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Additionally, he is still continuing his work career as a grant and technical writer. He has always volunteered for several community programs.

He attended Professional Umpire School in Florida and umpired baseball at all levels. Robert is an almost-textbook case of someone whose life and values were forever changed by his NDE.

You have to have a tough mentality to be a police officer, and Robert spent more than two decades as a California Highway Patrolman. Spirituality or religion played little role in his life. They occurred shortly after he boarded a plane in March, He had a massive heart attack and was deceased for approximately 45 minutes. His second NDE was for approximately 10 minutes. I realized that I could have done better, and I did not want to judge or hurt anyone anymore.

After taken to a hospital, he had a second NDE this time, floating above the operating room, observing what was transpiring below. This NDE included a pivotal moment: he could hear medical staff talking about him while he was unconscious. Later, the doctors verified that he had indeed heard their conversation. Robert currently lives in a home on the beach in Oregon, where he has been a past Commissioner on his Community Planning Commission for 9 years and past President of a local Humane Society.

Linda Truax height 5 feet , refers to herself as a tall Texan who got cheated but has always driven herself to do just a little more than just be. She was born a rebel, but raised a Yankee in Massachusetts then educated a redneck at the University of California, Davis.

Military service in the U. Army followed allowing her to travel around the United States and one tour in Europe, and she reached the rank of Major. After retirement in Linda engaged in a childhood dream of having a horse farm in Texas where she had a special Appaloosa mare which earned 2 national titles.

After dealing with a significant emotional event Linda chose to sell the farm and move elsewhere. During these trying times she discovered the wealth of comfort shared by the Edgar Cayce Foundation and read many books describing near-death experiences.

After meeting many of the near-death experiencers Linda began seeking deeper understanding of these extraordinary events, and became actively involved in expanding educational programs to expand awareness of all types of spiritually transformative experiences. Her service to others also included many years assisting another nonprofit organization in marketing, governance, and education outreach.

Why I am excited about SAI? I see great opportunity in joining SAI to further expand the unified effort to share the reality that each of us are instruments of divinity, here to serve and help others remember we are all one. Nicole Gruel PhD , comes from a long line of samurai and is on a mission to support people in creating optimum wellbeing on all levels—body, mind, spirit, relationships, planet—so they can become the Agents of Awesome they were born to be.

She has also trained in various healing, movement, and energy psychology modalities. She lives in Sydney, Australia. Never before have more people been reporting awakening experiences of all varieties. Never before have we had so much technology and ways to share and implement wisdom.

To assist people step powerfully on their path towards this end gives me endless joy. Onward we go! Bonnie Greenwell Ph. She has been licensed as a counselor since in California and later in Oregon, and is a past executive director of the counseling center at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

After 6 years of Jungian analysis, and 15 years of meditation in both yogic and Zen traditions, she awakened kundalini energy while doing breathwork. Her experience was primarily ecstatic, but also encouraged her to continue clearing old patterns through learning several body therapies, Jin Shin Jo, Ashtanga and Kundalini yoga.

She fell into more intense meditation practice and chose to research kundalini experiences for her doctoral dissertation. Along the way she traveled to India, and has sat with over a dozen gurus, and matriculated for a summer at the C. Jung Institute in Switzerland. She met Adyashanti in and after a deep realization during one of his retreats offered to put together his transcribed talks, and edit them into the book Emptiness Dancing for his sangha.

At that time he invited her to teach and support awakening, which she has done for the past 16 years. In she established Shanti River Center in Ashland, Oregon to provide non-dual satsang and retreats, but has moved her services more recently to the internet. Bonnie is married to a retired aerospace executive and has 3 adult children and 8 grandchildren. She currently does kundalini and awakening assessments with those who find her through her websites, and is publishing the Awakened Life newsletter, a compilation of her many writings, guidance on awakening, book reviews, and information about conferences or programs of interest to the awakening community.

You can read more about her work through www. Her blog is at www. I am excited to be part of SAI in an advisory capacity after my long association with Dr. Yvonne Kason in KRN. My work has been primarily to support and encourage people in an awakening process, and to promote an understanding of the phenomena that arise, and the evolutionary potential inherent in all us, through the awakening of kundalini and consciousness experienced by spiritual seekers.

I have found that most medical professionals, meditation and yoga teachers, and many others in a position to advise people who are awakening, understand little about the process until it happens to them. It is not a paradigm supported in any medical or therapeutic trainings, and so practitioners are unable to recognize the experience, leading to confusion and distress for many experiencers.

Those who know this experience have been working for over 30 years to spread knowledge of this process, and I am hoping SAI will bring it to the forefront of understanding, offering comfort to many who have life-changing, transformative awakenings in their lives. Tamara earned a B.

As the creative director of her agency, Tamara and her staff offered creative marketing strategies to regional and Fortune clients. The first thing that Ben wanted to address is the connection between Awakening and Bethel. Ben felt that it was unfair for me to closely link Awakening to Bethel as Awakening is an inter-denominational evangelistic event which calls on Christians and churches to lay aside secondary theological differences for the sake of advancing the gospel in Australia.

This doctrine emerged from the New Order of the Latter Rain cult in What an amazing day that was. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, He met Jesus in an encountered that deeply changed him late in whilst he was dealing drugs.

Since then Ben has lived passionately about one thing, showing the world Jesus in his everyday life and taking the good news of the Kingdom to the nations. As he travels extensively, Ben loves to help people live in Gods fullness of freedom and identity. He is the founder of the Empowered Evangelists network and Godfest Inc, and has a deep conviction that the future of Europe will be transformed by radical believers living free and proclaiming Jesus bodly.

This screen grab was taken on October 22, You can still see him advertising he is a pastor at Bethel bottom left:. He spends a lot of his time traveling abroad as an Evangelist and for several years has been a Pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California. He spends a lot of his time traveling abroad as an Evangelist and for several years was a Pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California.

Accessed Oct 12, The event kicks off at 5 p. Accessed October 20 According to PJMiller emphasis added :. On April the Freedom Federation, a recent coalition of Religious Right organizations, will be holding a conference at Liberty University titled The Awakening …. The conference is going to include the unveiling of a new social networking technology platform which will advance the communication network concepts already developed by the leadership of the NAR.

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