​Meeting Wednesday April 30th

Come join us at the North Syracuse Community Center for a presentation by
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             Mark Shaughnessy
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​Meeting starts at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)          $10 donation

Mark Shaughnessy will be our speaker on Wednesday April 30th at the North Syracuse Community Center.
Mark is a deep and profound thinker, that comes across right away when speaking to him.
Mark was just seven years old when he lost his mother on Thanksgiving. 3 months later his favorite teacher died.. He experienced a very deep profound sense of lost and survivors guilt. Then at 13 he was getting off a bus with his best friend Mike and another kid, when he heard a voice say “Look at the light.” He stopped, the other 2 kids were killed. He had stopped just 3 inches away from disaster.
Mark went on to get his BA in sociology at Cortland. He liked working with his hands and life led him to become an apprentice at his father-in-law's business - McDonald Plumbing. A few years later he took over the business. He was in plumbing for 50 years. He states he has a respect for the water, without water there is no life.
Marks relays that he knew very little of the spiritual world until his wife Coleen had her near death experience in 1999 during which she did come to him. She recovered and something had changed. She could see spirits. They both started exploring and practicing reiki and meditation, attending IANDS and Dowser meetings, visiting Lilydale, sharing experiences and learning.
Mark became a reader working with Native American Medicine cards for 20 years. He has done readings in Canada, Akwesasne, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. He is also a practicing Reiki Master. He is an avid naturalist and outdoorsman, has always enjoyed being surrounded by nature and finds peace and comfort from the animals and plants he encounters.
Then in 2020 Mark had open heart surgery to repair a valve damaged in fall off a roof. In that fall he had blown out a mitral valve and tricuspid, that injury would normally render a person dead within two minutes his surgeon told him. Other serious medical events have since transpired. Two and a half years ago Mark started seeing his mother in his dreams, but he never saw her face, That changed this past December - he saw her face during a stroke. Mark asked her to wait, that as long as Spirit has something useful for him to do, that he would stay. Come hear Mark’s mantra. The idea that Mark is focusing on now is that Miracles and Paradoxes are mirror images of each other. Mark is asking spirit to be centered and to say what most needs to be healed


Meeting starts at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)
North Syracuse Community Center
700 South Bay Rd
North Syracuse, NY 13212
$10 donation
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Brought to you by - Upstate NY IANDS ( International Association of Near Death Studies)

​The UPSTATE NY IANDS mission is to respond to needs for information and support concerning near-death and similar experiences. We are a Local Discussion/Interest not-for-profit group that is open to the public.

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​Our meetings includes both experiencers and non-experiencers, and are open to everyone. In these meetings we may invite Authors and speakers, or show movies, so we may bring in interesting and fascinating accounts of near-death experiences and other spiritually transformative experiences into our area. These meetings are for a broad range of people and appeal to anyone who is comfortable in a “learning” atmosphere.

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Many of our participants have a sensitivity to strong fragrances, so please avoid wearing any strong smelling fragrances, oils, or other, when attending our meetings. Thank you.
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Meeting location is: North Syracuse Community Center 700 South Bay Rd North Syracuse, NY 13212

What are STEs?  

Spiritually Transformative Experiences or STEs,  are events that affect us in a very real and spiritual ways. We’ve all had such experiences, big ones like an NDE or an encounter experience, or even an after death communication, or small ones like lucid or prophetic dreams, a past life regression, or a hunch that comes true. There are many types of such experiences which serve are catalysts for spiritual transformation and awakening. They often bring change our perspective of ourselves, our connection to each other, and to the Universe. 

Such experiences can happen at any time, to anyone, under any circumstances. Some of these experiences are big and obvious, like a thunderstorm or even tornado. Others are small and subtle, more like a soft summer rain. What is important about them is that we listen to them, because it is often through these kinds of experiences we awaken to who we truly are, we remember our divinity. They touch us in personal and significant ways that cannot be easily measured or dismissed, because they catalyze the realization of our higher human potential. 

While some of these STEs are easy or amazing, sometimes they are harsh and painful. It is easier to integrate these experiences through sharing them, telling our stories and understanding the patterns of such experiences, in order to better understand why they happened to us in the first place. 
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The UPSTATE NY IANDS mission is to respond to needs for information and support concerning near-death and similar experiences.