Psychology & Evidence Of After Death Communication & NDEs

Christine Clawley, MA, LPC is an NDE experiencer, counselor, and life coach who has worked in a variety of capacities, including providing counseling and support at community mental health centers, hospitals, prisons, inpatient eating disorder clinics, homeless shelters, and telephonic crisis support. She currently works in private practice and has a Jungian and Depth-oriented practice that helps clients heal from traumatic experiences, as well as supports individuals who have had near-death experiences or other spiritually-transformative experiences. After overcoming the life-threatening Necrotizing Fasciitis at age 24, she embarked on a journey of healing and self-understanding through exploring various holistic techniques, including a mindfulness practice, meditation, yoga, self-hypnosis, and indigenous healing modalities. Prior to contracting this illness, she received many dreams and messages that foreshadowed her illness. While spending nearly a month in a medically-induced coma she also had many dreams that mirrored what was happening to her on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Upon awaking from the coma, she experienced increased intuition, empathy, and an increased frequency of lucid and precognitive dreams. These experiences have led her to research topics related to near death experiences, precognition, consciousness, non-ordinary reality, synchronicity, dreaming, and shamanism. www.lucidawakening.com

In veridical perception, someone who has had a near-death experience (NDE) or has experienced after-death communication (ADC) reports that during the experience, they perceived things or gained information that, based on the condition and position of their physical body, they should not have been able to perceive or know. In other words, the perception or information was beyond the reach of the normal senses or the ability to reason/deduce–yet it was later verified as accurate. Examples related to NDEs comprise the book The Self Does Not Die. In this talk, Jan will describe several cases from that book, as well as cases of veridical after-death communication. Such cases indicate that these experiences are not only subjectively real but also objectively real, indicating that mind is more than what the brain does and pointing to the survival of consciousness after death. SPEAKER BIO: Janice Miner Holden, EdD, LPC-S, ACMHP, spent 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counseling Program faculty and retired in 2019 as Professor Emerita of Counseling. Beginning in 1988 with her doctoral dissertation, her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death and related experiences. Her scholarship includes over 50 refereed journal publications; several chapter and book publications, including lead editorship of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences and co-editorship of the 2017 book Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body; and over 100 national and international presentations. Among Dr. Holden’s numerous recognitions are the 2015 American Counseling Association’s Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person and the 2019 UNT Eminent Faculty Award, one of the university’s highest honors. Since 2008 she has served as Editor of the International Association for Near-Death Studies’s scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies, and she serves currently as that association’s President. Her website is www.janholden.com

Mark Anthony, JD Psychic Explorer (Psychic Lawyer®) is a fourth-generation psychic
medium who communicates with spirits. He graduated from Mercer Law School with
honors and studied at Oxford University in England. Mark was awarded the Order of the
Barrister and has tried over 100 jury trials and is licensed to practice law in Florida,
Washington D.C., and before the United States Supreme Court. Mark was named a
notable graduate by the Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science, Visionary of the
Year by Best Holistic Life, Spiritual Awakenings International Circle of Honor Honoree
and he received the OMMIE Award for Best Psychic Medium in the OMMIE Awards
sponsored by OMTimes and iSpirit Media.

Mark Anthony is known as “The Psychic Explorer” due to his extensive background in
science, quantum physics, survival of consciousness, near-death experiences, history,
archaeology, philosophy, and theology. He examines mystical locations in the US and
remote corners of the world to explore ancient ruins, mysteries, and supernatural
phenomena.

Mark appears nationwide on TV & Radio including the CBS Emmy Award winning show
“The Doctors,” Discovery Channel’s “Destinations of the Damned,” and Gaia TV’s
“Beyond Belief.” He is the co-host of the Transformation Network’s livestream show
“The Psychic and The Doc” (voted best radio show of the year 2024 and 2025 by Best
Holistic Life).

He is a headline speaker at conventions, expos, and spiritual organizations such as the
Edgar Cayce A.R.E., International Association for Near-death Studies, The Shift
Network, Sedona Ascension Retreats, New Living Expo, Center for Consciousness, The
Galileo Commission, The Omega Institute, Spiritual Awakenings International, Helping
Parents Heal, Theosophical Society, Vail Symposium & universities including Brown,
Columbia, Harvard & Yale.

Mark Anthony is a VIP Executive Contributor for Best Holistic Life Magazine. Mark’s
latest multiple award-winning bestseller The Afterlife Frequency was designated by
PrettyProgressive.com as one of the top books about faith in God and like his other
bestseller Evidence of Eternity was considered for a Pulitzer Prize. His other bestselling
book is Never Letting Go which is recommended by grief counsellors and hospices
worldwide.

Neil Gaur is the Founder of Portal to Ascension, a conscious event production company created in 2008 that hosts a wide range of presenters on a variety of topics such as the origins of humanity, the existence of Extraterrestrial life, exposing hidden truths and exploring the nature of reality. He travels the world facilitating gatherings that are intended to empower the individual to reclaim their sovereignty and awaken to their full potential. Neil hosts, creates and facilitates about 70 conferences, workshops & retreats a year. At this point Portal to Ascension has worked with over 3000 researchers, spiritualists, scientists, consciousness explorers and more. Neil is a philosopher, historian, researcher and spoken word artist. He presents his research on the ancient wisdom and future science of sound, vibration & frequency; as well as in depth explorations into ancient civilizations, archeological discoveries, space anomalies, shedding light on hidden esoteric wisdom and exploring ways in which we can create unity and peace on Earth.

Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an Occupational Therapist, Reiki Master, and international afterlife speaker. Multiple after-death communication experiences began with the passage of her 37-year-old brother in 1995, even though she had no psychic or spiritual awareness. After 20 years of silence, Rebecca finally found the courage to share these experiences in her award-winning book: Change Maker, How My Brother’s Death Woke Up My Life. Rebecca is the first to teach one day, certificate-provided Reiki training at the International Association for Near-Death Studies Annual Conference, at every in-person American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference since 2015, and at multiple universities. Her science-based Reiki Immersion Online and After-Death Communication courses are designed to enhance after-death communication. Rebecca’s natural energy healing skills are highlighted in the movie Life to Afterlife – the Healers. Rebecca is delighted to share her positivity and LOVE with us all!

For a very long time, and well before I wrote Your Soul’s Plan, I had been searching, fruitlessly, for the deeper meaning of my life. A Personal Turning Point In 2003, my search took a new and surprising turn when I decided to consult with a medium. Although I had a strong belief in God, I had never (as far as I knew) directly experienced the metaphysical. I researched mediums and selected someone with whom I felt comfortable. My session with the medium took place on May 7, 2003. I remember the exact date because on that day my life changed. I told the medium very little about myself, describing my circumstances only in the most general terms. She explained that each of us has spirit guides, nonphysical beings with whom we plan our lives prior to incarnation. Through her I was able to speak with mine. They knew everything about me—not only what I had done but also what I had thought and felt. For example, they referred to a specific prayer I had said to God some five years earlier. At a particularly difficult time I had prayed, “God, I can’t do this alone. Please send help.” My guides told me that additional nonphysical assistance had been provided. “Your prayer was answered,” they said. I was astounded. Eager to understand the suffering I had experienced, I asked my guides about the major challenges I had faced. They explained that I had planned these challenges before birth—not for the purpose of suffering, but for the growth that would result. I was shaken by this information. My conscious mind knew nothing of pre-birth planning, yet intuitively I sensed truth in their words. Although I did not realize it at the time, my session with the medium triggered a profound spiritual awakening for me. I would later understand that this awakening was really a remembering—a remembering of who I am as an eternal soul and, more specifically, what I had planned to do on Earth.

For 20 years, Rose Thornton (Rosemary Ringer) enjoyed a national reputation as an expert on old houses. The author of nine books, Rose has been featured on everything from PBS’ “History Detectives” to BBC Radio. In 2016, her husband committed suicide and two years later, Rose was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. After a “routine” medical procedure, Rose bled to death. In heaven, she was told that if she agreed to return to earth, she’d be restored to wholeness. Subsequently, medical tests affirmed that not only had the disease disappeared, but she was also healed of the crippling grief.

Sarina Baptista is an Award-Winning Author, International Speaker, Spiritual Teacher, and Evidential Psychic Medium. Her latest book, My View from Heaven, is a 2019 COVR Visionary Awards Bronze Recipient in the Iconic Book category, and the 2021 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award Winner in 3 categories. She was a featured speaker for the “Life, Death and Beyond” International Conference in Crete, Greece, and the resident psychic on iHeart Media’s Big 97.9FM in Northern Colorado. She teaches classes and is a visiting medium at Lily Dale, NY, during their summer program, and is a presenter at the IANDS Conferences. She has created mediumship training programs, including mentoring, long distance training, workshops, and webinars. Sarina discovered her gifts through her own tragedy – the passing of her seven-year-old son in March 2007. She learned that her son did not really die. He was still very close, and he led her to her incredible mediumship gifts. It is Sarina’s mission is to help you find purpose and connection to your highest Divine Self, create the bridge for conversation with loved ones who have passed, and mentor psychics and mediums to be master messengers. Sarina Baptista is the Bridge to Healing, Leading You To A Guided Life. For more information about Sarina, please visit www.sarinabaptista.com.

Formally trained as a cultural anthropologist and communications professional, Suzanne has become a spiritual scientist and quantum science researcher who has investigated the bridge between universal spirituality and the quantum worlds for more than fifteen years. Her journey of Soul has spanned a lifetime of seeking and finding deeper answers to the basic questions of life punctuated by many spiritually transformative experiences. She has presented at IANDS, Teslatech’s Extraordinary Technology Conferences, U.S. Psychotronics Association, Science and Non-Duality and locally in the Denver, Colorado area at the Paranormal Research Forum, Society for Scientific Exploration, BoulderExo and other forums.