Welcome to Our Paranormal Afterlife.

This is an Our Paranormal Afterlife classic episode, and I'm your host Simon Bown.

At Our Paranormal Afterlife, my mission is to explore evidence that we continue beyond physical

death. These episodes encompass reincarnation, near-death experiences, spirit communication,

deathbed visions and other extraordinary phenomena. These episodes are full of great information,

and I thought it would be a good idea to share them again for listeners who may have missed them the first time around. So this is one of the episodes that

stands out for me from the early days of the podcast. This episode dates back to November

2018 and it features a conversation with William Peters where we talk about the Shared Crossing

Project. Thank you very much

for coming onto the podcast. It's really kind of you to give us your time. First of all, could you

tell us a little bit about your background? So, you know, by formal training, I'm a psychotherapist,

a marriage and family therapist. I work in Santa Barbara at the

Family Therapy Institute. But I'm really, as much as I focus on mental health, I really,

my practice is focused primarily on end of life, bereavement, and psychospiritual issues related

to those experiences, but actually any experience.

I think that, you know, just based on my own particular experiences, which I'll go into in a moment,

but those experiences have really prepared me to be quite comfortable and receptive to people who are having any

type of extraordinary spiritual experience. And most mental health practitioners really are not

trained to deal with spiritually transformative experiences, I don't know much about them,

and may even look askance at them, discount them, and even in the worst case analysis, they might even disparage or pathologize people who are having these experiences, thinking that may be part of a mental illness.

But my own personal experience was that I had a near-death experience when I was 17 years

old, high-speed skiing accident. And it was a pretty classic near-death experience in the sense that I

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