ACADEMY OF SPIRITUALITY AND PARANORMAL STUDIES, INC. (ASPSI)
33rd Annual Conference, DeSales University, 2755 Station Ave., Center Valley, PA
BEYOND THE VEIL: EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH?
FRIDAY, MAY 30. 7:00 P.M. TO MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2008, 12:00 P.M. in the University Center


FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008

5:30 - 7:00 PM -SUPPER IN UNIVERSITY CENTER

7:00 PM - Opening Remarks: - ASPSI President, Rev. Harry L. Serio, D.Min. and Executive Director Boyce Batey

KEYNOTE ADDRESS/FRANK C. TRIBBE MEMORIAL LECTURE - MYSTICISM AND LIFE AFTER DEATH - Michael Grosso, Ph.D., Philosopher, teacher of philosophy and the humanities at three colleges and universities in New York and New Jersey, Board member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Assn., author of Experiencing the Next World Now, that explores life after death, The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time, and others, and a painter, affiliated with Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

9:30 PM - MIXER AND REFRESHMENTS


SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2008

7:00-8:30 AM - BREAKFAST

9:00 AM - SURVIVAL RESEARCH: SHOVELING SAND AGAINST THE TIDE OF MATERIALISM - Michael E. Tymn, CPCU, journalist, historian, survival propagandist, ASPSI Vice-President, Chair, ASPSI Publications Committee, Editor, ASPSI newsmagazine, The Searchlight, author of ASPSI website address section on "Life After Death", a book, The Articulate Dead, and free lance writer with over 1,000 articles in over 34 publications, Kailua, HI.

10:30 AM - BREAK

10:45 AM - SCIENTIFIC VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: PRO AND CON - Donald R. Morse, DDS, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Temple University, Ex President of ASPSI, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, author of over 200 scientific articles and 15 books, including Searching for Eternity: A Scientist's Spiritual Journey to Overcome Death Anxiety, and Adjunct Professor, Camden County College, Cherry Hill, NJ.

12:00 PM - LUNCHEON - (Discussions during lunch on various categories of survival evidence.)

1:30 PM - A THEORY OF MULTIPLE SOULS: EXTENDING THE RELATIVE MODEL OF REINCARNATION - Stephen Hoyer, Ph.D., a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Linda S. Lloyd, Ed.S., a Licensed School Psychologist and Certified Hypnotherapist, co-founders of the Free Spirit Center, a Holistic Learning Center, Pittsburg, KS.

2:30 PM - BREAK

2:45 PM - ESOTERIC VIEWS ON DEATH AND REBIRTH RELATING TO AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATIONS - Eugene Jennings, M.D., psychiatrist, medical director of a 70 bed residential facility, adjunct staff psychiatrist of a Medical Center, and a student of Theosophical teachings and doctrines, East Stroudsburg, PA.

4:15 PM - BREAK

4:30 PM - ISLAMIC VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE ACCORDING TO THE KORAN - Rev. Louis Richard Batzler, Ph.D. former President of the ASPSI and SFFI, pastor of churches in several states and abroad, teacher in five colleges, chaplain in hospitals and college campuses, author of five books and numerous articles, Kill Devil Hills, NC.

5:30 PM - SUPPER - (Discussions during supper on various categories of survival research evidence.)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM -LIMINALITY AT THE TIME OF DEATH: TRANSITIONS OF THE SOUL AS A RITE OF PASSAGE - Rev. Harry L. Serio, D.Min., President of ASPSI and its Board of Directors, pastor of St. John's United Church of Christ in Kutztown, PA, frequent lecturer on spirituality and transformative consciousness with an interest in biblical and classical archaeology who has excavated in Jerusalem, Fleetwood, PA.

8:00 PM - BREAK

8:15 PM - 9:45 PM - FORUM ON SURVIVAL EVIDENCE DISCUSSED DURING LUNCHEON AND SUPPER.


SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008

7:00 - 8:30 AM - BREAKFAST

9:00 AM - THERAPY FOR SANE HALLUCINATIONS - Rev. Karen E. Herrick, Ph.D., LCSW, CSW, CADC, ASPSI Board of Directors member, Founder and Executive Director of Center for Children of Alcoholics, Inc., and author of You're Not Finished Yet!. Red Bank, NJ.

10:30 AM - BREAK

10:45 AM - IS THE AFTERLIFE WHAT WE THINK IT IS? A CHALLENGE FROM NEAR-DEATH STUDIES - P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., Near-Death experiencer and researcher who has written 10 books on NDEs from a research base of over 3,000 adults and 277 child experiencers and spoken internationally. Her latest book is The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences: The Ultimate Guide to What Happens When We Die, Charlottesville, VA.

12:00 PM - LUNCHEON

1:30 PM - TO DIE FOR! THE AFTERLIFE AS A THEORETICAL CONCEPT IN SCIENCE - James E. Beichler, Ph.D., Chairman of the ASPSI Research Committee, holder of the only advanced degree in the world from an accredited university in Paraphysics, Associate Professor of Physics at West Virginia University, Parkersburg, Editor of the on-line journal Yggdrasil: The Journal of Paraphysics, Belpre, OH.

2:30 PM - BREAK

2:45 PM - EMPLOYING THE MOST CONVINCING EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH - Miles Edward Allen, Author of The Survival Files: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Completed for the Survival of Your Soul, TheSurvivalFiles.com and SurvivalTop40.com , York, PA

3:45 PM - BREAK

4:00 PM - WORKSHOP: ORBIUM COELESTIUM: SCIENTIFIC ANOMALIES , GHOSTS, OVER ENTHUSIASM OR MISPLACED BIASES? - James E. Beichler, Ph.D., Chairman of the ASPSI Research Committee, holder of the only advanced degree in the world from an accredited university in Paraphysics, Associate Professor of Physics at West Virginia University, Parkersburg, and Editor of on-line journal Yggdrasil: The Journal of Paraphysics, Belpre, OH.

5:30 PM - SUPPER

7:00 PM - THE DYING TIME AND BEYOND - Karin K. Nemri, CSC, ASPSI Secretary/Treasurer, Certified Spiritual Counselor, Aiijii Healer, lecturer, hospice volunteer, and chairperson of the Connecticut Affiliate of The Twilight Brigade, Compassion in Action, Bloomfield, CT.

7:45 PM - BREAK

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM - THE ESSENCE OF REALITY: CONTINUITY OF THE CONSCIOUS SELF - Thomas Daniel Nehrer, a systems developer of software control systems, various banking and school district functionality, a lifetime questioning the tenets of religious assumptions leading to the development of a website - www.nehrer.net - and writing of a book on Essence of Reality, Brackenridge, PA.


MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2008

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM - BEYOND THE VEIL: EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH - Boyce Batey, ASPSI Executive Director, psychical researcher, world traveler and hospice volunteer, Bloomfield, CT.

10:45 AM - OPEN FORUM - (SHARING THOUGHTS ABOUT SURVIVAL EVIDENCE, PERSONAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES, ET AL.)

12:00 PM - ADJOURNMENT OF CONFERENCE AND LUNCHEON

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM ATTENDING THIS CONFERENCE:

  1. Inspiring presentations from some of the leaders in the fields of spirituality and nonphysical reality.
  2. New insights on a variety of spiritual and paranormal topics.
  3. Ideas that you can use both personally and/or professionally.
  4. Meeting and exchanging ideas and information with other attendees and presenters.

ACADEMY PROGRAMS AND PUBLICATIONS: 1) We record and sell audio cassettes of presentations at our annual conference that combine aspects of spirituality and psychical research for $7.00 each. 2) We publish conference Proceedings that we send to members as a membership benefit. 3) Quarterly, we publish The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies and a news magazine, The Searchlight. All of this, together with discounted conference registration fees, are benefits of Academy membership. Members also can keep the books we supply them for book reviews in our journal.
ACADEMY WEBSITE: Our website - www.aspsi.org - has links to over 200 sites in 32 different categories such as spirituality, mysticism, religion, after-death communications, life after death, near-death experiences, parapsychology, reincarnation, etc. that provide an excellent research resource. The section on Life After Death contains many accounts of survival evidence.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: A bookstore selling books by conference presenters will be available at the conference.
When you register for this conference, we'll send you an acknowledgement letter, a copy of the program and directions for reaching the conference site. For additional information and/or questions about ASPSI or the conference, please write to ASPSI, P.O. Box 614, Bloomfield, CT 06002-0614 USA, phone us at 860-242-4593, or e-mail us at [email protected]

MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc. is to discern, develop and disseminate knowledge of how paranormal phenomena may relate to and enhance the development of the human spirit.