You are welcome to join us at any meeting!
Welcome! This group is intended to provide a safe, supportive and friendly environment for sharing and exploring near-death and similar experiences. We are open to the public.
Service Area
Dallas / Fort Worth Metro
Contact
Jan Holden: 972-315-0300
Or, use the contact form at the bottom of this page to contact this IANDS group.
Regular Meeting Times
*** FEBRUARY 11 - (In Person) David Maginley ***
What if an ordained minister, with no background or schooling in near-death experiences (NDEs), was delivering his weekly sermon one Sunday when he suddenly collapsed and died – and had a near-death experience? What then?
This is precisely what happened to David Maginley, who shared his story at an IANDS conference a few years ago. David later took a position as an interfaith chaplain in a cancer hospital in Canada, helping patients with facing their own mortality. He brings a unique perspective, as someone who has “experienced cancer from both sides of the bed”, as well as someone who has had an NDE. On Wednesday, February 11, at 7:00 pm Central Time, we will meet in person in Flower Mound to watch a recording of David’s inspirational IANDS talk, followed by what will surely be a lively discussion. Please join us.
*** MARCH 11 - (Via Zoom) Christine Judal ***
Christine Judal’s early experience attending the Southern Baptist Church didn’t prepare her for what would happen after her father died when she was 13 years old. During World War II, he had endured almost four years in a POW camp near Nagasaki, Japan, and personally witnessed the atomic destruction of that city; experiences which, after the war, led him to drink. Christine, the youngest of six children, experienced him more and more as an alcoholic and sometimes abusive father as she grew up, while she, herself, had become a resentful young teenager by the time he died. When she returned home after his funeral, she felt something pressing on her in the house, and she knew it was him, but did not want to engage. She tried to ignore what she sensed, but he persisted for weeks. Finally, she confronted him. “Tell me what you want,” she said, “and then you have to go away, and never come back.” What happened next changed her forever.
On Wednesday, March 11, at 7:00 pm Central Time, Christine will join us live via Zoom from her home in California, to share the remarkable story of her encounter with her father’s spirit, and it’s indelible, transformative impact on her life.
*** APRIL 8 - (In Person) To Be Announced ***
Meeting Location
Flower Mound Community Activity Center
1200 Gerault Road, Flower Mound, Texas 75028
Enter through the main door and turn left.
We will be in one of the meeting rooms.
*** We ask you to consider making a "Love Offering" (no more than $10) - requested but not expected; please, only what you can afford - to cover the cost of renting the room. ***
Other Information
The DFW Friends of IANDS exists for people who’ve had near-death and/or related experiences or who have personal or professional interest in such experiences. The purpose of the group is to provide these people with a forum in which to discuss such experiences and their meaning and integration into subsequent life. Discussion takes place in an atmosphere of openness and interest/support without judgment, proselytizing, or advice-giving.
Our meeting content varies from month to month. Sometimes we have a structured program, such as a speaker or watching a relevant video followed by discussion. Other times, we “circle up” and discuss our own NDEs and related experiences and their ongoing meaning in our lives.