International conference on the Magical Island of Crete, Greece

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Call 1-800-234-TOUR (8687) or email: travel@powerplaces.comwww.PowerPlaces.com

Cited in National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine the “Granddaddy of Spiritual Tours”The Leader in Transformational Tours for over 30 years

with Eben Alexander, MD, author of “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife,”Suzanne Giesemann, Donna Visocky, Echo Bodine, Maggie Kerr, Sarina Baptista,

plus other leading transformational teachers

Topics to be ex-plored include: • Near-death experi-ences, what happens after death and where do we go

• The spirit world and healing• What to expect on the other side of physical existence • The healing power of grief and the potent freedom that follows• Discovering your past lives• Developing your intuitive ability• How to live a more meaningful and joyful life• Plus much more! There will be presentations, many of them experiential, all of them informative. The meetings will be interspersed with experiential visits to

local power places, such as the ceremonial center of Phaestos, and Knossos, where the original labyrinth that housed the Minotar can still be seen, plus much more!

Join leading transformational teachers for this special travel program with Crete’s magical energy providing a powerful catalyst for your own personal learning and healing.

October 7-14, 2013Optional Extension: to Delphi, Mykonos (the sacred island of Delos), and Athens

October 14-21

Crete is the perfect place to enhance your spiritual experience of life, death & beyond.

Historically, the island is one of Earth’s most powerful mystic places. The sunkissed island of Crete, famous for sparkling waters and shim-mering sandy beaches, is the home of the ancient 5,000 year old Mino-an civilization. The entire island is alive with the energy of this mystical culture. In the artwork the Minoans left, we see a lust for life, a childlike freshness of feeling, and a recognition and celebration of an omnipresent deity. Their burial practices show a recognition of the afterlife and reincarnation. The ancient spiri-tual tradition of Crete gave profound recognition to the “Otherworld” and the “Otherlife.”

The days spent at your spectacularly situated ocean front resort will be a collage of inspiring

p resen ta -tions with l e a d i n g transforma-tional teachers, round table dis-cussions and meditations in the powerful presence of nature and “Gaia,” as the ancient people of Crete called Mother Earth.

© Power Places Tours, Inc. 2013

Call 1-800-234-TOUR (8687) or email: travel@powerplaces.comwww.PowerPlaces.com

Cited in National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine the “Granddaddy of Spiritual Tours”The Leader in Transformational Tours for over 30 years

Dr. Eben Alexander III has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he has personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. In his aca-demic career he has authored or co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals, and made over 200 presentations at conferences and

medical centers around the world. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit.

In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningitis-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read any-thing about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started reading, and was astonished by the insights his journey brought to the world’s literature on near-death expe-riences, and to all phenomena of extended consciousness. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence.

He has been blessed with a complete recovery and shares his most powerful, life-changing story in his book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness. It will have a major effect on how we view spirituality, soul and the non-material realm. In analyzing his experience, including the scientific possibilities and grand implications, he envisions a more complete reconciliation of modern science and spirituality as a natural product.

Through his nonprofit organization, Eternea, Dr. Alexander has dedicated himself to sharing this information, promoting further research on the unifying elements of science and spirituality, and encouraging people to be inspired by the power of unconditional love in their daily lives and in their work in their communities.

Suzanne Giesemann is a retired U.S. Navy Commander who served as a com-manding officer, as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, and as the aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. Her military decora-tions include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Combat Action Rib-bon. In her career, Suzanne flew on Air Force One, met with kings and queens, and helped depose a dictator, but nothing prepared her for her current line of work. A family tragedy in 2006 led Suzanne to discover abilities she was not aware of and brought about an unexpected career change. Today former-commander Giesemann is an author and presenter in the field of spirituality

and self-empowerment.

Suzanne captivates audiences as she shows the path to “Love-Centered Living.” She addresses questions about the purpose of life, the nature of reality, and attuning to higher consciousness, including connecting with loved ones who have passed on. In her books, workshops, and presenta-tions, she shares universal spiritual truths and ancient spiritual wisdom blended with modern dis-coveries in science and consciousness. She backs up her teachings with verifiable evidence received during hundreds of one-on-one sessions with clients, bringing unparalleled integrity and heartfelt emotion to her work.

Suzanne’s books include her memoir, “Messages of Hope,” featured in a documentary by the same name; “The Priest and the Medium”; “Conquer Your Cravings”; “It’s Your Boat Too, and Living a Dream”; “Love Beyond Words”; and “The Real Alzheimer’s: A Guide for Caregivers That Tells It Like It Is.” She has co-authored two books with internationally acclaimed intuitive Janet Nohavec.

Owner and creative director of BellaSpark Productions, Donna Visocky, knows a great deal about connecting with Spirit and awakening to greater possibility. Devastated by the tragic death of her 21-year old daughter, Kristi, in a car accident, she searched for answers to the nagging questions of “why.”

It was this life changing event that took her into the world of the unseen. She knew Kristi was still here but how could that be possible? With her natural sense of curiosity and love of learning, Donna began a new journey of exploration into spirituality and the expansiveness of life – both seen and unseen.

It was in Kristi’s life that Donna found those answers. “It was Kristi who brought me here, to this place in my life; who opened the windows of my mind to the wonders and blessings of the universe and the realization that this is just a small blip in the journey of our souls,” she says.

BellaSpark Productions was born to continue these new experiences. Bella means Beautiful and Spark is for the Divine Spark in all of us. For the past ten years, Donna has met, interviewed and facilitated conversations with hundreds of the world’s top visionaries, change-makers, speakers, artists and musicians who bring their gifts and talents to help our individual spark to grow. She has created events and conversations in several US and Canadian locations and developed BellaSpark magazine to share the stories more widely.

Through BellaSpark, she honors her daughter’s memory by celebrating the beautiful, passionate spark of inspiration she knew her to be.

Donna is a creator. She carries the energy of universal creation forces. Her entire life has been filled with fun, collaboration and creativity. Join Donna as she takes the stage with others who share her passion for a heart centered and expansive life.

Echo Bodine first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at the age of 17. Her abilities include clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), and clairgustance (smell). She took psychic classes for two years and practiced on friends and family for twelve years before beginning her full time practice as a psychic, healer and ghostbuster in 1979.

In 1981, Echo began teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing. She has appeared on numerous national television shows includ-

ing “Sally Jesse Raphael,” “Sightings,“ Beyond with James Van Praagh,“ “NBC’s The Other Side,“ “Un-explained Mysteries,“ “NBC’s Today Show,“ “A&E,“ and “Encounters.“

Echo hosted her own cable TV show called “New Age Perspectives” for two years, and co-hosted the The Edge TV. She also had her own radio show on FM107 in Minneapolis for 3 years called Intuitive Living, and Paramount Pictures solicited her services for the promotion of the movie Ghost.

From 2003 to 2009 Echo was the director of The Center for Spiritual Development where she taught numerous classes on spiritual development, living by intuition, ghost busting, psychic development and laying on hands healing classes. In 2010 she began doing on-line psychic development classes with instructor Leigh Hopkins of the Viva Institute in Brazil. Echo has written 10 books, numeous meditation CD’s and instructional DVD’s.

Maggie Kerr (AAT Dip. Couns.) is a well known professional Australian As-trologer, Counsellor, Author and Teacher who has been in the front line of her field for 28 years. Her training in Metaphysics, Philosophy, Astrology, Psychology and Psychotherapy offers unique in-depth understanding of our life purpose and challenges by using a combination of ‘solution focused’ tools and techniques. Maggie is well regarded for her lectures and training in Australia and internationally. She runs a busy practice on the Gold Coast in Australia.

Maggie is committed to empowering people to be ‘conscious’ of their creative potential so they can become part of the collective ‘shift’ in consciousness unfolding during this revolutionary phase in human evolution. Her new book ‘The 12 System - How to Re-align Your Consciousness to Re-define Your Life’ and ‘12 System Seminars’ will find you catapulting to a new awareness, self esteem, inner peace and power never before experienced.

Sarina Baptista is a psychic medium, mentor, author and speaker. Her clients include adults and children from all areas of the world, including Australia and India. Her purpose is to connect us to our angels, guides and loved ones, and teach us how to access this information on our own. She discovered her gifts through her own tragedy – the passing of her seven-year-old son in March 2007. She learned her son did not really die. He was still very close, leading her to her incredible mediumship gifts.

She has created several mediumship training programs, including one on one mediumship men-toring, long distance training, workshops and webinars to train others to connect with the other side. She holds monthly live events and development workshops demonstrating how we are all connected. Sarina is also the resident psychic for Clear Channel’s Big Country 97.9FM in North-ern Colorado and is featured on their Psychic Thursday segments.

Sarina’s book about her journey, “A Bridge to Healing: J.T.’s Story — A Mother’s Grief Journey and Return to Hope,” is available now through all major booksellers.

Sarina Baptista is the Bridge to Healing, connecting heart and soul.

Optional extension - October 14-21

• Experience Delphi

• Be in awe on the sared island of Delos

• Feel the mystical en-ergies of the Temple to Athena on the Par-

thenon when you visit these still spectacular ruins from

the Golden Age of Greece.