Below are our scheduled speakers for the 2012 conference... more being added soon!
Beverley Kane
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BEVERLEY KANE, MD, is on the faculty of Stanford School of Medicine in Palo Alto, CA and Founder and Lead Mare of Horsensei Equine-Assisted Learning and Therapy. Her Stanford-based course, Medicine and Horsemanship, is a Jungian based experiential learning program for doctor-patient communication and psychospiritual awareness. From the late 70s to the mid-90s, she was active in the San Francisco Parapsychology Research Group for which she was editor-in-chief of the PRG anniversary anthology, Silver Threads: 25 Year of Parapsychology Research. The 2nd edition of Silver Threads has just been published as Radiant Minds: Scientists Explore the Dimensions of Consciousness. In 1987, The Seth Material almost literally fell into her hands in a bookstore in downtown San Francisco where she was buying computer programming books. Since that time, she has applied the Seth philosophy to a practical method of self-healing, with her paper Symptom and Significance—A Sethian Approach to Healing, and to her work with horses. Please view her paper http://www.horsensei.com/publications/SandS/SandS.pdf. |
Jon Klimo
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With undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and a doctorate in psychology, Jon Klimo has taught in doctoral programs for the past 35 years, including eight years at Rutgers University, and is currently in his 11th year as core faculty (now Full Professor) in the clinical program at the San Francisco Bay Area campus of The American Schools of Professional Psychology, Argosy University. He has published numerous articles and conference proceedings. He is considered the leading authority on the phenomenon of channeling, based on his definitive book, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources (1988, 1998). In 2006, he co-authored Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? In 2010 he co-authored, Handbook to the Afterlife. He has appeared on approx 20 television and 120 radio programs, including “Coast to Coast A.M.” with both Art Bell and George Noory as hosts. As a lifelong multi-disciplinarian, he has done extensive research, publishing, teaching, and presentations in the areas of creativity, intuition, imagination, parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, consciousness studies, new paradigm science, and Ufology/Extraterrestriology. At present he is seeking a publisher for two completed book manuscripts and is in the process of finishing three others. |
Kerstin Sjoquist
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Guided Imagination Specialist Kerstin Sjoquist has been a Seth reader since the early 1980s and credits the books as foundational to her world-view. Along the way she began to facilitate classes and workshops in the area of personal growth, sharing the techniques and knowledge that she had found useful in her own process. In 2001 she formed Consciousness Arts and produced the lauded Bliss Trips series of guided meditation CDs. She also offers a free Bliss-Trip-a-Day via email (please visit http://www.blisstrips.com for more information). Kerstin is currently obtaining a master's degree in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. |
Lawrence Davidson
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Lawrence Davidson is the organizer, creator and heart and soul of the California Seth Conference, and he is the one that saw this conference as a reality four years ago. Lawrence was a member of Jane Robert's ESP class from December 1972 until classes ended in 1975. Lawrence is known as Lauren Del Marie in "Conversations With Seth", and as Larry in "Adventures In Consciousness" and "Psychic Politics". After he left the East Coast and moved to California, Lawrence co-created the science fiction show "Probabilities" for KPFA radio with fellow class member Richard Wolinsky in 1976 and was co-producer for 10 years. He is also the co-author of the award winning book "Pulp Culture" with Frank M. Robinson, a collection of early fiction magazine covers first published in 1998. Lawrence continues to inspire our Bay Area Seth Groups meetings with his first-hand knowledge of what Seth said, and can always be counted on to steer us back to the main point that Seth was trying to get across: you get what you focus on. |
Marianne Alexander
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Born April 6, 1931, Bristol Ct. Started teaching music when I was age fourteen. Graduated Ithaca College Music School 1953, married to Wade Alexander an hour before graduation. Helped raise six children and many of their friends on our Greystone Farm near Ithaca New York. Taught music in public and private schools. Bred close to a thousand World-Class Sport Horses and three I bred won the Gold Medal for driving in harness in Austria. Competed successfully in Hungary, Poland, Italy and the U.S. and did an exhibition in Dressage Driving for the Queen of England. Founded an International Organization called Personal Ponies in 1986 and established fifty breeding farms across the country using the true Shetland ponies from the coal mines in Scotland. The Shetlands are offered life-lease-no charge—to families with differently able children. It is an all-volunteer organization—about two thousand Shetlands leased thus far. Kept a life journal since age seven and currently transcribing those entries for a book titled “ A Lamp To My Feet”. Also a children’s book titled “Beyond Johnny Cake Mountain”. (Illustrated by Anthony Taber who does illustrations for the New Yorker and Audubon Magazines.) - (Attended Jane Robert’s Seth Classes for two years.) - |
Mary Fahey
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Mary Fahey is a long term Seth reader (1974) a lone reader for over 20 years, but enjoyed the coming together of fellow Seth folk through her visit to the Colorado Seth Conference, where she led workshops and inner journeys over the years. She found bumping into the Seth books life changing, and life enriching. Moving from administration to teaching, Mary has taken her work into the mainstream teaching in the Continuing Learning Adult Education field in Waltham Forest, London England, where she lives. Her teaching work was and still is inspired and broadly based on the Seth series of books. Abundant wealth indeedy! Mary has a practical, intuitive down to earth approach to her work and life and believes in teaching and learning through joy! She has conducted numerous courses, workshops, lectures, talks and personal consultations in the UK and USA and has been featured in the media. Now semi-retired Mary has her own weekly two hour show on a community radio station - Seth through the back door! And enjoys hosting a monthly Seth group now running for 8 years. … Always a joy. |
Meredith Sabini
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Meredith Sabini, MS, PhD, is founding director of The Dream Institute of Northern California, a licensed clinical psychologist, and state-certified continuing education provider. After an early opening of the interior life, she embarked on a career in the area of mystical psychology. She has publications and presentations on wisdom traditions, cross-cultural healing practices, and historic and contemporary modes of visionary experience. Trained in Jungian psychology, she practiced as a therapist 1977–1997; taught at CSPP, CIIS, and Pacifica; and now specializes in doing dream training and in consulting with those wishing to integrate spiritual experiences. She has three chapters in The Sacred Heritage (Routledge, 1997); Smithsonian magazine (Nov 2010) published her recent commentary on the medium Pearl Curran. She read Seth books when they first came out and recently returned to the material to explore Seth’s statements on dreams; a brief summary of this appears in DreamTime (Spring 2011). Her presentation at this conference will emphasize the soundness and timely significance of Seth’s contributions regarding individual and mass dreams. |
Mike Spurkosky
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Mike became a fan of the Seth Material when as an avid reader he discovered his first Seth book on his parent’s book shelf at the age of 12. He attended his first Seth class at the age of 16 in the home of Maude Cardwell, founder of the Austin Seth Center in Austin Texas. When Maude passed the torch to Seth Network International founded by Lynda Dahl and Stan Ulkowski, Mike attended the first Conference held by SNI in 1994 in Seaside Oregon. He is a regular attendee at many of the conferences throughout the States and his desire to speak has grown from the inspiration and desire to express the importance of the material. |
Nancy Ashley
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Nancy Ashley is a retired professor from the University of Hawaii, where she taught writing. She is the author of three Seth workbooks: Create Your Own Reality, Create Your Own Happiness, and Create Your Own Dreams. She lives on Oahu. |
Paul Giurlanda
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Paul Giurlanda is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College of California, and has taught in that department for thirty years. He has published or made presentations over the years on the topics of interpretation theory, the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer, and, more recently, the relationship of Catholic theology to gay/Lesbian life. Discovering the writings of Jane Roberts and the teachings of Seth totally up-ended his philosophical apple-cart, and he is busy exuberantly re-creating his own reality in a new key. |
Richard Wolinsky
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Richard Wolinsky was a member of Jane Roberts' ESP class from June 1973 until the class ended at the end of February 1975, and appears in "Conversations with Seth" and "Unknown Reality Vol. 2" under the name "Will Petrosky." From 1976 through 2001, he produced and co-hosted a literary book program on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, and since 2001 has produced and hosted "Bookwaves: A Program about Books" nationally on the Pacifica Network. He has also been at various times a magazine editor, freelance writer, television associate producer, and elections specialist |
Virginia Bennett
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Virginia Bennett, Ph. D. is a psychologist with a private practice in Berkeley, California where she incorporates hypnosis with psychodynamic and cognitive therapy. She is a core faculty member in the Counseling Psychology program at Argosy University at the San Francisco Bay Area campus. With a doctoral degree in psychology and a specialization in parapsychology, she has spent her life, personally and professionally, seeking an integration of mainstream psychology and metaphysical explorations, including past life regressions, lucid dreaming, altered states, and probable realities. She takes an integrated approach that acknowledges the complexity of human beings, including physical and biological, emotional, mental, and transpersonal dimensions. She has been a “Seth head” since reading the material in 1975. Under the premise of “wherever you go, there you are,” and with the ineffable goal of “know thyself,” she seeks to apply the Seth material, combined with psychological understanding, to help people create a reality that is worth living. To paraphrase Seth, if it isn’t fun [or meaningful, or satisfying], we are doing it…why? |
Wade Alexander
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In the early 1970s Wade, along with his wife Marianne, attended Jane Robert’s “Seth Classes.” For three years Wade recorder them on a stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder. During each following week he edited the tapes to excise class member’s personal information while preserving as much discussion as possible prior to Seth’s remarks. One set of the tapes was given to Yale University. Wade’s original set was dubbed to cassettes by Tracy and Steve Blumenthal of Ithaca NY. Wade gave those cassettes to Rick Stack who was to convert them to CDs. Since the 1970s classes Wade retired from music teaching, became an Alexander Technique Teacher, continued working as a Piano Technician, and has written three books, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy; There is Another Way: A Companion Guider to A Course in Miracles; and Aural Piano Tuning: Tuning Pianos by Ear. Wade and Marianne now live in San Luis Obispo CA. |
2012 California Seth Conference speakers, presenters and volunteers!
