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Jeff Olsen spoke Friday, January 26, 2024
Jeff Olsen is a bestselling author and inspires audiences across the country with his intriguing personal story of perseverance and inner strength. In 1997, Jeff experienced a horrific automobile accident which inflicted multiple life-threatening injuries, including crushing both his legs. His left leg was amputated above the knee. The most devastating outcome of the accident was the loss of his wife and youngest son, both killed instantly. At that time, Jeff had a profound Near-Death Experience, which deepened his spirituality and gave him insights and gifts not common in today’s world. He found the courage to carry on, heal, care for his living son, and eventually thrive in his career and community contributions. Jeff has since remarried and adopted two more boys.
Understanding death, loss, and forgiveness after such a profound tragedy is a lifelong journey. Jeff’s latest book “Where Are You” is a collaborative father-son work telling his son’s experience of losing half his family. Jeff has also authored, “Knowing”, an extension and completion of “I Knew Their Hearts” and “Beyond Mile Marker 80”. Join us for deeper insights.
Travis Shreeve presented February 23, 2024
The Utah IANDS presenter on Friday, February 23, was Travis Shreeve. Travis believed there was little chance he would be exposed to COVID-19, so he hesitated to be vaccinated. As fate would have it, he contracted COVID-19, was hospitalized, and, at death’s door, had an NDE. Travis told us what he saw and experienced on the other side, and what he learned. It’s a message of love and the bonds of family.
Dr. Natalie Bonthius spoke March 22, 2024
Dr. Bonthius is an Emergency Medicine Physician in Southern California, with a notable background in neuroscience and near-death experience research. She is a former board member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Dr. Bonthius has worked with the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies and Stanford University to investigate consciousness, near-death experiences, and survival psychology. Dr. Bonthius is also the founder of Survival Med, a wilderness medical education company, where she merges her medical expertise with her passion for outdoor education.
She has first-hand heard and seen some extraordinary near-death and related experiences. You will enjoy her presentation of a few of the experiences she has witnessed!
David Bennett spoke Friday, April 26, 2024
David Bennett was once a brash young commercial diver and Chief Engineer of the Research Vessel Aloha. His harsh personal philosophy was, “You cut your swath through life to survive.” But one night, he was caught in a violent storm off the California coast, where he drowned. While technically “dead,” he met beings of light, relived his life, and peeked into his future, all resulting in a complete paradigm shift for him. Later in life, he discovered he had stage IV lung and bone cancer—so advanced that his spine collapsed. Miraculously, he survived once again. These brushes with death taught him even more about living, loving, and how to find purpose in his life.
David brings listeners to the heart of the near-death experience (NDE,) including his path-changing life review, being surrounded by love, the light, and meeting the Soul Family. He shows how to integrate the most traumatic of incidents into one’s spiritual path to live a more meaningful life.
David Bennett enjoys the retired life of a public speaker, author, white light energetic healer, and contemplative living podcaster. He’s had many appearances on radio and television, including on The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Doctor Oz, Angels Among Us, NBC National News, and PBS. You can find more on his website, DharmaTalks.com, and podcasts on his YouTube Channel @DavesDharmaTalk.
Kathy Loveless presented May 24, 2024
Born to atheist parents, Kathy believes she was born remembering the Other Side. Throughout her life, communications have came from the other side in a variety of ways… all of great help when needed. However, nothing prepared her for what she would learn upon getting Stage 4, non-smoker, terminal lung cancer; nor for her husband of 40 years, Scott Loveless’s getting colon cancer and dying. Since his death, he has come to nine people with powerful messages, including one that saved the life of his fishing buddy’s daughter.
Listen to the recording to hear some of the remarkable stories Kathy is just now starting to share with the public.
Kathy is an international speaker and author who has spoken in Europe, Africa, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand on a wide variety of business topics, such as leadership for executives, thrilling the customer, and thriving on change.
She started her career at age 22 at the headquarters of the largest dam builders in the country, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Two weeks later, she was appointed as the youngest and first woman editor of its national magazine, The Reclamation Era. She has worked in water and power resources ever since then. She created the Bureau’s first Public Involvement program for a 17-statewide operation in Denver. Later, she was appointed as the first women Regional Public Affairs Officer the 7-State Upper Colorado Region, headquartered in Salt Lake City.
She served as vice president for a New-York headquartered investment-banking firm and marketing director for a national independent energy corporation She has been executive producer of television and motion pictures about Glen Canyon Dan that won national and international awards.
As Founder and CEO of the professional speaking and consulting firm, Loveless Enterprises, Inc., she has worked throughout the world with such government clients as the CIA, U.S. Departments of Defense and Justice; and such businesses as AT&T, DuPont, and the 3M Corporation.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Utah, and was selected in 2020 as a Distinguished Alumni, along with such people as Russell M. Nelson, Stephen R. Covey and Neal A. Maxwell. Kathy holds a Masters of Science degree from American University in Washington, D.C., and completed all but the dissertation defense for a Ph. D. in quantitative data analysis at George Washington University.
As Miss Utah, her speaking skills won her a National Finalist Award at the Miss America Pageant and she achieved the rank of “Wizard” in the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
For 40 years, she was married to the late Scott W. Loveless, an attorney with Parr Brown Gee and Loveless. They have two daughters and 9 grandchildren. Just recently has she begun speaking on tonight’s topic, “A Voice from Heaven…and So Much More.”
See the light in others, Bridget Cook Burch, June 28
Bridget was adopted when she was six months old. She always felt unworthy and a little broken. Even growing up in an amazing home, that feeling of unworthiness made her overcompensate. She worked too many hours while attending college, and it began to wear on her body. Everything took an enormous toll. In her 20s, Bridget was rushed into emergency surgery and started on several intravenous antibiotics. While in the hospital, she had a near-death experience, in which Bridget was given instructions and spiritual knowledge about how to move forward with a changed life. The physical change was miraculous, but even more so, her mental and spiritual change. Bridget could see herself and everyone she came in contact with across the world from a place of love.
Trust your intuition and be protected, Stephanie Arnold by zoom July 26, 2024
When she was pregnant with her second child, Stephanie Arnold had a sudden and overwhelming premonition that she would die during the delivery. Though she tried to tell the medical team and her family what was going to happen, neither the doctors nor her loved ones gave her warnings credence. Finding no physical indications that anything was wrong, they attributed her foreboding to hormones and anxiety.
One member of the medical team did take her concerns seriously enough, and made the fateful decision to order extra units of blood “just in case.” Then, during the delivery, Stephanie suffered a rare Amniotic Fluid Embolism. She went into cardiac arrest and flat-lined for 37 seconds. She died. Using the supplementary blood, the medical team revived her, and she remained unconscious for more than six days.
After months of recovery, Stephanie began to remember details of her experience, details she knew because she had witnessed the entire dramatic event, including her death, from outside her body—beside other spirits that were with her. In this remarkable true story, Stephanie will share her NDE, and the spiritual insights she learned from it. We are not alone and have more loving help than we can imagine.
Her book, 37 Seconds, chronicles her story.
Instructed by Christ, Ralph Jensen NDE in person August 23, 2024
Posted on August 17, 2024 by IANDS Utah
Ralph Jensen passed beyond the veil after suffering a major heart attack. During his NDE he saw the life of Jesus.
Ralph learned how precious each of us are to Jesus and God. One miraculous aspect of Ralph’s experience is that the type of heart attack he had, is nearly always fatal.
Ralph wrote a book, Taught by Christ, about his NDE. Readers report it book has given new purpose to their lives, as well as greater personal self-worth and value. It has even stopped individuals from taking their own lives after making the effort to read it and understand their Savior and his healing power.
Searching for life’s inner meaning, Wendy Thorne, September 27, 2024
On February 7, 1994, Wendy Thorne was rushed into surgery with a fatal condition of peritonitis and had a profound near-death experience during her operation that totally changed her life. When she recovered, she began her brand-new path. She did not get to raise her children and instead she was taught by Native Americans. It was both her awakening and a very dark night of the soul, but very much a part of her spiritual progression so she could fulfill her divine destiny as was told to her on the “other side.” Wendy came back with the veil still partly opened and learned how to develop the gifts she had been given with the help of a “Spirit Caller” from the Native American Pueblo Tribe. When Wendy did get to see her children again, she was faced with the biggest challenge of her life. Wendy obtained a Doctorate Degree in Metaphysics and a degree in Parapsychology, because she wanted to know everything possible about the experience she had witnessed from the “other side.”
Wendy has worked in Hospice and as a Doula, helping many people cross over and has assisted families understand what actually takes place at the time of death. Wendy is currently the Coordinator for the State of Utah for Connecting Consciousness, a worldwide humanitarian organization.
Childhood wounds healed to help others.
Shawn had an extraordinarily near-death experience. He was an abused child who suffered from sleep apnea and prayed daily to leave this painful world. In his sleep one night he quit breathing and died. He was escorted through the streets of heaven and into a large building where he experienced a life review and met several biblical characters, including Moses, Abraham and Jesus – his advocate, as well as other divine beings, all of whom showed a genuine concern for his welfare. He was given the choice to stay in heaven or return. What he was shown of his future led him to risk everything to return. Shawn will share what keeps him here and what may help you through your troubled times as well.
Shawn has spoken to our group previously, but health issues have provided new journeys into the world beyond. You will learn more about what Jesus taught him regarding suicide, his reason for living and his motivation for his work today and more details of what awaits us.
More than 20 trips to the other side. Heather Vander Meyden November 2024
Heather’s life journey took a profound turn when she was hospitalized with complications from Severe Ulcerative Colitis, leading to a three-month stay in the ICU at the age of twenty and leaving her ravaged body weighing 79 pounds. Over three weeks, Heather experienced dozens of near-death experiences. After leaving her body, she watched her nurses resuscitate her when she became septic and developed ARDS following a third major emergency abdominal surgery. She spent time with deceased relatives on the Other Side and met her unborn children and God. She visited what she calls the healing waters and the building of knowledge and traveled through the dark tunnel with a guide. At the entrance of heaven, Heather was told it was not her time yet, and she had to go back. Heather returned to her body and began the remarkable journey of healing and resilience that included learning to walk and talk again. Her experience reshaped her perspective on life and erased her fear of death.
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