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Benefits Included When You Attend

When you register for the conference, you will receive these free benefits:

• A ticket to the conference banquet
• Non-members receive a one-year basic membership in the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, with all the benefits that go along with it. Your membership begins immediately when you register.
• An introduction package sent to you after you register with conference information and the latest ASCS publication
• A one-year subscription to the ASCS newsletter, The Searchlight
• A one-year subscription to the Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies
• A copy of the book, New Developments in Afterlife Communications containing the conference presentations
• If you were a member before registering for the 2014 conference, one household member may attend free.

Fees, CEUs, Travel Information

Information you may read before you register:

• Conference fees
• For attendees who are members before registering for this conference, one person who lives with you may attend free
• CEU credits for social workers
• Hotel room discounts, travel

Facilitate Your Own Connections with Loved Ones Who Have Passed

Mark Ireland, co-founder of Helping Parents Heal  and author of Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go and Messages from the Afterlife addresses the four cornerstones of healing that enable bereaved parents to soothe their grief and move forward positively after losing a child. Participants will learn how to facilitate their own direct connection with loved ones who have passed, actions they can take to accelerate their own healing, awareness and understanding of the evidence for an afterlife, and ways to enjoy a sense of connection with the child who has passed.

Self-guided Afterlife Connections, and a Group Afterlife Communication

R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D.

Dr. Hogan is the author of Your Eternal Self and co-author of Induced After-Death Communications and Guided Afterlife Connections. He has developed and tested an online training program that teaches people how to connect with loved ones on the next plane of life. To date, over 1,000 people have registered to use the procedure, with 86% success in connecting with loved ones. Dr. Hogan has also developed a script for use with groups to help participants connect with loved ones during presentations. Most participants have some form of connection during the group sessions. During this presentation, he will teach participants how to be open to afterlife connections and guide them through a group afterlife connection experience.

How to Aid Souls Lost after Passing

Bruce Moen is a mechanical engineer who learned how to go to the afterlife to aid lost souls. In this presentation, Bruce will describe a system of simple concepts, techniques and exercises anyone can use to explore beyond the boundaries of physical reality, including our afterlife. He will present a mix of insights gained from his own experiences. "The most important thing I discovered," Bruce says, "is that human beings with curiosity can learn to explore the Afterlife and find the truth for themselves."

Connecting People with the Life They Experienced Between Lives

Jonathan Yorks, M.S. LMFT, CHt

Jonathan is a California licensed psychotherapist and Ericksonian trained clinical hypnotherapist whose focus is on identifying the karmic conditions inherent in your soul's journey and their purpose for your soul's growth and development, "your reasons for being here."

In this presentation, Jonathan will explain how people can connect with their soul. He writes, "When we connect with our soul, we awaken to our spiritual identity, our true nature, and discover our purpose in life. Freed from the constraints of past, present, and future, we begin to embrace what it means to incarnate as human beings. Our spirit is infused with new understanding, acceptance, and a profound sense of peace.

The Making of a Medium

Karen Herrick, Ph.D.

A woman sees images of strangers at 3:00 in the morning. Another time she looks under her bed and sees 20 people there. She can't tell anyone because everyone already thinks she's a little weird. These are the types of images described by people who have retreated from reality because they've suffered childhood abuse or trauma. But they're also the types of images described by people who are showing signs of mediumship. The people they see are real. They are just in spirit. How does a person get verification that this may be the budding of mediumship ability? This presentation will describe the making of a medium. You will learn how to recognize mediumship abilities in yourself and/or your children.

Receiving and Understanding the Signs of Communication from the Other Side

Joe Higgins, Medium

Joe Higgins is a well-known medium and author of books teaching people how to know when loved ones from the other side are connecting to them and how to understand the signs they're getting. In this presentation, he will teach how to understand the process by which signs are given and received and show how loved ones can and do communicate with us.

How to Understand Your Spiritual Journey

Lee Lawrence is an internationally known medical/ psychological intuitive and scientific researcher into the existence of the human soul and how it works. Lee had a near-death experience that changed his life. The content this program will provide a spiritual growth roadmap for each individual to use as a guidance tool in their own journey along their chosen spiritual path.

How to Use Dreams and Mirror Gazing
to Connect with the Other Side

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Rosemary Ellen Guiley has written more than 50 books published by major houses on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual, and mystical topics, including nine single-volume encyclopedias. Her work is translated into 15 languages.

Rosemary has written eight books on dreams, interpretation of dreams, and how to have connections with loved ones who have passed away in dreams. She is co-author, with George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM, of the ground-breaking book Talking to the Dead. In this presentation, Rosemary will explain how to plan to have dream contacts with loved ones who have passed and will take participants through an exercise in connecting. She will also explain how to use mirror gazing to connect.

Psychotherapist-Guided Afterlife Connections and a Demonstration of a Connection

Rochelle Wright, M.S.

Rochelle Wright, licensed mental health counselor, licensed chemical dependency professional, and certified EMDR psychotherapist for 14 years, has developed a psychotherapy method that enables people to have their own reconnections with their deceased loved ones. "It is more than grief therapy. Those now living in the afterlife come to us to change our lives," she writes. It has a success rate of over 95%.

In this presentation, Rochelle talks about the Guided Afterlife Connections procedure. Accompanying her will be Christine Johnston, who has had several Guided Afterlife Connections experiences communicating with her husband in spirit. Linda Hartman, a licensed marriage and family therapist and trained Guided Afterlife Connections psychotherapist will be speaking with Rochelle. During the presentation, Rochelle will show a video of Linda having her own Guided Afterlife Connection communicating with the love of her life of 27 years. Rochelle will then guide Linda into a Guided Afterlife Connection during the conference.

Using Automatic Writing to Communicate with Loved Ones in the Afterlife

Since the early days of Spiritualism, automatic writing has been accepted as an effective way to receive communication from the spirit world. Irma Slage, a psychic who has done police work and author of Phases of Life After Death: Written in Automatic Writing, will teach participants how to use automatic writing to receive messages from the other side. The procedure Irma teaches allows the messages to come into the mind from spirit and flow directly onto paper without judgment or interference from the conscious mind. Participants will be given paper and pencils to practice automatic writing during Irma's presentation.

Using Meditation Techniques to Have Life-Changing Communications with Loved Ones on the Other Side

Maria Pe, Chief Deputy Tax Collector at County of San Diego, lost her two sons when their father took their lives. She was determined to learn how to communicate with them, and discovered ways of meditating that resulted in life-changing communications with her sons. She will describe how she learned to communicate in this presentation.

Pendulum Communication
Between a Mother and Son

Carol Morgan

After her son, Mikey, passed away, Carol Morgan learned how to use a pendulum to communicate with him in the afterlife. Without mediumistic abilities or any prior knowledge or skill, Carol has practiced her pendulum communication techniques with Mikey so rigorously over the past four years that they are now in regular contact. In this presentation, she explains what she learned about communicating with a pendulum and describes the procedure she uses.

The Threshold Room: An Environment that Facilitates Afterlife Connections

Anne was co-founder of the Spiritual Science Research Center in Washington, D.C., and spent four years as Director of the Department of Spiritual Healing at the Medical Research Division of the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
Herb was on the psychology faculty at Trinity University in San Antonio, director of education and research at the Edgar Cayce organization and president of Atlantic University.
Anne and Herb founded the Logos Center in 1997, and built within it a room to enhance pychic experiences and afterlife communications called The Threshold Room. The room is enclosed with copper screening and grounded with copper rods, creating a completely shielded environment that enhances ESP accuracy. In several research projects, participants meditated in the Threshold Room over a 6-8 week period to enhance communications with the spirit plane. Participants reported dramatic results in connecting with spirit. In this presentation, Herb and Anne describe the room and what has happened.

Jamie Clark

Jamie is a well-known, reliable psychic medium who gives individual readings and teaches people how to enhance their own intuitive and psychic abilities. The Arizona Psychics website writes, "Jamie can communicate the information and messages they want you to know, with remarkably detailed accuracy."

Susanne Wilson

Susanne Wilson's abilities have been affirmed by reviewers posting testimonials on Bob Olson's Best Psychic Directory web page. Susanne Wilson is called the Carefree Medium. She is known for accurate, compassionate readings. "My specialty is bringing through personalities of the deceased with details so you know it's really them." Susanne offers individual readings and intuition development lessons. She assists a global clientele by phone and at her private office in Carefree near Phoenix, Arizona. Born a psychic medium, it was Susanne's near death experience that inspired her to devote her life to the beautiful gift of mediumship.