10/31/2005

Dr.Greyson’s research

Filed under: — Dave @ 5:42 pm on
I haven’t blogged this before, but I have been volunteering to be questioned in a research project by Dr Bruce Greyson. He came to my Presentation at the IANDS VA Beach conference in September 2005. I do not know how this feels to other experiencers but these questionnaires in the research project brings up a lot more of my Near-death Experience.  Wow, it’s like tapping into the Light all over again. I am finding myself integrating more of my experiences just when I was thinking that I had explored all that there was to mine. It is like Doc has opened a window and asked me to look outside myself. I never thought to look in some of these directions before, so I didn’t know there was more to see and experience. It is like I had blinders on and now there off. So as you can see I have been very busy since I gave my presentation at the IANDS North American Conference

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YSU Friends of IANDS

Filed under: — Dave @ 5:40 pm on

Last week Oct. 24,2005 we, (Chuck Swedrock and I) went to Youngstown State University to give a presentation to the new Friends of IANDS at the university. YSU is the first campus to have a chapter of IANDS. I spoke about my Three Transformative Experiences starting with my Near-Death Experience. I was very happy to meet the co-founders of the Chapter, Kathy Barreca (KaBarreca@hotmail.com) and Michael Augustine (lazybear81@yahoo.com). Contact them if you are in the area and want to attend a meeting. I also had a brief moment with Prof. Christopher Bache who has spent the last twenty years researching consciousness and he uses Near-Death Experiencers in his research. A fascinating man I ordered his book (Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind) from Amazon. That was all on Monday, then we headed to Buffalo NY to help kick off their new Near-Death Experience Discussion/Interest Group meetingon tuesday night. We enjoyed some great discussions after both presentations and have made some new friends along the way.

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Time to catch up Sept - Oct

Filed under: — Dave @ 5:36 pm on

Wow, I can’t believe it is the end of October already. I have a lot of catching up to do so let’s get to it. On September 9th I gave my presentation of Three Transformational Experiences at the IANDS (International Association for Near Death Studies) North American Conference. What a great time we had. If you have never gone to one of these conferences I urge you to go. Two weeks before the conf. I P.M.H. Atwater and Iwas asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation of an award ceremony at the closing banquet. The award was the 2005 outstanding service award going to P.M.H. Atwater. (My hero by the way) I was so jazzed it gave me the opportunity to correspond with P.M.H. before the conference and to finally meet her. We got together with a bunch of old friends and we met a lot more. My talk went very well and was very well attended. Dr. Bruce Greyson came up to me before my talk and said "I read your experience and was very moved by it. Now here is a guy that has read thousands of Near-Death Experiences so I was blown away. Then he sat front and center, hanging on every word, it was a little intimidating as I stepped up to the mic. Just as I began to speak the recording and amplification equipment went dead. I was a little over charged at this conference you might say. It was a good thing my wife was video taping the talk so they could get the recording to sell as CDs. So if you want a copy of the talk go to www.iands.org and go to the 2005 conference page and the CDs will be available soon I am told. There were many late nights with so many like minded people to talk to. And the content of the conference was wonderful. And to have two other friends give there first presentations at IANDS was a treat as well. We gave each other moral support.

After the conference we spent a day at the A.R.E. Edgar Casey Foundation. We spent a little time at the beach as well (had to touch the ocean at least).

After we got home we had a childhood experiencer come up to our IANDS group here in upstate NY. Then in the beginning of October I had my Near-Death Experience Discussion/Interest Group meeting here in Syracuse.We had about fifteen folks sharing and discussing their experiences. I week after that, I went to Rochester to help Chuck and Sinead with there Discussion/Interest Group meeting. It is like this NDE stuff has taken on a life of its own.

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