Spiritual Awakenings International wishes to honor and say thank you to the ground-breaking pioneers in the field of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) and Spiritual Awakenings.
Mark Anthony, JD: Psychic Explorer, groundbreaker in bridging Law practice with Spiritually Transformative Experiences, and coined the term “Afterlife Frequency”
Stanislav Grof, MD: co-founder of the Spiritual Emergence Network
Yvonne Kason, MD: first Canadian MD specializing in STEs, coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experience” (STE), defined STE types, co-founder of the Kundalini Research Network and Spiritual Awakenings International
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD: Founder and Director of the Research Center in Spirituality and Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil.
Robert Turner, MD, Francis Lu, MD, and David Lukoff PhD: successfully proposed to American Psychiatric Association the creation of non-pathological diagnostic category in DSM-IV for religious or spiritual issues including STEs.
Paramahansa Yogananda: father of yoga in the west, described STEs as normal part of spiritual development in his groundbreaking book Autobiography of a Yogi