At the heart of spiritual awakening lies the discovery that each of us can achieve the direct, transformative connection with the sacred realms that defines the mystic. Hank will guide us along a well-traveled path into this extraordinary experience -- a journey that was pioneered by the shamans of the traditional peoples tens of millennia ago.

The first goal will is to find our sacred garden, a place for personal empowerment as well as physical, psychological-emotional, and spiritual restoration. Once there, we learn through direct experience that the garden can be used as a gateway into the other levels of the inner worlds.

Presenter Bio: Anthropologist Hank Wesselman is one of those rare cutting-edge scientists who truly walks between two worlds. For much of the past 30 years, he has conducted research with an international team of scientists, exploring eastern Africa’s Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins. His trilogy: Spiritwalker, Medicinemaker and Visionseeker are focused upon a series of visionary experiences that began spontaneously out in the bush of southern Ethiopia in the 1970s, intensified while living in Hawaii in the 1980s, and document his investigations into the shamanic worlds of magic, mystery and meaning.

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The ancients knew that sex could suddenly, without warning, catapult people out of the here-and-now into other worlds, and this was probably the basis of most early mystical religions, including those that have come down to us today. Sacred sex never stopped happening - it went underground as religious authorities tried to stamp it out. In fact, probably one in every eight to twelve people will have an otherworldly sexual experience at least once in life.

Dr. Wade will present what she learned through extensive interviews of 91 normal people who said they had had unusual experiences in the course of making love when they were not drinking, using drugs, or practicing techniques like Tantric yoga to induce an altered state during sex. She will describe what happens to create transcendent experiences during sex; how those experiences can range from access to past-lives to magical connections with plants, animals, and the earth to full-blown enlightenment states; how transcendent experiences also can be frightening; and how to understand and integrate whatever comes up for positive personal transformation.

Presenter Bio: Jenny is an international researcher on transformative processes, especially those that occur in normal as well as altered states of consciousness. She is author of two books based on her research, Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness and Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil. Her development processes are accessible to any audience.

Dr. Wade serves on the core faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology where she conducts and oversees research in human development. She also works as an organization development consultant to apply that knowledge to create corporate capacities and cultures that allow talent and innovation to flourish.

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The entire universe, life, everyone, time, space, is experience to us. This experience appears in awareness, which is what we already are. For most of us, a belief has crept in that we have a choice in what we experience. For example, if we get enlightened, work on ourselves, meditate, that our experience could be different or better. As soon as we don't want any experience, especially when we never want to have that experience again, we carry it with us always and our lives will be a never ending cycle of defending our hearts, feeling separate, being unhappy and projecting it everywhere and on everyone. In this presentation, we will examine together how this functions, so that what has been unconscious becomes conscious.

Presenter Bio: At nineteen, Isaac had an experience of unconditional love and knew this to be reality. He saw how easily thoughts and feelings could veil this exquisite state of being. When this experience passed, he became determined to see through the veil. The search was born.

In 1991, the search brought him to India to meet Poonjaji or Papaji as people called him, who had awakened in his meeting with Sri Ramana Maharishi. Through Isaac's meeting, the futility of searching was revealed, and the direct experience of being everything and nothing became obvious. Papaji asked Isaac to be available to everyone who has this interest, and since then he has travelled the world holding Satsang. In this passionate love affair with Truth, there is a constant revealing of subtleties of movements in consciousness. In this revealing there is an infinite deepening.

Isaac is a living invitation for everyone to know and experience truth for themselves. He is the author of two books, Outbreak of Peace and It Happens By Itself.

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