T6 Afterwards: Coming to Terms with a Frightening NDE

My premise is that as radiant NDEs reflect a peak of spiritual experience, so terrifying NDEs are an excursion into the spiritual depths and can lead to profound insight.  However, the difficulties in achieving that understanding are enormous.  Unlike people emerging from radiant spiritual experiences knowing, "I am loved!," these experiencers know equally strongly that they are threatened, damned, cast out; they carry within themselves not joy but betrayal and terror.  During this presentation I share some perspectives about alternative interpretations, based on almost 40 years of personal experience, such NDE-related research as there is, and wide reading in the spiritual literature as well as in Jungian shadow, post-traumatic stress, and psychedelic experience.