Connecting with Stillness. Brian will lead a 15-minute guided meditation focusing on awareness of one’s stillness. By relaxing into the spiritual core of one’s beingness, we connect with simply being completely secure and OK.  Some of the tools used will be softening, resting and amplifying Presence.

Mark Anthony, JD Psychic Explorer (the Psychic Lawyer®) – The NDE Zone: Connected by the Light from the Cosmic to the Subatomic. Throughout history people have seen “The Light” during Near-Death and Shared-Death Experiences, Death-Bed Visions and After Death Communications. Understanding NDEs reveals how these phenomena are interconnected. Mark Anthony is a fourth-generation psychic medium and an Oxford educated licensed attorney. He is the author of the best sellers The Afterlife Frequency, Evidence of Eternity and Never Letting Go.

Marie Grace Brooke, PhD, LCSW, CSD – Recent Research on How People Integrate Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs). Dr. Marie Grace Brooke will be sharing results from her STE research study, Struggles reported integrating intense spiritual experiences: Results from a survey using the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences Inventory (2021). It found that STE Experiencers know intuitively what they need, and that psychiatry and psychiatric medications were usually not helpful.

Monique Rebelle – Full Kundalini Rising Experience and Its Results. Monique Rebelle will describe the circumstances and process of her spontaneous Kundalini Awakening, and the essential message contained in her teachings afterwards. She will describe various types of awakenings and types of Kundalini risings, and practicess to stimulate Chakras on our path to become fully awakened beings.

The classical scholar Peter Kingsley has argued that the origins of Western philosophy are to be found in direct experiences – of mysticism and gnosis [STEs] – rather than in Socratic dialogue and reasoning, which was a later development. Sadly, western society has lost our roots and center represented by the Self, and our identity is primarily shaped by outer factors and quantitative perspectives of modern science.

November 18, 1973, Betty Eadie, author of Embraced by the Light experienced death and a profound Near-Death Experience, after hemorrhaging from surgery. That changed her life and sent her on a journey that continues today. Betty knows that life does not end when we die.  Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway.

“…when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door and pray to your Progenitor in secret. And your Progenitor, who sees in secret, will repay you.” Matthew 6:6

Centering Prayer is a method of meditation used by mystical Christians placing a strong emphasis on interior silence. Rev. Peter Panagore began his practice in 1977. Peter has co-taught Centering Prayer with Cynthia Bourgeault, an internationally acclaimed retreat leader and mystic.