We are pleased to announce that Robert Bare will be our speaker August 28th. Robert Bare MPA is the Vice President and Co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International. He has both a Bachelor’s and Masters degree in Public Administration as well as two teaching credentials.

His former employment includes retirement from 23 years in Law Enforcement. After retiring, he worked a variety of positions: an Adjunct Professor, a General Manager/City Administrator for three communities, the Executive Director of a Community Resource Center, the Tribal Administrator of a Native American Nation, and a Staff Executive/Consultant for an International Consulting Company. Additionally, he is still continuing his work career as a grant and technical writer.

Robert is an almost-textbook case of someone whose life and values were forever changed by his NDE. Robert’s near-death experiences shook him to his core. They occurred shortly after he boarded a plane in March 2009. He had a massive heart attack and was deceased for approximately 45 minutes. His second NDE was for approximately 10 minutes. His NDEs were profiled in the TV show, I Survived Beyond and Back, and he was a featured case study by author Debra Diamond in her book, “Life After Near Death”. Robert has also interviewed for an upcoming episode on William Shattner’s show “Unexplained” on the History Channel. Robert is a past Vice-President of IANDS and also a former IANDS Board member.

Close to 7 PM, August 28th on your computer or smart phone click on this blue link:

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We know you have plans for the 24th. This will top your day off….

Barbara Bartolome, leader of the Santa Barbara IANDS group, will be our speaker Friday, July 24, 2020.

At 31, Barbara went to the hospital for a myelogram, a diagnostic imaging procedure that involves injecting iodine dye into the base of a patient’s neck. The dye accidentally went into her brain and within moments, she was unconscious and flat-lining. “I literally went from inside my body, and when I shut my eyes… the next second I was up on the ceiling looking down at the entire room,” she recalled. What she then saw and heard will be the subject of the NDE she will be sharing with us on Friday. Her experience has been shared in an NDE documentary as well as on the Today Show, as it provides compelling evidence, that “We are not Human Beings having a Spiritual Experience. We are Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience.”

Barbara feels her Life Purpose involves telling her NDE story and helping people to understand what NDEs teach us all about death and consciousness… and about living our life, as well!  Barbara is retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was named an Unsung Heroine at UC Santa Barbara for her volunteer work, both on campus and in her community. Join us as Barbara relates some of her amazing life experiences and tells us how finally assimilating her NDE story into her life has altered it in beautiful and amazing ways!

Please join us this Friday, July 24 at 7 PM to hear the captivating story of surviving not one, but two near death experiences. We will meet via Zoom. Close to 7 PM on your computer or smart phone and click on the blue link below:

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We are pleased to announce that our speaker this Friday (via Zoom) will be LaVonne Wells Sandberg. LaVonne lost her infant daughter Kiva over two decades ago at Primary Children’s Hospital in March 2000. Five month old Kiva was taken off of life support and handed to her mother to wait for her daughter to draw her last breaths. LaVonne felt Kiva leave through the crown of her head after three very deliberate breaths. Immediately after she then felt a hand on her shoulder and knew that someone was standing beside her. LaVonne has always been spiritually sensitive, but that event opened up additional awareness for her. She now is a spiritual instructor. Like many spiritually gifted individuals, she has had an unusually challenging childhood with a sister who passed due to food insecurity. Her specialty is to help families who have lost children deal with grief and find peace and true connection. LaVonne’s web site is lavonnewells.com. LaVonne’s TED talk is can be found here.

.Early bird registration for the online IANDS conference is now open. Early bird registration for $99 is available through July 15 at https://virtualconference.iands.org/

Details for the zoom meeting are:

IANDSUtah@gmail.com is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: LaVonne Wells Sandberg
Time: Jun 26, 2020 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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We are very fortunate to have two time NDEr Rev. Peter Panagore to speak to us Friday.  From the words of former IANDS president, Janice Holden, “As a speaker, Peter Panagore is beyond gifted: He is inspired – by the Spirit with which he connected in his near-death experience decades ago and to which he remains connected to this day. His story is compelling not only in its details but also in its implications for every person and for humanity at large. Those who hear him speak are sure to feel touched and to come away with an abundance of food for thought and reflection.”

For more information see https://www.peterpanagore.com/

Please join the Zoom meeting at 7 pm Friday. The meeting will be only 40 minutes long, so don’t be late. Here are the details:

IANDSUtah@gmail.com is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Peter Panagore

Time: Apr 24, 2020 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Due to current guidelines curtailing public gatherings and to address any safety concerns you may have, the March 27, 2020 IANDS meeting has been cancelled.

We will resume our normal meeting schedule as soon as circumstances permit. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to any of us.

IANDS of Utah Board

We are pleased to announce that Claudia Watts Edge will be our speaker February 28^th. Claudia is a Utah native, an active local realtor and the author of award winning books. She spoke at our group last August, but a technical glitch eliminated the recording of her address. With the publication of her second book, we have an excuse to bring her back and hear more of her fascinating story, with a focus on her celebrated “THE 10 THINGS I LEARNED WHEN I DIED.”

Claudia had an unusually strong sustained contraction that crushed her uterus and imperiled her unborn daughter. At the hospital, after blood came gushing unexpectedly onto the floor, Claudia was rushed to a delivery room for a cesarean without anesthesia. The intense pain made her passing from this world a welcome blessing.

Follow her journey into enlightenment through the gifts she was given of empathic sensitivities, memories and dreams of Spirit School teachings, visions, and a unique ability to communicate with her Mother and Angel Sister on Other Side. Claudia has an absolutely unique story, and invites interaction during an extended question and answer period at the conclusion of the presentation.

Claudia is the author of two books titled with a play on her last name Gifts From the Edge, Stories of the Other Side, winner of the Body Mind Spirit Award and Gifts From the Edge, Lessons from the Other Side, available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.  Autographed books are available at the presentation for a reduced price of $10.00 cash preferred please, no tax.

The February 28^th IANDS meeting will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing room in the north building of the County Government Center located at 2001 South State, SLC.   We meet the fourth Friday of each month except December.  Bring a friend as meetings are free of charge.

To listen to recordings of past talks search the archives of our web site at http://IANDSUtah.org.

We are pleased to announce that Les Campbell will be our IANDS speaker for this coming Friday.

Les has been studying near-death experiences, from before Raymond Moody came up with that term. He has collected information on more than 500 related topics or features of NDE’s, produced more than 30 videos (20+ of which are on YouTube) and given more than 80 lectures on related topics.  In other words, Les is about as knowledgeable on NDEs as anyone in this planet. And on Friday he will share with us, his “Favorite but seldom shared Near-death insights”, from:  Insight into pre-mortal life, and a wombs eye view of entrance into mortality, to the nature of deity, a mother in heaven, a choir of planets, and much more.  And of course, as always there will be time allotted for you to pick his brain on questions you may have. If you’ve ever pondered a related topic but never found an answer, this would likely be a good presentation to attend.

The January 24^th IANDS meeting will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing room in the north building of the County Government Center located at 2001 South State, SLC.   We meet the fourth Friday of each month except December.  Bring a friend as meetings are free of charge.

To listen to recordings of past talks and to keep up on the latest news, visit our archives.

IANDS Utah would like to announce and welcome Brandon Sulser as our special guest speaker this upcoming Friday, November 22nd at 7pm at the Salt Lake County building on 2001 South State Street in Salt Lake.

Brandon has experienced not one, but four separate near-death experiences. Although Brandon is unable to recall many details from the time outside his body after four tragic accidents, he credits those brief miraculous moments for giving him the strength and courage to face and overcome a lifetime of pain, regret, heartache and hopelessness.

Through his strong faith and the support of loving friends and family, Brandon feels he is a better person now than he was before his accidents. His positive attitude and outlook have enabled him to become independent, earn a Masters Degree in social work at the University of Utah, become a successful and inspiring clinical social worker at Salt Lake’s Intermountain Medical Center, a powerful public speaker and recently a bestselling author of a new book, We Are All Paralyzed.

In this month of Thanksgiving and gratitude, we are so humbled and grateful to have Brandon as this month’s guest speaker, We’re anxious to hear him share his life and death experiences that will perhaps give us the strength and hope to face our own paralyzing struggles and remind us how much we all have to be thankful for.

Get to know Brandon and his story before Friday at these links.

https://www.brandonsulser.com/

https://www.brandonsulser.com/#Listen

https://www.brandonsulser.com/pre-order

https://www.facebook.com/brandon.sulser

Feel free to invite friends and family and please share the links. Come early to sign in and get your seats.

Postscript…

The international IANDS conference, which was held here in 1998, is coming back to Salt Lake City in 2020 on the Labor Day weekend, September 5-7. Details will soon appear on IANDS.ORG.

We are pleased to announce and welcome our speaker for Friday, October 25^th, Joe David Wren. Joe Wren, who has worked since 2000 with our local Fox 13 television station, is an award-winning journalist who has received the state broadcaster of the year honor three times.

In 2016 Joe suffered a massive heart attack commonly called the Widow Maker which has a mortality rate of 96 percent. For years prior to his massive heart attack, Joe had experienced repeated episodes of severe chest pain, which he either assumed was not significant or was told by doctors that everything was normal. When Joe had his heart attack in 2016, he had a 98 percent blockage requiring multiple by-passes. Joe was initially administered CPR by friends after going into cardiac arrest at a pickle ball court. His heart also stopped multiple times in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and after arrival Joe recalled hearing the doctors say, “he is not going to make it”.

Joe will be discussing what it was like for him to face death and to come face to face with the eternal question of what happens when we die. Joe’s presentation will cover his experience as well as taking questions surrounding his experience.

Joe is the author of the book “Heavenly Being”, available on Amazon.

The October 25^th IANDS meeting will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing room in the north building of the County Government Center located at 2001 South State, SLC.   We meet the fourth Friday of each month except December.  Bring a friend as meetings are free of charge.

To listen to recordings of past talks and to keep up on the latest news, visit our archives at http://IANDSUtah.org

Postscript…
The international IANDS conference, which was held here in 1998, is coming back to Salt Lake City in 2020. We understand that the date, which has not been determined, will be sometime after Labor Day.

Martin Tanner will be our speaker this Friday

It is always a treat when Martin Tanner presents some of his NDE research. Martin and others who have studied NDEs have noticed some points of controversy among experiencers and researchers. In order to reconcile these points of view, Martin Tanner and Dr. Melvin Morse are preparing an article for publication in the Journal of Near-death Studies regarding facets of NDEs that have caused these controversies. Below is a sampling of topics Martin researched where there is a lack of consensus among NDErs and researchers
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1.  Do NDE’s suggest there will be a resurrection, or is everyone reincarnated, or is there some other answer?
2.  Do NDE’s suggest God is pure light, a spirit, a person, or something else?
3.  Do NDE’s suggest that organized religion is good, bad or is there another answer?
4.  Do NDE’s suggest everything that happens is part of a perfect plan, or should we seek good and reject evil, or is there another answer?
5.  How do we reconcile other apparent contradictions in NDE’s?

Come prepared with your questions and opinions. Unlike most presentations, there will be short Q&A periods after each major topic during the presentation.

The September 27^th IANDS meeting will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing room in the north building of the County Government Center located at 2001 South State, SLC.   We meet the fourth Friday of each month except December.  Bring a friend as meetings are free of charge.

To listen to recordings of past talks and to keep up on the latest news, visit our web archives at http://IANDSUtah.org