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. She is coauthor of the research journal article, Comparative Effects of Induced After-Death Communication and Traditional Counselling on Grief. Her website is janholden.com.