NDEs as Reflections of Ancient Wisdom Traditions

In this presentation, Christine Clawley will share further knowledge and information including,

• Historical Perspectives on Time
o The Indigenous relationship to time and nature
o Technology’s impact on our relationship to time

• Spiritual, Religious, and Philosophical Traditions that Value NDEs, Timelessness, and Altered States
o Western spiritual traditions
o Eastern spiritual and religious traditions
o Modern NDEs and STEs as a way to acknowledge, accept, and value timelessness and altered states of consciousness.
o Meditations/exercises to facilitate the experience of oneness and timelessness

• The Shadow Side of the Mystical Experience
o Ego inflation & Messiah Complex
o Cults, Power Dynamics, & BITE Model
o Integration of STEs and NDEs

BIO: Christine Clawley, MA, LPC-S, a coma survivor and near-death experiencer, is passionate about destigmatizing and legitimizing the experiences of non-ordinary or other realities that many trauma survivors report. Lucid dreams, precognitive dreams, intuition and inner knowing, déjà vu, past lives, other lives, or future lives, synchronicities, spiritually transformative experiences, near-death experiences, end-of-life experiences, and shared death experiences are only some of the phenomena commonly experienced by trauma and coma survivors. For thousands of years, many cultures embraced shamanic principles and understood that physical or emotional hardships, challenging ceremonies, or rites of passage allowed access to the sacred, life-saving information, or other realms. As modern medicine allows more people to survive life-threatening events, as well as comas and near-death experiences, we have found ourselves entering into a renaissance of inner exploration of the mystery of consciousness.