See Barbara Harris Whitfield at Virginia Beach Friends of IANDS

March 7, 2009

Barbara Harris Whitfield will be the featured speaker at Virginia Beach Friends of IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies) from 10 - noon on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A. R. E.), 215 - 67th Street , Virginia Beach , Virginia . She will tell of her near-death experience and describe how it changed her life. Suggested donation at the door is $5, but no one will be turned away until capacity of the mini-auditorium is reached.

Ms. Whitfield will also conduct an afternoon workshop at the A. R. E. from 2 - 4 p. m. entitled "The Natural Soul" at $20 per person. The workshop will immerse those who attend in concepts from Barbara’s new book of the same name, The Natural Soul, which is about co-creating our life as our authentic Soul with the help of whatever we choose to call The God of Our Understanding.

Co-creating her life has been the realization of her dream since her near-death experience 33 years ago. She says, “More than anything I wanted to co-create my life with my loved ones and with this Divine Energy that held me for a brief moment in eternity. This life and this explanation of how to do it is what I yearned for. I thought that expanded life was our destination after we die but I learned along the way that this is to be our journey here on earth if we choose it.

“Many of us who have had near-death experiences have an overwhelming yearning to go back there to feel all that love again. But that love is not just a destination after we die. It is who we were when we died and now it can be who we are as we live here as our Soul. And, we don’t have to have a near-death experience to do it. This is available for all of us here and now!”

Ms. Whitfield was Dr. Bruce Greyson's research assistant for six years at the University of Connecticut Medical School. Dr. Bruce Greyson had this to write about Barbara’s book:

“The near-death experience, and particularly the life review, is often described as a summing up of the events of one’s life. The Natural Soul reveals that it is far more than that. It is also a first-hand experience of oneness with others, of the fact that we are not separate, which puts the death (and indeed the life) of the individual in a very different light. Barbara Whitfield shows that what near-death experiencers (and in fact all of us) long for is not another dimension, but rather who we are in that dimension — and she shows us how to experience ourselves as those Souls right here, right now. It is a paradox that we go to great lengths to find the source of happiness, which Whitfield shows us is already and always the natural state of the Soul. Both religious tradition and contemporary science seem to miss this basic point, as they struggle to help us ‘understand’ what would come naturally if we only lived as Souls rather than as egos. Whitfield shows us not how to ‘understand’ reality but how to live it.”

--Bruce Greyson, M.D.,

Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry

& Neurobehavioral Sciences.

Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies

at the University of Virginia.

Ms. Whitfield has written three books on the Near-Death Experience and two books on “expanding spirituality” – practical ways to transcend now using our relationships as our spiritual path. Barbara has appeared on Larry King Live, Oprah, Donahue, CNN Medical News, Good Morning America, etc. Her story and her research have been told in Redbook, McCalls, Psychology Today, Woman’s World and many other magazines and newspapers as well as documentaries in Canada, France, Japan, Belgium, Italy and the U.S.

Barbara lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Author and Physician Charles L. Whitfield. They share a private practice doing individual and group therapy for adults that were repeatedly traumatized as children. For more information, visit www.barbarawhitfield.com and www.cbwhit.com.

Ms. Whitfield will also be the speaker at the Joy in Worship Service at Fellowship of the Inner Light, 620 - 14th Street , Virginia beginning at 10:30 a. m. on Sunday, March. She will share her Life Review and what it taught her and the hundreds of people who had a Life Review that were interviewed by her and by her colleagues.

Contact Dick Dinges at (757) 481-0061 and RichardADinges@aol.com.