A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “PMH Atwater: The Forever Angels”:
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P. M. H. Atwater, one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies. She began her work in 1978 after experiencing three near-death experiences herself. She has written eighteen books on the subject.
“Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story” wraps up her early work with nearly 5,000 adult and child experiencers of near-death states, while further exploring her theory about transformations of consciousness.
Her book called “The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences,” was featured in an online version of Newsweek Magazine; and “The New Children and Near-States” along with “The Forever Angels: Near-Death Experiences in Childhood and Their Lifelong Impact,” which we will focus on today== offers a new perspective child experiencers.
PMH has received numerous awards and honors for her work. In 2010, she was awarded the Nancy E. Bush Award for Literary Excellence and the Lifetime Achievement and Special Services Award, both from the International Association For Near-Death Studies.
She became a researcher in the field of near-death studies after hearing a powerful voice urge her on during her third NDE. She has a monthly newsletter that you can sign up for free.
This is your comment, Cheryl, which I think is really important:
Trish,
I answered Darren’s comment first and then realized that I had too much to say on the subject for a post, which really should be short and pithy. Or not, I don’t know. I have never mastered posting.
When my astrologer friend, Katheryne, was going through her death process, I read several books by EJ Gold, who spent his life studying people at the exact moment of transition and going as far into it with them as he could. It was a devotional service that he offered – preparing people for death, letting them know what to expect, walking them through it. He wrote the American Book of the Dead, which is similar though not exactly the same as the Tibetan version. I was able to let Katheryne know that her time was near because there are landmarks on that particular journey, don’t know what else to call them – rumbling in the distance, for example, sounds similar to a car backfiring or a gunshot. He was very specific about what to expect and she was, indeed, having a number of those happenings.
I bring him up because he also had descriptions of the different kinds of light and there are more than dark light, white light, and raw light that Gold used to call the clear light, all of which depend on how much energy you have when you make the crossing. The clear light is the light that you are aiming for and if you are able to reach it you need to spend as much time there as possible. It purifies the energy of the individual persona and prepares the soul for the really difficult part of the journey, which strips the physical away from the spirit and forces the revelation that consciousness exists outside of time. You have to use your mind in order to move. You can’t use anything physical to manipulate your environment. The environment doesn’t exist, in fact. At that moment.
Beneath the clear light is the white light, beneath the white light is the blue. Beneath the blue are other darker lights and the children are correct when the say it is the light of the mother because those lights lead directly to other incarnations, other mothers. For an incarnation like this one, you don’t prepare. The light attracts the soul. The child goes directly from one incarnation into another. There hasn’t been a crossing over so, of course, no life review.
He doesn’t say much about this, but I’ve seen from my own work that almost no one is thrown directly into this experience. I know one person, exactly, that was ready for it. Most people are taken to a place to rest and recover from the previous existence. If they have died painfully from a wasting sort of disease like cancer, or in Katheryne’s case, Sjogren’s, they first go to a medical place or rest home where they heal and then to another place where they can build strength and prepare for the crossing. My mother didn’t make her crossing until June, possibly, and she had died early in the previous November. That’s when you get the life review, after the crossing. Immediately after, I should think. I was hyper aware of it while it was happening. All this stuff I thought I had resolved and moved on from was suddenly resurfacing. She went through a different life review for each child. It felt that way. There is no bond stronger than the one between mother and child. None.
I went looking for Katheryne after she had died and found a soul fragment floating in empty space. It was while I was returning it to her that I caught a glimpse of where she was. It was a tropical place, lots of sunlight. She was sitting on a bench with some other people, chatting. Slender trees, bamboo or eucalyptus maybe? The leaves were longer, a deep luxuriant green.
She has since crossed over and I feel her around me sometimes, very busy but taking a few seconds to check in. She was the first close friend I lost to death and my introduction to death work. Other mediums have described the afterlife as a beautiful place where everything is simply more vibrant and holds a kind of light in it, very beautiful. That may be true but I don’t know how long we are allowed to languish there. The nonphysical beings who are working as my guides or on my council have put in a lot of hard work caring for me, keeping me alive. It hasn’t been easy for them.
You don’t know what happens after you leave here until you get to whatever is afterlife for you. You don’t know how long you are allowed to stay inactive/not working. Especially you are not allowed to bring that knowledge with you when you come back. Not all of it, anyway. Most people with near death experiences know only a little about what we call belief system worlds. When you live on the other side, this world is the dream. Sometimes reality bleeds through.
Thank you, Trish. It’s still only a small part of what we need to know. We should be able to actively communicate with our dead and have full recollection of other lives. I don’t believe we can actualize or experience self realization without that continuity.
Interesting chat I thought, and as fate would have it your podcast hit my iPad the same time as a podcast episode featuring a guy from Florida who had a NDE after being put on a ventilator from contracting Covid, and I couldn’t help thinking how the two podcasts went together in some synchromystical way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=50&v=clUF_YLy9tI&feature=emb_title
The New Zealander (us Aussies call them Kiwis, as do they) host of that podcast has even had her own NDE, which is why she started the podcast.
Kirsty even interviewed Whitley Strieber about his book on the afterlife in March –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtIq8Zn2lMU&feature=emb_title
And with it being the anniversary of the Manson murders today (in Australia when I heard the podcasts) I thought I would write this post –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2021/08/lets-talk-ndes-and-earthly-life.html
Most of it will probably fly over your head like a mystical owl, but I’m sure you will see some connections in the post.
Maybe Kirsty or Randy would make good guests for your podcast?
Thanks for the links and suggestions, Daz. I’ll check them out. We’re booking for September now!
Especially the glamorously dressed mother in law sitting on a barstool watching her young son create havoc reminded me of some scenes from that movie, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. That film left me with a peculiar feeling of satisfaction that I find quite disturbing. It was atmospheric.
I thought there were similarities in those two podcasts but I do death work, myself, now and then so they both seemed familiar to me. The synchronicities were what I found so remarkable in Randy’s experience.