Over the past 40 years, she has interviewed nearly 4,000 NDE survivors, many of them children, and is the author of 15 books on near-death phenomenon.

A scientist and metaphysician, Atwater is a bold and courageous emissary for the NDErs who shared their extraordinary and deeply personal stories with her. But she's also on a mission of her own: to wake people up to the "brilliant and unimaginably powerful light on the other side"—and to who we are and can be, right here and right now.

In Beyond the Light and The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences, as in her books, she cites the fundamental—and universal—language of energy as the key to this plane and other dimensions.

In May of 2016, Atwater demonstrated the exceptionally stable aftereffects of her NDEs and decades of meditation—both before and after she died—during a stunning vibrational shift into the consciousness of what she calls Presence.

Then I realized: it wasn't the roar of the ocean outside, but the inner music of kundalini that I was hearing. The Atwaters had raised the vibration of the room—and, in the process, raised mine.

I was amazed by the coherence and stability of their brainwave patterns. Terry's were excellent. But I had never seen anything like P.M.H.'s, not in more than a thousand studies I've conducted on the Mind Mirror over the past 12 years.

Diving into the quiet depths of her unconscious mind's low-frequency delta waves, P.M.H. rested in that still-point for a while then allowed what she calls Presence to flow in, whereupon her vibration shifted all the way up to the super-high gamma frequencies of spiritual ecstasy and mystical transcendence.

Within five minutes, her gamma waves amplified to an astonishing 20 microvolts then 30 microvolts and at the 12-minute point surged to a previously unseen 50 microvolts.

I was amazed by these amplitudes (the power of the signal), as most people produce very little gamma. High-amplitude gamma is most often seen in healers, psychics and spiritual adepts, but even in these people, who have learned to integrate such high frequencies, more than five to 10 microvolts typically speeds up the heartbeat and/or over-arouses the nervous system.

P.M.H. smiled blissfully throughout the 16-minute study. She was accustomed to plugging in, and she knew how to process the energy and information which spontaneously flow into gamma: in response, she orchestrated the Awakened Mind pattern of whole-brain synchrony. People use this ideal brainwave pattern for creative problem-solving and personal transformation. It is most often seen in advanced meditators, healers, spiritual adepts, and high-performers of any stripe who are operating at their top of their game.

P.M.H. repeated this cycle throughout the study: plunging into low-frequency delta and rising up into high-frequency gamma and then forming the Awakened Mind pattern. She surfed these waves with extraordinary symmetry, stability, and coherence.

Terry Atwater, a former radio broadcaster now involved in setting up blood drives and community service projects, maintained a high-amplitude Awakened Mind pattern until the 3-minute point, at which time his gamma waves suddenly amplified into the Evolved Mind pattern of bliss, non-duality, and transcendence.

It was quite a light-show. But for P.M.H.—and probably most of the people who meet her—this display of higher consciousness was not exactly unexpected.

Check the accompanying study for the data analysis below, it is also uploaded to IAM's Mind Mirror Studies page.

When she interviewed thousands of NDErs, she observed behavior patterns that were similar to those of dowsers. She also sensed that same unconscious-superconscious brainwave pattern operating in about 42 percent of adult NDE experiencers and 65 percent of the children. Synchronistically, Atwater herself displayed this brainwave pattern on my Mind Mirror nearly 40 years later in Virginia Beach.

At one point during her meditation, I asked what she was doing, and she said, "I'm being me! Me!" I was mystified by what she meant until two months later, when I interviewed her in Charlottesville, where she lives.

That's how meditators who develop gamma waves describe this felt state, which develops quite naturally over time. NDErs skip the months and sometimes years of practice by streaming up into gamma instantaneously.

What makes the effort—and the NDE—worthwhile is not just the ecstasy, but the revelations and aftereffects of the experience.

The aftereffects of NDEs and spiritual transformations are many and varied. Atwater exhibits most of them, including youthful radiance, a childlike enthusiasm for life, and psychic powers strong enough to perturb electromagnetic devices.

This delta-gamma plunge, of course, is just what I saw in Atwater's brainwaves and what she saw in dowsers on the Mind Mirror back in the early 1980s and then in NDErs with her observation of their behaviors and her psychic inner vision.

Many NDE researchers correlate NDEs and spiritual transformations with the rise of the life force, or Kundalini/Ku, through the chakra system (spinning wheels of energy) associated with endocrine glands. Studies carried out by other researchers over the past few decades correlate kundalini with high-frequency gamma waves.

Atwater's books have revealed many aspects of NDEs that were either glossed over or unknown before. One is that not every NDE leads to paradise; some people have hellish experiences, depending on their beliefs and self-perception.

It has long been known that people who have NDEs are very often predisposed to them by childhood trauma and/or high levels of attentional awareness (respectively, the dissociation and absorption factors in the "encounter-prone" personality).

What Atwater found—which is a startling revelation and a comfort to many people—is what carries us to different levels of light. It is not our thoughts, deeds and behaviors which determine our experiences on the other side—be that heaven or hell—but rather, the degree of our self-acceptance and self-love.
St. Peter at the pearly gate does not judge us. Rather, we judge ourselves.

What's more, we are the ones who determine whether we will have an NDE or spiritual transformation and the proper timing of it. Atwater's research shows that people shift to a higher vibration when change is most needed in their lives.

The casual reader may find Atwater's three NDEs (see the sidebar) unbelievable. And yet, every NDE is superordinary by definition.

Take the case of George Rodonaia, a Russian neuropathologist, atheist, and dissident who was assassinated by the KGB in 2004 and placed in a morgue freezer vault for three days. He revived when an autopsy physician made a third incision in his abdomen, whereupon one of the attending physicians fell to the floor in a dead faint. Three days later, as soon as Rodonaia was able to speak—the tongue swells at death—the first thing he reported was having floated out of his body and over the hospital nursery, where an infant was screaming in pain. The child had been dropped by the head nurse in the birthing room, and both of its hips were broken. The head nurse, confronted during an investigation, admitted to having dropped the newborn.

Atwater also tells the story of the mother of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who died from an illness, was given a proper funeral, and then was interred in the family vault. A relative who arrived late insisted on a viewing and saw her chest move, whereupon the indignant corpse opened her eyes and scolded her visitors for "jumping to conclusions." Three years later, the woman gave birth to the soldier who would rise to fame as general of the Confederate Army of Virginia during the American Civil War.

What makes these experiences amazing is not just that people came back to life, recounted their stories, and experienced superordinary aftereffects. It's also that these aftereffects changed their lives and their DNA.

Rodonaia, previously an atheist, took a second doctoral degree in the psychology of religion after his NDE and became an ordained minister. Robert E. Lee's mother might well have passed on gamma light to her son. Abraham Lincoln admired the high-minded military man enough to offer him the command of federal forces during the Civil War. Lee chose not to fight his neighbors and instead led the Army of Virginia, the most successful of the Confederate armies.

Abraham Lincoln himself drowned and had an NDE, as did a great many other geniuses in history. A surprising number of modern-day celebrities speak freely of how their NDEs transformed their lives, from pioneering chemist Marcel Vogel and singer Tony Bennett, to actress Sharon Stone, and filmmaker George Lucas.

More than anything else, what helps NDErs and the spiritually transformed reintegrate with earthly life is their vivid memories of what it felt like to be bathed in light. In returning to that light, they remember who they really are and recognize what they are meant to do in the earth. Not everyone—but most.

Atwater smiled, her eyes bright with happiness. "It fills you with loveshine…and at last you remember God as nameless Presence, you as a soul."

On the other side of life, people at first see what is comforting and familiar. Some are met by Jesus or Buddha, and others by angels, guides, or spirit people. These mental projections are visible for a while and then, when the NDEr is ready, they shift into pure light.

Following are some of the drawings made by near-death survivors in six countries. Atwater displayed them during her lecture at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. This remarkable slide show, lasting one hour, transmits to the discerning viewer a distinctly high vibration.

See below the notes from PMH Awater about this slide show.

Atwater laughingly refers to her three NDEs as "heaven's sledgehammer." The sledgehammer came down with a bang—and with severe psycho-physiological ramifications. But it woke her up, and she wasn't likely to ignore or forget it.

The first time Atwater died was during a miscarriage on January 2, 1977. She found herself floating next to the bathroom light bulb, an eyelash away from the ceiling. When she asked questions like, "Why am I up here, bobbing along the ceiling?" her questions took the form of "dark gray blobs," like buoyant ink blots, floating alongside her. She snapped back into her body, but continued to bleed profusely.

Two days later, on January 4, 1977, she floated painlessly out of her body up to the ceiling of her dining room and shouted gleefully, "I'm dead, thank God, I'm dead." When she wondered, "Isn't an angel supposed to come and take me somewhere?" her thought forms appeared as shimmering pastel bubbles. While she played with them, the dining room dropped away and revealed a space that was somehow light and dark at the same time. Contained within it were all shapes, forms, sound, color, mass and movement. It winked off and on. She understood that it was some kind of sparkling potential and named it "The Void."

Within this Void, she used her thoughts to create a finely detailed house and tree. Then she went on a "creation binge" by forming living, breathing cities filled with people, houses, shrubbery, noise and life. As she rested, she wondered if she could see loved ones who had passed on, and they appeared immediately just as she had last seen them. A grandfather she had never met showed up, as did Jesus. She chatted happily with Jesus and thanked him for his part in history. When he and her loved ones disappeared, she dissolved her creations and looked down to see her shape or form. She was a tiny sparkle of pure consciousness, a miniscule spark of light.

With this realization, she pronounced her personality good and the life she had lived worth living. At that, the Void floated away and she looked down with great love at her body lying on the floor.

She had to shrink and squeeze into the top of her physical head in order to fit back into her body.

But this time, she felt lost between two worlds and recognized virtually nothing in her environment, including her two daughters. Remembering that she needed to earn money for her family, she shook herself back to ordinary awareness and returned to her job in a bank. Nothing was the same in her life, including compromised health from the hematoma and phlebitis which had killed her.

Atwater's third death, on March 29, 1977, was a kind of willed suicide, in that she was ill and miserable with herself and her life. She wanted to die, and soon her vital signs stopped and she fell onto a living room chair.

This time, her consciousness moved rapidly up and out through the top of her head beyond the Earth into the starry sky, where she spied a slit of brilliant light which opened slightly and absorbed her. The light inside the opening was intense, probing, radiant, powerful, and omnipresent.

She sensed that she was witnessing "Creation at its Centerpoint, the gateway to unknown forevers," and felt drawn to the centerpoint core between the cyclones. She felt the intensity of the rays and their piercing power, but just as she began to enter, her son Kelly began to speak of his love for her. He had rushed home from an evening with friends after an intuitive impulse told him that his mother was in great danger.

Mesmerized by her son's unconditional love, P.M.H. turned away from the cyclones, rushed through the night sky, and re-entered her body through her head. She worked long and hard to restart her body, and it was years before she regained control and fully reintegrated her soul with her mind and body. She barely knew Phyllis—a common NDE aftereffect—and who she was made no sense to her children, another common aftereffect. Everything seemed radiantly connected and alive—which explains why she gave her threadbare coat a burial in the back yard, much to the amusement of her family.

Also like other NDE survivors, Atwater feared for her sanity. By one of those synchronous events that weave their way through the lives of near-death survivors, she met death-and-dying authority Elisabeth Kubler-Ross at Chicago's O'Hare Airport not long afterward. In an hour-long conversation, Kubler-Ross told her that she was a near-death survivor. Atwater had known nothing about the phenomenon and was greatly reassured.

But what were the cyclones?

In the fall of 1977, she found out during a Church of Religious Science symposium in Seattle. The first speaker, Dr. William Tiller, a physicist then with Stanford University, showed drawings on a projector screen during his talk on "The Eternal Now." Tiller concluded his talk by stating his belief that everything happens at the same time in the same space. Then he showed a drawing of what the physical dynamics of that phenomenon might look like.

To Atwater's astonishment—and deep recognition—the drawing showed two spinning cyclones inverted over each other in an hourglass shape. Where the spouts should have touched but did not was a powerful force shooting rays out in all directions.

Today, many scientists speak of the torus as the only self-sustaining, self-organizing waveform—the foundation and expression of creation and possibly the source of the zero-point energy that will someday power life on earth.

According to Atwater, it is already powering life on earth and exists beyond the earth as a kind of template for all that is.

Atwater knew what he meant: it was time to get back to the third book shown to her by The Voice Like None Other during her third NDE. The Voice (which was more than a voice) said, "Test revelation. You are to do the research. One book for each death."

Atwater is happy to follow orders—if they come from the higher consciousness which serves her and others.

Born with dyslexia and synesthesia, she was forced to sit on a tall stool in front of her first grade class—sometimes wearing a conical hat that said "Dunce" on it—as an example of a bad child who told lies. It was the Norwegian couple she stayed with after first grade who showed her what unconditional love was. She remained a "quiet fighter" who loved to imagine and create new ways of doing things.

She rode in her adoptive father's police car, listened to interrogations, and through the years heard countless victims report that they had had intuitive warnings but did not listen to them. In her twenties, she joined an Edgar Cayce study group in Boise, Idaho, and took up meditation, then founded a metaphysical society, Inner Forum, "to distinguish truth from puffery." She studied hypnotherapy, conducted past life regressions with children, and beginning in 1966 intensely explored Eastern religions, psychism, mysticism, and altered states of consciousness. Her work as a metaphysician, award-winning writer, data analyst, and cop's daughter prepared her to investigate and transform consciousness.

Each of Atwater's books was inspired. She was shown the content of each, but not how to write them.

Here's a link to information about P.M.H.'s newest book, A Manual for Developing Humans.
Published by Rainbow Ridge Books, it will be available for purchase in April.

Watch for A Manual for Developing Humans and other books which are already alive in Atwater's multi-dimensional consciousness. There's no telling what riches—and worlds of hope—humanity will find in them.