Why Are We Here? with Sandi Taranto
February 10, 2023
Why are we here? An experiencer of multiple childhood NDEs shares what she learned. DFW Friends of IANDS
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Why are we here? An experiencer of multiple childhood NDEs shares what she learned. DFW Friends of IANDS
In the mid-1700s Emanuel Swedenborg experienced a spiritual awakening. Over the next 30 years, he documented his experiences and what he learned from the angels who guided him. His descriptions of the afterlife closely aligns with the reports of near-death experiencers.
Founder and Group Leader of IANDS Santa Barbara in 2011, Barbara Bartolome has had two Near-Death Experiences (1958 & 1987) and she believes they opened her life up to many incredibly amazing and truly astounding connections with God/Creator/Supreme Being, all of which guided her, literally saved her life, and cleared the path for her to fulfill her life purpose.
Venus-Val Tower is a retired US ARMY solider, and was trained combat EMT, Laboratory Tech and Paralegal. After her discharge she worked as a national Lobbyist to advocate on post deployment illness of veterans in Washington D.C. Currently in training to work as a Death Doula. She is a widow of 30-year relationship. She enjoyed being a mother of five children and three grandchildren. It was after the passing of husband Ken she awaken to psychic events in her life. Recently she joined IANDS organization that has aided processing her experiences.
Coming Soon! RVSP for the live event and this video is included free. Daniel Endy will discuss our upcoming podcast ‘Explore The Extraordinary Podcast’
If death is an end, then I know for certain there is nothing final about it. My mission is to tell people not to be afraid of death so that you can fully live this life now. I beautifully present how my NDE, while a cadet at the USAFA (my memory coming back almost 20 years later), became a Spiritually Transformative Experience over many decades. This aligns with the 10 common NDE lessons from NDE’s that IANDS published in it’s 2020 Annual Report the first of which is “we do not die.”
Shared death experience, grief, and afterlife communication. Liz will be sharing these experiences, how they’ve affected her life, and the healing she’s gained from having them.
Louisa Peck’s NDE challenged her world-view – and her addiction-centered existence – to the core. Presented by the Dallas/Fort Worth IANDS Group.
This class is designed to move you FROM an intellectual and limited understanding about ‘The Great News’ TO a resolute internalized knowing. The difference between these has been described as like living in a house built on a granite foundation versus shifting sand. I’ll discuss common blocks that cause spiritual amnesia – since your Higher Self knows all this – and how you can deal with those. Each class can be taken individually.
Through multiple near-death experiences, Mas Sajady gained access to universal wisdom and unprecedented abilities to help others to transform their lives and reach their full human potential. Join Mas for this awe-inspiring event as he gives a raw and in-depth personal account of his three near-death experiences.
You are a timeless being of consciousness / energy / spirit who chose an earthly experience for specific reasons. How is that going for you so far? This series will teach you how to remember who you really are, fulfill your missions, and upgrade every aspect of your life. Are you ready to know and show ‘The Great News’?! Each class can be taken individually.
In his lecture, Dr. Beauregard will demonstrate that veridical perceptions and spiritual experiences, psi phenomena, and the enormous power of the mind to influence the brain/body is evidence that the materialist model of the world has run its course. He will also propose a postmaterialist paradigm that may lead us to the next great scientific revolution.
Three amazing IANDS community members will share their spiritual experiences with us!
Mike was in a terrible vehicle accident seven years ago, and it altered every aspect of his life. He experienced a unique NDE, one that few others ever had to endure. While he was still alive at the time of the collision, he felt he was reincarnated. Mike had a full walk-in experience, and his life is forever changed.
Elke witnessed her husband’s death while he experienced his near-death experience as well as his death. She’ll share stories of love and connection from her spiritual perspective and as a loved one on “this side of the veil.”
Child experiencers, especially those who had an experience between the ages of 0-5 and pre-birth memories, bring a wealth of knowledge about rare topics in NDE discussions and research. PMH Atwater is an expert on child experiencers and wants to share with you the most important things she learned from her research. Plus, you’ll be able to talk with her face-to-face to ask questions!
Beginning with the moment of his death, Madelyn Freeman experienced direct communion with her son and was given a brief but striking insight into the true nature of reality and the primacy of consciousness. She writes, “We are embedded in a flow of information that comes to us or through us, but does not necessarily depend on our own thinking.”
Brian Smith will share how he went from a fear of death (thanatophobia) to knowing that death is not the end, just a transition. This is an expanded speech Brian gave at the Helping Parents Heal conference, which received rave reviews and a request for him to speak again.
You’ve believed in pain’s realness more than your ability to overcome it. Realign your beliefs with truth and let go of the idea of pain once and for all.
It felt like my life had ended with that of my wife’s. But after her passing, she had sent me a message. Within it lay just enough reason to fight for new breath, enough motivation to discover where she was, and enough inspiration to create an entirely new life for myself as I traveled the world seeking answers, healing, meaning, purpose and a new understanding of what it meant to love. This is where my story begins.
I share with you my story of what it was like for me to die for nearly 24 hours, come back the next day and have 26 strokes. I will present eyewitness accounts, documents and social media post of the day of and after the event. I share my story to prove the strength of prayer, faith, perseverance, the strengths of the human body and most importantly the power of the highest that proves that death is not the end but a continuation of existence.
Several NDErs learned that we, as souls inside humans, share Source’s power of manifesting physical matter and reality because we are parts of Source. This webinar will teach you how and why you manifest the experiences you have and how to more consciously manifest something better for your human life.
In this powerful and experiential webinar, Mas Sajady will talk about his two near death experiences from a very different perspective- relating to Non-Duality, Divinity and Enlightenment.
Brett Cole’s life experience includes a parent who suffered profound mental illness. His caretaker’s life was defined in the occult, paranormal, and Judeo-Christian beliefs. His early life included a palm reader who was a grandmother figure to him. His experience as an emergency medical technician assisted him in experiencing the beauty, the sadness, and the finality of the process of death. Brett has experienced shared death experiences with loved ones, patients, and even his wife who passed away in 2021. Brett has experienced his own near-death experience due to major illness.
Humankind is currently facing massive changes and challenges, collectively and individually. The question “What Is Happening Now and Why” has numerous answers, and Psychic/Author Gary L. Wimmer will share his profound insights regarding that question. He will also discuss his 1977 NDE, psychic ability, this period of human evolution, and what we can do on a practical level to become and stay empowered.
Our very own Betty Guadagno has gone through an NDE Regression Therapy session with Adam Dince, hypnotherapist. It was an amazing experience that will leave you spellbound.
What NDEs and Related Experiences Reveal About the Relationship Between Mind and Brain: IANDS 2022 Spring Symposium Is the human mind a product of the
After giving a brief overview of her NDEs, Nanci focuses on the 10 most shocking things that happened during them. These are aspects of her afterlife and out-of-body experiences that are not typically found in other NDE accounts. They provide deep insights into what the afterlife is, as well as a path into reincarnation.
Shared Crossings are real. What can explain these shared death experiences and what do they tell us about what lies beyond? Can they reduce the sting of death or even prepare us for our own final moments? Can we have both a better life and a better death?
In reviewing his life, Mr. Thompson has discovered several paths that were set for him to follow in this life on earth before he came back in this reincarnation. He knows he did not have to follow the path because he is given choices. However, there are lessons to learn, and he trusts his guides who never tell him what to do. They are there to guide him and encourage him.
What do the recent Pentagon Report on UFOs and Near-Death Experiences have in common!?
During this New Year’s Day event, special keynote speaker & experiencer, Patrick Hogue, with moderator, Chuck Swedrock, discuss how 2022 is a game-changer as spiritual reality via NDEs and similar experiences become more prevalent as an established and accepted normal phenomenon!
Become a channel of Light. Give up yourself. Learn how. Share this Energetic Presence as we learn and practice. Decades of practice cut a deep channel. Don’t talk my word for it. Come find out for yourself. Bring your Light or find it with us.
Deepak Chopra called NDEr, Mellen-Thomas Benedict, “the encyclopedia of the afterlife.” Mellen was immediately healed from brain cancer after his NDE and tells of his visitations with the Light informing him of insights regarding Earth 2012-2060 (from this most popular IANDS Conference video).
Keith Thompson is an author, independent journalist, and explorer of “exceptional and supernormal mind-body capacities as potential indicators of the future evolution of human nature.” Thompson’s book, Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Ballantine Books, 1993) was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “Magnificent…no matter what your beliefs, the most fascinating book written on the subject,” and by Venture World as “probably the most profound book on the UFO controversy yet to appear.”
Andrea Courey tells of her life-changing NDE and its after-effects, including after-death communication, spontaneous mediumship, automatic writing and helping others through Sound Healing.
A swinging Saturday night celebrating together all of the wondrous love and light that we are. The lovely and talented Karen Michelle and Christina Tourin will channel beautiful harp music to start the evening. Then, The Mystic Chics will sing their light-filled songs for all to share in the healing messages from music.
The Course in Miracles conveys a profound message of love, healing, and inner peace through extending miracles, which is its central teaching. The curriculum promises that we all will remember and experience the pinnacle of the spiritual journey – perfect union with one another and with God in a holy relationship, abiding in an eternal Heaven of pure love and everlasting peace.
The miraculous may just be a natural part of our life… and spiritual gifts can be learned. It is possible to have heightened connection to the Divine within us without having “an NDE”. Come hear some of the amazing ways that you too can learn to find and trust that connection.
Nadine speaks of her second message from the light she received at age 15. She was sent to a future life to view how destructive global warming will become. This year she’s had the pleasure of communicating with the beautiful ethereal being that Mother Earth truly is. She’ll offer hope in how to change our path to heal Mother Earth, and therefore ourselves, and relay direct messages and premonitions from our eternal Mother. Nadine will also explain angelic teachings on how to manifest, about free will, how contracts work, and how nothing is set in stone.
Ken Leth had a profound NDE as a young child. He met relatives and a loving mother who took care of him on the other side and said her son was known on Earth as Jesus. Ken was also shown future events. Join us as Ken explains how children are cared for on the other side and much more about his experience and what it taught him.
Your loved ones on the other side want to help you heal from grief, regrets and depression. Be comforted by them and transform feelings of loss, sadness into peace. Join the workshop for an inspiring discussion, guided healing grief meditation and more.
Tony talks about his NDE/OBE and how it has led him to seek the truth about the nature of reality and our spirituality through an understanding of history, quantum physics, and science.
Karina says, “The focus of this talk is to share a testimony of a Divine encounter that changed my life from one second to the next!”
Have you ever wondered if…
There are people you are supposed to meet?
There is a soul mate or partner just for you?
You have a purpose or mission?
Things in your life are not a coincidence?
Someone is helping you?
You can sense them but not see them?
Your life was planned out before you got here?
Helpers exist or am I in this game of life all alone?
Do you have spiritual experiences, visions, and ecstasy? Or do you want to learn how to manifest them? Join Cathy Gabrielsen as she shares her story of near-death and how to expand your interior spiritual awareness and manifest your own spiritual experiences and spiritual ecstasy!
My Oh My, Multiple Minds? Which Mind am I? With every split-second decision we make there is an internal battle inside the mind that most aren’t aware of. True inner peace begins with the removal of this inherent internal conflict. Come find peace from within.
The Principles of Ascension – Awaken Your Higher Self and Shake Up Your Inner Core:
– Learn the Fundamentals of a Spiritual Awakening
– There are certain principles you’ll want to understand to ascend to your next level of consciousness.
You are invited to watch this recording of a panel reviewing the results of the private screening(s) of the new documentary film, LIVING WITH GHOSTS, a 7-time award winner. In addition, review this recording of the panel, consisting of the films’ writer / director / producer, Steve Berkley, and key film participants, licensed grief therapist, Graham Maxey, and IANDS President, Jan Holden, project organizer, discussing this key new grief therapy highlighted in the film, called IADC or Induced After-Death Communication.
Nadine made an offer to God at age 13, leading to angelic visitations, viewing past lives, and a shared NDE. At age 18 she snuck into heaven and was shown her first profound message from the Light, being 5 meanings of life, for the purpose of showing humanity how to love each other, and live together as one in world peace. She also speaks of her premonitions before her NDE at age 24, plus her enlightening experience there before choosing to return to help others.
Emmy Award-winning art director Diane Givens, inspired by the Seven Chakra Angels who brought her back to life describes her NDE. She returned with a purpose… to transform her life experience with the Seven Chakra Angels – archetypes reflecting our inner community of self-healing Energy Centers, or chakras – into self-coaching wellness tools for everyone to use anytime – the Energy Attunement Deck and Practice. Discover fresh perceptions, and find positive choices to navigate your life with Joy.
In this class we will cover, 1.) Energy, Frequency, and The Law of Vibration 2.) A Guide to Meditations for Manifestations. We will cover some of the most powerful aspects of Universal Law. Energy, Frequency, and Vibration. We will then discuss how to use the Law of Vibration through the power of Meditation, to create the rest of your life, your way, on your terms.
Bill is a pioneer in the field of After-Death Communication (ADC) experiences. He is considered to be the “father of ADC research” and has written and spoken on this subject for more than 25 years. Bill will help you learn about the 12 types of after-death communications.
Tibor’s life — both before and after his NDE — is instructive to all of us how a life can be transformed by putting the principle of Love into action. When the living force of the Light of Love works through one, the heavenly world of Love is mirrored here on Earth, fulfilling one’s destiny to help and serve others.
Presentation sponsored by Durham IANDS with Susan Amsden, Facilitator
Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn was a wife and mother of two young boys when she was struck by lightning in the parking lot of her Houston synagogue in 1988. Suddenly transported to a garden where she found herself engaged in a revelatory conversation with a spiritual being, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works were completely transformed.
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