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Joseph Dillard Announces New Book & IDL Study (03/13/13)
Hello Everyone!I wanted to let all of you know about a new book that has just been published by one of our members, Joseph Dillard -- and about a new study that Joseph is undertaking that involves people who have experienced distressing near-death experiences. Here’s a note from Joseph that introduces his new study:"Have you ever had a nightmare NDE? Do you know someone who has? Could revisiting that painful experience possibly transform it into something beneficial in your life today? If you have had a nightmare NDE and would be interested in that possibility, please contact me, Joseph Dillard, at joseph.dillard@gmail.com. We will set up an hour appointment for a Skype interview. It will be transcribed and you will be sent a copy. You will also fill out a follow-up evaluation."If you have experienced a distressing near-death experience and would like to see if the self-help tool that Joseph has created, called “Integral Deep Listening” or "IDL" can help you, contact Joseph.Joseph’s new book, called “Fire from Heaven: Deep Listening to Near Death Experiences,” describes how the Integral Deep Listening process can be used to deepen and ground near-death experiences (and other spiritually transformative experiences). To give you an idea of how helpful this process can be, here’s how NDErs Beverly Brodsky and Barbara Harris Whitfield (who are also members of our network) describe their experience with the IDL process:Beverly Brodsky:"Throughout the years, I have tried numerous meditation techniques, but none of them worked for me until I experienced Joseph Dillard's Integral (Deep Listening) Dream Yoga. He was using it as a tool for near-death experiencers, and I volunteered to join his group. I dialoged with an entity from my NDE, and wanted more because it was so effective. I got his book about healing from nightmares, and the protocol, and started working with the techniques, processing not only dreams, but also ailments and life experiences. I found that I could take any experience, even the crucible of the misery of shingles, and get the wisdom I got from my NDE session in another guise. By creating a scoring sheet from the elements of my dreams, sicknesses, frustrations, I have a tool I can use to stay positive. This technique allows me to transform my negative life experiences into their opposite, from the perspective of higher wisdom, and to reprogram my habitual thinking and feelings. It has been wonderful. I recommend Integral (Deep Listening) Dream Yoga very highly; it has the potential to change your life."Barbara Harris Whitfield:"I realized last evening (after our interview) that the little bit of stress I was still carrying around seemed gone. And there's no arrogance as my ego would have me believe -- only gratitude and peaceful joy. And then at bedtime, I relaxed in the darkness and explored to see if I could find it -- the stress. It is gone! And I know that if I get it back I can go into the darkness and ask the tunnel to merge with me again. I am finally in peace!"BTW, I am a therapist and have worked for the past 20 years with adults who were repeatedly traumatized as children -- just like me. My husband developed the type of individual and group therapy that we do and he is the author of the best selling Healing the Child Within. This book has been a best seller for over 20 years and is published in 11 different languages. So I have been steeped in this work ever since I left the NDE research world in 1990. I have enjoyed many mystical experiences since my original 2 NDEs, each one taking me closer to inner peace. This experience I had with you and the tunnel seems to cap off years of searching, working, praying and writing on this subject of healing from childhood trauma."I believe that anyone who has had a mystical experience (The figures in the latest poll are 49% of the American Population) can benefit from your process."To find out more about Joseph’s new book, go here:Fire from Heaven: Deep Listening to Near Death ExperiencesBy Joseph Dillard With Love & Best Wishes,David SunfellowSee More