Alan Post will lead “Meditation and the Near Death Experience” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 6:30 p.m. at Maury Loontjens Memorial Library, 35 Kingstown Rd., Narragansett. Learn about others’ experiences, the transformative effects it had on their lives and how spirituality and meditation emerge as the universal link.The Cumberland Public Library, 1464 Diamond Hill Rd., will hold a tick control and awareness program Wednesday, Oct.