Yvonne Kason

Spiritual Awakenings International Launches

Yvonne Kason, MD., President of SAI Yvonne is the author of Touched by the Light and other books about Near Death Experience and Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs)*.  She is now retired as a medical doctor/psychotherapist
Chico Xavier

Dead Man Talking: Brazil’s Spiritists Redefine Religion

Chico Xavier: An Extraordinary Channel  In Brazil, dead people write books. Not only do they write books, they sell them. Many fly off the shelves. The process is called psicografía or psychography, also known in English as
misconceptions about mediums

Addressing Misconceptions about Mediums: “Well, actually…”

The mission of The Windbridge Research Center is to ease suffering around dying, death, and what comes next by performing rigorous scientific research and sharing the results and other customized content with practitioners, clinicians, scientists, and the general public.
shamanic

The Shamanic View of Mental Health: A Holistic Approach

In November 2014, the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released its new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as
collective spiritual emergency

When Mental Illness Masks A Collective Spiritual Emergency

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Out of the Shadows: When Spiritual Emergency was a Mental Illness I recall driving with my parents past
Spiritism and Spiritualism

What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

It’s in the Original Mission Both Spiritism and Spiritualism believe that the spirit world exists and spirits have an impact on human beings.  The impact may be positive or negative, informative or deceptive.  Both Spiritism
ESP

The Reality of ESP

The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities Yes, psychic abilities, i.e. using extra-sensory perception (ESP), can gather useful information…and this extraordinary, or paranormal ability is available to everyone.  This opens up a
ways to self realization

My Personal Story: What Came After John of God

In 2001 I was introduced to the phenomenal healer, John of God, at his healing center in Abadiania, Brazil.  I was there on a mission: a paraplegic friend of mine wanted to know if John
master teacher spiritual

How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers

“The Cardinal” by E. Grutzner, 1846-1925? Spiritual Teachers and Spiritual Emergence Those on a path of spiritual emergence, seeking spiritual growth, often assume that their spiritual teachers are leading lives committed to helping others.  Why? 
spiritual vs religious definition

Spiritual but not religious? Jesus was too.

When someone asks you if you’re religious, do you find yourself answering that you’re “spiritual but not religious”? As humans, we have an innate desire to connect with the Divine, but too many of us