Podcast guest 290 is Sheryl Gottschall. Sheryl has had a life-long interest in the paranormal and began studying the phenomenon of Near Death Experiences in 1980. Soon after she became a member of the International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDs), then in 1995 she hosted IANDS co-founder, Dr Ken Ring while he was on tour in Australia presenting research for his future book Mindsight: Near Death and Out Of Body Experiences In The Blind.  Little did she know she would experience an NDE for herself the following year during a serious illness. From that point, which she now regards as an initiation experience, her life changed direction and she was led to study and teach shamanism.    She is also UFO and paranormal researcher of 33 years, she has been privy to receiving thousands of reports from the public, some of who have had a wide range of experiences including seeing extraterrestrials during their NDEs. Sheryl is now convinced that the two greatest mysteries of the 21st century; Are We Alone In The Universe and What Happens When We Die? intersect in a deeply mysterious way.  Sheryl has had many other paranormal experiences herself including a Bi-location experience, Out of Body experiences (OBE), UFO sightings, a close encounter with nonhuman intelligences (ETs), poltergeist activity, automatic writing, and other unexplained phenomena.