IANDS: Afterlife Revealed

In this episode Dani Foffa talks with near-death experiencer Kimberly Clark Sharp. Kim is the author of After the Light: The Spiritual Path to Purpose and a medical social worker who has been involved in the field of near-death studies for more than four decades. She is the founder and president of Seattle IANDS, which began in 1982 and is the world’s oldest support group for near-death experiencers. She was also named one of the forty most influential people under 40 in the Pacific Northwest in 1987 and was the one who coined the term “woo-woo” after her own NDE in 1970 when her heart stopped. In this episode she shares the origin of the term “woo-woo”, her profound near-death experience, the amazing story of Maria and the tennis shoe, her integration process and much of the wisdom she has gained along the way, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Seattle IANDS’s website - www.seattleiands.org

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In this episode Dani Foffa talks with Dr. Scarlett Heinbuch and her husband David Schwartz about how she first met David not in the physical world but during a shared near-death experience (SNDE) in 2005 while David was in a coma for almost four weeks. Scarlett holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and a master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from VCU’s School of Medicine. She is certified in two forms of Reiki (Usui and Holy Fire), Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Her career spans more than 25 years in financial services and she retired from the Federal Reserve Bank as an expert in the US payments system. Today she is an internationally known speaker in the areas of near-death experiences (having had one herself at the age of 4), consciousness, spiritual awareness and energy healing, and her story was featured on the History Channel’s The UnXplained, hosted by William Shatner. In this episode Scarlett and David share their remarkable story of how they met, she talks about her own NDE and the unexpected encounter with the tall blue men, They offer advice on what someone can do to meet their soulmate and plenty more, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Scarlett’s website - www.scarlettheinbuch.com

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks with near-death experiencer Nicole Kerr, an award-winning health and wellness expert who, at 19 years old while attending the U.S. Air Force Academy, was involved in a car accident that led to a profound near-death experience which eventually inspired her book You Are Deathless: A Near-Death Experience Taught Me How to Fully Live and Not Fear Death. In this episode, she shares her remarkable NDE, her encounters with angels and what she learned about death, God and the meaning of life. She also discusses her long process of integration, how the experience transformed her relationship with her parents and offers advice for other NDErs struggling to integrate their experiences, and plenty more, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Nicole’s website - www.nicolekerr.com

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In this episode, Jan Holden, former IANDS president, shares the biggest lesson she learned from her NDE-like experience.

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In this episode Dani Foffa talks to evidential medium and VerySoul.com founder Sally Hawk about what brought her from the corporate world to building a global platform that is already servicing and vetting 3,500 mediums across 55 countries (while VerySoul charges mediums no commission!). She also has some words of comfort for those who may have lost a loved one. talks about the biggest misconceptions people have about mediumship, things like the most profound reading she came across & what her experiences have taught her about consciousness, death and other wisdom gained along the way, so be sure to watch until the end & take advantage of the FREE readings some of their mediums offer!  ( — IANDS has no financial or organizational affiliation with VerySoul — ) 

✨VerySoul’s website - VerySoul.com

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to near-death experiencer Dr. Ingrid Honkala. Ingrid is a marine biologist, oceanographer, former NASA and U.S. Navy scientist, international speaker and author who had a near-death experience as a young child that profoundly shaped her understanding of consciousness and spirituality. She went on to pursue a successful career in marine science while continuing to explore NDEs, spiritual transformative experiences, and what she describes as encounters with Beings of Light. In this episode, she shares her remarkable story, how it changed her understanding of life and death, her process of re-integration, and the wisdom she has gained along the way, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Ingrid’s website - https://www.ingridhonkala.com/

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to world-leading NDE expert Dr. Pim van Lommel who explores how NDEs lead to lasting changes—loss of fear of death, belief in a personal afterlife, heightened intuition, and a deep sense of unity, love, and compassion—raising fundamental questions about consciousness beyond the brain. 

Pim worked as a cardiologist at Rijnstate Hospital for 26 years and published several articles on cardiology. He then started his research on near-death experiences (NDEs) in survivors of cardiac arrest in 1986, and he has authored over 20 articles, one book under the title Consciousness Beyond Life, and numerous book chapters on NDEs. He was a co-founder of the Dutch IANDS in 1988. In 2001, his prospective NDE study (the largest in the world) was published in the medical journal The Lancet. In 2005, he was awarded the Dr. Bruce Greyson Research Award by the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). In 2020, Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) honored him as a Circle of Honor honoree for his groundbreaking work on near-death experiences. In 2021, the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) launched an international essay contest for the best scientific evidence of a possible afterlife. With his essay entitled The Continuity of Consciousness, Dr. van Lommel won second prize. In 2022, he became an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN), and in 2024 he became an IANDS Advisory Board Member. His book was first published in Germany in 2009 and later released in English by HarperCollins in 2010 Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience. That same year, the book received the 2010 Book Award from the Scientific and Medical Network. In this episode, Dr. van Lommel discusses how he first entered this field of research, what decades of scientific study have revealed about consciousness continuing beyond the moment of death, and the profound insights he has gained along the way, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Dr. Pim’s Website - https://pimvanlommel.nl/en/

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to near-death experiencer Rosemary Thornton. For 20 years, Rosemary built a national reputation as an expert on old houses. She has authored nine books and has been featured on PBS’s History Detectives, BBC Radio, and many other programs. In 2016, her husband took his own life, and two years later, Rosemary was diagnosed with stage-two cancer, requiring surgery that led to a profound near-death experience. In this episode, she shares her remarkable story, how it changed her understanding of life and death, her process of re-integration, and the wisdom she has gained along the way, so be sure to watch until the end!

✨Rosemary’s website - https://www.temporarydeath.com

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to Dr. Penny Sartori, a British medical researcher and one of the pioneers of near-death studies. Penny worked as a nurse in a British hospital for 21 years, caring for many patients who were close to death. She holds a PhD and is the author of The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences, based on her five-year clinical study of NDEs, and in this fascinating conversation, Penny discusses what NDEs may tell us about consciousness, how the medical community views these experiences, cultural and age differences in NDEs, and she reflects on how decades of NDE research have changed the way she looks at life, so this one comes highly recommended!

✨Penny’s website - https://www.drpennysartori.com/

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In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to hypnotist and world's leading pre-birth planning expert Robert Schwartz. After a successful career in the corporate world, 3 profound experiences in 2003 set Rob on the spiritual path he follows today. He now offers Between Lives Soul Regressions, helping people explore their pre-birth plans and understand how they may have chosen certain life challenges and circumstances to foster growth, healing, and spiritual evolution. And in this episode Rob shares his mystical experiences that transformed his life, explains the concept of pre-birth planning, offers practical advice on discovering your soul's plan and connecting with your spirit guides, and discusses life's purpose, suffering, death, and what may lie beyond, so this one comes highly recommended.

✨Robert’s website - https://yoursoulsplan.com/