one more year.   [Read more here]

"You know how they say your life flashes before your eyes? No, not with me. Everything slowed down and I could see it all, just my body flipping around, hitting things. I kept waiting for the screen to go blank, but it never did," he explains. You can question the young man's judgment, but you cannot question his attitude. Graham exudes positive energy, and he's not about to let a near-death experience change his outlook on life. "When you live through a 100 foot fall, you have to think the Good Lord wants you around for a reason. This is a chance to examine my life, to improve myself. It's really a positive."  [Read more here]

She began to learn about the subject after being visited by her angel in 1974. "I had this experience of a very bright light and a feeling of comfort. I come from a rational background and it was not an automatic acceptance that this is the thing that people call an angel. I discovered that an angel is an energy field - a creative energy field of experience. For everything that exists the angel is trying to help it grow. It is a creative mentor. It is a matter of tapping into it as an inner resource and have a conversation with somebody inside yourself rather than blustering your way through life. There are so many reports. Some people meet them in a near death experience. My husband had a car accident where his angel told him that nobody was going to get hurt."  [Read more here]

Psychologists at The University of Manchester are investigating the idea that out-of-body experiences, commonly thought of as paranormal phenomena, may in fact have their roots in how people perceive and experience their own bodies. Around 10% of the population have an out-of-body experience (OBE) at some time, typically involving a sensation of floating and seeing the physical body from the outside. It isn't uncommon for people to have more than one OBE, and they may also occur as part of the wider near-death experience some report experiencing in life-threatening circumstances. Despite the high incidence of OBEs however, there is still a great deal scientists don't know about the phenomenon.   [Read more here]

Welcome to the fourth dimension. And the fifth, and the sixth. A team of astrophysicists claims to have identified evidence that space is six-dimensional. Joseph Silk of the University of Oxford, England, and his co-workers say that these extra spatial dimensions can be inferred from the perplexing behaviour of dark matter. This mysterious stuff cannot be seen, but its presence in galaxies is betrayed by the gravitational tug that it exerts on visible stars. Silk and his colleagues looked at how dark matter behaves differently in small galaxies and large clusters of galaxies. In the smaller ones, dark matter seems to be attracted to itself quite strongly. But in the large galactic clusters, this doesn't seem to be the case. Strongly interacting dark matter should produce cores of dark material bigger than those that are actually there, as deduced from the way the cluster spins.  [Read more here]

Betty J. Eadie looks ahead to the long-awaited release of the film version of her best-selling book, Embraced By The Light. Her first steps have been to establish a production company, Embraced By The Light Productions, LLC, which she has licensed the rights to for the movie. When asked about taking "Embraced" to film, Betty said, "Certainly it is a whole new adventure for me. I look forward to all that I will learn through the experiences ahead. Making this movie will take tremendous effort and sacrifice. But I am excited and confident, knowing I do not have to do this alone. Given the importance of the film and its message, I have brought together a trusted team of individuals who are close to me and close to the heart of "Embraced". I remain prayerful and enthusiastic, knowing that many others have yet to join my circle who feel drawn to contribute their skills, resources and passion to the making of this singular film. God has always brought to "Embraced" the right people and opened the doors needed to keep his work moving forward in the perfect way."  [Read more here]

The BBC is attempting to demystify the taboo of death by broadcasting what it claims will be one of the most controversial programmes on UK TV with "How to Have a Good Death", which will follow the last days of a terminally ill patient. The 90-minute programme, presented by Esther Rantzen, will be screened in spring 2006 and will follow the life of a patient right up until the moment they die. The documentary, produced by Endemol, is being made to "give the public a new perspective on death". However, it is expected to draw complaints from people who believe that real-life programme-making has gone too far.   [Read more here]

Another train, full of people and at express speed, came up and dashed through smoke and flame into the tunnel itself. At this point the lady woke up. She later learnt that her nine-year-old daughter sleeping at a relative's house 60 miles away suffered a similar nightmare on the same night. She dreamt she saw her mother seated on one train and one of her mother's friends seated on another and that these trains, travelling at a great rate, collided and were smashed to smithereens. The Irish widow had planned an excursion by the Irish Mail to North Wales, and she would have been travelling with the woman her daughter saw in her dream. But she was so impressed with the coincidence of the nightmares that she decided to postpone the trip. Which was just as well. If she had journeyed as planned, she would have become involved in a horrible tragedy.   [Read more here]

As Bulkley reveals in a slender but powerful new book, "Dreaming Beyond Death," many people have extraordinary dreams in their final days and weeks. These dreams can help the dying grapple with their fears, find the larger meaning in their lives, even mend fences with relatives. Yet all too often, caregivers dismiss them as delusional or unworthy of attention. Not Bulkley, who often discussed dreams with patients at the Hospice of Marin in California. Her experiences were the inspiration for the book, which she coauthored with her son Kelly Bulkeley, a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. It is the first volume devoted to the (paradoxically) life-affirming power of pre-death dreams. And though the research is still preliminary, the authors inject level-headed analysis into an arena often dominated by seekers of the paranormal.  [Read more here]

When Eric, my partner, passed over in 2001, things changed. Before he passed over we were always pretty much telepathically connected. I knew from the minute I met him there was something really special about him. He died of stomach cancer, it started in his lungs and went down to his stomach and his bowel and just ravaged his whole body. It was horrific. But the minute he passed over, I felt a warm, loving feeling and I knew it was still him. I was sitting there looking at his body and he said to me in my head: "I'm OK and you're going to be OK too". The channelling took off from there. I had little awareness of this gift before he died.  [Read more here]

   Villager Becomes Victims' Rights Activist After Son's Tragic Death

Call it a mother's intuition, but Villager Phyllis Hotchkiss knew something was wrong. She had dozed off and dreamt that she and her youngest son, Brian, were on their favorite Disney ride, then he walked away with angels in long flowing dresses. "I woke up so fast, and it was like a bolt of lightning had gone through my body, and my stomach was sick. I knew something was wrong. I looked at the clock and it was 1 o'clock in the morning," she said, recalling the wee hours of June 25, 1989, when the family was living in Saugus, Mass. Brian had just turned 19 when he was found murdered near a junk yard in a neighboring town. The death certificate showed he died at 1 a.m... She thinks of her son daily. "He's always with me," she said. "I had a dream one time that Brian and I were in the kitchen. I was washing dishes and he was drying," she said, recalling that Brian asked her, 'Do you want to see where I am now?' "It was unbelievable. I was standing with Brian in this beautiful field of glowing flowers, and standing there feeling all of this peace and love," she said, adding that she was eager to see more. "Mom, you can't. It's not your time," she remembers Brian telling her.  [Read more here]

Dutch-born American artist and NDEr Peter Teekamp's story reads like pure fiction. His 35-year art collection and history points to the reincarnation of Paul Gauguin ... "It starts with a near-death drowning as an infant, follows with a lifetime of art, an abundance of strange coincidences and one very painful experience about thirty years ago. The result was a discovery of hidden faces I found in the artwork of the famous artist Paul Gauguin. Since I had also been hiding faces in my own art for years, I suppose you could say it was a 'trained eye' that made them easy to recognize. During my life I was told by different people, including psychics and clairvoyants, that I was Paul Gauguin and my roots were in France ... There were so many incidents that seemed to connect me to the controversial Gauguin ... In 2003, I stumbled into the most amazing coincident of all. I found and purchased a one-hundred and thirteen-year-old original Gauguin charcoal drawing. Since I was also finishing my manuscript about my connections with Gauguin and my discovery of his hidden faces, the situation sounded so unbelievable that authenticating the drawing became nearly impossible. I know in time, with the help of forensic science, the drawing's validity will be proven.  [