Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, a near-death experience & transpersonal researcher, and is the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. She has a doctorate in education and is professor emerita of Counseling at the University of North Texas. Her primary research focus has been counseling implications of near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other transpersonal experiences—those that transcend the usual personal limits of space, time, and identity. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications. She is coauthor of Near-Death Experiences While Drowning: Dying Is Not the End of Consciousness! and Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy. She is editor of The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, and coeditor of Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling, and The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Her website is janholden.com.

Jan discusses the phenomenon and research of spontaneous after-death communication (ADC). She describes how they are often unsought and unexpected. ADCs can occur in all states of consciousness, including sleeping. She explains how sensing the presence of deceased loved ones can provide comfort, reassurance, healing, and alter beliefs about the afterlife. The experiences often increase feelings of love, joy, and peace.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:40 Spontaneous vs. facilitated ADC

00:05:18 Ways deceased are perceived

00:10:46 When ADC can occur

00:14:15 Validity of ADC

00:24:57 ADC research

00:29:03 Worldview and belief changes

00:33:22 Continuing bonds

00:46:42 Love never dies.

00:49:05 Prevalence and conditions for ADC

01:03:35 Messages in ADC

01:13:04 Conclusion

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