Lynn Echevarria happily resides on Vancouver Island. Her heritage is from English, Scots and Basques peoples, and she has enjoyed living in England, Iceland, USA, and Canada.

Lynn is a mother of four and grandmother of seven, and her loves also include flowers, nature, Impressionist art, and explorations of the mind and heart. Her educational background is a PhD from Essex, U.K. in Sociology, and she is an Emeritus Professor of Yukon University. She has researched and taught women's studies, masculinities studies, and sociology over a 25 year period. Her greatest interest is in the life histories of people.

She has been invited to present papers on various subjects to academic institutions in Denmark, Sweden, England, Canada, and the United States. Her publications include articles, reviews, chapters in books, and her own book: Life Histories of Canadian Bahá'í Women: Religion and Identity in the 20th Century.

In 2016 Lynn put together a non-academic talk on the afterlife combining her long time personal interest in stories of near death experiences, the development of scientific quantum thought about consciousness, and perspectives from various world religions and spiritual perspectives. The talk is an hour long accompanied by power point visuals, and many NDE stories. Until March 2020 she travelled sharing the talk in person with many enthusiastic and diverse-aged audiences across Canada, England, and Scotland. She was delighted to meet many nder’s who shared their beautiful stories with her. 

The talk was made into a utube video and posted December 2019. A Facebook site with resources and references for the talk, and topics of interest, is listed at the end of the video. 

The talk makes meaning of what NDE stories can teach us about this life and the afterlife, and further expands our understandings by using the juxtaposition of scientific investigation and spiritual teachings. What we will learn is that the experience of the afterlife has everything to do with paying close attention to this life too.