Curious about the afterlife, second chances, and spiritual growth beyond this life? 🕊️
Sheldon Lawrence’s powerful book Heaven Will Find You explores these profound questions through hundreds of near-death experiences (NDEs). Join the replay of this event as Tricia Barker and IANDS President Jan Holden dive deep into Sheldon’s creative process, surprises he encountered, and how accurately his book reflects the afterlife.
💡 What You’ll Learn:
How Sheldon prepared to write Heaven Will Find You
The challenges and breakthroughs he experienced
His personal belief in the accuracy of his book’s depiction of the afterlife
✨ Bonus: The event concludes with a live Q&A featuring audience questions on spiritual growth, second chances, and what awaits us after death.
Also, I just interviewed Mike Dinkel, a gifted healer, channel, and psychic, to discuss his near-death experience (NDE) and the profound spiritual insights he gained from his near-death experience at a very young age!
Mike shares his incredible journey and how it led him to develop a unique approach to healing, energy work, and intuitive guidance.
At the end of our conversation, Mike channels wisdom for all of us, offering a transformative message filled with healing and higher consciousness.
His work includes CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, SomatoEmotional Release, Hands-On Healing, Vocal Toning Therapy, and more—all designed to help both people and animals find deep healing.
I’m also thrilled to invite you to a special event where I, along with IANDS President Dr. Jan Holden, will interview Dr. Sheldon Lawrence about his thought-provoking book Heaven Will Find You.
This is your opportunity to explore profound questions his book tackles like:
How can we make sense of the variety of near-death experiences that people report? How do second chances and spiritual growth unfold in the afterlife? What lessons can near-death experiences (NDEs) teach us about healing and compassion in our own lives right now? How can we recognize if one of our loved ones is “stuck” in the afterlife, and how can we help them transition beautifully?
Why is it important to work on self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others?
Dr. Sheldon Lawrence holds a PhD in English with a focus on the literature of spiritual transformation. Sheldon’s book, inspired by hundreds of NDEs, weaves a compelling narrative that captures the transformational power of these experiences. As someone who has had an NDE myself and works as a medium, I found his book profoundly moving. His insights align closely with the stories shared by the many NDErs I’ve interviewed over the years.
You can still show up for the event even if you haven’t read his book yet. The conversation will be a lively one! In addition to exploring spiritual themes in Sheldon’s book, we’ll also
I’ll also discuss my own experiences helping “stuck” souls transition in the afterlife and will ask Sheldon about his work with students and individuals who’ve had transformative, and sometimes challenging, spiritual journeys.
This event is a unique opportunity to dive deeper into the mysteries of the afterlife, spiritual transformation, and what the variety of NDEs can teach us all.
Plus, you’ll have the chance to ask your own questions about writing, spirituality, and the afterlife.
Many people who follow me and reach out to me are sensitive, empathic individuals who feel the terrors and tragedies of this world deeply. They are people who want to make a difference. I made this video for those who feel that their efforts are not enough. They are. Keep working in the direction of light. Keep empowering those around you. Keep centering your messages around the potential for greater peace.
I know that it is difficult to stay informed when the news is intensely visual. I like to remind people that reading instead of viewing the news allows you to add your own critical thinking to what is written and also allows you to decide what direction to point your energy. 
These complex problems cannot be solved in a day, but let’s think long-term solutions. If you are a therapist and decide to take more classes to help children with PTSD perhaps you are preparing yourself for the day when you can help a child leaving a war-torn environment. Perhaps, you are preparing yourself for a future volunteering opportunity to work with children who have been liberated from trafficking. If you are writing a children’s book, imagine that this book might remind a child of his or her resilience, goodness, and strength. Your efforts in the direction of healing and peace matter.
We cannot turn away from what this world is undergoing, and it will not diminish your life if you jump into the real work of this world. It will connect you at a deeper level to purpose and all that you want. You are capable of holding this world in your heart. Adding light to the darkness is our work. We don’t turn away from the darkness, we show up and offer kindness. We remind others that they can heal and that they have access to a flow of unconditional love.
I don’t always understand how spirit works, and I was shocked back in 1995 when Yitzhak Rabin’s spirit showed up and gave me a message. I wondered why a Prime Minister of Israel would take the time to communicate with me, someone who he didn’t know. Perhaps, I was simply there with him as he transitioned. 
I went into meditation as soon as I heard he was assassinated followed him on his journey. This happened the first semester I was back at college after my near-death experience, and I was wide open and soaking up everything I could learn about the spiritual journey. Rabin’s spirit told me that working toward a peaceful world is very difficult work and requires the participation of the majority of people on the earth. Peace must spread in the hearts and minds of people before it is evident in the physical realm.
Any work we do to help others release trauma, judgment, pain and other triggers gives them space for peace. Any work we do to create more peace in our own lives gives us greater energy to help others find peace. We are all indeed connected, so when you do the hard work of this world in helping others, you benefit greatly from these efforts. Your soul knows its destiny is greater than the situations of your life.
If I know anything, I know that you are greatly blessed as you bless others, no matter your religion or background. No matter how much you have personally suffered, there is always someone who needs a hand to help them stand up again.
I’m grateful to the reporter Paige McCoy Smith for covering my near-death experience story and my book on Good Morning Texas. We filmed at the beautiful Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, and this setting helped convey the message from my near-death experience to remind people to go to nature to relieve stress and reconnect with inner peace.
Online Workshop–October 25, 2020 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (Central Standard Time) Register here through Raja Yoga.
Which intuitive messages are most helpful on your path?
During my near-death experience, I experienced much healing and compassion. Intuitive messages that come from a place of love and open you to greater awareness are important messages.
In the afterlife, I understood that we are not alone on this journey. Spirit continues to show me that we are each supported deeply and profoundly by intelligence, energy, and love.
Some people fear that they cannot connect, but communication with divinity, ancestors, guides, and the angelic realm can be strengthened simply by shifting your focus from the physical to the Spirit world.
We all have an innate ability to connect to our inner knowing. Often, a discussion about what this connection feels like to various people can help you trust your own knowing a bit more. Additionally, meditation, trauma release, and chakra balancing can enhance the flow of your intuition.
I enjoy creating safe communities where others can support one another. We can learn to trust our intuition more by connecting with others in authentic ways.
All ability levels are welcome to this workshop. Sign up, and I’ll give you free access to my online spiritual community through the end of 2020!
I’m excited that my story is featured in this documentary by Craig P McMahon. The near-death experience stories of Erica McKenzie, Ingrid Honkola, and Howard Storm are also featured in this series.
Howard Storm, Ingrid Honkola and I will also be speaking at the IANDS Virtual conference this weekend. Click here to see all the speakers. https://virtualconference.iands.org/
Part of the focus of this year’s Third Annual Online Near-Death Experience Summit is energetic transformations. The live portion of the discussion is free, so join us on Aug. 1-2 for these conversations about how to transform suffering into release and light.
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” ― Adyashanti
Are you beginning to lose patience with manipulation, neediness, false pretenses, false hope, illusion, fantasy, fear, complaining, and a focus on the negative or what is lacking? If so, you might be on the right track!Â
Let your eyes experience the joy of looking toward the light.
The spirits from the beyond keep reminding me that so much more is possible. Even those who dive deep into spiritual studies only know a sliver of what is possible, and the focus on limitation is indeed limiting.
So, if all is made new in the afterlife, all is healed, can this healing can happen here? Heaven is a template of purity to overlay on our lives. Our higher self is always present as a possibility. Our higher self holds the keys to truth. Alignment is a breath away if the belief is strong enough.
“The only way to know that we’ve seen into the true nature of something is that the story we’re telling ourselves releases. It is not only seen to be illusion; it is felt to be illusion. That’s the choice you have—to be a victim in your own ideas and beliefs or to feel into them until they drop away.” Adyashanti
We often want to hide and buffer ourselves from the light of the truth. Have you ever loved a person or illusion more than you loved God? More than you loved yourself? If you have, then you have known suffering. You have known devastation.
What is the answer to this devastation? The light of creation! The answer is in our own soul and connection to God.
People around you will rewrite history to escape accountability, but they can’t burn you if you burn with the fire of truth. Remember that…if you burn with the light and burn brightly, all that is will continue to be. What seems like loss is only the smoke of illusion disappearing. Love is all that we take with us into the afterlife and all that is real. And, that love is yours.
“When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier—it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.”― Adyashanti,
Remember the joy of a child? The child does not care if his or her ideas areacceptable. Choose freedom over anyone’s approval. Choose joy over social norms.
“We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.”― Adyashanti, Falling Into Grace
In an age of selfies and presenting a partial version of yourself, dare to be your true self. People will label you, put you on a cross, but take yourself off the cross and jaunt away. They haven’t walked on the ground of your existence or seen the light from your eyes.
In my writings and life, I have dared to be truthful and vulnerable. —Tricia Barker, Author of Angels in the OR and founder of The Third Annual Online NDE Summit.
Accept the parts of you that still require growth…the parts of you that cry out in pain. Parent yourself. Accept the parts of you that have failed according to societies standards, and give yourself the medal of survival and the ticket of eternal freedom.
One of the things, I am thinking in these times is how those of us like me with Complex PTSD can continue to care for ourselves when enduring and witnessing additional trauma.
“Your body will begin to free itself from the collective trauma when you allow yourself to be vulnerable in front of the world. To express your pain, hurts and emotional turmoil without worrying about looking good, being the perfect leader or saying the right thing.
It is a powerful way to learn your true alchemical power and ability to withstand the storms of life. The reason people do not heal is because they are busy covering up their deepest grief and distracting themselves from their biggest fear—the fear of death.
Instead of facing it head on, we share false truths, create fantasies around wealth, power and beauty, gas light and romanticize our relationship with cognitive dissonance in the name of love and light.
You can not heal what you are unwilling to see. If you turn a blind eye to what is happening in the outer world, what is it you are unwilling to see in your inner world?
When you find the courage to continually face the darkest aspects of life, you can begin the process of reintegrating your soul back into wholeness. It is a process that requires an extreme level of bravery that you were never taught.
Once you learn to continuously allow grief to move through your body and express itself, you will uncover that the process of healing only ever required your body’s understanding of the natural dance between death and rebirth.
You must learn this dance in order to create your true desires for yourself and humanity.” —Cherie Aimee
The LIVE portion of this year’s summit is FREE! Click here to reserve your spot and connect with some of the inspirational speaker’s at this online event occurring on August 1-2, 2020 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. CDT.
(If you heard my talk on Unity Online Radio with Suzanne Giesemann, please use the coupon code UNITY for 40% off the paid version which gives you access to the videos which you can download, an all-access portal to the speakers, free books, and a free year of my membership. I can’t wait to have community with you.)
The 3rd Annual Online Near-Death Death Summit will be a weekend focused on energetic transformations, angel communication, and unconditional love. We all know that this year has been challenging in many ways; however, nature continues to offer us healing and our understanding and participation with energy can amplify at this time. Many beautiful shifts are happening in our world, and we want to bring more healing, peace, and unconditional love to your experiences.
Join us to find out more about how you can deepen your own knowing and feel more confident about being true to your soul’s mission.
To find out more about the speakers and reserve your free ticket, click here.
Coronavirus has changed the way many of us live our lives. In quarantine time, many people may be spending more time confronting their thinking. This is a GREAT time to think happier thoughts for yourself, to connect to the timelessness inside of you, and to grant yourself greater love and more peace. Much inner work and healing can be done now.
There is plenty of time for reading, meditation, and prayer. There are no more excuses (unless perhaps you work for an essential business).
Try not to overthink or worry about worst case scenarios. But, if you do take this time to confront your mortality, know that the the process of dying is sacred. While you live, remember to live with love and kindness.
These are the Truths I Learned from Dying
1. Love is all that matters and all that we take with us.
2. Nature can heal us.
3. We are all connected energetically.
4. Joy brings us back to our true self.
5. At the soul level, we care about goodness, honor, nobility, love, and altruistic acts of kindness.
6. At the soul level, we are more godlike than we care to acknowledge. Our light is eternal.
7. Our ancestors, guides, and angels are there for us whether we feel their presence or not.
8. What makes sense in heaven isn’t always translatable on earth, but know that beauty, love, truth, and goodness last forever in heaven.
9. God/Universal Consciousness loves us all deeply.
10. You are personally loved more deeply than you can fathom.
May you be blessed! The audio book of Angels in the OR is on sale right now if you are interested. Pretty good price!
I’m looking forward to meeting many of you at the National IANDS conference where I will be leading a workshop on writing about spiritual experiences and speaking on Saturday. There will be plenty of time to talk with people in the IANDS bookstore. The bookstore will be giving away a couple of free copies of Angels in the OR and many other books by experiencers. I’m grateful to readers of Angels in the OR in my area and readers as far away as Australia.
This summer a few more podcasts on my new podcasting channel have been uploaded, as well as several new podcasts interviews from other podcasters. You can check out my interviews on Healing Powers with Laura Power and Path 11 Productions.
I’m also pleased to share a book trailer that a former student helped produce for my book. I love supporting their creativity!
It is strange to not be back at the campus teaching this fall, but I am on faculty leave to write a book to help college students find more success and healing while at college. The research is proving interesting. I will share more later!
For now, here is a short poem inspired by living with the knowledge of a near-death experience for 25 years.
How can we make sense of the variety of near-death experiences that people report?
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm EST/Noon Central Time/10:00 a.m. Pacific Time/8 a.m. Hawaii
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