
Elizabeth A. M. Barrett, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN - Round Table Moderator
Elizabeth A. M. Barrett, R.N., Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita, Hunter College, CUNY, a Health Patterning Therapist, a Therapeutic Touch Specialist, and a research consultant in private practice in NYC. She has authored many articles on her theory of Power as Knowing Participation in Changesm and edited several books.

Gerald N. Epstein, M.D. - THE DEFEAT OF DEATH: A SPIRITUAL SCIENTIST’S RECIPE FOR ETERNAL LIFE
Dr. Epstein is director of AIMI and author of Healing Visualizations, the landmark book for healing through the mind. In addition, his works include Healing Into Immortality, Kabbalah For Inner Peace; The Phoenix Process: One Minute A Day To Health, Longevity & Well Being and The Natural Laws of Self Healing . He teaches in the US and abroad. He conducts a private practice, trains clinicians, and offers classes to the public in New York City.

E.H. “Rick” Jarow, Ph.D. - THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY IN THE HERMETIC TRADITION
Professor Rick Jarow is Professor of Religious Studies at Vassar College in New York. He is a teacher and facilitator of interior journeys through meditation and the therapeutic arts and the author of Alchemy of Abundance, Tales for the Dying and In Search of the Sacred.

Tirza Moussaieff, M.A., Ph.D. (c) - GOING FROM THE TREE OF DEATH TO THE TREE OF LIFE: THE ANCIENT SECRET FOR IMMORTALITY
Ms. Moussaieff was born in Jerusalem to a family of great sages and mystics from Central Asia. She has an M.Ed, M.A. in psychology, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Kabbalah at Bar-Ilan University. She studied imagery with Mme. Colette Aboulker-Muscat from 1977-2003.

Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D. - ACTIVATING THE LIGHT BODY: THE GOLDEN SEED OF IMMORTALITY
Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized leading practitioner of the therapeutic uses of Imagination. Her unique contribution to the field is a pioneering comprehensive physiotherapy through images, using the light body. Author of the seminal book, Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming, her forthcoming book, DreamBirth, uses imagery in the birth process. Founder of the School Of Images in NYC, she also teaches internationally. Visit her website www.schoolofimages.com for more information about her unique work in Imagery and Creativity.

Ori Z. Soltes, Ph.D. - MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY IN THE HUMAN MIND
Ori Z. Soltes is Professorial Lecturer in Theology at Georgetown University and former Director and Chief Curator at the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. He is the author of over 140 books, articles, and catalogue essays on a range of topics from linguistics and literature to philosophy, theology and art history. Among these is the book Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Well (2002) and Seeking Oneness with the One: Mysticism in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions (2008).

Claude Swanson, Ph.D. - PHYSICS IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS: THE SCIENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE
Dr. Swanson has developed a theory, called the Synchronized Universe Model, which expands current physics to explain these phenomena. It helps explain our relationship to the higher dimensions, and introduces a new science of consciousness into physics. Swanson was educated as a physicist at MIT and Princeton University, and has conducted research into both applied physics and the physics of the paranormal for three decades. He is the author of The Synchronized Universe-New Science of the Paranormal.
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