Sheryl has had a life-long interest in the paranormal which began in her teenage years, but in 1980 she began seriously studying the phenomenon of Near Death Experiences. Soon after she joined the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDs) and in 1995 hosted Dr Ken Ring for the Brisbane leg of his Australian tour where he presented research for his future book Mindsight: Near Death and Out Of Body Experiences In The Blind. She also developed a deep interest in the UFO phenomenon, catalysed by her father-in-laws interest after he attended a UFO meeting hosting George Adamski in the 1960s. In 1988 she joined the Brisbane based Association, UFO Research Queensland, and three years later took on the role of President. Then in 1992, Sheryl and her late husband Dr Martin Gottschall, established the first close encounter support group in Brisbane after Budd Hopkins Australian tour. Dr Rings book The Omega Project: Near Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and the Mind At Large (1992) ignited Sheryl’s interest in the connections between UFOs and NDEs which was now being corroborated by the witnesses she was interviewing. Some years later in 2012, she established the monthly Afterlife Discussions group where she continues to find links between UFOs and the afterlife in the stories shared. Sheryl is also the Australian representative for the recently launched International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER), the first truly global international UFO organisation that considers we now need to prepare for confirmation that the Earth is being engaged by non-human intelligences. ICER aims to take this discussion to the highest levels of governance, including the United Nations. Sheryl has had many paranormal experiences herself including an NDE, a bi-location experience, Out of Body experiences (OBE), UFO sightings, a close encounter with non human intelligences (ETs), poltergeist activity, automatic writing, and other unexplained phenomena; all of which propel her to continue on her quest to understand what it means to be human. Sheryl’s research bridges the Afterlife and UFO subjects, and wanting to understand the UFO phenomenon more deeply led her to train in shamanism which she now teaches. She speaks regularly about the UFO phenomenon and the Afterlife at public meetings, conferences, community groups, schools, libraries and has given hundreds of media interviews. She has written articles for many UFO and New Age magazines and in 2018 was a regular guest on the weekly Spooky Action radio show and co-hosted the Strange Encounters radio show in 2019. Currently she is a regular writer for the UFO Research Queensland bi-monthly publication, UFO Encounter. Sheryl works as a clinical hypnotherapist, teaches Reiki, art therapy, shamanism and will be launching the Strange Encounters podcast in August 2021. Contact Sheryl at: info@uforq.asn.au ; www.uforq.asn.au ; https://twitter.com/UFOhubnews www.facebook.com/uforesearchqueensland ; www.youtube.com/c/UFOResearchQueensland For more typical skeptic podcast interviews go to: www.youtube.com/c/typicalskeptic www.anchor.fm/typical-skeptic To donate to the typical skeptic podcast you can paypal me typicalskeptic1@gmail.com
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