Closing a Medical and Spiritual “Gap of Care” for Patients Who Have Near-Death Experiences
Diane Corcoran, Ph.D., Retired US Army Col. and RN, and President of IANDS, International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) ; Dr. Ingrid Honkala, Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Master Scuba Diver, NASA and Navy Scientist, international lecturer, childhood near-death and spiritual transformative experiencer (NDEr and STEr); Lilia Samoilo has been a mental health and spiritual counselor for thirty-five years. She is a medical and spiritual intuitive, an international veteran NDE advocate/NDE educator, a co-associate of Dr. Corcoran’s Vet NDE Project, and a contributor for the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) in their NDE Research Project; and Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore, MDiv, Yale Divinity School, had his first near-death experience (NDE) in March of 1981, at twenty-one years old, while ice climbing.
Dr. Diane Corcoran is a retired Army COL with a Ph.D., Nursing Management, RN, MA, Educational Psychology and a BSN, Nursing. She is the world’s first NDE pioneer. During her early military career of 30 years, while serving as a nurse in Vietnam, a combat soldier shared his near-death experience (NDE) with her long before anyone had written about NDE’s. Noting the patient’s emotions and confusion, it became clear to her that providers should know about these experiences and the necessity of supporting patients who have had them. Dr. Corcoran is President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), the Founder of the Vet NDE Project, and has over 40 years of experience being an International Speaker, Workshop Presenter, NDE Educator, and Trainer. She is also the Executive Director of Corcoran Consulting who specializes in educating, training, and supporting individuals and their families who have been impacted by these profound and deeply personal experiences. She provides the highest quality information and support for individual Near-Death Experiencers (NDErs) and to groups and organizations who support NDErs. Dr. Corcoran is currently working with her Veteran NDE Project as research indicates that 50% of combat injuries result in an NDE. Dr. Corcoran has published and presented on a variety of topics related to NDEs, management, and grief. She has lectured nationally and internationally for over 40 years on the importance of health care professionals understanding NDEs. In addition, she has lectured on the implications of NDEs for the military and nursing professionals and has provided training in associated areas such as supporting terminal patients, grief and bereavement, SIDS deaths, and other issues related to death and dying.
Dr. Ingrid Honkala is a Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Master Scuba Diver, NASA and Navy Scientist, international lecturer, childhood near-death and spiritual transformative experiencer (NDEr and STEr). She has worked for the Colombian and US Navy for over thirteen years. Her worldwide oceanographic surveys and her love for travel have brought her to visit 56 countries where she has shared science and spirituality. Since birth, Ingrid lived and worked in intense combat zones of Colombia and was diagnosed with combat-related PTSD. Dr. Honkala has a great passion for understanding human consciousness and is helping to close the “gap of care” for people, especially children, and combat soldiers, who have had NDEs and STEs. In her autobiography, “A Brightly Guided Life: How a Scientist Learned to Hear her Inner Wisdom,” Ingrid details her amazing journey filled with all the challenges that brought her to reconnect with her inner-wisdom and to become a self-actualized and self-realized being.
Lilia Samoilo has been a mental health and spiritual counselor for thirty-five years. She is a medical and spiritual intuitive, an international veteran NDE advocate/NDE educator, a co-associate of Dr. Corcoran’s Vet NDE Project, and a contributor for the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) in their NDE Research Project. She is also a member of the International Association For Near-Death Studies Conference and Military/Veteran Committees. Founder and co-facilitator for a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Support Group. She is a childhood NDEr and has had multiple spiritual transformative experiences. For over forty years, Lilia has studied the cosmic laws of the universe as per her NDE at age three. Her life's mission is to share with others where she found her answers about life, light, and love, and how the study of these laws impacted her life's purpose and service to others.
Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore, M.Div., Yale Divinity School, had his first near-death experience (NDE) in March of 1981, at twenty-one years old, while ice climbing. His consciousness left his body. An intelligence came, took, and bore him a timeless eternity of Intelligence, Love, Light, and Oneness of Being. Peter Panagore chose to return to life, dramatically altering the lives around him, and his own. After completing his independent study of classical western mysticism, Panagore was ordained in the United Church of Christ and served eighteen years as a church-based and community-wide spiritual, and practical, social services ombudsmen, and preacher of love, and church leader, even though in his heart he had abandoned all religion because his heart belonged to God alone. He kept his first NDE a secret until 1990, after which, in 1993, he was recruited to broadcast television by First Radio Parish Church of America (1926-2018), the oldest continuous religious broadcast (TV, FM, AM) in America. Peter served as an executive, the writer, storyteller, fundraiser, technologist, producer, and on-air talent for a statewide daily TV, FM, and AM spot, bringing inspiration to eighty thousand daily viewers just before the weather during the morning news for fifteen years. Previously, he served as a staff writer for Homiletics.Online that printed one hundred and fifty of his sermons, and hundreds of prayers. Peter then published a short story in an NYT #1 Best Seller, Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul, wrote a Maine Best Seller, Two Minutes for God, and tours internationally as a speaker because of his Audible Best Seller, Heaven Is Beautiful. He is writing his third book. Peter, who suffered a second NDE from a widowmaker heart attack in 2015, has been a guest on national and international broadcasters. He sits on Maine’s Domestic Violence Homicide Review Panel.
Dr. Ingrid Honkala is a Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Master Scuba Diver, NASA and Navy Scientist, international lecturer, childhood near-death and spiritual transformative experiencer (NDEr and STEr). She has worked for the Colombian and US Navy for over thirteen years. Her worldwide oceanographic surveys and her love for travel have brought her to visit 56 countries where she has shared science and spirituality. Since birth, Ingrid lived and worked in intense combat zones of Colombia and was diagnosed with combat-related PTSD. Dr. Honkala has a great passion for understanding human consciousness and is helping to close the “gap of care” for people, especially children, and combat soldiers, who have had NDEs and STEs. In her autobiography, “A Brightly Guided Life: How a Scientist Learned to Hear her Inner Wisdom,” Ingrid details her amazing journey filled with all the challenges that brought her to reconnect with her inner-wisdom and to become a self-actualized and self-realized being.
Lilia Samoilo has been a mental health and spiritual counselor for thirty-five years. She is a medical and spiritual intuitive, an international veteran NDE advocate/NDE educator, a co-associate of Dr. Corcoran’s Vet NDE Project, and a contributor for the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) in their NDE Research Project. She is also a member of the International Association For Near-Death Studies Conference and Military/Veteran Committees. Founder and co-facilitator for a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Support Group. She is a childhood NDEr and has had multiple spiritual transformative experiences. For over forty years, Lilia has studied the cosmic laws of the universe as per her NDE at age three. Her life's mission is to share with others where she found her answers about life, light, and love, and how the study of these laws impacted her life's purpose and service to others.
Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore, M.Div., Yale Divinity School, had his first near-death experience (NDE) in March of 1981, at twenty-one years old, while ice climbing. His consciousness left his body. An intelligence came, took, and bore him a timeless eternity of Intelligence, Love, Light, and Oneness of Being. Peter Panagore chose to return to life, dramatically altering the lives around him, and his own. After completing his independent study of classical western mysticism, Panagore was ordained in the United Church of Christ and served eighteen years as a church-based and community-wide spiritual, and practical, social services ombudsmen, and preacher of love, and church leader, even though in his heart he had abandoned all religion because his heart belonged to God alone. He kept his first NDE a secret until 1990, after which, in 1993, he was recruited to broadcast television by First Radio Parish Church of America (1926-2018), the oldest continuous religious broadcast (TV, FM, AM) in America. Peter served as an executive, the writer, storyteller, fundraiser, technologist, producer, and on-air talent for a statewide daily TV, FM, and AM spot, bringing inspiration to eighty thousand daily viewers just before the weather during the morning news for fifteen years. Previously, he served as a staff writer for Homiletics.Online that printed one hundred and fifty of his sermons, and hundreds of prayers. Peter then published a short story in an NYT #1 Best Seller, Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul, wrote a Maine Best Seller, Two Minutes for God, and tours internationally as a speaker because of his Audible Best Seller, Heaven Is Beautiful. He is writing his third book. Peter, who suffered a second NDE from a widowmaker heart attack in 2015, has been a guest on national and international broadcasters. He sits on Maine’s Domestic Violence Homicide Review Panel.