If someone has had a near-death experience (NDE), one will benefit by knowing that the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is a non-profit organisation that serves as a clearing-house to impart information about near-death experiences and their implications, encourage and support research on the experience and related phenomena, and aid in the formation of local support and interest groups—generally referred to as the Friends of IANDS (FOI)—to explore the subject. Among their many publications are the scholarly Journal of Near-Death Studies, and a general-interest newsletter, Vital Signs. Membership is open to anyone. Personal near-death experiences are solicited on an ongoing basis for the archives. (from PMH Atwater)

Nightingale would like to offer her assistance in helping one in forming and establishing local discussion/support groups centred on near-death (or what she prefers to call an Eternal Life Experience, ELE) and similar spiritually transformative experiences. One must be a member of IANDS in order to start a Friends of IANDS (FOI) group, but anyone can start other discussion/support groups centred on NDEs without being a member of IANDS. Guidelines for creating such a group are available on the IANDS website, under ‘Support Groups’ (starting a group). Nightingale is very pleased to assist you with any further questions, and also provide more materials and support as needed.

Her main focus is to provide a platform through which NDErs and other interested individuals world-wide can congregate together and communicate openly and freely on a topic that changes and transforms our lives forever.