Learn, Grow and Heal with These Top Speakers
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Pim van Lommel, M.D.
KEYNOTE: "Nonlocal Consciousness - An explanatory model for NDE and ADC"
Listen to remarkable experiences of heart attack victims who were clinically dead and then resuscitated with strikingly similar results and conclusions. Near death experiences (NDE) and the afterlife can no longer be scientifically ignored. These are authentic experiences that cannot be reduced to imagination, fear of death, hallucination, psychosis, the use of drugs, or oxygen deficiency. These remarkable people appear to be permanently transformed during cardiac arrest, even if only for a short duration. There are good reasons to assume that your consciousness does not always coincide with the functioning of your brain. You will learn new insights into the likelihood that your consciousness endures after physical death. Dr. van Lommel’s experience and research validate that it is possible to have contact with the ‘non-local’ consciousness of deceased loved ones.
Larry Dossey, M.D.
KEYNOTE: The One Mind: Intimations of Immortality
The great wisdom traditions affirm that there is a universal mind, of which all individual minds are a part. This image of consciousness has been affirmed by recent scientific evidence suggesting that conscious is nonlocal – that it is infinite in space and time, therefore immortal, united, and one. Dr. Dossey will examine the implications of these findings for afterdeath communication, which is fully permitted in the new view. He will show that we are arriving at a view of consciousness that transcends death and annihilation, and that portends a majestic, new view of what it means to be human.
KEYNOTE (Sun): Reflections on Life, Death, & Survival
All cultures have produced a rich outpouring of views on the nature of life, death, and survival. This presentation will be an artful (and humorous) look at some of the attitudes that have emerged through the ages -- not a talk, but a series of images.
John Holland
KEYNOTE: A Journey into the World of a Medium - Presentation and Demonstration
If you¹ve ever wondered how a medium works or how a medium connects with spirit and talks to the dead, then this is your chance. This keynote presentation will enable you to discover the power of your intuitive abilities and make them work for you. It concludes with a demonstration of John's own skills in mediumship, so the audience can witness live readings and connections with their loved ones. John will present the subject of mediumship in one of the most individual styles you will see. He is down to earth, open, funny, and will explain how it works at every step of the way, with lots of opportunities for audience involvement. John will conclude the lecture by demonstrating his own skills in mediumship, so the audience can witness live readings and connections with their loved ones.
Bill Guggenheim
KEYNOTE: Hello From Heaven!
An After-Death Communication (ADC) is a spiritual experience that occurs when someone is contacted directly and spontaneously by a deceased family member or friend. These are direct contacts because no psychics, mediums, or devices are involved. They are spontaneous experiences because our deceased loved ones choose when, where, and how to contact us. Hello From Heaven! founded the field of after-death communication research. Bill will discuss the twelve major types of ADC experiences that people most frequently report. He will also describe six categories of ADCs that prove they are objective experiences that provide convincing modern-day evidence for life after death. Bill conservatively estimates that at least 60 million Americans have had one or more ADCs. His presentations offer comfort, hope, and healing for everyone who has ever grieved the death of a loved one.
Topic: Who do you think you are? (Saturday) -This is an interactive workshop. Bill welcomes questions and comments from participants.
Bill will speak about a list of 15 personal beliefs he has gained from his research about life, our purpose for being here, and life after death. He will give out a copy of his mini-poster and several pages of notes that expand and explain the 15 points he has listed.
Jon Klimo, Ph.D.
KEYNOTE: What Communication from the Afterlife Can Tell Us About Suicide
Dr. Klimo will share with you the findings from his book’s comprehensive study of channeled and mediumistic messages primarily about suicide, including communications from those who were “successful” with their suicides. He will also focus on using such communication to counsel the living who are contemplating suicide. The presentation will also include afterlife communication in relation to the current terrorist suicide bomber phenomenon.
Diane Ladd and Robert Hunter
KEYNOTE:
"Balance - On Both Sides Of The Veil"
Robert reveals how his lifelong curiosity about American Indian beliefs provides the foundation for his own encounters across the veil. He brings to light how ethics plays into karma on this side of the veil and shares what life was like when CEO wasn't a bad word. Robert ties this together with the value of meditation to connect clearly to one's own consciousness and more importantly, the collective consciousness. Diane then takes it from this side of the veil to the other and shares the guidance she obtains today from those that have passed as well as her encounters, especially with Martha Mitchell.
Eben Alexander III, M.D.
KEYNOTE: Humanity at the Threshold of Transcendence
Take an academic neurosurgeon, drive him deep into coma for a week with a disease that obliterates the human part of his brain, blend in a profound spiritual near death experience (NDE) that could not possibly occur in his brain, allow a miraculous and complete recovery, and what do you get? A world forever changed for the betterment of all. Listen to this life-transforming talk by a medical professional who has "been there" himself.
Excerpt from "California (PRUnderground) November 28th, 2011 - Interview"
Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander’s Near-Death Experience Defies Medical
Model of Consciousness
During the interview Dr. Alexander discusses
letting go of our simplistic view of consciousness:
Alex Tsakiris: Can we really then hope to get out of the consciousness
loop that we’re in now? Or is there something fundamental to the way
that we’re constructed that’s going to keep us limited in how much we
can really?
Dr. Eben Alexander: What I think is going to happen is that science
and spirituality, which will be mainly be an acknowledgement of the
profound nature of our consciousness, will grow closer and closer
together.
One thing that we will have to let go of is this kind of addiction to
simplistic, primitive reductive materialism because there’s really no
way that I can see a reductive materialist model coming remotely in
the right ballpark to explain what we really know about consciousness
now.
Coming from a neurosurgeon who, before my coma, thought I was quite
certain how the brain and the mind interacted and it was clear to me
that there were many things I could do or see done on my patients and
it would eliminate consciousness. It was very clear in that realm that
the brain gives you consciousness and everything else and when the
brain dies there goes consciousness, soul, mind—it’s all gone. And it
was clear.
Now, having been through my coma, I can tell you that’s exactly wrong
and that in fact the mind and consciousness are independent of the
brain. It’s very hard to explain that, certainly if you’re limiting
yourself to that reductive materialist view.
The Skeptiko interview with Dr. Eben Alexander (audio and transcript)
is available at: http://www.skeptiko.com/
Stafford Betty, Ph.D.
Topic: From Research to Fiction: Waking Up the Afterlife
Stafford Betty's new novel The Imprisoned Splendor was described by a reviewer as "a riveting, action-filled novel set in the afterlife." It opens explosively with the death of Kiran, a brainy atheistic philosopher of great promise, who perishes in a plane crash. Many years before, his old graduate school love Shalini took her life when he rejected her for Lisa, the woman he eventually married. Now the old lovers meet again, and there is a great deal of karma that must play itself out before their souls can advance. Stafford, who published his non-fiction book The Afterlife Unveiled last year, will share vivid, research-based sketches of the afterlife and tell us why it took him 25 years to write this, his third novel.
Dr. Turner will explain the scientific proof that NDEs are NOT the result of a dying brain and how they give promise to the existence of an afterlife. Learn and heal as he shares his personal experiences with contact from the other side of the veil.
Topic: Spirits With Scalpels (afternoon session)
Dr. Turner will discuss his experience with energy healing (Reiki and Jorei) and how mediumship is practiced in Brazil and in the Philippines, two countries that have been influenced by after death communication. He will also discuss his personal observations and encounters with one of the most powerful spiritual mediums living today, Joao de deus (John Of God). This will be a focused discussion on Dr. Turner's experience with dimensions other than those mentioned in his keynote and will provide you with the opportunity to learn how to experience spiritual healing and spiritual contact.
Academics are trained to believe that only 3rd person experience is objectively real and that 1st person subjective experience is something less. When academics study mediums, they tend to focus on those aspects of mediumship that are publicly verifiable. They typically focus on how many times mediums are accurate versus the probability of their statements being true by chance. Unfortunately this “methodology” leaves out the most important thing about the phenomenology of mediumship, namely, that a visit to a medium has the power to transform lives. I will share with you two such personal, transformative experiences, occurring 30 years apart, and their ramifications for both my personal life and my professional life.
Topic: A Psychology Of The Soul (optional Thursday workshop)
Herb Puryear is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the study of the Edgar Cayce readings on the Nature of the Soul. This course will empower you to:
Discern, from an enhanced spiritual perspective who you truly are, where you came from and where you are going, Clarify your purpose in the earth by discovering how your soul works, Discover the real meaning of your Karma and how to find your way to Freedom, Know what to expect when you release your physical body, Gain new insights into the meaning of your dreams, Unveil the purpose of the mystical design of the Tabernacle and the Temple, Understand how meditation truly works and why it is so vital to your soul, Resolve the war between your mind and your will, Apply the hidden secrets of the Revelation of John, Learn about your soul’s vast experiences and many sojourns and how they are shaping your ultimate destiny.
Breakout Topic: Life On The Other Side (Friday afternoon breakout)
As we realize that we are souls without beginning or end and that we may experience many dimensions of consciousness, we understand anew the words of Jesus, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” The Edgar Cayce readings reveal many delightful insights into the many sojourns of the soul and how we are even now preparing ourselves for specific experiences in consciousness. Join us in this powerful session to plan the best possible experiences for your soul “Life on the Other Side.”
Mark Ireland
Topic: The Value of Mediumship in healing grief and affirming the continuity of life.
Mark will recount his amazing personal experiences after losing his youngest son, Brandon. Mark recalls his sessions with some of the worlds’ top mediums and shares many of their remarkable validating statements. Mark will share with you how this process brought a deep sense of connection, solace, and confirmation. Accompanying Mark will be renowned medium Tina Powers, a former news anchor who left behind the glamour of television for a life of service to the bereaved. As part of the program, Tina will share messages with members of the audience. (Individual readings are not guaranteed.)
Mark Nelson
Topic: Contacting Spirit Through Psychometry
Never heard of psychometry? Psychic medium, Mark Christopher Nelson will explain how it works, how you can use it to advance your psychic abilities, and will perform gallery style readings for a number of people in the audience. You will be asked to leave personal affects such as keys, watches, rings, and other personal affects on a table at the front of the room. Mark will choose a number of these items, and provide readings for the people who own them. It’s an amazing look into how to use this skill, and Mark’s demonstration is always an exciting experience.
Jamie Clark(Optional Thursday Workshop)
Psychic-Medium Jamie Clark, featured on Lifetime TV’s America’s Psychic Challenge, will speak in one of the optional Thursday workshops about the personal processes and practices that have proven effective for him. The session will include exercises where students will have an opportunity to test what they’ve learned. At the end of the program Jamie will share messages and validations with members of the audience. Individual readings are not guaranteed.
Glenda Pearson
Topic: A Tender and Humorous Conversation About Navigating Grief
In our healing processes, we all have tender issues to revisit, places where we get stuck, and topics we would rather ignore...and then there are all those well-intentioned phrases others use to console us. In this interactive workshop, Glenda and the participants discuss how normal grief processes more often resembles a loop-de-loop roller coaster ride rather than a super-highway that shoots straight into the future. Together, Glenda encourages her audience to find the humor and acknowledge the progress in their shared experiences of grief.
Roberta Grimes, Esq.
Topic: The Fun of Dying - Figuring Out What Happens Next
Roberta Grimes, a business attorney, will share with you her decades of study on nearly 200 years of afterlife evidence. She has assembled a detailed understanding of what death actually is, who we really are, and what happens to us after we die. Through quantum physics and consciousness research she will show how the greater reality that we enter at death fits with the material reality that we know. The results of Roberta’s work were recently published by Greater Reality Publications in a brief and upbeat summary entitled The Fun of Dying – Find Out What Really Happens Next!
Sherry Anshara
Topic: Some Funny Things Happened to Me on My Way Back to Earth and More!
Sherry will be relating stories of her multiple Near Death Experiences and her unusually intuitive childhood and the "beings" she spoke with. She will talk about her beloved Bobbi Girl (her healing kitty that worked by her side for 13 years) and show photographic evidence that Bobbi Girl's friends and family showed up in spirit for her transition. Join Sherry for a fun time, and connect beyond the beyond and know there is life before and after and always. We are a continuing continuous continuum of experiences, even for our beloved animals.
Rob Schwartz
Topic: Your Soul’s Plan: The Spiritual Meaning of Life and Death (Friday)
Could the death of a loved one be part of a life plan created by both you and your loved one before either of you were born? Robert Schwartz, author of the best-selling book Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born. (www.yoursoulsplan.com), discusses his personal spiritual awakening and what led him to write a book about how we plan our lives - including the loss of a loved one - before birth. He presents the four main reasons why we plan great challenges for ourselves. He discusses case studies from his research, including the story of Valerie, who planned before she was born to lose both her fiancé (in an accident) and her only child (to a drug overdose). He will also present the story of Carolyn, whose only child, Cameron, suicided. Carolyn knew prior to birth that Cameron was likely to suicide in this lifetime. This is an inspirational and deeply healing presentation.
Topic: Your Soul’s Plan: The Themes of Your Life (Saturday)
Before we are born, we plan great challenges for ourselves in part to develop certain qualities or Divine Virtues. In this experiential workshop, Robert will lead you through an exercise that illuminates the themes of your life – the Divine Virtues you as a soul wanted to cultivate and express in this lifetime. You will gain deep, new insight into the reasons you have experienced death and other challenges. This expanded awareness will empower you, help you to heal, and assist you in finding understanding and, ultimately, peace. If time permits, Robert will also lead the audience in a past life regression intended to take you to the past life that was most relevant to the planning of your current lifetime.
Rev. Anne Puryear
Topic: 1-800-HEAVEN
Consciousness is eternal and survives the death of the physical body. How do we make contact then with our loved ones who have died? How do we hear our Angels, Spirit Plane Guides, God and others in non-physical realms? How do we get clear guidance that we can trust? Anne will lead you in this experiential workshop, using techniques that she teaches others and personally uses in communicating with her son who died by suicide and others in these many realms.
Jane Katra, Ph.D.
Topic: Experiencing Afterlife Evidence in Real Life and Research Lab
The evidence compiled over the past century for the survival of an intelligent component of a human’s existence after bodily death comes from a wide range of studies which include mediumship, out-of-body experiences, dream visitations, apparitions, near-death experiences, and most recently, instrumental transcommunication studies. In this talk I will share some of the experiences from my life as well as from my participation in many parapsychological studies as they relate to the survival of consciousness beyond death. I will also describe some of the most compelling after-death communications which include the revelation of information unknown at the time, the prediction of events to come, communication in a foreign language unknown to the recipient, and the movement of objects, and I’ll share how I finally overcame my indoctrination into the super-psi explanation and decided to believe in survival of consciousness after physical death.
Rev. Dennis Linehan, C.Ht
Topic: Discovering Past Lives (Optional Thursday Workshop)
Life is continuous. Past life regression therapy is mentioned in the Upanishads of ancient India. For millennia it has proven an effective method for attaining subconscious awareness and recalling the journey of the individual soul in the earth. Through this process of remembering, people often experience unique insights, as well as, a sense of peace and wellbeing. Past life regression therapy will sometimes aid in physical, emotional and spiritual healing. In the allotted time, Dennis will conduct a group past life regression and devote the remaining time to discussion. Come discover your unique soul history.
Rev. Bill Roberts
Topic: Reaching To The Passed (Optional Thursday Workshop)
Bill will cover methods of access to states of consciousness beyond those experienced as part of what we know to be three-dimensional, physical matter reality. The process is an unparalleled opportunity for personal growth and expanded awareness. The workshop will introduce attendees to a process that is designed 1) to find and assist souls who may be disoriented or "lost" after making their transition, 2) to assist family, friends and care-givers in understanding and accepting what is happening when a loved one is approaching death and 3) to provide support for those grieving by helping to relieve the stress of the situation.