The San Diego chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) presents: The San Diego Screening of NDE Author Paul Perry’s new film Afterlife , May 7th, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, Harbor Room at the County Complex, 3851 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, Ca. 92110.
Perry is the co-author of four New York Times bestsellers about NDEs, including Evidence of the Afterlife (with Jeffrey Long, MD), Closer to the Light (with Melvin Morse, MD) Transformed by the Light (with Melvin Morse, MD) and Saved by the Light (with Dannion Brinkley), which was made into a popular movie by Fox-TV. Paul is a graduate of Arizona State University and a former fellow at the prestigious Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University in New York City.
He produced his documentary concurrently with the film Hereafter, starring Matt Damon as the reluctant NDEr medium. Afterlife was released this year, in time for a documentary film festival in Los Angeles. It received the praise Hereafter” rightly deserved, and was invited to film festivals in Monaco and Portugal. It is presently being screened at a Salvador Dali festival in France. Hopefully, it will gain enough backing to be nominated in the documentary category at the Golden Globes, Academy Awards and other presentations. The actual film is available on Amazon and at http://www.paulperryproductions.com/. This will be the first public screening of Afterlife in San Diego.
Drs. Raymond Moody and Jeffrey Long are interviewed at their homes and in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr Moody reveals some surprising new information about his personal “shared” or empathic death experience during his own mother’s passing. Jeffrey Long Is the author of the definitive Evidence of the Afterlife through his extensive online original research in many languages through his and his wife Jody’s website: the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (www.NDERF.org). I am certain you will enjoy watching Paul tell about his own brush with death, interviews with these two prominent researchers, and six NDE experiencers, including Gary Guthrie.
What does this video documentary teach us about dying? We can be conclude from experiences that:
1.) Many people are transformed following their NDE, determining afresh the meaning of life. Many go on to become of service to others. Most no longer fear death.
2.) Being out of the physical body, they perceive themselves as having a spiritual or light body.
3.) A sense of heightened awareness is present.
4.) A beautiful, loving light is encountered.
5.) Reports of seeing deceased family members are common.
6.) Encounters with a spiritual beings are often described.
7.) The most important thing that we must do is to learn to love.
Along with Dr. Long, Dr. Moody, the “Father of near-death experiences,” is prominently featured in this documentary. He first coined the term NDE in his 1976 book, Life After Life. His recent work involving Shared Death Experiences (discussed in Glimpses of Eternity) describes the reports of bystanders who experience some of the key elements of the NDE that are happening to their departing loved one. This demonstrates that elements described in the NDE, are not simply hallucinations induced in a dying brain, but actual events during the death or near-death process. As a result of many years of research, he has come to realize that what we learn from NDE reports is that there is a power, and that power is love. He believes that when proof of life after death is revealed, it will lead to a evolution of our way of thinking and living.
This documentary is a study about the great question, “What happens when we die?” Answers to this question are examined in a study of the near-death experience (NDE) and the inescapable conclusion is reached, that there is no need to fear death, because there is an afterlife!
Many thanks to our presenter, Gary Guthrie, who is featured in the film, together with other experiencers at the 2009 IANDS conference in San Diego. If you were there, or if you’ve been a member of this group for awhile, you might spot yourself or another familiar face. I also wish to thank Gary Grano, for serving as our equipment guru, and making this presentation possible.
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