Truth Seekers

In this program, Dr. Holden will report on both research findings and personal and professional experiences with after-death communication (ADC): the spontaneous or facilitated experience of direct contact with a deceased person with whom one has a personal relationship. For the research portion, she will review findings from the 35 studies of spontaneous ADC that were published between 1894 and 2006 involving over 50,000 people from around the world as well as a 2011 study in Australia. She will also describe practice of Induced After-Death Communication (IADC), a technique to facilitate a client’s ADC during a counseling session—including a study she and her research team recently completed on the effects of IADC on grief. She will illustrate both of these topics with her own spontaneous and facilitated experiences and those of others who have been her counseling clients or research participants.

TINA M. ZION is a fourth generation psychic medium, specializing in medical intuition and teaching it internationally. She has worked in the mental health field as a registered nurse with a national board specialty certification in mental health nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Association. Tina is a Gestalt trained counselor, graduating from the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute in 1997. She received her certification in clinical hypnotherapy from the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners in 1985, specializing in past life regressions and certified through the Michael Newton Institute. Tina is the internationally known author of Become a Medical Intuitive: The Complete Developmental Course,The Reiki Teacher’s Manual and is a contributing author in Newton’s latest book, Memories of the Afterlife.  Tina has recently accepted a faculty position at New York’s spiritual development center Fellowships of the Spirit.

Tom is a  dynamic healer and teacher.  He has developed innovative methods of healing which achieve consistent results.  His joyful approach opens the hearts of all who work with him.

Tom has worked in the fields of counseling, spiritual healing and teaching for over 30 years and is the creator and developer of the Restructuring method of accessing, releasing, and transforming unconscious

resistance patterns. 

He is an ordained minister with Fellowships of the Spirit and for the past 10 years he has served as associate director of their School of Healing and Prophecy.  While at Harvard Divinity School Tom was inspired to direct his attention to matters of the human heart and the possibilities of growth and transformation through development of the spiritual dimensions of the heart.  Since then he has created numerous classes and workshops to support others in exploring the vast dimensions, and extraordinary healing potentials of the heart. He was greatly influenced by three thinkers:  Robert Fritz for his pioneering work on structural thinking and the creative process, Roberto Assagioli, the great Italian Psychiatrist and the creator of the psychosynthesis process, and Andrew Jackson Davis, the 19th century American mystic and prophet who developed a model of the human psyche based on levels of perception

 

Tom lives with his wife Ellie and their daughter Tara in the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, NY where they operate Harmony House, a year-round guest house.

Lisa Smartt, MA, is the author of Words at the Threshold. A linguist, educator, and poet, she founded the Final Words Project, an ongoing study devoted to collecting and interpreting the mysterious language at the end of lives. She co-facilitates workshops about language and consciousness with Raymond Moody at universities, hospices, and conferences and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at http://www.finalwordsproject.org.

You’ll find her on social media here:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wordsatthethreshold/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/LisaASmartt

Five years ago.  I listened in stunned silence as my skeptical and rationalist father described seeing angels in his last days of life. Three days before dying, he announced, "The angels say only three days left now." He spoke of a "green dimension" and his room crowded with people who were unseen to me. He also spoke in poetic and metaphoric language, describing the big art show that was approaching and the boxes he had to carry for his ceramicist wife of 54 years.

I listened in awe as I transcribed his final words that not only painted a world unseen to me but were rich in language patterns that appeared to be unique to end of life. Trained in linguistics, I was deeply curious about the language I witnessed. When I discovered little or no research had been done into people's final words, I established The Final Words Project (2014)  with Dr. Raymond Moody.

Angela Artemis is a speaker, best-selling author of the “Intuition Principle,” founder of the award winning website Powered by Intuition.com and a Sales & Intuitive Client Acquisition Strategist. Angela has a background in personal financial planning and previously worked in the field of personal finance for 25+ years where she was a regional manager in the private banking, wealth and investment management division managing, coaching and training several teams of financial sales professionals. She was also a top producing financial sales professional in the mortgage industry. She now works with sensitive, spiritual-minded solopreneurs who love what they do but are uncomfortable with sales and signing-up more clients to empower them, so that they easily bring on more clients, grow their income, feel natural and self-assured in the process and have fun in their business again!

Lynne Forget attended her first Spiritualist church in Hamilton, Ontario in 1987 and was totally fascinated with the demonstration of Mediumship she saw there.  After that she wanted to gobble up everything she could that had to do with Spiritualism.  Lynne is now a graduate of the Ministerial Program at Fellowships of the Spirit in Lily Dale NY, and has also completed the Morris Pratt Institute course on the History of Modern Spiritualism.

Lynne says that what has KEPT her a Spiritualist these many years is the freedom Spiritualists have to explore and search for the truth; the fact that Spiritualists are free thinkers – not bound by dogma or creed – but free to explore life, great teachers and masters, great books and writings, even all the great religions, in their search for truth.  As a result of this great freedom, Lynne brings the perspective of both a practicing medium and a curious student to her Ministry.

She has been a member of Lily Dale Assembly for 28 years, and has been a Registered Medium in Lily Dale for 15 years.  Lynne considers it a great privilege to be a registered medium in Lily Dale, and to be able to demonstrate evidential mediumship both publicly at the outdoor services and privately in her Lily Dale home.

Lynne is currently serving her 9th year on the Lily Dale Assembly’s Board of Directors and holds the position of President of the Board and CEO of Lily Dale Assembly.  She feels very, very blessed to live and serve in the beautiful community of Lily Dale.

Rev. Forget is also going to be doing on-line readings for people who will be calling into the show. So mark your calendar and call in to the show for a reading.

Curtis Childs is the host and producer of the weekly program Swedenborg and Life on the offthelefteye, which has accumulated more than 7.5 million views and nearly 50,000 subscribers on YouTube. Curtis has appeared on numerous spirituality-themed talk shows and has had his content featured on the Dr. Oz show. He works with his team at the non-profit Swedenborg Foundation to create simple, effective inquiries into life’s biggest questions.

He’s appeared on many international radio shows, podcasts, and YouTube shows, such as Talk Gnosis, Sunday Morning Spiritual, The Butterfly Moment, Dark Thirty Radio, We Don’t Die Radio, and much more!

We will be discussing the visions of Emanuel Swedenborg, and how they relate to the afterlife, angels, getting to know your true self, and understanding our relationship to heaven. Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic who lived in the late 1600s.

Dr. Ann Frances Ellis, PhD, MDiv,  will discuss the different aspects of love commonly found in NDEs. The uplifting insights shared by experiencers include these and more. We don't die. The nature of love is greater than we ever imagined. Love has higher qualities. Love emanates from many sources. We are all one and love is our essence. There is a reason and purpose for everything. In life, love is most important.

Dr.  Ellis, is the Author of Revelations Of Profound Love: New Insights into the Power of Love from NDEs. Her PhD is from Sancta Sophia Seminary, Tahlequah, OK., in Religious Studies. She researched over 500 NDE accounts for her book, which reports over 100 people's visitsto a Realm of Love and Light where they felt unconditionally loved and accepted. For her dissertation, she also researched world religioons and found the same conclusions reported by near-death experiencers to be found in them all.

Read her blog on Love at

www.RevelationsOfProfoundLove.com

Conclusions of Near-death experiencers:

Nancy and Carlos both have PhDs in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. For over thirty years, they have been involved in the field of scientific parapsychology. They have worked at the Rhine Research Center, the Parapsychology Foundation, and the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. Their research has focused on questionnaire-based studies of reports of supposed psychic experiences, relating them to various states/traits such as dissociation, depersonalization, absorption, and satisfaction with life. They have also examined the relationship of reporting psychic experiences with reporting other experiences such as lucid dreams, disturbing dreams, vivid dreams, and mystical experiences. They have published several papers together and separately.