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President’s Comments 
November 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Aloha!

Wow! SAI continues to grow at lightening speed, worldwide.  In the 16 months since our launch, Spiritual Awakenings International has grown to about 2,300 subscribers from 61 countries around the world, on 6 different continents. How wonderful!  We give a big warm welcome to our new subscribers from the newest SAI countries: Romania, Japan, Trinidad, Hungary, Cayman Island, Israel, Malta, Kenya, Iceland, Poland, and the Philippines.

Congratulations to our 2 new SAI Circle of Honor Honorees

  • Betty Eadie – groundbreaker in raising awareness about Near-Death Experiences with her book Embraced by the Light
  • Dr. Stuart Sovatsky PhD – pioneer raising awareness about Kundalini Awakenings, directed first Spiritual Emergence service – the Kundalini Clinic

We are delighted to announce that both of these outstanding SAI Circle of Honor Honorees will be featured speakers at our SAI online Conference June 11-12, 2022!

Welcome to 2 new SAI Affiliated Groups who joined us October 2021:

  • Hawaiian IANDS – led by Shaun Lether
  • Spiritual Competency Academy – led by Dr. David Lukoff PhD and Dr. Cassandra Vieten PhD

SAI was delighted to welcome 2 new Affiliated Groups last month, spanning the planet from Hawaii, to California and Germany! Learn more about these and all our SAI Affiliated Groups by clicking their website links on our SAI Affiliated Groups webpage. https://spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/affiliated-groups/

Launch of the SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles Saturday, October 2, 2021 was a smashing success!  We were delighted by the great interest and excitement about our new SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles. 147 people registered for this event, and persons from 9 different countries on 4 continents attended. Wow!.

The next SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle is Saturday, November 6, 2021. We are holding SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles the first Saturday of each month. Facilitated by our trained SAI Facilitators, they’re FREE It’s a safe confidential space to share your STE stories with supportive like-minded Experiencers. Register on our SAI website.  https://spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/events/

Be sure to ARRIVE EARLY for our SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles. Sadly 24 people had to be turned away on October 2, because they arrived too late! To ensure that all participants hear and understand the Sharing Circles Guidelines that are presented at the start of each SAI Experiencers Sharing Circlepersons arriving more that 10 minutes after the start time will not be admitted.  Arrive early!

NEW – Launch of monthly SAI Spanish Language Events,  Saturday, November 13, 2021 – Francisco Valentin, speaker en Español.  Crónica De Una Experiencia Espiritual Sin Igual” .  Starting this month, we will be hosting a SAI Spanish language event the second Saturday of each month, with a featured speaker event one month, alternating with a SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle in the Spanish language, the next month. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends!

Coming Soon – Launch of the Spanish SAI Website.  Ana Cecilia Gonzalez, Joe Lagan and I have been working hard together for many months to translate the SAI website into Spanish, as part of our outreach to the Spanish speaking world.  Stay tuned!  We hope to launch the Spanish SAI website soon.

November 20, 2021 – Special SAI Veterans, Military, and First-Responders event – to recognize Veterans/Remembrance Day which is in November.   Retired Navy Pilot Ben Riggs, will be presenting STEs and the Military – discussing NDEs, to reincarnation, to UFOs. Please invite your veteran, military, and first-responder friends to this special presentation.

“SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle Pacifica” will start December 4, 2021.  To accommodate our SAI subscribers living in Pacific region time zones including Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines and more, starting December 2021 we will schedule some SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles at a time suited to this part of the world.  Our Saturday, December 4, 2021 SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle  will start at 5 PM Eastern Time, which is 2 PM Pacific Time, 12 noon in Hawaii, Sunday 11 AM in Auckland, New Zealand, and Sunday 9 AM in Sydney, Australia.  

New on SAI YouTube: Watch Now!

 
 

 

Mark the Date – SAI Conference 2022 will be Saturday June 11, and Sunday June 12, 2022 – online. We plan to have outstanding international speakers on a wide array of STE related topics.  Interested in speaking at our conference?  A Call for Papers will be sent out soon.

SAI Year-End Fund-Raising Drive begins November 2021.  November will be the launch of our first annual SAI Year-End Fund Raising Drive.  At this time of Thanksgiving and reflection, please express your gratitude to Spiritual Awakenings International with a tax-deductible donation.  Your donations will help SAI cover our operating costs, so that we can keep all our SAI events FREE! Donations of any amount are deeply appreciated.  Donate Now. 

With much love and gratitude for your support,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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 President’s Comments 
October 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Gruetzi, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia, Aloha!
 
 
NEW – Launch of the “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” – Saturday, October 2, 2021.  We are delighted to host new “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” the first Saturday of each month, starting in October.  They’re FREE!  Facilitated by our SAI Facilitators, SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles are a confidential opportunity to share the joys and the challenges of your Spiritually Transformative Experiences™ (STEs) and spiritual journey, with a supportive and understanding group of other STE Experiencers.  Register on our SAI website.

Thank you Brian Sackett – new Vice-Chair of the SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles program. I am happy to announce that Dr. Brian Sackett PhD, SAI Advisory Board member, is the Vice-Chair of the new SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles Program.  Thank you Brian!  I, Dr. Yvonne Kason  MD, am the Chair of the program, and deeply appreciate Brian’s expertise and support. 

NEW – SAI Spanish Language Committee – “SAI en Español“.    Inspired by the great success of the Spanish Language Experiencers Panel at SAI Conference 2021, the SAI Board decided to start a Spanish Language Committee, affectionately known as “SAI en Español“, to help create a program of Spanish language events, and to promote outreach to the Spanish speaking world.  We are delighted that all three of our panel speakers, Ana Cecilia González MEd, Dr. Ingrid Honkala PhD, and Francisco Valentin enthusiastically volunteered to serve on this new committee. 

Thank you  Ana Cecilia González – Chair of the SAI Spanish Language Committee.   I am pleased to announce that Ana Cecilia González MEd, SAI Advisory Board member, has agreed to be the Chair of the new SAI Spanish Language Committee.  Thank you Ana! Ana has also very generously been volunteering for several months with translation of our SAI website into Spanish. We hope to have it live soon.

NEW – Launch of monthly SAI Spanish Language Events,  Saturday, November 13, 2021 – Francisco Valentin, speaker en Español.  
Starting November 2021, we will be hosting a SAI Spanish language event the second Saturday of each month.  We plan a featured speaker event one month, alternating with a SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle in the Spanish language, the next month. All are FREE!

We welcomed 2 new SAI Affiliated Groups in September 2021:  
  • NDE Group of Rhode Island, led by Ben Riggs
  • Conscious Spirituality Tasmania, led by Philip Crouch
SAI was delighted to welcome 2 new Affiliated Groups last month, from opposite ends of the planet! We are delighted that in just over one year our SAI family of affiliated groups has grown to 43 groups, located in 12 different countries around the world, on 5 different continents.  Wow!

Mark the Date – SAI Conference 2022 will be Saturday June 11, and Sunday June 12, 2022 – online. We plan to have outstanding international speakers on a wide array of STE related topics.  Interested in speaking at our conference?  A Call for Papers will be sent out soon.

New on SAI YouTube: Watch it Now!

(32) Dr. Emma Bragdon PhD – How Brazilian Spiritists Have Effectively Managed Spiritual Emergency for… – YouTube
 
 
(32) Dr. Yvonne Kason – Everything you need to know about Near-Death Experiences – YouTube

 

Please Donate Now! Your donations keep all SAI events FREE! Donations of any amount are deeply appreciated.  All donations are tax deductible.  Donate Now. 

With much love and gratitude to all for your support,
 
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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 President’s Comments 
September 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Gruetzi, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!
 
 
2,000! In August 2021, Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) grew to 2,000 subscribers, from 58 countries around the world. Thank you everyone for your interest and enthusiasm to raise awareness of STEs globally.

NEW – Launch of the “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” – Saturday, October 2, 2021.  We are delighted to announce that we will start hosting “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” the first Saturday of each month.  They’re FREE!  Our SAI Experiencers Sharing Circle is an opportunity for anyone who has had a Spiritually Transformative Experience™ (STE) to come together with a group of other STE Experiencers to confidentially share and to listen. Register on our website:  www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/events/

SAI Presents Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer®/Psychic Explorer® on Saturday September 18, 2021 – Debunking Death: The Science of Reincarnation and Near-Death Experiences.  Combining his gift of evidential mediumship and his unique sense of humor, you won’t want to miss this exiting talk! Register at:   www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/events/

Welcome 2 new SAI Advisory Board members:  Brian Sackett PhD from Canada, and Kirsty Salisbury from New Zealand.

Dr. Brian Sackett, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist previously in private practice in San Jose, CA and is a recent Toronto, Canada resident. He specializes in working with clients dealing with trauma and abuse, spiritual emergence, anxiety and couples’ communication issues.  Prior to becoming a therapist, Brian worked for years in high tech in a variety of sales, marketing and engineering positions, mostly in the semiconductor industry. His undergraduate degree is a bachelor of sciences in mathematics, from Stanford University, and he has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

He has meditated and studied meditation since he was 21 years old and has had many strong Spiritually Transformative Experiences that have motivated him to do this, including a childhood Near-Death Experience, a Shared-Death Experience, and a spiritual emergency following an encounter with Baba Ram Dass and Swami Muktananda twenty years before the Grofs defined spiritual emergence.  He facilitates the online Toronto Meditation/Self-Inquiry Group and does spiritual guidance and coaching.  Brian was a featured speaker at the Spiritual Awakenings International Conference 2021.

 Kirsty Salisbury is a speaker, podcaster and coach exploring the topics of life, death and experiences in 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 (www.letstalkneardeath.com), and host of the Auckland Death Cafe. Outside of her podcast, Kirsty is a certified Funeral Celebrant and Author. Her books ‘A Life by Design and ‘Dying Well help to empower others to delve deeper into the topics of resilience, regrets, and how we can take a holistic approach to both life and death.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Kirsty loves being active, travelling and spending time with her family. 
 

Mark the Date – SAI Conference 2022 will be Saturday June 11, and Sunday June 12, 2022 – online. We plan to have outstanding international speakers on a wide array of STE related topics.  Interested in speaking at our conference?  A Call for Papers will be sent out this fall.

In memory of Rev. John Price 1938-2021.  It is with sadness that we share the news that Rev. John Price, our special SAI Veteran’s and Remembrance Day speaker on November 11, 2020, has recently passed . Take a moment to watch his extraordinary and excellent SAI presentation, posted below. You may also view Rev John Price’s obituary at: John Price Obituary – Houston, TX | A Sacred Choice
(5) Veterans/Remembrance Day Event – Rev. John Price – STEs during Military Service: A Pastoral Pers… – YouTube

 Your donations keep SAI events FREE!  Please Donate Now.  Donations of any amount are deeply appreciated.  All donations are tax deductible.

With much love and gratitude to all for your support,
 
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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 President’s Comments 
August 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Gruetzi, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!
 
 
We are delighted by our beautiful Conference 2021 Videos.  A special thank-you to Joe Lagan who created a beautiful and inspiring opening segment. We love it, and are sure you will too. All the conference videos are posted on our SAI Website:  https://spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/video/ 

Our SAI YouTube Channel has new videos posted every 2 weeks
We invite you to watch our newest videos posted. They are Reverend John Price’s awesome Veterans Day/Remembrance Day presentation on STEs during Military Service, and Dr. Christopher Kerr’s wonderful  talk on End-of-Life Visions and Dreams.  Subscribe to our SAI YouTube Channel to be notified about all our new postings.
SAI Presents Dr. Judith Miller PhD on Saturday, August 21, 2021-  LIVING THE SACRED: IN TIMES OF UPHEAVAL.  Be sure to join us! Judith will discuss how living the sacred is more important now than ever beforeWhile consciousness is speeding up, shadow and confusion is exploding in individuals, institutions, and politics.  The sacred is ever present and holds us all in a safe container. 

Mark Anthony, the “Psychic Lawyer”®, will present Saturday September 18, 2021 – Debunking Death: The Science of Reincarnation and Near-Death Experiences. We think you will love Judith Miller, Mark Anthony, and the other exciting international speakers we have planned this year.
 
Thank you for your generous response to our first SAI Donation Appeal.  SAI is Donation Based, run by volunteers. Despite ongoing operating costs, we are committed to offering all our online events for FREE.  Did you miss our SAI Donation Appeal?  Then…

Please Donate Now, to help keep all SAI events FREE!
Donations of any amount are deeply appreciated.  All donations are tax deductible.

With much love and gratitude to all for your support,
 
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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 President’s Comments 
July 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Gruetzi, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!
 

SAI’s first Conference June 12 and June 13, 2021, was a smashing success.  Thank-you awesome speakers!  Our one-year “birthday celebration”, the Spiritual Awakenings International online Conference, was a blazing success, exceeding our expectations!  Thank you to all the outstanding speakers, and to all of you who attended and participated actively in the Q & A, on chat. For those of you who would like to read more about our conference speakers, we have left the SAI Conference website page up to enjoy.

Over 900 people registered from around the world.  We are delighted that 910 people registered for conference Saturday, and 753 registered for conference Sunday. Wow!  We had a “Free-Style” conference, where attendees could come and go as suited them. Attendees came from at least 20 countries and 6 continents, including from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria, England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Cayman Islands, Canada, and the USA.  This truly was an international event.

We are grateful for the support of all our SAI Conference Co-Sponsors: Chicago IANDS, IANDS Down Under, Integrative Mental Health for You, Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, Portland IANDS, Seattle IANDS, Seeking Heaven: The Near-Death Experience and Other Phenomena YouTube Show, The Let’s Talk Near Death Podcast, The Past Lives Podcast, Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group, and Toronto Meditation/Self Inquiry Group.  

All Conference 2021 Videos are now posted on our SAI Website.  Be sure to watch the beautiful videos of our excellent SAI Conference 2021 presentations. They are now posted on our SAI Website on the “Videos” page, under the “Events” tab.  Videos – Spiritual Awakenings International 

Thank you Joe Lagan for the beautiful video opening images!  A special thank-you to Joe Lagan, our SAI technical support person, who created an extraordinarily beautiful and inspiring opening segment for all our SAI conference videos.  We love it, and are sure you will too. Enjoy! 

Welcome 2 new SAI Advisory Board Members in June 2021:
Ana Cecilia González from Mexico, and Raymond O’Brien from England

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.

Ana studied Law and attained a Master´s in Education degree. Much of her professional life has been devoted to teaching. She has two children Ana Paula and Daniel.  Today she is in charge of a department in a family business and gives talks on issues of personal improvement and awareness. She promotes the value of life and the desire to live it despite adversity.  She speaks on topics related to both improving our way of living, and also on preparing for death, 

Ana is the Chair of the newly formed Spiritual Awakenings International Spanish Language Committee, SAI en Español..  Her book, When Life is Not Forever, is available in English and in Spanish.

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.

He himself holds a qualified and validated experiential spiritual insight to the tsunami of emotions that many have to live with after their lethal event.  It is these insights that he feels privileged to be able to impart to the medical profession and others, so they may be better informed on how to support the NDE/STE community.

Raymond is trained as a psychotherapist, and is a member of the British Association of Counselors and Psychotherapists.  He has spoken at the prestigious Royal London Teaching Hospital on  the psychological effects of surviving a cardiac arrest, be this trauma or STEs after the NDE. He has been published by the John Hopkins University on the subject of near death and the lack of care and understanding of this in the medical world, as well as about how he incorporates his own NDEs in his own practice of helping survivors of NDE/STEs.

We just launched “SAI en Español”, the SAI Spanish Language Committee.  Due to the huge success and great interest in the Panel de Experiencias Espirituales Transformadoras (EET)) en Español, the Spanish Language Experiencers Panel, we decided to launch the SAI Spanish Language Committee, with Chair Ana Cecilia González, plus members Ingrid Honkala, Francisco Valentin, Robert Bare, and Yvonne Kason. Keep tuned for more Spanish language initiatives.

We are taking a holiday in July. 
Our next SAI Presents event will be Saturday August 21, 2021:
Dr. Judith Miller PhD –  LIVING THE SACRED: IN TIMES OF UPHEAVAL

We are committed to offering all SAI online events for FREE.  
Please Donate Nowat www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/donate/ All donations are tax deductible. SAI has received our IRS 501 c-3 tax-exempt status. We now humbly ask you for donations to help us cover our operating costs, so that we can continue to offer all our online activities for FREE to all worldwide.  Donations of any amount will be deeply appreciated. 

With much love and gratitude to all for your support,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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President’s Comments 
June 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Gruetzi, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) is now in 56 countries!  Wow! In less than one year, SAI has now grown to 1,600  subscribers in 56 countries around the world!  We welcome everyone to the  rapidly expanding SAI global family!

We welcomed 3 new SAI Affiliated Groups in May:

  • Blue Lotus
  • Kundalini Research Foundation
  • The Closer to Venus Podcast

To learn more about each of our SAI Affiliated Groups and Networks, please click their website link on our SAI Affiliated Groups Page .
**.Please note: The Closer to Venus Podcast is actively looking for qualified speakers.  If interested send queries to :speakers@closertovenus.com

Thank you to DIANE  WILLIS, who has completed her term on the SAI Board.  We extend a special thank you to Diane Willis, who on May 9, 2021 completed her one-year term on the Spiritual Awakenings International Board, as the Past-President of iSee.  We are grateful to Diane for her loving and generous service to SAI, and wish her all the best as she continues forward as the President of Chicago IANDS, an SAI Affiliated Group.  Best Wishes and Much Love to you, Diane!

We are expanding our SAI Advisory Board to include more international members.  Our SAI Board and Advisory Board currently has members from the USA, Canada, and Australia.  We are now also inviting new members from Mexico and England, to reflect SAI’s international nature, and plan to expand more in the future.  

 

Our SAI YouTube Channel launched in May. 
Watch our new Welcome to SAI YouTube Video Now! 

Subscribe to our SAI YouTube channel to get notices when we post new videos – every two weeks.

May 15, 2021 First-Responders event with Dr. Richard Kelly EdD was outstanding.  This inaugural First-Responders event which described how many first responders have STEs in lethal situations, was specially held to honor Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occurred in May,  

SAI’s first Conference will be Saturday June 12, and Sunday June 13, 2021.  Online.   Register Now!
Wow! About 550 people have already registered for our conference, and the conference is still two weeks away!  We have upped our Zoom capacity again, so that everyone who registers will be able to attend.  Register now to take part in this groundbreaking event.

Highlights of SAI Conference 2021 include:

  • 22 International Speakers
  • 6 Pioneering “SAI Circle of Honor” Speakers
  • Multi-Faith Opening Panel
  • Debut of the “NDE Talking-Dead” Panel
  • Multiple STE Experiencers Panel
  • First Spanish Language STE Experiencers Panel: Panel de Experiencias Espirituales Transformadoras.

See the full Conference agenda on our beautiful SAI Conference Website.  It’s Free!

Watch a “Sneak Peak” preview of Conference 2021:
 Multiple STE Experiencers Panel

Please note: The sound is choppy for the first minute then becomes perfectly clear in this awesome video.

We are very grateful to Tamara Caulder Richardson, SAI Advisory Board member, who has generously helped with marketing our SAI Conference, including hosting and posting SAI Conference 2021 Speaker Spotlight videos on her YouTube Channel: Seeking Heaven: The Near-Death Experience and Other Phenomena.

SAI Facebook Page has had enormous response. In the last month our SAI Facebook Page had 6,000 views from people all over the world, including views by many persons living in countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as in North and South America. Rei Hernandez’s video posted there has already had 1.8 K views!  Awesome!

We are committed to offering all SAI online events for FREE.  
We will be asking you for Donations soon.

SAI has applied to the IRS for 501 c-3 tax-exempt status.  We are hopeful that we will be approved soon.  After we receive our tax-exempt status, we will be asking our supporters for donations to help us cover our operating costs, so that we can continue to offer all our online activities for FREE to all.  Donations of any amount will be deeply appreciated.  Keep tuned! 

With much love and gratitude to all for your support,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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 President’s Comments 
May 1, 2021
“Bringing us Together 
 
Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!
 

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) is now in 55 countries!  SAI continues to grow in leaps and bounds!  We now have over 1,300 subscribers in 55 countries around the world.  In the last couple months we added subscribers from the new countries of: Israel, Malta, Kenya, Iceland, Poland, Philippines, Austria, Argentina, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, Denmark, Ecuador, Turkey, Serbia, Bahrain, and Mali. We welcome everyone to the rapidly expanding SAI global family!

SAI welcomed a new Affiliated Network in April: Leo Bonomo – The Voice of Spirit, based in the UK!  To learn more about Leo Bonomo-The Voice of Spirit and about each of our other SAI Affiliated Groups and Networks, please click their website link on our SAI Affiliated Groups Page. 

Facebook live-stream video of SAI Presents reached 1.6 K in one week..  We are delighted that each month more and more people worldwide are benefiting from our videos of SAI Presents speakers by watching them on Facebook live-streamed during the presentation, and by watching the video posted later on Facebook.  April set a new record, with 1.6 K people watching the video of our April 17 presentation by Reinerio Hernandez in the first week!

Special First-Responders event on May 15, with Dr. Richard Kelly EdD,  who will share results of his groundbreaking study of STEs that happen to First-Responders in lethal situations. This inaugural First-Responders event will be honoring Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occur in May,  Please spread the word among your first-responder friends about this special event.

Our SAI YouTube Channel will be launched soon!  Keep tuned for our launch announcement, coming soon! 

SAI’s first  Online Conference will be Saturday June 12, and Sunday June 13, 2021.   Register Now!
– With Groundbreaking SAI Circle of Honor Speakers:  Dr. Bruce Greyson MD who co-founded IANDS; Bill Guggenheim who coined ” After-Death Communications”; Dr. Yvonne Kason MD who coined “Spiritually Transformative Experiences”; Dr. Francis Lu MD who co-created the DSM category for STEs; Jyoti Ma – who co-founded the Kundalini Research Network; and Kimberly Clark Sharp who founded the very first NDE Support Group. 

– With 22 outstanding International Speakers: from Canada, England, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, and the USA.

– Debut of the “NDE Talking Dead” Panel:  with 3 NDErs who were clinically dead and then came back to life to share what they saw and learned: Raymond O’Brien, Dr. Yvonne Kason, and Robert Bare.

– First Spanish Language STE Experiencers Panel: Panel de Experiencias Espirituales Transformadoras. As outreach to the Spanish speaking world community, Ana Gonzales, Francisco Valentin, and Ingrid Honkala  will share their stories en Espanol.  This special panel will be held as the last event Sunday afternoon. Registrate Ahora 

– See the full Conference agenda and Register on our beautiful:  SAI Conference Website.  It’s Free!

 With much love and gratitude to all,
 

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email:
 info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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President’s Comments 
April 1, 2021

“Bringing us Together

Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) is growing rapidly.  Thank you for your continued interest and support!  In just 9 months since our launch, SAI has grown to over 1,100 subscribers in 49 countries around the world.  We welcome everyone to the rapidly expanding SAI global family!

SAI welcomed 10 new Affiliated Groups & Networks in March 2021!  We are delighted to welcome the following new SAI Affiliated Groups or Networks, that are based in 9 different countries around the world, on 4 different continents: Austria, Australia, Brazil, England, France, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and  USA.  We are excited to welcome our first Portuguese language Affiliated Network, and our first Spanish language Affiliated Network.  To learn more about each group, please click their website link on our SAI Affiliated Groups Page.:
  • Afinal, o que somos nós? / After all what are we?

  • Cuando Vivir no es Para Siempre de Ana Cecilia González/ When Life is not Forever by Ana Cecila Gonzales Network

  • European Transpersonal Association – EUROTAS

  • Galileo Commission

  • IANDS Down Under 

  • Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer/Psychic Explorer 

  • Not Church Sundays

  • Scientific and Medical Network 

  • The Let’s Talk Near Death Podcast

  • Waking Up Spiritually!

 
April 17, 2021, UFOEs and STEs being discussed  by Reinerio Hernandez.  We look forward to hearing  Reinerio “Rey” Hernandez, an internationally renowned UFOE and STE researcher and Experiencer.  He will  outline the most current understanding of the inter-relationship between “Experiencers” of the Contact Modalities:  Near-Death Experiences, UFOs, UAPs, Out-of-Body Experiences, Ghosts/Spirits,  Remote Viewing, Hallucinogenic Experiences, Channeling, and other STEs – through non-local consciousness, a manipulation of space-time, and a  possible multidimensional reality with spiritual implications.

May 15, 2021, will be a special First-Responders event with Dr. Richard Kelly EdD.   Retired police officer and current psychotherapist, Dr Kelly, will present results of his groundbreaking research into STEs that happen to First-Responders in lethal situations. This inaugural First-Responders event will be an expansion of our SAI Veterans, Military, and First-Responders Program. We will be honoring Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occur in May,  Please spread the word among your first-responder friends about this special event.
 
SAI’s first  Online Conference will be
Saturday June 12, and Sunday June 13, 2021  

It’s FREE!

With Groundbreaking SAI Circle of Honor Speakers:
  • Dr. Bruce Greyson MD – Co-Founder of IANDS
  • Bill Guggenheim – Coined ” After-Death Communications”
  • Dr. Yvonne Kason MD – Coined “Spiritually Transformative Experiences”
  • Dr. Francis Lu MD – Co-Created DSM category for STEs
  • Jyoti Ma – Co-Founder of Kundalini Research Network
  • Kimberly Clark Sharp – Founded first NDE Support Group
With 22 outstanding International Speakers: from Canada, England, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, and the USA

Debut of the “NDE Talking Dead” Panel:  with 3 NDErs who were clinically dead and then came back to life to share what they saw and learned.

First Spanish Language STE Experiencers Panel: As outreach to the Spanish speaking world community, 3 Spanish speaking STE Experiencers will share their stories in the Spanish language.  This special panel will be held as the last event Sunday afternoon.

See the full agenda on our beautiful SAI Conference Website.
 
It’s Free!
 
With much love and gratitude to all,
 
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
“Bringing us Together”                                 
 

Father Charles Ogada - Nigeria

President’s Comments 
March 1, 2021

“Bringing us Together

                                             Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!

 Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) continues to grow in leaps and bounds.  Thank you for your continued interest and support!  SAI now has close to 1,000 subscribers from 45 countries all around the world, on 6 continents.. Welcome everyone!


Announcing New Advisory Board members, Dr. Judith Miller PhD, Tamara Caulder Richardson, and John Sphar

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: www.drjudithmiller.com
 

Tamara Caulder Richardson is a 6X  NDE Experiencer and multiple STE ExperiencerChrist 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,  Seeking Heaven: The Near-Death Experience and Other Phenomena,  a spiritual talk show that was created “by and for” other NDErs and STErs, and truth seekers, to create a loving soul community. Tamara also has a YouTube Christ Channeled site:  Academy of Love: Jesus Speaks .


 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.

Kundalini Awakening the focus March 20, 2021 with Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD.   We are delighted that Circle of Honor Honoree Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD,  Co-Founder of the Kundalini Research Network, internationally renowned Kundalini expert,  and author of 4 books on Kundalini Awakening, will be sharing her insights based on 40 years of research and clinical experience this month..

UFOEs and STEs being discussed April 17, 2021 with Rey Hernandez.  
We look forward to hearing latest theories from Reinerio “Rey” Hernandez, an internationally renowned UFOE and STE researcher and Experiencer.  He will  outline the most current understanding of the interrelationship between “Experiencers” of the Contact  Modalities:  Near-Death Experiences, UFOs, UAPs, Out-of-Body Experiences, Ghosts/Spirits,  Remote Viewing, Hallucinogenic Experiences, Channeling, and other experiences – through non-local Consciousness, a manipulation of space-time, and a  possible multidimensional reality which has spiritual implications.

Our inaugural First-Responders event will be May 15, 2021 with Dr. Richard Kelly EdD, retired police officer.   This event will be an expansion of our SAI Veterans, Military, and First-Responders Program. We will be honoring Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occur in May, with our first SAI First Responders event.  Dr. Kelly will discuss his groundbreaking research into STEs experienced by First-Responders in lethal situations. Please spread the word among your first-responder friends about this special event.

Exciting Announcement!
 
SAI’s first  Online Conference will be  
Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13, 2021. 
It’s FREE!

With Groundbreaking SAI Circle of Honor Speakers:
  • Dr. Bruce Greyson MDCo-Founder of IANDS
  • Bill Guggenheim – Coined ” After-Death Communications”
  • Dr. Yvonne Kason MD – Coined “Spiritually Transformative Experiences”
  • Dr. Francis Lu MD – Co-Created DSM category for STEs
  • Jyoti Ma – Co-Founder of Kundalini Research Network
  • Kimberly Clark Sharp – Founded the first NDE Support Group
With outstanding International Speakers: from Canada, England, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, and the USA

Debut of the “NDE Talking Dead” Panel:  with 3 NDErs who were clinically dead and then came back to life to share what they saw and learned.

First Spanish Language STE Experiencers Panel: As outreach to the Spanish speaking world community, 3 Spanish speaking STE Experiencers will share their stories in the Spanish language.  This special panel will be held as the last event Sunday afternoon.

More details coming soon!

Conference Registration begins Mid March
on the SAI website.

It’s Free!
 
Thank you for your support.  We welcome your suggestions and volunteer support. 

With much love and gratitude to all,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
“Bringing us Together”                                 

 

President’s Comments 
February 1, 2021

“Bringing us Together

                                             Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) wishes you all good health and prosperity in the upcoming year!  With all the challenges and tensions we are facing globally at this time, it is our pleasure to offer you a safe-harbor filled with optimism and hope.  SAI is non-aligned, and has no dogma.

Welcome New Advisory Board member,  Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD

   

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD has joined our Spiritual Awakenings International Advisory Board.  Dr. Greenwell is a world-renowned expert on STEs, especially Kundalini Awakenings, and is a past executive director of the counseling center at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.  In 1990 she was the Co-Founder of the Kundalini Research Network, and has written 4 books on Kundalini Awakening.  Dr. Greenwell  has been recognized for her groundbreaking work as an Honoree on the SAI Circle of Honor. Bonnie is a transpersonal psychotherapist and non-dual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti. She has been licensed as a counselor since 1980 in California and later in Oregon, We welcome Dr. Bonnie Greenwell and are grateful for her wisdom and outstanding experience.
We look forward to hearing Dr. Greenwell’s SAI Presents talk on March 20 2021, The Impact of Kundalini Activation and Consciousness Shifts in Spiritual Awakening.

Welcome 3 new SAI Affiliated Groups.  
We were happy to welcome three new  wonderful  networks to our SAI Affiliated Groups and Networks global family last month.  We extend a warm welcome to:

  • Seeking Heaven: The Near-Death Experience and Other Phenomena

  • Jacob Cooper LCSW Author Network

  • Studio En-LIGHT-en Bookclub

To learn more and to get contact information and links for these networks and other SAI Affiliated Groups, please take a look at our “Affiliated Groups”  page, under the “About” tab on our SAI website.

SAI global outreach continues.  Our SAI Executive has launched the new year with active networking, reaching out  to STE related individuals and groups around the world,  Our SAI President and Vice President have already made several online presentations in January, raising  awareness about STEs and about SAI.  SAI co-hosted a Seattle IANDS event in December 2020, and will co-host the February 6, 2021 San Diego IANDS event.  SAI will continue its outreach globally, and we are open to assisting/co-hosting other affiliated group events.

SAI Calendar of Events has been a success. We have received positive feedback that several SAI subscribers have signed up for events held by SAI Affiliated Groups around the world.  We are delighted that this Calendar of Events is truly “Bringing us Together”, which is our SAI motto.

SAI Presents events are a smashing success!   Our Spiritual Awakenings International Presents events have been a huge success, and have vastly exceeded our expectations.  We are proud to have presented and will continue to present STE related speakers of extremely high caliber each month. Dr. Emma Bragdon’s outstanding January 16, 2021 presentation on Brazilian Spiritist Healers had such a high demand, that we increased our SAI Zoom capacity so that everyone who registered would be able to attend

Facebook Streaming of SAI Events. To meet demand, we started to live-stream our events on Facebook, and now many persons from around the world watch each monthly event live, or watch the recording posted afterwards on our SAI Facebook page. “Like” our Spiritual Awakenings International Facebook page to get notifications about live-streamed SAI events.

Videos of all past SAI Presents events are posted on our website. Videos of all our past SAI Presents presentations can be viewed for free, and are posted on our SAI website. Look for the videos on the “Videos” page, under the “Events” tab on our SAI website.

SAI Circle of Honor Honorees launch 2021.  Our 2021 SAI events have launched with 4 successive outstanding presentations by Spiritual Awakenings International Circle of Honor Honorees, each renowned groundbreakers in the field of STEs:

  • January 16, Dr. Emma Bragdon PhD
  • February 6, Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
  • February 20, Dr. Jeffrey Long MD
  • March 20, Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD

UFOEs and STEs being discussed April 17, 2021 by Rey Hernandez.
We look forward to our April 17, 2021 SAI Presents event with featured speaker Reinerio “Rey” Hernandez, an internationally renowned UFOE and STE researcher and Experiencer.  He will  outline the most current understanding of 
the interrelationship between “Experiencers” of the Contact  Modalities – individuals that have had contact with Conscious Intelligence via  Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-Body Experiences, UFOs/UAPs, Ghosts/Spirits,  Remote Viewing, Hallucinogenic Experiences, Channeling, and other PSI and  Paranormal experiences – through non-local Consciousness, a manipulation of space-time, and a  possible multidimensional reality which has spiritual implications. Fascinating stuff.

Our inaugural First-Responders event will be May 15, 2021.   We will be honoring Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occur in May, with our first SAI First Responders event.  Please spread the word among your first responder friends about this special event.

Exciting Announcement!
 

SAI’s first  Online Conference will be  Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13, 2021.  Our most exciting news is that Spiritual Awakenings International will be celebrating our one year “birthday” by hosting our first Conference, Saturday June 12, 2021, and Sunday June 13, 2021.  We had hoped to celebrate one year since SAI’s launch of June 15, 2020, with a live, in-person conference.  However, due to the Covid 19 pandemic this is impossible, so we changed our plans to an online conference. 

SAI has a slate of tremendous experts and fascinating Experiencers from all parts of the world to speak on topics we think will be of interest to everyone.  Some highlights of our conference include:

  • Several SAI Circle of Honor groundbreaker speakers
  • “NDE Talking Dead Panel ” with Experiencers from 3 countries who came back from the dead
  • Spanish language Experiencers panel
  • International  conference speakers –including from Canada, England, Mexico, Spain, and the USA .

Our SAI online Conference will be Free!
We are committed to bring our speakers at no charge to our subscribers.

Thank you for your support as we continue to blossom and grow. SAI now has over 900 subscribers, spread across 42 countries around the world,

We welcome your suggestions and volunteer support.  If you have any suggestions to help Spiritual Awakenings International grow, or if you would like to volunteer to support SAI, please email us at the address below.

With much love and gratitude to all,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
“Bringing us Together”                                 

 

President’s Comments 
January 1, 2021

“Bringing us Together
 

Happy New Year, Bonne année, Frohes neues Jahr, Feliz Ano Nuevo, Buon anno, Feliz ano novo!

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) wishes you and your family a very Happy New Year.  We hope you and your families are safe and healthy. 2020 has been one of the most volatile and challenging years in world history.  The coronavirus pandemic and economic distress have tested all of us in many different ways.  As the year comes to a close and a new year begins, we wanted to provide a short summary of SAI work on your behalf, and share some thoughts about how we can continue to grow in 2021.

2020 in Review

SAI is “by Experiencers for Experiencers”- relating to all types of Spiritually Transformative Experiences including Near-Death Experiences.  When we launched SAI on June 15, 2020, the pandemic had already hit. SAI ‘s top priorities were to:
  • launch the organization globally;
  • remain true to our founding mission to raise awareness about STEs and facilitate networking;
  • remain true to our business plan; and
  • provide inspiring and educational online presentations and information to help “Bringing Us Together”.
SAI has emerged to the point that has exceeded our wildest dreams.  Since launching we have rapidly grown to over 800 subscribers, spread across 40 countries on 6 continents, and with 28 affiliated groups globally. SAI is growing daily, and we thank you for all the support each of you has given.

Our SAI Presents events have been totally successful.   Each event has exceeded registration capacity, which led us to additionally stream each monthly event on Facebook to meet the demand.  SAI has had an international focus in choosing our speakers, which included presenters from Australia, England, Canada, and the USA in 2020.

We launched our Veterans, Military, and First Responders Program.  Veterans Day/Remembrance Day, November 11, 2020, we successfully launched our SAI Veterans, Military and First-Responders Program with an outstanding presentation by Rev. John Price on STEs among veterans and military personnel.  This program will be continued and expanded in 2021.

Our SAI Circle of Honor has recognized STE pioneers and ground-breakers from around the world.   Spiritual Awakenings International has been proud to honor and say thank you to some of the ground-breaking pioneers in the field of STEs and Spiritual Awakenings in the last 100 years. We are proud to have added two more European Honorees in December 2020, Dr. Pim Van Lommel from Holland, and Dr. Peter Fenwick from England, to add to our other Honorees from Canada, Hungary, India, Switzerland, and the USA.

The SAI Board has done extensive outreach to STE interested groups and individuals globally.  Our SAI Executive has been very active networking, reaching out via email, phone, and Zoom to STE related individuals and groups around the world, including to: Hong Kong, Australia, England, Spain, Lichtenstein,  Mexico, Nigeria, Canada, and all across the USA.  Our SAI President and Vice President have accepted a multitude of invitations in 2020  to present online to diverse groups, and will continue to do so in 2021, thus helping raise awareness about STEs and SAI.
 
SAI is committed to free presentations and to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. SAI is determined to make all our presentations free to subscribers and not charge any subscription dues or fees.  We think the information about STEs needs to be shared widely, free of charge.  Voluntary donations will be sought to support our operating costs. SAI has also embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion, and has posted our commitment to DEI on our website.  SAI is open to all, and pledges to be all inclusive.

Our Commitment in 2021.

The “2021 New Year” ushers in a renewed commitment to making Spiritual Awakenings International even stronger.  As our number of subscribers continues to grow in the new year, and as we build an even larger network of affiliated groups, we pledge to continue to provide our subscribers around the world with outstanding free online presentations on a wide variety of STE topics..

We will be offering a powerful line up of SAI Presents events to kick off 2021.  In the first three months, each of our presentations will be given by a member of our SAI “Circle of Honor”, which is SAI’s version of a hall of fame.  The following are the speakers chosen for the next three months and their topics:
  • January Dr. Emma Bragdon  PhD– How Brazilian Spiritist have effectively managed Spiritual Emergency for 100+ years
  • February- Dr. Jeffrey Long MD – Evidence for the Afterlife: Groundbreaking discoveries from the largest NDE study ever reported
  • March– Dr. Bonnie Greenwell PhD– Impact of Kundalini Activation on Consciousness Shifts in Spiritual Awakening
We plan our inaugural First-Responders event May 15, 2021.   As an expansion of our Veterans, Military, and First Responders program, we will be honoring Police Officers Memorial Day, Police Week, and International Fire-Fighters Day which all occur in May, with our first SAI First Responders event.  Retired Police Officer and psychotherapist Dr. Richard E. Kelly will present his fascinating research on STEs in First Responders/Emergency Service Workers. 

Our first SAI conference is planned for June 12-13, 2021.  Our powerful monthly speakers will  lead up to our first SAI conference, to be held online Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2021. We are scheduling our online conference to celebrate one year since the launch of SAI. We will feature some tremendously talented speakers, including some of our outstanding Circle of Honor honorees, and will also feature a variety of STE-related topics that will appeal to our subscribers.  Circle of Honor speakers confirmed to date include Bill Guggenheim, Dr. Bruce Greyson, and Dr. Francis Lu.

A top SAI priority is service to others. Ultimately, despite 2020’s challenges, SAI is proud that we stayed focused on our mission of service.  In so many ways, this has never been more important.  In the coming year, we’re committed to making SAI better each and every day for you.  

We welcome your suggestions and volunteer support.  If you have any suggestions to help Spiritual Awakenings International grow, or if you would like to volunteer to support SAI, please email us at the address below. 

We wish you a very Happy New Year.  As we enter 2021, on behalf of the SAI Board and Advisory Board, I would like to express our deep gratitude and wish everyone a very safe, happy, and healthy New Year.  

Happy New Year, Bonne année, Frohes neues Jahr, Feliz Ano Nuevo, Buon anno, Feliz ano novo
 
Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
“Bringing us Together”                                                    
 

President’s Comments 
December 1, 2020

“Bringing us Together

 
Welcome, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!
 

Thank you for being part of our growing SAI world family.  With our US subscribers recently celebrating Thanksgiving, at this special time I would like to express deep gratitude to all the Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) subscribers around the world.  Together we have developed Spiritual Awakenings International into a global family, and we are so thankful for the enthusiastic response we have received in the short time since we launched in June 2020. SAI now has close to 750 subscribers, in 37 countries on 6 continents, and is growing rapidly on a daily basis.

SAI Presents has featured international speakers. Our Spiritual Awakenings International Presents monthly events have been enthusiastically received, and reflecting upon our presenters during 2020 – we have proudly featured international presenters from Australia, Canada, England, and the USA.  We plan to continue featuring diverse topics and global presenters that will appeal to an international audience, and continue to make those presentations available for free to our subscribers.

We are now live-streaming our SAI Presents events on Facebook. Our monthly presentations have been sold out, and we have expanded our reach by live-streaming the presentations on our SAI Facebook page.  If you have not yet “liked” our SAI Facebook page, please do so now, so that you will be notified by Facebook about each live-streamed event.

Our first SAI conference is planned for June 2021.  Due to the COVID 19 virus concerns, it has become evident that our first in-person conference can not be held in 2021. Instead we are planning an online conference in June of 2021, celebrating one year since the launch of SAI. We will feature some tremendously talented speakers, including some of our outstanding Circle of Honor honorees, and will also feature a variety of STE-related topics that will appeal to our subscribers.

SAI starts new programs. Our Military, Veterans, and First Responders Program was launched on Veterans Day /Remembrance Day November 11, 2020, and will be continued and expanded in 2021.  Additionally, SAI will present the first “NDE Talking Dead Panel” at Conference 2021.  Keep tuned for more details.

We wish you very Happy Holidays.  As the year-end and holiday season approaches, on behalf of the SAI Board and Advisory Board, I would like to express our deep gratitude and wish everyone all the best in the upcoming holiday season.  We wish you all joyous celebrations of whichever holiday tradition you might be following. All of us at SAI wish all of you:

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyeux Noel, Frohe Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad, Boas Festas, Buon Natale, Zalig Kerstfeest, Happy Christmas. 

With blessings to you all,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
“Bringing us Together”     

President’s Comments –November 1, 2020

Welcome, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Bom Dia!

 

Launch of the Veterans, Military, and First Responders program- Veterans/Remembrance Day.  November 11, 2020 marks the launch of the Spiritual Awakenings International Veterans, Military and First-Responders Program, facilitated by retired U.S. Army Major and SAI Secretary Linda Truax.  We will be commemorating Veterans Day and Remembrance Day on November 11, 2020, with a special presentation by Rev. John Price, retired State Area Command Chaplain (Colonel) of the Texas Military Forces.  He will share stories of STEs such as Near-Death Experiences that were told to him by US active military personnel and veterans, and how these STEs impacted their lives.

Please tell your active military and veteran friends about our special Veterans/Remembrance Day Event.   Although the event will be of interest to everyone, we wish to specifically reach out to veterans and active military for this presentation.

First-Responders Memorial event planned for May 2021.  To commemorate Police Officers Memorial Week and Fire-Fighters Memorial Day, which both occur in May, we will have a special First-Responders Memorial event on May 15, 2021. Retired Massachusetts State Police Officer of 22 years and current psychotherapist, Dr. Richard Kelly, will present his fascinating and ground-breaking research into the prevalence of After-Death Communications and other death-related spiritual experiences in First Responder personnel.

We are delighted to offer outreach to our veterans, active military, and first-responders, our silent heroes, to show our support, and to explore the special needs of these persons whom may have powerful STEs in life-threatening situations in their line of duty, as they often put themselves in harms way in order to keep the rest of us safe.

Congratulations to new Circle of Honor honorees.  As part of our research into pioneers in the STE field, the SAI Board and Advisory Board unanimously decided to add 3 more persons to the SAI Circle of Honor:

  • John Audette – co-founder of IANDS
  • Dannion Brinkley – groundbreaking multiple NDE Experiencer
  • Bill Guggenheim – pioneer describing After-Death Communications.

SAI would like to congratulate our new honorees, and tell subscribers that we will feature 2 of these groundbreakers as speakers in our planned first SAI online conference in June 2021.

Induction Ceremony for Circle of Honor honorees.  The SAI Board and Advisory Board plans to have a formal induction ceremony for all our SAI Circle of Honor honorees at our planned in-person SAI conference,  However, due to Covid restrictions, we are not sure when a live conference will be feasible.  We will advise you on the date of that conference and induction ceremony as soon as it is certain.

Welcome new international SAI affiliated groups.  We wish to extend a warm welcome to the two new SAI affiliated groups and networks that joined the SAI family in October 2020:

  • SEN Slovensko a Česko (Spiritual Emergence Network)/ SEN Slovakia and Czechia – based in Slovakia
  • Emerging Proud – based in the UK
Thank you to our subscribers in 33 countries. We are delighted that in just 4 months we have grown to have over 640 subscribers on 6 continents and in 33 countries, including but not limited to:
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territories, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guam, Hong-Kong China, India, Jordan, Lichtenstein, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, US Outlying Islands, US Virgin Island. 

With blessings to you all,
Goodbye, Au revoir, Auf Wiedersehen, Adios, addio, Ciao!

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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President’s Comments  – October 1, 2020

Yvonne Kason MD

Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) Presents is a great success! Since the launch of SAI in June we’ve had 3 amazing SAI Presents events, each that sold out!  Registrations exceeded our maximum capacity, which exceeded our wildest expectations.  Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm and support!  Unfortunately Diane Willis became ill and could not make her scheduled presentation on September 19, but we will reschedule her for another date.
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Sept. 19, 2020 presentation on Kundalini and Near-Death Experiences: A Yogic Perspective, by Dr. Yvonne Kason. Due to Diane’s last minute cancellation, in order not to disappoint all the registrants arriving at our scheduled SAI Zoom event, I became the back-up speaker and presented my talk on Kundalini and Near-Death Experiences on September 19. I was delighted and amazed that nobody left the event, even though this was a last minute change in speaker and topic. Thank you everyone!  The video of this talk is posted on the events “videos” page on our SAI website for those of you who would like to see it.

Upcoming Spiritual Awakenings International Presents events expand our STE focus. We are planning to bring speakers focused on new and different STE related topics to our upcoming SAI Presents events.  We have confirmed future speakers on such topics as: Spiritual Emergencies; “seeing” or mediumship; Deathbed dreams and visions; Spiritist Healers; Kundalini Awakenings; After-Death Communications; and trans-dimensional STEs including UFO encounters (on the recommendation of Dr. Kenneth Ring). We hope that you will all enjoy these fascinating  speakers.

Veterans/Remembrance Day Event – Launch of the Veterans, Military, and First Responders Program.  Please join us on Veteran’s Day/Remembrance Day, November 11, 2020 for our very first event of our Veterans, Military and First Responders Program.  We plan to make Veterans Day/ Remembrance Day an annual special event hosted by SAI, to explore the special issues faced by military STE Experiencers, and to express support and our gratitude to our veterans for their service..

Enhancing our international focus to “Bring Us Together”.  To enhance our international status we are looking forward to going “down under” to Australia, with Dr. Nicole Gruel’s October 17 presentation, co-sponsored by Sydney IANDS, and Agents of Awesome.  Then on November 21, we will be going “across the pond” to England with Raymond O’Brien’s presentation, co-sponsored by the Past Life Podcast (both based in the UK).

Thank you to our new subscribers and new affiliated groups worldwide.  We are delighted that in just two months we have grown to have 500 subscribers in 22 countries around the world, on 6 continents – on  every continent except Antarctica!  We wish to say thank-you and acknowledge the new groups and networks who have affiliated with SAI in the last month. See our “about” – ” affiliated groups” page for website links to learn more about each of our affiliated groups. Our newest affiliated groups include:

  • Consciousness & Contact Research Institute (CCRI)
  • Debra Diamond PhD Author Network
  • Francisco Valentin – The Transcript
  • HiveMind
  • Passion Harvest
  • Portland IANDS
  • Spiritan Self-Awareness Initiative
  • Sydney IANDS
  • The Past Lives Podcast

Raising awareness about Spiritual Awakenings International.  Your President and Vice President have been busy networking internationally to raise awareness about Spiritual Awakenings International. On September 11, Robert Bare presented to Salt Lake City IANDS. September 20, both Robert Bare and Yvonne Kason made online presentations to the National University of Natural Medicine, in Portland.  On September 21, Yvonne Kason recorded a podcast together with Raymond O’Brien, for The Past Lives Podcast in the UK, to promote Raymond’s upcoming SAI Presents talk in November.  On September 26, Dr. Yvonne Kason’s blog announcing Spiritual Awakenings International was posted in Passion Harvest, based in Australia.  Dr. Yvonne Kason also recorded a presentation for the SHIFT Network’s “Beyond the Veil Summit:: NDEs, mediumship, and the science of the afterlife.“,  which is scheduled to air October 28.

Help us spread the word about Spiritual Awakenings International. Thank you everyone for your support, and please help us at this time of growth by spreading the word about Spiritual Awakenings International to your networks, friends, and colleagues, and by encouraging others to subscribe!

With gratitude to you all,

Dr. Yvonne Kason MD
President,
Spiritual Awakenings International
Email: info@spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
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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 GuideThe 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.

Photo of Ingrid Honkala new SAI Advisory Board memberDr. 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.. 

photo of Francisco Valentin new SAI Advisory Board memberFrancisco 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.    

Photo of Anne Archer (Butcher) new SAI Advisory Board memberAnne 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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Comentarios de la Presidenta – 1 de noviembre, 2020

Lanzamiento del programa para veteranos, militares y socorristas: Día del Recuerdo / Veteranos. El 11 de noviembre de 2020 marca el lanzamiento del Programa internacional para veteranos, militares y socorristas de Spiritual Awakenings International, facilitado por la mayor retirada del Ejército de los EE. UU. Y la secretaria de SAI, Linda Truax. Conmemoraremos el Día de los Veteranos y el Día del Recuerdo el 11 de noviembre de 2020, con una presentación especial del Rev. John Price, Capellán (Coronel) del Comando del Área Estatal retirado de las Fuerzas Militares de Texas. Él compartirá historias de EETs como Experiencias Cercanas a la Muerte que le contaron personal militar activo y veteranos de los EE. UU., Y cómo estas EETs impactaron sus vidas.

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“Bringing us Together”  Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Aloha! Happy New Year to Everyone!  What a wonderful year 2021 was for Spiritual Awakenings International!  Thank you to each and

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Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buenos Dias, Buongiorno, Aloha! Happy Holidays to Everyone! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukah! Happy Kwanzaa! SAI Year-End Donation Appeal – Please Donate Now  to help ensure all our SAI

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Wow! SAI continues to grow at lightening speed, worldwide. In the 16 months since our launch, Spiritual Awakenings International has grown to about 2,300 subscribers from 61 countries around the world, on 6 different continents. How wonderful! We give a big warm welcome to our new subscribers from the newest SAI countries: Romania, Japan, Trinidad, Hungary, Cayman Island, Israel, Malta, Kenya, Iceland, Poland, and the Philippines.

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Launch of the “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” – Saturday, October 2, 2021. We are delighted to host new “SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles” the first Saturday of each month, starting in October. They’re FREE! Facilitated by our SAI Facilitators, SAI Experiencers Sharing Circles are a confidential opportunity to share the joys and the challenges of your Spiritually Transformative Experiences™ (STEs) and spiritual journey, with a supportive and understanding group of other STE Experiencers. Register on our SAI website.

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2,000! In August 2021, Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) grew to 2,000 subscribers, from 58 countries around the world. Thank you everyone for your interest and enthusiasm to raise awareness of STEs globally.

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