The 30th Anniversary SSF-IIIHS International Conference 2005
Faculty & Speakers Directory
M through Z

Mark Macy, Ph.D.

A pioneer in “Instrumental Transcommunication” research, the author of Miracles in the Storm presents over a century of experiences of many prominent scientists and inventors in “Transcommunication with the Ethereal Side & Contact with Celestial Beings.”

College Week, Session 10
Conference II, Session 6

Kyriacos Markides, Ph.D.

Professor of sociology, University of Maine, Orono, ME; researcher and author, pioneering the importance of spirituality in the social sciences • Dr. Markides spent a number of years living with and dialoguing with the Greek Orthodox monks of Mt. Athos.

Conference I, Session 5
College Week, Session 4

Larry McCuaig, Ph.D.

Nutritional scientist, therapist, and acupuncturist, who specializes in chronic health problems and anti-aging programs • Dr. McCuaig presents “Magnetic Acupuncture,” an effective alternative to needle-acupuncture, without the hazards, pain, and expense associated with the use of needles.

College Week, Session 8

Harley Monte

A spiritual counsellor, healer, trance medium, and teacher, Harley Monte has been a part of the SSF family for 20 years. He specializes in insights for Spiritualism from Shamanism and Jewish Kabbalah.

College Week, Session 6
Conference II, Session 3

Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D.

A celebrated researcher in “life-after-life” and consciousness studies, Dr. Raymond A. Moody reflects on four decades of research experience, and shares with us “Insights into the Ways We Perceive ‘Reality,’ and the Nature and Purpose of our ‘Multidimensional’ Universe.”

Conference I, Session 1
College Week, Session 2

Melvin Morse, M.D.

Dr. Morse is a pediatrician specializing in the resuscitation of critically ill children. He is the author of four books, including Where God Lives and Closer to the Light. Through his research into children’s NDE’s, he has gained insight into the brain’s right temporal lobe — the receptor of transcendent intuition, spiritual sensitivity, and paranormal ability — and shows us how we can use this productively.

Conference II, Session 4
Conference II, Session 5

Sean David Morton

TV and film investigative reporter and “UFO contactee” researcher, dubbed “America’s Prophet” for his accurate predictions of events such as earthquakes, and worldwide political, economic, and social movements • He will narrate his own odyssey from science fiction consultant, to UFO contactee researcher, to a Tibetan monastery in Nepal, spiritual transformation and a career as a media investigative reporter.

College Week, Session 12
Conference II, Session 1
Conference II, Session 2

Wendy Oke

A teacher/therapist tells the story of her aunt Alma Rumball, who, following a vision of Jesus, became a clairvoyant recluse, creating intricate, coloured pen and ink drawings, born of a rich inner life. Alma claimed neither credit nor understanding of the drawings, which, she said, “The Hand” had drawn by itself. The unfamiliar archetypal characters, separate from her consciousness, reveal “The Sacred Language of Light.”

Conference II, Session 3

Brian O’Leary, Ph.D.

Dr. O’Leary is an astrophysicist, former NASA astronaut, teacher, and author. Over the past twenty years, he has researched, lectured, and written extensively about new paradigms of science and global transformation. He is a passionate environmentalist open to innovative solutions. His most recent book is entitled Re-Inheriting the Earth.

Conference I, Session 3
College Week, Session 2

Joann Peterson, Ph.D.

Psychotherapist, dynamic workshop leader, teacher, author, and director of education, The Haven Institute for Professional Training, Gabriola Island, BC • She says: “The darkness of depression provides solace, sanctuary and solution as well as isolation, self judgment, and despair. The pathway through demands activation of breath, body, and will. In the light there is contact with self and others.”

College Week, Session 4
College Week, Session 8

Van Petteway

Retired professor of business administration; now a lecturer on positive thinking and the uses of the potentials of the mind and spirit in business and everyday life • Van Petteway has researched the current global revolution in consciousness, and developed information, tools, and methods to help develop our potentials for understanding and communication on our “unique pathway to awareness.”

College Week, Session 11

Rev. Angela Plum, Ph.D.

Interfaith minister; registered Polarity Practitioner & teacher; certified Zero Balancer; has studied Spiritual Healing, Cranio-sacral Therapy, Reiki, MariEL, Reflexology, Acupressure, Therapeutic Touch, Colour Therapy, Body Electronics, Psychic Surgery, and Integrated Awareness • Dr. Plum’s workshop teaches control of your own healing abilities, including how to direct your thoughts, and be confident of your own inner guidance.

College Week, Session 13

Marie Louise Roy

Watercolour artist, architect, urban designer, singer, musician, and, since 1988, healer, Marie Louis Roy now uses her knowledge of polarity therapy, therapeutic touch, rebirth, and spiritual healing to help ailing hearts and souls. Her workshop focuses on unmasking family karma and releasing it to live life fully.

College Week, Session 5

Rev. Lucille Rosen, Ph.D.

Certified in addiction prevention counselling, hypno-therapy, and psychodrama; interfaith minister and founder of A Safe Place; co-dean, post-graduate professional studies, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, New York, NY • Rev. Rosen’s workshop will focus on the power of Love, Spirit, Understanding, and Knowledge, in moving from addiction to recovery. Recovery paths include various religious beliefs as well as the 12 steps.

College Week, Session 13

Fr. John Rossner, Ph.D.

Fr. Rossner is the founder-president of the IIIHS, a former professor of religion (history of religion and culture) at Concordia University, now adjunctive professor there, a scholar and author, an Anglican/Episcopal priest, the Abbot-General of The Order of the Transfiguration, and the conceptualizer of this conference.

Conference I, Session 5
College Week, Session 5
Conference II, Session 5

Dr. Marilyn Rossner

Dr. Rossner is the co-founder of the IIIHS and founder-president of the SSF. She is a retired professor of special care counselling, Vanier College, an award-winning children’s behaviour therapist, an interfaith minister (ICCC), and a gifted intuitive professional therapist acclaimed in many nations as one of the world’s most extraordinary mediums.

College Week, Session 6
Conference II, Session 7

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.

A celebrated evolution biologist and futurist, author of Living Systems in Evolution, Biology Revisioned, and A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us, provides a view of “Intelligent Design in Our Inner & Outer Universe” which can restore faith in purpose, hope, and universal values written in the processes of life itself.

Conference I, Session 3

Master Zhi Gang Sha, M.D.

Master Sha holds degrees in both Western and traditional Chinese medicine. He is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and master of Tai Chi, Qigong, Kung Fu, Feng Shui and the I Ching. As well, he is a Grand Master of Zhi Neng Medicine, a revolutionary new self-healing method, and the founder of Power Healing and Soul Mind Body Medicine™. His belief: “Heal the soul first, then the healing of mind and body can follow.”

Conference I, Session 6
College Week, Session 3
College Week, Session 5

Shelley Snow, M.A.

A music therapist, composer, musician, consultant/researcher at Concordia University, and producer under her own label of Shamaneya Music • Shelley Snow notes that music is universally recognized as being capable of transporting us from darkness to light. Conscious use of music and sound for such transformation is a newer phenomenon, and one that is growing in its use, as knowledge of its potency spreads.

College Week, Session 7

Swami Srinivasananda

Director of the New York Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch; American editor of the Yoga Life magazine; Sivananda Acharya • Swami Srinivasananda has dedicated his life to the path of Inner Peace and Unity-in-Diversity, as taught and lived by Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnu-devananda.

Conference I, Session 5
College Week, Session 5

Swami Swaroopananda

A Yoga-Vedanta Acharaya and a Jewish scholar in Kabbalistic wisdom • He combines within himself a deep knowledge of both traditions, and creates from them a common ground for understanding the principle of unity-in-diversity between the East and the West. He is a member of the executive Board of Directors of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta International.

Conference I, Session 5
College Week, Session 5

Noel Tyl

President of AFLAN, the professional association of astrologers worldwide; famous opera singer, retired, who has sung in the great opera houses of Europe, America & other continents; Harvard graduate in psychology • Noel Tyl combines his psychological knowledge with his work as a student and teacher of the ancient science and art of astrology.

College Week, Session 6
College Week, Session 7

Elaine Valdov, Ph.D.

Psychotherapist of long standing practice in NYC; former chair, United Nations NGO Executive Committee; IIIHS Representative to the United Nations; director, United Nations Project For Creating a Culture of Peace • Dr. Valdov was instrumental in introducing the concept of personal spirituality and universal values into numerous programs and projects during her tenure as chair of the UN NGO/DPI Executive Committee.

Conference I, Session 5
College Week, Session 5

Craig Webb

Dream researcher (L’Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, QC, and Stanford University, CA), author, columnist, physicist, and executive director of the DREAMS Foundation • Craig Webb’s presentation will examine how lucid dreams occur both spontaneously and by intention, and how to increase their frequency and make the most of them when they do occur.

College Week, Session 11

Alfred L. Webre, J.D., M.Ed.

Prominent attorney; researcher; advisor on the social consequences of space science and extraterrestrial discoveries; director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) • Space activist Alfred Webre’s goal is to transform the permanent war economy into a peaceful, cooperative Space Age society, re-integrating with a larger, intelligent Universe society.

Conference I, Session 2
College Week, Session 1
College Week, Session 9
Conference II, Session 3

Michelle Whitedove

TV talk show host and author of She Talks with Angels, Angels are Talking, and Ghost Stalker, Michelle Whitedove is a world class spirit-medium. Since childhood she has communicated with angels, spirit guides, loved ones who have crossed over, and the Universal Consciousness. With divine insight, she uses her gifts to relay important messages from the spirit world to those open to hear the profound truth.

Conference II, Session 2
Conference II, Session 6

Wong, M.D. & McKeen, M.D.

Bennet Wong, M.D., F.R.C.P., trained as a psychiatrist; Jock McKeen, M.D., Lic.Ac., practised east and west medicine; both are founders of The Haven Institute, BC • Since retiring from medical practice, Ben and Jock have blended an in-depth approach to self-development aimed at integration of the individual in body, mind, and spirit, emphasizing responsibility for the self in health, relationships, and lifestyle.

College Week, Session 1
College Week, Session 4

Conference Musicians

Jacques Gravel
wind instrument player

Sr. Anita Hartman, S.O.S
vocalist & guitarist

Sr. Leona Hartman, O.Tr.
organist & pianist

Paul Jessen, D.Mus.
organist & pianist