Life Before Birth

Amazing stories from people who recall an existence in another realm just prior to birth, and from people who have had startling communications with their unborn children.

Where were you - your soul, your spirit - before you were born? If the soul is immortal, did it have a "life" before your birth?

Much has been written, and many anecdotes recorded, of the near-death experience (NDE). People who have been declared dead and then revived sometimes report an experience of being on another plane of existence, often meeting deceased relatives and beings of light.

Rarer, but no less intriguing, are stories from people who recall an existence shortly before their births into this world - the pre-birth experience (PBE). These recollections differ from past-life recall in that past-life recall are memories of previous lives on earth as humans, sometimes recently and sometimes from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. The pre-birth experience seems to "remember" an existence in the same or similar plane of existence described by NDErs.

Those who say they have had this amazing experience recall being in a spirit world, are aware of life on earth, and can sometimes choose their next life or communicate with their future parents. Some people even get a glimpse or a sense of the pre-birth realm during an NDE.

"Our research indicates that there is a continuity of self, that the 'same you' progresses through each of the three life stages - life before life, earth life, and life after death," according to Royal Child - The Prebirth Experience. "In a typical pre-birth experience, a spirit not yet born into mortality crosses over from the pre-earth life or heavenly realm and appears to or communicates with someone on earth. The preborn soul often announces that he or she is ready to advance from the premortal existence by being born into earth life. After nearly 20 years of collecting and studying PBE accounts and comparing data with other researchers of spiritual phenomena, we have identified typical traits, characteristics, and types of PBEs; also when, to whom, and where they occur."

Of the people Prebirth.com has surveyed, 53% felt they remembered a time before conception, and 47% after conception, but before birth.

Pre-Birth Memories and Experiences

Most memories of a recent pre-birth existence come from children who reveal their recollections spontaneously and without prompting. One such case, from a woman identified only as Lisa P., is told in the book, Coming from the Light by Sarah Hinze:

I was putting three-year-old Johnny to bed when he asked for a bedtime story. For the past few weeks, I had been telling him of the adventures of his great-great-grandfather: a colonizer, a soldier, a community leader. As I started another story, Johnny stopped me and said, "No, tell me of Grandpa Robert." I was surprised. This was my grandpa. I had not told stories of him, and I could not imagine where he had heard his name. He had died before I had even married. "How do you know about Grandpa Robert?" I asked. "Well, Momma," he said with reverence, "he's the one who brought me to earth."

Some experiencers claim to have been given a preview of their coming lives, as in this story at Prebirth.com from Gen:

I remember someone talking to me, not with a voice, but more to my own mind, that it was not good for me to choose who was my parents, that it would not work out. And I was insistent on coming into my family, and it would not work out between my mother and father. I remember being shown various things and places that have happened in my life, even down to the house I live in now.

And here's an excerpt from Michael Maguire's experience at Thoughtful Living:

I can remember standing in a dark space, but unlike being in a darkened room, I could see everything around me and the blackness had dimension. There was another person standing to my right, and like me, he was waiting to be born into the physical world. There was an older person with us who could possibly be a guide, since he stayed with us until we left and answered my questions. In front of us and approximately 30 degrees below us, we could see the Earth with the facial images of two couples. I asked who those people were whose images appeared on the Earth and he replied that they were going to be our parents. The older man conveyed to us that it was time to go. The other person standing next to me walked forward and disappeared from my sight. I was told that it was my turn and I walked forward. Suddenly I found myself lying in a hospital nursery with other babies around me.
Communication from the Pre-Born
More common than actual pre-birth recollection is communication from the unborn or "preborn." And this communication can take several forms, according to Prebirth.com: very vivid dreams, lucid visions, auditory messages, telepathic communication and sensory experiences. Here are some examples.
Vivid dreams
In this case a parent has a dream about his or her unborn child. The dream is often unusually vivid and memorable. In her article, "The Mystery of Pre-Birth Communication," Elizabeth Hallett reports on one mother's dream:

My son was born five months ago and the first contact that I remember happened three years ago when my husband and I first met and fell in love. It was during our first month together that I entered into my journal a dream where I saw our son Austin playing with his dad. The dream was very vivid and the image of him as clear as a photograph. I wrote a physical description of him and knew what a beautifully special little soul he is. I fell so in love with this child that for two years all I could think about was getting pregnant and being able to hold him in my arms. After two years and finally a commitment to be married I became pregnant. Throughout my pregnancy I dreamed of him and he always looked the same. Same golden red hair and beautiful blue eyes. Now that he's here I get physical tangible evidence of what I felt about him all along.

And sometimes the child even conveys a message that can be of importance to the parent:

Don and Terri met a little later in life, but agreed that they didn't want to wait before having children. Terri became pregnant on their wedding night. An ultrasound taken several months later showed that without a doubt she was carrying twins. The pregnancy was making Terri very ill, and Don was worried about her health. He feared that she might lose the babies, but he was also more frightened that he might lose her as well. One night, he woke up and looked toward the bedroom door. A light was shining in the hall, but he remembered that he and Terri had shut everything off before coming to bed. The light grew in brilliance as it came down the hall, then turned into their bedroom. Within the light was a young man wearing a white robe. He came and hovered next to the bed and looked at Don. "Dad," he said. "My sister and I have talked it over, and decided that she will come first. It'll be better for Mom this way. I'll come in about two years." Don turned to wake up Terri, but when he turned back, the figure and the light were gone. The next day, Terri miscarried one of the babies she was carrying. The other twin suffered no trauma and was born at full term, healthy, red-haired - and a girl. Twenty-one months later, Terri gave birth to a boy with red hair exactly like his older sister's.

Visions
"The PBEr sees distinctly male or female form, various ages, variously attired, while awake," says Prebirth.com. "Sometimes form is accompanied by glow or light, sometimes not; sometimes appears and/or disappears suddenly." One such experience was related by Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss to Barbara Walters on the show "20/20":

The conversation went back to Dreyfuss' meteoric rise to stardom with such memorable films as The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jaws. History has proven that such rapid success is often difficult to handle. Dreyfuss was no exception. Now 50, he responded to Barbara's pointed questions with the hard-earned yet peaceful candor of one who has succumbed to addiction and overcome it. The interview revealed that Dreyfuss' first marriage had fallen casualty to his troubled years, as had some great film roles. Over 20 years of addiction recycling had come and gone. The turning point occurred miraculously in a dark hour. Dreyfuss was hospitalized in an effort to detox him yet again from the grasp of drugs and alcohol. Hours passed. As he sobered all alone in the hospital room, there entered a three-year-old girl in a pink dress and shiny black patent leather shoes. She told him, "Daddy, I can't come to you until you come to me. Please straighten out your life so I can come." And she was gone. But the pleading message of her haunting eyes was seared into Dreyfuss' memory, a constant inspiration to reorder his life so that his daughter might come. With this sacred incentive he maintained sobriety, remarried and prayed. Within three years a daughter was born to Dreyfuss and his wife - the same girl who had come to his hospital room.

Auditory Messages
In some cases the unborn may not be seen, but can be heard. Experiencers claim that what they hear is distinct and quite different from an inner thought. A woman named Shawna tells this story at Light Hearts:

My husband and I had always wanted five children. After we reached number five we began to use birth control. One night, after love, I lay in bed and had a wondrous experience. I heard a voice of little boy asking me if I would be his mother. I felt this was a soul reaching out to me. I said quietly, "I'd love to," and that's when my little boy Caden and I first met. He has been a blessing for the whole family, gentle and loving - even his birth was amazing. Thinking I might be in labor and not being able to sleep, I went downstairs and began to make a cake. All of a sudden I felt my body pushing. I made it just into the living room. Caden was born into his father's hands.

Telepathy
Some people attest to a kind of telepathic communication from the preborn. Joy relates these remarkable experiences at Light Heart:

I am a nurse-midwife. For about 10 years, occasionally an unborn baby of one of my patients "talks" to me telepathically. Most often this happens during labor to suggest some position change to make descent easier, or to tell me of a change in maternal blood pressure, maternal fever, etc. This information always proves true and often shortens labor. Occasionally the "talking" happens during prenatal office visits to tell me of something affecting the mother at home that I wouldn't know otherwise, such as drug abuse, domestic violence or extreme stress. I use the information to bring up the subject nonchalantly with the mother and we talk about options from there. These communications do not happen with every baby, seem to be for specific purposes and end abruptly with the delivery of the baby's head, almost as if it has passed through some veil and communication is not possible for me now.

Sensory Experiences
Sometimes the spirit of the preborn is an overwhelming sensory presence. Andi tells this story at Light Heart:

About four years ago, I and my boyfriend (now my husband) were in college. I had this feeling that I was pregnant, and looking back I can see I could feel the presence of a spirit before that. We went and got a test and we were devastated when we found out the test was positive. I did want a family, but not right then, and my boyfriend felt the same way. Although I wasn't ready, a huge part of me wanted to keep the baby and just struggle along, but another part knew that in reality I wasn't ready and neither was my boyfriend. We decided to abort, which went against everything I felt was right. I followed through with the procedure. I woke up crying, with a nice nurse telling me understanding words. Fast forward a year and a half... I was ready... I could feel a child standing by me. I knew it would happen soon. I was having dreams about the first child as a girl, and I lost her... then I would hear a cry and there on a pillow was a little baby boy. I picked him up and shielded him from the world. I knew this was going to be my baby. About two months after the first dream I became pregnant. I knew right away it was a boy. When I was 20 weeks pregnant my suspicions were confirmed.
Article Source: Paranormal.about.com

Back from the Dead?

Debunkers and pseudo-skeptics claim that the phenomenon known as the near-death experience (NDE) is nothing more than an hallucination or some misfiring of the brain caused by chemicals or a lack of oxygen. However, to those with an open mind, the NDE appears to be one type of out-of-body experience (OBE) — an experience that suggests we have a spirit body or etheric body in addition to our physical body. The case of “Pam Reynolds” is often cited as one of the best, but skeptics have attempted to pick holes in that case. Now, the “Sarah Gideon” case seems to plug those holes. In The Scalpel and The Soul, a new release, Dr. Allan J. Hamilton, a Tucson, Arizona brain surgeon, tells about the Gideon case.

But back briefly to the Pam Reynolds case. During August 1991, Reynolds was operated on for a giant basilar artery aneurysm. Her body temperature was lowered to 60 degrees, her brain waves flattened, her heart stopped, her breathing stopped and the blood drained from her. By medical standards, she was “dead.” And yet, she later recalled watching parts of the surgery from above. She recalled seeing a particular kind of surgical instrument and hearing a comment that certain vessels were too small to handle the flow of blood. She further remembered being met by some deceased relatives after going down a dark shaft. An uncle took her back through the tunnel as it was not yet her time to cross over.

The skeptics and debunkers argue that she must have been hallucinating before or after she was clinically “dead.” As for seeing the surgical instrument (she had surgical patches over her eyes) she may have noticed it before the procedure started or have seen a similar one on a television program involving a surgical procedure on the brain and that picture was buried in her subconscious. The comment about her blood vessels may have been overhead before she was clinically “dead.”

Like Reynolds, Gideon also underwent surgery at the Barrows Neurological Institute in Phoenix. According to Hamilton, Gideon was “as a corpse” for 17 minutes while a titanium aneurysm clip was positioned. Some trivial conversations took place during this 17-minute period, including one of the nurses announcing that she had just gotten engaged, mentioning her one-and-a-half carat square cut-yellow diamond ring that her boyfriend had purchased at Johnston Fellows. She also mentioned that the proposal came at Morton’s, a restaurant, and that when her boyfriend got down on his knees and proposed, one of the waiters tripped over him and fell on the wine case.

After Gideon awoke in the intensive care unit, the surgeon, Dr. Thomas Reed, stopped into visit her. Gideon told him that she remembered hearing something about a one-and-a-half carat yellow diamond from Johnston Fellows. She also remembered something about Morton’s restaurant and that someone fell into a wine case. Reed was shocked and called the case to the attention of others, including Hamilton.

Hamilton says there was no question that Gideon was brain dead at the time the conversation took place. “…we also had here unequivocal, scientific evidence that not only was her brain not working, it specifically demonstrated the absence of all cortical electrical activity when these conversations actually took place,” he writes, going on to say that ‘the notion that conscious awareness – something generated by and of each brain – could have a life (so to speak) independent from the brain itself is a baffling idea.”

When Sarah Gideon was later questioned about what she might have seen while she was hearing, she was able to describe the nurse who talked about her engagement, including the color of her eyes and her hair. Since the nurse had a surgical cap on, she was asked how she could know the color of her hair. She recalled a curl of blonde hair sticking out of the cap on her forehead. She also described other surgical personnel in the room.

Hamilton tells of a debate between Sir Newton Pitcairn, a British anesthesiologist and an authority in the field of the application of quantum physics to the science of consciousness, and a neurophysiologist from the University of Arizona. Sir Newton was certain that this was a case of the consciousness being separate and independent from the brain, while the neurosurgeon questioned whether Gideon’s brain had been totally asleep during the surgery. Hamilton then showed the EEG printouts to two colleagues who routinely read such printouts, not telling them whose printout it was, and both agreed that she was “brain dead” at the time the comments were made by the nurse.

Hamilton asks what those in the field of medicine are to make of such “unsettling disturbances” and then goes on to wonder: “Can we not, as doctors, allow ourselves to entertain the possibility that the supernatural, the divine, and the magical may all underlie our imaginations?”

Addendum (added March 28): After posting this entry several days ago, I attempted contact with Dr. Hamilton in hopes of obtaining more information on the “Sarah Gideon” case. I just heard from Dr. Hamilton and he explained that some of the stories in the book, including this one, are amalgams, or blended stories. I had suspected that the names were pseudonyms for privacy reasons and recalled Dr. Hamilton mentioning this in the Introduction. However, I had overlooked the fact that he also mentioned that some of the stories are amalgams. It appears that the “Pam Reynolds” case is part of the amalgam. I infer from Dr. Hamilton’s comments that there is a case or two that actually “plugs the holes” in the Pam Reynolds case, but for patient privacy reasons the name(s) cannot be given.

American Legend Johnny Cash's Own Near Death Experience

Those of you who have an ear for emotion in music would not be surprised to learn that American country singer Johnny Cash had several personal spiritual experiences.
* In 1944 when Johnny was 12 his brother Jack (aged 14) was seriously hurt and a week later died after a tragic accident. On his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of heaven and angels.
* Johnny wrote that he had seen his brother many times in his dreams, and that Jack always looked two years older than whatever age Cash himself was at that moment.
* In 1968 he had a spiritual experience in the Nickajack that caused him to stop his habit of drug abuse. He had entered the cave high on drugs and alcohol, with the intent of committing suicide.
* In 1988 when he had a heart by-pass, he reported he saw ‘heaven’ and was angry about having to come back- something he said that completely changed his life. After this Johnny became more spiritual and made more gospel albums. He died in 2003 at the age of 71 years and is buried in Tennessee.

R101: Remarkable Seance

The charred wreckage of the R 1 O 1, the dirigible developed by the British for passenger service, which crashed in early October 1930.

Eileen Garrett, medium at the extraordinary seance in which the spirit of the captain of the R 1 0 1 -which had crashed just two days before-broke into the sitting, and newstand poster advertising one newspaper’s account of the R1O1 seance. Because of the worldwide interest in the crash of the airship, the seance also attracted worldwide attention. A reporter present at the seance had put the news story out at once.

The Court of Inquiry, chaired by Sir John Simon, “to hold an investigation into the causes and circumstances of the accident which occurred on October 5th, 1930, near Beauvais in France, to the Airship R 1 0 1. “

If physical manifestations can be faked with reasonable ingenuity, what about the problem of mental mediumship? Are there gifted psychics who can communicate with the spirits of the dead not by simple rappings and bangings, but with evidential messages, full of facts which can be checked and verified? How are these mediums able to produce these detailed accounts, and what methods can the investigators use to make sure that more subtle deception is not taking place? Who are these strangely gifted individuals who seem capable of looking into the past and the future when caught up in a mysterious trance?

Two days after the huge British airship, the R 1 0 1, had crashed in flames on a hillside in Beauvais, France-killing 48 of its 54 passengers-the hesitant, anxious voice of a man claiming to be its captain spoke through the lips of a medium in London. In short disjointed sentences he deseribed the horrifying last moments before his incineration. His account of the crash included a wealth of technical information that was confirmed six months later by an official lnquiry. The disaster, which occurred on October 5, 1930, included two high ranking aviation officials among its victims. It shook the government”s confidence in diriglbles, and ended British efforts to develop the lighter-then air airaft for commercial use.

The seance in which the dramatic communication was received took place at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research set up four years earlier by Harry Price, a well-known psychic investigator. Price, his secretary, and journalist Ian D. Coster, had arranged a sitting with the talented young medium Eileen Garrett. The purpose was to attempt a spirit contact with the recently deceased writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the report of which was to be published in a magazine. Sir Arthur, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was also a Spiritualist.

Shortly after the sitters had gathered in the seance room, Elleen Garrett went into a trance. Instead of making contact with the novelist, however, the sitters heard a voice announcing himself as Flight Lieutenant H. Carmichael Irwin. In anguished tones, the voice sald: “I must do something about it … The whole bulk of the dirigible was entirely and absolutely too much for her engines’ capacity. Engines too heavy. It was this that made me on five occasions have to scuttle to safety. Useful lift too small. Gross lift computed badly inform control panel. And this idea of new elevators totally mad. Elevator jammed. Oil pipe plugged … Flying too low altitude and never could rise. Disposable lift could not be utilized. Load too great for long flight … Cruising speed bad and ship badly swinging. Severe tension on the fabric which is chafing … Engines wrong-too heavy-cannot rise. Never reached cruising altitude-same in trials. Too short trials. No one knew the ship properly. Weather bad for long flight. Fabric all waterlogged and ship’s nose is down. Impossible to rise. Cannot trim. Almost scraped the roofs of Achy. Kept to railway. At enquiry to be held later it will be found that the superstructure of the envelope contained no resilience and had far too much weight in envelope. The added middle section was entirely wrong … too heavy, too much overweighted for the capacity of engines . . . .”

The reporter who took this amazing communication in shorthand at first resented the intrusion of Irwin, captain of the R101, when he had expected the volce of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But he was soon to realize that he had unwittingly been part of a dramatic moment in psychic history. He published the story, and it was read by, among others, a Mr. Charlton, who had been involved in the R101’s construction. Charlton asked Harry Price for a copy of the seance report. After studying it he and his colleagues described it as “an astounding document,” containing more than 40 highly technical and confidential details of what occurred on the airship’s fatal flight. “It appeared very evident,” sald Charlton, “that for anyone present at the seance to have obtained information beforehand was grotesquely absurd.”

Charlton was so impressed by the evidence that he began his own psychic investigation, and ultimately became a Spiritualist. The only hypothesis that he could put forward to explain all the evidence was that “Irwin did actually communicate with those present at the seance, after his physieal death.”

Before the official enquiry into the crash, Major Oliver Villiers of the Ministry of Civil Aviation participated in a seance with Eileen Garrett. Through the medium he heard the testimony of others who had lost their lives in the disaster. Here is part of the verbatim account of the conversation during the seance between Villiers and crew member Scott, one of the victims:

“Villiers: What was the trouble? Irwin mentioned the nose.”

“Scott: Yes. Girder trouble and engine.”

“Villiers: I must get this right. Can you describe exactly where? We have the long struts numbered from A to G.”

“Scott: The top one is 0, and then A, B, C, and so on downward. Look at your drawing. It was the starboard of 5C. On our second flight after we had finished we found the girder had been strained, not cracked, and this caused trouble to the cover . . .”

Later Villiers asked Scott if the girder had broken and gone through the airship’s covering:

“Scott: No, not broke, but cracked badly and it split the outer cover . . . The bad rent in the cover on the starboard side of 5C brought about an unnatural pressure, forced us into our first dive. The second was even worse. The pressure on the gas bags was terrific, and the gusts of wind were tremendous. This externat pressure, coupled with the fact that the valve was weak, blew the valve right off, and at the same time the released gas was ignited by a backfire from the engine.”

The Court of Inquiry report showed that practically every one of these statements was correct; none were incorrect.

One important aspect of Elleen Garrett’s work is that she respected psychical investigators and actively encouraged their work. In fact, she founded the New York-based Parapsychology Foundation, which was financed by a wealthy woman politician, Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton of Ohio. On Elleen Garrett’s death in 1970 at the age of 77, Archie Jarman, a researcher and wrlter who had known her for nearly 40 years, paid tribute to her in the eolumns of Psychic News. He revealed that she had asked him to “dig into the famous RIOI airship case as deep as I could delve.” He agreed to do so and pledged he would take nelther fee nor expenses, so that ‘ whatever his investigation diselosed, it would be seen that he had worked “without fear or favor.” He continued:

“The completed saga, so often briefly mentioned, turned out to be a pretty massiva affair. It look nearly six months and finally filled 455 pages of typescrlpt and blueprints. It involved two trips to France, seeking the few remalning witnesses at Beauvais where the R101 crashed. There were conferences with aeronautieal experts, such as the designer of the R101’s heavy diesel engines (which were partly responsible for the fatal crash), and with the aging but active captain of the sister-ship, R100.

“Technical witnesses were interrogated; ordonance maps scrutinized; Eileen’s own aeronautical knowledge investigated (result, nil, she knew hardly enough to float a toy balloon). At close range I became familiar with meteorology, geodeties, with prewar political maneuvering and with certain conspiracy at a Ministry, with aerodynamics and with scandalous decisions which took nearly 50 brave men to their deaths.

“It was the technieal aspect of this case which makes it unique in psychic history-and I mean unique … My opinion is that greater credulity is demanded to believe that Elleen obtained her obscure and specialized data by mundane means than to accept that, in some paranormal manner, she had contact with the remembering psyche of the ‘dead’ Captaln Irwin to the moment of his incineration with his vast airship.”

No one materialized in Elleen Garrett’s presence. There were no physical manifestations such as raps or levitations, so beloved of early Spiritualists and psychical investigators. Why, then, is the R101 case so important to the Spiritualist case? The reason is that many of the scientists who risked ridicule by declaring their belief in materialized figures were equally adamant that these seance phantoms were not proof of an afterlife. They felt that mental mediumship might provide the proof.

Article Source: www.euro-tongil.org

A Strong Case for Reincarnation

With Reincarnation being a highly debated Subject, With the origin of a belief in Reincarnation stemming from Eastern Religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism we’ve heard of Stories before of Children and Adults remembering Past Lives and the Research carried out by Ian Stevenson who is no longer with us has also created some hot debates.

But the story of Jeffrey Keene remembering the Life of John B. Gordon is certainly one of the most interesting ones due to the stunning similarity in Facial Features and the Memories he has of the Life of John B. Gordon. Below there is some Information about his Story.

The Confederate General and Connecticut Yankee; A Past Life Revealed

The book “Someone Else’s Yesterday” is an amazing journey, an adventure through the eyes of two people, one a Georgian, the other a Connecticut Yankee. Similarities between the two go far beyond coincidence. They think alike, look alike and even share facial scars. Their lives are so intertwined that they appear to be one. Half of this equation, Jeffrey J. Keene, is a present day Assistant Fire Chief in affluent Westport CT. The other half, John B. Gordon, Confederate general, Army of Northern Virginia, died January 9 1904. Jeff had never given reincarnation much thought, nor had he ever seen a psychic, but both these elements came together one Halloween night. That one night was to change his outlook on life and his way of thinking forever. As the puzzle pieces came together the picture created reinforced a strong case for reincarnation.

Jeff shares his insights into the workings of reincarnation along with a personal encounter with the nightmare of September 11, 2001. Experience a city in mourning during the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center. Travel from a touching eulogy delivered by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at New York’s beautiful St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the smoldering ruins at Ground Zero. Share the struggles of the past and the hopes for tomorrow. The book weaves a tapestry of mystery and history, of love and the horrors of war. To the author the journey has been a wondrous one, sometimes funny but at other times sad and physically painful. Jeffrey Keene has no choice but to believe in reincarnation; he lived this remarkable story and every word is true.

“I regard Jeff Keene’s reincarnation case as having extreme significance for the field of parapsychology. The various features–waking adult memories, birthmarks correlating with old battle wounds, and soul-group connections–all suggest to me new possibilities for validating the reincarnation hypothesis and for conducting further research. This book is a milestone.” Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., host of “Thinking Allowed,” national public television series, President of Intuition Network, author of The PK Man

“Anyone who doubts life after death, or reincarnation, should read this book. I highly recommend it.” Uri Geller, world famous psychic, author of Life Signs, www.UriGeller.com

“Read Jeff Keene’s compelling reincarnation case history and learn how one of America’s greatest battlefield heroes, Confederate General John B. Gordon, has returned to life as a warrior for peace.” Walter Semkiw, M.D. M.P.H., author of Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited

“Never before have I run across such concrete evidence of reincarnation. Great book, the pictures are indeed haunting…the resemblance…very uncanny.” Laura M. Wandrie, New Age Journal

“Jeff Keene’s story is a must for buffs of the supernatural and Civil War historians alike.” William P. Gabbard, President of Hamilton Civil War Round Table, Hamilton, Ohio

“As someone who has had a great deal of experience in past lives, I recognized the truth when I saw it in this book.” Jenny Smedley, author of Ripples, www.jennysmedley.com

Article Source www.confederateyankee.net

Large New Research Study on NDE’s

Near-death experiences continue to take worldwide center stage as the discussion of mind-body issues heats up.

Major international media outlets have reported this past week on a large new research study on NDEs being spearheaded by Dr. Sam Parnia from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, who is currently a Fellow at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center. Time Magazine describes the study, called AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), in their current edition, which can be read at http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080919/hl_time/whathappenswhenwedie.

The AWARE study was formally announced at a UN symposium on September 11 titled “Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness.” The symposium featured several NDE research physicians involved with IANDS and was an especially exciting gathering of international leaders in the field of mind-body science. The day-long program included two keynote presentations and two panel discussions with leading voices from the fields of near-death, paranormal and spiritual experiences. Almost the entire symposium is available as a webcast at http://www.mindbodysymposium.com/ .

Of special interest are the four IANDS-related physicians: the morning keynote address with Sam Parnia (see above); the afternoon keynote address by Andrew Newburg, University of Pennsylvania, who describes the challenges of studying spiritual and religious experiences; Mario Beauregard, University of Montreal, a panelist in the morning session; and Bruce Greyson, University of Virginia, in the afternoon.

We highly recommend that readers listen to as much of this symposium as possible. The material is engrossing for anyone interested in the subject of NDEs and is well worth the time.

Article Source www.iands.org