There are at least three YouTube Channels that feature interviews with people who have had near-death experiences. National statistics say that millions of people have had these. Until recently, there was a stigma around them. People who had them and told were given medication, sent to a psychiatrist, ostracized. They were not believed. Now, we have reached "critical mass" on this experience and the experience of contact with aliens/non-human intelligence. Too many people cannot be denied. And both are being studied by researchers now, with funding. See Afterlife Experiences https://www.youtube.com/c/AfterlifeExperiences IANDSVideos https://www.youtube.com/c/IANDSvideos Thanatos TV EN https://www.youtube.com/c/ThanatosTVEN
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Here is LILY DALE, founded in 1879 as an adult spiritualist summer camp.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lily-dale-spiritualist-community Summer spiritualist camps were very popular at the end of the 19th century, because death was prominent (Civil War, WW I). Overwhelming grief in many families. This current, rural community in upstate New York has about 250 residents, of whom 36 are registered mediums. They offer daily and weekly services during the summer only. However, the registered mediums are able to give readings all over the world using Zoom. In my book, I tell you that John E. Fetzer’s first encounter (in early 1900s) with the paranormal was via spiritualism. His Christian mother “confessed” that she had “yielded to temptation” and gotten a reading, during which she “talked” to her deceased husband. Fetzer and his wife then visited Camp Chesterfield, a spiritualist summer community like Lily Dale, and they were hooked. Fetzer went on to create the John E. Fetzer Foundation/Institute to research the science of spirituality and to seek to reconcile science and religion. His biographer says: “Fetzer’s intellectual trajectory hit nearly every mark on the road to the New Age.” (The book is very cheap, supplemented by the Foundation. 2018) Spiritualists were ravingly popular in the late 19th Century, because a lot of people died--soldiers, children, regular folks--and mediums were able to allow the grieving to "talk" to their loved ones, one more time. Mediums and psychics are still facilitating this conversation. Very popular. For example, the Long Island Medium. Of course, this "conversation" suggests that the DEAD are NOT GONE. They have gone into spirit. (Or, another dimension...) We/our consciousness DOES NOT DIE. This belief has had a profound effect on zillions of people, of course. Because we have been raised, for the most part, to believe that "this life is it." The new literature talks about "heaven" as the AFTERLIFE. (And they will all tell you that there is no hell.) Recently, more books (this one: 2021) are emphasizing PROOF/EVIDENCE that WE DO NOT DIE. |
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