between. Following a Near-Death Experience at 12 years of age, Kirsty is passionate about widening the conversation around death and the afterlife. Through her podcast ‘Let’s Talk Near Death’ Kirsty shares personal stories of life after near death, and events of significant spiritual transformation. Kirsty is a Co-Founder of IANDS Down Under, a Spiritual Awakenings International Affiliated Group, a certified ISGO Facilitator, founder of the Let’s Talk Near Death Online Community 
Ana Cecilia González, MEd, Attorney at Law, writer and public speaker, lives in Monterrey, México. She was born with a congenital heart malformation and with few possibilities of survival. Her life has been a long and, at times, difficult road, but never impossible. The life of Ana Cecilia transcends matters of health and sickness due to her determination and passion for life. Along the way, she had a Near-Death Experience and came back to tell us about it, leaving a legacy of faith and hope.
Raymond O’Brien is a British 12x NDE Experiencer, multiple STE Experiencer, and life-long “seer”, which he inherited from his mother’s side of the family. He has survived multiple cardiac arrests and heart attacks with NDEs. His purpose, he believes, is to be back here to help the survivors and the families of those who have suffered death trauma.
Dr. Judith Miller Ph.D. is a professor of clinical and developmental psychology at Columbia University for twenty years, past instructor at Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and has spent her life and career bridging the two worlds of mainstream psychology and spirituality. She is a licensed psychologist and works as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Her focus is how all people can make a direct connection with the higher power, the God force – without the mediation of institutions and external authorities. She facilitates Holotropic Breathwork retreats, workshops, and certified Breathwork training programs for groups around the world. For approximately fifteen years, she worked in Germany with adult children and grandchildren of Nazis and Jews, who continue to suffer guilt, shame, and anger some seventy years after the Holocaust of WW 2. Dr. Miller is listed in Who’s Who in the World; has been a long-time professional member of Spiritual Emergence Network. She is the first American to be certified as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist by the European Transpersonal Association (Eurotas), was a founding director of the International Institute for Exploration of Consciousness and Psychotherapy, a past Advisory Board member of ACISTE, a past Board member of the Kundalini Research Network, past President of Delaware Valley Chapter of IANDS; and past Board member of IANDS; Dr. Judith Miller is the author of “Direct Connection: Transformation of Consciousness, Dr. Miller’s website is: 
Tamara Caulder Richardson is a 6X NDE Experiencer and multiple STE Experiencer, Christ Channeler, Christian Minister, Mystic Seer, and an International Evidential Medium, known as; The Southern Belle Medium®. Tamara earned a B.A. in Communication Arts and Marketing. For 27-years she owned and operated her advertising agency, Caulder Design Communications in Charlotte, NC. Tamara is a trained visual designer, copywriter, branding expert and marketing strategist. Tamara is of Cherokee and German-Swedish descent and was born with the gift of “sight”. Tamara believes that her NDEs have enhanced her ability to see into hidden realms. At three years old, she had a nail go into her head and saw beings of light, as her angel “Uriel”, the Fire of God, healed her head. She saw and communicated with spirit people from that point on. At age four she had an NDE from a car crash where she experienced traveling through a dark tunnel and saw Jesus who told her she had to return. Upon coming back she saw between dimensions and was bi-locational. Then at five years old, “the big one”, Tamara was DOA for 15-minutes. She remembers going to Heaven with Christ where she spent three days with him. When she awoke, Christ still talked to her and taught her many spiritual things – and still does. As an adult, Tamara decided to use her spiritual gifts and mediumship to help others so she trained for eight years in the British Style of Evidential Mediumship with International mediums. Tamara currently does medium stage shows for women’s expos, at city convention centers before large audiences. In 2017, Tamara started the Charlotte Chapter of IANDS. She is also a founding member, marketer, and facilitator for IANDS ISGO. Today, Tamara is the host of the popular YouTube Channel, 
John Sphar was born in San Jose and lived there until late 2020 when he and his wife of forty years moved to Littleton, Colorado. John retired in 2017 after more than three decades operating a local/wide area networking business. Prior to that John was a microwave engineer at a company that was eventually bought by Hewlett Packard in Santa Clara. John has three married children and three grandchildren and currently enjoys exploring the Southwestern United States. In school John was active in a few sports, but baseball (behind the plate) and Greco-Roman wrestling (often supine) were his favorite. John spent 4 years in the US Air Force specializing in the integrated avionics systems of fighter aircraft at the USAF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California. Outside of that work, he formed a civilian sport parachute club on the base and while he was there, trained dozens of people how to skydive. He continued jumping as a civilian and by the time he discontinued the sport he had compiled several hundred jumps. John served as a state-licensed long-term care ombudsman for many years. He advocated for nursing home residents who had no family and who were on public assistance. Like many others interested in Spiritually Transformative Experiences, John learned about the Near-Death Experience by reading Life After Life. He saw how the book helped his mother through her difficult end-of-life issues and became focused on the possibility of the existence of an afterlife. He read everything he could get his hands on regarding the afterlife. Years later he formed South Bay IANDS, a 501(c)(3) . His personal mission became trying to alleviate the fear of death in as many people as possible. The contacts he has made since forming the group have transformed John, who is not a transformative experiencer of any type. He cannot consciously hear his spirit guides or the Universe, but he thinks he knows what they are telling him. He has transformed the old-fashioned way.
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Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Aloha!
Announcing our Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) Board of Directors and Advisory Board members for 2022.
SAI Board of Directors:
President – Dr. Yvonne Kason, MD
Vice-President – Dr. Robert Bare, MPA, PhD,
Treasurer – Dr. Brian Sackett, PhD.
SAI Advisory Board:
Ana Cecilia González, MEd; Anne Archer Butcher, MA; Dr. Bonnie Greenwell, PhD. Francisco Valentin; Dr. Ingrid Honkala, PhD; Kirsty Salisbury; Dr. Nicole Gruel, PhD; Raymond O’Brien; and, Tamara Caulder Richardson.
In Loving Memory of Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD, 1941-2022.
SAI Advisory Board Member and SAI Circle of Honor Honoree
It is with great sadness that I inform you that our beloved friend and colleague Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD, passed away on January 20, 2022. Bonnie died peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones, following a brave battle with cancer. She will be deeply missed.
Dr. Bonnie Greenwell and I were colleagues and friends for over 30 years. Our friends affectionately called us the “Kundalini Sisters”. In 1990 we co-founded the Kundalini Research Network (KRN) in the living-room of Bonnie’s Saratoga home, together with a few likeminded colleagues. Bonnie was a strong force within KRN, and served on the KRN Board for a decade. I was delighted when Bonnie agreed to join the SAI Advisory Board in 2020
Dr. Bonnie Greenwell is recognized internationally as an expert on Kundalini Awakening, and has helped thousands of Experiencers. In 1990 Bonnie published her first book: Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process, which is considered a classic in the field. She later published 3 more books: The Kundalini Guide, The Awakening Guide and When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Process of Spiritual Awakening.
Bonnie Greenwell’s March 20, 2021 outstanding presentation to SAI on Kundalini Awakening, her last public presentation, is posted below:
Dr. Bonnie Greenwell’s obituary: Click Here.
Please join me in sending loving prayers to Dr. Bonnie Greenwell and to her grieving family. If you wish to make a donation to Spiritual Awakenings International in Dr. Bonnie Greenwell’s memory, you can do so at: Donate – Spiritual Awakenings International
Welcome to our 3 new SAI Advisory Board Members: Dr. Ingrid Honkala PhD, Francisco Valentin, and Anne Archer Butcher MA.
Dr. Ingrid Honkala Ph.D. is an author, scientist, Light Worker, and international speaker in English and in Spanish, sharing the Light of loving-awareness of her soul’s purpose. Ingrid is a marine biologist and former NASA oceanographer, who has had multiple Spiritually Transformative Experiences, including two Near-Death Experiences in childhood and adulthood, and many other close encounters with death.
Ingrid was born in Bogota, Colombia, where she grew up with her parents and three sisters. From the moment of her first NDE at the age of two, Ingrid was aware of other dimensions of life than those most of us normally experience. She was also gifted with the wise input of Beings of Light who gave her invaluable insights and assistance as she faced the challenges of growing up and finding her professional destiny as an oceanographer and now as a giver of light. In her autobiography, “A Brightly Guided Life: How a Scientist Learned to Hear her Inner Wisdom,” – available in English and in Spanish – Ingrid details her amazing journey with the Beings of Light, and how any human experience can be illumined from within when we are in alignment with inner guidance..
Francisco Valentin is a Death Experiencer, a Near-Death Experiencer, an Out of Body Experiencer, an Inward Traveler, and an international speaker, in English and in Spanish. Francisco is the author, publisher, and custodian of The Transcripts. The Transcripts are insights of Higher Truth that he receives, perceives, and transcribes from a group of Ascended Masters known as “The Collective Forces of Knowledge and Wisdom”.
Francisco was born in Puerto Rico, and currently lives in Florida. He first became a Death-Experiencer in 1979 in a car crash that took his life for some time. What led Francisco to public speaking was an event on July 7, 2011, when a Spirit of Light manifested through his then twenty-year-old son’s voice to remind him of an agreement that took place in 1979 in return for his life. During this event, the Spirit of Light answered all his questions, and granted Francisco access to Higher Truth. Later, he experienced “The Dark Night of The Soul”, and in 2012 a close encounter with spiritual forces of ill intent leading him to almost commit suicide. In 2013, he was led on an inward journey by a Spirit of Light into Oneness, to an understanding of our true nature and destiny. Today, Francisco receives, perceives, and has transcribed over five-hundred Transcripts to raise awareness of the long-forgotten Concept of Oneness. Francisco publishes these Transcripts on his website, TheTranscript.org.
Anne Archer (Butcher), MA, is an author and international speaker who has traveled the world presenting the stories of her Spiritually Transformative Experiences. She and her husband, Alden are award-winning producers, marketing consultants and book editors, and they have helped multiple authors reach the top of the New York Times bestseller list. They focus on projects that uplift, educate and inspire. Anne has led a very spiritually adventurous life. She was rescued by dolphins from a shark attack, survived a Near-Death Experience, and had an out-of-body journey that revealed the true nature of death and allowed her to save her sister’s life. She has had myriad spiritual experiences and the greatest of all is captured in her new book, Five Blue Rings.
Anne is from South Carolina, attended high school in France and Germany, and has a Master’s Degree in English and Education from Indiana University. She is an Advanced Placement Scholar and earned an endorsement in journalism from Dow Jones. Anne is a member of Eckankar and wrote her first book, Inner Guidance, Our Divine Birthright, as an explanation of how she found this spiritual path and what she has learned along the way. It includes the story of Anne’s rescue by dolphins and her Near-Death Experience. Anne and Alden have three daughters and a grandson and reside near San Diego. Anne’s book site is : www.FiveBlueRings.org
Welcome to our new SAI Affiliated Group that joined us in January 2022:
- Zen Sangha – led by Siv-Anita Oiass (Norway)
Volunteers Wanted! Would you like to help support Spiritual Awakenings International as a volunteer? We are currently looking for warm-hearted volunteers to help with: 1. SAI administrative tasks; 2.SAI social media; 3. moderating SAI Zoom events; and 4. producing the SAI Calendar of Events. If you are interested to serve as an SAI volunteer, please contact me at info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
Mark your Calendars: Our SAI Conference 2022 will be Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 2022, Online! 17 outstanding international featured speakers are confirmed, including 4 ground-breaking SAI Circle of Honor Honorees. More information will be coming soon. Registration opens in March.
With love and blessings,
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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