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Stephen and Ondrea Levine
authors, teachers, speakers Stephen and Ondrea Levine counseled the dying and grieving for more than 30 years. In that time, creating guided meditations that are used in many countries by physicians and healing groups,while publishing a half dozen books that have been widely referred to as "ground breaking pioneer works" they now are actively involved in "practicing what we preach" as aging effects one and cancer the other. We find Camille's work with the ill and her remarkable commitment of time and energy to educate and touch the hearts of so many with wisdom and mercy a considerable gift to us all. We thank her, bow to her, in gratitude. |
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Scott Eberle MD author, speaker, wilderness guide Dr. Scott Eberle is a physician specializing in end-of-life care, an experienced teacher and author, and medical director of Hospice of Petaluma in Petaluma, California. Having first learned the science of medicine at U.C. San Francisco medical school, he then learned the art of medicine from countless people living and dying with AIDS. He survived this difficult time by regularly seeking sanctuary, either in monasteries or in the natural world, completing more than a hundred retreats during a fifteen-year period. Scott recently ended his 16-career as an AIDS specialist so he could focus his medical practice on end-of-life care, and to further develop the experiential curriculum that he has co-created with Meredith Little called “The Practice of Living and Dying.” Scott’s new book is called “The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live.” In it he writes, “So now I am a physician who specializes in supporting life transitions. I am a hospice doctor who sits with the dying in their homes, and I am a rite-of-passage guide who sits with ‘the dying’ out in the desert.” |
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Meredith Little author, speaker, wilderness guide Meredith and her husband, Steven Foster, co-founded Rites of Passage Inc. in 1977 and The School of Lost Borders in 1981 – pioneering the methods and dynamics of modern pan-cultural passage rites in the wilderness, and “field therapy”. The essence of their work is captured in articles, chapters, an award-winning documentary film, and books that include: The Book of the Vision Quest, The Roaring of the Sacred River, The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature, and Lost Borders: Coming of Age in the Wilderness. Since Steven’s death in 2003, she continues both nationally and internationally to guide and train others in this work. Along with Dr. Scott Eberle, she has also co-founded a new arm of Lost Borders entitled “The Practice of Living and Dying”. In this partnership with Scott, she hopes to crack open the taboos surrounding Death, and help restore dying to its natural place in the cycles of living. She is also director of Lost Borders International and owner of Lost Borders Press. |
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John Monroe Cassel hospice chaplain John Monroe-Cassel, MDiv, MAT, has been exploring the landscape of the heart and the languages of the Spirit all his life. He has been engaged in myriad creative expressions of ministry, education, the arts, healthcare and family life for many years and has marveled at it all. John holds two graduate degrees in divinity and education, enjoys playing piano, has a well-developed appetite, enjoys a good cigar, is human companion to several pets, gets a major kick out of his wife and daughter and cannot get enough laughter and joy--but keeps trying! |
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Denys Cope RN, BSN Denys has been involved with a great many people during their last days, and is known for her compassion, strength, and wisdom in guiding the dying and their loved ones through what most people believe is the last, most difficult experience of life. She has found that within the dying process are lessons for living life more fully. |
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Barbara Dossey RN, Author "With passion and a persuasive eloquence, Barbara Dossey is expanding the domain of traditional nursing. As a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement, she works to advance the practice and philosophies of holistic care, both within the health professions and in the lives of lay people. Barbara articulates how healing is promoted by attending to the delicate interaction of body, mind, and spirit, and how centuries-old concepts can be successfully applied in the care of patients and in everyday living. |
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Larry Dossey Author "The impact of Dr. Dossey's work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey's works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul, he introduced the concept of "nonlocal mind" -- mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, "nonlocal mind" has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of nonlocal mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine." From the Dossey's website www.dosseydossey.com |
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