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JD Cross holds a master’s degree in business administration and has a certification of ordination in ministry. With a history rooted in service, Cross has taught circles of meditation, energy healing, and one-on-one counseling. She has visited hospitals to provide energy healing and intuitive counseling. Through her work alongside a community college in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Cross was able to obtain accreditation for establishment of the first meditation classes for continuing education.Cross began receiving spiritual messages at an early age. These experiences inspired her books Spoken Words: Minister’s Handbook and Soul Travel in Heaven: The Day I Died.Cross offers holistic solutions for the body, mind, spirit, and emotions. She continues to live a life in service to Christ Jesus.

Julia Mossbridge - In addition to her role as Scientific Director at Mossbridge Institute, Dr. Mossbridge is the Director of the Innovation Lab at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, the Science Director at Focus@Will Labs, and an Associated Professor in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her focus is on teaching and learning about love and time.

Michael Jawer is a Washington, DC-based writer, speaker and researcher. His focus is the nexus of personality development, body-mind, emotion, and spirituality. Jawer is the lead author (with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD) of two books: The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (Park Street Press, 2009) and Your Emotional Type (Healing Arts Press, 2011). His papers have appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, Science & Consciousness Review, Explore, and Seminars in Integrative Medicine, while feature articles referencing his work have appeared in Psychology Today, Spirituality & Health, Aeon, Nautilus, Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, Edge Science, Noetic Now, Epoch Times, and BeliefNet. Jawer has spoken to organizations including the American Psychological Association, the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32), and the Jung Society of DC – and guest lectured at Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and Drexel University. Since 2011, he has also

Linnea Star began to display a connection to the metaphysical realm as a young child. Her great grandmother was a medium and the Family felt she had inherited The gift of Second Sight. She does Past, Present and Future readings.

Laurence Brown was born in the UK in 1951 to parents living in the Far East and spent much of my childhood there, though at the age of nine I was sent to boarding school in England. After completing secondary school in 1969 (Radley College, Oxford), I came to Australia where I have lived much of my life since, working mainly as a teacher of English as a second language. I am married with two daughters and live in suburban Brisbane. I enjoy travelling, bushwalking, skiing, and reading widely.As far as my inner life is concerned, I have been interested ever since my early twenties in the possibility of an inner truth and have been a regular meditator since the 1970s. In 2009, feeling at a dead end with teaching, I applied to study full time for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Queensland. My focus has been on coincidences and I was awarded a PhD degree in 2014. The title of the thesis is Examining Coincidences: towards an integrated approach.I am now officially retired and have been fairly painstak

Dr. Cynthia Cavalli is a transformation coach who teaches people how to dialogue with dreams, synchronicities, and symbols in order to find and align with their inner calling. Born in India and educated in the United States, Dr. Cavalli has an eclectic background of education and experience that includes a Ph.D. in human systems and organizational development, an MBA, a BS in physics and three decades in aerospace as a system engineer and project manager. Dr. Cavalli’s doctoral research explored the experience of meaning in life-changing synchronicities from the twin perspectives of Jungian psychology and complexity. She especially enjoys integrating together complexity and systems science with mythology, Jungian psychology, and shamanic dreaming, and is passionate about achieving global transformation through personal inner work.

Ray Grasse has authored four books: An Infiniti of Gods, The Waking Dream, Signs of The Times, and Under a Sacred Sky. He worked for ten years on the editorial staffs of QuestBooks and The Quest magazine, and is currently associate editor of The Mountain Astrologer magazine. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a double major in filmmaking and painting, and studied extensively with teachers in the KriyaYoga and Zen traditions. For more information see www.raygrasse.com.

Robert Perry is the author of Signs: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God’s Plan, in which he shares how he discovered CMPEs (Conjunctions of Meaningfully Parallel Events), how to spot them and work with them, and what they might imply for the nature of reality. He is best-known for his work with the modern spiritual classic A Course in Miracles (ACIM). One of the most respected voices on ACIM, Robert began teaching in 1986 and in 1993 founded the Circle of Atonement in Sedona, Arizona, which is dedicated to helping establish ACIM as an authentic spiritual tradition. He is the author or co-author of over twenty books and booklets, and is the editor of the recently released Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles.

James Clement van Pelt co-founded and led Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology from 2003 to 2012 and since 2003 has made presentations at conferences and symposia relevant to science-religion and consciousness studies. He has co-produced ten international conferences at Yale and has authored, edited, and contributed to various scholarly articles and books. He has co-taught science-religion courses at Yale, and holds the Master of Arts in Religion (magna cum laude) from the Yale Divinity School, where he was a research fellow from 2003 to 2005 and an instructor/lecturer from 2005 to 2007. Currently he is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Consciousness Studies, and the Society for Scientific Exploration, and is also a Board member and Shapley-Booth Fellow of the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science.He has been the co-founder and director of alternative institutions such as the Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo, the Miccosukee Land Cooperative i

Philip Merry is an author, speaker, coach and trainer who has conducted leadership projects in 58 countries over 36 years. Specialising in Leading with Heart - he empowers leaders and teams to listen to the wisdom of the heart to drive results and lead a Life of Significance.PHILIP MERRY CONSULTING GROUP "LEADING WITH HEART" TM helps today’s global organisations to achieve meaningful results and empower their people to live lives of signficance by becoming the best they can be. Specialising in Intuitive Heart Leadership, Global Multi-Cultural Teams, and Cultural Intelligence for a Global World, Philip Merry has for 35 years in 58 countries and across 6 continents helped leaders and teams in the quest to be Leading with Heart. He is a CSPGlobal (one of only 30 people to earn this title), author of “Search for Singapore’s Happiest People” and a certified family therapist and marriage guidance counselor. Philip was once a London taxi driver.

John D'earth is Jazz trumpeter and composer. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1950. He studied, as a teenager, with saxophonist Boots Mussulli, (Stan Kenton, Charlie Ventura, Teddy Wilson) with John Coffey, (principal trombonist in the Boston Symphony) and arranging with Thad Jones. He attended Harvard University and, later, moved to New York City where he studied with Carmine Caruso, Vince Penzarella and Richie Beirach.

Maureen St. Germain, a practical mystic, serves as a messenger for the Ascended Masters and the Angelic realm. She practices, the MerKaBa, and is the founder of Akashic Records International. She teaches the Akashic Records through your own Higher Self which considers essential for your fastest heart-centered personal evolvement to your 5D expression. She is the author of Beyond the Flower of Life, Be A Genie, Reweaving the Fabric of Your Reality books, along with dozens of guided meditation CDs. She also recorded and produced a DVD on how to learn the MerKaBa. Her books and CDs have been translated into Russian, Italian and Chinese. Since 1994 she has traveled and taught meditation, sacred geometry and manifestation. She takes people on Sacred Journeys as well as year-long trainings called the Ascension Institute. She is a lecturer and writer with numerous blogs (MaureenStGermainblog.com) and others. She offers a free guided meditation every month on her website: MaureenStGermain.com. She is the featured col

Sally Rhine Feather PhD., a retired clinical psychologist, traces her lifelong interest in parapsychology to growing up as the daughter of JB and Louisa E. Rhine, founders of modern parapsychology. She worked as a research assistant at the Duke Parapsychology Lab before and after earning a doctorate in experimental psychology from Duke University. After retirement Dr. Feather returned to work at the Rhine Research Center including several years as Executive Director. She co-authored a popular book featuring reports of ESP experiences (The Gift, 2005) and in 2010 received the Outstanding Career Award from the Parapsychology AssociationSusan Freeman has worked at the Rhine for the last 8 years as Program Director and Public Relations. She is also involved in the archiving of the historic writings, articles and materials collected over the last 85 years and works closely with Dr. Feather in the qualitative analysis of the spontaneous reports both historic and current that come to the Rhine.

Jim B. Tucker, M.D. is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. Dr. Tucker obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He then completed training in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. After a stint in private practice, he returned to UVA in 2000. He served as the medical director of the UVA Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic for nine years, and he is currently the director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where he is continuing the work of Ian Stevenson on children who report memories of previous lives. He is the author of two books on the topic that together have been translated into twenty languages, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives and Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives.

Andrew Weil was born in Philadelphia in 1942, received an A.B. degree in biology (botany) from Harvard in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked a year with the National Institute of Mental Health, then wrote his first book, The Natural Mind. From 1971-75, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled widely in North and South America and Africa collecting information on drug use in other cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative methods of treating disease. From 1971-84 he was on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.Dr. Weil is the founder and Director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the

Mary Kay Landon received her PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. After pursuing a curriculum that included Jungian psychology and Chinese history and philosophy, she developed a dissertation that introduced a systematic method of studying meaningful coincidence. “On Receiving Unexpected Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Anomalous Mind–Matter Interactions Within Archetypal Fields” reported on the results of a randomized controlled experiment that sought to determine if statistically discernible patterns of coincidences would occur within the context of an experiment and, if so, whether they occurred more frequently to participants performing particular actions and/or possessing particular psychological attributes. Some of her findings were subsequently published in the December 2011 edition of Psychiatric Annals, edited by Bernard D. Beitman, MD, that addressed Coincidence Studies.Over a decade before arriving at the Institute, Mary

Dr. Jim Carpenter is both a clinical psychologist and a research parapsychologist. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, ABPP, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He has been active in the governance of several professional societies, and carries on an active private practice. Dr. Carpenter has published widely in psychology and parapsychology. For many years he has provided pro bono clinical consultation for persons who seek help with unpleasant experiences that they think of as psychic. He recently published a book developing a theory of psi, called First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life (www.firsightbook.com), published by Rowman & Littlefield. He was awarded the Charles Honorton Award for Integrative Contributions by the Parapsychological Association, and he recently served as president of that Association.

Suzanne Clores is the author of Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider (Conari, 2000) a memoir/ethnography of alternate spiritual practices, and founder of The Extraordinary Project, an online collection of exceptional human experiences soon to be a podcast. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, Elle, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown, and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) and the Radiotopia podcast Strangers. Her BA is from Columbia University, and her MFA is from the University of Arizona. She lives in Evanston, IL with her family.

Dr. Eben Alexander III - After decades as a physician and teacher at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere, renowned academic neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander thought he knew how the brain, mind, and consciousness worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection changed all of that – completely. Memories of his life had been completely deleted, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one!Since his 2008 NDE he has been reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporaryphysics and cosmology. We are conscious in spite of our brain. By probing deeply into our own consciousness, we transcend the limits of the human brain, and of the physical-material realm. His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness. A pioneering scientist and thought leader in consciousness studies, Dr. Alexander has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Oprah, and many other media p

Robert H. Hopcke is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. Along with his numerous articles and reviews published throughout the world, he is the author of the national best-seller, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives, which has been translated into over two dozen languages, and the forthcoming follow-up to this book, Unexpected Pieces of Our Hearts: Synchronicity and The Stories of Our Families. His scholarly work in the field of Jungian psychology includes Jung, Jungians and Homosexuality; Men's Dreams, Men's Healing; A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung; and The Persona: Where Sacred Meets Profane, all published by Shambhala.