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What's New This Year?
This year's event is organized into three different tracks so that you can choose the topics that interest you most. Feel free to mix & match and move between events as you like (no reservations required for presentations):
Spiritual Exploration
Working with our innate ability to communicate with the higher realms of consciousness via psychic development, dream work, meditation, past life regression, channeling and after-death communication.
Academic Study and Scientific Research
Research data and academic exploration about survival of consciousness after death, including after-death communication, near-death experience, out-of-body experience and mediumship.
Mediumship and Psychic Ability
Special Saturday evening presentation by noted medium Suzane Northrop, which will include random audience readings. Suzanne will also be offering fee-based gallery-style readings and private sessions by appointment. Other mediums to be added to the schedule over the coming months.
Bereavement: The Next Step
For grief counselors and bereaved individuals who are ready to move toward a deeper metaphysical understanding of death, trauma and loss.
. Beautiful beachfront venue with spacious meeting rooms
. Exhibition hall for vendors
. Private rooms for readings and counseling sessions
. Selected presentations double-scheduled
. Meet-and-greet with speakers
. Tours and presentations at the Edgar Cayce Center
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In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody's best-selling book Life After Life focused public attention on the near-death experience like never before, and it was Moody who actually coined the term "near-death experience." Dr. Moody is also the author of The Light Beyond, Reunions, Life After Loss, Coming Back, Reflections, and Glimpses of Eternity. He continues to capture public interest and generate controversy with his ground-breaking work on the near-death experience and what happens when we die.
Dr. Hameroff is a leading researcher on consciousness and reincarnation who has been privileged to work closely with Deepak Chopra in a series of interviews, discussions and blogs on the existence of conscious awareness after death. He s a Professor Emeritus in the departments of anesthesiology and psychology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies
Dr. Morsestudied near-death experiences in children for 15 years and is the author of several outstanding books on the subject: Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light, Parting Visions, and his latest book, Where God Lives. He is primarily interested in learning how to use the visions that surround death to heal grief, and the stories that children have told him about what it is like to die have lessons for all of us, especially those attempting to understand the meaning of death or the death of a child. NBC News says, "Dr Morse has done more to prove the existence of life after death than any other scientist."
Internationally acclaimed medium, TV and radio host Suzane Northrop has helped thousands worldwide to recover and heal from the loss of loved ones by bridging the gap between the world of the living and the spiritual world where the departed reside. Suzane has been an expert consultant to numerous investigation agencies including police departments in New York City, Washington D.C., Hartford, Connecticut and Los Angeles. Her presentation will address what happens after we die, why deceased loved ones
continue to communicate us, and your own
ability to communicate with those in the afterlife. Suzane will
provide impromptu readings for random audience members, and will be also offer fee-based private readings and gallery sessions by appointment.
Bill had to cancel his appearance at last year’s conference, and
we’re delighted to be able to reschedule him for this year! With his
former wife Judy, Bill Guggenheim conducted seven years of research on
after-death communication and collected more than 3,300 first-hand
accounts of ADC experiences for their best-selling book, Hello From Heaven!
Barbara is a Clinical Hypnotherapist in private practice, and was trained by some of the foremost regression therapists in the United States. Her work has been featured on the Sightings TV program and in the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Village Voice, and many others. Barbara will be conducting a group regression as part of her 90-minute workshop.
Working with gifted mediums and channels, Schwartz researched the
pre-birth plans of dozens of individuals to determine what they had
planned and why. His work focuses on how we plan our greatest challenges
before we’re born, and true stories of people who planned
physical illnesses, having handicapped children, deafness, blindness,
drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one and severe accidents.
Ken has had two near-death experiences: the first when he was nine years old and another when he was 49. After the second NDE, he spent 32 days on life support, during which time he had an amazing NDE that led him to a spiritual path. Today Ken is a hospice worker, a near-death counselor and animal communicator with the unique gift of knowing when a human or an animal is ready to cross over.
Kelsey is a Unity minister, hospice chaplain, elder counselor and author of Exit Strategy...Leaving this Life with Grace and Gratitude.
She is also a bereaved mother whose son committed suicide at age 28.
Her experience with his death altered her spiritual perspective, and
with his guidance from the Other Side, she was led to help
grieving individuals understand that suicide is not a sin or an evil
act, but rather an opportunity for the soul to seek healing and
expansion for itself and others.
Dr. Atwater is one of the original researchers in the field of
near-death studies, having begun her work in 1978, after having three
such experiences of her own. Her presentation will address what she has
learned from her research with nearly 4,000 near-death experiencers
regarding what it feels like to die and what death is. She will
also discuss ideas about the various levels of heaven and hell that will
be compared to near-death experiencer testimonials, and what seems to
actually exist in the way of an afterlife. Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved
Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. is Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York and
Adjunct Professor of Health Careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk
Community College in Riverhead, New York. The author of eight books and
numerous articles, he is known world-wide for his research on the
Extraordinary Experiences of the bereaved (After-Death Communication).
Making Contact with Guides and Loved Ones in the Non-Physical
Terri
is a channeler, hospice worker and Certified Transition Guide who offers a unique metaphysical
perspective on birth, death and the afterlife. Her 2008 book, A Swan In Heaven is based on
after-death dialogs between Terri and her
son, who left the physical plane in
2006. Her newest book, Embracing Death explores cultural and religious myths about the afterlife, and offers a path to alternative perceptions via the development of channeling and after-death communication skills.
Carla is a Certified Dreamwork Facilitator through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work with director, Dr. Jeremy Taylor. In her powerful presentations, she shares her prophetic dream about the death of her son Kevin just hours before he died in a bicycle accident, and teaches the ways in which forgiveness, healing and spiritual growth can be realized through dream work and dream visits from loved ones on the Other Side.
Mitch breaks down current myths in the bereavement process and embraces a unique, more humanistic approach to recovering from loss. Mitch's approach to "proactive grieving" turns loss into legacy, and is highly recommended for bereavement professionals and bereaved individuals.
More speakers and events are being added daily,
so be sure to check back with this page periodically