NEW this year!
CEUs for Social Workers!
ASCSI 2013 Conference
Friday, May 17, 1PM to Sunday, May 19, 12PM
at the
Wyndham Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel
A visit to the
Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE)
is included on the program.
Enjoy Many Notable Speakers on the theme:
Spirituality, Science and the Paranormal
KEY-NOTE SPEAKER
VERNON M. NEPPE, MD, PhD. FRSSAf, DFAPA, BN&NP;, DSPE, Fellow of the Royal Society
(SAf),
is a world recognized pioneer of the disciplines of Behavioral Neurology,
Neuropsychiatry, and also on déjà experiences, An internationally recognized
psychopharmacologist (impacting millions), medicolegal specialist, psychiatrist,
neuroscientist, phenomenologist, epileptologist, consciousness researcher, survival
researcher, and philosopher, he's received several major recognitions. Currently,
Executive Director and Distinguished Professor, Exceptional Creative Achievement
Organization (www.5eca.com) and Director, Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute (www.pni.org)
in Seattle, his 70+ page CV includes 8+ books, 2 plays, 450+ publications in 6 continents,
and 1000+ lectures in 12 countries. His latest book (with Dr Ed Close), Reality Begins
With Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift That Works (brainvoyage.com)
provides the first consistently workable model for unifying Science and Spirituality and
provides understanding why "Post-mortem Survival" is theoretically necessary.
Presenting: "REALITY BEGINS WITH CONSCIOUSNESS: Survival after Death and Life itself —Is There a How?"
RAYMOND MOODY
Best-Selling Author of twelve books including Life After Life—which has sold over 13 million
copies world wide—and Reunions, as well as numerous articles in academic and professional
literature. Dr. Moody continues to capture enormous public interest and generate
controversy with his ground-breaking work on the near-death experience and what happens
when we die.
Presenting:
"SHARED DEATH EXPERIENCES: GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY?"
P. M. H. ATWATER, L.H.D.
is one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies, having begun
her work in 1978 and completing 10 books on her findings – some of which have now been
verified in clinical settings. The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences, was
featured in the online version of Newsweek Magazine. Near-Death Experiences:
The Rest of The Story is her most complete and controversial book yet. She has won
many awards, appeared on numerous TV shows, and spoken globaly.
Presenting:
"NDE AS A THRESHOLD EXPEREINCE"
KEVIN J. TODESCHI, Executive Director and CEO
of the Edgar Cayce work
is a nationally recognized resource on the interpretation of dreams.
The author of numerous books on symbolism and interpretation, including Dream, Images
and Symbols and The BEST Dream Book Ever, he has worked with dreams for more than 30
years and lectured on dream interpretation on five continents. He is the author of more
than 25 books, including Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records, and Edgar Cayce on
Reincarnation and Family Karma.
Presenting:
"EDGAR CAYCE ON DREAMS: Your Pathway to Personal Guidance and Intuition"
REV. KAREN E. HERRICK, PH.D,LCSW, LMSW, CADC
has shared her clinical expertise for twenty-four years in her private practice
by lecturing throughout the United States on dysfunctional and addictive homes,
dissociation, grief and loss.Karen was ordained in 1995. Her ministry is to be actively
involved in Spiritual Psychology specifically in naming spiritual experiences.
Her book You’re Not Finished Yet is available through Amazon.com, Authorhouse.com
and on Kindle.
Presenting:
"MEDIUMS CAN CHANGE OUR LIFE FOCUS – IF WE LET THEM"
KARIN NEMRI, CSC
After a Near-Death Experience in 1971, Karin began to understand the workings of other
planes of reality and the beings who function within them. Her interest in energy healing
naturally followed and found that she had been blessed with a way to show people what is happening
in the invisible realms during an energy healing treatment. She is a Certified Spiritual Counselor,
Domestic Violence Counselor and Aiijii Healer
Presenting:
"HOW THE CHAKRAS ARE INTERTWINED WITH THE BOOK OF GENESIS"
LEE LAWRENCE
An internationally known medical/psychological intuitive whose education and research in
religion, psychology, and neuroscience Lee brings these three fields together in one unified
body of knowledge. Many describe him as a mystic, a soul reader or a miracle worker.
His scientific research into the existence ofthe human soul and how it works takes science
beyond its current limits. Formerly a university professor and C.P.A., Lee now devotes
his time to helping people grow spiritually through advancing knowledge that bridges
the gap between science and religion.
Presenting: "EINSTEIN'S RELIGION"
ROBERTA A. GRIMES, ESQ.
An experience of light when she was eight started Roberta Grimes on a mission to understand
how reality works. She majored in
religion in college, and investigated quantum physics and research in consciousness.
She is the author of The Fun of Dying – Find
Out What Really Happens Next, In late 2010, she co-founded afterlifeforums.com. Roberta is a
business attorney married for 40 years, a mother of three and a grandmother of four.
Presenting: "HOW AFTERLIFE EVIDENCE AND BIBLICAL ANALYSIS COMBINE WITH
TRADITIONAL
SCIENCE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND CONSCIOUSNESS
"
DOUGLAS G. RICHARDS, Ph.D
Douglas G. Richards, Ph.D. has been a faculty member at Atlantic University for 25 years,
with interests in consciousness, spiritual, and psychic phenomena as well as mediumistic communication.
His publications include papers in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, the Journal of Psychology and Theology,
the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical
Research.
Presenting: "INTELLIGENT AGENCY AND SPIRITUAL VOICES "
DR. JAMES E. BEICHLER
Professor Beichler has been teaching Physics, Mathematics, History and Philosophy of Science
and European History and other related subjects at the university and college level
for more than three decades. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Union Institute and
University in Paraphysics, a new and highly controversial branch of theoretical physics.
He is the author of To Die For: The physical reality of conscious survival, as well as a
sci-fi novel Evo: the next step. Look for his upcoming ebooks Phallacies in Fysics and
Four Pillars of Wisdom: The conceptual foundations of natural science.
Presenting: "THE NEURO-COSMOLOGICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY"
SUZANNE GIESEMANN
Suzanne Giesemann is the author of nine books and is a presenter and teacher in the field
of spirituality and human empowerment. She is a former Navy Commander who has served as a
Commanding Officer and was the aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the
Pentagon on 9/11. The story of Suzanne's transition from Navy Commander to her current
work as an intuitive counselor is chronicled in her memoir, Messages of Hope, which is
featured in a documentary by the same name.
Presenting: "WHERE SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY MEET"
ROSEMARY ELLEN GUILEY
Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading paranormal researcher and investigator, and is the
author of more than 50 books on paranormal and metaphysical topics. She first experimented
with EVP in the 1980s, and since 2006 has pursued research and experimentation in ITC.
She is co-author, with George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM, of the ground-breaking
book Talking to the Dead. She publishes an e-newsletter, Strange Dimensions, and has her
own radio show by the same name.
Presenting: "HIGH TECH AND THE AFTERLIFE: COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD AND THE BEYOND"
