Dreamland

Aliens and the Near Death Experience

Dreamland

Show Notes

This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber welcomes legendary near-death researcher P.M.H. Atwater for a profound exploration of one of the deepest mysteries of all: the strange connection between near-death experiences, alien contact, the dead, and consciousness itself.

Her new book, Aliens and the Near-Death Experience, asks whether these seemingly separate worlds may actually be parts of a single, immense reality. Atwater discusses her own near-death experiences, the voice that directed her life’s work, her research with thousands of experiencers, and the startling cases in which people who had NDEs later encountered otherworldly beings.

The conversation ranges from Idaho’s long history of “flying saucers” over its great canyons, to Kenneth Ring’s Omega Project, John Mack’s interest in alien identity, and Atwater’s own astonishing account of an “alien” aspect of herself called Arrakis.

At its heart, this is a conversation about what human beings really are, what death may reveal, and whether contact, consciousness, and the afterlife are all doorways into the same vast mystery.

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