Fifty years ago, Dr. Norma Edwards, a young mother, in London flatlined on an operating table after a routine pregnancy scare turned into a life-threatening emergency — and what happened next changed everything she believed about life, death, and love. In this deeply personal talk, she walks us through her near-death experience: rising above her own body, merging into blinding light, undergoing a three-column life review, glimpsing seven past lifetimes, and reaching a river she wasn’t allowed to cross. Sent back with a single message — “there is more to life than meets the eye” — she spent decades unpacking what she saw, including a suicidal aftermath, the spiritual disciplines that finally grounded her, and the guidance that reshaped her purpose.
She spent two decades of learning that gave her the ability to visit the “other side” voluntarily, something she did 4 times. “We no longer have to die to do this”, is one of the things Norma learned and wants us all to know. The talk closes with audience Q&A exploring grace, spiritual guides, and out-of-body travel. A raw, honest account of transformation after crossing to the other side and coming back.
This presentation was recorded November 8, 2019. All presentations made and information provided during IANDS Groups and Events are owned and copyrighted by IANDS and may not be reproduced or used without specific, prior written permission.
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Timestamps
00:00 – Chapter 1: The Near-Death Experience
05:14 – Chapter 2: Reviewing Life and Purpose
12:34 – Chapter 3: Insights from the Other Side
18:11 – Chapter 4: Adjusting to Earthly Life
21:54 – Chapter 5: Spiritual Guidance and Growth
30:19 – Chapter 6: Disciplines for Connection
37:34 – Chapter 7: Audience Q&A: Part One
47:21 – Chapter 8: Clearing Internal Clutter
52:26 – Chapter 9: Spiritual Guides and Grace
1:04:15 – Chapter 10: Further Out-of-Body Travels
1:16:12 – Chapter 11: Audience Q&A: Part Two
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What is an NDE?
A near-death experience (NDE) is typically a profound, life changing, intensely emotional experience that usually occurs during a clinical crisis and has common characteristics and aftereffects. It is not a dream, hallucination, or mental illness (Greyson, 1983). There are no predictive variables to identify who will have an NDE. They happen to people of all ages, religions, socio-economic groups, cultures, educational backgrounds, and belief systems. They occur under a variety of circumstances such as accidents, near-drownings, illnesses, combat, surgical procedures, and childbirth. Following an NDE, experiencers (NDErs) often display some common aftereffects. Research has established a set of common NDE characteristics and long-term aftereffects. Theories used to explain near-death experiences in purely physical terms have been proven inadequate by NDE researchers and others.
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Intensive care Nurse Andrea von Wilmowsky of Pöcking, Germany, has shared the NDE of a female patient who was admitted to her ward or resuscitation after a heart attack. Wilmowsky writes, ‘It became the most chaotic resuscitation I’ve ever witnessed. There were too many people, and they kept stepping on each other’s feet and getting in each other’s way. An IV bottle was swept off the table in the middle of this chaos and smashed to pieces’. In the confusion, a hairclip which she had been wearing, crafted by her husband from plywood in the shape of a rose, fell to the floor and was stepped on and broken; she only noticed this when the resuscitation had been successfully completed. Wilmowsky then left for a 3 week vacation. On returning, the patient asked her, ‘What happened to your pretty rose hair clip?’ The patient could not have seen the hair-clip, having been unconscious at the time, but later described having watched the resuscitation from a corner near the ceiling, seeing a male staff member, who she later described, step on the hair clip, also the glass bottle fall on the floor and smash to pieces.
Accounts like Dr. Edwards' are why NDE research matters. They don't fit neatly into a purely medical or a purely spiritual box, and treating them like they do is a disservice to people trying to make sense of their own experience. Appreciate IANDS creating space to document these without flattening them into one explanation.
Powerful…fed my soul. 🧚♀️
This is up there with my favorite ndes lots of important knowledge. Im glad im heading into my older years not 100% ignorant. I cant wait to feel the love again.
I think the moment Laurie took her to George Winston and she orgasmed was the moment her story made sense.
❤ Norma is such an eloquent speaker and I just love her to pieces❤ I love you Norma
Good video
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This is life, suffering, spirituality, joy and art
When it comes to people like Dr Edwards we need to be still and listen
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Why don't you just get to the point she's doing a whole lot of talking but she ain't saying nothing
She’s a wonderful speaker
This goes against the Bible! I do not believe this was a God experience but a demonic one
9:16 – Life review begins