My name is Chester, I'm from Houston, Texas. I had heart surgery (5 bypasses). For the operation they stopped my heart for 8 hour while they performed the surgery. I was hooked to a heart lung machine that kept my blood circulating and oxygen flowing. I can't tell you what happened during the operation, but I can vividly recall being in a completely different place and I was not alone. Everything around me was white, like the whiteness of milk. I felt soon good and relaxed as if I was supposed to be there, as if I belong there. Then, a woman slowly start to materialize in front of me. I did not know who she was but I felt comfortable, at ease, Love with her, in her presence. She spoke to me, not with words, I just knew what she was saying and asking me. She asked me where is various family members where, as if testing me to see if I knew. Remember everything around me was completely white, but I just knew in what direction everyone was and I pointed to each members. Some family members have long pass and some still here but I knew where everyone was. After what seemed like 5 or 10 minutes of with her, she began to slowly back away. As she moved backwards, she slowly started to vanish. "No, don't go. Please, don't go", I start saying to myself. I didn't want her to leave. I wanted to go with her. I felt sooo much at peace there, so good, no pain, no fear, no worries and a beautiful feeling I just can't explain in words. Then I started hearing familiar voice coming from behind me in this white void. It was my mother calling my name. Then I heard my brother-in-law, then a cousin. I turned towards the voices and began to follow them. My mother's voice got louder and louder as I got closer and closer to the source of her voice. Then like as if someone pushed me from behind, I opened my eyes. Pain,and more pain as soon as I opened my eyes. My arms where strapped down and a tube down my throat. Tubes coming out of my body everywhere, I was startled and felt trapped. I tried to move, I didn't know what was or had happened to me. The pain, so much pain. There was a nurse there softly telling me "your o.k. calm down, your o.k.". She said I just got out of surgery, she said my family is here. My mother, my brother-in-law, my cousin, they all have been in to see you and have been talking to you in the recovery room. As she, the nurse held my hand, I released her grip and with my finger I wrote "mom" in the palm of her hand. She said,"she's right outside the room, I'll get her". My mom came in an grabbed my hand and started stroking my head, saying "your o.k., you made it". I immediately released my mom's hand and wrote in her palm, "Pain". I never felt pain like this in my life, I never knew there was such a level of pain like I was feeling. My mom told the nurse and she came in with a dose of morphine. The morphine kicked in immediately and the nurse and my mom had to remind me that I just had heart bypass surgery. They had to cut me open and saw through my chest bone. My entire chest cavity had to be pried opened. Several days later, my doctor came in and explained everything they did to me during the surgery. The operation took 8 hours and had to perform 5 bypasses. They had to stop my heart for those 8 hours to perform the surgery. The heart lung machine helped to keep my blood circulating and oxygenated. That 8 hours only seemed to me about 10-15 minutes. So the question that I continuously ponder to myself is, was I alive or dead? Did something happen during the operation? I was in a different place "this white void" speaking without words to this woman whom I have never seen before. I still can feel that peace, Love, belonging and that indescribable Beautiful feel I had. I was conscious and aware and remember everything I seen in this white void during my 8 hour (heart stopped) operation. Can someone or anyone help me explain this. Is it an medical explanation or beyond.
I had recently retired in 2007 and opened a small craft business..it was winter and bitterly cold and I became sick and was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. My late husband was also in hospital so after seeing my doctor I stopped at the hospital and told him I was too sick and had to go home. When I arrived at my house I don't remember even sitting down..the next thing I knew was I felt like I was fighting my way through a tar pit trying to breathe and wake up. Immediately upon waking I felt like someone was going to die and then knew I had just died myself..while I was "away" I felt the most incredible joy,peace, love, happiness like nothing I had ever felt..I knew I wanted to stay where I was but was sent back..since the experience I am totally aware of what happens next, after this life, and am completely unafraid of physical death. Of course my family doesn't believe me and I have no idea why I was sent back..since then there have been several times that were life challenging. I recently took a terrible fall and crashed head first into steel racks breaking c6 and c7 in my neck and t1 and t2 in my back. The Dr's said I should have died or at the very least been paralyzed but after 2 months in a cervical collar I am back to normal..in my life I have had over 70 surgeries and procedures that required anesthesia. I am 74 years old and live alone and am limited in what physical things I can now do, I live alone take care of my house and myself..I try not to let myself become dependent. I have no idea why God keeps me alive but know there is a reason. I try to live my life as a blessing but have found that people who were my friends are no longer in my life and my own daughter no longer speaks to me..I have no idea why...my life has changed and so have I..it hasn't been easy but knowing what is waiting brings me a great deal of comfort. There is a lot of evil and meanness in this world that has no place in the next. What could be better than that?
On December 13 2018 I took 60 400mg Seroquel pills with a 1/5 of bourbon and once everything took hold, I walked into into a lake at a secluded location I had selected. That was my last was the last thing I remembered before my experience. What happened to my body after that I only know from second hand conversations. Here is a brief synapses of what happened to my body. Unbeknownst to me, there were some homeless people camping up the road from the spot I had chosen to commit suicide. They said they found it odd that someone was were i was so late at night and had walked down to the lake to investigate. When they arrived to where my vehicle was parked they noticed my headlights shining onto the water and seen my body floating face down in the water. They called 911. It took the ambulance roughly fifteen minutes to arrive while the people who pulled me out of the water did CPR. I had was not breathing and had no pulse when the medics arrived. I was revived sometime during the thirty minute trip to the hospital where I woke up three days later in the ICU.
Here is what I remember after walking in the water. I remember walking into the water and thinking how cold the water was. Then my mind went blank. The next thing I remember is my mind coming alive in this pure panic mode but not being able to move and then suffocating. I remember trying to grab my throat and inhale but I was completely paralyzed. I don't remember where I was at this point. Like I couldn't hear anything going on and I didn't feel cold. All I knew was panic, no air, not breathing, trying to thrash around not moving panic. Then this vibration started. It started like a buzz then grew into this vibration that seemed to be coming from me and around me at the same time. That seemed to go on for several minutes along with the panic and the struggle to try and breathe. Then in an instant I felt this I felt this warm sensation all over and this like relaxing or letting go sensation just felt like it was all over. .at this point everything is still black like I've got my eyes closed in a dark room. There is a faint buzzing sound like it's leftover from the vibration. Then the darkness starts to get lighter and lighter. And the lighter it gets, colors start to come into focus. It keeps getting lighter and more colors appear until , the best I can describe it is it's like being in a bubble the size of a football stadium and the bubble is made of a kaleidoscope that is pointed at a bright light source. It was very peaceful beautiful. I have no concept of time at this point so I can't tell you how long it lasted. Then everything just started to fade. No panic or anything really. I remember thinking to my self how beautiful it was. And that was it. The next thing I know and as best I can describe it is the sensation of having your skin ripped off but without the pain and this deafening loud ripping sound and feeling like my whole body is being pulled out of something. Then for just a brief moment I was aware of my surroundings. What I seen and felt is hard to put into words. I have to say it like this, the universe is a container for everything that is, was, or will ever be and everything in that container is information. I was were that information was stored. When I was pulled out I was being pulled backwards what seemed incredibly fast. I looked down and it was like and endless flat ocean of black that stretch stretched into infinity. The only reason I could have any orientation to any kind of horizon was for these massive tornado like columns of light that was coming from above me and touching the flat black ocean in sporadic points into infinity. I'll never forget the feeling I had for the rest of my life. It was the feeling of nowhere. I can only describe it as being across an entire universe away from anyone. Then it was all gone and it was like waking up from a dreamless sleep. I remember cracking open one eye and seeing hospital equipment the feeling tubes down my throat. It was like that for a few days. Just waking up here and there and feeling the tubes down my throat and being strapped down to the hospital bed so I didn't pull them out. I fully came to a few days after and made my way to recovery. Good did come from all that mess though. I quit drinking right then and there cold turkey and got psychological help and am healthy and happy now.
I died for 50 minutes near death. I’m Michael Garabedian and I didn’t mean to do this but it just happened I was upset I lost the 3 main people I could say I love you to and mean it.
I took for Percocet 30 mg and a handful of Xanax. Fell asleep on my back threw up and overdosed had multiple seizures. When I woke up in the hospital I asked where my dad was. I do not remember a thing but I believe I seen him. My honest opinion I don’t think heaven or hell is real it’s whatever we believe so if you believe you’re going to die and go to this “higher place” you will but me I always said I didn’t care when I died I wanted to be with those 3 people my dad grandpa and grandma in the house I grew up in. When I woke up I was talking like I was in 6/7th grade saying the Spanish teacher name I had at the time and I remembered my girlfriend because I also dated her in 6/7th grade. I think I don’t remember what happened because it already happened. Whatever wherever you want to be you will be.
I "awoke" to find myself in a curled position on my side in a greyish area with a light in the near distance. The feeling of pure LOVE and pure PEACE will stay with me for the rest of my life. I am no longer afraid to die but I am certainly living a lot better than I was before the NDE. I asked where my daughter was and was super concerned about her well being. A mans voice, I can only assume was God, told me that "everything will be okay". I went from concern, to ultimate peace instantly. I was at such a low point when this happened, that feeling what I felt helped me to turn my entire life around and to see things as they truly are; all connected. I finally had hope.
-Christina Erhardt
I was crossing the road in front of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (USA) and something other than me stopped my feet. Something other than me stopped my feet. At that moment a car sped by. If I had not been stopped I would be dead - because the REAL me - my consciousness - was in the middle of the road. Margaret Arnold
IANDS is providing a much needed service to the world community. It supports and provides educational and sharing opportunities for persons who have had their lives touched by Near-Death Experiences and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Many people have told me how their lives were changed in a positive direction by attending an IANDS meeting and finally meeting others who understood the reality of powerful spiritual experiences. IANDS provides a great public service.
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Great organization to learn about Near Death Experiences and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences. I like the multi faith perspective. Great to hear NDE and STE Experiences share their stories, as well as international researchers sharing their research and clinical experience. Annual conferences are great!
The IANDS is a unique and valuable source of knowledge about near death studies in the world. The information they provide, the events they organize are essential to anyone who's interested in the phenomena of NDEs. Their Journal of Near Death Studies is also the only peer-reviewed scholarly journal in this field. IANDS provides a precious support on the intellectual, psychological and spiritual levels to anyone who is interested in the topic of near death studies.
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IANDS is my essential and reliable source of information about the phenomenon of Near Death Experiences. NDE stories have become my main source of spiritual and personal evolution. The work this association does is simply amazing, fundamental, and of very high value. I can't imagine what a relief it might be for people who went through an NDE to be able to share their stories and feelings, in such a safe and supportive environment.
I have been to a few of the annual conferences that IANDS holds each year and have spoken with several of the experiencers that attend this informative and interesting event. Each and every one of them have had an extraordinary experience and it is fascinating to hear them all. It is apparent that this organization is providing a great service by putting this phenomenon front and center and providing research that validates their experiences. Although I have not had an NDE, I will continue to support this organization.
IANDS is so helpful when wanting to discuss spiritual experiences including after death communications. At IANDS I finally feel understood.
This organisation has filled me with hope and inspiration on an existential level.
Their serious studies probe the very meaning of life itself, with objectivity, experience, and without any dogma.
I had the pleasure of working as a volunteer for IANDS this fall and the people are fabulous! There was so much love and caring shared at this event that it was palpable! While sharing healing with some of the members and conference attendees, I met some of the most loving and engaging people. They all had special messages to share with me. I met one of the speakers and had the opportunity to chat with her and she was outstanding and very accessible and kind. All in all, my experience at the 2019 IANDS conference far exceeded any expectations!
I have been a member of IANDS for over 20 years, and it is a great organization! I believe in IANDS mission so much that I accepted a position on the Board of Directors this year. IANDS provides support to people who have had a Near-Death Experience (NDE) and/or other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STE). Also, it encourages research into these areas. I was personally helped by IANDS after my unexpected mystical experience. IANDS has also supported me in producing two videos, "Near-Death Experience, What Medical Professionals Need to Know" and "Understanding Veterans' NDEs". IANDS is a first-class non-profit that provides services to an often overlooked and misunderstood population.
The International Association of Near-Death Studies is a fabulous organization comprised of researchers, physicians, neuroscientists, educators, medical practitioners, the general public and people that have had a Near-Death Experience or a Spiritually Transformative Experience. There is a tremendous amount of support for anyone interested in the concept that we live eternally. The annual conferences are magnificent, filled with enlightening presentations, workshops, speakers, healers, and social events. Local state-wide chapters are dynamic, personalized, and supportive. A huge amount of resources and research is available for people who have had a near-death or spiritually transformative experience. IANDS is awesome!
This is the most significant and credible organization for publishing research, providing education and organizing support for individuals having these experiences and for those attracted to learning more about this subject matter. As it has been demonstrated that people hearing these experiences are significantly transformed in a manner like those having these experiences to become less fearful of death, more altruistically inclined and less dogmatically fixated on a belief system, it becomes a force for good in improving relationships for everyone so affected.
IANDS was instrumental in my coming to terms with my shared near-death experience. The knowledge, support and connections I made helped me make sense of the "new" world as I found it. I love IANDS.
IANDS is a highly valuable organization which has assembled the stories of so many NDEs and STEs (near-death experiences and spiritually transformative experiences) creating a community for experiencers and researchers alike.
IANDS is doing a fantastic job of sharing the NDE accounts that can change this world for the better. Now that social media is available, IANDS is sharing stories daily on facebook. These stories and the experiences they describe are amazing testimonies to life after death and another unseen world, so much greater and more powerful that our life here on Earth. This is an outstanding non-profit organization.
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This organization saved my life. I finally found a "home" with a group of people who understand me, sometimes better than I understand myself. Those of us who have gone to the Light and returned can be very confused when we come back and nobody believes us. IANDS believes us and supports us and helps us find each other.
“Death” is the *ONLY* certainty. How wonderful to read the hundreds of stories from people who tell us it’s a beautiful experience!
IANDS provides an essential community benefit by facilitating discussion of this incredible phenomenon nationally, internationally, and locally. Through its international presence, IANDS has become the number one authority and resource for information on the topics of NDEs and other spiritually transformative experiences. Through national and international conferences and information available on the website, IANDS helps to support experiences, authors, as well as the general public. Likewise, through it’s support of local Meetup groups, IANDS helps facilitate discussions which are both cathartic for experiencers but also serve to spread awareness to the public. I became a local organizer for IANDS in 2015 and have been happy to volunteer my time and energies to this wonderful organization. IANDS provides an outstanding service to our community members who frequently convey to me how much this organization has had a positive impact on their lives.
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After participating in several meetings I decided to join IANDS as a volunteer and was asked to head up the coordination of a local chapter. My experience with IANDS is that it is an overwhelmingly positive and fraternal organization with a core interest in the benefit of humanity at large. While the NDE is the focal point, what really comes through is the deeper profound meaning of these experiences and the messages of love and universality. I have witnessed the profound impacts that IANDS has on our community of members. And this extends far beyond the experiencers themselves. Many of our members have never had an NDE and yet have received tremendous healing and growth as a consequence of their participation in our community. IANDS has an open-minded and non-dogmatic approach that allows people to truly explore deep and personal meaning without having to subscribe to a particular paradigm or spiritual / religious tradition etc.
My daughter had a NDE in April 2017. IANDS has been a fantastic source for support, information, and referrals to other IANDS members who can give guidance. I can’t thank them enough!
IANDS has performed a great service to grieving parents like me by putting on high quality speaking and panel events locally with people who have experienced NDE's or STE's and scientists who study the phenomena. These events provide signifigant support at a time when most of one's community disappears.
The Journal of Near-Death Studies is a terrific resource that publishes the research on NDE's. To have encouragement for and access to peer-reviewed studies is invaluable. The website and the social media are also fantastic resources to spread that information and support.
All of this illustrates how much the programs presented and research published by IANDS benefits the experiencers, the bereaved and the general public.
Iands has provided an invaluable service for humanity over the years. They continue to offer educational outreach as well as nurture a forum and community where people can come together to witness and share their experience in a loving and supportive environment.
I have been visiting the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) website ever since they first began on the Internet. They provide the highest quality information available on everything concerning NDE-related topics. Along with an informative website, IANDS publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies - the only peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted solely to NDE studies - with articles that are very enlightening as well as informative. IANDS also publishes Vital Signs, a newsletter for members, and sponsors annual conferences and other NDE-related programs. I have a website devoted to NDEs as well (www.near-death.com) and I support IANDS' mission is to promote multi-disciplinary research of NDE and NDE-like experiences including their effects on the lives of those who have them. I especially like how IANDS promotes the exploration and implications of the NDE phenomenon as it relates to life, death and the possibility of life after death. This is much needed information for a world that seems too often to have lost touch with its spiritual nature. I especially enjoy IANDS online Index to the Periodical NDE Literature which is absolutely free with a Supporting or higher IANDS membership. This NDE Index is the world’s most powerful NDE search tool and must have for anyone interested in NDE research. I cannot recommend this research tool enough to people. This valuable tool provides bibliographical information on where to find almost every scholarly article concerning NDEs published in English between 1877 and 2011. Many of the articles are available for free or for purchase on the IANDS website. IANDS provides a much needed service to the world - valuable information concerning the most important topics in life - and most of it is free. Visiting the IANDS website, you can find answers to such questions as: Who are we as human beings? What does life, death, and life after death mean? Where do we go when we die? Why do so many scientists not accept the existence of an afterlife? How can I know whether or not NDEs are evidence of an afterlife? Where can I get help after having an NDE? Where can I get help after the death of a loved one? Where can I get more information about NDE?
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IANDS is the premier organization for near-death experience (NDE) research and studies with a membership program offering a multitude of valuable resources including their prestigious Journal of Near-Death Studies, their Vital Signs newsletter, and their Index to the NDE Literature through to 2011. They offer open access to freely download their editions of the Journal of the Near-Death Studies from 1981 to 2009. Membership offers many more outstanding resources. Their newly redesigned website provides free access to many scholarly articles and downloadable documents and links to many valuable resources. You will not find a more authorative and scholarly website on the subject of NDEs and related phenomena.
One of the best ways one can learn about life's purpose and value, is by having a near-death experience. Since the vast majority of us never gets to have such an experience first-hand, we can only rely on the accounts of those who did. IANDS, through its research and documentation, plays an important role here as a bridge between those with the experience and those without.
I love to read of Miracles, Healings, and Spiritual adventures in the next life.
IANDS does wonderful work in raising awareness of the afterlife, and helping those who are suffering from grief following the transition of a loved one.
The International Association for Near Death Studies is a non-profit with a world-wide divine purpose and that is to share the science, dynamics of and messages of NDEs across the globe. It has fostered a loving, supportive community of people who are helping to spread that message as well. The benefits for humanity are far reaching and immeasurable in terms of the peace and understanding they can receive about death and dying and mostly about living from the work IANDS and it's members are doing.
IANDS is my go-to source for my ongoing NDE studies. Their scholarly and thorough work is always easily accessible to the layman, which makes dissemination of information easy.
It's the perfect place for anyone who is looking to understand Near Death and out of body, after life experiences. So much knowledge, wisdom and talent.
Would highly recommend to anyone not just NDEs.
IANDS does a wonderful job in supporting those with near death or other spiritually transformational experiences. Local groups across the country provide support and an open minded community that is welcoming, kind, and inclusive.
I have been involved with IANDS since the mid-1980s when, as a doctoral student, I conducted my first research study on near-death experiences (NDEs). As the only organization dedicated to research on these phenomena and support of people who experience them, IANDS has remained one of my top-affiliated organizations all these years. The leadership has sought to meet the needs of a diverse membership, including NDErs themselves, people with related transpersonal experiences such as after-death communication and past-life memories, and researchers, educators, and healthcare providers of people with such experiences. From its rich website to its annual conference to its 50+ local support and interest groups around the US and across the world to its newsletter and its scholarly journal, this organization has something to offer to anyone with personal and/or professional interest in NDEs and related phenomena. As a professor of counseling who has focused my research on the implications of transpersonal experiences both for counseling and for humanity's understanding of consciousness, I've considered IANDS one of my primary professional homes.
I have been working with IANDS for many years and continue to support the organization. This is a non-profit that diligently strives to meet its primary mission of helping people who have had a Near Death (NDE) experience. With the exception of the few staff support in the office, all positions are voluntary.
IANDS is also about helping conduct NDE related research, most of which is used as feedback to help experiencer-members understand what happened to them and why they have become a different person.
Thanks, IANDS and please continue for another 40 years.
I want to continue to help you, help others.
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I have been working with IANDS for several years and continue to support and advocate the organization. This is a true non-profit that works to meet its primary mission of helping people who have had the NDE experience. They are not about "making money" for a few leaders at the top of the non-profit. With the exception of the few staff support in the office, all positions are voluntary.
IANDS is also about helping conduct NDE related research, most of which is used as feedback to help experiencer-members understand what happened to them and why they are now a different person.
Thanks, IANDS and please continue for another 40 years.
I want to continue to help you help others.
IANDS has helped me learn about near death experiences, when it typically is not a common conversational topic in our culture. Fact-based and grounded in research and actual cases, it's fascinating to learn about this from a scientific perspective as well as personally.
IANDS' annual conferences have been amazing and healing for me. To meet people who've had these happen, and hear them share their candid stories and what they learned from them. I've made many friends and had my life turned around with this knowledge and inspiration.
The mission they are doing to inform the Veterans Affairs and military about the many soldiers who are having near death experiences and have to keep them quiet for many reasons (like losing needed health care, or being put into a psychiatric ward) I feel is so important. They are one of the few organizations in the world talking about NDEs in a fact-based way and I fully support their mission to inform and spread the word to the public, and especially medical professionals.
IANDS is an excellent educational non-profit organization that offers resources for exploring the subject near death experience. They point to local community gatherings and offer national conferences. At this moment, the best way I can summarize the value of IANDS service is by providing the following quote. "Once you answer most of the questions you ever had about death, you'll have answered most of the questions you ever had about life".
I have worked as an near-death experience (NDE) researcher for 11 years and found that IANDS is the only source of reliable information about NDEs. IANDS is devoted to helping NDE experiencers (NDErs) and their families understand and adjust to this profound, life-changing event. IANDS helps to educate medical professionals and the general public about NDEs so that NDEs are not misdiagnosed and NDErs are not considered crazy. Finally, IANDS encourages NDErs to spread the message of their experience as a source of inspiration and transformation to everyone. I believe that NDEs will provide the key to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and the nature of reality and IANDS will be at the forefront of those discoveries.
I have worked with this non-profit since 1997. I attend their national conferences regularly, where I meet other people who have had a Near Death Experience, and also Scientists, Researchers and Medical Doctors, who are working in this burgeoning area of consciousness research. They also have local groups in many cities across the USA and internationally, which provide local speakers on these subjects as well. One of the most striking things about these people is their evident love for humanity. Many of them are nurses and medical professionals who have seen the Near-Death experience first hand and comprehend at a deep spiritual level what it really means. Dr. Alan Ross Hugenot
I have been involved with near-death experiences (NDEs) since 1975, and I have been a member of IANDS since it was formed in 1981. I have had the great pleasure of attending many conferences and meeting many people through IANDS.
Of the many organizations I have belonged to, IANDS members have the highest level of consciousness that I've encountered. I highly recommend IANDS to everyone who wants to grow spiritually, lose their fear of death, and gain a deeper understanding of life.
IANDS is an incredible organization dedicated to serving the public through the study of near-death experiences (NDEs). They are leaders in the field who continue to educate and inspire everyone they work with.
IANDS is providing an amazing service to the public. They document and research the extraordinary experiences that many people are having throughout the world so the facts can be shared. They provide annual conferences that people can attend from all over the world to learn and grow. It is well run and a deserving organization. They use their funds wisely and keep the public good in mind in all they do.
IANDS is was a life saver for me. Six years ago, when I came back from my nde, I was confused and extremely anxious about the changes I was going through. I needed help, but I didn't want to talk with a psychiatrist or a consular. I knew I needed to find someone that had had this same experience. I found IANDS on the internet, contacted them, and they put me in touch with a local IANDS group. Within ten minutes of talking with other experiencers, my anxiety was gone and I knew everything was going to be alright, no matter what other changes that I would experience. Without IANDS, I don't know who I would have contacted when I needed the support of other experiencers. For the last six years, IANDS has been a big part of my life. The most important thing that IANDS has given me, is a local community of support from other experiencers. Our monthly meetings give experiencers a safe place to be who they are, and be completely open about their experiences, with people that don't judge their nde or how its changed their lives. It's the only place I've found that people truly understand the experience.
The International Association for Near Death Studies website (www.IANDS.org) is the place to visit if you have had a Near Death Experience (NDE) or if you want reliable information about NDEs. IANDS is the oldest and largest organization devoted to the support of Near Death Experiencers and to research about NDEs. I came to IANDS because I had two near-death-like experiences and I wanted to understand what had happened to me. IANDS has introduced me to a group of people who support me and who have had experiences of their own. I now make videos about NDEs and other spiritual topics and have a website at www.NDEvideo.com.