Spiritually Transformative Experiencer Panel

Lee Campbell: Lee Campbell, Pastor Emerita in the American Baptist denomination, serves on a variety of non-profit, community-service boards.  Lee is a retired accountant who serves as Seattle IANDS Treasurer and does accounting for Coalition for Refugees from Burma, a Seattle organization providing educational support for refugee students.  She is the recipient of a World AIDS Day HIV/AIDS Community Service award for “…volunteering, unconditional caring and loving dedication as the HIV/AIDS Support Group Facilitator” for Snohomish County, WA.  Her years of involvement with IANDS and near-death experiencers were extremely helpful during the nine years as Support Group Facilitator during the AIDS crisis.

Liam Chris Devlin: NDE and “A Course in Miracles”: reframing aftereffects, sharing peace: Years ago Kenneth Ring commented on the “ego” in a lecture. After the talk I asked him if he was referring to the ego as defined in A Course in Miracles (ACIM). He replied “yes” and offered there was some evidence showing many NDEr’s gravitating to the ACIM as a form of spiritual practice. He later wrote on using some perspectives from ACIM in understanding negative NDE experiences. There have been a few references to ACIM in the IANDS journal over the years. I first heard ACIM referenced, in terms of NDE’s, at the 2001 IANDS conference here in Seattle when Jayne Smith spoke. My “NDE and ACIM” presentation will include my NDE story and experience with ACIM. I will compare and current conceptual understandings of forgiveness, the “ego” self, the life review, Oneness vs separation, NDE aftereffects and healing, from both perspectives. Useful tools for health professionals will be highlighted when working with grief and with integrating NDE aftereffects.

Greg Wilson: Greg has been very involved with Seattle IANDS since the late 1980’s; as Program Coordinator, he has interviewed hundreds of near-death experiencers.   The content of the interviews has been extremely helpful in many of the contacts he has made during his years of working at Quest Bookshop, a landmark Seattle spiritual book store.  He has had a life rich in spiritual-transformative experiences.