A workshop titled, "Spiritual Insights to Death: Comparing Clinical and Spiritual Descriptions of the Dying Process," was developed for hospice clinical and spiritual care staff. The objectives are to provide a comparison of a medical description of the dying process to a spiritual description of dying, and to introduce to clinical care and spiritual care providers a common language for improving assessments of hospice patients' spiritual care needs. Instruction is included on both the dying process and the ancient spiritual teachings on death. Such a comparison provides an opportunity for both clinical and spiritual care staff members to gain new insights and could prove beneficial to the terminally ill patients and all those profoundly concerned.

Since 1989 the practice of Reiki, acupressure, and spiritual healing, seminary education, and observations as a hospice chaplain, have provided knowledge of the role of the subtle body during the dying process. While caring for the dying, sensitivity to the life force has increased within this practitioner. While holding a dying person's hand or anointing a dying patient, intuition frequently guides the touch and the diminishing life force can be assessed.

What medical science knows about the body's function can be put into the framework of a larger dynamic energy system. Richard Gerber in his work,  A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine,  refers to an evolving viewpoint that takes into account many forms and frequencies of vibrating energy, such as emotions, consciousness, and the life force of the soul, that contribute to a multidimensional human energy system. The new vibrational model sees human consciousness as not merely a by-product of electrical and chemical processing in the human brain, but a kind of energy itself. Emotions are not just the result of neurochemical reactions in the limbic system or the emotional centers of the brain, but are also influenced by a greater, spiritual energy field that encompasses and influences the entire physical body.
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AM session:
Facing Death and Dying with New Awareness
Rev. Carol E. Parrish

Understanding that death is life too, participants are taught how to cope with personal grief and how to facilitate a support system. The mysteries of death and dying are re-explored using a plethora of source materials and personal experiences. This valuable orientation aids in facing one's own mortality, assisting others in making their transition, and supporting survivors.

PM session:
Coping with Spiritual Emergencies
Rev. Carol E. Parrish with assistant Rev. Katherine Zakutansky

Humanity faces change at every juncture; this sometimes creates spiritual emergencies. Poised between the known and the unknown, evolutionary forces push us forward, yet few understand expanded realities. As we encounter experiences hard to fathom, we must rework the old and familiar in order to be made new.

This insightful day begins at 10 AM with a lecture and messages by Carol Parrish and assistants ($4 donation). From 11:15 to closing, students and others share their personal intuitive skill-astrology, numerology, psychic and Shustah attunements, Reiki, Healing Touch, and others-in 15-minute private appointments ($8 each).
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ORDINATION
Wednesday, November 4, 5:00 p.m.
Light of Christ Community Church
Sparrow Hawk Village - all are welcome!

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Friday - Saturday, November 6 - 7
Special Guest Presenter, Richard Smoley
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