Near-Death Experiencers
The SHIFT Method: Five Spiritual Keys for Living With Purpose After an NDE or STE
In this illuminating presentation, Dr. h.c. Holly Porter, shares the spiritual lessons and guidance she received through her profound near-death and spiritual transformative experiences. Drawing from her 70-day hospitalization, encounters in the realms of light, and the messages she was given to bring back, Holly reveals her SHIFT Method—five spiritual keys designed to help experiencers integrate their awakening with clarity and purpose. Through Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, and Transformation, she offers a grounded, compassionate roadmap for navigating life after an NDE or STE, where the return can be as challenging as the experience itself. Attendees will feel inspired, understood, and equipped with simple, meaningful practices to support their continued healing and spiritual alignment. This talk is both a reflection of her journey and an invitation to embrace the soul-level transformation.
Dr. h.c. Holly Porter, is an international speaker, author of seventeen books, and founder of Retreat RnR and the Adventure Bucket Wish Foundation. Her life was transformed after a profound near-death and spiritual transformative experience during a 70-day hospitalization, including multiple intubations, a coma, and powerful encounters in the realms of light. Guided by the messages she received—“More will be revealed when the time is right”—Holly now teaches others how to integrate awakening experiences with clarity, purpose, and compassion.
Her signature SHIFT Method (Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, Transformation) offers a practical, heart-centered roadmap for anyone seeking deeper spiritual alignment, whether or not they’ve experienced an NDE or STE. Holly’s work blends spiritual insight, resilience, and lived wisdom to help people navigate healing, discover meaning, and live with greater presence and purpose. She speaks from both the soul and the survivor’s perspective.
After the Light: The Magnanimous Journey — Integrating NDE & STE Gifts into a Grounded, Purpose-Driven Life
Spiritually Transformative Experiences can awaken extraordinary perception—but they can also unravel identity, emotional stability, and the sense of belonging in one’s human life. In this presentation, After the Light: The Magnanimous Journey, I share the transformational arc that experiencers often walk after an NDE or STE: the dissolution of the old self, the energetic hypersensitivity that follows, and the powerful emergence of purpose that rises from the “second birth.”
Blending lived experience, global community leadership, and vibrational awareness, I explore how experiencers can move from overwhelm into alignment—learning to stabilize their gifts, regulate their expanded sensitivity, and anchor into service without losing themselves. This talk offers an uplifting, grounded, and heart-centered framework for integrating spiritual awakenings into everyday life while honoring the wisdom, intuition, and compassion they awaken within us.
Leena Zafary is a transformational speaker, author, and founder of IANDS Las Vegas, now an official Affiliated Group of Spiritual Awakenings International. Her work weaves together consciousness studies, BioAcoustic Biology, vibrational healing, and the lived wisdom of multiple Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Known for her authentic, heart-centered presence, Leena bridges the spiritual and the practical—helping experiencers integrate heightened sensitivity, intuitive awareness, and expanded states into grounded, empowered living.
Her mission is encapsulated in her signature phrase, “Healing Hearts, Awakening Souls.” Through workshops, online communities, podcast interviews, and global collaborations, she supports thousands in understanding the life-changing after-effects of NDEs and STEs. Leena’s work illuminates the path of magnanimity—living with courage, compassion, and vibrational alignment after profound spiritual awakening.
Growth During Turbulent Times
I offer first-hand information about what what is going on in our intense world now and for the next several decades, as well as what exists beyond this life within time and space, thanks to what I learned (as others have) from an extraordinary ‘near-death’ experience (NDE) I had in 1977. My book, A Second In Eternity, describes that incredible voyage in detail, and I inspire others to see the Light in spite of the darkness. How? By choice and practice. The Kingdom of Heaven is always WITHIN.
I became interested in psychic ability as a child growing up as the third of seven sons. During college (1965-1970 Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University) I began reading about Edgar Cayce and other psychics, and began developing my psychic abilities. I started giving psychic readings in 1972. In 1977, I had an intense but life-changing Near Death Experience (NDE) that changed my life forever and I am learning more every day about life, love, empowerment, how to read the signs and connect with Guides and Higher Consciousness, and the importance of attitudes, perspectives and intentions.
Into the Heart of Christ: What I Was Shown During My NDE
In 2001, Sharon Sananda Kumara underwent a profound near-death experience that opened a gateway into realms of infinite love and deep soul remembrance. She recounts the moment she left her physical body, the extraordinary encounter with Jesus that followed, and the powerful healing journey that unfolded beyond the veil. Sharon shares how this experience awakened her spiritual gifts, transformed her life’s direction, and ignited her calling to serve as a bridge between worlds. Attendees will gain insight into what the soul carries beyond the physical plane, along with a timeless reminder that our divine presence—and the love that guides us—never leaves our side.
Sharon Sananda Kumara in service as a psychic-medium, channel, spiritual counselor, and author whose work centers on helping individuals awaken their own unique gifts and abilities. Her unique gifts & abilities were profoundly activated after a transformative near-death experience in 2001, during which she was guided by Jesus through the cosmos to what she recognized as a Home planet. Sharon is the founder of the Kumara Academy of Transformation, an accredited institution offering various transformational courses. With over two decades of experience, she supports clients and students with grounded wisdom, compassionate insight, and a deep respect for both ancient traditions and modern spiritual understanding. Her work weaves practical tools with heartfelt service to empower others on their awakening journey.
