Aftermath: Startling Differences Between Adult and Child Experiencers
This is a 2 tape set
P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D.
In 1994, Atwater went back and redid all her work
with child experiencers. Although she had studied many, she
was uncomfortable with the prevailing notion that kid's cases were
just about the same as adults. What she found is contained in
the book "Children Of The New Millennium," a major study of
children's near-death states and the new Millennial Generation (due
out Spring 1999 from Three Rivers Press in New York City).
Children's episodes follow the same four type pattern as adults,
described in her book "Beyond the Light." Most kids have the
Initial or Simple Experience (76%) and most of their "deaths" come
from drowning, suffocation, and surgery. but when the
aftermath is studies, their response to what happened to them can
be just the opposite as that of adults, sometimes radically
different. Children do not have history, a reality system in
which they can make sense of that occurred or integrate it
properly. Focusing on their stories,
"out-of-the-mouth-of-babes": kind of thing, distorts their truth
and missed altogether their true voice and very different
perceptions. This talk contrasts kids' cases with those of
adults. A child of any age can have a NDE, and that includes
pre-birth, during delivery, and immediately after. Once they
are verbal, what they tell their parents about that happened to
them is often surprising and sometimes embarrassingly accurate in
its detail. But dealing with it, coping with the loss of
their "real home" once the episode ends, can be painful.
Where attempted suicides for adult experiencers afterward is less
than 4%, with kids it is 21%-over a third of Atwater's research
base of 277 child experiencers were having serious problems with
alcohol within five to ten years. Various differences are
discussed: children can hardly wait to go to church afterward and
often drag their parents with them; adult experiencers, the vast
majority, leave the traditional church experience to pursue
mystical states and a more spiritual approach. Kids are drawn
to math and science after, adults turn away; kids later form
lasting marriages, adults seldom do; kids tend to close down,
become loners, unsocial, while adults tend to loosen up, become
more friendly and open.
This presentation is covered by 2 tape recordings
