Nancy Evans Bush

Over three decades, Nancy Evans Bush has built a reputation as a trusted pioneer in research of those near-death experiences which are not the usual peaceful kind but are distressing, downright frightening or even hellish. A past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), with which she has been affiliated since 1982, she is the author of Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences, called "the bible of the subject." She is a former teacher and nonprofit administrator with a Bachelor's degree from SUNY-Albany and a Master's in Pastoral Ministry and Spirituality from St. Joseph University. See the website, www.dancingpastthedark.com for more information and blog. She is now retired, living beside a tidal marsh in coastal North Carolina, looking at birds and tides.