Barbara Harris Whitfield is a therapist, workshop presenter, near-death experiencer, and respiratory and massage therapist. She was on the faculty of Rutgers University's Institute for Alcohol and Drug Studies for 12 years teaching on the after effects of spiritual awakenings. Barbara was research assistant to psychiatry professor Bruce Greyson, the director of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) at the University of Connecticut Medical School, studying the spiritual, psychological, physical and energetic after effects of the near-death experience. She is past president and a member of the board of the Kundalini Research Network and has sat on the executive board of IANDS. She is a consulting editor and contributor for the Journal of Near-Death Studies. Barbara was a key subject in Kenneth Ring's groundbreaking book on the near-death experience, Heading Toward Omega. He writes about her again in his latest book Lessons From the Light. She presented talks on the near-death experience to a group in the Capital in Washington, DC and also the United Nations in New York.
