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Event Topic: NDE

Military NDEr Recognizes Past Life and Now Stitches Peace into Life

After combat in Iraq, years of meditation practice, and a life-changing near-death experience following a broken neck, Nuestro Nanamoli began creating a massive tapestry as part of his healing journey. In this webinar, he shares his NDE, its far-reaching aftereffects, and the meaning behind the many amazing creations in his more than 11-by-22-foot tapestry — a work devoted to peace.

About the event

Nuestro Ñānamoli began his adult life in the military. After combat in Iraq, he went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley. But severe bouts of PTSD led him to seek deeper healing, and he soon found himself attending his first 10-day Vipassana meditation course.

That experience became a turning point. Nuestro went on to spend seven years living and volunteering at meditation centers and Buddhist monasteries, dedicating himself to meditation, spiritual practice, and the teachings of spiritual masters.

In 2020, his life took another unexpected turn when he broke his neck and had a near-death experience. It was a profound moment that changed everything.

As he recovered, the urge to begin sewing arose naturally and immediately. This new practice became a vital part of his physical and emotional healing. For the past four years, he has continued weaving threads into the same tapestry, repeating the mantra: “May this stitch bring peace to many people.”

In this webinar, Nuestro will share his near-death experience, the far-reaching aftereffects that followed, and the meaning behind many of the amazing creations in his more than 11-by-22-foot tapestry — a work of healing, devotion, and peace.

About Nuestro

Nuestro Ñānamoli is a veteran, meditation practitioner, intuitive guide, and textile artist whose life has been shaped by deep spiritual practice and healing. After serving in Iraq and later studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he spent seven years living and volunteering at meditation centers and Buddhist monasteries.

His work today brings together meditation, intuition, and devotional art. Through his large-scale tapestry and his intuitive guidance sessions, Nuestro seeks to offer peace, healing, and support to others on their own paths of discovery.

 

Nuestro’s Website:

https://www.nuestronanamoli.com/

Nuestro’s  Tapestry Print:

https://www.nuestronanamoli.com/full-tapestry-print

Nuestro’s Social Media:

https://www.instagram.com/nuestro_nanamoli

https://www.youtube.com/nuestro

Nuestro’s  Services:

https://www.nuestronanamoli.com/work-with-me

 

 

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

How Do We Love, Actually?

Ned Matinnia explores the most universal message of near-death experiences: Love. Drawing from his own journey from atheism to spiritual exploration, as well as themes and quotes from NDE accounts, Ned asks the deeper question: How do we actually live this Love in a complicated and often confusing world?

About the event

What’s it like to feel that life doesn’t matter?

As a young atheist, Ned endured a traumatic childhood that left him wondering what the point of it all was. Science and religion failed to give his scientific mind a satisfactory reason for being here.

Near-death experiences saved his life because they bridged and connected the dots between science and spirituality, based on real data and facts.

And what do they all say? That Love is the most important thing we do and share here on Earth.

Yet, for all the talk about the importance of Love, why is there still so much strife and suffering? The real question, and the crux of the matter, is how to actually carry out this Love. How do we make the most of our time here and honor the biggest lesson that virtually every experiencer comes back with?

Ned will share themes of Love across experiences and show examples, in myriad situations, of just what Love asks of us in each.

About Ned

Ned is a software engineer with a curious, scientific mind. After joining IANDS in 2012, he founded the first and largest online Near-Death Experiences group on Facebook in 2013, which now has almost 350,000 members.

He is a former IANDS board member and frequently helps with the annual conferences. Spiritual exploration, biking, writing, and traveling light him up.

He calls himself a cheerleader and amplifier for getting the truth out about these experiences to a world that is still largely asleep to them.

 

Ned’s NDE Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/returnfromdeath

Ned’s Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nader-matinnia-5183979/

https://www.facebook.com/farren.spade/

https://www.instagram.com/memorial2222/

 

 

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

Sunday PM Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Jeff Balfoort

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

 

Sunday AM Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Leena Zafary

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

Thursday Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Andrew Oxman

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

Sunday PM Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: TBD

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

 

Sunday AM Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Catherine Chapey

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

Thursday Sharing Group

Our sharing groups welcome everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They offer a safe space to openly discuss near-death experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, or simply engage in conversations on these topics (or simply enjoy listening). All are welcome!

Please join us for the next IANDS Sharing group!

Facilitator: Catherine Chapey

IANDS Sharing Groups are open to everyone, not just near-death experiencers. They provide a safe space to share spiritually transformative experiences and explore related topics. Of course, you’re always welcome to simply listen. All are welcome!

IANDS hosts these groups using the simple and user-friendly Zoom video conferencing program. To participate, you must create an account with IANDS Sharing Groups Online. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to join. Alternatively, you can return to the reservation page on the event date and click the “Join Event” button, which becomes active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Our sharing groups are free for everyone! IANDS relies on charitable contributions to support staffing and administration, and we sincerely appreciate your donations to help us continue providing a meaningful group experience.

Anyone with a genuine interest in near-death and related experiences is welcome. You’re invited to share, learn, or simply listen in one of our twelve monthly sharing groups. These are safe spaces where you can engage at your own comfort level. If you prefer, you may leave your camera off until you’re ready to turn it on, but we encourage you to enter your name in your video box, even if your camera remains off.

Each group is led by a trained facilitator who will review the IANDS Sharing Group guidelines. Facilitators ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share while maintaining a safe, neutral, and respectful space for all participants.

Please note that these groups are peer-to-peer sharing spaces and do not provide counseling. Sessions last approximately 90 minutes, and to preserve the group’s sense of safety, security, and privacy, access will close 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.

Love, Loss, and Life After the Near-Death Experience

After a catastrophic car accident claimed the lives of his wife and youngest son, Jeff Olsen had a profound near-death experience that changed his understanding of life, death, grief, and love. In this moving presentation, Jeff shares the lessons he brought back from the other side: that we are eternal beings having a human experience, that grief is love, that we are never alone, and that life itself is the miracle.

About the event

What can we learn from Jeff Olsen’s profound near-death experience, and the core truths he brought back from the other side?

In 1997, Jeff Olsen was in a catastrophic car accident that claimed the lives of his wife and youngest son, leaving him with severe, life-threatening injuries. Amid the intense physical trauma, hospital experience, and overwhelming grief that followed, Jeff had a profound spiritual journey that completely changed his understanding of life, death, love, and healing.

In this presentation, Jeff will share about his life before the NDE, the accident and near-death experience itself, his time in the hospital, and the long aftermath of physical and emotional recovery. He will also speak about the life lessons that emerged from his experience, including after-death communication, dreams and visions, and the beauty and miracle found in the everyday mundane.

At the heart of Jeff’s message are the truths he came to understand through his NDE: we are eternal beings having a human experience; grief is actually love; we are never alone; and life itself is the miracle. Heaven, he learned, is not only somewhere beyond this life — it is right here, available in our relationships, our struggles, our healing, and our willingness to see the sacred in ordinary moments.

Jeff’s story is one of devastating loss, profound spiritual awakening, and the courage to continue living with an open heart. His experience invites us to consider that death is not an end, love is never lost, and even in the midst of grief, we are held by something greater.

About jeff

Jeff Olsen is an international bestselling author who inspires audiences around the world with his extraordinary story of perseverance, inner strength, and spiritual insight. After a horrific automobile accident took the lives of his wife and youngest son and left him with multiple life-threatening injuries, Jeff found the courage to survive more than 18 surgeries and eventually heal both physically and emotionally.

At the time of his accident, Jeff had profound out-of-body and near-death experiences that brought him insights not commonly found in today’s world. He has since integrated these experiences into everyday practices, inspiring others to heal from the inside out and embrace the divine power that burns within them and all around them.

Jeff has appeared on FOX Nation, Gaia TV, Coast to Coast AM, iHeartRadio, and The Shift Network, among others. Professionally, he is a highly decorated Creative Director who leads teams in producing award-winning work. Jeff has a powerful connection to nature and loves being outdoors, connecting with the profound beauty and wisdom of Mother Earth and Father Sky.

Among his many accomplishments, Jeff is most fulfilled by simply being a father and trusted friend.

 

Jeff’s Website:

JefferycOlsen.com

https://illuminatepeace.org

Jeff’s Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/jefferycolsen/

Jeff’s Books:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jeffery-Olsen/author/B00CPTK01S?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

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

Spread Love Through Art

After being run over by a Mack truck in 2011, Davis Haines had a near-death experience that revealed the power of Love and transformed his understanding of Art as a sacred practice. In this talk, he explores how creativity can help us heal, face our fears, and participate more fully in the Great Creation — the ongoing work of shaping our lives with God.

About the event

We are all artists. As children, we created with reckless abandon. Only in adulthood do we enforce boundaries upon ourselves.

Art is prayer. Art is sacred. It is how we collaborate with the Great Creator, with the Great Artist. With God.

When Davis Haines was run over by a Mack truck in 2011, he was saved by a man named Art. Art literally saved his life. On the Other Side, Davis learned about Love. For the past 15 years, he has been working to combine those two ideas: to discover Art as an inherently spiritual practice, and a way for us to connect to the Light of Love in ourselves, in others, and in the world around us.

In this talk, Davis will share his near-death experience and explore how art is prayer, creativity is a spiritual practice, and art can help us — and others — heal. He will also speak about how facing our fears of death and vulnerability can liberate us to live more fully on Earth, and how God is always trying to help us create our greatest work of art: our lives.

Join Davis to discuss Art and Love, and how you, too, can participate in the Great Creation.

About Davis

Davis MacLeod Haines is a musician, actor, and artist whose life was forever changed in 2011 when he was run over by a truck and given just a 1% chance of survival. That brush with death didn’t just give him a second chance; it gave him a calling.

Emerging from the experience with a profound sense of purpose, Davis has devoted his life to spreading love through art, building a career that spans music, theatre, poetry, performance, voice work, and teaching. Now back in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, raising a family and pursuing certification as a Music Therapist, Davis brings a hard-won joy and intentionality to everything he creates.

His story is a testament to what becomes possible when we answer the call that only the edge of life can deliver.

 

Davis’s Website:

https://www.davishaines.com

 

Davis’s Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/davismacleod/

 

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