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Event Topic: Continuation of Consciousness

Praeternatural Pandemic: An AI-assisted Qualitative Analysis of Covid-19-Occasioned Near-Death Experiences

What can COVID-19-related near-death experiences reveal about consciousness? Dr. Pascal Michael examines their recurring themes, circumstances, and aftereffects—and what they may teach us about the relationship between the brain and visionary experience.

About the event

Dallas Fort Worth Friends of IANDS presents this live webinar with researcher Dr. Pascal Michael, who has explored the relationship between near-death experiences and what causes them—not through a reductionist approach, but as an effort to better understand consciousness itself.

Among the research he will discuss is his examination of COVID-19-related NDEs, which may reveal distinctive relationships between altered neural functioning, life-threatening ICU contexts, medically induced coma, and visionary experience. Dr. Michael will share a thematic analysis of these accounts, identifying recurrent themes, exceptional content, circumstances, and aftereffects. He will also consider whether they echo the collective crisis of the pandemic, paralleling the messages and visions of other global threats sometimes reported during NDEs.

Joining us live from London, Dr. Michael will share what his latest research may contribute to consciousness science, neurophenomenology, and bereavement meaning-making.

About Pascal

Dr. Pascal Michael is a lecturer and researcher whose work explores near-death experiences and other exceptional human experiences through psychology, neuroscience, and psychedelic research. He received a BSc in Neuroscience and an MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences from University College London before completing his PhD in Psychology at the University of Greenwich in 2023. His doctoral research compared the neurophenomenology of psychedelic DMT and related experiences with near-death experiences and included the first field study using DMT.

Dr. Michael has taught at the University of Greenwich and led both the Entheogens module in the Alef Trust’s graduate program in Transpersonal Psychology and its certificate program in Psychedelics, Altered States, and Transpersonal Psychology. His broader research interests include mediumship, precognition, and alien-abduction experiences, informed by psychedelic research and the neurosciences.

He has published more than 20 journal articles and book chapters, including some of the most widely read articles in Frontiers in Psychology. He has presented several times at Breaking Convention and delivered invited talks and keynotes for organizations including the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy. He received the University of Greenwich’s Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award in 2020, was later nominated for its Inspiring Teaching Award, and has been named among the Top 25 Emerging Psychedelic Thinkers.

Pascal’s Website:

https://agapediem.substack.com

 

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Always Connected: How to Recognize and Trust After-Death Communication

Evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann will lead an illuminating and experiential presentation on how after-death communication occurs. Participants will learn why meaningful contact may be more natural than many people realize and how to become more receptive. Through a gentle guided practice, they will also have an opportunity to experience this process for themselves.

About the event

The death of the body does not end our relationships with those we love. Yet grief, doubt, expectations, and the busyness of the thinking mind can make the continuing connection difficult to recognize. In this illuminating and experiential presentation, evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann will offer a grounded understanding of how after-death communication occurs—and why meaningful contact across the veil may be far more natural and accessible than many people realize. Using a simple model of consciousness, she will explain why connection is possible and how relationships continue beyond physical death.

Drawing upon personal stories and compelling evidence from her work, Suzanne will explain the many ways our loved ones may make their presence known. These experiences do not always arrive as dramatic visions or clearly heard voices. They may come through dreams, signs, synchronicities, physical sensations, an unexpected memory, a sensed presence, spontaneous knowing, or mediumistic impressions. Understanding how communication is received can help us stop overlooking or dismissing the very experiences we have been hoping for.

Suzanne will also explore why trying too hard can interfere with connection and how becoming calm, coherent, and open makes subtle impressions easier to notice. She will share a practical process for setting a clear intention and grounded ways to discern what arises without blindly accepting every impression or immediately explaining it away. Participants will then be guided through a gentle practice designed to quiet the mind, open the heart, and become receptive to the continuing presence of a loved one.

Whether you are grieving someone you love, have experienced an after-death communication, are curious about mediumship, or simply want to better understand the nature of consciousness beyond the physical body, this presentation will offer reassurance, clarity, and practical tools you can use on your own. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of how communication across the veil may occur, more confidence in recognizing meaningful experiences, and the comforting awareness that love and connection continue. The presentation will include time for questions and answers.

About Suzanne

Suzanne Giesemann is a spiritual teacher, author, and medium recognized on the Watkins list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. A former Navy commander and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she has published 17 books and seven Hemi-Sync recordings, and her YouTube videos have reached more than 20 million viewers. She produces the Awakened Way app and hosts the Always Connected podcast.

Suzanne shares The Awakened Way™, a mindful approach to living with the awareness that we are not only human, but part of one interconnected web of higher consciousness. Her gift of multidimensional communication has been verified by noted afterlife researchers. Her messages bring not only hope but healing and love that go straight to the heart.

 

Suzanne’s Website:

https://www.SuzanneGiesemann.com

Suzanne’s Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.Facebook.com/SuzanneGiesemann

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Suzanne_Giesemann

 

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!