On today’s program we’ll speak with accomplished actor, director, and author - Mr. Alexandre Ferran, of Paris, France. Through his thorough research, he has also become a renowned expert in understanding the ability of plants to communicate through music and words. “At the beginning of the 20th century there was an Indian called Mr. Bose who created a device called the crescograph, which made it possible to read in an accelerated way the movements of plants.” “In fact, in science, what we notice is that all the people who are plant lovers are able to demonstrate that they have a conscience, and emotions, and the capacity for understanding, of intelligence, etc.” Plants can also understand and respond to what people say. As Mr. Ferran shows us how plants can use the communication device to communicate through the language of music.

خانم "تریشیا بارکر"، بعد از تجربه نزدیک به مرگش، در زمینه اینکه چگونه میتوانیم دنیایی که در آن زندگی می کنیم را به مکانی بهتری تبدیل کنیم، دانش زیادی بدست آورد. این جهان، تعاملات کوتاهی که هر لحظه یا نور را گسترش میدهد یا نمیدهد. و چرا نور را گسترش نمی دهد؟ چرا نیکی را گسترش نمی دهد؟ و چرا شادی را در سراسر این سیاره گسترش نمی دهد؟ و من فکر می کنم شاید یکی از مهمترین چیزهایی که ما میتوانیم انجام دهیم اینست که آن عشق را پخش کنیم.

هنگامیکه روح خانم "تریشیا بارکر" بعد از تجربه نزدیک به مرگ به بدنش بازگشت، او متوجه شد که شخص متفاوتی است. من از پرستاران پرسیدم، "چه مدت بود که مرده بودم؟" میدانستم که مرده بودم. "شما درباره خدا چه فکر می کنید؟ زیرا این انرژی نور شگفت انگیز خداست!" و من شروع به صحبت درباره این چیزها کردم.

خانم "تریشیا بارکر" در تجربه نزدیک به مرگ اش، فرشته هایی را در اتاق عمل دید. او بعدها کشف کرد که میتواند با این موجودات سماوی دوباره ارتباط برقرار کند. و درد بسیار زیادی در بدنم بود. و من شروع به دعا کردن به درگاه خدا و آن فرشته ها کردم. و چشمانم را می بستم و مراقبه می کردم. و احساس میکردم همان فرشته ها روی ستون مهره هایم کار می کنند و روی کمرم کار می کنند. بنابراین، زمانی بسیار کوتاه بعد از تصادف، من با فرشته ها در ارتباط بودم.

بعد از یک تصادف شدید ماشین، خانم "تریشا بارکر" به بیمارستان منتقل شد و او در آنجا تجربه نزدیک به مرگ جالب توجهی داشت. وقتی مرا برای یک عمل جراحی اورژانسی نخاع بردند، من از بدنم بلند شدم. و بدنم را روی تخت جراحی دیدم. و باید به شما بگویم، با قطعیت می دانستم که بخش معنوی همچنان باقی خواهد ماند، روح ما، ذات ما بعد از مرگ بدنمان همچنان باقی خواهد ماند.

تجربه نزدیک به مرگ خانم "کیمبرلی کلارک شارپ" به او کمک کرده است تا به افرادی که در حال مرگ هستند کمک گسترده ایی کند. عاشق کار با افراد در حال مرگ هستم. این را دوست دارم چون این پایان زندگی آنهاست. این زمان مقدسی است برای آنها. و بخشی از آن بودن افتخاری بزرگ است. اما موهبت من این است که هیچ ترسی از مرگ ندارم. من میدانم که آنها فقط به مکانی دیگر می روند. آنها اینجا نیستند، اما آنها از بین نرفته اند. نمیدانم که چطور آن را توصیف کنم.

زمانی که افراد تجربه نزدیک به مرگ دارند، معمولا افرادی را که دوست دارند و از دنیا رفته اند را ملاقات می کنند. آنها بسیار خوشحال هستند. اما عزیزانشان به همه آنها گفته اند که برگردید، زمان شما فرا نرسیده است. اما تاثیری که بر روی افرادی با تجربه نزدیک به مرگ داشته اند چنان آرامشی است زیرا آنها می دانند که دوباره در کنار عزیزانشان خواهند بود.

خانم "کیمبرلی کلارک شارپ" زمانی که در اورژانس بیمارستان بود زندگیش را ترک کرد. کاری که انجام دادم این بود، خودم را رها کردم. سپس خود را کاملا در مکانی دیگر دیدم. و چیزی خود را نشان داد. آن "چیز " کلمه ایی برای توصیفش ندارم. خیلی از افراد آن را خدا می نامند. خیلی ها ممکن است آن را "منبع" بنامند. برای من، نور درخشان بزرگی بود. مانند قدرت رعد و برق بود و نوری بسیار درخشان تر از خورشید، درخشان تر از هر چیز دیگر.

Where does that come from? Is the thought coming from the individual? So, an analogy I like to use is the Sun and clouds. So, the Sun being consciousness and clouds being our mental state or our brain, things that are blocking the rays of consciousness to come in. And when we do things like meditate or a near-death experience is maybe the best example where all the clouds go away. There are ways of removing clouds so that more rays of consciousness come in. But I think methods like meditation, sensory deprivation, yoga, these are ways to remove some of the clouds and then maybe we get a spark of creativity and we don't know where it came from, but it's kind of that ray of consciousness getting in.

Does consciousness exist beyond the body and brain? Mr. Gober has found considerable scientific and anecdotal evidence suggesting that consciousness exists beyond the brain. Perhaps the most compelling support comes from near-death experiences. “In the life review, the example of Dannion Brinkley, after he relived his life four times, he saw the pain that the inflicted and he saw the joy that he gave to people. So, when he came back from his near-death experience, his life changed dramatically. He was much less materialistic. He became a hospice volunteer. And he understands the accountability that we all have, that our actions matter beyond what happens in this body.”

On today’s program, we’ll hear from Mr. Mark Gober, author of “An End to Upside Down Thinking” and host of the new podcast, “Where is My Mind?” In addition, Mr. Gober is on the Board of Directors at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a research center dedicated to exploring and expanding human capacity. “What is the relationship between the brain and consciousness? Does the brain create consciousness? Let’s think about the philosophical implications.” “And the thesis that I arrived at is it’s not that consciousness comes from the brain, but it’s the other way around. That consciousness is the basis of all reality existing beyond space and time. And the material world is an emergence or an experience within consciousness.”

Today we’ll hear some accounts of near-death experiences from renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Lloyd Rudy, interviewed by Dr. Michael Milligan, president of the American Academy for Oral Systemic Heath. And all of a sudden! Nobody spoke. Because everybody in that room felt a ‘presence.’ And he stopped bleeding just like that. What is your take on that, Dr. Rudy? Oh, there’s something out there that people with faith, believers, is there. Some people call it God, some people call it other things, Buddha, or (Prophet) Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him), or whoever. It has convinced me there is something out there.

Twelve-year-old Aviral Pokhrel of Nepal has an unusual ability. He can see colors and objects through his senses of touch and smell. I try to feel using my hands, and if I’m unable to identify things clearly with my hands, then I try to smell them. And based on their smell, I can tell what they are. Sometimes it just comes to me, then based on that I say what it is and it matches, too. And when we practice even more and more deeply, and go even deeper, we may be able to just hold a book in our hands, just shake it to even figure out what’s there on which page number of the book.

For centuries, reincarnation remained a mystery, leading to questions about human existence and the nature of previous lives. Nowadays, however, many individuals are coming forward to share detailed memories of their past lifetimes. Dr. Jim Tucker, a renowned past-life expert from the US, has recorded 2,500 cases of children remembering their previous incarnations. Oscar winner, AFI Life Achievement Award recipient, and legendary Hollywood actress Ms. Shirley MacLaine has long been sharing her past-life memories in media interviews, including on the TODAY show.

People who undergo near-death experiences realize that there’s a greater form of love than the worldly variety. You realize the importance of love, perhaps to a much greater degree than before. Quite often you don’t know how to set about it. Now the kind of love God’s looking for, that really teaches us is not the kind of self-development love, but it’s developing other people, helping other people and so forth. Whichever way you look at it, your consciousness, or your spirit continues after death, and that you will meet with God, in one way or another again. You will find that God is a God of Love, and that He is concerned for you as an individual, and that I think is the main message I would like to communicate.

Mr. lvan Rudolph is a world-renowned author whose latest book, “Living beyond: Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences,” details near-death experiences he compiled over 40 years, since hearing of his father’s case as a young child. (In) a real near-death experience, the body is left behind, and the spirit comes out of the body. And the spirit can see the body there and the medical people working on the body perhaps. If you go far enough in this experience, you go into what’s called a Life Review. During this Life Review, you can actually see other people’s thoughts. So, we tend to think we live a very private life inside our heads. But it’s not quite like that.

So, one of the first lessons in the search for God material is to learn how to cooperate with God. And I think that the Cayce information emphasizes the fact that we are really Divine emissaries. Mr. Kevin Todeschi often prays to the Divine for guidance on how he can be of service to others. Cayce recommended every morning getting up, and after your meditation, to sit there quiet and just become very centered and say aloud or quietly to yourself three times, “Lord, what would you have me do today?” And then listen. And from that you can get insights into what you should be about, what you should be doing.

Cayce would say dreams can give you insights into your physical health, your emotions, and your spirituality. Your dreams have your best interests at heart. They come from your Higher Self, your spiritual self. Cayce would say that people are always trying to get guidance, and that the subconscious mind, the superconscious mind is trying to give you guidance. All you have to do is watch your dreams. I think dreams can give us insight into things we need to work on for our own growth and development. We might get insight into things only our Divine Self knows about.

If we pay attention to our dreams, they can play a beneficial role in our lives. Mr. Kevin Todeschi tell us why. Dreams are important even if we don’t pay attention to them. So, for example, many people have had the experience where they go to bed and they’re anxious or they’re worried or they’re upset and they wake up feeling fine. And basically, what has happened is the dreams have contrasted and correlated the events of the day, and made some resolutions for you. And so subconsciously the process is helpful even if we don’t remember. But if we remember, then we can get insights into what it is our subconscious mind has figured out. And Cayce would say that you could get insights for everything, that your dreams can give you answers to anything.

He tells how, as his soul returned to Earth, he learned many lessons. I saw how people affected one another and how every tree and every plant and every butterfly and every bee, are souls or spirits and that they affect everything around them. If you’re filled with light and love and kindness and joy, then your love and kindness and joy are going to go around you like in a wave. Everybody is blending together into this plant that I call Earth. It’s almost like a plant. The Earth is just one being itself and we’re parts of it. People think of love kind of like a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, love, but it’s not like that. Love is our kindnesses towards one another.