From agnostic to pastor, John Burke became a spokesman for the Light through his growing interest in NDEs. In his best seller, Imagine Heaven, and his new book, Imagine the God of Heaven, he demonstrates God's love didn't end with the Bible, but continues worldwide every day by way of thousands of NDEs.

Nine geese swim over the spot where seven-year-old Lee Witting drowned. On this birthday program, Lee shares how

that NDE guided and propelled some major events in his life.

Robert Christophor Coppes, a former president of IANDS Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam. His conviction that NDEs are true spiritual experiences began with Raymond Moody's book, "Life After Life", and Coppes' own latest work, "Impressions of Near-Death Experiences," quotes a broad range of NDEr insights. Coppes is also the author of "The Essence of Religions: A Glimpse of Heaven in the Near-Death Experience."

Darlene Kyurn has memories of alien healing from a very young age. Her psychic abilities as a little girl frightened her Catholic mother, though, so she gave them up until becoming an adult. Her studies have spanned a range from angels to UFOs, portals to vortexes, and she has provided guidance to folks going through the dying process.

During back surgery, Kelly Curry's anesthesia paralyzed her ability to move or speak, but did not shield her from feeling every cut of the surgeon's scalpel. The resulting NDE took her to a place of pain-free love, but the warning she would return to her body terrified her--until she was shown there was lifechanging work remaining for her to accomplish.

It took our guest years to discover that he died at birth, and that his mother travelled with him to the Other Side to argue with Spirit for his survival. His NDE has provided him the confidence to live a life of spiritual growth, from Benedictine Monastery to motocross racing to writing music to healing others.

Day Six began, a busy day for animals that eat the hay, and plants and trees I had provided came from the earth and there resided. And then I told my angel friends, I do not need to make amends to you or aught of my creation, that men and women to salvation may attain – for in their brain--I make them like to you and me, and in their way they will be free, to praise and honor and enjoy this world, which they may now employ for their own actions, choices, dreams, their will to better--though it seems a futile hope, I know, I know, but yet in wisdom they may grow to love what we have done for them, and so I'll say to them again: Be fruitful now and multiply, and fill the earth, and wonder why.

Dr. Doggerel

Dr. Diane K. Corcoran is a health Care consultant specializing in health care technology, smart card use in health care, and the care and support of people who have had Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). She is especially interested in service members who have had NDEs. Dr. Corcoran has published and presented on a variety of topics related to Near Death Experiences, management and grief. She has lectured nationally and internationally for over 30 years on the importance of health care professionals understanding the Near Death experience. In addition, she has lectured on the implications of NDEs for the military, nursing and other issues such as, supporting terminal patients, grief and bereavement, SIDS deaths, and other issues related to death and dying. She has started a research fund for exploring NDEs in the military and how we might help these service members. She has published several articles on the Near-Death Experience, and combat NDEs. She continues to counsel people who have NDEs and assists with resources and professional workshops, in the area. Dr. Corcoran is President Emeritus of The International Association for Near-Death Studies.

One of the services IANDS provides for its members are monthy accounts of NDEs as written down and provided to IANDS by the experiencers themselves. Lee tries to share these experiences as they come out because they are fascinating and to give anyone interested in the afterlife and NDEs the reminder that IANDS is well worth joining. This episode, he shared three such stories.

The story of the Wandering Jew has been told many ways since the legend got started some 2000 years ago. It concerns a man supposedly cursed by Jesus to live until the Second Coming. Host Lee Witting told his version of the story as a graduate school project, and recently re-discovered the 30-year-old cassette tape with its multi-cultural legends of life, death and the end times. This show presents Part One of that tape (together with the inevitable half dozen minor glitches given to a tape this old). Part Two will be presented in next week's show.