Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
MEETING
Ice climber shares near-death experience at upcoming Peoria gathering
(Photo provided by NW Valley IANDS)
Peter Panagore will be the featured speaker at a Feb. 18 meeting of the Northwest Valley Friends of IANDS Chapter in Peoria.
Posted
IF YOU GO
What: Northwest Valley Friends of IANDS Chapter monthly meeting
Who: Peter Panagore, near-death experiencer and author of “Heaven is Beautiful.” Former UCC Minister, Peter is a blogger and podcaster.
When: 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18
Where: Rio Vista Recreation Center, 8866 W. Thunderbird Road, Peoria
Cost: $5 minimum donation suggested to offset the cost of the room
More Information: Email Timothy Dombek at timothy.dombek@outlook.com
By Timothy Dombek | NW Valley IANDS
When Peter Panagore died while ice climbing in Banff Provincial Park in Canada in March of 1980, his life changed forever.
A novice climber, his partner was experienced, and they went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall along the Ice Field Parkway in Alberta, Canada. While temperatures dropped as the sun set during their descent, Peter and his partner got trapped on the side of the mountain.
Experiencing hypothermia and exhaustion, Peter died on that mountainside, and experienced unconditional love, forgiveness, and the bliss of heaven during his near-death experience. When he miraculously revived, they completed their descent, but Peter was a different person than the one who went up the mountain earlier that fateful day.
On Sunday, Feb. 18, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Peter Panagore will tell his story at the Northwest Valley International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) meeting at the Rio Vista Recreation Center, located at 8866 W. Thunderbird Road, in Peoria, just west of the Loop 101 and Thunderbird Road intersection.
NW Valley IANDS meetings represent a local support group affiliated with the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Founded in 1978, IANDS is a non-sectarian organization committed to providing a safe space and supporting people who have had near-death experiences or other spiritually transformative experiences.
IANDS welcomes all persons who are interested in our work and our events, regardless of whether you have had a near-death experience or other spiritual or paranormal experience. IANDS does not endorse any particular doctrine, political position, philosophy, or religious interpretation of anything shared in an IANDS event. Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed during an IANDS event are those of each individual and do not reflect any official position of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.
The NW Valley Chapter of IANDS has been meeting since 2017.
