Induced After-Death Communication
Induced After-Death Communication, or IADC, is a process by which a psychiatrist or psychotherapist can induce an After-Death Communication. What the subject experiences is very similar to that of a near-death experience.
IADC was discovered, purely by accident, by Dr Allen Botkin, a specialist in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at a Veterans’ Administration Hospital in the US. Most of his patients were highly traumatised frontline soldiers, exposed to the extremes of combat.
PTSD is a mental condition brought on by a traumatic experience. The symptoms are vivid flashbacks, anxiety, depression and sleeping problems. Any situation that a person finds traumatic can bring it on. Examples include road accidents, assault, even childbirth. Needless to say, the horrors and consequential trauma that could be inflicted upon a frontline soldier, doesn’t bear thinking about. No amount of time can ease the memory of such expriences – or so you’d think. The most common treatment had been, and often still is, antidepressants and counselling.
However, in 1987, a phenomenon they would call Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) was discovered, and eventually hailed as one of the most significant breakthroughs in psychology for decades. It was by modifying this process that in 1995, Dr Allen Botkin accidentally induce an After Death Communication.
The standard EMDR treatment takes place over 8 sessions? However, in IADC only two sessions are required.
In the first session the subject is asked to bring their most disturbing memories to the very forefront of their minds; to confront fully their greatest demons. This is called Core-focused EMDR therapy. Dr Botkin explains: “…the client must be moved away from the more superficial emotions of anger, guilt and shame, into the core sadness - the root cause of severe grief and trauma.”
In the second session, again concentrating on their most disturbing memories, the client must move their eyes with a continuous rhythmic movement from left to right. To control this movement, the practitioner will ask the subject to follow his or her finger or some other suitable object, while at the same time concentrating on their grief. This is the process used also for standard EMDR. However, Dr Botkin made some modifications, which resulted in the patient entering an After Death Communication. The exact details of these modifications are available only to suitably qualified healthcare professionals.
(Although this movement may be reminiscent of the films of the 1950s involving sinister hypnotists, hypnosis places no part in EMDR.)
The results were impressive. Many deeply traumatised patients, who'd been undergoing standard therapies for many years, made vast improvement after just one course of treatment. However, as is the case with most medical processes, the outcome is not enjoyed at the same level by everyone; there is always room for improvement.
For many years, Dr Botkin had been using EMDR to treat deeply traumatised frontline veterans, from the conflict zones of Vietnam, Korea and The Middle East etc. Seeing some of the shortcomings of EMDR, he tried a few modifications of his own. The result brought about a very pronounced improvement, but Dr Botkin admits that, at the beginning, he wasn’t aware of what was really happening. It took a few sessions for him to realise that his new procedure was invoking an After Death Communication, very similar to that of a Near-Death Experience.
As in a Near-Death Experience, subjects have contact with people no longer in this life. For Dr Botkin, many of his subjects were soldiers traumatised by the violent deaths of war - friends perhaps shot or blown up before their very eyes; the violent deaths of little children; soldiers seeking forgiveness from the people they had killed.
Relief comes because people in the next realm are always very happy, very well and forgiving. It’s important to remember that this forgiveness was given to professional soldiers. It’s not clear what happens when forgiveness is asked from someone whose life you took away through, for example, wanton street violence. It’s not even clear they would appear to you at all.
You do not of course have to have been a frontline soldier to have an Induced After Death Communication. It’s for anyone truly suffering through bereavement or tragedy. Just a sad memory will not usually be enough. And you can’t cheat. The deceased know at least as much as you do. The afterlife realm is not open for tourism.
The results of Dr Botkin’s new method is nothing short of miraculous, and the subject of many university research projects.
Now, 25 years on, Allen Botkin Treatment Centres are opening outside the United States, with the latest in Germany.
Research by Dr Mo Therese Hannah identified the following as the greatest levels of improvement brought about by Induced After Death Communication:
1. A decrease in associated sadness, guilt, and anger
2. An increase in a belief in an afterlife
3. An increase in the belief that one can get on with life in spite of the loss
4. A decrease in unwanted thoughts or images associated with the loss
5. An increase in the belief that the person they lost is still with them in an important way
6. A decrease in the belief that their loss is having a negative impact on their life
7. A decrease in feeling disconnected to the person they lost
To appreciate fully the impact and implications of this phenomenon, it is recommended that you read Dr Allen Botkin’s book: Induced After Death Communication.