May 28 2023

Spiritual Experiences That Change Your Life

Have you experienced a Near-Death Experience (NDE), a Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE), mystical experiences or simply have a spiritual curiosity? If so, you might want to know about Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI). Founded in 2020 by Dr. Yvonne Kason and Robert Bare, MPA, PHd, Spiritual Awakenings International is building a global network and community of individuals and groups interested in Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Dr. Kason’s career as a medical doctor was influenced by her dramatic Near-Death Experiences. In 1990 she became the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize her practice in the research and counseling of patients with diverse types of STEs. Too often people have been categorized as “crazy” and put on medications after sharing experiences that seem beyond the bounds of reality. While times are changing, many people still feel isolated and confused after STE’s. Spiritual Awakenings International offers a community-building forum and an educational platform. Experts and experiencers share their information and stories in a growing library of Zoom recordings. These are available for viewing at the SAI YouTube channel.

SAI CONFERENCE 2023

Each year SAI presents a two-day on-line conference with a variety of speakers and panels. Donations are requested to cover the costs, but registration is free. This year’s conference, SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: THE DAWN OF CONSCIOUSNESS is June 10 and 11. Participants must register for each day separately to receive the Zoom link. Suggested Conference Donation $50 to $200 – Donate Now!

Saturday, June 10 Conference Schedule

The Conference starts at 8:30 AM Pacific Time, which is 11:30 AM Eastern Time, 4:30 PM in the UK, and Sunday, 3:30 AM in Auckland, NZ, 1:30 AM in Sydney Australia.

(All times listed below are in Pacific Time – PDT.)

8:30 AM PDT – Meditation – Brian Sackett – “Connecting with Spirit”

9 AM PDT – Mark Anthony – “The NDE Zone: Connected by the Light from the Cosmic to the Subatomic”

10:30 PDT – Dr. Emma Bragdon – “How 20-40,000 Brazilian Spiritists Care for Individuals in Spiritual Emergency”

12 noon PDT – Supporting STE Experiencers Panel – Dr. Pier Luigi Lattuada “Transe-Cognition: For a Coherent Hermeneutics of Spiritual Awakening” & Isabel Clark “Hope and Support for Travellers Between the Worlds: The Work of the UK Spiritual Crisis Network”

1:30 PM PDT – Jyoti Ma – “The Spiritual Emergence of Mother Earth”

3:00 PM PDT– Dr. Lawrence Edwards – “Kundalini Awakening: Maps of the Journey“

4:30 PM PDT– NDE Experiencers Panel – Dr. Norma Edwards, Don Hoes, Dr. Louise Livingston, Lewis Brown Griggs

6:00 PM PDT – Spiritually Transformative Experiences/Consciousness Researchers Panel – Monique Rebelle, Dr. Danny Geren, Dr. Mona Sobhani, David Gerrelli

All events are 1 hour and 15 minutes in length, except the morning meditation that is 15 minutes long.

There will be a 15 minute break between events.

Sunday, June 11 SAI Conference Schedule

The first English event begins at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, which is 1:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:00 PM in the UK, and Sunday, 5:00 AM in Auckland, NZ, 3:00 AM in Sydney Australia.

(All times listed below are in Pacific Time – PDT.)

8:15 AM PDT – Spanish Music: Roxana Río

8:30 AM PDT – Spanish Panel: Ana Cecilia González, Francisco Valentin, Dr. Ingrid Honkala, & AJ Parr

10:00 AM PDT – Dr. Jeffrey Long – “Evidence of the Afterlife: Groundbreaking New Findings from the Largest Study of Near-Death Experiences Ever Reported”

11:30 AM PDT – Dr. Yvonne Kason – “Kundalini Awakening: A Universal Key to STEs & Expanded Spiritual States of Consciousness”

1:00 PM PDT – Spiritual Emergency Experiencers Panel – Sean Blackwell, Dr. Ann Berger-Knorr. Mariam J. Saleh Esq., and Ellen Drummonds Curtis

2:30 PM PDT – Anne Archer Butcher – “Miraculous Dolphin Rescue from Shark Attack – An Amazing Mystical Experience with Dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean”

4:00 PM PDT – Rob Schwartz – “Discover The Real Meaning of the Life You Planned BEFORE You Were Born”

5:30 PM PDT – STE Experiencers Panel – Dr. Jean MacPhail, Althea Watson, Kristin LeMaster, Dr. Sha’alah Ivory

Events are 1 hour and 15 minutes in length, except the morning music that is 15 minutes long.

There will be a 15 minute break between events.

Visit Conference Website

Read all about the speakers and various offerings at the Spiritual Awakenings International Conference 2023 website. Registration for each day is required to receive the Zoom links. Cost is free, but donations are requested and appreciated.

Apr 23 2023

She Returned from Heaven to Help Others

On the beautiful Niagara Falls evening of November 8, 2003, Dr. Yvonne Kason slipped on a piece of black ice and hit her head on the hard rock of the walkway. A flash of excruciating head pain quickly dissolved as she died. Her consciousness rose from her body and entered non-physical realms where she met her spiritual gurus and reviewed all her past lives.The tale of that Near Death Experience (NDE) would be riveting on its own. However, in Dr. Kason’s book, Soul Lessons from the Light, that story comes late in the book because it is the fifth NDE of her remarkable life.

Yvonne Kason was born and raised in Canada. Though her childhood included mystical experiences, she pursued a career as a medical doctor and planned to have a standard Family Practice when she graduated from medical school in 1977. Those plans were dramatically altered in 1979 when she survived a small plane crash on a medevac flight over the frozen wilds of northern Ontario. She had to escape the sinking plane and swim through frigid water in heavy clothing to reach a small sacred island, far from civilization. In that harrowing escapade, her consciousness slipped from her swimming body and watched the drama unfold, even as she also visited heavenly realms. That Near Death Experience eventually became the material for her book, A Farther Shore, published in 1994, and put her in the national limelight. Dr. Kason expanded her medical practice to counseling for people who struggled with Near Death or other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STE’s), a phrase she coined that has been adopted into the common vernacular. She became a well-known speaker on talk shows, media interviews, and various conferences around the world.

While maintaining a high functioning professional life, Dr. Kason also developed a deeply devoted spiritual life through intense meditation practices and contemplative retreats. She experienced kundalini awakenings, visions, spiritual downloads, past life recall and pretty much all the clairs at one time or another. Thus, Soul Lessons from the Light is so much more than a spiritual memoir. It defines and explains a wide variety of mystical experiences. Chapter 10 lays out the abc’s of psychic/intuitive experience from “abstract intuition” to “UFO encounters.” Even though I’ve been studying mystical matters for decades, I had an ah-ha moment when I read her definition of a Kundalini Awakening and realized that was the name for something I experienced way back in 1983.

Because Dr. Kason has spent so many years helping people work through their life-changing spiritual experiences, she offers a perspective of professional guidance, even as she shares her very personal revelations.

Today, Dr. Kason is truly a walking miracle. For that 2003 fall on black ice caused a severe traumatic brain injury that left her disabled for thirteen years. The life she had carefully built, as a doctor, lecturer, author, and counselor completely disappeared. She struggled to perform basic physical and mental functions. Her income and ability to take care of her son became precarious. What she missed most was the ability to meditate and reach the blissful mental states she had known. Determination took her a long way toward recovery, but it was an eruption of liquid light in the center of her brain in 2016 during a meditation that healed her injury and allowed her to resume a high-powered life.

In 2020, she and Robert Bare, another NDE experiencer, were intuitively guided to co-found Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI), an organization dedicated to building a world-wide community of people who’ve had Spiritually Transformative Experiences. The SAI YouTube channel holds a growing library of fascinating people sharing their STE’s for the world to hear, often after decades of keeping their experiences a secret from family and friends for fear of being ridiculed or considered delusional. SAI’s third annual multi-speaker on-line conference is coming up on June 10-11, free to all (donations requested).

Soul Lessons from the Light opens the realms of heaven and earth for the spiritual seeker. As Dr. Kason says in her closing chapter:

Due to my personal experiences of multiple STE’s and miracles in my life, I know there is always hope for a better tomorrow. We must never lose hope. If we turn to the Higher Power in our hearts, the Divine hand might unexpectedly intervene, and invisibly reach out to offer assistance, healing, or guidance in our time of need.

Listen to Dr. Kason introduce her book and share the experience of her 2003 NDE at the Spiritual Awakenings International channel:

Find Soul Lessons from the Light at Amazon

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Apr 14 2018

Streaming Entertainment Options for Spiritual Seekers

by Dana Taylor

I don’t know about you, but finding uplifting and interesting reading and viewing material is a real challenge. Standard news sources follow the journalistic motto, “If it bleeds, it leads,” sponsored by the mighty powers of Big Pharma. The social media has turned into a shouting match of ideologies.

The hundreds of movies and shows now available on my television are mostly filled with murders, betrayal, greed, sex, and violence. Or stupidity, lots of stupidity. Even history is mostly about wars. There are exceptions, like Cosmos or the Planet Earth series, but they are few and far between.

So, what’s the supernal adventurer to do? Fortunately, there are some cyberspace alternatives, if you know where to look.

GAIA TV

GAIA evolved from the work-out video producers, GAIAM, whose DVD’s have offered yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation to a growing audience since the 1990’s. Today GAIA is available online via a monthly subscription. The collection of yoga videos has expanded into all areas of mind, body, and spirit digital entertainment. GAIA produces several series, plus offers a variety of films and documentaries with supernatural, health, or esoteric topics.

SHOW HOSTS:

Gregg Braden: A bestselling author, scientist, and popular speaker, Braden offers Missing Links at GAIA ~ “Connect the missing links between science and spirituality to reveal a new understanding of humanity’s history, the origins of civilization and the power of our heart’s intelligence.” Braden expands the paradigms of modern thinking.

David Wilcock: Wilcock began as a sort of boy wonder, smart and fascinated by all manner of supernatural mysteries. He seems to have a fixation on “cover-ups,” but his shows can certainly be thought-provoking. Wisdom Teachings and Cosmic Disclosure: Inside the Secret Space Program are both very popular with esoteric “truth seekers.” Personally, a little of Wilcock and his side-kick, Corey Goode, go a long way for me. I think they are both sincere in sharing their viewpoints and experiences. They can simply be a bit “out there” for me. But, I invite you to judge for yourself.

George Noory: Inspired by the popular wee-hour radio show, Coast to Coast AM, current host George Noory, created Beyond Belief for GAIA. Interviews with guests on topics such as extraterrestrials, energy healing, ancient aliens, psychic experiences, paranormal activity and the like make for mind-bending conversations.

Regina Meredith: Open Minds features many of the same subject as Beyond Belief, but Meredith brings a more investigative reporter vibe to her show. Many of her guests are highly educated scholars or professionals who offer their experiences and insights on their fields of expertise. Her shows focus on raising consciousness and new trends in esoteric thinking. What her guests may lack in entertainment value, they make up for in credibility.

Lisa Garr—Inspirations with Lisa Garr interviews many of the heavy-hitters in the Consciousness community–Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Denise Linn, Joe Dispenza and many more.

SERIES ~ As GAIA has grown in popularity, so has its ability to produce more costly shows. My two personal favorites are Ancient Civilizations, which shows many fascinating archeological sites, and Deep Space, exploring a dark side of the modern space race. There are many other shows and films to chose from covering a wide range of subjects.

I’ve felt my yearly subscription cost of $95 a modest investment in enlightening entertainment. See the whole line up at GAIA.COM

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KRYON

Lee Carroll has been channeling the entity, Kryon, for nearly thirty years. I discovered the FREE AUDIO page at Kryon.com three years ago and began listening to the many years of messages that are available there all the time. Kryon is a spiritual teacher who made his presence known to Southern Californian Lee Carroll after the 1987 harmonic convergence. His mission is to help guide humanity into the “new age,” a now over-used and misunderstood term. According to Kryon, when humanity avoided nuclear annihilation, he and many other spiritual teachers began reaching out to humanity to guide us through a transitional 38 year cycle.

Like thousands of other people, I find the Kryon material mind-expanding, thought provoking, and most importantly, encouraging. In moments when I despair over election results or yet another mass shooting event, Kryon messages help keep me focus on doing my part to be the Light.

I had the opportunity to attend a Kryon conference in December of 2017 and found Lee Carroll to be a very regular person. (Read my post Returning to Lemuria with Kryon.) He mingled among the attendees with no air of celebrity. He even fixed the audio equipment. There was no fleecing of the sheep with expensive workshops making grandiose promises. In fact, Lee had nothing personally to sell in the product boutique.

He has recently expanded exposure of Kryon material with a YouTube Channel, new videos, and some interviews. Kryon mentions that his messages will be heard for decades to come, long after Lee is no longer his partner on the planet. Lee appears to be setting up information outlets to make that vision a reality for future generations.

See all things Kryon at KRYON.COM

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STREAMING FOR THE SOUL

This site was introduced to me by Lee Carroll, who is using it produce events and a new series he’s entitled, BEGINNINGS. These are friendly chats with Lee’s esoteric pals, who often teach and lecture with him. He interviews them about their life stories–their Beginnings. Two chats are currently available. The first one features Gregg Braden (watch for free) and the second explores the very interesting life of Pragreet Harris. Harris channels an entity known as Alcazar and is known for building Stargates. He brought a Stargate to the Lemuria Conference I attended, so I was able to experience the energy in person. There was definitely something to it!

STREAMING FOR THE SOUL offers a variety of videos taped at various conferences around the globe. The site is strongly associated with IANDS (International Association for Near Death Studies, Inc.) Talks from both the 2015 & 2016 are available. Other subjects covered are Energy Workers, Alternative Perspectives, and Inspirational Speeches.

STREAMING FOR THE SOUL offers a free month trial period and charges $9.99 monthly thereafter. I’m currently in my trial month period. I’m two NDE’s in. I’ll have to explore the other subjects to see if I intend to keep paying every month.

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So, friends, there you have it–some viewing options for the Supernal Adventurer. You can explore ET’s, crop circles, alternative medicine, channeling, spirituality, NDE’s, ancient civilizations, and even Big Foot. Enjoy!

Supernally Yours,

Dana Taylor

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May 8 2013

“Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife”

Since Dr. Raymond Moody broke ground in the 1970’s with Life After Life, books on NDE (near death experience) have created their own genre. The authors have faced ridicule, skepticism, been discounted as crackpots or praised for their bravery. Most have not been educated enough or sophisticated enough to merit national exposure. This year the NDE took a leap of credibility with the publication of two books written by medical doctors. Mary C. Neal, an orthopedic surgeon, made the television rounds with To Heaven and Back, an account of her drowning in a kayaking accident and subsequent heavenly experience.

But it’s been Dr. Eben Alexander who hit the mother lode with an Oprah interview about his story, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. This is a book that will be perceived very differently by readers, depending upon where they are in their spiritual journey. For those of us who need no proof of heaven and have read many books on the topic, it isn’t the most compelling NDE book around. For others who find this new territory, it may be a powerful story, hard to dismiss. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Eben Alexander is certainly a highly credible source for an incredible tale.

One day a bacterial E. coli infection quickly overtakes the respected neurosurgeon’s system and fills his brain with pus. He spends seven days in a coma and, by all medical precedent, should die or at best be left in a vegetative state. Instead, he makes a full recovery with an amazing memory of an afterlife.

Personally, this reader found the book’s style a bit too abbreviated. With short chapters, it often felt like it was about to get compelling, when the chapter suddenly ended. The heavenly descriptions felt a bit like teasers. He spent time in a place of heavenly ooze and mud that I’d never read about before. Angels on butterfly wings, orbs, and beautiful hills fall in line with more common accounts. It’s hard to describe the indescribable. As Alexander puts it, “conveying that knowledge now is rather like being a chimpanzee, becoming human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one’s chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.”

Still, it’s an important book in the NDE lexicon, written with sincerity and intelligence. Dr. Alexander comes to the conclusion of the finest spiritual books—“not only was my journey about love, but it was also about who we are and how connected we all are.”

Whether you’re already a true believer or a doubting Thomas, Proof of Heaven is a miraculous tale of against-the-odds survival and a peek at an unearthly realm of heavenly promise.