IANDS of Utah is pleased to announce our November  speaker, Imelda Fowler. Imelda, originally from the Philippines, came to the US  in 1980, where she married her husband. They live in the greater Los Angeles,  California area. Imelda, just 97 lbs. holds several national and state Power  Lifting records.

In the summer of 2004, late one night, Imelda found  herself in intense pain. She went to the hospital where a late-night intern  misdiagnosed her burst appendix. It took 14 hours for an attending physician to  make a proper diagnosis. In the mean time, Imelda had been in excruciating pain.  She was rushed into surgery, during which, and several times thereafter, she  died and returned to “home” to a celestial realm of astonishing gardens full of  flowers with vibrant, vivid colors, some beyond any worldly colors. While in  this spirit world she met deceased family members. Imelda stood before the Grand  Council of Heaven and met Jesus. Imelda was able to see other realms in the  spirit world including a glimpse of Hell and those who go there. She learned  there is escape from that place. Imelda even had a brief, frightening encounter  with Satan.

Come hear Imelda’s amazingly rich NDE, 7:00 pm Friday,  November 22, 2013, at the Mayor-Council Auditorium, Salt Lake County Complex,  2001 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Parking is abundant at the rear  (east side) of the building.

Imelda’s NDE has been memorialized in a  book, Home and Back Again, which will be available in paper-back for $15 when she speaks.

We are pleased to  announce our speaker for our October 25th IANDS meeting will be JoAnna Oblander.  JoAnna is an author, family advocate, seasoned domestic engineer and business  owner. She has been happily married for 35 years to her best friend Greg. She is  the mother of six children, two of whom were adopted from Russia. Her near death  experience occurred in 2002 – at a time in her life when she was suffering from  24/7 migraine headaches, severe depression and she had decided  that she could no longer bear to be a  burden her husband and family and endure the circumstances of her life. The  night she prayerfully announced to God that she planned to join Him the next  day, an angel came and took her back to heaven to witness, once again, her  pre-life meeting with God.  Her  book, A Glimpse of Heaven (released in 2012), chronicles her near death story,  God’s bringing her two adopted children into their family, her 15 year  pilgrimage to healing and other spiritual experiences which have profoundly  affected her life.  As a result of  her near death experience, she has had a deep desire embedded within her heart  to help others know God, understand the profound importance of life and inspire  them to fulfill their personal missions.   “Jo”, as she is known to her friends and family, believes she has several  God-given missions:
·         Teaching the three core  components of true health and wellness
·         Inspiring God’s children  with the knowledge she received and truth she was taught in  heaven
·         Helping adoptive and  foster families and their children who are dealing with and suffering from  Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
·         Most importantly, loving  and adoring her husband, children and 13 grandchildren!

In addition to her  efforts to accomplish her life’s missions, she manages her husband’s  chiropractic offices and has recently completed designing a nutritional  weight-loss protocol for her husband’s patients.

The October 25th meeting  of IANDS will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing Room at  the County Government Center north building 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.

We are pleased to announce our speaker for our September 27th IANDS meeting will be Karen Baldwin.  Karen had a chemical accident in 1994, burning both her lungs which initially caused her death.  Leaving her with only 11% capacity in each lung after.  Karen’s story of where she went and who she talked to, has left many speechless.  Given a short time to live, she fought hard to stay alive.  Desperately trying to keep a promise to the “Guardian”, on the other side .  Other near-death experiences would happen over the next ten years caused by the many physical problems from the initial accident.  Her  courage and faith has helped her to survive twenty years now.  “Leaving her with many Spiritual Gifts” as she calls them.  She is in preparation of bring her books out  “An Awakening” and “Miracles Left and Right” as well as “An Angel Whispers” all due to come out by the first of the year or sooner.  Karen is a fascinating speaker and in the past has impressed her audience with personal insights into their lives.

The September 27th meeting of IANDS will begin at 7PM in the Salt Lake County Commission hearing Room at the County Government Center north building 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.

Our IANDS meeting of Friday 23 August will feature a panel of experiencers and researchers who will discuss with Martin Tanner as the moderator a report from University of Michigan School of Medicine which claims that experiments with rats have disproven the idea that near-death experiences are anything other than last experiences of a dying brain.  The panel will also discuss other controversial issues such as how to or can we reconcile conflicting ideas expressed by experiencers, etc.  Questions from the audience will be welcomed.

Please join us for this special evening with Martin and our panel. The August 23rd 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.

How does one apply a near death experience to every day life? What gifts are common when the veil has been pierced? And does one need a near death experience to embrace these enlightened ideals?

Join us this Friday, July 26, 2013 at 7 p.m. as Leslie Lysy shares her spiritual encounters as a child as well as her own near death experience as a teen and how it applies to simply being human in this third dimension.

As a special treat, also meet Gus, Leslie’s owl who, along with other birds of prey, came into her space naturally after her near death experience.

“As a young girl I found myself in conversations with Jesus on many, many occasions.  As time progressed it became a more natural occurrence.  A deep relationship developed over the years and as a result of those precious moments the desire surfaced within me to be with Him in His world.  As a teenager I thought of suicide but the responsibility of that action cringed my soul. At the age of 14 it was necessary for me to have a simple operation that would use general anesthetic.   I decided the upcoming operation would be the perfect way out.

I talked to Jesus about this and knew that He accepted my request to leave this life.  Leading up to the operation I enjoyed the last moments of what I knew would be my time on this earth. I left my room just the way I wanted it and a note to tell my family I loved them.  During the operation I did have a profound near death experience that continues to shape me into the person I am today.

Since that experience the veil has become thin for me at times in both the light and the dark realms. Over the past 22 years I have learned that its not so important what happens to you but who you BECOME in connection to your experiences.”

Please join us for this special evening with powerful answers to every day life and it’s challenges.

On Friday 28 June at IANDS we have the privilege of hearing from Angie Fenimore. Angie’s experience was different than most. In 1991 after years of struggling with anxiety and depression, Angie decided to take her own life in the hopes of finding peace. Her near-death experience was not a peaceful heavenly encounter, however, but a brush with a nightmare. Her vivid recollection of her hellish tour to you-know-where and back provides fascinating insight into some seldom seen aspects of life after death.

Angie now lives in Salt Lake City with three of her six children.  She has five grandchildren and is co-writing The Dandelion Principle – What Would Be Possible if One Daughter Chose Forgiveness, the riveting true story of the daughter of Utah’s notorious, ritualistic murderer – Dan Lafferty.

The June 28th 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.

We are pleased to announce our speaker for our May 24th IANDS  meeting will be Ned Dougherty.  In FAST LANE TO HEAVEN, published in March  2001, internationally acclaimed speaker and author Ned Dougherty foresaw the  spread of Middle East terrorism and war, the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York  and Washington, DC, global tidal waves, freakish weather patterns, an increase  in hurricanes and mega-storms, the coming global economic collapse, and  more.  Ned’s visions of the future  occurred during two near-death experiences in 1984!

Ned Dougherty will be speaking about his NDE where he learned  about God’s plan to save mankind from natural and geopolitical catastrophes and  return mankind to an era of peace; and in the power of prayer to heal the sick  and injured, and to stop disasters from happening. Come and experience the joy  of living without fear of the future in today’s troubled world. Ned will speak  for two hours including a Q & A session. 

Bonni J. Burrows will be joining us this Friday.   Bonni was born on a small, backwoods farm in the Eastern United States at the end of WWII. On the farm, she, her sisters and two older brothers grew up without indoor plumbing, electricity, or phone. Water was carried from a spring in a galvanized bucket and food was cooked on a wood stove, winter and summer. Her father plowed the fields with a mule or horse and her mother washed the family’s clothes on a washboard. The children had very little social interaction outside the family until they were six or seven years old and could go to school. Religious teachings were very fundamental.

In 1975, Bonni was a young mother, living on a small farm, expecting her third child. Complications six months into that pregnancy took her, first to the hospital and then, on the greatest journey of her life—a Love-permeated journey so incredible she would have chosen to abandon her beloved family to remain in that realm, her true home—Our True Home.

Bonni will tell you of consciously leaving the body and traveling to visit her young sons before exiting this world, entering the light and being met on the other side by family, loved ones and her guardian angels. There she met her stillborn sister for the first time, many unborn spirits and a very special soul-mate. This is a story of reunion, forgiveness, and love more powerful than anything known this side of the veil.

She will tell you about her life review, visiting other worlds, being taught things only dreamed about on Earth-plane and truths so complete and crystal clear that we don’t have words for them.

The April 26th meeting of IANDS will begin at 7PM Salt Lake County Commission hearing Room at the County Government Center, north building 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.

We are pleased to announce our speaker for our March 22nd IANDS meeting will be Kimberly Clark-Sharp.  Kimberly Clark Sharp, M.S.W., has earned the title of “Near-Death Comedienne” through her many presentations about near-death experiences. She is the founder and president of the Seattle International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), the oldest and one of the larger IANDS groups worldwide. A clinical social worker, Sharp has taught at the University of Washington School of Medicine and at Seattle University.  She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and daughter.

Her book, After the Light, is a near-death classic, educating thousands about the near-death experience with much humor and tact, delivering the serious message that we do not die in an irresistibly humorous package. It is difficult to put her book down once you begin to read.

“Death is nothing to fear – and life without fear can be lived to the fullest.”

This is Kimberly Clark Sharp’s message from her extraordinary experience during the time after her heart suddenly stopped beating and she lay on the sidewalk, not breathing, and without a pulse. Swept into a peaceful loving place of brilliant golden light and warm comfort, she saw, for the first time, the meaning of life – and death.

Thereafter, Kimberly, with hamster Toto at her side, left Kansas for Seattle – known as “the Emerald City” — to fulfill a destiny devoted to the service of others as foreseen at the end of her near-death experience. Guided by a new sensitivity to the presence of angels, demons and other invisibilities, Kimberly attained a Masters degree in Social Work at the University of Washington and began a career in medical social work that put her in direct contact with dying people – and people who almost died and came back.

It is the inspirational stories of these near-death experiences, as well as Kimberly’s own life challenges in love, family life and the diagnosis of breast cancer, that form the core of her surprisingly funny page-turner of a book.

The March 22nd meeting of IANDS will begin at 7PM Salt Lake County Commission hearing Room at the County Government Center, north building 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.

We are pleased to announce our speaker for our February 22nd IANDS meeting will be Victoria Mason Acree.  It was six weeks after the Shared Death Experience with the death of her 10 year-old daughter, Paris Pardue Acree, that Victoria Mason Acree found her ‘self’ looking at her own body lying in her bed from the other side of the bedroom. Traveling through the walls of her house, Victoria met with Paris and one other in the bedroom that Paris had died in six weeks previously. Together they traveled a short distance to another realm. Victoria was given a choice to return by Paris for two things to do. Victoria chose to return, but it took eleven years for Victoria to KNOW what the two things were.

Victoria is nearing completion of her manuscript for future publication of her experiences. The February 22nd meeting of IANDS will begin at 7PM Salt Lake County Commission hearing Room at the County Government Center, north building 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.