Conference Agenda – Sunday

The world is in turmoil and upheaval. Everything seems to be whirling out of control. How can we overcome all the struggles and challenges that humanity faces? Where do we find the strength and courage to carry on?

Children Who Have Near-Death Experiences – Birth To Six Years

Adults and children who have a near-death experience before the age of six display similar patterns with scenarios and aftereffects, but they are worlds apart in how the phenomenon affects them – both at the moment and overtime. The majority are born aware and awake of being in the womb, of life before this one, even of other families, other homes, other worlds. Meaning does not interest them.

Helping Youth Navigate Spiritual Awakening

Teens to young adults are in a mental health crisis. This presentation will give grounded, practical suggestions for assisting young people to understand and safely navigate the territory of spiritual awakening. It is often the most sensitive youth who find it difficult to be at peace with their empathy and psychic openings. Without appropriate psych-education, they may isolate, feel estranged or overwhelmed.

Reimagining grief healing across the veil, A Catholic priest helps souls cross over

Fr. Nathan shares the story of Ritah, an addict, whom he has helped cross over. Through Ritah’s story, Fr. Nathan reimagines grief healing across the veil, answers questions like do we remain ourselves, and dispels misconceptions about deceased loved ones being stuck and helps souls move from a therapeutic transitional afterlife plane to the next, more expansive, joyful one.

Transcendent Visions and Exceptional Physical Healing

This presentation shares a profound spiritual journey that began with a miraculous healing from childhood paralysis caused by polio. That transformative experience became the foundation for a lifelong path as a spiritual healer. In 1984, the awakening of these healing abilities was further inspired by the renowned Russian Christian healer Djuna Davidashvili.

Joint Presentation with Dr. Priscila Alvarenga Antunes & Clovis Vervloet

My name is Priscila, I am a medical doctor, and I have had spiritual experiences since the age of four. Throughout my life, I visited many physicians due to unexplained symptoms, including ICU admission and evaluations in four states in Brazil and Wales (UK). No medical explanation was ever found.

My name is Clóvis Vervloet. I am a pharmacist and clinical psychoanalyst, qualified in hypnosis, floral therapy, Somatic Experience, Deep Memory Process, Hypnogenesis. I have experienced spiritual perceptions since childhood, including visions, clairaudience, and tactile sensations, which led me to seek guidance at a Spiritist Center, where I found psychospiritual balance.

A Framework of Spirituality to Intentionally Promote STEs

William James described an “unseen order” of spiritual experience that has been identified, clinically applied and validated with research. It highlights how trauma experiences of injury to self-worth and dignity are processed to open to mystical / spiritual experience. This process identifies the specific characteristics of our “heart” and “soul” level of experience opening to a Unitive Love – unconditional healing love, an embodied moral compass, and indomitable faith- appearing as the powerful transformative experience.

Transforming the Ego for Sustained Awakening

For us to have a sustained awakening, we need to convert Survival Mode reactions to Thriving Mode responses. Our instinctive Survival Mode once kept our ancestors safe, yet in daily life it often creates stress, reactivity, and disconnection. This presentation explores key steps and tools for calming these automatic reactions and supporting a greater capacity to thrive.

29 Fields, One Verdict: How AI and Data Reveal the Nature of Reality

In this groundbreaking presentation, Dr. Alex Burdyga (PhD, Oxford) unveils a five-year investigation into the nature of existence. Moving beyond his 2024 talk, he reveals research backed by an expert panel of AI models, which analyzed data across 29 fields – from Quantum Physics to NDEs.

The Internet, AI, and the Future of Spirituality

In this talk, I argue that the internet and AI are neither saviors nor threats to the soul, but powerful amplifiers of whatever consciousness we bring to them. I’ll explore how our digital “planetary nervous system” delivers unprecedented access to wisdom, cross‑cultural dialogue, community, and contemplative tools, and how AI can be a mirror that helps us see our patterns, stories, and longings more clearly.

Are You Too A Super Experiencer?!

Quantum psychology pioneer Valerie Varan, MS, LPC, NCC has been called a Super Experiencer, one who has experienced “multiple, noetic and anomalous experiences across their lives”.

When Inner Transformation Disrupts the Professional Self: Understanding Destabilization and Optimization in Spiritual Transformative Experiences

This research investigates how STEs arising through practices such as self-inquiry and plant medicine can both destabilize and optimize the professional self. Drawing on 50 in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs, executives, and creative professionals, the research reveals two primary trajectories.

Since childhood, Shaun Lether experienced communication with higher beings, but years of trauma and adverse life experiences caused him to shut out that guidance. Between two profound NDEs, Shaun’s deceased mother appeared to him on a mountaintop, reopening his connection with the afterlife & spiritual realms. This pivotal moment led him on a journey of healing, recovery, and Spiritual Awakening.

“Gobsmacked”: True Confessions of a (Very) Hesitant Convert

I will share key elements of my journey going from an unwavering “man of science” who thought that so many esoteric experiences were nonsense, and that psychic mediums were largely charlatans, to where I am today—a developing psychic medium, Usui Reiki Master, and vocal advocate for things that are “not yet science,” in the traditional sense, but which will be in 10 or 20 years (and are just as compelling).

From Skeptic to Psychic: A Mystic’s Journey Out of the Closet

From skeptic to psychic and from dope dealer to hope dealer, I share the story of a contemporary gay mystic who spent decades numbing his gifts with crystal meth, alcohol, sex, and porn. Taught as a child to hide his imagination and spiritual sensitivity, he descended into powerlessness and despair before discovering a direct connection with Spirit that saved his life.

The Life-Changing Light: How I Became the Accidental Mystic

In this engaging talk, Rebecca will share the details of her two-year-long Spiritually Transformative Experience, which occurred while she was in graduate school at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her STE started when she spontaneously devoted her life to God while writing in her journal.

Working With Our Angels to Co-Architect a Heavenly Earth

Humanity is at a threshold for a grand awakening that will catapult us into the next phase of human expression, one that is spirit/light based and no longer carbon based. Once we make this profound spiritual evolutionary leap, the Earth and all other species will spiritually evolve as well.

Messages from Heaven: The Healing Power of After-Death Communication (ADC)

When we lose someone we love, grief can feel overwhelming, yet it can also open the heart to extraordinary moments of sacred connection. Many people report spontaneous, meaningful signs and contact from their loved ones in spirit, known as After-Death Communications (ADCs). These experiences often bring comfort, reassurance, and healing by affirming that the soul lives on beyond physical death and love never truly dies.

When the Universe Begins to Teach You: A Clairaudient Medium’s Trauma-Informed Path to Awakening

In 2022, during my first ayahuasca retreat as a lifelong atheist, I experienced an unexpected STE that unfolded into “shamanic illness.” That rupture opened into nearly two years of non-ordinary experiences—ranging from startling, inhuman “pruebas” to nightly “teaching dreams” about universal love and compassion.

Lessons from the Liminal

Shadow people, energy vampires, sleep paralysis demons, these kinds of beings have many names and are present in most cultures and lore. It is the comon wisdom amoung new age spiritual circles to bypass such beings with love and light, yet we all know that they are still there, just outside our perception.

Discovering Your Soul’s Aura: How Identifying Your Soul’s Purpose can be Life-Changing

This presentation will be centered around the Aura Color Wheel, a systematic, dynamic self-discovery system that helps you understand your soul’s purpose. In this presentation, Helen will speak about the importance of discovering your soul aura, and how doing so can be transformative.