Truth Seekers

Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term near-death experience in 1975 in his bestselling book Life After Life and has since written 12 other books which investigate the mysteries associated with grief, dying and the afterlife. Lisa Smartt is the author of Words at The Threshold  that shares the early findings of The Final Words Project, an informal research project dedicated to the study of final words, co-founded with Dr. Moody in 2014. On September 20, 2018, Raymond Moody and Lisa Smartt launch The University of Heaven, an online educational platform offering courses and resources about near-death, shared-death, and after-death experiences. Moody and Smartt’s online “university” launches with a 6-month webinar series Raymond Moody’s Consciousness Forum: Into the Light, THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE.  The first series of monthly webinars will include conversations with Dr. Eben Alexander, Jeff Olsen and Dr. Jeff O’Driscoll, Dr. Melvin Morse, Dr. Tony Ciccoria, Kevin Braheny Fortune, Dr. Rachel Harris and Dr. Mary Ne

Coral is the daughter of SNU Minister Ann Robson and Healer Jim Robson and as such has grown up with an awareness of spirit and spiritualism.  In 2005, she was told by spirit to put down what she was doing and to draw.  She is not a trained artist, yet with spirit guiding her hand has developed the ability to draw spirit portraits reuniting people with the faces of their loved ones.  In 2012, she had the honor of being the first person to gain a Certificate of Recognition(CSNU) from the Spiritualist National Union in demonstrating Spirit Art.  In 2015, she was featured in the book, Spiritual Paintings and Art from the Afterlife.  She serves churches and centers in the UK and abroad, demonstrating her art and running workshops on both the subjects of Spirit and Psychic Art:  Helping others to explore their mediumship through art and discover the hidden artist within.  She regularly tutors for the international Spiritualists Federation(ISF) at their fraternal weeks and weekends in various countries across the g

Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, is an inspired author, teacher and past-life researcher. She has been actively involved with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987 and coordinator for the A.R.E. Charlottesville, VA team since 2008. Joanne earned her Masters in Transpersonal Studies degree and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University. She also is a graduate of the Eastern Institute of Hypnotherapy which she acquired her Certified Hypnotherapist designation. Joanne has been professionally pursuing past-life research and therapy for over 30 years.  The years she spent as the head of her own past-life research center outside of Chicago enabled her to interact with some of the leading past-life therapists, authors, and other renowned practitioners from across the country. Her books include Soul Writing: Conversing with Your Higher Self; Your Soul Remembers: Accessing Your Past Lives Through Soul Writing; and her newest book, Karma Can Be a Real Pain: Past Life

Robin and Sandra Foy both have almost 45 years' intensive experience of personally developing, witnessing and/or being intimately associated with Physical Mediumship and Physical Phenomena. As well as being involved in an extensive series of their own home circles (including some in Romford and Harold Wood early in their marriage 39 years ago) to develop phenomena over the years with varying results, they have also had the opportunity to sit with a great number of demonstrating physical mediums, many of whom are (or were) well known in this field. These include: Leslie Flint, Gordon Higginson, John Squires, Geoffrey Jacobs, Paul McElhoney, Colin Fry, Stewart Alexander, David Thompson, Mavis King, Tom and Linda Anderson, the Yellow Cloud Circle in France, the Theatre School Circle in Streatham, Scott Milligan, Kai Muegge and Sandy Horsford.    Through their long involvement, they have gained extensive knowledge and experience of the different ways in which physical phenomena can be produced by the Spirit Tea

N. Riley Heagerty has been researching Historic Spiritualism and Mediumship since 1986 and has concentrated on the physical phenomena attending the great mediums who manifested their gifts within what he refers to as the  “ Century of Wonders, ” between 1848 and 1948.  According to Mr. Heagerty, “ That century produced mind staggering manifestations witnessed on numerous occasions by individuals who’s integrity would be an insult to question. We have been given countless instances of positive proof of not only life after death but direct communication by spirits. It is also a sad fact that the world, in general, is woefully unaware of these titanic events which, if understood, would change the course of human thinking. In light of this, Mr. Heagerty has thus far produced five books dealing with mediums from that century. The First, The French Revelation, documented the independent voice mediumship of Mrs. Emily S. French, Portraits from Beyond: The Mediumship of the Bangs Sisters, concerned the precipitated

  Krisztina Nemeth  is a professional operasinger and teacher of classical singing. She graduated at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz in Austria. During a remarkable career in the opera world in December 2012 she discovered to be a Vocal Medium. From then on she has devoted herself to Healing Voice and takes group - and individual sessions, workshops and spiritual retreats in order to share her extraordinary experience with people all over Italy and abroad. With her mediumistic healing voice she has sung for famous people such as Masaru Emoto, (he wrote the foreward to her book Healing Voice) Angaangag, Kiara Windrider, Daniel Meurois and Maitra.  She works with various nationally and internationally recognized mediums like Chris Drew, Bill Coller, Andrew Byng, Sue Rowland. She works with researcher Daniele Gullá and scientist and researcher Med. Prof. Carlo Ventura. Krisztina has been invited to a number of congresses such as “The Circle of Life”(I-2013/2014), “Psicomedicina Quantis

I was compelled to tell Dorothy’s story since I kept hearing her shout to me from the grave, ‘Investigate, Investigate, Investigate’ based on inside information about her death that I learned while writing the first two books. I know some will doubt this happened, but after I began my investigation, Dorothy guided my path leading me to evidence including official government documents, her own personal papers, and most important, the videotaped interviews with those whom she confided in regarding her 18-month exhaustive JFK investigation. A former criminal defense attorney and legal analyst for CNN, ESPN and USA Today for the Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant cases, Mark Shaw is an investigative reporter and the author of 25 books  including the bestselling The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, The Poison Patriarch, Miscarriage of Justice, Beneath the Mask of Holiness and Courage in the Face of Evil, to be released June 4, 2018. Mr. Shaw has written for the New York Daily News, USA Today, Huffington Post, and

 JOIN NOW                   I died March 14, 1994, at the age of 43, but voluntarily returned to human life to share what I could remember of the wonders I experienced and truths I learned in the afterlife. At the time of my death, I had been an attorney practicing law in a 270-attorney regional law firm for 17 years as a litigator in the labor and employment law areas, and as a transactional and health care fraud defense lawyer in the health law field. I brought my training and skills as a trial lawyer to the evidence I encountered and challenged within the afterlife. "Nancy brings the credibility of a trial lawyer, highly trained to evaluate evidence, to her account of the answers to our most pressing spiritual questions: What is God? Who am I? What is the purpose of this life? What happens when we die? . . . She observed this near-death experience with the detachment of a jurist.    

Dr. Marjorie Roth was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she studied music until coming East for graduate school.  She has earned doctoral degrees in Historical Musicology (PhD) and in Flute Performance and Literature (DMA) from the Eastman School of Music.  Following a year in Vienna, Austria, on a Fulbright research grant, Dr. Roth began a full-time appointment at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, where she is now a full professor of music history and studio flute, and serves as the Director of the Honors Program.  Dr. Roth has presented papers on Renaissance music and on various topics in Esoteric Studies at conferences held in Italy, Egypt, Poland, Iceland, Belgium, Greece, Sicily, and the United States.  She is a regular member of the presenting faculty for Esoteric Quest conferences sponsored by the New York Open Center and has given talks on music at Lily Dale, New York.  In April she will travel to the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas to read a paper on the magical and medicinal properties of the 

 Rev. Sharon Siubis Sharon Siubis has trained and worked as a Spiritualist Minister, Speaker, Medium, and Healer for over 15 years. Holding a degree in Education, Sharon uses her background and understanding of teaching technique in her classes, seminars and now in the ongoing Education program of Intuitive and Mediumistic Development through the Inner Spiritual Center which she is co-founder and co- director. Along with her private readings/sittings, Sharon is an advocate of structure, quality and integrity in the teaching and learning of Mediumship so that each individual can achieve their own potential. Currently working, teaching, and demonstrating in New Jersey, as well as different areas of the United States, Sharon is on the teaching faculty of Fellowships of the Spirit, Lily Dale NY and currently teaching in Switzerland!

In this program, Dr. Holden will report on both research findings and personal and professional experiences with after-death communication (ADC): the spontaneous or facilitated experience of direct contact with a deceased person with whom one has a personal relationship. For the research portion, she will review findings from the 35 studies of spontaneous ADC that were published between 1894 and 2006 involving over 50,000 people from around the world as well as a 2011 study in Australia. She will also describe practice of Induced After-Death Communication (IADC), a technique to facilitate a client’s ADC during a counseling session—including a study she and her research team recently completed on the effects of IADC on grief. She will illustrate both of these topics with her own spontaneous and facilitated experiences and those of others who have been her counseling clients or research participants.    

TINA M. ZION is a fourth generation psychic medium, specializing in medical intuition and teaching it internationally. She has worked in the mental health field as a registered nurse with a national board specialty certification in mental health nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Association. Tina is a Gestalt trained counselor, graduating from the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute in 1997. She received her certification in clinical hypnotherapy from the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners in 1985, specializing in past life regressions and certified through the Michael Newton Institute. Tina is the internationally known author of Become a Medical Intuitive: The Complete Developmental Course,The Reiki Teacher’s Manual and is a contributing author in Newton’s latest book, Memories of the Afterlife.  Tina has recently accepted a faculty position at New York’s spiritual development center Fellowships of the Spirit.    

Tom is a  dynamic healer and teacher.  He has developed innovative methods of healing which achieve consistent results.  His joyful approach opens the hearts of all who work with him. Tom has worked in the fields of counseling, spiritual healing and teaching for over 30 years and is the creator and developer of the Restructuring method of accessing, releasing, and transforming unconscious resistance patterns.  He is an ordained minister with Fellowships of the Spirit and for the past 10 years he has served as associate director of their School of Healing and Prophecy.  While at Harvard Divinity School Tom was inspired to direct his attention to matters of the human heart and the possibilities of growth and transformation through development of the spiritual dimensions of the heart.  Since then he has created numerous classes and workshops to support others in exploring the vast dimensions, and extraordinary healing potentials of the heart. He was greatly influenced by three thinkers:  Robert Fritz for his

Lisa Smartt, MA, is the author of Words at the Threshold. A linguist, educator, and poet, she founded the Final Words Project, an ongoing study devoted to collecting and interpreting the mysterious language at the end of lives. She co-facilitates workshops about language and consciousness with Raymond Moody at universities, hospices, and conferences and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at http://www.finalwordsproject.org. You’ll find her on social media here: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wordsatthethreshold/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/LisaASmartt Five years ago.  I listened in stunned silence as my skeptical and rationalist father described seeing angels in his last days of life. Three days before dying, he announced, "The angels say only three days left now." He spoke of a "green dimension" and his room crowded with people who were unseen to me. He also spoke in poetic and metaphoric language, describing the big art show that was approaching and the boxes he had to carry fo

Angela Artemis is a speaker, best-selling author of the “Intuition Principle,” founder of the award winning website Powered by Intuition.com and a Sales & Intuitive Client Acquisition Strategist. Angela has a background in personal financial planning and previously worked in the field of personal finance for 25+ years where she was a regional manager in the private banking, wealth and investment management division managing, coaching and training several teams of financial sales professionals. She was also a top producing financial sales professional in the mortgage industry. She now works with sensitive, spiritual-minded solopreneurs who love what they do but are uncomfortable with sales and signing-up more clients to empower them, so that they easily bring on more clients, grow their income, feel natural and self-assured in the process and have fun in their business again!

  Lynne Forget attended her first Spiritualist church in Hamilton, Ontario in 1987 and was totally fascinated with the demonstration of Mediumship she saw there.  After that she wanted to gobble up everything she could that had to do with Spiritualism.  Lynne is now a graduate of the Ministerial Program at Fellowships of the Spirit in Lily Dale NY, and has also completed the Morris Pratt Institute course on the History of Modern Spiritualism. Lynne says that what has KEPT her a Spiritualist these many years is the freedom Spiritualists have to explore and search for the truth; the fact that Spiritualists are free thinkers – not bound by dogma or creed – but free to explore life, great teachers and masters, great books and writings, even all the great religions, in their search for truth.  As a result of this great freedom, Lynne brings the perspective of both a practicing medium and a curious student to her Ministry. She has been a member of Lily Dale Assembly for 28 years, and has been a Registered Medium

Curtis Childs is the host and producer of the weekly program Swedenborg and Life on the offthelefteye, which has accumulated more than 7.5 million views and nearly 50,000 subscribers on YouTube. Curtis has appeared on numerous spirituality-themed talk shows and has had his content featured on the Dr. Oz show. He works with his team at the non-profit Swedenborg Foundation to create simple, effective inquiries into life’s biggest questions. He’s appeared on many international radio shows, podcasts, and YouTube shows, such as Talk Gnosis, Sunday Morning Spiritual, The Butterfly Moment, Dark Thirty Radio, We Don’t Die Radio, and much more! We will be discussing the visions of Emanuel Swedenborg, and how they relate to the afterlife, angels, getting to know your true self, and understanding our relationship to heaven. Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic who lived in the late 1600s. 

Dr. Ann Frances Ellis, PhD, MDiv,  will discuss the different aspects of love commonly found in NDEs. The uplifting insights shared by experiencers include these and more. We don't die. The nature of love is greater than we ever imagined. Love has higher qualities. Love emanates from many sources. We are all one and love is our essence. There is a reason and purpose for everything. In life, love is most important. Dr.  Ellis, is the Author of Revelations Of Profound Love: New Insights into the Power of Love from NDEs. Her PhD is from Sancta Sophia Seminary, Tahlequah, OK., in Religious Studies. She researched over 500 NDE accounts for her book, which reports over 100 people's visitsto a Realm of Love and Light where they felt unconditionally loved and accepted. For her dissertation, she also researched world religioons and found the same conclusions reported by near-death experiencers to be found in them all. Read her blog on Love at www.RevelationsOfProfoundLove.com Conclusions of Near-death experiencers

Nancy and Carlos both have PhDs in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. For over thirty years, they have been involved in the field of scientific parapsychology. They have worked at the Rhine Research Center, the Parapsychology Foundation, and the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. Their research has focused on questionnaire-based studies of reports of supposed psychic experiences, relating them to various states/traits such as dissociation, depersonalization, absorption, and satisfaction with life. They have also examined the relationship of reporting psychic experiences with reporting other experiences such as lucid dreams, disturbing dreams, vivid dreams, and mystical experiences. They have published several papers together and separately.