ABOUT ELIZABETH
When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a late afternoon in September 1988, she couldn’t have anticipated she would within seconds be struck by lightning and have a neardeath experience. She felt herself transported to a garden and engaging in a revelatory conversation with a spiritual being. When she recovered, her most fundamental understandings of what the world is and how it works had been completely transformed. She was “changed in a flash”, suddenly able to interact with those who had died and have prescient dreams predicting news events. She came to believe that some early traumatic and abusive experiences had played a part in preparing her for this experience. Told in matteroffact language, the first half of her book Changed in a Flash is the story of Krohn’s journey, and the second is an interpretation and analysis by respected professor of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal. He places Krohn’s experience in the context of religious traditions and proposes the groundbreaking idea that we are shaping our own experiences in the future by how we engage with neardeath experiences in the present. Changed in a Flash is not about proving a story, but about carving out space for serious discussion of this phenomenon.

ABOUT IANDS
IANDS is a membership nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to advance globalunderstanding of NDEs and related experiences through research, education, and support. We envision a future in which all people embrace neardeath and related experiences as a source of meaning and inspiration for a better world. We believe NDEs can transform an individual’s life, influence the sciences, and embolden society. Today, IANDS engages in far more than research and has members from around the world. We invite you to consider becoming a member of IANDS. To learn more about neardeath experiences, visit iands.org.

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What is an NDE?
An 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, socioeconomic groups, cultures, educational backgrounds, and belief systems. They occur under a variety of circumstances such as accidents, neardrownings, 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 longterm aftereffects. Theories used to explain neardeath experiences in purely physical terms have been proven inadequate by NDE researchers and others.