Ross Waddell and Dr. Marylene Kyriazis–co-founders of the Canadian Centre for Death Education–are organizing “An Evening of Stories About Things That Die” at Stanley Park on the evening of Monday, August 25. This first Death Picnic will run from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Bring a picnic and a blanket and a chair each, so you can eat and then hear all the stories.
Ross and I share the leadership of the Vancouver Chapter of IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies);
Wednesday, June 12, 7:15 p.m. at
Canadian Memorial United Church and Centre for Peace
1825 West 16th at Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Doors open 6:45 p.m. Books Sales | Signing
Limited Seating – Tickets $20 – See below
Come and Hear a Neurosurgeon’s Remarkable Story about Science, Spirituality, and Consciousness.
“Dr. Alexander’s near-death experience is the most astonishing I have heard in more than four decades of studying this phenomenon … one of the
Dr. Jeffrey Long is a radiation oncologist who began researching near-death experiences (NDEs) after he came across his first reference to the term in a medical journal in 1984. Being an enterprising and curious man, a scientific researcher by nature, he built a website – NDERF.org and developed an “NDE Questionnaire form” to solicit descriptions of NDEs directly
As always, I have umpteen books on the go. One I’ve just finished is Gary E. Schwartz’s The Afterlife Experiments.
Rather than requiring proof of the afterlife myself, I read this book so that I have a reference for solidly researched proof of the afterlife to offer to others. Since 1999, Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., has carried out numerous experiments between sitters and mediums in which the mediums never see and, for a period of time, do not hear the sitters’ voices, and still what
I recently read Howard Storm‘s My Descent Into Death: What Happens When We Die (© 2005 Howard Storm, published Doubleday March 2005), having read a brief synopsis of his story in Lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring and a longer synopsis in Roy Abraham Varghese’s
In this interview, Dr. Raymond Moody and his co-author Paul Perry discuss seven key elements of the “shared death experience,” which are very similar to those of the near-death experience. Moody and Perry’s recent book, Glimpses of Eternity describes some of these Shared Death Experiences.
Here’s a quote from Hay Fever, the Noël Coward play I’m currently in with United Players at Jericho Arts Centre:
Sandy: It seems too good to be true – sitting here and talking as though we were old friends.
Judith: We are old friends – we probably met in another life. Reincarnation, you know – fascinating!
Sandy: You do say ripping things.
Judith: Do I?
I’m interested in reading what other people think of reincarnation. The following group all believed in it, approaching