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Nancy Evans Bush
Nancy Evans Bush came to the International Association for Near-Death Studies in 1982 as its first Executive Director. She had been a teacher and a nonprofit administrator; she had never heard of a near-death experience. However, she quickly realized that a traumatic event she had never been able to explain was a frightening NDE. She is now the go-to researcher on that subject. When the IANDS office moved from Connecticut, she became a freelance technical writer so she could continue her research. It took ten years to develop a large enough study group, but in 1992 she and head researcher Bruce Greyson, MD, co-authored the first peer-reviewed study of distressing NDEs, published in the journal Psychiatry.
Her Bachelor’s degree is from SUNY-Albany, and her Master’s in Pastoral Ministry and Spirituality from St. Joseph University in Connecticut. She was a long-time Board member of IANDS and is a past President. Her 2012 book, Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences, has been called the bible on the topic, and author Anne Rice told her blog readers . Her second book, The Buddha in Hell: Perspectives on Distressing NDEs, will be followed late this year by Book #3, about how integrating her own NDE led her to a new cosmology. The mother of three, grandmother of seven, and great-grand of two, she lives with her long-time partner beside a tidal marsh in coastal North Carolina.
Nancy Evans Bush is the go-to researcher on the subject of Distressing Near Death Experiences. In 1992 she and head IANDS researcher Dr. Bruce Greyson of the University of Virginia, co-authored the first peer-reviewed study of distressing NDEs, published in the journal Psychiatry.
Anne Rice hailed Nancy’s first book “Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences, as the bible on the topic.
Her second book is “The Buddha in Hell: Perspectives on Distressing NDEs,” and coming soon is her eagerly anticipated third Book about how integrating her own NDE led her to a new cosmology.
The mother of three, grandmother of seven, and great-grand of two, she lives with her long-time partner beside a tidal marsh in coastal North Carolina.
