Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Gary Schwartz is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. He is author of several books: The Afterlife Experiments, The G.O.D.Experiments, The Truth about Medium, The Energy Healing Experiments, and the coauthor of The Living Energy Universe.

Gary will speak about where research is today in helping us understand that much of what we know about life in the afterlife is the result of reports from mediums who learn about the afterlife from the people living there.

David Thompson

We are very happy to announce that David Thompson, one of the foremost materialization mediums in the world, will be demonstrating his trance and materialization mediumship at the conference. This is a unique opportunity to see one of the most accomplished materialization mediums alive today.

David's ability extends from the rare materialization mediumship to mental mediumship (clairvoyance), deep trance and trance healing. David has touched people from every walk of life--young, old, famous and royalty--giving proof of the continuity of life after physical death.

For a description of David's materialization sessions and how to sit in on one at the conference, click on "Bio" below.

George Noory

George Noory is host of the nationally syndicated program, Coast to Coast AM, heard by over 3 million listeners on over 600 stations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Guam.

George also hosts Beyond Belief, a weekly Internet-based TV show, and has appeared on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens, SYFY, the Larry King Show and numerous others. He was born, raised, and educated in Detroit. He has three children and six grandchildren. He served nine years in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Carla Wills-Brandon, M.A.

Carla Wills-Brandon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and author of twelve published books discussing topics ranging from relationships, healthy intimacy, sexual healing, and trauma recovery, to grief, transitioning, afterlife research and spirituality. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and has lectured across the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Carla's latest book, Heavenly Hugs: Comfort, Support, and Hope From the Afterlife will provide the backdrop for her session. Death loses its sting with the appearance of deceased family and friends, while glimpses of an afterlife promise the journey continues. Friends, family and healthcare workers also report seeing "something" leaving the body at the moment of passing, while others are visited in dreams by departing loved ones just before physical death occurs. Such experiences have been documented for centuries and continue to be scientifically researched today. These pre-death experiences take place in every culture around the world, and Carla, like many, encountered her first departing vision as a youngster.

These comforting encounters strongly suggest the personality, soul, or consciousness continues after death.

R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D.

Craig Hogan is the author of Your Eternal Self, co-author of Induced After-Death Communications and Guided Afterlife Connections, and editor of two ASCS books: Afterlife Communication: 16 methods, 85 True Accounts and New Developments in Afterlife Communication.

He is the developer of the website adcguides.com, devoted to the work of the direct-voice and physical mediums, especially Leslie Flint. In this presentation, Craig plays recordings of Leslie Flint sessions in which people who have transitioned off of the earth plane describe where they found themselves immediately after they leave their bodies. They find themselves in a great number of different circumstances.

Bruce Moen

Bruce Moen is a mechanical engineer who learned how to go to the afterlife to aid lost souls using the Monroe Institute's Lifeline procedure. 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."

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading paranormal researcher and investigator. She is the author of more than 50 books on paranormal and metaphysical topics. 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. She lectures internationally, runs her own publishing company, and gives readings, dreamwork consultations and past life regressions.

Rosemary explains that our interactions with spirits, extraterrestrials, shadow people, ancient aliens, demi-gods, and human-creature hybrids all involve the Djinn, a race of powerful, masterful shape-shifters who exist in a dimension parallel to ours and who are capable of affecting us into the afterlife and future lives.

In addition to her presentation, Rosemary will be giving two workshops in black mirror gazing to connect with loved ones in the afterlife: one during the conference for two hours (cost $45) and one on Sunday after the conference for three hours (cost $65).

Peter Wright, M.A.

Peter Wright is one of only 50 Board-certified Past-Life Regression Therapists in the U.S. certified by the International Board for Regression Therapy. He is one of only 250 hypnotherapists in the world trained under the direction of Dr. Michael Newton and the Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy. He is certified as a Master Hypnotist by the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute and is certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). He has served on the Board of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the International Association of Near-Death Studies and Board of Advisors of The Bridging Heaven & Earth Foundation.

In his presentation, Peter will discuss how to recognize earthbound spirits, ghosts, demons (negative entities) and extraterrestrials that are affecting your clients. He will describe how these entities gain entrance into us as well as reasons why these spirits should be removed. (Often these intruders are the cause of numerous physical, mental and emotional disorders, including phobias, addictions, anxiety, compulsions, depression, relationship difficulties, feelings of anger and abandonment, unexplainable pains and aches.) In particular, Peter will focus on specific protocols that you can use to release these spirits and heal the cause of the attachment, thereby improving the physical and emotional well-being of the client. The presentation will end with effective ways to protect yourself and your clients from spirit intruders.

Savarna Wiley, M.A.

Savarna Wiley has a master's degree in transpersonal psychology. She had 15 years' experience working as a hospice chaplain, is a clinical hypnotherapist, master hypnotist, medical hypnosis practitioner, spiritual regression/life between lives therapist by The Michael Newton Institute, master practitioner in Neuro-linguistic Programing, holistic health educator, and practitioner of CMT massage/Reiki/polarity/Bach Flower remedies. She has been a case reviewer and research coordinator for The Michael Newton Institute, member of the Board of Directors for The Michael Newton Institute, and past life regression practitioner with Brian Weiss and The Institute for Transpersonal Studies.

In her work with live between lives at the Newton Institute, she often entered the realm we call the afterlife, where she conversed with the people there. She learn how they endeavor to communicate with us and the difficulties they have. In this presentation she will explain what she found.

Susanne Wilson, M.A.

Susanne Wilson has a B.A. in management with an HR concentration, M.A. in public administration, and certification as a senior professional in human resources (SPHR). She has been a manager of compensation and benefits in a company, vice president of a company, founder and administrative director of the Center for Leadership and Innovation at Florida Gulf Coast University, analyst in the small business development center, and administrative manager of the Stanford University Medical Center. She is a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals and is a Usui Reiki Master Teacher.

In this presentation, Susanne explains that everyone has a spiritual team of guides, angels, and loved ones in the afterlife. Your spiritual team is led by a master guide. Your master guide is not your master, but a servant leader who works behind the scenes, coordinating your team and giving you gentle nudges on your life's path. Your master guide has thorough knowledge of your experiences in your past lives. Together, you and your master guide designed the master plan for the life you are living right now.

Jamie Turndorf, Ph.D.

Known to millions as "Dr. Love" through her website, AskDrLove.com, Jamie Turndorf has been featured on all the national networks, including CNN, NBC, CBS, VH1, and Fox, on websites like WebMD, iVillage, Discovery.com, and MSNBC.com, and in Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Glamour, American Woman, Modern Bride, Marie Claire, and Psychology Today online.

Jamie is the author of the Hay House book Kiss Your Fights Good-bye: Dr. Love's 10 Simple Steps to Cooling Conflict and Rekindling Your Relationship, which has been endorsed by New York Times best selling authors Jack Canfield, Dr. John Gray and John Bradshaw. Her most recent book is Love Never Dies

In this presentation, Jamie shares her latest Hay House book, Love Never Dies: How to Reconnect and Make Peace with the Deceased (available on Amazon.com) which has been endorsed by NY Times Best selling authors Dannion Brinkley and Fr. Richard Rohr, explaining how the deceased work at connecting with loved ones to heal strife and bring closure to unfinished business. Her presentation presents her new Trans-Dimensional Grief Therapy method that brings her proven conflict-resolution method to the world of afterlife communication. It enables the bereaved to reconnect, heal unfinished business, and make peace with the deceased using a technique called Dialoguing with the Departed..

Kim Sheridan

Kim Sheridan is an award-winning author, filmmaker, lecturer, and workshop leader. She is a popular guest on radio and television, and her expertise includes animals, health, and the environment. She has been listed in Who's Who in Executives and Professionals, 2,000 Notable American Women, and Great Minds of the 21st Century.

Much of her time today is devoted to the care of elderly animals making their transition to spirit. After a beloved pet and a close friend passed away, Kim Sheridan began her journey to uncover the truth about the afterlife. The result was the award-winning book, Animals and the Afterlife: True Stories of Our Best Friends' Journey Beyond Death. In this presentation, Kim explains her side-by-side comparisons of after-death phenomena of humans and animals, showing that the evidence our pets are with us in the afterlife is the same as the evidence that people live on after the body dies. In Kim's words: "If there's an afterlife for humans, there's an afterlife for animals, because the evidence is identical. And based on the evidence, I can say with conviction that there's most definitely an afterlife."

Anne Puryear, D.D.

Anne Puryear, D.D., is an author, minister, therapist, and vice-president and co-founder of The Logos Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Anne's psychic work has earned her international recognition as one of the most helpful, hopeful, motivating, and life-changing spiritual counselors in the country. Anne was Co-founder of the Spiritual Science Research Center in Washington, D.C., and after moving to Phoenix in 1977, spent four years as Director of the Department of Spiritual Healing at the A.R.E. Medical Clinic, the Medical Research Division of the Edgar Cayce Foundation. She was the co-founder of the Center for Life Guidance in Phoenix.

Anne's son, Stephen, took his own life when he was 15 years, 3 months, and 15 days old, because he felt it hurt more to live than to die. In her book, Stephen Lives, Anne tells about her own search to understand her cherished teenage son's suicide. She found a way to connect with Stephen in the spirit realm, and beginning a series of astonishing conversations in which Stephen answered her many questions while reaching out through her to help others in crisis. Anne will explain what she learned about the afterlife and this life in her session.

Roberta Grimes, Esq.

Roberta Grimes is an attorney with small-business law practices in Texas and Massachusetts. Roberta graduated from Smith College as a religion major and then from the Boston University School of Law. After decades of afterlife research, Roberta eventually published The Fun of Dying - Find Out What Really Happens Next! (Greater Reality Publications, 2010), and has just released her new book, The Fun of Staying in Touch: How Our Loved Ones Contact Us and How We Can Contact Them. She has traveled extensively to help people better understand that we are in fact eternal beings and we are infinitely loved.

Roberta has a large forum devoted to discussions of the afterlife at afterlifeforums.com. She has her own radio show, Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes. One of her primary areas of interest in afterlife studies is the nature of reality and what the next realms of life are like. In this presentation, Roberta will share what we now know from quantum physics and our communication with people in the other realms of life about the nature of the afterlife and its relationship to the earth plane.

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. Mikey has explained to her remarkable insights into the nature of the afterlife and his life there.

Carol will describe, from Mikey's viewpoint, what it felt like to transition, the accident, what he saw, who greeted him and guided him Home, where he first went, what he experienced, how he felt our emotions here, how he alters his vibration to draw close to earth for signs and communication, what the Afterlife dimensions are like, and life, living, and love in the Here and Beyond!

Patricia McGivern

Patricia McGivern has been a nationally certified hypnotist since 1998, specializing in past-life regression and helping parents connect with their early-loss babies.

Patricia graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in Mass Communications. After nearly 20 years in corporate settings she became a stay-at-home mom after the birth of her second daughter Meghan. Patricia's miscarriage propelled her on a spiritual quest and she became a hypnotist with a strong interest in spiritual work. She received her clinical hypnosis training in 1998 with Gerald Kein at the Omni Hypnosis Institute and trained with world renowned Dr. Brian Weiss, author of Many Lives, Many Masters. Patricia is certified through the International Board of Regression Therapy and a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

In this presentation, Patricia explores spirit communication with early-loss babies that is the subject of her first book, Angel Babies: Messages from Miscarried and Other Lost Babies, . In Angel Babies, Patricia discovers her deceased father is returning to her in her baby. She has established a new field of research into spirit communication with miscarried and other early-loss babies.

Donna Smith-Moncrieffe, CrimDip, M.S.

Donna Smith-Moncrieffe has 20 years' experience in qualitative and quantitative scientific research in criminology and health. Since 2009, she has applied this scientific research background to conduct studies in the area of survival of consciousness. Donna founded the firm Metaphysics Research in 2010 to study mental and physical mediumship, OBEs, NDEs, past-life regression, energy healing, and other phenomena that can help enhance people's awareness about the true nature of reality.

In her presentation, Donna will describe the remarkable findings of her research from physical mediumship, past life regression, out of body experiences and complementary energy healing studies. When findings from these studies converge they reveal consistent themes and valid answers to life's most intriguing questions. What do materialized visitors from spirit tell us about the afterlife? What do materialized doctors from spirit tell us about energy healing? What can past-life regressions and knowledge from the interlife phases teach us about our current life? And What have we learned about the nature of other spiritual dimensions from out-of-body experiences?

Miles Allen

Miles received his B.S. from the Journalism School at the University of Maryland, and worked as a writer, editor, and manager for various private and federal offices over three decades. Since his retirement, he has been keeping "busier than ever" with his writing, websites, and a greeting- and note-card company called FunOccasions.com. He enjoys solving cryptic crosswords, assembling jigsaw puzzles, designing games, and dabbling in chess. Miles Edward Allen is the author of The Survival Files: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled for the Survival of Your Soul, and several other books. He is also the sitekeeper for TheSurvivalFiles.com.

Miles will speak about what spirits have communicated to mediums about bodily forms in the afterlife, reality, rest and sleep, food and drink, clothing, language, the landscape, traveling, occupations, games and sports, suicides, reincarnation, religions, motivation, and growth. One spirit describes sex in the afterlife: "It is more obviously like what sex really means. Here you actually can enter the whole person. It is like you are in fact merging."