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 highlights the significance of near-death experiences (NDEs) through compelling stories of evidential or veridical perceptions in NDEs, the impact these experiences have on grief and healing, and the cultural perspectives surrounding them. She emphasizes the role of love and personal transformation from NDEs, as well as the future direction of research in near-death studies.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:41 Jan’s personal experiences

00:07:41 Near-death studies field

00:10:50 Jan’s research

00:18:27 Positive vs. distressing NDEs

00:29:28 Pam Reynold’s case

00:41:16 Perception of the material world

00:54:03 Veridical transmaterial phenomena

00:56:59 Counseling transpersonal experiences

01:01:41 We’re here to learn and love.

01:04:55 Religion predominance and neutrality

01:06:55 Fear of death

01:16:34 Frontier of NDE research

01:27:37 Conclusion

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