​​Seattle International Association for Near-Death Studies

October 10th, 2026 at 1:30 - 3:30pm PDT


Wallingford Senior Center

4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Suite 140 Seattle WA 98103
 
Attendance Protocol for meetings until otherwise notified:
Masks optional
Coffee, treats and bottled water provided
$10 donation at the door, cash, check or PayPal, Venmo, QR codes

Volunteer Monitors Needed

Please arrive early

Plan for Traffic Delays 

***Small group gathering after the meeting***​

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Ann P. McMahon, Ph.D.
Childhood NDEr, Amateur Astronomer, Retired Engineer and STEM Educator
Ann’s NDE happened during back-to-back rubella and rubeola measles infections when she was
four years old. One of her first childhood memories is of being very sick, peacefully slipping out
of her body and drifting into the ineffable bliss of her soul’s true home. There Ann met a being of
light and love who endowed her with abilities and understandings that have shaped her life ever
since. The loving being told Ann she couldn’t stay just yet and sent her back to her physical
body. To this day, Ann fondly remembers visiting her nonphysical home and looks forward to
returning when her time wearing this body is done.
Ann’s early awareness of her larger, nonphysical self helped her navigate childhood in a family
characterized by dysfunction, mental illness, and chaos. Ann’s subsequent and ongoing out-of-
body experiences and synchronicities provide guidance in her physical life and comforting
reminders of her nonphysical home, even though it took her decades to tame the fear those
experiences often evoked. Her personal and professional interests evolved to be hopeful yet
distant approximations of the awe, unconditional love, and belonging her NDE provided. Gazing
at the expansive night sky elicited feelings that came closest to the blissful feelings of her NDE,

and Ann became obsessed with astronomy by age ten. A lifelong science communicator, Ann
loves inspiring curiosity and amazement through meaningful interactions with nature and the
engineered world. Her career in STEM education has helped countless students, teachers, and
public audiences wonder about and understand our natural and human-made world. She believes
that shared experiences of wonder and awe offer people a bridge of awareness that extends
beyond our seemingly separate lives on earth to our collective nonphysical home. Watch her
2015 TEDxSnoIsleLibraries talk “Empathy of Engineering” here.
TEDxSnoIsleLibraries 2015: Empathy of Engineering

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Have you seen the Netflix series Surviving Death?
The inaugural episode includes footage at a Seattle IANDS meeting.  Heavily featured is Jose Hernandez who shared his NDE at that meeting as well as Kimberly Clark Sharp addressing attendees and counseling new NDEr Dannet Cramer.
Episode 1 on Near-Death Experiences features Seattle IANDS. We feel that our group was well-presented in that episode and encourage people to watch it for an introduction to our organization.  We have also had  inquiries about the phenomena covered in the other episodes of the series. Seattle IANDS is not affiliated with any of the people featured in those episodes and had no input regarding the content of the other episodes

​​Meeting DirectionsMeeting Location
Wallingford Community Senior Center
                   in the Good Shepherd Center.
                   4649 Sunnyside Ave N Suite140
                   Seattle, WA  98103

From I-5 North or South:
  • Take Exit 169 at NE 45th St. / NE 50th St. exit.
  • Take ramp to NE 50th St.
  • Turn onto NE 50th St. heading west (toward Greenlake).
  • Go approximately 0.5 mile
  • Sunnyside Ave. N. is at top of hill & at a stoplight
  • Turn left onto Sunnyside
  • Good Shepherd Center is halfway down the block on the right
Click here to plan your Metro Bus trip to the meeting.

Free parking is available in two on-site lots to the north and south of the entrance of the building and on the surrounding streets.

The Senior Center is located in the lower level.
From the front entrance of the building, enter through the lower level. WCSC will be on your right in the north end of the lower level.
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