Current and Future Activities at the Center for Spiritual Understanding
The Center is searching out alternative methods of having after-death communication, develop the protocols, and make them available to those capable of using them.
As the various forms of after-death communication are performed, Center volunteers are studying the performances to discover ways of enhancing them.
Researchers will transcribe, organize, and study séance recordings to understand more about the nature of the afterlife. Other sources of information, such as mental medium readings, near-death experiences, and EVP recordings will be studied to understand better the planes of eternal life after the Earth plane.
Active research efforts such as those at the University of Arizona, and practicing physical mediums such as David Thompson and Stewart Alexander, are providing valuable information about the afterlife and after-death communication. Researchers at the Center will encourage and support the work others are doing, gather available information about it, disseminate it, and use it to inform the research at the Center.
We know that teams of researchers on the next planes of life are endeavoring to enhance after-death communication. The researchers at the Center are working to communicate with the teams in the afterlife and cooperate with them in the research process.
Spiritual growth occurs in small groups where people are able to talk about their assumptions and beliefs. Weekly meetings with stable groups of people are being held at the Center where they discuss their own spiritual path. In the future, some groups will prefer to meet in the comfort of a home environment. The Center will support them and provide resources to help them establish and maintain their groups.
People seeking to grow spiritually who are tied to a religious group will be encouraged to meet at the Center, where they can open themselves to other points of view. They may talk about their beliefs with others who share the same belief systems to understand them better in light of what they learn about their eternal natures at the Center.
The Heaven Project is a discussion group that will meet regularly to discuss what life on Earth will be like when humanity evolves spiritually into the beings we are meant to be. Society will experience remarkable differences in lifestyle, thought, and preoccupations that will be part of that new world. Discussing it will provide insights into how each person can grow to be more like a citizen of that heaven on Earth.
People who have had after-death communication experiences, near-death communications, and other encounters with the afterlife meet to share them in an open, trusting, accepting atmosphere, without fear of being thought strange or disturbed.
Children whose experiences aren't understood by their parents, teachers, or churches will be able to share them at the Center and meet other children with similar abilities.
Sensitive people who see spirits or know things they don't learn from the senses are able to speak about what happens to them without fear of not being believed or accepted. And those who come to the Center listen to their stories are inspired by them.
People who know they will soon die, such as those terminally ill or aged, will have support groups in which they learn to celebrate life and look forward to the transition called death. They will learn how to talk with others about their deaths and make others feel they can talk comfortably with them. Caregivers and families will be encouraged to come to the support meetings to learn how to talk openly and lovingly about the coming transition. The meetings will include talk about the reunions people have on the next plane of life, visions and dreams people have when near death, and the ease with which the transition into the next plane of life occurs.
The Center will encourage dialogue about the afterlife among professionals in all disciplines by having staff speak at conventions and professional meetings.
Sevral Web pages are now devoted to the afterlife and after-death communication. Each has a forum for people to ask questions and receive responses.
The Center is sponsoring weekly discussions about the afterlife, after-death communication, and spiritual growth for those in the community and nearby cities.
Speakers about the afterlife, after-death communication, and activities at the Center are available to speak to groups or conventions. Dr. Hogan is now traveling arount the country speakin about the afterlife and after-death communication.
Psychotherapists will come to the Center for training in how to help people have Guided Afterlife Connections.
During the mental and physical mediumship circles, new mediums are being discovered and cultivated so they can help demonstrate to others the reality of the afterlife while giving people whose understanding of the afterlife is full of doubt the assurance that their loved ones are contended and happy.
Clergy, hospice workers, counselors, physicians, social workers, funeral directors, and others will be trained to counsel people about death and the afterlife, especially people whose do not realize they are eternal beings.
Graduate students and interns specializing in death and the afterlife will be trained and working with the staff as part of their degree programs.
Psychotherapists trained to facilitate Guided Afterlife Connections will be working with individuals, especially those who are in grief because they don't understand the nature of death.
Spiritual counselors will be working with individuals and groups to help them understand their place in the universe, their purpose in life, and how they can enhance their interpersonal relationships through understanding their eternal natures.
For people suffering from grief over the death of a loved one but do not want Guided Afterlife Connections experience, grief counselors will be available to work with them.
Caregivers often carry heavy burdens alone. The Center will offer support, training, and counseling for caregivers who are caring for the dying.
A certified hypnotist is conducting past-life regression sessions helping people understand their present lives by understanding their past lives.
At-risk groups such as people with suicidal tendencies, drug and alcohol additions, episodes of anger and violence, habitual crime records, abusive tendencies, bullying behavior, and membership in violent groups such as gangs will be counseled about their place in eternity and allowed to have after-death communication with people they love or were associated with who are now in the afterlife. Hopefully, they will come to view themselves and others differently, changing their lives.
The Center has an active publications program, publishing nonfiction books about the afterlife that are intended to help people understand their place in the universe and the nature of the afterlife. Books focusing on spiritual development will also be published.
The Spiritual Understanding magazine will be much like Reader's Digest or Guideposts, bringing what is learned at the Center to the general public in an inspiring, uplifting format. It will be oriented toward helping people understand their eternal natures, understand spirituality, and grow spiritually.
The Greater Reality magazine will be similar in format to Psychology Today or Nature. It will bring the findings of the Center to an educated audience that is interested in learning about the science, theory, studies, and some detail of the findings.
The Center will publish study and curriculum materials for home groups who meet regularly to talk about the greater reality, afterlife, and their own spiritual growth.
A library of books about the afterlife is open to the members of the Center. Books may be checked out.
DVDs with content relevant to the study of the afterlife, after-death communication, and spirituality are available to check out.
Other media such as audiotapes, computer software, and reference materials are available for checking out.
Mental mediumship groups meet regularly to practice mental mediumship and do readings for people. In the future, mental mediums will also meet with individuals for sessions at the Center, at people's homes, or in groups. The focus will always be to help people learn that they and their loved ones who have passed away are eternal beings having a physical experience. The mediums will discuss with them their natures and their spiritual paths.
A séance room in the Center is being used for physical mediumship séances. The séances are intended to help people connect with loved ones and enable the volunteer researchers to interact with the teams on the next plane of life. At this time, we see physical mediums emerging who can be cultivated to carry on physical medium séances.
Rochelle Wright (http://rochellewright.com) has refined a way to help people have an afterlife connection experiences while sitting with their eyes closed in her office. The connections can involve conversations with the loved one in the afterlife. The messages experincers receive change their lives.
Using hypnotism and bi-lateral stimulation, Center professional staff will be helping people have after-death communications. The methods are being studied and refined now.
Using a specially written hypnosis script, an entire group has been hypnotised and guided into after-death communication experiences. Seven of the ten people in the group reported an after-death communication, with some being quite profound. The method is being studied and refined now.
Laurel Parnell's bi-lateral stimulation and self-hypnosis are being explored by Center volunteers to see whether it will be possible to teach people how to have self-induced after-death communications.
Trance mediums are being encouraged to come to the Center to sit regularly with groups. During the meetings, other trance mediums are emerging.
Based on Native American drumming and the traditions of trance drumming, the Center volunteers meet once a week for a session of trance drumming. Eventually, we hope it will lead to after-death communication experiences.
An active EVP program will communicate with those in the afterlife and provide the setting to study and refine the use of EVP.
A psychomanteum has been set up to enable people to have contact with their deceased loved ones.
Volunteers are going through the Monroe Institute Hemi-Sync program to learn how this method can be used in after-death communication.
The Center is introducing people to automatic writing and helping them cultivate it to see whether they have this ability and can use it in after-death communication.
Other methods of after-death communication, such as through meditation, are being developed. As they are developed, they will be practiced in the Center.
The Center will seek to develop other Centers in nearby communities. Staff will make themselves available and, if necessary, travel for a period of time to make regular visits to support the early stages of the development of other Centers.
Center professional staff will have individuals from other communities come for training and guidance in how to establish similar Centers in other cities.
The Center has helped establish the Exploring Spiritual Realities Alliance in Central Illinois to help groups dedicated to the paranormal, metaphysics, and after-death communication bring their resources to each other and the people in their groups. In the future, the Center will help coordinate the sharing of services and resources among Centers in other cities. In that way, costs can be reduced and the burden on a single Center to perform all functions with all resources can be reduced.
The Center will encourage conventions focusing on the afterlife, after-death communication, and spiritual growth to hold their gatherings at the Center or in venues around the Center. The Center will lend its support to the gatherings in an effort to encourage dialogue and sharing of research findings.
The Center will sponsor events that will bring people not associated with the Center to it so people can be introduced to the concept of eternal life. Nationally known mediums or speakers can be brought in to encourage people to come to the events.
The Center will hold all-Center gatherings such as picnics to bring together everyone associated with the Center in harmony and love. The staff and people who come to the Center will all be regarded as a family, and social gatherings that encourage that feeling will be held regularly.