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Elena
Avila, RN, MSN,
was a founder of the first hospice in El Paso, Texas.
A nurse since 1976, she was Director of Maternal/Child
Nursing and Clinical Coordinator at the Neuropsychiatric
Institute at UCLA. She combines Curanderismo with modern
medicine in her private practice and is the author of
Woman Who Glows in the Dark. www.elena-curandera.com
Leslie Blackhall, MD, MTS,
is Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Humanities
at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and
Medical Director of Palliative Care Services.
Henry Fersko-Weiss, LCSW, in 2004, created
the first End-of-Life Doula Program focused on guiding
dying patients and their families through the very end
of life. This program was featured in an extensive front-page
article in The New York Times. He has been working with
dying people and those who care for them for almost 20
years, and is a longtime student of Zen Buddhism.
Frank Ostaseski is co-founder
of the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice
in America, and founder of the Metta Institute’s
End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program. His groundbreaking
work has been widely featured in the media, including
the Bill Moyers television series, “On Our Own Terms.”
In 2001, he was honored by H.H. Dalai Lama for his years
of compassionate service to the dying and their families.
David Parke was trained by
Dr. Brian Weiss for Past Life Regression and by the Newton
Institute for Life Between Lives Regression. David has
given
workshops on past life regression and life between lives
regression across the United States and maintains a private
practice in New York.
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Simcha
Raphael, PhD, has worked as a death awareness
educator and bereavement counselor for over 25 years.
He teaches in the Religion Department of Temple University
and has also served as a Spiritual Director at Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College. He is the author of Jewish Views
of the Afterlife. www.simcharaphael.com
Therese Schroeder-Sheker
founded the palliative medical field of music-thanatology
and the Chalice of Repose Project. She has served since
1992 as the academic dean of the School of Music-Thanatology
and has started large, multi-institutional clinical practices
serving thousands of patients with prescriptive music.
Her work has been featured on ABC, PBS, CNN and in many
other media.
Robert A. F. Thurman, PhD,
is professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University,
President of Tibet House
U.S., the translator of many philosophical treatises
and sutras, and author of numerous books, including Inner
Revolution, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: the Enlightenment
Engine of Tibetan Buddhism and Why the Dalai Lama
Matters.
Marianne Williamson is an
internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. Among her
9 published books, four of them were New York Times best
sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read
of The New Spirituality. Her latest book is The Age
of Miracles.
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