power of - Lily Dale Assembly
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power of - Lily Dale Assembly
Lily Dale Assembly Workshop Program June 24 – September 4, 2016 in the Believe power of Prayer and you can Climb Mountains SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Lily Dale 2016 JULY 8-9 Sunny Dawn Johnston JULY 16 Michelle Whitedove JULY 22 & 23 Tony Stockwell JULY 23 The Amazing Kreskin JULY 29 Marshall Arisman JULY 30 Mark Anthony The Psychic Lawyer® AUGUST 6 James Van Praagh AUGUST 12-13 Colette Baron-Reid AUGUST 20 Lisa Williams AUGUST 26-28 Sandra Taylor & Sharon Klingler SEPTEMBER 2-4 John White WELCOME TO LILY DALE WELCOME TO LILY DALE We welcome you to Lily Dale Assembly, the World’s Largest Center for the Science Philosophy and Religion of Spiritualism, now celebrating its 136th year. Each day of the season offers a series of events and experiences to bring information, enlightenment, hope and peace to those who open their hearts to receive. There are daily lectures on the wonders of mediumistic phenomena and the basic truths of God and Man, which Spiritualists adopt as their standard for living. Classes on a broad range of subjects related to the development of Man’s potential as a spiritual being are offered throughout the season. Thought Exchange evenings are designed to give free exchange of information as well as to answer the many questions of the seeker. We are dedicated to the service of God, Spirit and Mankind. This, to the members of the Lily Dale Assembly, is the foundation upon which all else is built. We open our community to you that you may experience that which is for your highest and best. We encourage you to participate in the activities and to open your minds and your hearts to receive. It is our hope that you leave us with peace in your heart and a deeper awareness of your divinity. There is but One Power, God, the Good, Omnipotent 20 5 to Buffalo DUNKIRK Exit 59 39 90 FREDONIA 83 5 20 8 miles LILY DALE to Erie Dale Drive The Lily Dale Assembly as a Religious Corporation States as its Purpose: • To further the understanding of the science, philosophy and religion of Spiritualism. • To promote activities and discussions concerning modern benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific and civic thoughts. • To promote a greater understanding of all mankind. Regulations Demonstrations of clairvoyance are given at services held every day for the visitors by mediums devoted to their service. The Healing Temple is available for meditation on the renewing and uplifting of spiritual and physical energies. Spiritual healers are present to work with those who desire individual healing energies. LAKE ERIE 2016 Workshops CASSADAGA Location Lily Dale is located in southwestern New York State, an hour south of Buffalo, two hours south of Toronto, three hours north of Pittsburgh and three hours east of Cleveland. • All stop signs, speed signs and parking regulations must be obeyed. There is no parking on the streets or berms in front of the houses, as this causes a hazard. • Motorcycles and motorbikes are not permitted on Assembly grounds. Information on parking is available at the gate. • Alcoholic beverages in public places are not permitted. • Dogs must be kept on leashes. Dogs other than service animals are not admitted to any public buildings or outdoor services. Owners must clean up after their pets. • All residents and renters must be aware of garbage pickup regulations and must arrange individually for garbage removal. • Refrain from littering! Respect the Assembly grounds and the property of the leaseholders. • Tents and trailer parking are allowed on the campgrounds. Picnic facilities are available through arrangements at the Assembly Office. • Lost and found articles are kept at the Assembly Office. • Minor children must be properly supervised and not left unattended. Lily Dale Assembly has a curfew as follows: It shall be a violation of the assembly rules and regulations for any resident minor under the age of eighteen (18) years or a non-resident under the age of twenty-one (21) years to remain in or upon any public place including, but not limited to, public streets, parks, playgrounds, buildings, vacant lots or any other place open to the public within the grounds of Lily Dale Assembly between the hours of 11:00pm and 6:00am of the following day, eastern standard time or eastern daylight saving time, whichever is in effect. Parking in designated areas only. Violators will be towed at owners expense. Purchase and rental of property on the Assembly grounds is restricted. Information is available in the Assembly Office. From Interstate 90 (New York State Thruway), take exit 59 to NY Route 60 south. Drive eight miles and turn right onto Dale Drive in the Village of Cassadaga. Proceed one mile to the Lily Dale entrance gate. 60 Lily Dale is serviced by Chautauqua County Airport in Jamestown, NY, and by Buffalo/Niagara International Airport. Bus lines connect Erie, PA, and Buffalo to Cassadaga. The Community is located onehalf hour from the Chautauqua Institution. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 1 LILY DALE ASSEMBLY HISTORY The History of Lily Dale is one of courage, stamina and dedication. It all began in the year 1844 – preceding the Hydesville manifestations by the Fox Sisters. In the village of Laona, William Johnson invited Dr. Moran a mesmerist from Vermont, to lecture before a group of interested people. Mr. Johnson the son of a minister was the father of Marion Skidmore who became a great leader for Spiritualism at Lily Dale. At that time Jeremiah Carter, physically enfeebled, had sought to be treated by Dr. Moran. Unfortunately Dr. Moran had to leave before such could be applied. Mr. Johnson suggested that they try the experiments, demonstrated by the Vermont doctor. The results were startling. Mr. Carter became entranced. An entity said to be a Dr. Hedges spoke to the people present – giving messages from spirit and demonstrating the laying on of hands. The advent of the Hydesville manifestations strengthened the purpose of the group and they termed themselves Spiritualists, Liberals and Free Thinkers. The group met regularly to discuss their beliefs and practice their healing and mediumship. Many great speakers and mediums had their early beginnings in Laona. In 1855 the religious society of Free Thinkers was formed in Laona, NY. In 1873 Willard Alden who owned a farm and stagecoach stop along the east banks of the Cassadaga Lakes had a visit from Jeremiah Carter who insisted that spirit voices kept continuously urging him to go to Alden’s farm and start a camp meeting. This was agreed upon with Mr. Alden and the group met there for summer picnics and camp meeting. This area is now known as the Leolyn Hotel and Woods. After Mr. Alden’s transition, his heirs became dissatisfied with financial arrangements, so the spiritualists in 1879 decided to purchase land and move their location. Twenty acres of land was purchased adjacent to the Alden farm from John Fisher at the price of $1,845.00. Mrs. Amelia Colby was asked to name the Association. Her spirit guide gave her the name of Cassadaga Lake Free Association. In 1903 the name was changed to The City of Light and in 1906, The Lily Dale Assembly: named for the abundance of lilies on the lake. Men and women worked tirelessly sideby-side, felling trees, clearing brush and making winding paths through the forest. The grounds were surveyed for lots. No lot was to be sold outright; lots were leased for 99 years or rented for the season. The dedication service was held at Lily Dale under a cradle canopy of boughs known as The Bough House, fashioned from entwining 2 branches and flowers. Rough-hewn logs were used for benches. The first speaker at Lily Dale was Elizabeth Lowe Watson. She was a dynamic speaker, a liberal and suffragette. Financial problems were experienced from the early beginning of the camp, this acted strangely enough, not as a deterrent, but as a challenge to go forward and work harder towards the anticipated goal. The first order of business of the camp was the discussion of building a permanent Auditorium. This was accomplished in 1883, and later remodeled in 1901. The seating capacity was twelve hundred. There has been many times during Lily Dale’s history that people stood three deep outside the auditorium in order to hear the lecture. Preceding the auditorium, in 1881 a Lyceum was formed by Thomas and Tillie Lees with the children meeting in a tent. They felt that training of the young was important. In 1928 the Andrew Jackson Davis building for the Lyceum was built and gifted to Lily Dale by a group of prominent spiritualists. In 1894 the Alden House was purchased by Mrs. Abby Louise Pettengill and renamed The Leolyn after her granddaughter. The Assembly later purchased the Leolyn from Mrs. Pettengill. A hotel was built in 1880. It originally was the horse barn. It is known as a “hung suspension building”. When additional floors were needed each floor was raised and the new additions built underneath. It was known as the Grand Hotel and renamed the Maplewood Hotel in 1903. Today the Maplewood Hotel stands serenely, her old time charm still intact, overlooking the lake enticing the occupants to relax on its wide porch, and watch the ducks and swans glide by. Many philosophical subjects have been debated and aired on the Maplewood porch. Bit by bit these sturdy pioneers plodded forward – roads were built, sewers installed, lights became a reality. The first Library was held in a tent in the park in 1886. Then in 1888 was moved to the second floor of what is now named Assembly Hall. Today it stands proudly as the Marion Skidmore Library on Cottage Row housing thousands of the finest books on Spiritualism. The Assembly Hall, famous for it’s thought exchange and class work came into being in Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide 1888; the school building was erected in 1890 and when all schools were consolidated in 1937 it was used for the Community Club. The school building is now the museum and houses the largest collection of spiritualist memorabilia in America. The Octagon Building was also built in 1890 and was reserved for classes, arts and the teaching of proper dancing. It housed the Junior League for years then became the Mediums League Building. The Healing Temple was built and financed by Louis Vosberg at the direction of T. J. Kelly’s guide. This National Missionary was one of the most outstanding mediums that served the Lily Dale platform. Incidentally, the famous actress Mae West, a friend of Jack Kelly visited Lily Dale at his invitation. The original Fox Cottage was moved from Hydesville, New York, a gift from Benjamin Bartlett of Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania and placed at Lily Dale in 1915. Tragically the cottage burned to the ground on the morning of September 1955. Fortunately the Peddler’s trunk and family Bible were saved. In 1898 Lily Dale had it’s own newspaper, The Sunflower. The editor was William Bach, who with his wife Evielena erected the Sunflower Pagoda. The United States Government in 1888 established the Lily Dale Post Office ensuring the inhabitants not only the convenience of it’s service but recognizing Lily Dale on the map. From its lowly beginning of twenty acres, Lily Dale now owns more than one hundred sixty acres. Lily Dale has a splendid volunteer Fire Department and E.M.T. group. These men and women give freely of their time and efforts to protect the camp. Beyond a doubt Lily Dale has lived up to that early promise. The roots of Lily Dale stand firmly in the past upholding spiritualist philosophies and always keeping it’s eye on the future. Lily Dale is a place for individuals to discover themselves and join with others who are on the same path. Lily Dale has comforted the bereaved, demonstrated the truth of immortality, and shown others a way of life known as the Religion of Spiritualism. 2016 Workshops Lily Dale Assembly, Inc. Lily Dale, New York Lily Dale Community Beach Accommodations Leolyn Hotel 31 Maplewood Hotel 32 Campgrounds 33 Cass adag a La ke 3 Guest Homes 35 il e r tu a Tr Forest Temple Na 38 ard lev 10 Rain Garden 32 H vard 36 39 North Street 29 Fire Hall 25 34 Fairy Trail 9 D Third Street Labyrinth A.J.D. Lyceum 28 Playground Mother’s Rest/ Public Bathroom G Humphrey Park Leolyn Woods Nature Trail 37 1 2 20 21 34 35 36 37 38 13 8 15 29 3 16 4 D F 26 H G 10 Dining Shopping 33 Campgrounds South Street Gate Entrance Assembly Office N.S.A.C. Office A.J. Davis Lyceum Fairy Trail Forest Temple Healing Temple Inspiration Stump Fox Cottage Meditation Garden Lakeside Assembly Hall Lily Dale Auditorium Octagon Building Fire Hall Lily Dale Beach Lily Dale Museum Marion Skidmore Library Labyrinth Lake Pavilion Morris Pratt Building Bandstand / Gazebo Pet Cemetery Rain Garden The Sunflower Cafe Monika’s Delite Lucy’s 21 Fourth Street East Street Cleveland Avenue Melrose Park 2 Second Street 26 8 Caldwell Park Cottage Row One Way 1 A First Street East Street B 7 31 12 C Melrose Park 4 Cottage Row 20 13 28 24 17 12 23 22 18 14 Lily Dale Community Healing Temple Lincoln Park One Way One Way 22 ATM 14 24 17 Buffalo Street 39 15 16 Library Street Bandstand 23 Lake Front Drive F Marion Street Cleveland Avenue ien Fr pP i h ds 18 ark Fox Cottage & Garden Bou le u Bo Angel House Divine Wisdom Center Fern Island Inn Harmony House Jan & Jay’s Lakeside Cottage Jewel of the Lake Lakeview Guest House Sunset View Guest Home Pet Cemetery Inspiration Stump Lily Dale Bookstore/Souvenir Shop A B C 7 Crystal Cove Gift Shop 25 Bargain Shoppe 9 Herbal Restoration 39 Facilities at Lily Dale Rest Rooms Picinic Shelter ATM 32 Post Office Parking www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 3 CONTENTS EVENT SCHEDULES Getting Here..................................... 1 Daily Event Schedule Lily Dale History................................ 2 June 24 - September 4, 2016 Lily Dale Map.................................... 3 As a Lily Dale guest, you are invited to participate in our free daily activities included in the gate fee. Welcome........................................... 1 Gate Fees.......................................... 4 Daily Event Schedule....................... 4 Weekly Activity Schedule................. 4 Accommodations............................. 5 Facilities & Attractions..................... 6 2016 Season Events Ghost Walks...................................... 7 Hatha Yoga........................................ 7 Sweatlodges..................................... 7 Children’s Week................................ 8 Spiritualism Rap Session.................. 8 Library Events.................................... 9 Pet Remembrance.......................... 10 Thought Exchange......................... 12 Auditorium Service......................... 12 Mediumship Demonstrations........ 12 Inspiration Stump........................... 13 Forest Temple................................. 13 Healing Temple.............................. 13 Suggestions for a Healing............. 13 Schedule of Events....................14-15 2016 Workshops Workshop Index............................. 16 Workshop Registration.................. 17 2016 Season...............................16-51 Advertisers.................................51-72 Lily Dale Offices 5 Melrose Park, Lily Dale, NY 14752 Tel.: (716) 595-8721 Fax: (716) 595-2442 www.lilydaleassembly.com January 2 - June 25: Monday-Friday: 10am-noon and 12:30-4pm June 24 - September 4: Monday-Friday: 9am-12:30pm, and 1:30-4pm, Saturday: 9am-noon September 6 - December 23: Monday-Friday: 10am-noon and 12:30-4pm 4 Meditation Service in the Healing Temple..................8:30am Healing Service in the Healing Temple Mon.- Fri.................................. 10:30-11:30am Saturday................................... 10:00-11:30am Sunday....................................... 12:00-1:00pm Video Presentation In the Library..................................11:30am Message Service at Inspiration Stump.................... 1:00pm Guest Speaker and Clairvoyant In the Auditorium See page 14-15................................... 2:30pm Friday Friday Night Drumming* 7-8:30pm, July 1 – September 2 Lily Dale Beach – $7 fee Drumming has been practiced around the world for centuries as a way to connect with the rhythm of life. All season long, Friday nights will come alive with the beat of drums in the park near Lily Dale Beach. Whether you bring your drum, or just your positive spiritual energy, we invite you to join us. *Weather permitting. Rap Session 7-8:30pm, Octagon Building Saturday Walking Tour – FREE 10am, Meet at the Lily Dale Museum. Your host: Ron Nagy Thought Exchange – FREE 7pm, Octagon Building, See page 12 Message Service at Forest Temple Sunday Message Service at Inspiration Stump.................... 5:30pm Healing Service in the Healing Temple......... 7:00-8:00pm All Message Service - $5 4pm, Auditorium Mon.-Sat.............................................. 4:00pm Weekly Activity Schedule As a Lily Dale guest, you are invited to participate in any of these weekly activities on a first-come, first-serve basis. Monday Monday Night Circle - $15 7pm, Auditorium, Sponsored by the Medium’s League and Lily Dale Assembly. Must be 16 or older. NOTE: No Circle on August 8th. Tuesday Voices of Mediumship - $10 7:30pm, Octagon Building, See page 12 Wednesday Thought Exchange – FREE 7pm, Octagon Building, See page 12 Ghost Walks - $20 8:30pm-10:30pm, Auditorium, See page 7 Worship Service – FREE 10:30am, Auditorium Evening Home Circle - $10 8:30pm, Healing Temple Facilitated by John White, Registered Medium. Participate in a home circle, a spiritual experience designed to develop your personal potential and help you relate to spirit communication. 2016 Gate Fees Fee includes free parking, all daily activities, noted weekly activities and all attractions unless otherwise noted. Your gate pass does not allow sleeping in vehicles or on the Lily Dale grounds. Required June 24 - September 4, 2016 Daily Pass 24 hours – per person............................... $15 Evening Pass 6pm-midnight – per person....................... $9 Weekly Pass – per person......................... $63 Season Pass – per person....................... $238 Active Military with proper ID................ FREE Age 80+................................................... FREE Children 17 or younger with adult........ FREE Thursday Development Class - $10 8:30pm sharp – 10pm, Healing Temple Facilitated by Patricia Price, Registered Medium. Beginners and Advanced students are welcome. Bring paper and pen for inspirational and automatic writing. Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide PRE-SEASON SPECIAL 2016 Value Pack: 10 24-Hour Passes.............................. $83 Must be purchased by June 23 LILY DALE ACCOMMODATIONS The best way to enjoy what Lily Dale has to offer is to stay on the grounds for a night, a week or the season! In keeping with the charm of the 1800s, The Maplewood and Leolyn Hotels do not have telephones, televisions, or elevators. Limited rooms offer air conditioning. Not responsible for left items. Gate fee is not included in occupancy rates. A gate pass must be purchased for every 24 hours of your stay. No pets are allowed in either hotel or campground/RV park. Reservations will be accepted beginning Wednesday, March 9. Maplewood Hotel (716) 595-8721 x 2005 Rich in history, The Maplewood Hotel proudly reflects the antiquity of its 1880 beginning, and has continuously served its guests well. It is located in the heart of Lily Dale. ATM available for your convenience in the lobby. Single Occupancy: $61/night, $373/week Double Occupancy: $81/night, $493/week Ground Floor rooms with Private Bath and A/C Single Occupancy: $77/night, $476/week Double Occupancy: $97/night, $596/week Room with Running Water Single Occupancy: $36/night, $224/week Double Occupancy: $46/night, $284/week Extra Occupants $18 night/per extra person Rollaway Bed $6/night Leolyn Hotel (716) 595-8721 x 2005 Offering beautiful lakeside views, The Leolyn is located just outside the Lily Dale Assembly gate on Dale Drive. Room with Private Bath Single Occupancy: $61/night, $373/week Double Occupancy: $81/night, $493/week Extra Occupants $18 night/per extra person Rollaway Bed $6/night NOTE: All hotel rooms are subject to NYS Sales Tax and applicable Chautauqua County bed tax. Please have credit card ready when making reservations. First night deposit plus tax is required to hold reservations. Campgrounds and RV Park No pets are allowed in either hotel or campground/RV park. Electrical Service with 15 amp. Check out time is 9am. Tents (Ground Mounted): $20 daily, $122 weekly RVs: $27 daily, $167 weekly Beginning March 9, call (716) 595-8721 to make reservations. Please have credit card ready – all reservations made before June 17 must be paid in full. All reservations made after this date, please use extension 2006. Private Guest Homes Angel House....................................................................(716) 595-3154 Divine Wisdom Center (CP)............................................(716) 595-3174 Fern Island Inn (K/P)........................................................(716) 595-2042 Harmony House (CP).......................................................(716) 595-3551 Jan & Jay’s Lakeside Cottage (K)...................................(716) 595-2617 Jewel of the Lake (CP).....................................................(716) 595-3112 Lake View Guest House (CP)..........................................(716) 595-2482 Sunset View Guest Home (CP) ......................................(716) 384-4035 K/P=Kitchen Privileges, CP=Coffee Porch, K=Separate Guest Kitchen Things to Remember While at Lily Dale Our buildings were built over 100 years ago and are all wood construction, therefore, there is no smoking or use of candles or incense. Consumption of recreational drugs or alcohol is prohibited. Passes are required for in and out traffic. Visiting Mediums and Healers are not permitted to conduct private consultations in hotel rooms or public areas. Places to Eat Sun Flower Cafeteria, (716) 595-8721 x2013 Monika’s Delites, (716) 244-0657 Lucy’s Coffeehouse, (716) 410-4515 Places to Shop LDA Bookstore, (716) 595-8721 x2015 Lost & Found Contact the office at 716-595-8721 Bargain Shop, (716) 595-2273 Crystal Cove, (716) 595-3750 Herbal Restoration, (716) 673-5255 Attire and Advisory Dress comfortably and wear good walking shoes, as many of Lily Dale roads are not paved. PLEASE NOTE: The opinions expressed by the workshop leaders or lecturers are not necessarily those of the Lily Dale Assembly or the Religion of Spiritualism. Prices, schedule and location of workshops are subject to change without notice. Please check your workshop schedule and location when arriving for possible changes. All changes will be posted at workshop location. Outdoor events will move indoors due to inclement weather. Bell will ring to indicate location change. When bringing children to Lily Dale for activities, please take care to monitor them at all times. No children under 16 are allowed at workshops not specified for children. Lily Dale is not responsible for any pictorial or typographical errors supplied in this guide. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 5 FACILITIES & ATTRACTIONS LILY DALE SITES AND ATTRACTIONS Walking Tours of Lily Dale Saturday mornings at 10am Join Ron Nagy in a Walking Tour of Lily Dale every Saturday morning at 10am throughout the season. To begin the tour, please gather at the Lily Dale Museum. Marion Skidmore Library Hours: 10am-4pm, Monday-Saturday, 1-5pm Sunday 11am-5pm, Tues-Sat, Off Season Located on Cottage Row, facing the Auditorium and Melrose Park, the Marion H. Skidmore Library houses the largest collection of Spiritualist books in the world. A reading room is available for public use, and we have thousands of rare books and unique titles to choose from. Please be advised that due to the nature of the materials in our collections, the Marion H. Skidmore Library is a NONCIRCULATING research library. To schedule a research appointment or for more information, please contact our Librarian. Village of Spirits - A video about the history of Lily Dale and its evolution into a place of pilgrimage, growth, and reflection for the modern Spiritualist community, shown at 11:30am daily in the meeting room downstairs. Lily Dale: A Place of Harmony and Reflection - A short video featuring images of the Lily Dale grounds, shown at 2pm daily in the meeting room downstairs. Spiritualist Briefs - Casual, informal, short presentations and lectures about topics within the history, science, and philosophy of Spiritualism. Topics and presenters change weekly, so be sure to see our Librarian for details! Presentations are every Tuesday at 3:30pm in the meeting room downstairs. If you have any questions, feel free to stop in and ask during our regular hours, or call us at (716) 595-8721 x2001. You can also contact us via Facebook, tweet us on Twitter @LilyDaleLibrary, or email our Librarian directly at [email protected]. Lily Dale Museum Hours: 11am-4pm, Daily, In-season Pre-Season starting on Memorial Day Weekend – 11am-2pm, Saturdays. Post-Season starting in September – 11am-2pm, Saturdays until the third week of October. Other days and hours by appointment (716) 969-4825. A historic one-room schoolhouse built in 1890 houses the Lily Dale Museum. The museum is located at the corner of Library and East Street, across from the Healing Temple. A vintage pictorial display is on view that includes pioneer landmarks and early lectures and Mediums. The Fox family display includes the peddlers box and Fox family memorabilia and artifacts. Susan B. Anthony’s woman suffrage display has been noted as one of the best in the country. Precipitated Spirit Paintings and Slates by the Bang Sisters and Campbell Brothers adorn the walls to add to this Victorian Building’s atmosphere. Come to experience a “walk back in time” by viewing memorabilia of an earlier era. Our Museum’s extensive collection of Spiritualist newspapers, magazines and pam- 6 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide phlets has been acclaimed as the foremost research source of early Spiritualism and its pioneers. Any donations received will help expand and maintain our Museum and are tax deductible. Checks can be made out to the Lily Dale Assembly Museum. Bookstore/Souvenir Shop/ Information Booth Hours: Monday: 10am-noon, 12:30-5pm and 5:30-8pm Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-1pm and 1:30-6pm The Lily Dale Bookstore/Souvenir Shop has a wide variety of books, CDs and pamphlets, which deal with subjects relating to Spiritualism, along with a selection of children’s books. Here is where you’ll find the information to assist you on your personal search. There are many souvenirs to purchase including T-shirts, sweatshirts, fleece jackets, postcards, mugs, key chains and more to take back home with you. Assembly members in good standing receive a 10% discount on purchases. The Lily Dale Bookstore/Souvenir Shop is located at 2 Melrose Park. Lakeside Assembly Hall Since the 1880s, the Assembly Hall with its gallery of portraits of many of the historic leaders in the Spiritualist Movement, many of whom resided in Lily Dale, has been a hub of activity in the community. The home of the Church of the Living Spirit, it is the center for workshop activity during the summer season. LILY DALE FACILITIES Post Office Hours: Monday-Friday: 1-5pm; Saturday: 10am-Noon Picnic Pavilion A picnic pavilion is available on East Street near the Fire Hall and at the beach. Beach The beach is open daily during the season from 11am-6pm. A qualified lifeguard is on duty. Boating A New York State approved and maintained boat launch is just outside the Lily Dale gates and across Channel Bridge. Lily Dale Volunteer Fire Company The Lily Dale Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is one of the oldest independent volunteer companies in Chautauqua County, having been in continuous existence since 1906. A constant effort to provide the best possible fire and rescue protection is made by the unselfish men and women of the fire department who serve our community without compensation or thought of other reward. THINGS TO DO Ghost Walks Every Wednesday, June 29 – August 31 Scheduled with Various Leaders – $20 8:30-10:30pm, Meet at the Auditorium Some people define “ghost” and “spirit” differently. Find out as our night time walking tour of Lily Dale begins at the Auditorium. We will begin with a brief overview of Spiritualism and the unseen realms. A brief history of how Lily Dale got started, and how it rapidly grew to become the world’s largest center for the religion of Spiritualism gets us started. We will walk past many of the old “haunts” of Lily Dale. At the Healing Temple “spirit lights” have been caught on film as the healers work, channeling spirit help to those in need. We’ll stop by our historic museum, once a one room schoolhouse, where there are paintings which have been precipitated onto canvas by unseen hands. As we walk by the entrance gate to the present grounds, you will notice the original site where the first summer meetings took place. This is now called the Leolyn Hotel, and spirits of the past still linger there. It is now again part of the present day Lily Dale, but many overlook this special place. The Leolyn Woods is a rare gem of remaining “old growth” forest in New York State. Many of its ancient trees were seedlings before the white man walked this land. The spirit of Native Americans still come to touch some of those who walk through this area. In the woods is an energy “vortex” called Inspiration Stump. We’ll linger at this location at the end of our walk, to sense the presence of Spirit. If rainy, be sure to bring an umbrella. The rain won’t “dampen our spirits”. If it is pouring out, our tour will end in Assembly Hall, where Spirits have helped seekers almost as many years as at the “Stump”. The tour requires about an hour of walking and some stair climbing. Those with any handicapped restrictions are welcome to attend as best they can. We encourage you to have your own transportation. All of your Spirit Walk hosts are familiar with Lily Dale and its “haunts”. Each has a special love for “the Dale” and its history. No two tours are alike. While there is never a guarantee that you’ll see a ghost or sense a Spirit, you’re sure to gain a better understanding of them and of Lily Dale. These are not GHOST HUNTS! The purpose is SPIRIT AWARENESS. Special Ghost Walks Friday, July 15 & Friday, August 19 8:30pm-10:30pm, Meet at the Auditorium, $30 These special spirit walks are enhanced with live actors and drama from the past. Each actor represents a special time in history here in Lily Dale. In their detailed costumes, with their historical talks, each actor has a greatness to be shared. Please join us for a fun filled walk back in time. Hatha Yoga Saturdays, Ongoing through season Teresa Schaeffer, 7:30am-8:30am, Lyceum Building – $10 per session Hatha Yoga (Sanskrit “Ha”- Sun, “Tha” - Moon) prepares the body for the spiritual path so the mind can practice meditation without obstacles. Hatha Yoga is the most widely practiced form of Yoga in the world. Hatha Yoga uses postures or in Sanskrit - asanas and controlled breathing - pranayama in combination with mental focus to develop awareness, strength, flexibility and relaxation. Come join us in balancing our mental, emotional, spiritual & physical bodies! Balance brings harmony, health and happiness to our lives! Namaste` Teresa Schaeffer is a RYT 200, Yoga Siromani from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram, NETA Certified; Yoga, Practical Yoga for Personal Trainers, Pilates, Stability Ball and Group Fitness Instructor. She holds certifications from the Academy of Holistic Fitness in Holistic Fitness and Enlighten Your Body. She is a previous IFA fitness and kickboxing instructor. Teresa has served as an instructor for the Cassadaga Job Corp., Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, cities, school districts and churches as well as for private fitness organizations. Children thru seniors continue to benefit from her experience and she loves sharing her teachings. Open Sweat Lodge Ceremonies Scheduled with various leaders. Meet at Lily Dale beach, rain or shine. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED – NO REGISTRATION “Open Lodge” dates and times for 2016 at the lodge site on Lily Dale’s beach: “First come-first served” starts 2 hours BEFORE the time scheduled. Sign up directly at the lodge area at the beach. No text or e-mail requests allowed. Lodge ceremony is one way to connect with the Spirit Realms and the Divine. Lily Dale’s lodge is a structure made of saplings bent over to form a small dome high enough to crawl and sit up in. Usually about 23 people are able to squeeze in to form 2 circles around the center, where a “stone people’s pit” is located. Red-hot rocks from the outside fire are brought into the pit. Water is poured onto the stones, creating a “sacred breath” which helps us to center and pray. The sweat lodge ceremony can last anywhere from one to several hours, depending on the lodge leader and the needs of those attending. All lodge leaders have many years of experience. No two ceremonies are alike. Appropriate attire for Lily Dale’s lodges includes shorts and a T-shirt, although some leaders prefer women to choose the more traditional long (below knee) skirt and a T-shirt that covers the elbows. Please bring a towel and a dry change of clothes. No bathing suits please. Attendance is “first come, first served” (see above) up to 23 participants. We do reserve the right to turn away people whose presence may be disharmonious in the group. If there are enough “latecomers” after the first 23, and there is interest, there may be another lodge about 2 hours after the original one. There is no fee for participation, but goodwill offerings to defray costs are gratefully appreciated. Please note: Inside the lodge it can get very hot and crowded. Many leaders do not permit women on their “moon time”(menses) to go inside. Ask them. If you have any health concerns or concerns about the health of other participants (e.g. HIV, hepatitis B, etc.), please discuss them beforehand with your doctor. Participation is open, voluntary, and “at your own risk”. Dates for Open Sweat lodge ceremonies. (see below for additional special lodges ) Friday, June 24, 9pm.............................................................Steve C. Saturday, June 25, 6pm......................................................... Brian H. Monday, July 4, 4pm...............................................................Scott Z. Tuesday, July 19, 7pm....................................... Teresa S. (Full Moon) Saturday, July 30, 6pm and 8pm............................................ Neal R. (6pm only 11 stones) Tuesday, August 2, 7pm........................................................Teresa S. Saturday, August 6, 5pm.................................Spider- Women ONLY new moon see below** Friday, August 12, 9:30 pm....................................................Cyndi E. Thursday August 18, 5pm ................................ Spider/Miguel Sague full moon see below** Thursday Sept 1, 7pm............................................................Steve C. Saturday Sept 3, 6pm and 8pm.............................................. Neal R. (6pm only 11 stones) Monday Sept 5, 8pm.............................................................Steve C. ** for Spider’s lodges: The entire ceremony includes fire lighting and teaching and lasts well after dark. Bring rattle, food or non-alcohol drink to share for feast after lodge (including your own utensils and cup), and a medicine bag if you have one. Women on “moon time” are welcome in Kansi ceremonies. Before attending, it would be good to prepare by checking out www.spidersmedicine.com. Elder Miguel Sague’s site is http://caneycircle.owlweb.org ** Children’s lodge 2:30 pm Friday July 29. Check with Children’s week organizers. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 7 2016 SEASON EVENTS Children’s Week 2016 Lyceum Building unless otherwise noted. Sunday, July 24 10:30am – Future Healer’s of Tomorrow Barbara Sanson, Healing Temple Eight years and older can attend this class. Proper attire is required, white tops (t-shirts or blouses), sneakers or full shoes. 2:30pm – Knowing the Light Within You Phil Colerosso Being the light within, shines the infinite possibilities of the future. Shine on! 6:00pm – Qi Gong Master Peng Jedi warriors learn to move energy and so do Qi Gong Masters. Come experience the energy of a true master. Monday, July 25th 10:00am – Crystal Understanding Eileen McClure 2:30pm – Your Animal Spirit Joanne Copley-Nigro Tuesday, July 26th 10:00am – Talking to God Maryann Steiner 2:30pm – Art of Mediumship Lisa Williams and Janice Dreshman Wednesday, July 27th 10:00am – Mediumship John White We are doing an old fashioned Home Circle filled with laughter, joy and prayer. Meet Sadie the animal communicator. 2:30pm – Delivering Messages at the Stump Kindra McCabe and Janice Dreshman Off to the Stump we go to deliver words of spirit and sharing of gifts we have. So meet at the Lyceum and begin this journey! Thursday, July 28th 10:00am – Chinese Yoga of the Golden Seed Jennifer Clevenger 2:30pm – Children’s Service Lily Dale has their Children’s Service with each child being able to participate from address to message service and healing service. Come feel the love of this event. Lily Dale’s Fairy Village - Behind Fire Hall Friday, July 29th 10:00am – The Grandmothers of the Four Winds Spider 2:30pm – Sweat Lodge Neal Rzepkowski Learn the First Nation People Tradition of sweat lodge ceremony. A gift to heal and pray. Bring swimsuits and towels. 8:00pm – Ice Cream Social Kindra McCabe A party of song, dance and celebration. 9:00pm – Ghost Walk Neal Rzepkowski Come walk through Lily Dale with your flashlights and cameras to find the hidden secrets of the other worlds. Teen Week Program Sunday, July 24th 5:00pm – Healing Teens Barbara Sanson Proper attire is required, white tops (t-shirts or blouses), sneakers or full shoes. Class is located at Healing Temple. 8:30pm – Home Circle John White Monday, July 25th 5:00pm – Finding the Mediumship Within You Kindra McCabe and Janice Dreshman Tuesday, July 26th 6:30pm – Spiritual Scavenger Hunt Lisa Williams and Janice Dreshman Wednesday, July 27th 9:15pm (after the beach party) Earth Meditation Bob Flutes Thursday, July 28th (After Talent Show) Located at the Lyceum Spiritual Cinema Friday, July 29th By Request Philosophy Class Emmy Chetkin 6:30pm (after 5:30 Stump) Messages at the Stump Neal Rzepkowski and Kindra McCabe 7:00pm – Talent Show A great show of talent from our group of young people who will perform song, dance, and acting. Enjoy the wonderful evening. The Fairies decided the Fairy Trail was becoming overpopulated and they needed to establish a larger community. They selected a beautiful, more level, and larger piece of land in the woods behind the Healing Temple. Spiritualism Rap Session Every Friday, 7pm to 8pm, Octagon Building No Charge, Love Donation Appreciated What is Spiritualism? The hour will open with a meditation then a brief lecture on the science, philosophy and religion of Spiritualism, including some of the history, followed by an opportunity for you to ask questions and share your experiences, thoughts and opinions. The evening will be facilitated by Carol Gasber with a different guest speaker each week. Artisan’s Guild Annual Plants, Crafts & Curiosities Sale August 18-21, Lily Dale Fire Hall Sponsored by The Lily Dale Artisan’s Guild This year’s Annual sale will be at the Lily Dale Fire Hall from 10am – 4pm. Proceeds from the sale will go for improvements to the Lily Dale Assembly. All plants grown and nurtured in Lily Dale gardens. Hand-crafted items made by the Artisan Guild members include afghans, fairy houses, and lots more. Curiosities – you’ll have to come and see items donated to the Guild for resale. Passes will be available at the gate upon request for the Artisan’s sale only. Our Children are our Future, Please help us! Donations of $10.00 per child per class would be greatly appreciated. 8 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Climb Mountains Marion H. Skidmore Library Summer 2016 Season SPIRITUALIST SHORTS LECTURE SERIES Casual, informal, short presentations and lectures given by our Librarian about topics within the history, science, and philosophy of Spiritualism. Topics change weekly, and feature information from and about works in the Marion H. Skidmore Library’s collections of Rare Books and Periodicals. Presentations are every Tuesday at 3:30 pm. Free. June 28 The Lady Behind the Library: A Brief History of Marion H. Skidmore July 5 Suffragettes, Social Progress, and Spiritualism July 12 Messages From Plants: The Language of Flowers & Tea Leaves July 19 Victorian Mourning 101 July 26 A History of Healing: Mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, and Treating the Spiritual Side August 2 The Library Beyond the Veil: A Bibliographic History of Spirit Communication August 9 It’s Not Burned Over, It’s Well-Done!: Freethought, Spiritualism, and New York State’s Socially Progressive Religious Movements August 16 Spirits of the Red Planet: Spiritualism, Science, and Mars August 23 It Builds Character: Phrenology, Healing, and the History of Psychology August 30 Author Profile: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ACADEMIC WEEK EVENTS July 28, 6:30pm-7:30pm Mediumship: Do You Measure Up? Presented by Shannon Taggart July 30, 3:30pm-4pm Architectural Spirits in Lily Dale Short presentation by Steve Bass July 31, 6:30pm-7:30pm History of Ectoplasm Presentation of a documentary film by Ronni Thomas August 1, 3:30pm-4pm Anomalist Books: Publishing the Paranormal Short film presentation by Patrick Huyghe August 3, 3:30pm-4pm The Morbid Anatomy Museum and Spiritualism Presentation given by Joanna Ebenstein, curator and founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum located in Brooklyn, NY. August 4, 6:30pm-7:30pm My Life as a Spirit Photographer Presentation by the Psychic Professors EVENTS July 18, 2:00pm Children’s Week Event Michelle Whitedove Book Reading and Signing Join celebrity psychic medium and author Michelle Whitedove for a reading of her children’s book, My Invisible Friends, to be followed by a book signing and author Q&A session. Free. August 17, 11:00 AM - 2:00pm Book Care and Repair Workshop Presented by Kapco Kary Barth, regional sales manager for Kapco Library Products, has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana and has worked with libraries since 1990. Formerly, the national library sales manager for Kapco, Kary authored a basic book repair guide that was previously available from Kapco and has presented book protection/repair workshops in various venues throughout the US. This workshop is designed to demonstrate quick and easy techniques for extending shelf life on general circulating materials. Prevention is the key, but we will be addressing specific, common repairs: re-inserting loose pages, broken spines, torn header caps, ripped and torn pages. Each participant is asked to bring: one or two paperback books, preferably new or new-like, to demonstrate covering techniques: a hardbound book with a book jacket to demonstrate application of book jacket covers; a stapled book or magazine; one hardbound book that needs repair and a “naked” hardbound book; i.e., a hardbound book that does NOT have a book jacket cover. Each participant will be provided with a free sample packet of materials. There is a drawing at every workshop for a DELUXE PAPERBACK PROTECTION KIT (Retail Value $105). This workshop is designed for librarians and library workers, but is also open to book collectors and bookworms alike. Pre-registration only, maximum of 25. Free. September 3 6:30pm,Lily Dale Auditorium Wendy Corsi Staub Book Release Event Join New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub as she celebrates the release of the next book in her latest Lily Dale Mystery series! This event will feature a book signing and author Q&A session, as well as a unique Literary Walking Tour (found only in Lily Dale!) where Wendy provides background on the locations found in the novel and will discuss her inspiration for setting a mystery series in this historical town. Proceeds go to the support of the Marion H. Skidmore Library Operations Fund. Suggested donation: $10. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 9 2016 SEASON EVENTS Fifth Annual Lily Dale Pet Remembrance Celebration Tuesday, July 26 Rev. Joanne Copley-Nigro 6:30pm, Pet Cemetery We hold this celebration to honor and remember the animals and pets that have transitioned to Spirit who rest in our Lily Dale Pet Cemetery as well as all pets that are in Spirit. The legend is that on February 13, 1900, the Lily Dale Pet Cemetery was created when horses fell through the ice on Cassadaga Lake during “Ice Harvesting”. These horses were eventually taken from the icy waters and transported up South Street to the Leolyn Woods. Topsy, who was a beloved pet and worker for Lily Dale, along with the “Brown Horse” who worked on the grounds, are both buried in a special place in the Pet Cemetery along with many cherished pets of the residents of Lily Dale. The Pet Guardian Angel Memorial, St. Francis Memorial and Pet Remembrance Board provide areas to remember and honor the pets we hold in memory as their Spirit lives on. Please join us for a short memorial service to honor our beloved pets that have transitioned into Spirit and remain dear to our hearts forever. You may honor your pet that has passed into Spirit but is not buried in the cemetery by bringing a photograph and short prayer or story to share during the ceremony. We will be able to leave a small pebble or flower in remembrance of our beloved pets. Please join us in gentle music, prayer, and remembrance of the joy we shared with our companion animals. From a Spiritual perspective we are once again reconnecting with what we have known since the beginning of time that we are and always will be interconnected with animals and nature. Events on the Floating Stage June 26, 2016 MY SWEET PATOOTIE July 17, 2016 OLD DAWG BLUEGRASS August 7, 2016 DAVE GOLANDO BIG BAND All shows start at 5:00 pm 10 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide The Amazing Kreskin Saturday, July 23 7:30pm–9:30pm, Auditorium $50.00 No children under age 10 HE DOES WHAT!! For more than 60 years, Kreskin has been telling people things about themselves that only they could possibly know. How many performers do you know that let the audience hide their paycheck in the theater and if he can’t find it he forfeits his fee? Kreskin offers ONE Million Dollars to anyone who can prove that he use paid secret assistants or electronic devices to perform his mentalist effects! He’s not a magician, he’s an incredible mentalist, and the world’s best. During his show, he’s telling people their social security number, license plate on their car, a street address from 20 years ago and their dog’s name too! To quote David Letterman – “Kreskin should sue the producers on the TV show “The Mentalist” for stealing his act. He’s the best mentalist in the world and he’s not acting!” The late Phyllis Diller said it best. “You have to see a Sinatra show, an Elvis concert and a Kreskin show at least once in your life. Kreskin is amazing and I think he’s a witch and should be burnt at a stake!” FACT: Kreskin made more appearances on the “Tonight” show than any guest in the show’s history. When Johnny Carson played the charter, “Carnac the Magnificent” he was spoofing the Amazing Kreskin. The Amazing Kreskin, with a showman’s flair, a comedian’s wit, and the capacities of a bona fide Mentalist or thought reader, has for 6 decades, dramatized the unique facets of the human mind, his own! His very name has become an integral part of pop culture throughout the world, invoked in comedy clubs, comic strips, print stories, and TV shows. A favorite guest on Johnny’s show and Merv Griffin Kreskin has also been a regular on Howard Stern, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Fox & Friends and many others. Climb Mountains Artisan’s Guild Plants, Crafts, and Curiosities Sale The Amazing Kreskin August 18-21, 2016 7:30-9:30pm, Lily Dale Auditorium 10am-4pm, pass available at gate, see page 8. Canadian Weekend Church of the Living Spirit Fun Fest Saturday, August 27, 2016 8pm-10pm, Lily Dale Auditorium Admission: $5 at door (includes 5 tickets for Basket Auction) Fun for the whole family - Children under 16 free Mini Readings - $10, Refreshments, Healing, Basket Auction, Historical Presentation, Shabby-Chic Items, Book Sale, Children’s Activity Table and more! LDSC Summer Fun Fest Saturday, July 9, 2016 8:15pm – 10:00pm, Lily Dale Auditorium Admission: $5.00 at door (includes 5 tickets for raffles) Fun for the whole Family – Children under 15 free Mini Readings - $10.00/10 min. Refreshments, food, healing, raffles Saturday, July 23, 2016 Saturday, July 30, 2016 MESSAGES AND MUSIC 8pm-10pm, $10.00 at door, Lily Dale Auditorium Sunday, July 31, 2016 CIRCLES 8pm, Lily Dale Auditorium Firemen’s Day Saturday, August 13, 2016 Car Wash – Chicken B-B-Q – Kids Parade – Circles 8pm-10pm $10.00 admission at door, Lily Dale Auditorium Library Day Saturday, September 3, 2016 6:30pm, Lily Dale Auditorium www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 11 2016 EVENTS THOUGHT EXCHANGE MEDIUMSHIP DEMONSTRATIONS Thought Exchange meetings are held twice each week and permit a free expression of ideas concerning the many truths that are found in Spiritualism as well as many other interesting subjects under the guidance of the chairperson. All Thought Exchanges will be held in the Octagon Building at 7pm. Demonstrations of mediumship are included in the gate fee and are held three times a day during the week. You are asked to remember that these services are part of our religion and to treat the services and those who serve with the same courtesy you would in your hometown church. Visiting and student mediums may be invited to serve by making their interest known to the chairperson of each event. Chairperson SATURDAYWEDNESDAY 6/25 M.K. Roland 6/29 Victor Abbott 7/2 Jan Cooke 7/6 Ed Williams 7/9 Eileen McClure 7/13 Jay Cooke 7/16 Lynne Forget 7/20 Tom Cratsley 7/23 Paul Hodges 7/27 Marilyn Awtry 7/30 Dennis Morley 8/3 Bonnie White 8/6 Joseph Shiel 8/10 Carol Gasber 8/13 Cara Seekings 8/17 Susan Barnes 8/20 Patricia Price 8/24 Ed Williams 8/27 Bonnie Woods 8/31 Celeste Elliott 9/3 Ron Skowronski AUDITORIUM SERVICE The Auditorium is a historic part of Lily Dale and has been the scene of many remarkable events. Built in 1883, it is the center of activities during the summer season. Sunday morning services are held there at 10:30am each week by our two local churches: The Lily Dale Spiritualist Church and The Church of the Living Spirit. The public is welcome at these services and all other activities advertised on the grounds. Each afternoon, seven days a week, there is a service in the Auditorium featuring a speaker and a clairvoyant from 2:30-3:30pm. Chairperson 6/24 – 7/2 Jack Rudy 7/3 – 7/9 Jay Cooke 7/10 – 7/16 Emmi Chetkin 7/17 – 7/23 Tom Rugani 7/24 – 7/28 Dennis Morley 7/29 Jana Hefferman 7/30 Sheila Black 7/31 – 8/1 Jana Hefferman 8/2 – 8/6 Joanne Copley-Nigro 8/7 – 8/13 Joanne Copley-Nigro 8/14 – 20 Jan Cooke 8/21 – 8/27 Teresa Schaeffer 8/28 – 9/4 Carol Gasber Private readings may be obtained with a medium by making personal arrangements. The only mediums permitted to give private readings on the grounds are those who have been registered by the Lily Dale Assembly. A list of those registered mediums may be found on the boards located on the side of the Auditorium and the entrance to The Leolyn Woods at the Inspiration Stump pathway. By special arrangement with the board, Guest speakers who are mediums may give private consultations only on the day they are working in the Auditorium. Appointments with guest mediums must be made through private arrangements. Medium’s League Activities MONDAY NIGHT CIRCLES 8:00pm in the Auditorium, $15, Please note: No Circles August 8. VOICES OF MEDIUMSHIP - Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm, Octagon Building, $10 per person The Medium’s League hosts this event providing an encouraging atmosphere for mediums and guests to talk about the process of Spirit communication. Discussion of historical events followed by ideas and guidelines to enhance our link with spirit communication. Education provides understanding and healing for ourselves and our connection to spirit and all life. Recommendations for Readings True success is a three-way connection between the medium, client and spirit. Arrive at the session with a positive and open attitude. It elevates your connection. Please arrive promptly as most mediums prepare themselves by quiet time and meditation prior to an appointment. Respect the process of each medium, and their abilities to bring loved ones and their messages. Let the medium know if you understand as well as if you need more clarity. Confirmation and validation are helpful to the outcome of a successful reading. Please ask clear and focused questions. If you are unsure about anything, ask the medium to explain. A medium realizes when the connection is over. Please do not prolong the session, when the contacts are closed. Occasionally a medium and client may decide that another medium may be more suitable. Be truthful and courteous. A successful reading will uplift and inspire you and the medium. It often includes the philosophy of Natural Law, contact with loved ones, guides and teachers, as well as prophecy. Mediums and their guides are not fortune-tellers. You are guided with free will that allows you to make choices in life. This is a sacred and honored opportunity for you to have evidence of eternal life and inspiration through verbal healing. Be grateful for the guidance it provides. 12 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide INSPIRATION STUMP Inspiration Stump is a spiritual retreat found at the end of the calm and quiet trail of the Leolyn Woods. It is not unusual to become more aware of the spiritual energies while in an open and receptive state at the Stump. You are invited to participate in the services held twice a day in the grove at no charge. Demonstrations of mediumship are presented by the mediums giving short messages to those in the audience. These services have been held since 1898. As well as possibly receiving a message of meaning at Inspiration Stump, you may well renew your own Spiritual energies. Spiritual awareness is available to all. Please show consideration for the mediums who are working and for those who are receiving messages by refraining from unnecessary noise or movement that disrupts the flow of energy. (In the event of inclement weather, a bell will be rung to indicate location of service.) Chairperson (1:00pm / 5:30pm) 6/24 – 7/2 Victor Abbott/Paul Hodges 7/3 – 7/9 Kim Kelleher/Lynne Forget 7/10 – 7/16 Colleen Vanderzyden/Celeste Elliott 7/17 – 7/23 Kathleen Salyers/Margaret Ferris 7/24 – 7/30 Jake Samoyedny/Tammarishka Kerman 7/31 – 8/6 Kathy Elliott/Barbara Sanson 8/7 – 8/13 Kris Richard/Teresa Schaeffer 8/14 – 8/20 Joseph Shiel/Brecht Saelens 8/21 – 8/27 Simon Caudullo/Sharon Klingler 8/28 – 9/4 Sharon Hill/Neal Rzepkowski FOREST TEMPLE The Forest Temple, located on East Street, is an area of tranquility. It is here that messages from Spirit are delivered through mediums that are registered on the grounds as well as those who are visiting or are students. The Temple has been operating since 1894. Like Inspiration Stump, Forest Temple is an area of spiritual, emotional and mental upliftment. Services are held at the Forest Temple daily at 4:00pm. There are no Forest Temple Services on Sundays. (In the event of inclement weather, this service will move indoors. Bell will be rung to indicate location.) Chairperson (4:00pm-5:00pm) 6/24 – 7/2 Connie Griffith 7/4 – 7/9 Kris Richard 7/11 – 7/16 Sharon Pieri 7/18 – 7/23 Eileen McClure 7/25 – 30 Jacqueline Avis 8/1 – 8/6 Patricia Stranahan 8/8 – 8/13 Deborah Boardman 8/15 – 8/20 Simon Caudullo 8/22 – 8/27 Patricia Price 8/29 – 9/3 Tammarishka Kerman Climb Mountains HEALING TEMPLE Chairperson: Barbara Sanson Welcomes You Daily Healing Service: Mon.-Fri.: 10:30-11:30am and 7-8pm; Sat.: 10-11:30am and 7-8pm; Sun.: Noon – 1pm and 7-8pm. Dedicated to the principles of spiritual healing, the Healing Temple was opened in 1955. It has remained a place of peace and solitude for all those who come to renew their energies through healing or quiet meditation and prayer. We welcome you to our daily services and invite you to experience the healing energies channeled through any one of the men and women who serve at the Temple. The doors are open to serve all who enter. Love Offerings graciously accepted for the continued restoration and care of the Temple. Spiritual healing is offered twice daily at the Healing Temple. The Temple is the only place on the grounds where healing is approved and endorsed by Lily Dale Assembly. All healers must be approved to serve the Temple, and have received training in spiritual healing as recognized by Spiritualism. For further information, please contact the Healing Temple Chairperson, Barbara Sanson. The Lily Dale Healing Temple offers prayer shawls for your Spiritual Healing experience, or to gift a loved one who is in need of prayer and Spiritual Healing. Each shawl has been blessed in healing by the Healers of the Healing Temple. These shawls are available in a variety of beautiful healing colors and can be purchased at the bookstore. They are embroidered on one side of the shawl near the bottom saying, “Blessed in Healing at the Lily Dale Healing Temple.” To learn more about the shawls, please call Barbara Sanson at 716-595-2676. SUGGESTIONS FOR A HEALING This is a guide for receiving a spiritual healing. It will help you open your heart and mind to receive beautiful, channeled energy from any one of the healers. • Please be respectful by remaining quiet prior to and during the service. • When you receive a healing, relax and enjoy the experience. Your awareness can be greater if you relax, place your feet on the floor, hands in your lap, with palms turned upward. Breathe in and out slowly several deep breaths and gently close your eyes. RELAX. • The true value of spiritual healing is not always measured immediately, although you may verify and recognize immediate change, healing energies will remain with you indefinitely. ALLOW. • There are many healers who serve the Temple. They each have their own unique gifts of healing. If you have any questions, they will be happy to assist you after the service. EXPECT GOOD. • Before receiving, ask God’s healing source to remove all obstacles from your path so you may receive. ASK. • One healing per service is appropriate. BE PATIENT. • Spiritual healing is not a substitute for medical treatment. • You are not expected to discuss your condition or problem with your healer, however, general information could be helpful. • Remember to give thanks for the healing energy brought to you through your healer. GRATITUDE. “Laying On Of Hands” is an old art of healing. Many cultures all over the world use this helpful healing technique to direct energy from the God source. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 13 2016 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS These events are held in the Auditorium June FRIDAY: June 24, 2016 – Opening Day 12:00pm FLAG RAISING (at gate) 2:30pm Speaker: Carol Gasber Medium: Lynne Forget 8:15pm SILVER TEA (everyone welcome) SATURDAY: June 25, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Ronald Skowronski Medium: Brenda Hawkins SUNDAY: June 26, 2016 THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: Patricia Bell Medium: Gerta Lestock 2:30pm Speaker: James Kinnear Medium: Tammarishka Kerman 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Greg Kehn MONDAY: June 27, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Joseph Shiel Medium: Bonnie Woods 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: June 28, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jan Cooke Medium: Teresa Schaeffer WEDNESDAY: June 29, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: John White Medium: Ellen Bourn THURSDAY: June 30, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: James Barnum Medium: Greg Kehn July WEDNESDAY: July 6, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Roberta Caswell Medium: Jaccolin Franchina TUESDAY: July 19, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Marilyn Awtry Medium: Deborah Boardman THURSDAY: July 7, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Eileen McClure Medium: Patricia Price WEDNESDAY: July 20, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Teresa Schaeffer Medium: Sharon Hill FRIDAY: July 8, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Lucinda Wilson Medium: B. Anne Gehman THURSDAY: July 21, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Tom Cratsley Medium: Willa White SATURDAY: July 9, 2016 LILY DALE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH DAY 2:30pm Speaker: Carol Gasber Medium: Tom Rugani 8-10pm The Lily Dale Spiritualist Church Summer Fun Fest FRIDAY: July 22, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: John White Medium: Connie Griffith SUNDAY: July 10, 2016 CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: Roy Montgomery Medium: Lisa Williams 2:30pm Speaker: Connie Griffith Medium: Greg Kehn 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Eileen McClure MONDAY: July 11, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Victor Abbott Medium: Neal Rzepkowski 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: July 12, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: John White Medium: Jacqueline Avis WEDNESDAY: July 13, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Addariah Waugh Medium: Kimberly Kelleher FRIDAY: July 1, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Sara Sachs Medium: Kris Richard THURSDAY: July 14, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: John Rogers Medium: Margaret Ferris SATURDAY: July 2, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Ron Robertson Medium: Susan Barnes 8-10pm FRIDAY: July 15, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jay Cooke Medium: Lynne Forget SUNDAY: July 3, 2016 LILY DALE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 10:30am Speaker: Tom Rugani Medium: Gretchen Clark 2:30pm Speaker: Tim Brainard Medium: Sharon Klingler 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Jessie Furst MONDAY: July 4, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jack Rudy Medium: Joseph Shiel 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: July 5, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Celeste Elliott Medium: Sara Sachs 14 SATURDAY: July 16, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: John Paananen Medium: Brecht Saelens 8pm Messages with Michelle Whitedove SUNDAY: July 17, 2016 THE LILY DALE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 10:30am Speaker: Albert Batten Medium: Beverley Batten 2:30pm Speaker: Albert Batten Medium: Beverley Batten 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Celeste Elliott MONDAY: July 18, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Paul Hodges Medium: Brenda Hawkins 7:00pm CIRCLES Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide SATURDAY: July 23, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Brecht Salens Medium: 8pm The Amazing Kreskin SUNDAY: July 24, 2016 THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: M.K. Roland Medium: B. Anne Gehman 2:30pm Speaker: Bonnie Woods Medium: Patricia Stranahan 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Shirley Yusczyk MONDAY: July 25, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Susan Barnes Medium: Jaccolin Franchina 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: July 26, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Colleen Vanderzyden Medium: Celeste Elliott WEDNESDAY: July 27, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Ronald Robertson Medium: Cara Seekings THURSDAY: July 28, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Ellen Bourn Medium: Kris Richard FRIDAY: July 29, 2016 CANADIAN WEEKEND 2:30pm Speaker: Lynn Jankowski Medium: Addariah Waugh SATURDAY: July 30, 2016 CANADIAN WEEKEND 2:30pm Speaker: Hilary Bartlett Medium: Marilyn Mozzotta 8:15pm Sing – A-Long and Messages SUNDAY: July 31, 2016 Lily Dale Spiritualist Church 10:30am Speaker: Gretchen Clark Medium: Cyndi Pirog 2:30pm Speaker: Brenda Phelps Medium: Brenda Ropp 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Patti Tomczyk/Angela Morra 8:00pm CIRCLES August MONDAY: August 1, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: T.C. Kedall Medium: Marlene Glauser 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: August 2, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jaccolin Franchina Medium: Gretchen Clark WEDNESDAY: August 3, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Susan Barnes Medium: Brenda Hawkins THURSDAY: August 4, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Connie Griffith Medium: Neal Rzepkowski FRIDAY: August 5, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Sherry Lee Calkins Medium: Jaccolin Franchina SATURDAY: August 6, 2016 ENDOWMENT DAY 2:30pm Speaker: Neal Rzepkowski Medium: Janice Dreshman 8pm Events to benefit LDA Endowment Fund SUNDAY: August 7, 2016 THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: John White Medium: Addariah Waugh 2:30pm Speaker: Ron Skowronski Medium: Jessie Furst 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Gretchen Clark MONDAY: August 8, 2016 ANNUAL MEETING DAY (members only) 2:30pm Speaker: Ron Nagy Medium: Colleen Vanderzyden 7:00pm CIRCLES Climb Mountains SUNDAY: August 14, 2016 LILY DALE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 10:30am Speaker: Bradley Gosselin Medium: Elizabeth Gosselin 2:30pm Speaker: Patricia Bell Medium: Jaccolin Franchina 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Colleen Vanderzyden SATURDAY: August 27, 2016 CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT DAY 2:30pm Speaker: Neal Rzepkowski Medium: Brecht Saelens 8pm Events to benefit the Church of The Living Spirit SUNDAY: August 28, 2016 LILY DALE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH 10:30am Speaker: John Paananen Medium: Lynne Forget 2:30pm Speaker: Colleen Gordon Medium: Dawn Bolak 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Connie Griffith MONDAY: August 15, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Tom Cratsley Medium: Willa White 7:00pm CIRCLES TUESDAY: August 16, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Victor Abbott Medium: Sharon Hill MONDAY: August 29, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Tim Brainard Medium: Bonnie Woods 7:00pm CIRCLES WEDNESDAY: August 17, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: James Kinnear Medium: Kathleen Salyers TUESDAY: August 30, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jake Samoyedny Medium: Gretchen Clark THURSDAY: August 18, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: William White Medium: Bonnie White WEDNESDAY: August 31, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Cyndi Piorg Medium: Robin Higgins FRIDAY: August 19, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Cyndi Pirog Medium: Eileen McClure SATURDAY: August 20, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Simon Caudullo Medium: Eileen McClure 8pm Messages with Lisa Williams SUNDAY: August 21, 2016 THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: Lucinda Wilson Medium: Kimberly Kelleher 2:30pm Speaker: Patricia Price Medium: Kris Richard 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Jaccolin Franchina TUESDAY: August 9, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jeweline Rozanski Medium: Sharon Pieri MONDAY: August 22, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Susan Barnes Medium: Lauren Thibodeau 7:00pm CIRCLES WEDNESDAY: August 10, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Marilyn Awtry Medium: Carol Gasber TUESDAY: August 23, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Ed Williams Medium: Marilyn Awtry THURSDAY: August 11, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Joseph Shiel Medium: Brecht Saelens WEDNESDAY: August 24, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Jan Cooke Medium: Addariah Waugh FRIDAY: August 12, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Gretchen Clark Medium: Kim Kelleher THURSDAY: August 25, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Cara Seekings Medium: Paul Hodges SATURDAY: August 13, 2016 FIREMEN’S DAY 2:30pm Speaker: Bernie Payne Medium: Sharon Hill 8pm Events to benefit LDA Fire Company FRIDAY: August 26, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Anne Marie Johnson Medium: Sharon Hairston September THURSDAY: September 1, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Dennis Morley Medium: Cara Seekings FRIDAY: September 2, 2016 2:30pm Speaker: Brenda Hawkins Medium: Jack Rudy SATURDAY: September 3, 2016 LIBRARY DAY 2:30pm Speaker: Mandi Shepp Medium: Susan Barnes 8pm Wendy Corsi Staub SUNDAY: September 4, 2016 THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING SPIRIT 10:30am Speaker: Ellen Ratner Medium: Kindra McCabe 2:30pm Speaker: Neal Rzepkowski Medium: Ellen Bourn 4:00pm MESSAGE SERVICE: Sharon Klingler 2016 Board 0f Directors Donn Smeragliuolo – President Carol Gasber – Vice President Lynne Forget – Secretary Edward Williams – Treasurer Susan Glasier – Trustee Neal Rzepkowski – Trustee www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 15 2016 WORKSHOP PRESENTERS (Listed alphabetically by last name) Amazing Kreskin................................ 28 Sanson, Barbara........................... 26, 40 Ames, Tina................................... 19, 20 Hanson, George & Taggart, Shannon ............................. 31 Anthony, Mark.................................... 32 Heil, Gail............................................. 20 Shibata, Annie.................................... 34 Arisman, Marshall.............................. 32 Hodges, Paul...................................... 38 Shiel, Joseph................................ 26, 48 Baptista, Sarina.................................. 20 Houston, Rose................................... 19 Spider................................................. 41 Barnes, Susan............................... 23, 41 Johnston, Sunny Dawn..................... 22 Stanton, Deb...................................... 24 Baron Reid, Colette........................... 40 Kelly, Joyce......................................... 26 Steiner, Maryann................................ 44 Bens, Robert & McNeill, Whitney............................... 30 Klingler, Sharon.................................. 35 Stillman, William................................ 18 Koury, George.............................. 37, 38 Stockwell, Tony.................................. 28 Bernstein, Adam................................ 42 Kozlowski, Tony.................................. 25 Takei, Michele.................................... 40 Boddie, Caroline................................ 17 Kuzmeskus, Elaine............................. 17 Taylor, Sandra..................................... 33 Bourn, Ellen........................................ 27 Bousson, Lisa..................................... 39 Lee Two Hawks & Shadow Fox....................................... 50 Taylor, Sandra & Klingler, Sharon.................................. 46 Bowers, Cristo.................................... 44 Livingston, Michele........................... 22 The White Owl Duo........................... 38 Butler, Cassandra............................... 41 Lyn, Laura........................................... 23 Cali, Drew........................................... 48 McKenzie, Lynn.................................. 43 Thomas, Elaine & Scott, Don.......................................... 43 Carillo, Victoria................................... 21 Miller, Timothy................................... 47 Tittel, Joseph............................... 32, 34 Carver, Melinda.................................. 28 Molnar, Carolyn.................................. 49 Caudullo, Simon................................ 24 Morra, Angel & Tomczyk, Patti................................. 31 Tittel, Joseph & Murphy, Brighad................................ 34 Turndorf, Jamie.................................. 37 Murphy, Bridghid .............................. 33 Vaillancourt, Dean............................. 29 Nagy, Ron........................................... 45 Vanderzyden, Colleen....................... 19 Neustifter, Rita................................... 49 Van Praagh, James............................ 37 Nohavec, Janet.................................. 21 Walsh, Patricia.................................... 30 Obley, Carole..................................... 48 Weichand, Gloria............................... 31 Perkins, Laura Lee.............................. 38 Weselake, Roxanne........................... 18 Pederson, Joy.................................... 27 White, John........................................ 50 Perumal, Viven................................... 42 Whitedove, Michele.......................... 25 Pirog, Cyndi........................................ 18 Williams, Lisa...................................... 43 Price, Patricia ..................................... 47 Cooke, Jan............................. 17, 25, 51 Copley-Nigro, Joanne................. 27, 39 Cratsley, Tom................................ 21, 23 Crawford, Peg.................................... 51 D’Agostino, Diomira Rose................ 18 DiFranco, Paul ............................. 35, 36 Dragas, Michele................................. 17 Dreshman, Janice.............................. 24 Elliott, Celeste.............................. 18, 19 Fiandach, Susan & Wake, Connie..................................... 29 Schaeffer, Teresa................................ 20 Franchina, Joanne ............................ 36 Rochester, Judith......................... 33, 44 Williams, Lisa & Klingler, Sharon.................................. 40 Gasber, Carol..................................... 29 Rogers, John...................................... 24 Wilson, Shelly..................................... 36 Gehman, B. Anne........................ 23, 26 Rometo, Peggy & Bob ..................... 45 Winfree, David................................... 45 Gleisser, Benjamin............................. 47 Saloff, Jamie....................................... 35 Green, Kenneth................................. 38 Salyers, Kathleen............................... 39 Winfree, David & Bowers, Christo.................................. 44 Griffith, Connie.................................. 26 Samoyedny, Jake............................... 39 16 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Zaitz, Victoria...................................... 30 2016 WORKSHOPS Workshop Registration Online:www.lilydaleassembly.com Phone: (716) 595-8721 Mail: Lily Dale Assembly PO Box 248 Lily Dale, NY 14752 Register beginning Wednesday, March 9. Gate fee is not included in workshop registration fee. When registering for all other Special Events/Workshops, the registrant’s name will be added to a class list. When registering, it is necessary to register each participant’s name individually. You must show your sales receipt at the door to enter the Workshops. All Sales are Final. Non-Transferable No Refunds or Credits. There is a $30 Fee For Returned Checks. Friday – Sunday, June 10-12 REIKI I & II Caroline Boddie Fri. 7:00pm-10:00pm, Sat. 9:30am-6:30pm Sun. 1:00pm-6:00pm, Lyceum Building $300.00 Limit of 15 Awaken your healing energy. Reiki, originated by Tibetan Lamas, is now available to those interested in working the transcendental, and transformational energy. It utilizes the vibrational science of energy based on a unique language of symbols, music, and color. To become a Reiki Therapist one must be initiated. This initiation consists of symbols (in an energy form) being transmitted from a Reiki Master to the subtle energy field of the student. This is called attunement. Reiki is a hands-on gentle and powerful healing technique. Therefore, once initiated to this system, anyone can provide healing at all levels of being. Certification will be awarded upon completion of one 13-hour session, which includes Reiki I & II. Caroline Boddie has a BA, and is a Reiki Master. She is Vice-President and Teaching Supervisor of the American Reiki Master Association. Caroline has appeared on Radio & TV in the US and Canada, doing all she can for the healing of Mother Earth and all living beings on the planet. She has taught and traveled internationally. 2016 Workshops Saturday, June 18 REIKI I shop is devoted to developing the skills to cultivate the power to heal through the magnitude of the heart. You will have the opportunity to connect to the illumination of the essence of your being, communicate using the language of the heart, and experience healing from the radiant core. Jan Cooke 9:30am-4:30pm Leolyn Garden Room $135.00 limit of 12 REVIEW FEE: $60 For those already certified in Reiki I who wish to refresh their Skills. NOTE: This review fee is also offered for students who plan to take Reiki III from this teacher. Reiki, a hands on healing technique, uses high frequency vibrational energy for stress reduction and relaxation to promote healing. Reiki has gained wide acceptance in traditional healing fields. There are three levels in the Dr. Miikao Usui Method of Natural Healing and Reiki Level I provides: • An overview of the history of Reiki and its introduction to the Western world. • Instruction and experiential training in the healing technique that can be used for self healing and healing others including our animal friends. • Initiation and attunement to the transcendental energy. Manual and certification upon successful completion of class training. Jan Cooke, Reiki Master Teacher, and copastor of Universal Unity of Spirit, began her Reiki training in 1992 and has been teaching all levels of Reiki since 1998. Also certified in Therapeutic Touch and ordained as a Spiritualist minister, she serves as a healer, teacher and lecturer at Spiritualist and Unity Centers in NY and Fl. Jan has received recognition as a teacher with high standards and great presentation skills. Sunday, June 26 THE MAGNITUDE OF THE HEART Michele Dragas 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Experience the Mind/Body Connection and the Magnitude of the Heart! In this workshop, we will explore the multifaceted features of the heart that is at the center of your being. The heart is a physical organ as well as an emotional one and when united – becomes a portal to exquisite healing energy. This course is designed to help understand how the heart participates in physical, emotional, and spiritual health and to come away with practical tools to better take care of yourself and empower your life. Learn to connect to the magnificence of the Divine heart that illuminates and gives meaning to our lives. Much of the work- Michele J. Dragas B.S., LMT is a licensed massage therapist and a professional educator with over 25 years experience in the health, fitness, wellness and personal performance fields. In addition to private practice in Massage Therapy and the Healing Arts, is currently on the faculty of Lakeland Community College teaching in the Health and Physical Fitness Department as well as created classes for the Community Learning Department for personal development and is the founder of Diamond Light Sacred Healing Arts. www.divinediamondlight.com Monday, June 27 SÉANCE 101: PHYSICAL LINKS TO THE OTHER SIDE Elaine Kuzmeskus 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Have you ever wondered if psychic photographs are real? What famous Spiritualist produced faces of spirit on film? Can spirit actually speak through levitated trumpets? In Séance 101, author and medium, Elaine Kuzmeskus answers these questions as she explores the fascinating world of physical mediumship. Learn more about rare but real physical phenomena, as well as valuable information on: • How to contact spirit through table tipping • Psychic photography with digital or standard cameras -- Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) -- Trumpet séances with apports -- Spirit Art -- Materialization -- Plus a demonstration of table tipping Rev. Elaine Kuzmeskus, MS is a nationally recognized Spiritualist medium who is Director of the New England School of Metaphysics in Suffield, CT. She is also the author of three books on mediumship: Connecticut Ghosts, Séance 101, and The Making of a Medium. Her latest book, The Art of Mediumship (Schiffer 2012) is a “how to” on developing mediumship. During her career, Elaine Kuzmeskus has conducted many notable séances including the Official Houdini Séance and was recently featured on the PBS special Things That Go Bump in the Night. For more information, visit Elaine’s website: www.theartofmediumship.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 17 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Monday, June 27 AUTISM AND THE GOD CONNECTION William Stillman 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Do some highly sensitive individuals have a greater likelihood to be predisposed to both autism and spirituality? Award-winning author William Stillman (Autism and the God Connection, The Soul of Autism and The Autism Prophecies) explains this strong and uncommon potential. Once we look beyond labels and see past deceiving exteriors, we may recognize extraordinary accounts of spiritual giftedness. Stillman shares anecdotes from his research and tells how to enact three steps to strengthen relationships with persons with autism (and ourselves) on a spiritual level. Stillman also reveals the acute intuition that aids him in his work. Startling photographic evidence is included as part of this unique and unconventional presentation. William Stillman is the internationally known award-winning author of the Autism and the God Connection trilogy. His psychic books include Conversations with Dogs and the forthcoming Under Spiritual Siege. He has been interviewed on numerous radio shows of a paranormal nature including Coast to Coast A.M., the most listened-to overnight program in North America. He teaches various intuition workshops and has twice previously been a guest presenter for Lily Dale Assembly. He has been consulted on missing person and unsolved homicide cases, and has been consulted by the Pennsylvania Paranormal Association. Since 2004, William Stillman has been the resident psychic at Harrisburg, PA’s Alta View Wellness Center. Tuesday, June 28 CONNECTING WITH YOUR SPIRIT GUIDES Roxanne Weselake 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 In this fun and informative workshop you will learn how to contact your Spirit Guides to receive messages of insight, guidance, and spiritual upliftment! You will have the opportunity to: • Learn about the Spirit Guides that are around you • Understand the differences between Spirit Guides & Angels and the role they play in your life • Discover the way that your Spirit Guides connect to you & experience their unique vibrations & wisdom • Develop & deepen your connection to your Spirit Guides to gain insight & guidance about your spiritual path 18 • Discover how to call on your Spirit Guides for help • Experience healing energy from one of your Spirit Guides • Learn easy exercises and meditations that you can do at home Roxanne Weselake is a graduate of the Arthur Ford Academy of Mediumship and was awarded a partial scholarship as a result of a message she channeled from Arthur Ford during an automatic writing session. She holds a doctorate of RoHun transpersonal therapy from Delphi University, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, Metaphysician, Meditation & Development class instructor, a gifted trance channel and currently serves at Church of Universal Love as Vice-President on the board of directors. Roxanne is a compassionate teacher, therapist, & Psychic/ Trance Medium who brings love, light & laughter to her life’s work. Tuesday, June 28 CO-CREATION: FAERY & HUMAN PARTNERSHIP Diomira Rose D’Agostino 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Have you ever wanted to work with the Faery Realm? Working with the Faeries in a Co-Creative partnership is both beautiful and necessary as we settle into the Age of Awakening. Manifestation is one of the many areas in which we can partner with them, for they have the ability to mold the ethers according to the divine blueprint. Having awakened the memory of co-creating with the faeries in her own heart, Diomira seeks to bring this experience to you so we can all touch that magical space and Remember! Let us accept their support in manifesting our dreams! This workshop paves the way for manifesting on a very large scale. • Gain a greater understanding of manifestation, and the role the faeries play in it. • Learn a beautiful 4 part co-creative process for manifesting anything your heart desires! • Learn a simple clearing technique to remove any blockages. • Create an etheric light garden where you will do all your manifestation work. Diomira Rose D’Agostino is a global faery ambassador, international teacher and author of The Forest Speaks series. She is the founder of Faery Light, an organization that promotes Faery and Human Partnership. She holds a B.A. in Language and Culture and is an ordained Healing Minister of Inner Quest Metaphysical Church. Diomira has spent years deepening her relationship with the Faery Kingdom. She has traveled the world and its sacred sites connecting with the Faeries of every region. Her light opens doorways to the unseen realms of love and enchantment. www.faerylight.com Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Wednesday, June 29 THE HEALER WITHIN Cyndi Pirog 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Within us all there exists a spark of the Divine waiting to be acknowledged. In this class, you will learn to use your inner awareness to connect with the Divine, to sense and interpret the light within, and how to become a conduit of healing energy. You will discover ways to sense and become aware of your emotional and mental bodies as energy that moves in and around your physical body. You will also learn how to stop others from affecting your energy. With this knowledge, you will gain the ability to be aware of the light of your soul, and how light moves both in and around us to access healing energies. You can increase your soul’s light in every level of your being for transformation and spiritual healing. You will learn how to anchor and radiate light for yourself, your family and everyone you come in contact with. This is a hands-on workshop with discussion and active participation using guided meditation and sharing healing energy with yourself and others. No previous healing training is necessary. All are welcome. Cynthia Pirog is a NSAC certified Medium. She is a member of the Lily Dale Spiritualist Church, currently serving on the church board. Cyndi is also a member of the Lily Dale Assembly. Cyndi is certified in several healing modalities including Spiritual healing, Reiki Master, Angel healing, and Crystal healing. www.CyndiPirog.com Wednesday, June 29 TRAINING YOUR SENSES TO WORK WITH SPIRIT Celeste Elliott 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Training your senses to work with Spirit: We all have some sort of intuitive or mediumistic ability. Yes, even you! Some of us are born naturally more aware of these abilities than others. In this class we will be learning how to link with Spirit by setting the intention and fine tuning our senses. This class is geared toward beginner and intermediate level. After an introduction to the material you will be led through a meditation to identify your particular skill set. Much of the course will focus on group and individual exercises to help you build your skillset. It will also help you to focus your abilities to avoid becoming overwhelmed by them. The goal by the end of the class is for everyone to leave with the confidence that they can receive information from Spirit on command. 2016 Workshops Celeste Elliott is a second generation Spiritualist minister, medium, and healer. She is a member of the Lily Dale Assembly and a registered medium on the assembly grounds. A natural medium since childhood Rev. Elliott began to study and fine-tune her talents after graduate school. She trained at and was ordained through the Fellowships of the Spirit School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy in Cassadaga, NY. Rev. Elliott currently resides in Lily Dale, NY all year long and travels through the winter and spring to serve churches, and teach throughout the US and parts of Canada. Her focus with mediumship is about healing and growing the connection with the divine. She believes that work should be both to provide evidence of spirit and be from the heart. Simply meaning that she wants the client to feel the connection with their spirit loved one as closely as she does. www.celesteelliott.com Thursday, June 30 POLISHING THE APPLE – Joyful Healing & Evidential Platform Mediumship Celeste Elliott 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Public demonstration of mediumship is often referred to as a totally different animal than private work. It’s often intimidating to stand in front of a crowd and try to get filter energy while listening to Spirit. This class proves it can be joyful and fun! Whether you are a first time message giver or a practiced platform medium this course offers the opportunity to grow the skills you already use and expand them. The goal is an easy transition from private mediumship to public while breaking bad habits. We will practice how to: identify a spirit person in a way the audience member will understand, keep the link with a spirit person even when interrupted, present yourself in a polished manner, and push yourself beyond your normal way of working. We will be practicing in class as well as giving messages at one of the outdoor services. We will then discuss techniques and suggestions for improvement. See bio 6/29 Thursday, June 30 MAKING YOUR OWN GRATITUDE SCARF Tina Ames 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 In this fun, crafty, and healing workshop you will leave with a beautiful silk colored scarf. Focusing on the colors that speak to you and the things you are grateful for most in your life – Tina will guide you through the process of creating this lovely and heart filled scarf. All that will be used in this workshop are sharpies, drugstore alcohol and silk. The colors and the process of your thoughts make it magical! Don’t miss out on creating this one of a kind wearable art. Tina Tompkins Ames is a classically trained artist who has lived her life unconventionally, as a business person who has built up and sold 7 businesses she created, as a touring artist, as a Marketing/PR Director for a hospital system, and now as an instructor and CEO/Founder of her own company. Tina has been teaching creative classes for the past 16 years. Her down to earth style along with simple techniques makes her classes light hearted and fun. She has been featured in numerous publications such as Fortune Small Business, Décor, Buffalo News and more. Tina has studied spiritual healing and prophecy extensively with Lily Dale mediums/healers – Elaine Thomas, Jessie Furst and Don Scott. She is also a certified leader of Simple Abundance after completed training with Times Best Selling author Sarah Ban Breathnach. www.tinatames.com Thursday, June 30 MANIFESTING WITH SACRED SOUND Colleen Vanderzyden 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Sacred sound is the ultimate force of the universal energy. It is a direct connection to the spiritual source and the foundation of the universe. It longs to help you create your dreams, your life and your intentions. Using sound you can transform, expanding your soul to live fully and completely, manifesting your reality. What would you like to manifest? Peace? Happiness? Healing? A job or relationship? A deeper connection to spirit? Sacred sound can shift your vibration to help you get clarity on your intentions, release blocks, as well as raise you to a higher plane, opening a pathway to the universal laws concerning creation and manifestation with sound. Using written guidance from spiritual guides, we will discuss the power of sound and the seven steps to fully embracing it. We will apply the natural resonance of your voice to work with your individual vibration. We will raise your awareness and consciously shift the sounds around and within you. Utilizing several sacred vibrations we will connect to the spiritually-based sounds that can free you from the bonds of limitation, helping you manifest your best life. We will conclude by creating a sacred sound circle to amplify our manifestation intentions. Colleen Vanderzyden is a Lily Dale registered medium, certified healer, inspirational speaker, certified Spiritual Life Coach and professional violinist and music teacher. Extensively trained in many healing methods and techniques, she is a member of the Sound Healer’s Association and is in the International Registry of Spiritual Healers. To assist her clients on their spiritual path, she created a CD (Guided Meditations for Self-Realization) and card deck (Practical Steps to SelfRealization). www.colleenvanderzyden.com Friday, July 1 FUN-DAMENTALS OF PROSPERITY Rose Houston 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 The FUN-damentals of Prosperity is a dynamic workshop that looks at the abundant life from a number of perspectives. The morning session teaches effective, proven skills to bring about a transformed state of consciousness. The goal of the workshop is to help people achieve lasting and continuing prosperity in all areas of life. We cannot change anything permanently without moving to a higher consciousness. Understanding the Universal Laws governing prosperity is vital for success in opening the doors to a more abundant life. Prayer and meditation prepare the space to receive the good the Universe has for each of us. Inspiring meditations will be used and affirmative prayer will be taught as well. Treasure Mapping is a visual prayer. Each person is unique and by creating a visual prayer specific to them will have a profound effect in bringing desired outcomes into manifestation. Many who participated in this workshop experienced fabulous results. Rose Houston graduated and was ordained a Unity Minister in 1998. After ordination, she served as Director of the Silent Unity’s Telephone Prayer Ministry, the oldest and largest ministry of its kind. She has also served as senior minister in Unity Churches in Missouri and Ohio. Rev. Rose has an extensive background in training and served as Training Coordinator for Silent Unity. In addition, her articles have been published in numerous issues of Unity magazine and other Unity publications and her articles have been featured in a number of newspapers. A dynamic public speaker, storyteller and facilitator, Rev. Rose is dedicated to following Universal Truth Principles. Her passion for prayer and meditation led her to believe in sharing and applying those teachings of Truth to facilitate the process of spiritual transformation in others. She is a woman of high energy with a spirit of humor that is supported by a deep commitment to spiritual growth and authenticity. www.sacredvows.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 19 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Friday, July 1 COSMIC DOODLING Tina Ames 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 No artist experience necessary!!! This fun three part class first guides you through the patterns and practice of Zentangle (meditative doodling). It is a fascinating new art form that increases focus, decreases stress, and allows your creative juices to flow. You will learn several easy patterns to get you started so you can use this fun form of meditation when you go home. The second part will focus on Mandalas. These symmetrical designs represent the universe, and are used as a tool in meditation and self-awareness by many cultures. Tina will guide you through using colors and shapes that speak to you. You will work on creating a mandala that is a snap shot of your inner soul. The last part of this workshop will guide you through cosmic doodling for manifestation. You as a participant will go through a primitive guided doodling session with crayons. No artistic abilities needed and stick figures are encouraged! Each student is asked to keep their drawings to themselves. The point is to identify what you really want, who you really want with you, and then focus on manifesting it. The finished doodling is enlightening for the student – asking the important question – what do you really want to make your soul sing? See Bio 6/30 Friday, July 1 ORB PHENOM – ORBS ARE AMONG US! Teresa Schaeffer 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Orbs are among us! What are Orbs? Photographing Orbs! Let’s Explore, Experience and Access High Vibrational Frequency Realms of Consciousness. “Seeing” is the first step toward believing! Together we can move forward and discover a new world filled with light and love. When we open our hearts to these images we can be transformed. Orbs cast a new light on the philosophical, spiritual and scientific realization that “All is One”. Orbs are manifesting all over the world! We shall learn about the Orb Phenomenon - how they come into being, general indicators for authenticity and classifying orbs. Everyone can take Orb pictures – all you need is patience and a digital camera. We will share our awesome Orb pictures and experiences, go on an Orb Walk and photograph Orbs. 20 Bring your camera if you have one…if not disposable cameras will be available. Please email Teresa your Orb pictures @ [email protected] to be included in the presentation or bring them along with you! The Spiritual Reality is – Divine Presence is Real….Orbs are Among Us! Rev. Teresa C. Schaeffer is an Ordained Minister, Lily Dale Registered Medium, Yoga Siromani, Usui Reiki Master Teacher and Etheric Photographer. She is an Academy of Holistic Fitness Enlighten your Body Instructor and is Holistic Fitness Specialty Certified. Teresa is a Certified Healer, and Prayer Chaplain. She serves Lily Dale Assembly, The Healing Temple, The Church of the Living Spirit, Lily Dale Spiritualist Church and Universal Unity of Spirit among others as a Medium, Inspirational Speaker, Healer, Workshop Presenter and Chairperson. She is on the board of directors of UUS. She facilitates meditation and development circles as well as Native American Sacred ceremonies. Teresa shares her home ~ “Jewel of the Lake” JeweloftheLake.com ~ with Guests right here in Lily Dale! For more information please visit TeresaSchaeffer.com and www.OrbsRUs.com Tuesday, July 5 HEALING WITH GIFTS OF THE EARTH Gail Heil 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Limit of 25 students materials fee of $20.00 paid to presenter Our bodies, the physical, emotional, and the spiritual, are composed of cellular energy. WE are energy. We have energy centers in our body where energy flows through which are called our Chakras. The seven main chakras in our body are linked to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual attributes. As we have journeyed through life, experiences we have had may have disrupted these chakras, causing them to become overactive or underactive which have led to imbalances in our lives. These imbalances lead to unhealthy environments and possibly to disease. The good news is, Mother Earth has provided us with gifts to help our bodies support healing. Our bodies know how, we merely help our bodies. Through the use of essential oils, which are gifts of the Earth, we can assist our bodies/our chakras in releasing, opening and healing. Louise Hay says, “The mental thought patterns that cause the most disease in the body are CRITICISM, ANGER, RESENTMENT and GUILT. For instance, criticism indulged in long enough will often lead to diseases such as arthritis. Anger turns into things that boil and burn and infect the body. Resentment long held festers and eats away at the self and ultimately can lead to tumors and cancer. Guilt always seeks punishment and leads to pain.” Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide These types of thought patterns have blocked our chakras and caused illness or imbalance. YOU can assist your body using essential oils to help heal the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body and the spiritual body. In this wonderfully inspired healing journey, you will learn: • a brief history of essential oils dating back to Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, and Europe and more importantly about essential oils of today and how they will help YOUR BODY to heal your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body. • Chakra Basics and participate in a Chakra meditation to assist healing your energy centers using 7 essential oils • How to find answers to assist your body in healing your physical body using certified pure therapeutic grade essential oils Gail Lynn (Heil) is an Ordained Spiritualist Minister, Medium, Medical Intuitive, REIKI and EFT Practitioner, and doTERRA Wellness Advocate. She devotes her summers to the Lily Dale Community serving in many capacities; workshop presenter, coordinator, Spiritual Healer, and as a visiting medium serving at Inspiration Stump, Forest Temple, and Monday Night Circles. She is also a member of the Church of the Living Spirit and the Lily Dale Assembly. Inspired by her own spiritual journey, Gail Lynn has created this workshop to empower YOU to heal your life, physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. Tuesday, July 5 MY VIEW FROM HEAVEN – Learn the “Secrets” of Heaven & Earth Sarina Baptista 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 When Sarina Baptista’s seven-year-old son, J.T., caught the flu and passed away in March 2007, she had many questions about Heaven. Why did he have to leave? Where is he now? Is this all there is? On a mission to find her son again, Sarina researched the afterlife from every angle. She knew her son was somewhere, but where? Six months after J.T.’s passing, Sarina discovered she was a medium. Through training and determination, she had found her son and could communicate with him! The stories he told of his experiences were beyond this world. He shared with her the secrets of Heaven and how to live a life of purpose on Earth. Join Sarina and J.T. for this interactive discussion and training on life, death and why we are here! We will discuss: • What happens when we die? • Where do we go? • Is there a Heaven? 2016 Workshops You will learn: • Why we come here in the first place. • How to identify your primary lessons in this lifetime. • How the people who are in your life provide your lessons. • How to shift your life to be in alignment with your purpose. • How to connect with your Divine Helpers for guidance and assistance. This discussion/workshop is guided and taught by J.T. Baptista from the other side, channeled by Sarina Baptista. Sarina Baptista is an internationally renowned Speaker, Spiritual Teacher, Author and Psychic Medium. She was a featured speaker for the “Life, Death and Beyond” International Conference in Crete, Greece, and is the resident psychic for Clear Channel’s Big Country 97.9FM in Northern Colorado. Sarina’s latest book, My View from Heaven: A Boy’s Story of His Journey to Heaven and the Purpose of Life on Earth released December 2014 was written by her son J.T. to answer questions about where he is, how he found his way, what he’s doing now and why we choose to come to Earth in the first place. Sarina also has written two other books: A Bridge to Healing: J.T.’s Story – A Mother’s Grief Journey and Return to Hope, about her grief journey and how she found her son again, and A Bridge to Healing: J.T.’s Story Companion Workbook, a 24-week self guided course to learn how to have clear connection with angels, guides and loved ones on the other side. Sarina Baptista Leads You to a Guided Life. www.sarinabaptista.com Wednesday – Thursday July 6-7 SPIRITUAL NETWORKS & THE POWER OF GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS Tom Cratsley 7:00pm-10:00pm, Octagon Building $100.00 Mystics of many traditions have spoken of or written about networks or dimensions of spiritual power and light. In this workshop we will explore the power of group consciousness in accessing higher energy and engaging with the networks of light and the spiritual intelligence that supports them. Participants will learn how to consciously blend spiritual energies to enhance the power of the group. Through a variety of exercises and meditations you will access personal spiritual energy and harmonize that with the spiritual energies of others. You will learn techniques to lift the energy of any meditation group. The class will culminate on the second night with a focused distant healing circle. These circles often produce remarkable results. Learn how people throughout history have used group energy to access higher realms. Wednesday – Friday, July 6-8 EVIDENTIAL MEDIUMSHIP Janet Nohavec 9:30am-12:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $150.00 This course has been specifically designed for those with a basic understanding of mediumship to reach for new levels of accuracy in their demonstration of mediumship, private readings and public/platform work. Those committed to remaining focused on the evidential aspects of information and the clear evidential proof of the continuity of life will expand their current level of gift. We will explore symbolism, states of consciousness, mind focus and empowerment techniques. Some of the common problems and fears of public work will be addressed. Various techniques will be employed to allow you to see your own present standard of work and clear direction will be given to reach new heights of mediumship. Our primary focus is the personal attunement of your spiritual, psychic and mediumistic qualities, allowing you to reach your fullest potential. Janet Nohavec, a former Roman Catholic nun, is founder and pastor of The Journey Within Spiritualist Church in Pompton Lakes, NJ. She also runs The Journey Within School for Mediumship. Janet has taught and demonstrated mediumship throughout the USA, Canada and England. She has taught Mediumship development as an overseas tutor at The Arthur Findlay College, England. Janet has been featured extensively in the press, magazine articles, live radio and television. She has been the focus of New Jersey Monthly Magazine, Fox TV, New Jersey 12, The Bergen Record and live radio and television segments. Janet has just completed her autobiography, Through the Darkness. Where Two Worlds Meet is her second book, which focuses on the development of mediumship. Her private sessions with clients have an average waiting list of one year. She has read for celebrities, politicians, law enforcement officials from around the world and has worked on missing persons cases. Janet resides in NJ, but has a summer home in Lily Dale. You may learn more about our school and church by visiting www.thejourneywithin.org or www.janet nohavec.com. Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Wednesday, July 6 THE ABC’S OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION & CO-SPECIES HEALING Victoria Carillo 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 This is a highly interactive, fun workshop that teaches us how to effectively and easily ‘converse’ with our fur babies on a variety of subjects! We’ll learn to ask miss finicky feline what flavor of Fancy Feast she would like to dine on tonight and why Ginger is suddenly reluctant to go in her crate. We will also cover more esoteric topics, such as how animals behave as mediums and how they are sometimes trying to alert us to Spirit’s presence. Pets are very connected to the Spirit World… I’ve witnessed dogs carrying physical messages on or in their fur coats! The Law of Attraction states that ‘Like attracts Like.” We will reflect on this Law and how it relates to the pets that choose us, and how they help us heal as we help them. This reminds us of the law taught in A Course in Miracles that giving and receiving are the same. We will also discuss how a pet’s behavior is often reflective of our own consciousness levels; our pets often reflect our thoughts to the world, often unbeknownst to us. Most of us are quite aware that energy is contagious, and it is no different with our fur babies. We will discuss how we can use information for healing purposes. Homeopathy and flower essences will be briefly discussed, as negative states may be transmuted to positive ones with these modalities much more readily than with conventional medicine (in the author’s opinion). However in general, ALL HEALING IS FROM GOD, no matter what path is taken! (Intentions can be pure with conventional medicines, too!) ‘HOLISTIC’ has been jokingly defined before as “Anything that WORKS!!!” Dr. Victoria Carillo grew up in Smithown, New York. She attended Virginia Tech where she graduated with a Biology degree, and fours later, graduated from VirginiaMaryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. At one time she had seven cats, but now only has two. Within a couple of years post graduation, a very special cat introduced her to animal communication and alternative healing. The same love that inspired the search for holistic healing is the same one that led her to seek proof of the afterlife for pets as well as people. She has studied, attended and participated in classes, church services, meditation and healing circles. See Bio 7/10 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 21 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Thursday, July 7 LIFE IN THE AFTERLIFE Michele Livingston Season Highlight Friday – Saturday, July 8-9 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Michele takes you on a journey to the other side with her new book, sharing what may happen in the afterlife. By channeling departed family members, clients and even souls she never met, Michele received validating information about the next realm. Including: • • • • • Making transition to the soul place. Our soul’s homecoming reunion. The life review. Soul groups in heaven. Animal consciousness versus human souls, and how they differ. • How spirits progress in the next realm. • Spirit guide training. Michele will then give random readings to a few of the workshop attendees. Michele A. Livingston, M.Ed, is an internationally known psychic medium, author and artist. She is endorsed by and has performed on stage with renowned evidential medium, James Van Praagh. Her career began as an art teacher in public schools, but for the last 25 years she has shared her gift as a spiritual visionary. Clairvoyant from an early age, she has the incredible ability to see and communicate with departed loved ones. Michele has authored 6 books, produced her own TV and radio shows and made guest appearances on ABC TV, Fox News - NY, Comcast TV and Hay House Radio. Michele has touched thousands of people, with both individual readings and public appearances, providing messages and actual visions of their departed loved ones. As a healer, counselor and ordained minister, she continues to bring comfort and soul-healing to people the world over, assisting them in taking that next step towards understanding the spirit realms. Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 22 Sunny Dawn Johnston Friday, 7:00pm-10:00pm Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm Auditorium INVOKING THE ARCHANGELS COMMUNICATING, HEALING AND MANIFESTING WITH THE ANGELS Friday, $50.00 Join Psychic Medium and Angel Communicator Sunny Dawn Johnston for this workshop as she shares her raw and emotional journey from self-hatred to self-love with the love and support of the Archangels. Her story will inspire you to begin every day invoking your angels... and Sunny will show you how. YOU too can feel the presence of the Angels in YOUR life… and Sunny will teach you how to invoke the Angels and create your own personal relationship with them. They are with you always and are ready to communicate with you, if you will only ask and listen. Sunny will be joined by her soul musician Kris Voelker and together they will offer you an experiential opportunity to feel the indescribable energy of unconditional love move thru you and connect you with the divine presence of the Archangels. She will teach you how to invoke the power of the Archangels to help transform your heart from a state of fear to a realization of the love that always exists within. You will also learn: • Simple steps for grounding and connecting with the angels • Who the Archangels are, what their qualities are and how to connect with them to receive divine healing, love, forgiveness and support • How to interpret the messages that your Angels are sending you • Guided meditation techniques to open the communication between your physical world and the spirit world In the final hour Sunny will also share personal messages from the angels for audience members. Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide ANGELS AND THE AFTERLIFE AN EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP Saturday, $100.00 Join psychic medium Sunny Dawn Johnston for an inspirational day filled with hope, love and the Afterlife. Even as the death of a loved one seems so final, Sunny speaks about how the essence of that person – the love – still lives on and can be communicated directly to you. Having thirty years of experience speaking to the Other Side, Sunny will teach you how to tap in to your own unique way of best understanding these messages. You’ll gain the tools necessary to tune into the signs and signals from your angels, guides and loved ones that have passed. These tools will allow you to gain a stronger connection and a better understanding of the support and loving guidance you receive from the “unseen” realm. You’ll also learn how to make the connection between the living and those who have passed, whether it be from natural causes, accidents or suicide. This will be an interactive, experiential class that will leave you literally seeing and feeling your departed loved ones. You will learn how to connect with the Afterlife yourself – Your Angels, Guides and departed loved ones - using your own intuition including the five “clair’s”: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance, and clairfragrance, respectively. Once you have learned the way in which your body and mind tune into the unseen world, you can start your journey with Sunny as your guide. In this full day workshop Sunny will teach you how to: • listen to your own inner truth and intuition • learn the language of the spirit world • heal your grief in healthy ways • cultivate a spiritual connection with loved ones who have passed on • make sense of what happens before during and after the death process • release any fears around death with a very special experiential exercise If you’re missing someone who has passed over or just curious about what messages you might be able receive from the angels and the Afterlife using these techniques, join Sunny for this in-depth and fascinating subject. Sunny will be accompanied by her musician Kris Voelker who will assist in shifting your energy to a higher vibration which will help you to connect with your loved ones. 2016 Workshops Friday, July 8 MAGICAL ART OF USING PENDULUMS Laura Lyn 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 This popular class will be fun and informative on the ancient art of dowsing with a new and modern twist! Psychic Medium Laura Lyn will help students make use of the pendulum and energetic instruments to obtain guidance from spirit guides, loved ones and the inner spirit counsel. She will reveal how to use your energies with the dowsing tools to answer questions, find lost items, or map quest. As you practice in the class, you will gain confidence and satisfaction in developing your skill in using this popular communication tool. You will also learn how to gauge your chakra energy, look into anatomy charts and the alphabet for spirit writing. Every class participant will receive a free pendulum, and dowsing charts! This class sold out last season. Laura Lyn, Psychic, Medium and Author have given thousands of psychic readings over the last twenty years. She specializes in helping families who has difficulties with closure after a loved one’s passing. Her titles include Healing with the Angel Rays and A, B, C’s of Psychic Development. She teaches on various subjects in Metaphysics where she has been invited to share her insights on a national level. Sunday, July 10 ENCAUSTIC PAINTING WITH SPIRIT Susan Barnes 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 The technique of encaustic wax or wax painting dates back to ancient Greece and Egypt. From bee’s wax to crayons, people use a variety of methods to create encaustic wax images. The simple method of making wax drawing is to melt crayons or oil pastels and use them to paint pictures. The vivid colors and hot techniques create unique and beautiful images. It is amazing how everyone finds a different way of working. The abstract nature of the art makes it a perfect inspiration for Spiritual messages. In this hands-on workshop, people will learn: • • • • • methods of working with wax understand how to create with Spirit learn how shapes and figures appear difference between Spirit & psychic work the relationship between readings & paintings Materials will be provided. No art experience is necessary. Join us for an artistic adventure that is reminiscent of a childhood encounter. Susan B. Barnes is a communication professor, medium, and Spirit Artist. She is an award-winning professor who has been trained in mediumship at the Arthur Findlay College and The International Spiritualist Federation with mediums such as Stella Upton, Matthew Smith, Simone Key, Coral Ryder, and Bill Collier. As a Lily Dale Resident, she has taken numerous workshops on mediumship. She is a member of the National Spiritualist Union and the Church of the Living Spirit, where she teaches a mediumship class. Her work has been featured in the Psychic Observer and in several television programs. In addition to mediumship, she has conducted Spirit Art circles in and around Lily Dale. Moreover, she is the author of five books including: Visual Communication: From Cave Art to Second Life. www.spiritartgallery.nt Sunday – Friday, July 10-15 HEALING MASTERY – PART I Tom Cratsley Sun. 1:30pm-4:00pm & 8:00pm-10:30pm, Mon. & Wed. 1:00pm-3:30pm & 8:00pm-10:30pm, Tues., Thurs., Fri. 1:00pm-3:30pm Healing Temple, $360.00, Limit of 24 This one week session will give you intense training in spiritual healing. This workshop is designed to support those with healing experience, and will allow you to take a giant leap in your healing effectiveness. The program consists of over 22 hours of interactive class time with significant hands on experience. It encompasses a variety of topics and internship at the Lily Dale Healing Temple. This workshop is a unique opportunity to study and work in one of the great spiritual healing venues in North America, and sharpen your healing gifts. Topics to be addressed include: • Psychology of healing • Multi-dimensional healing • Human energy systems • Fundamentals of working with clients in the Healing Temple • Focused remote healing • Healing with vocal tones • Survey of spiritual and energetic healing techniques Please bring a white shirt, dark slacks (no jeans), and black shoes required for services. Tom Cratsley has worked in the fields of counseling, teaching and spiritual healing for over 35 years throughout the United States. He has developed and taught several powerful and effective healing techniques. He studied psychology and religion at Harvard Divinity School and has been associate director of The Fellowships of the Spirit School of Healing and Prophecy for over 10 years. His greatest learning however, has come through years of service in the spiritual power of the Lily Dale Healing Temple. www.tomcratsley.com Monday – Friday, July 11-15 SPIRITUALISM DEFINED & YOUR PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT LEVEL I B. Anne Gehman 9:30am-12:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $250.00 This class is designed to develop an understanding and awareness of the Spiritualist philosophy. The classes provide a basis for mediumistic unfoldment and will assist in expanding the higher sense of perception, intuition and psychic ability. The student will learn the natural laws governing the psychic, medium and the nature and value of each. These natural laws will be integrated throughout the discussion and experiential exercises. The format for each class will be a lecture, discussion, and meditation for psychic awareness. (For the last class bring silver spoons and forks.) The following topics will be addressed. • Spiritualism as a Science, Philosophy, and Religion. • Definitions. • Principles of Modern Spiritualism, and the Oneness Concept. • Significant Historical Spiritualist Events Influencing the World Today. • Trinity of Body, Mind, Spirit. • Extending Your Five Physical Senses to a Higher Level of Consciousness. • Psychic and Intuitive Perception. • The Aura and How to Read It. • Magnetic Energies and Healing. • Psychometry: How to Do It and Its Many Practical Applications. • Dowsing: How to Do It and Its Many Applications. • Mind Power and Metal Bending. B. Anne Gehman began her public mediumship at the age of 15. She is one of the Founders of the Knoll Institute for Spiritual Studies (KISS) and has a practice of spiritual counseling, healing and teaching. She is a summer resident of Lily Dale. B. Anne Gehman has gained international attention for her help in solving crimes, locating oil and missing persons, healing illnesses, and connecting family members with their loved ones in spirit. She has worked with royal families, top government agencies and officials, police departments, judges and corporate CEOs, as well as other individuals from all walks of life. Anne has been featured in over 40 books including the biography The Priest and the Medium written by Suzanne Giesemann, as well as the unauthorized biography entitled, There is a Purpose. Rev. Gehman was featured in the 2010 HBO movie entitled, No One Dies in Lily Dale and wrote Self Empowerment-Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach Us About Living in the 21st with Ellen Ratner. www.annegehman.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 23 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Tuesday, July 12 SHAMANISM, SPIRITUALISM & MYSTICISM: INTERCONNECTING Janice Dreshman 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 We all are healers and we all can connect with loved ones. To do this work, is to know our passions and desires. This allows us to work without interference and to truly “be of service.” It also means understanding our own history and roots with the work we do. Once we have the acknowledgment of this, it becomes our gift. How we choose to use our gift is up to us. We will explore Shamanism, Spiritualism and Mysticism a three fold approach to Outstanding Mediumship. Having these foundations can be used interchangeably, together, or individually with our healing and mediumship. By understanding how we can both touch, and change, the lives of individuals forever through our work, we will aspire to a higher level of being. Shamanism, both the Native American and Celtic Shamanism, will be used in “The Ceremony and The Calling in of the Spirits”, along with the Medicine Circle, experiential drumming and journeying. With this, we will able to understand; find our tribe; and also understand our work with animals and totems. Spiritualism will be explored through historical context; understanding “The Divine”, working with various forms of mediumship work and active demonstration of message work (including participant demonstration). Mysticism and the understanding “The Beloved” will be explored through various works such as the Interior Castles of Theresa of Avella and St. John of the Cross including The Dark Night of the Soul. Going into our Heartspace will lead us into a better understanding of ourselves and the work we do. Participants can look at incorporating any, or all, of these realms into use in everyday life, in healing and mediumship work. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and be aware that sage, sweet grass, cedar may be burned during ritual. Janice Dreshman’s path to mediumship has been rich and diverse. As a child, she was able to see and hear Spirit. Her life long involvement in adherence to both Celtic and Native American, traditions, her deep connection to her lineage dating to the 1100’s and her spiritual pilgrimages abroad to England, Scotland and Ireland all enhanced the spiritual grounding for her work. Rev. Dr. Janice L. Dreshman is a registered medium at Lily Dale. She has worked with people around the world. Janice has worked with children, adolescents, adults, the elderly and the military for over thirty years. She has focused on coping with trauma, crisis, grief, risk prevention and psycho – spiritual transfor- 24 mation. Janice was recognized for her work both nationally and internationally and has several published related articles. She’s also the co-author of the books Caring in Times of Crisis and Can You Ask My Dad What It’s Like in Heaven. Janice holds a Masters in social work and a doctorate in educational leadership. www.spiritmessagework.com Wednesday, July 13 SECRETS OF THE AURA REVEALED John Rogers 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Your lights are on and shining quite luminously – and most of the time, you don’t even know it! These lights that emanate from you and shimmer with a spectrum of colors is what is called the auric field, and it surrounds everyone’s physical body. Could it be than when we see these lights, that we are actually viewing the person’s soul? The auric lights can tell us a great deal about a person, ranging from their mood swings to any health issues that they may have at the time. This workshop is a little different. You will not only learn about the aura, but students will have the chance to read each others’ auras while in the class. Some of the topics introduced are: • Is the aura really our soul? • Just how far does the aura extend out from our physical bodies? • What do the different shapes of the aura really mean? • What is the meaning of the different colors in the auric field? These topics, along others that are normally discussed will be open for examination during this workshop. John Rogers has been a medium for over thirty years and is the author of four books. His latest is The Awakening Soul, A Dialog From The Other Side Of Life. His other books are Positive Affirmations To Live By, The Medium Within, and The Soul Traveler. He has lectured in New England and the United Kingdom. He has served spiritualist camps in Lily Dale in New York, Temple Heights in Maine, Cassadaga Florida, Mississippi, and Iowa’s Rev. Rogers has founded two Spiritualist churches, both of which are still active today. He has been a guest on many radio and television shows as well as programs on Sirius International radio. Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Thursday, July 14 INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATING: LEARNING TO TALK TO ANIMALS Deb Stanton 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 Did I just hear that? Yes you probably did! Welcome to the world of interspecies communication. Let’s spend the day learning how to develop our interspecies communication skills, thru connecting with nature and the animal realm. In this fun filled, fast paced day, we will learn what methods of intuitive communication works for us and how does a thought from an animal soul, enter the human psyche and become a thought we humans can understand? How do we function daily with this communication skill? We will also cover calming signals for animals, as well as grounding work for the animals. Using guided meditation, we will explore the world beyond the conscious, in order to receive, communicate and validate information received from the animal souls in our lives, and those in the spirit world. Animal passings and pets in the afterlife will also be discussed. Bring a picture of your animal soul to share (past or present), we will be doing readings on each other’s animals by the end of the day! Deb Stanton is a practicing Registered Veterinary Technologist in small animal medicine, and an animal communicator, medium and spirit artist. Deb has studied under world renowned animal communicators and mediums, and has been a practicing animal communicator and medium for over 20 years. Deb is passionate about helping animals and humans connect and communicate more effectively. She uses utilizes her gifts to assist pets and their guardians through the process of crossing over, as well as daily issues that may occur in the relationships with the animal realm. Deb’s animal communication clients include veterinary referrals, veterinarians own animals, and pet shelters. Deb often blends the readings of humans, with that of their animal companions. She has been interviewed on radio domestically, and internationally, and has given presentations on Coping Skills for the Intuitive in the Workplace to scientific conferences. Deb also facilitates workshops on Animal Communication. Friday, July 15 INTRODUCTION TO MYSTICISM & MEDIUMSHIP Simon Caudullo 9:30am-12:30pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets at the end of his life, he answered, “I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life.” Mysticism has always met with hostility, held 2016 Workshops up for being the illegitimate child of magic. Even today fundamentalist’s fear of mysticism has categorized it as a liberal theology. For the most part education and religion are hostile to mysticism. Most churches ignore the right brain where intuition lives, which is our mystical brain, the medium’s brain. However, the last twenty five years have witnessed a resurgent interest in mysticism, we will look at the possible reasons for this and explore ways it can help with mediumship. • Explore a brief history of mysticism and it’s connection to mediumship • Discuss the two common kinds of mysticism and their characteristics • Show the development of Mysticism and Mediumship in the 21 Century Simon Caudullo is an ordained minister in the Spiritualist church and a Lily Dale registered medium who lives in Lily Dale. He is a former Benedictine monk and worked for years in social work. He has taught meditation and psychic development for several years. Friday, July 15 QI GONG FOR EVERYONE Tony Kozlowski 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Ba Duan Jin (8 Precious Sets) Qi Gong is an ancient form of deep, gentle breathing and slow, meditative movement that produces great healing, health, and longevity benefits. It also balances chakra and energy center flows, therefore being invaluable to those on a Spiritual path, whether they be new to Qi Gong or seasoned practitioners. Qi Gong allows access (similarly as meditation) to higher realms of awareness, awakens one’s true nature and helps develop human potential. Qi Gong practice is relaxing and stress relieving, leaving the practitioner in a peaceful, calmly alert state of being. This practice is so gentle and non-impacting to joints that almost everyone can enjoy! All that’s needed is comfortable clothing and a water bottle, if desired. This style is practiced standing, or, as there are no on-the-floor positions, can be done seated in a chair. Come be introduced to Qi Gong and discover the peaceful energy flow of Spirit within you! Tony Kozlowski was ordained by Fellowships of the Spirit in 1990 and served as a medium and healer in Canada and the Northeastern U.S. He is a third degree Reiki Master and has served in the Lily Dale Healing Temple during the summer seasons. His favorite form of healing is Qi Gong to which he was introduced in 1976 while studying Kenpo Karate. He has since practiced and taught this style to include ten years on the Chautauqua Institution Summer Program. His experience includes operating his own yoga (Qi Gong) studio where he practiced Mediumship, Healing, Meditation classes and his life’s passion, Qi Gong. Currently, Tony teaches Qi Gong at Yoga Underground in Dunkirk, NY while continuing his private client instruction. Saturday, July 16 REIKI II Jan Cooke 9:30am-5:30pm, Octagon Building $160.00, Limit of 12 students Review class $85.00 Review Fee $85 (Offered for those already certified who desire to refresh their skills and it is a pre-requisite for those intending to register for Jan’s Level III if their training was received from another teacher). Reiki II includes: • Review of Reiki I and students’ demo • Techniques to expand the channeling of Reiki energy for absent/distant healing as well as mental, spiritual and emotional healing. • Information regarding origin, purpose and use of the ancient Reiki symbols • Initiation and attunement to this increased level of Reiki energy Participants will be provided Reiki II Manual materials and certification will be awarded upon successful completion of this level of training. See bio 6/18. Special Fundraiser Saturday, July 16 FEATURING MICHELLE WHITEDOVE 3:00pm–4:30pm & 5:00pm–6:30pm, Leolyn Garden Room $50.00 plus gate fee phone orders only To benefit the LDA Scholarship Michelle Whitedove will be doing two very special Round Table Photo Readings Limited seating - 15 people per session. Reserved seating only. Join Michelle as she does readings “Whitedove Style” using photos you bring of your loved ones, living or deceased. (In the photo, Michelle must be able to see the person’s eyes.) Each reading will be a minimum of 5 minutes. The Martha DeChard Tedesco/Julia Erb Scholarship Fund supports children who have grown up in Lily Dale and are going on to College. Michelle has agreed to do this wonderful benefit, because of her love of children. Season Highlight Saturday, July 16 Michele Whitedove 7:00pm–10:00pm, Auditorium, $50.00 Celebrity Psychic Michelle Whitedove is a world-class spiritual medium who has been featured on Television around the Globe. As a spiritual teacher and author it is her goal to educate humanity and share her gifts. Join Whitedove for an inspiring talk with message of hope and the afterlife. She explains that death is not the end; it’s the birth of our soul back into the Heavens. Our Earthly life is just special moment in our eternal journey. Through her direct connection to the Spirit World, Michelle will reveal the true Journey of the soul: • Why we come to Earth • How Angels assist us in our daily life • What REALLY Happens at the Moment of Death • What are loved ones are doing on the Other Side • How they communicate with the Living • What we do for Eternity in Heaven BONUS: During the last hour, Michelle will demonstrate her abilities and give random audience messages. So come prepared with a specific question that you want answered OR bring a photograph of a loved one. Michelle works as a health intuitive, spiritual-medium, psychic life coach and futurist. Please know that Michelle does not edit the information that she is given. So only ask a question if you are prepared to hear the direct messages from the Heavens. A book signing will follow this event. Michelle Whitedove, a Spiritual Medium and an expert in her field, has been featured on: ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS TV, and NPR Radio to discuss the reality of authentic spirit communication. Lifetime TV named her America’s #1 Psychic after showcasing her supernatural abilities on TV. Whitedove was featured in the HBO documentary NO ONE DIES IN LILY DALE and interviewed by Matt Lauer on the TODAY Show. Recently she was on BRAVO TV’s Millionaire Matchmaker as an Expert Medium helping the host discover information about a deceased relative. Whitedove is on European TV in Sixth Sense International a prestigious TV show about world renowned psychics and their specialized abilities. For more information go to www.MichelleWhitedove.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 25 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Sunday, July17 DRAWING INTO THE POWER OF THE LABYRINTH Connie Griffith 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 We all have moments of indecision – times when we seek the guidance of our Sacred Self. In this fun and informative workshop you will touch into the power of the Labyrinth, with its circuits of ancient geometry, and use it as an intuitive tool to help access the guidance of your higher Self; the higher Self that helps you choose wisely! The energies of the labyrinth circuits relate to the chakras, to musical notes, planets and astrology, medicine wheel and sacred geometry relationships. Learn and draw into the energy of the circuits as you focus your intention and tap into your intuitive abilities. This class will include a meditation and teaching, and then the students will walk the labyrinth, built on a sacred energy vortex in Lily Dale, with a focus on personal decision making. Wear comfortable clothes for being outside for the labyrinth walk. Connie Griffith is a graduate of the School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy, a certified medium and healer, and is ordained as a spiritualist minister. She is a Registered Medium here in Lily Dale. Her formal education includes a degree in engineering, and a master’s degree in business administration. She worked for 20 years as a healthcare executive and for 11 years as a project manager consultant for an international real estate company. Connie has trained in cognitive therapy counseling and has studied neuro-linguistic techniques with Dr. David Dobson in Friday Harbor. She is a MARI practitioner and certified as a teacher by the NBCC. She has been teaching spiritual awareness classes and conducting workshops for the last 20 years. Her passion is teaching fun and informative classes that allow participants to experience the “Ah Ha!” of realization. www.conniegriffith.com Sunday – Monday, July 17-18 SPIRITUAL HEALING COURSE – LEVEL I Barbara Sanson 2:00pm-5:00pm daily, Healing Temple $100.00 This two day instruction will focus on the basics of Spiritual Healing and what is expected in working at the Healing Temple as a healer. Covering topics such as personal responsibility, ethics, and protocol for healers. The group will have time for learning healing techniques, sharing in the practice of spiritual healing, meditation, and the road to personal development for greater attunement. Also covered is how 26 to stay spiritually centered, and the review of natural laws as they apply to healing. Practical application of healing techniques and understanding the differences in various healing forms are shared. Barbara Sanson retired from a successful career in 1988 to expand her life as a healer, being healed herself in 1971. She is the chairperson of the Healing Temple in Lily Dale. During that time she has taught and worked in the field of healing, teaching all ages including young people. She has studied many forms of healing including: Therapeutic Touch, Touch for Health, and Reiki. Barbara has completed certification in NLP and hypnotherapy, as well as being an ordained Spiritualist minister and graduate of the School of Healing and Prophecy. Monday – Friday, July 18-22 UNFOLDMENT OF YOUR HIGHER SPIRITUAL GIFTS: MEDIUMSHIP, HEALING & SERVING HUMANITY LEVEL II B. Anne Gehman 9:30am-12:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $250.00 This LEVEL II class is designed to assist those who feel the calling of Spirit in Mediumship and Healing. It is experiential as well as informational, and is designed for beginners, as well as advanced students. The natural laws that influence mediumship will be emphasized along with the very important principle that mediumship is principally a calling to serve humankind through Spirit with love. Each class will consist of a lecture, discussion, and meditation exercise. The following topics will be addressed. • Time, Space, Matter: Where the Two Worlds Meet • Illusions of Death and Dying: the Trinity of Body, Mind, Spirit • Conditions and Life in the Spirit World • Spirit Guides, Teachers, Angels, Loved Ones • Physical and Mental Phases of Mediumship and Healing: Recognizing Your Special Gifts • Refining Your Practice of Prayer and Meditation • Public Presentation of Healing and Evidential Mediumship • Relationships of Church and Ministry • Professional Ethics, Social Issues and Policies • How to Start Home Circles and Study Groups • Table Tilting: a Participatory Demonstration See Bio 7/11 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Monday – Thursday, July 18-21 SPIRIT ARTISTRY INTENSIVE Joseph Shiel III 9:30am-4:30pm daily, Lyceum Building $380.00 This is a rare opportunity to tap a wealth of experience & skills from one of the world’s finest tutors of Spirit Artistry & Auragraphic Art. Participants will be introduced to various forms of Auragraphs and artistic readings and will be guided through the intricate process of producing Spirit Portraits for both private readings and public platform work. Color, line, form & symbols as well as expression, technique and professionalism will be discussed. Learn to assess your own progress & abilities in order to become the best you can be along your Journey as a worker for Spirit and those in need of guidance and healing! Joseph Shiel III, is a highly regarded Evidential Psychic Medium, Spirit Artist & award-winning teacher. Joe is listed on the BestPsychicDirectory.com and is a certified medium with the Forever Family Foundation. Internationally known for his accuracy & integrity, Joe shares his remarkable talents with students & audiences worldwide; teaching, speaking & performing demonstrations of evidential mediumship and Spirit Art deemed by many as ‘Portraits from Heaven. Joe is a registered medium in Lily Dale, NY and an ordained Minister at the Journey Within Church in NJ. He also serves as a guest tutor at the renowned Arthur Findlay College in England and an online tutor for the SNUI. Joe received his Philosophy degree at Boston College & performed his graduate work in theology at Colgate Crozer Divinity School & St. Bernard’s Institute. www.josephshiel.com Wednesday, July 20 AYURVEDIC FACIAL YOGA Joyce Kelly 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 ($5.00 material fee paid to presenter) Ayurvedic Facial Yoga is a way of exercising, hydrating and rejuvenating the head/face area. With ever-increasing pollution, our faces now act like vacuum cleaners, absorbing environmental pollutants on a daily basis, and over time they naturally build up. Knowing how to remove toxins absorbed through the nose, mouth, ears, skin and eyes keeps the head/face area vitalized, and also increases mental clarity and awareness, as well as dramatically reversing the aging process. Our face acts as the focal point of our selfconsciousness while our brain receives over 2016 Workshops two billion bits of information every second to form a sense of reality and maintain our entire physical system. We have developed numerous strains of Yoga and hundreds of other exercise techniques for the body, as well as consuming untold amounts of skin care products, yet very little practical consideration is given to this vital part of our physicality and its overall health and well-being. In this course, you will learn: • Facial yogic exercises and techniques • Herbs, vitamins, and “food as your medicine” to feed the skin and repair capillaries • Get rid of bags under the eyes and early morning ‘puffy eyes’ syndrome • Clear skin problems ~ and keep your face radiant • Bring hydration back through ancient Yogic water techniques and live plants • Increase clarity and awareness through vitalizing the brain/head • Learn an essential cost-free routine which you can use for life ~ and pass onto others • What to avoid to protect, preserve, and beautify your skin, face and neck • Affirmations to see and feel your unique beauty The course will include a question-and-answer segment, and meditations to enhance your inner and outer beauty. Please bring a hand-held mirror to class. If possible, also bring a smart phone or tablet with a video recording ability, to record yourself doing the exercises, for future reference. Joyce Kelly is certified in Ayurvedic Facial Yoga, Spring Forest Qigong, Reconnective Healing, and as a yoga teacher by Rishikesh Yog Peeth in Rishikesh, India, dubbed “The Yoga Capital of the World.” She has studied under many of the gifted spiritual teachers in Lily Dale, as well as “the angel lady,” Doreen Virtue, Qigong Master Chunyi Lin, and Reconnective founder Eric Pearl. Joyce learned Ayurvedic Facial Yoga in the foothills of the Himalayaan Mountains, under the tutelage of Ganga Kinsley Joshi. She holds a BA in Journalism from Framingham State University, has over 5,000 published articles from her career as a newspaper journalist in the Boston, MA, area, and has appeared on Beat the Press on WGBH-Boston. She spent her first year out of college teaching teens in juvenile hall, where she witnessed miracles of the Holy Spirit. She resides in Lily Dale. Thursday, July 21 REIGNITE THE LIGHT Joy Pederson 2:00pm-5:00pm Assembly Hall, $50.00 In order to come to earth, your light was extinguished. Over time, people awaken and search for enlightenment. When the light is reignited from within, there will be more clarity. Joy has the assignment to reignite that light from within to assist humanity to evolve out of the dark into the light more easily. She has cleared the karma of the fallen angels to help move the planet into heaven on earth March 30, 2013. That holy week cleared the cause of oppression, sacrifice, martyrdom, Adam & Eve, and the serpent energies. The rift between Lucifer and Archangel Michael was mended. Joy was given the new tree of life which aligns you with the divine to access all there is. During this workshop, you will: • Clear some of the negative effects of the karma affecting humanity • Receive the new tree of life within • Have your light reignited • Receive certain processes to reconnect to the divine within • Learn how to experience heaven on earth within your own life The destiny of Joy Pedersen was to carry the soul of Archangel Michael to clear the challenges humanity has experienced since the fallen angels. Although Michael has been with her this entire life, it wasn’t until 2004 when he stood before her asking her to write his book, Wisdom of the Guardian: Treasures from Archangel Michael to Change Your Life, and transition her business into a spiritual healing practice. Joy Pedersen is Founder and President of Express Success LLC and the Holistic Chamber of Commerce of Lakeland, Florida. She is a Licensed Spiritual Healer and Coach, nondenominational ordained minister and holds a doctorate of divinity. She is the author of Wisdom of the Guardian: Treasures from Archangel Michael to Change Your Life. She works with individuals and their businesses identifying the hidden causes of their challenges and clearing them to experience more effortless success. Thursday, July 21 AURAS: THEIR SPIRITUAL MEANING Ellen Bourn 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 In this workshop we will learn how to feel and see Auras. Techniques for developing the ability to detect the shape, color and energy of the Human Aura Field will be demonstrated and practiced by all participants. The meaning of the colors, shapes and energy quality will also be presented. All participants will receive an aura photo of themselves to take home at the session. This class is for all levels of Development. Ellen Bourn is a Past President of the Lily Dale Assembly. She has also hosted a radio show “Cosmic Connections” on WWKB in WNY. Ellen worked for many years as a Registered Nurse in a large urban hospital. Ellen is also a Homeopath, Medical Intuitive, Medium and Master Astrologer. Her range of skills has brought her clients from all walks of life. Her experiences have cultivated a rich and diverse perspective to her readings, Spiritual Development Classes and Spiritual Guidance. She is also the Pastor of The Light of Truth Church in Buffalo, NY. For more information on Rev. Ellen visit her website @ www.ellenbourn.com Friday, July 22 SPIRITUAL HEALING POWER OF ANIMALS & PETS Joanne Copley–Nigro 9:30am-12:30pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 The intention of this workshop is to enlighten us of the spirituality and healing power of animals in our lives. Throughout history and in all parts of the world, cultures have revered animals as allies, guides, oracles, teachers and healers. In this workshop we will become more aware of our connection to nature, animals and our pets and learn how to read the messages they have for us. By drawing on our inner knowing, sacred teachings, scientific facts and spiritual journeys we will spiritually link with them to receive their messages and wisdom. Our pets, wild animals and nature communicate messages for us if we are open, attune and listen. Awaken to their teaching messages and gain a better understanding of your spiritual path for healing and spiritual progression. You will discover and learn: • How spirituality and healing is experienced through pets, animals and nature. • History /Importance /Influence of the Human Animal bond and its significance in our lives. • How Spirit communicates through Nature and how to read its messages. Meet your personal Animal Totems/Guides/ Teachers to assist you on your Spiritual Journey. This workshop includes: an animal totem figure, animal guide messages, meditation, creative visualization, affirmations and a multifaceted power point lecture. Part of the workshop will also include tour of Lily Dale’s Pet Cemetery to honor all animals that have transitioned into Spirit. Please come dressed appropriately. Joanne Copley-Nigro is a year round resident of Lily Dale and an ordained Spiritualist, Interfaith and Melchizedek Minister. She has a Ph. D. in Healtheology from the American Institute of Holistic Theology and B.S. in Occupational Therapy. Joanne is a Spiritual Pet Healer, Reiki Master, Hypnotherapist and Lily Dale Volunteer Fire Company Chaplain. She presides over the Lily Dale Pet Cemetery Remembrance Ceremony and Annual Blessing of the Pets. She incorporates her loving compassion for animals and nature in her teaching and service to others. She is the author of 52 Weeks of Inspiration From the Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms For Healing and Harmony. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 27 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Season Highlight Friday, July 22 SPIRIT MESSAGES – MESSAGES Tony Stockwell 7:00pm–10:00pm, Auditorium, $50.00 Even as a child Tony knew he was different from other children. From an early age he was aware of seeing people before him that others could not see. It was common for him to hear his name being called by someone unseen, and also common for him to be aware of events before they actually happened. To him, all this was perfectly normal. Born in the East End of London, and part of a close, extended family, much of Tony’s early childhood was the same as any other. All through his early school years and into teenage hood the most amazing paranormal events happened to, and around, Tony. When he was 16 years old he was invited by a friend to attend a local Spiritualist church to observe a Medium work, and from the minute he set foot inside the door he knew this was what he wanted to do with his life, and what was expected of him. This was the beginning of Tony’s journey to becoming one of the country’s most well-known and respected Psychic Mediums. Over the years that followed, Tony took every opportunity to develop and demonstrate his mediumistic ability, endeavoring to reunite relatives with their departed loved ones. He is always striving to push the boundaries of his work, wanting each message from the other side to be as perfect as possible to prove, beyond doubt that our spirits are eternal and are able to communicate with us. Tony has been demonstrating mediumship for over 27yrs, and has worked all over the world. During this time Tony has been privileged to demonstrate at the London Palladium, The Manchester Apollo and St David’s Hall Cardiff. Tony has worked in New Zealand, America. Canada, Spain, Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and of course throughout the UK. He is also an approved tutor of ‘The Arthur Findlay College’ - Stansted Hall, thought by many to be the home of British Spiritualism, with an excellent worldwide reputation in mediumship demonstrating and teaching. Tony has so far published four highly acclaimed best-selling books: Spirited, Embracing Eternity, The Psychic Case Files and Walking With Angels. Friday, July 22 DREAMS & INTERPRETATIONS Melinda Carver 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall, $50.00 Ancient cultures revered dreams and those that could interpret them. Explore the world of dreams and dream time. Why are dreams so important to us? What are the meanings of repetitive symbols and nightmares? Why do dreams seem more colorful or disjointed than reality? Which crystals and oils can we use to deepen our dream time? Learn how to interpret the most common symbols that appear in dreams. Plus dream time with your Deceased Loved Ones – yes you ARE speaking to them! Melinda Carver is the Official Psychic of the Tarot Guild and the host of Positive Perspectives and Mystical Muse radio shows. She has appeared on TV, radio, expos, conferences, corporate events, stores and groups. Melinda has 10 titles in the Holistic Highway to Wisdom DVD Series and has published articles in several magazines. She is the creator of an award-winning magical product line, Melinda’s Positive Products. www.psychicmelinda.webs.com Season Highlight Saturday, July 23 SPIRIT MESSAGES – WORKSHOP Tony Stockwell Season Highlight Saturday, July 23 THE AMAZING KRESKIN 7:30pm–9:30pm, Auditorium $50.00, No children under age 10 HE DOES WHAT!! For more than 60 years, Kreskin has been telling people things about themselves that only they could possibly know. How many performers do you know that let the audience hide their paycheck in the theater and if he can’t find it he forfeits his fee? Kreskin offers ONE Million Dollars to anyone who can prove that he use paid secret assistants or electronic devices to perform his mentalist effects! He’s not a magician, he’s an incredible mentalist, and the world’s best. During his show, he’s telling people their social security number, license plate on their car, a street address from 20 years ago and their dog’s name too! To quote David Letterman – “Kreskin should sue the producers on the TV show “The Mentalist” for stealing his act. He’s 28 the best mentalist in the world and he’s not acting!” The late Phyllis Diller said it best. “You have to see a Sinatra show, an Elvis concert and a Kreskin show at least once in your life. Kreskin is amazing and I think he’s a witch and should be burnt at a stake!” FACT: Kreskin made more appearances on the “Tonight” show than any guest in the show’s history. When Johnny Carson played the charter, “Carnac the Magnificent” he was spoofing the Amazing Kreskin. The Amazing Kreskin, with a showman’s flair, a comedian’s wit, and the capacities of a bona fide Mentalist or thought reader, has for 6 decades, dramatized the unique facets of the human mind, his own! His very name has become an integral part of pop culture throughout the world, invoked in comedy clubs, comic strips, print stories, and TV shows. A favorite guest on Johnny’s show and Merv Griffin Kreskin has also been a regular on Howard Stern, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Fox & Friends and many others. Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide 9:30am–4:30pm, Auditorium, $100.00 This course of Mediumship development is for those who want to serve and represent the Spirit World, and work with their own spiritual gifts. The focus of the one day workshop will be on going forward in your Mediumship, not playing it safe in the messages you bring and really going for details in your evidence. Tony will help you become the best medium you can be, in regards to the content and construction of your messages, as well as the presentation and all that goes with being an ambassador for the other world. You will be guided to a space where you will connect with your own Spirit Self to give you the foundation and belief in your work, and you will be confident in the fact that you are part of a team and that you never work alone when serving Spirit. Come out of your comfort zone and forget playing it safe, be courageous and take risks in order to progress. Those in the Spirit World enjoy diversity and are eager for us to expand our minds to perceive them clearly and concisely. Aim to reach higher and offer intricate details that make up evidential communication that will raise the standard of your own mediumship. 2016 Workshops Sunday, July 24 CRYSTAL ELIXIRS AND ESSENCES Dean Vaillancourt 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 (Materials fee $10.00 paid to presenter) Join us for a hands on, practical workshop that presents useful knowledge for all! You will learn how to create simple crystal elixirs to balance mind, body and spirit. Elixirs can expedite emotional clearing, alleviate symptoms of physical disease, relieve aches and pains and awaken the body’s natural self-healing abilities. Crystal Gem Elixirs can dramatically aid in balancing and healing for: • The body including all illnesses, diseases, pain, energy blocks and addictions. • The mind including emotional imbalances and hyperactivity. • The Soul including self-esteem, yin-yang and intuition. A crystal elixir is the unique vibratory energy pattern of a crystal combined into the auric and biophysical energy matrix of water. Crystal elixirs and essences have been used by many throughout the ages. They are a well suited way to use the vibrational energy of the crystals for balancing, healing and more. Elixirs are simple to make but the benefits of the enhanced crystal energy are much too important to dismiss. Whatever your need, the crystal essence is an effective use of crystal energy, especially when created with pure intention. This experiential workshop will focus on... • The difference between direct and indirect methods • Toxic stones and items to avoid when creating direct essences • The creation of safe, holistic crystal remedies for topical and ingestion uses • Designing personalized Elixirs • Alchemy to create potent Master Blends • Remedies to share with clients or friends • Handouts and recipes Dean Vaillancourt has an innate and longstanding interest in rocks, crystals and things of nature and is a self-proclaimed rockhound. His interest in Spiritual, metaphysical and crystals began over twenty years ago when his culinary adventure took him from Upstate NY to Washington, D.C. and then Phoenix, Arizona, where the interest developed into a passion. Dean is a self-described “down to earth”, nature loving, geo-intuitive shaman with the understanding that spiritual enlightenment begins when the student is ready to embark on that journey. With the past years of collecting and studying the “hard rocks” in life and co-mingled with a deep seeded link to Mother Nature, the creation is this opportunity to teach and share some of that experience. Monday, July 25 PERSONAL COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRIT Carol Gasber 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 We are never alone! We are constantly surrounded by Spirit Teachers, Guides and Loved Ones who endeavor to guide, heal, protect and teach us. Their love is ever present. This workshop will teach you meditative techniques and mental disciplines to begin, build, enhance and improve your own personal connection with Spirit. You will learn to open your awareness, to identify your teachers, guides and loved ones and immediately receive the knowledge, healing and unconditional love you seek. This is an experiential workshop with active participation in teaching meditations and discussions and even if you have never personally experienced contact with spirit, you will be able to identify and connect with at least one (if not many more) of your helpers. Those of you that are experienced will find your ability improved, clarified and increased. This is a special opportunity to take greater control of your life and personal growth. If you prefer reclining during meditation, please bring a mat and pillow for your comfort. Carol Gasber worked in the medical field as a Physician’s Assistant for twenty years and has served as a medium, healer, lecture and teacher for over fifty-five years throughout the United States, Canada and Iceland. She has personally worked and studied with notables Olga Worrell, Jose Silva, Paul Sauvin, Jean Condon, Dr. Raymond Moody, Dick Sutphen, Eugene Albright and others. She is one of the psychics featured in THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS. She has taken part in helping various law enforcement agencies in solving cases of missing persons and crime and government agencies in the pursuit of national security. Tuesday, July 26 PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUALISM Carol Gasber 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 “Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy and Religion of continuous life, based on the demonstrated facts proven through Mediumship.” Quote from the Manual of The National Spiritualist Association of Churches, Inc. Spiritualism is the teachings of spirituality or the understanding of spiritual forces in our existence. Those who investigate Spiritualism recognize it through the phenomena which is demonstrated by the various mediums and healers. Those who study Mediumship and Healing come to recognize it through the natural laws that govern the phenomena. Spiritualism basically is the philosophy of all truth. We do not presume to be all knowledgeable of truth but we are bound to the search for truth in all things. This search for truth forms the basis for the foundation of Spiritualism. Upon demonstrated facts is built the ultimates of every truth it is possible to comprehend and utilize. It is through this method that Spiritualism becomes a Science, Philosophy and Religion. In summarizing the teachings found in our search for truth, we begin to understand the natural laws which govern our lives and become aware of how we create our own happiness or unhappiness as we obey or disobey these laws of God. See bio 7/25 Tuesday, July 26 EXPLORING YOUR SIXTH SENSE: Understanding Psychic & Mediumistic Information Susan Fiandach & Connie Wake 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Most of us have received information through “that small voice,” a “just knowing,” or even through dreams of loved ones who have passed. This is the sixth sense, but because it is draped in fear or myth it is the most misunderstood and disregarded of all of our senses. Additionally, fears and myths challenge the experience and quality of psychic and spirit communication for both clients and readers alike. This is all under the realm of the sixth sense, and it’s time to bring it into the light and everyday language of the 21st century. The sixth sense is the means to the channel through which psychics, seers and mediums have received information for thousands of years. But we all have access to this channel and the information once we get past the outdated suspicions and mythology about psychic and spirit communication. In this interactive class, you will explore connecting to this psychic and mediumistic channel, how to recognize the kind of information received and interpret it in a simple yet meaningful way for yourself and others. Whether novice or veteran, for personal or professional use, you can explore, experience and expand your sixth sense for valid and valuable psychic or mediumistic information in an everyday, safe and non-mystical manner. This class includes a copy of the text and student guidebook: Everyday Conversations: The Key to the Contemporary Medium text and student guidebooks. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 29 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Susan Fiandach and Connie Wake are professional psychic mediums, teachers and co-authors of Everyday Conversations: The Key to the Contemporary Medium book and psychic studies programs. Their practical and everyday approach is a result of their combined 25 years of education, reading experience and teaching. Susan comes from a first-hand look at “the Other Side” through a near-death experience, returning with a clearer understanding and connection to it. Connie’s study of the energy universe, universal law and our divine nature offers a “left brain” perspective and easy-to-follow approach. Together they offer a powerful and contemporary perspective and methodology to psychic-medium communication, successfully guiding people in the exploration of their own 6th sense. Tuesday, July 26 PLUTO IN CAPRICORN & THE HERO/ HEROINE’S JOURNEY Patricia Walsh 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Challenging times call for us to reach for the extraordinary in ourselves! This is truly a time for ‘Soul Making’. The current astrological trends (for the next decade) indicate we are collectively and individually in a transformative time where the old and the new are colliding head-on! In the midst of such pressure, we can feel lost and hopeless or completely rebellious and liberated, and for many, all of the above – at the same time!!! Join Patricia Walsh, (author of Understanding Karmic Complexes; Evolutionary Astrology and Regression Therapy and Chief USA trainer for Deep Memory Process) to learn about the cosmic energies that are in play right now and what you can do to conspire with them for your higher evolution. Using astrological understanding with the backdrop of Joseph Campbell’s description of The Hero’s Journey, along with examples from ‘modern myths’ (Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings) Patricia will guide you through understanding how we create our own personal myths… and what it feels like to emerge as a Hero/Heroine. Patricia Walsh is a certified Deep Memory Process (DMP)® regression practitioner (since 2002) and is the Chief US Trainer for Dr. Roger Woolger’s institute of Deep Memory Process®. She is also a graduate of the Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology (2004) and is a certified Evolutionary Astrologer. She has lectured internationally in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe since 2005. She is a contributing author to Insights Into Evolutionary Astrology: A Diverse Collections of Essays by Prominent Astrologers (Llewellyn, 2010). 30 Wednesday, July 27 SPIRITUAL PARTNERSHIP & THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE Wednesday, July 27 CREATING YOUR REALITY BY SHIFTING YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS Robert Bens & Whitney McNeill 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 This workshop provides an opportunity for students to achieve harmony, remove heaviness, perceive symbolism of life choices, find the spark of Divinity within, and create a new reality! Students will view choices, decisions, and situations in life from a new perspective. Once a new perspective is seen, the student is able to perceive the meanings (symbolic and literal) of the life they’ve created for themselves. Using meditation, applying natural law, stating intentions, and identifying and working with Spirit Guides, individuals can make a “shift in consciousness,” to align with a new awareness. The class will address: • Natural Law – The Law of Attraction & the Law of Harmony • Spirit Guides – Identifying & Co-creating • Identifying & Removing: Fear, Ego, Anger, and Guilt • Auric Energy and composition of the MIND • Meditation • Cycles – Ending and Beginning • Relationships and their symbolic meaning • Spiritual Growth & Raising Your Vibration • Self-Healing • Finding the spark of Divinity within Robert A. Bens is a Medium, Author, and Metaphysician. He is a former Lily Dale resident, and is a lifetime member of the Lily Dale Assembly. Robert is a co-founder of the Church of the Living Spirit, where he served on the Board of Directors for three terms. He was also instrumental in co-founding several Spiritualist churches throughout the country. Rev. Bens wrote the book, God Is Not a Stranger, a metaphysical primer. He travels throughout the U.S. presenting classes and workshops on a variety of metaphysical subjects. Whitney McNeill is a Medium, Metaphysical teacher, Writer, and Speaker. Her client base is world-wide, and she has been a guest speaker for radio shows, Spiritualist churches, retreats, and most recently at the Illuminate Film Festival, presenting on Mediumship. Her writing has been published in OM Times Magazine. She is the co-founder and co-owner of the International Institute of Advanced Metaphysics and Messenger of Spirit, LLC in Sedona, Arizona where she teaches and serves Spirit. www.messenger ofspirit.com Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Victoria Zaitz 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 In this unprecedented time of the great shift of the ages, consciousness is expanding at an accelerated rate. As a result, most relationships are also undergoing huge changes. Our cultural ideas about relationships and their models and templates are evolving as different types of connections are being understood, acknowledged, and legitimized. In this in-depth workshop we will examine how our ideas about love and relationships are evolving, from a third dimensional perspective to higher dimensional perspectives. We will take a look at how ascension, the shift, spiritual and kundalini awakening and other spiritual processes are re-shaping our relationships. We will explore how soul connections such as karmic soul mates, soul mates, twin flames, and spiritual partnerships are deepening our understanding of love for ourselves and others. You will understand how reuniting with members of your soul family uplifts your personal vibration and puts you in touch with the energies of awakening as you grow on a soul level. This workshop will help you to examine, heal, and understand the lessons of relationships through group exercises, meditation, and other experiential methods. Victoria Zaitz is a full time professional psychic counselor, medium, reiki practitioner and teacher based in Pittsburgh, PA with over 8 years experience. Victoria teaches meditation, psychic development and counsels on soul mate and twin flame relationships. She also enjoys working with psychic children. www.victoriazaitz.com Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 2016 Workshops Thursday, July 28 YOUR SPIRIT TEAM – Forming Relationships With Your Five Main Guides Thursday, July 28 SPIRITUALISM, POPULAR CULTURE & THE AFTERLIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON George Hanson & Shannon Taggart 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 Michael Jackson is the hardest working dead man in show business. According to mainstream media reports, the spirit of Michael Jackson has testified at his own wrongful death trial, co-directed a Las Vegas show, assisted in the production of his posthumous last album and appeared live on CNN. These events, featured by outlets such as the BBC, TIME, Billboard Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, clearly illustrate Spiritualist phenomena happening within contemporary popular culture. This two-part presentation will explore how both the religion of Spiritualism and the afterlife of Michael Jackson challenge the distinction between life and death. The space between such opposites is considered liminal, ambiguous, mysterious, irrational, mythical. The blurring of such binary oppositions has been studied by structural anthropologists and literary theorists, and is crucial for understanding myth, ritual, and paranormal phenomena. This liminal realm also has significant implications for Spiritualism. George Hansen and Shannon Taggart will explain why. George P. Hansen was employed in parapsychology laboratories for eight years—three at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina, and five at Psychophysical Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. His research included remote viewing, card guessing, ganzfeld telepathy, electronic random number generators, séance phenomena, and ghosts. His papers cover mathematical statistics, fraud and deception, skeptics of the paranormal, conjurors in parapsychology, and exposés of hoaxes. Shannon Taggart is a photographer, researcher and Programmer-in-Residence at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, NY. She began photographing in Lily Dale with permission from the Board of the Assembly in 2001. Her photographs have been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications TIME, New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. For more, visit www.shannontaggart.com. Gloria Weichand 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Our spirit guides watch over us and offer guidance and support on our spiritual journey. These invaluable spirit friends have chosen us and help us in every area of our lives, including enhancing our psychic and mediumship abilities. Learn how to meet with these wonderful spirit friends, forming strong, personal relationships with them. During this workshop we will: • Practice better listening techniques for more accurate and stronger communication with the spirit world, using deep meditation, intensive exercises and discussion to become better acquainted with these amazing spirit friends. • Become aware of their presence in your daily life. • Practice better listening techniques for more accurate and stronger communication with the spirit world using deep meditation and discussion to become better acquainted with your guides. • Learn more about who your guides were when they lived on the earth. • Learn to tap into our guides energies in a quick and accurate manner to facilitate better and receive more accurate and evidential information and communication. One by one your guides will be called in so you will have an opportunity to meet them and recognize their energy. During meditation, you will also be able to create a biography on each of your guides, giving you a better understanding of who they are and why they chose you. This will give you more clarity on your own life path. This workshop will help your connection to the world of spirit grow by leaps and bounds, while raising your vibration to a whole new level! Gloria Weichand is the founder of The Spirit Education Center and Sanctuary, LLC, located in the heart of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. As an Evidential Medium, her clientele include people from all over the world, as well as many media persons, who have dubbed her, “The Angel of the Internet.” www.secasbiz.com Friday, July 29 TRANCE HEALING Angel Morra & Patti Tomczyk 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 The Healing Gift is an innate expression of our Spirit. We are able to uplift one another by the use of words, the touch of our hand, and the smile that forms on our face when meeting kindred souls. Spiritualists explore the healing experience through Spiritual Healing. Trance Healing allows your Spirit to attune and blend with the Healing Ministries on a deeper level. The condition of Trance moves the mind into different states, allowing the mind to move from an active to a passive state, whereby the connection from our conscious mind to the subconscious mind can with practice tap into the super conscious mind. This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to explore the closeness of Spirit through Trance Healing. Together we will: • Discuss the different conditions of the mind as it moves to stillness through Trance. • Explore how the link is made with Spirit to bring forward the Healing Energy through the condition of Trance • Examine the levels of healing energy in use as we move through different states of Entrancement If you are a healer and wish to expand on your level of attunement with Spirit, we welcome you to this workshop. Angela Morra is a certified Healer, Medium and Lecturer through the Spiritualist Church of Canada. In Toronto she facilitates workshops on Trance Healing and Mediumship. Angela is the pastor of Springdale Church in Toronto. For the past nine years Angela has and still sits as a governor on the board of the Spiritualist Church of Canada. Angela has taken Trance Healing instruction at Arthur Findlay College in England. Patti Tomczyk has been involved with Spiritualism for over 20 years. She has studied and worked as a medium and healer in Canada, the US and the UK. Patti is very committed to the development and growth of others in a way that honours their authentic selves. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 31 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Season Highlight Friday, July 29 SEEING AURAS/ PAINTING AURAS Marshall Arisman 9:30am–12:30pm, Auditorium $50.00 Internationally known artist, Marshall Arisman will conduct a talk and painting demonstration based upon his ability to see auras and how he has incorporated them into his artwork. Mr. Arisman spent his childhood visiting his grandmother, Louise Arisman, a medium and Spiritualist minister in Lily Dale. His film, A Postcard from Lily Dale, will be screened at the Fredonia Opera House on Friday, July 29th, the evening of the workshop. “Coming to Lily Dale,” Mr. Arisman said, “is like coming home for me.” Season Highlight Saturday, July 30 EVIDENCE OF ETERNITY Healing Grief Through Spirit Contact Mark Anthony, The Psychic Lawyer® 2:00pm–5:00pm, Auditorium $50.00, A book signing will follow Join us for an uplifting and inspiring presentation by Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer® author of the best-sellers Evidence of Eternity and Never Letting Go. The award winning and ground-breaking Evidence of Eternity removes fear and superstition from spirit communication, bringing it into the 21st Century. Never Letting Go is the uplifting guide on the journey through grief which is recommended by hospices and grief counselors worldwide. This event is for anyone open to the concept that life is eternal and that it is possible to communicate with our loved ones on “the Other Side.” Combining his gift of Evidential Mediumship with his knowledge of Survival of Consciousness and Near Death Experience Studies, the Science behind Spirit Communication, Theology and his unique sense of humor, Mark will demonstrate how making contact with a loved one in spirit can be an important therapeutic step in the healing process. Mark, who was born with the ability to communicate with spirits, will connect several audience members with loved ones on the Other Side. 32 Marshall Arisman’s paintings, drawings and prints of have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the New York Historical Society and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as well as many private and corporate collections. His graphic commentaries have appeared on the covers of Time, Harpers, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report and other publications. He is the chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 2011. He will be inducted into the Society of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame in 2016. To see examples of his work go to: http://marshallarisman.com/ http://www.marshallarismanangelsdemons.com/ http://apostcardfromlilydale.com/ The death of a loved one is a painful ordeal to endure, and everyone who experiences grief can use some help getting through this difficult process. Mark has a unique gift for communicating the personality of loved ones in spirit with empathy, humor, music and even laughter. Healing tears flow, and audiences come away with grief transformed into a new and joyful understanding of the eternity of life. Mark Anthony the Psychic Lawyer® (also known as The Psychic Explorer®) is the author of best-sellers Evidence of Eternity and Never Letting Go. He is a world-renowned psychic medium who uses his abilities to help people transcend grief. An Oxford-educated attorney, Mark studied Mediumship at England’s prestigious Arthur Findlay College for the Advancement of Psychic Science. He is a charismatic, thoughtful, humorous and accomplished public speaker featured regularly on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, FOX TV and on radio shows including Coast to Coast AM as a psychic medium, paranormal expert and legal analyst in high-profile cases. Articles about Mark have appeared in The Hollywood Times, The Huffington Post, New York Post, Publisher’s Weekly, The Inquisitr, Staten Island Today, OM Times, Elite Man Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine NYC, Wisdom Magazine, Infinity Magazine (Canada) and Spirituality Today (UK). He has spoken at Harvard, Brown, Yale, and Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Va. Beach and NYC. See videos of Mark on major media and performing readings: media.evidenceofeternity.com For more information about Mark and his books: www.EvidenceOfEternity.com Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Sunday, July 31 MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT REALMS Joseph Tittel 2:00pm-5:00pm, Auditorium $50.00 Join Medium Joseph Tittel for a special afternoon of Messages From The Spirit Realms. How do the deceased communicate with us and what are the signs to look for from them? How can I ground my energy & open myself to receive messages from Spirit? How does a Medium receive information from spirit? These are just a few of the questions that will be covered during this event with Psychic, Medium & Author, Joseph Tittel. Joseph will explain how to recognize and identify the signs your deceased loved ones are sending you, along with how you can open yourself to receive those messages on your own. Joseph will guide you in a short meditation to ground your energy, drop you into love & aid you in opening to receive messages from Spirit. He continues by connecting with Spirit & delivering personal messages to members of the audience, offering them the opportunity to witness how inspiring and validating it can be when a message from their loved one wants to be revealed. It is incredible to experience how Spirit manages to get messages to participants without Joseph coming directly to them. Perhaps a divine message from spirit is waiting for you. The event will conclude with a short segment designated for questions from the audience who have not received a message. Book signing will follow the event. Joseph “Spiritman” Tittel is an internationally renowned Medium, Author & Radio Personality. As a child, Joseph could see, feel and communicate with spirits. Today, Joseph uses his gifts to help reunite people with deceased loved ones and to bring powerful messages to the planet. The messages that come through to Joseph are deeply compelling, often startling and occasionally humorous. Joseph’s down-to-earth approach has earned him a vast and loyal following all over the world. He has appeared on The Travel Channel’s Mysterious Journeys & on Lifetime’s America’s Psychic Challenge. He has published his first book, Messages from the Other Side and is currently awaiting publication of his second book. Spiritman Joseph is known throughout the world for the accuracy of his yearly world predictions. He has his own series, Real Psychics, which airs on Comcast On Demand and is the host of one of Blog Talk Radio’s top spirituality shows, Spirit Speaks With Medium Joseph Tittel. www.josephtittel.com 2016 Workshops Monday – Tuesday, August 1-2 ATTUNE TO THE WISDOM OF SPIRIT THROUGH INSPIRATIONAL WRITING Judith Rochester 9:30am-12:30pm daily Leolyn Garden Room $100.00 Inspirational writing is a phase of mental mediumship. In this workshop, you will communicate with your Spirit Guides and Teachers to receive insight and inspiration through the written word. Learn how to awaken your soul to higher understanding as an instrument of compassionate Intelligences from the Spirit World. Each day includes: • Prayer, relaxation and meditation • Handouts with discussion and exercises • Opportunities to inspire others with your writings from Spirit Monday: Receive Insight Through Spirit Writing • Understand how Spirit communicates through writing to enlighten your soul • Attune to the Spirit World to unfold this phase of mental mediumship and awaken your higher understanding • Be an instrument of your Spirit Guide for inspirational writing and receive insight on your spiritual path Tuesday: Receive Inspiration from the Higher Realms Through the Written Word • Examine ancient and modern Spirit writings to realize their power to move you deep within • Open your spiritual gifts to gain different kinds of inspiration from a variety of Spirit influences through your pen • Commune with your Spirit Teacher in the Temple of Wisdom to receive inspirational writing that illumines your soul and uplifts others Judith Rochester PhD: An experience of awakening to the higher realms, that initiated Spirit communication thirty five years ago, has inspired Judith to help others learn from their own Spirit Guides and Teachers. A former teacher of philosophy, a Gestalt therapist and a writer for the Kundalini Research Institute of Canada, she has taught mediumship in Lily Dale for twenty years. Dr. Rochester is an ordained minister with the Church of the Living Spirit, a retired registered medium, healer and speaker. Monday, August 1 CALLING IN MEDICINE: HEALERS PATH TO WHOLENESS Brighid Murphy 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 To heal is to align with the light of who we truly are. Broken and wounded are old definitions that no longer serve us on a path of healing. When we take a look at the nature of healing, we discover that the medicine is actually in the dis-ease itself. Illness becomes a doorway into the light of who we are. What does this mean and how can we transform illness? During this workshop, we will develop new relationships with disease and begin transmuting what no longer serves us. Would you like to come with us? We will honor where we came from, and focus on new tools that take us where we want to go. Whether you are interested in your own healing, or are a practitioner who guides others, you will leave this gathering with an illuminated awareness of what is possible. Together, we will: • Become a Sacred Container: Grounding, Center & Illuminating our Core Energy • Redefine illness & create new agreements with healing • Incorporate our guides & ancestors in our process • Experience the influence of the heart & activate it’s healing potential • Open to gratitude and it’s role in manifesting wellness • Explore the concept of receiving & it’s influence on our well being • Discuss Shamanic Healing – soul retrieval and calling your spirit back Please bring a sacred object to share on the altar. It will be returned to you at the end of the day. Brighid Murphy is a healer, intuitive, teacher and guide. She offers individual sessions, workshops, and mentor programs for individuals and groups. Her experience of disease has led her on a journey that guides her deeply into new paradigms of healing. Her unique blend of shamanic medicine and intuitive counseling make her a potent conduit for the light. She is a captivating teacher, and has a gift for explaining healing and alignment in simple terms that are easily understood. www.spiritworkshealingarts.com Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Monday – Wednesday, August 1-3 TOTALLY TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE Sandra Taylor 9:30am-4:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $300.00 Your consciousness is a force in the world and it’s capable of creating great things in your life! But you need practical techniques and reliable information to make that happen. In this enlightening and comprehensive seminar, New York Times bestselling author, Sandra Anne Taylor, helps you to employ the many elements of healing and attraction-and reclaim your power now! Throughout the week, energy and past-life readings will be given to selected audience members. Monday, 9:30 to 4:30 ($105) CRACKING YOUR KARMA CODE If you feel like you’re making an effort but something is blocking your way, the answer may lie in your past lives! Sandra Taylor, New York Times bestselling author, will show you how your encoded consciousness may be hiding vital information from your past that is still a powerful force in your present reality! By identifying your karmic experiences and rewriting that code, you can finally break through those blocks and pave the way to the wonderful destiny you desire. This information-packed seminar includes: • Time, reincarnation, and the Energetic Realm • Tapping into the Akashic Records • Karmic Clues – connecting the past to the present • Identifying and healing present relationships • The three major sources of karmic experience • Karmic “debt” and karmic healing • Releasing toxic patterns and rewriting your consciousness code • Two powerful past life regression and rescripting exercises This inspiring and empowering workshop will help you reveal the past, heal the present, and create a blissful and bountiful life now! Tuesday 9:30 to 4:30 ($105) A WEALTH OF INSPIRATION! The Science and Power of Spirit in Your Life What does Spirit have to do with Attraction? Everything! Join Sandra to discover the amazing abundance and possibilities that spirit assistance can bring. Learn how to access the energy and guidance of your own spirit – and how to align your own resonance with the world of angels, ascended masters, and spirit family and friends. Learn practical skills that you can use every day to open your pipeline to spirit’s abundance, love, power and understanding. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 33 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Included in today’s session: • Powerful yet practical techniques that can gain access to the energetic realm • Connecting with angel and master vibrations for health, healing and harmony • Using your higher self to access the unlimited field of information • The amazing science of spirit vibration and psychic connection • Shared vibrations--how to have Spirit carry your intentions • Powerful meditations for messages, guidance and more Align your life force vibration with the spirit realm for magical destiny creation. You’ll be amazed at what wonderful new outcomes unfold! Wednesday 9:30 to 4:30 ($105) ULTIMATE ATTRACTION-POWER INTENSIVE There are many laws and energies of attraction, and you can learn to use each one to dramatically improve your life. Today’s session examines all of these to help bring clarity and completion to the pursuit of your goal. It will also help you stop sabotaging yourself with doubts, urgency, or low energy. If you’ve hit a plateau – or if you just want to accelerate to the next level, this workshop is for you! Included in today’s session: • The life-changing principles of Consciousness Creation • The power of Adjacent Possibilities • All seven laws of attraction, including intention, manifestation, harmony, and right action • The three types of resonant frequencies and the energy you project • How to create a Success Consciousness and Positive Expectations • Six dynamic energy changes for attracting abundant prosperity • Powerful guided visualizations for goal setting and reaching real results reveals how to release karmic influences, and her beautiful deck of Energy Oracle Cards are amazingly accurate in predicting present energies and future potentials. Her 8 titles are available in 27 languages across the globe. Sandra can be heard on Mondays at HayHouseRadio.com. Websites: www.sandrataylor.net and www. starbringerassociates.com Tuesday, August 2 MEDITATIONS FOR HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS Joseph Tittel 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Whether you are advanced in meditation or have never meditated before this workshop has many benefits to help all students. Meditation can help you to relax, lower blood pressure, help with anxiety, open your intuition & connect you with your guides & angels. During this workshop Joseph will teach you: • Proper breathing exercises to help you to relax • Techniques to help drop into a deep state of relaxation • Exercises to help ground your energy & keep you grounded • Special peace meditation where you can go to relax & meet your guides • Meditation techniques to help you clear away things that no longer serve you as well as helping you to manifest abundance We are in a new paradigm where it is much easier for us to do the things that were not so easy in the past, such as meditation & connecting with your guides. Join Joseph as he guides you with ease and grace into deep states of relaxation to help you get in touch with your subconsciousness & manifest joy, happiness & abundance. See Bio 7/31 Get clear, creative, and self-directed by bringing the positive energy of every law into your daily life. Sandra Anne Taylor is the New York Times best-selling author of Quantum Success, and Secrets of Attraction. Her most recent book, Your Quantum Breakthrough Code reveals an amazingly powerful yet easy technique to change old patterns and create a wonderful new destiny! Her third book Secrets of Success, co-written with acclaimed medium Sharon Klingler, connects science and spirit in the process of attraction. Sandra is known for her inspiring processes and life changing techniques incorporating consciousness, karma, and energy in personal transformation. The Hidden Power of Your Past Lives 34 Wednesday, August 3 SPIRIT SPEAKS Joseph Tittel & Brighid Murphy 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 Our world is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. As a result of this, we are able to access information very rapidly and with more ease than ever before. Join internationally renowned psychic medium Joseph Tittel, and gifted healer & visionary, Brighid Murphy, for this special all day workshop on Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide connecting with the unseen realms. Brighid & Joseph will help you to open your intuitive abilities, understand how to communicate with the spirit realm & access the wisdom of your spirit guides, guardians and angels. In this all day workshop you will experience: • Several special meditations that will help you to relax and move you into an open and receptive space • Creative visualization techniques to strengthen your energetic immune system and manifest more of what you want into your life • Expanding your understanding and awareness of your energy system (auric field) & working with your chakras • Instruction on creating and deepening relationships with your guides, angels, and guardians • An increased awareness on how to invite guidance into your life with ease and grace Joseph will guide students through several different meditations including his exclusive Alpha Meditation, a powerful meditation that assists participants into the Alpha State, which helps increase the ability to access one’s guides. Participants will learn how to go into an instant alpha state and will be guided to explore relationships with their own guides and helpers in the spirit realm. This day is packed with powerful information and practical techniques that serve to guide students to open to their intuitive abilities. Whether you are new to this work or well practiced on this path, you will expand your relationship with your guides as you gain new tools to incorporate on your journey. See Bio 7/31 Wednesday, August 3 PRACTICAL MAGIC FOR LIGHTWORKERS Annie Shibata 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 You have a talent, a gift you want to share with the world. Maybe you love to do healing work. Maybe you are skilled at passing messages from Spirit. Maybe you are a reiki master, yoga teacher, tarot card reader or astrologer. These are wonderful gifts, and sharing them with others is a beautiful service. There is a great difference between doing these things just because you love them, and using these talents to support yourself or your family financially. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO USE THESE SKILLS TO PAY YOUR BILLS, you need to understand that you are going into business. Failing to make this crucial connection has been costly for some folks who love the work, but didn’t want to or didn’t know how to do the practical things to make it be their paid work. If you are consid- 2016 Workshops ering getting paid for your work, or already are, join us as we explore practical magic for creating and improving your service business. We’ll cover practical issues such as branding, marketing, revenue streams, and the self-worth issue – what should I charge? You’ll leave with a clearer sense of boundaries and how to continue to educate yourself as a person who has a business. Annie Shibata, PhD, is a consultant, astrologer, healer and intuitive. She has been teaching, coaching and mentoring in colleges and corporations for over 30 years. Annie’s workshop participants have fun and explore deeply in a supportive, relaxed atmosphere. www.spiritstarguidance.com Thursday, August 4 MIND, BODY & SPIRIT STRESS RELIEF Paul DiFranco 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 Stressful situations! How we handle them affects our wellbeing. Empower yourself to successfully navigate stressful life currents by learning and practicing easy to do techniques. Our neural pathways influence how we deal with stressful situations. Too much pressure and the brain may revert to fear-based patterns. Patterns serve an evolutionary function to protect us, but may end up shutting down creative thinking, problem-solving, and causing relationship conflicts, and ultimately lead to illness. The good news is, that with practice, you can change the way your brain handles stress. Research is showing that simple practices can re-wire neural pathways to improve everything from relationships to work performance, as well as physical and mental health. In this experiential afternoon, Paul draws upon his skills as a hypnotherapist, meditation, and yoga instructor and a healing musician. The takeaways are practical fun techniques, which are known for improving mind, body and spirit and creating greater ease, joy and happiness. Participants will leave feeling deeply relaxed, confident and motivated to use these stress relieving techniques. Bring a blanket, a few firm pillows, and eye covering for comfort. Wear loose comfortable clothes. Paul DiFranco C.Ht. is an Akron, Ohio-based certified clinical and spiritual hypnotherapist. His mission is to help clients accelerate in their goal achievement so that may live happier, healthier, and longer lives. He instructs meditation and yoga. He performs with the musical chanting group Smiling Heart. Paul has worked in HR, Training and Education fields in corporate, consulting, coaching and small business settings. MLHR, B.A. Psychology. Ordained Minister More information www.HolisticPathwaysNEO.com Thursday, August 4 SELF PUBLISH YOUR PRINT BOOK IN 7 EASY STEPS Jamie Saloff 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Many self-starting authors who want to publish a print book are told, “Simply upload your manuscript to an online publisher and voila! You will be published!” Unfortunately, many authors who take this path unaware are often left with poor quality books and disappointing sales. But it doesn’t have to be like that. You can do-it-yourself by first gathering a little knowledge and learning a few trade secrets. During this workshop you will walk through the seven easy steps to publish your print book, while learning valuable, sales-making tips for producing a quality-looking product that makes buyers rave. There will be plenty of time to ask questions and receive answers from someone versed in working with nontechie authors. In addition, you will glean: • Pro-design tips for both inside the book and on the cover • Cost evaluation sheets for publishing, promoting, and money management • Must dos and don’ts that create profitable, well-selling books • Where to get free, secret pro-guides to walk you through the sticky parts • How to ensure your book is available world-wide Jamie Saloff has been working in the printon-demand field for over 15-years, practically since its inception. She has taught her 7 easy steps to people from all walks of life—regardless of technical ability. A design expert, her clients learn how to produce quality, profitable books, while avoiding common publishing pratfalls. She is the author of seven books including: 7 Easy Steps to Professionally SelfPublish Your Book Using Lightning Source or IngramSpark. She is also the co-teacher of Metaphysical Marketing Mastery, an intensive course for spiritually-minded entrepreneurs who want a better understanding of online marketing. Jamie is graduate of Fellowships of the Spirit, as a certified spiritual counselor and metaphysician. www.jamiesaloff.com Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Thursday – Friday, August 4-5 HOW TO DO PAST LIFE READINGS & FUTURE PROJECTIONS Sharon Klingler 9:30am-4:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $200.00 The past and the future are always with us in the present. Karmic lessons and relationships impact the present and converge with our future plans and purposes. Learning to perceive past life information and apply it to present conditions is a good beginning in giving readings. But your clients and friends also seek to understand what lies before them – their future opportunities, unseen alternatives, and the relationships yet to come. In this workshop you can learn specific techniques that make the past relevant and the future clear in your readings for yourself and others. This workshop includes: • Identifying and linking with past, present and future guides • Physical perceptions of previous life traumas • Reading and understanding the time zones of the future • Recognizing the undercurrent of past life emotions and compulsions • Revealing the unexpected – seeing what’s to come for your clients • Soul mates: past life ties and destined meetings in the future • Understanding the reasons for incarnating • Karmic lessons and their resolution • Recognizing adjacent possibilities and unforeseen alternatives • Eternal time lines and goals with higher guides and the ascended masters • Future projection of paths to come (immediate steps as well as long term developments) Join us for this two-day intensive workshop and learn how to link with the many spirits of different times. Discover how to perceive the future information that brings insight and power to every reading you do! (You do not have to be a professional medium to attend this course, but a facility with meditation and a familiarity with spirit connection are recommended.) Sharon Anne Klingler is a bestselling author, medium, and an inspiring speaker. The Huffington Post declared her most recent book, Power Words, “…my kind of book, as it gives us all extraordinary superpower tools to help uncover our highest selves.” And Denise Linn described it as “…perhaps the most profound, transformative book ever written on the influence that…language has on our lives.” www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 35 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Some of Sharon’s other books are Intuition & Beyond for Random House London and the best-selling Secrets of Success with her sister, New York Times bestseller Sandra Taylor. Sharon’s other titles include Drawing on Your Intuition, Travel into Your Past Lives, the comprehensive, multi-media programs Speaking to Spirit and Advanced Spirit Communication; as well as many other books, CDs, and programs. One of the world’s leading intuitives, Sharon has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network; BBC and ITV London; BBC Scotland; Vision TV Canada; and on major outlets throughout the United States, Australia, and Europe. She has also been featured in The London Daily Express and in many newspapers and magazines around Australia, Europe, and the United States. (You can hear Sharon regularly on Hay House Radio’s Living Your Quantum Success show.) Friday, August 5 CONNECT TO THE YOU WITHIN Shelly Wilson 9:30am-12:30pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Join Intuitive Medium, Reiki Master and Spiritual Growth Coach Shelly Wilson for this 3-hour interactive and experiential workshop based on her book, Connect to the YOU Within. Are you listening and paying attention to the guidance you are receiving? Do you acknowledge this knowingness fully and completely? Recognize that your soul is already awake. Your mind and physical body simply need to connect with the knowingness of your soul – the YOU within. This workshop will offer insight, tools and exercises to assist you with communicating with your Higher Self, angels, guides and loved ones in Spirit. Since this communication tends to be subtle, heightening one’s awareness is essential. Shelly Wilson, Intuitive Medium, Reiki Master and Spiritual Growth Coach, would love to assist you on your spiritual journey. With respect, truth, integrity and love, she honors your free will and recognizes that you are co-creating your reality with the Universe. Shelly’s books, 28 Days to a New YOU, Connect to the YOU Within and Journey into Consciousness, are available in paperback and eBook. Shelly has studied with Sonia Choquette, Lisa Williams, James Van Praagh, John Holland and Tony Stockwell and is a certified Karuna© Reiki Master through the International Center for Reiki Training. She hosts The Shelly Wilson Show on Blog Talk Radio each Wednesday from 2-3 pm CST. In addition, Shelly is a featured columnist and an Executive Editor for OMTimes Magazine. Residing in Oklahoma, she has a BS in Business with a minor in Psychology. 36 Friday, August 5 MEDITATION: YOU CAN DO IT Paul DiFranco 2:00pm-5:00pm Octagon Building $50.00 You have heard plenty of times that meditation brings a myriad of life improvements! A mountain of evidence exists from self-study to experimental confirming numerous health benefits. So what’s the holdup? Why aren’t more people meditating? If meditation could be bottled and bought people would line up around the block with their wallets open! Until someone finds a way to do this, meditation skills, like those of fine artisanship, are developed over time with regular practice. Skillful meditation is the softest among soft skills. That adage on these is that they are easy to understand but harder to implement. Paul developed a meditation program, which uses progressive exercises to ratchet down overcharged 21st century nervous systems so that participants can smoothly begin or improve a sitting practice. He is known for his calm, smooth soft voice, which he uses to guide students into relaxed states. He also employs his hypnotherapy skills to help participants develop this life positive habit and improve their motivation to develop a daily practice. Bring a blanket, eye covering and several firm sitting pillows for comfort. Wear loose comfortable clothes. See Bio 8/4 Friday, August 5 INNER VISION QUEST: FIND YOUR PASSION, PURPOSE & PATH Joanne Franchina 7:00pm-10:00pm Assembly Hall $50.00 You hear your spirit softly calling, “You are a sacred gift, vital to the well-being and evolution of the world. Your presence is requested.” In this inspiring and empowering daytime retreat, you will explore your passion, purpose, and path through journaling, meditation, healing and ceremony. • It’s a Sign. Recollect your passions, gifts, and talents—all are signs that point the way to your spiritual purpose. • The Journey. Walk the inner landscape of your psyche. Explore the nature of your gifts and discover the path your spirit has chosen. • Crossroads. Remove stumbling blocks from your consciousness and clear the way to a free and full experience of love, peace, and joy. • Trailblazing. Create a “map” of visual and linguistic landmarks. Discover themes and patterns among these symbols that will help you make your way in the world. • Nature’s Cathedral. Contemplate your soul’s journey as you walk, or sit, in nature. • Homecoming. Invoke the support of the Universe and celebrate the Wisdom in which your spiritual path is grounded. Return to everyday life a changed person – answer the call of your spirit with a renewed intention to be a sacred gift and live your truth! Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide or call 716-595-8721 Joanne Franchina is an intuitive life coach and the founder of Inner Compass Academy. After enjoying a successful career as a professional writer and training course developer, Joanne pursued a higher calling to become an ordained minister and certified medium with Fellowships of the Spirit in Lily Dale, New York. Today, Joanne coaches individuals and leads workshops on meditation, mediumship, manifestation, and other metaphysical disciplines. She has written for regional and national publications, been a featured guest for radio, and lectured at expos and other events throughout the country. Joanne teaches people how to create fabulous lives for themselves by using their inner wisdom in everyday situations. 2016 Workshops Season Highlight Saturday, August 6 MAKING THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION AT LILY DALE ASSEMBLY James Van Praagh 9:30am-12:30pm, Auditorium, $50.00 Join renowned medium James Van Praagh at the Lily Dale Assembly for an unforgettable demonstration of the mediumistic arts! James will lead you through exercises and meditations, where you’ll tap into the eternal wisdom and guidance of the universe to connect with Spirit guides and loved ones who have passed. With Spirit on your side, you’ll find that you have everything you need to live the life of your dreams! Take advantage of this unique opportunity to join renowned medium and teacher, James Van Praagh, at a unique spiritual mecca, the Lily Dale Assembly, where he’ll bring through messages, guidance and inspiration from loved ones in the spirit world. James will be your guide as you: • Learn to blend and communicate with the spirit world around you. • Observe the techniques of a master medium, gathered over 30 years in the field. • Get acquainted with your spirit guides and set up an ongoing working relationship with them. • Receive spiritual messages and inspirations to guide and inspire you on your path. You’ll leave with a fresh new perspective – a stronger connection to the spirit world and the comforting awareness that you are not alone, and a deeper sense of how spirit works within you and around you on a daily basis to help you live the life of your dreams. James Van Praagh, Internationally renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author of Talking to Heaven, Reaching to Heaven, Healing Grief, Heaven and Earth, Looking Beyond, Meditations, Ghosts Among Us, Unfinished Business, Growing Up In Heaven, Adventures of the Soul, How to Heal a Grieving Heart (co-authored with Doreen Virtue) and the soon to be released Power of Love; James Van Praagh is hailed throughout the world as a pioneer of the mediumship movement, and recognized as one of the most accurate spiritual mediums working today. His messages have brought solace, peace and spiritual insights, changing millions view of both life and death. He has received many awards for his dedication to raising the consciousness of the planet. Sunday, August 7 LOVE NEVER DIES: HOW TO RECONECT & MAKE PEACE WITH THE DECEASED Jamie Turndorf 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Having been raised by two “devout” atheists who taught me to not believe in God or the afterlife, I share how my own lack of belief was abruptly shattered immediately following Jean’s bodily departure from a bee sting. I reveal a few of Jean’s astonishing after-death manifestations. Jean told me, “Jamie, let our life shine like a torch that lights the path for others.” In other words, these over-the-top miracles that continue to this day are designed to let the world know that we don’t die, our relationships are not meant to end in death, and that, above all, those we love are waiting for us to open the door of our hearts to them. Using examples of Jean’s ongoing manifestations, I elucidate all the ways that spirit reaches out to us, including how they use animals, which are what I call natural Open Vessels, as well as humans who are particularly open. I also show how spirits use Earthly Props in the form of electronic devices to communicate with us. Next, we focus on dispelling any false beliefs or religious teachings that may impede the students’ ability to reconnect with spirit, including the fear of opening the door to the devil and the incorrect notion that reconnecting prevents us and them from moving on. I also share my husband’s shattering afterdeath manifestation revealing why what we’ve been told about the afterlife is “dead” wrong. In his revelation, he offered me biblical proof (quoting from the Communion of Saints) proving why we are not supposed to live in an emotional wasteland separated from those we love, waiting until we die and enter heaven in order to be reunited. As Jean told me, “Death is an illusion. There is a very thin veil between the realm where you are and the realm where I am.” And, most importantly, “Heaven is a state not a place. Heaven is all around us. Heaven is here and now. The point being: since heaven is here and now, we are supposed to reconnect and stay connected with loved ones in spirit right now! Jamie Turndorf’s experiences have led her to develop her groundbreaking new Trans-Dimensional grief therapy method that diverges from the traditional Western approach (grieve, let go and move on), which only leaves the bereaved at a greater loss. By contrast, her method offers the first vehicle in history for enabling the bereaved to reconnect and, if needed, make peace with the deceased. Her story and her new Trans-Dimensional Grief Therapy (which combines her acclaimed conflict-resolution method with ADC) are presented in her latest bestselling Hay House book Love Never Dies: How to Reconnect and Make Peace with the Deceased where she introduces her groundbreaking new Dialoguing with the Departed technique. Unlike traditional mediumship in which we receive messages, her dialoguing technique offers the first vehicle for communicating backand-forth with those in spirit and making peace if needed. Tuesday, August 9 ARCHANGELS YOUR ALLIES IN SPIRIT George Koury 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 The Archangels are some of the most powerful beings in existence. They can help you to live a life of fulfillment and happiness. They can help you make your unique contribution to the world. The Archangels are eagerly and joyfully waiting to partner with you. In this unique workshop you will discover experiences and knowledge that you won’t find in books. • Intimately experience the presence of the Archangels in your life. How to work with specific Archangels for specific results. • How to work with them to transform a location, situation or relationship. • How to create concrete, positive changes in the areas of love, prosperity and well-being. • Receive a special Angelic Attunement for easily accessing the Archangels. • Learn a sacred mantra used by the ancients to bring you into deep meditation and communication with the Archangels. • Learn powerful, effective, nondenominational prayers discovered by the mystics that were directly inspired by the Angels. George Koury is a Psychic Medium and Angel Messenger in practice for over thirty years. He acquired much of his skill from his Maternal Grandmother, a Medium and Healer. George started his work life as a professional circus clown with Ringling Brothers Circus. In his fifteen years as an entertainer, he learned the importance of laughter on the spiritual path. He brings this joy to his clients and students. George is a Pastoral Counselor with ordination from The New Seminary in NYC. He has done advanced training with Mediums Bill Coller, Sharon Klingler and Tony Stockwell, plus four generations of Angel experts including Doreen Virtue, Dr. Kimberly Marooney and Dr. Judith Reno. He is respected for teaching with love, compassion and a great sense of humor. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 37 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Tuesday, August 9 MAKE YOUR OWN DOWSING RODS Kenneth Green 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Limit of 15 students Materials fee: $20.00 paid to presenter Learn the Art of Spiritual Dowsing and make your own tools! Dowsing is an ancient art involving copper L-shaped rods with wooden handles to locate almost anything below or above ground. Traditionally used for finding water, later the rods were incorporated successfully into searches for natural gas and oil. They can be used similar to a pendulum for communing with spirits or over a map to find the best location for a building, a sweat lodge or any type of dwelling. Pendulum rods are excellent tools for finding answers to where one should live or work. Using rods that are crafted by your own hands strengthens the power of intention and wooden handles ensure that the rods are not influenced by the user’s energy field. Kenneth Green, a nationally certified healer, is a world-renowned crafter of Native American style flutes. Of Mic-Mac lineage, he grew up surrounded by expert dowsers. As an Eagle Scout he continued to expand his interest in dowsing and he enjoys helping folks craft their own dowsing rods. Ken hand-crafts the wooden handles and bends the copper himself so that he can instill the blessings of smudging the raw materials before passing these on to each class participant. Tuesday, August 9 HEALING OUR HURTS LEADS TO SPIRITUAL WISDOM Laura Lee Perkins 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 The soul always has the capacity to heal, guiding us into spiritual freedom and vitality. Healing Our Hurts is a journey – a spiritual pilgrimage. Unresolved emotional issues impede spiritual growth. This process of transformation is an evolution, a rising up into wholeness, and it involves finding one’s own truth through creative avenues: discovery, reunion, rehabilitation, and healing. There are many different healing modalities to choose from, but they are designed by someone else for someone else. If you can create your own emotional healing processes and tools, the healing will occur faster and at a much deeper level. has included teaching at all educational levels. She has been awarded 5 Artist-inResidencies and 11 grants for her work. A winner in the Writers’ Digest Awards’ Inspirational category, she has authored 7 books and 150+ published articles. Perkins’ flute playing is featured on 10 professional CDs and 3 audio books, but she is most widely known for her engaging teaching style. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Masters degree in Counseling. Wednesday, August 10 am class or pm class LEARN TO PLAY THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE – SESSION I White Owl Duo 9:30am -12:30pm or 2:00pm - 5:00pm Lyceum Building $50.00, Limit 15 students each class Used for Spiritual Healing and Spiritual Message work, the Native American Flute has been described as “Power, Meditation and Prayer through Sound”. Those who are drawn to its compelling sound often speak of the power of this instrument to draw forth sacred personal and communal experiences. There is something truly magical about bringing a “dead” piece of wood back to life with the warmth of the human breath. Playing the Native American flute has an undeniable soul connection. The Native American flute’s mystical, haunting sound summons spiritual energy. Much curiosity exists about the strength of this gentle, simple instrument that seems to awaken primeval memories locked deep within our souls. Is the experience of feeling summoned actually the ancients calling to us, or is it simply that our hectic lifestyles make our soul long for meditative respite? Perhaps it is both. Folks often speak of feeling drawn into a trance-like state by the native flute’s power to invoke altered states of consciousness, and an overwhelming feeling of universal love for all life forms. There is a sense of the sacred that is almost whispered. We welcome both music readers and non-musicians to the class and we supply the class flutes at no extra charge. www.whiteowlproducts.com See Bio 8/10 Thursday, August 11 LEARN TO PLAY THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE – SESSION II White Owl Duo 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00, Limit 15 students See write-up 8/10. Laura Lee Perkins, CM is a certified medium and a spiritual writer, educator and musician who exhibits a passion for life. Her career 38 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Wednesday, August 10 MEET THE ASCENDED MASTERS George Koury 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 An Ascended Master is someone who has become self-realized and from the world of Spirit, continues to work for the betterment of humanity and all living beings. They have achieved an elevated level of spiritual light and evolvement. They included (but not limited to) beings like Jesus, Buddha, Mother Mary and Kuan Yin. This is a fun, exciting, non-denominational workshop. • Learn how to easily discern which Ascended Masters you have a connection with • Learn a process to directly access specific Ascended Masters • Receive a special energy attunement to assist you with easily accessing the Ascended Masters • How to work on your own to study and learn directly from the Ascended Masters • How to work with the Ascended Masters to improve all areas of your life and to help others do the same Wednesday, August 10 YOUR BELIEFS & HOW THEY EFFECT YOUR HEALTH Paul Hodges 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Our health is influenced greatly by our personal, cultural and spiritual beliefs. What we believe or have been taught to believe about who we are, where we came from and our relation to life as a whole all play a major role in our overall health. This Workshop explores: • Where our beliefs come from • How our beliefs can effect our health • How we can recognize and change faulty/outdated beliefs • How to create better health in all aspects of our life Paul Hodges is a licensed Orthopedic Physical Therapist currently in private practice in Tucson Arizona. He has a strong background in Orthopedics, energy work, muscle imbalance and the mind body spirit connection. He is a Registered Medium and Healer at the Lily Dale Assembly along with being a Registered Medium at Plymouth Spiritualist Church in Rochester NY. www.pahodges.com 2016 Workshops Thursday, August 11 PSYCHOMETRY: INTUITING THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE Lisa Bousson 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 During a Psychometry reading, one or all of the following psychic abilities can be used – Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, and Clairaudience. The developing student will be able to intuit impressions, visions, thoughts or events relating to someone just by holding an object, piece of jewelry, photograph or letter belonging to that person. These objects can hold imprints of emotions, sounds, scents, tastes or images, all of which can give a good recounting of past events. Psychometry is a wonderful way to begin building the psychic sentences, and is a fun way to begin stretching the intuitive muscles. In this beginning development course, students will be led in a series of exercises where imprints of energy can be intuited easily, clearly and distinctly. Bring personal items (preferably having one owner) from loved ones, living and in spirit. Photographs should be of a single person. Lisa Bousson is a Reiki Master Teacher, Ordained Spiritualist Minister, Ordained Metaphysical Minister, and currently holds a Bachelor’s degree in Metaphysical Sciences from The University of Sedona. Lisa has taught development classes for over fifteen years and currently travels nationwide teaching and doing public demonstrations of mediumship. www.lisabousson.com Thursday, August 11 THE COMPASSIONATE MEDIUM Jake Samoyedny 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 If you feel like you are “stuck” in your mediumship development or looking to expand your skill set, this class is for you. This class is designed for working mediums and those in their developing stages to enhance the quality of your readings with a focus on private one to one sittings. You will come to understand the value of choosing to serve those in the Spirit side of life by striving to lessen your ego or your desire to be “ a people pleaser”. The approach that will be shared is based on the idea that the medium is in the role of providing healing, love and comfort not only to the sitter but just as importantly to our Spirit loved ones. Jake Samoyedny is “The Compassionate Medium”. He is a Registered Lily Dale Medium and the author of the book The Compassionate Medium published in 2014. Jake has had the privilege of studying with many of the best mediums alive today both here in the United States and also at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College in England. Voted by The Times Square Press as One of the Top 25 Mediums in The United States for 2014/2015. Jake is known for his unique road to mediumship. Jake is a much sought-after speaker who when not facilitating private readings in Lily Dale Jake can be found traveling through out the United States as a medium and speaker. Jake lives and maintains an office in Tarrytown NY just north of NYC. www.compassionatemedium.com Friday, August 12 SEASHELLS & GEMSTONES: HEALING ENERGY & MESSAGE BRINGERS Joanne Copley-Nigro 9:30am-12:30pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Mother Earth and Mother Sea enrich our lives with beauty, wisdom, balance and healing if we are attuned to look, listen and perceive their messages. From the time of ancient cultures to the Shaman of today we find stones and shells used as tools for healing and divination. Sea shells and stones are powerful tools for transformation. Each seashell not only holds the energy of the ocean but also of the ocean creature that had consciousness and spirit when residing in that shell. Sea shells are like minerals and stones which have potential for healing. Sea shells hold the energy of the ocean, the primary source of where life began. Join in a healing journey exploring the ways in which sea shells and stones can promote healing and awaken intuitive messages for you. We will learn how specific shells and stones assist in healing of mind, body and spirit. • Bring vitality and new energy • Relieve stress and negativity • Promote balance and harmony • Receive inspirational messages This workshop will provide: • Participants with a healing stone and sea shell • Participation in a guided meditation • Use intuitive perception to receive messages from shells and stones See bio 7/22. Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Friday, August 12 A TIME OF REMEMBERANCE Kathleen Salyers 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 This is a time for awakening and remembering yourself as a spiritual being! There are often times in the fast pace of daily life that we feel as though we have become disconnected from ourselves….and we may even begin to wonder who we are and how this came to be. During this experiential class you will have the opportunity to reconnect with yourself as a spiritual being and those gifts which you brought into this lifetime to assist you on your spiritual journey. You will have an opportunity to share with and explore with others what it means to be a spiritual being in today’s world and how this is manifest in the world around you. In this workshop there will be an opportunity to connect with those spirit guides who assist in your spiritual growth and development. What are the messages which they wish to bring you and how may you discover your own inner source of communication? These are questions which will be discussed as we explore the many ways in which our spirits continue to reaffirm our spirituality and Oneness with the Divine. There will be a group experience as part of a guided meditation that will allow each individual participant to explore his or her own inner sanctuary where guidance and connection with spirit is possible. You will learn ways to enhance your spiritual growth and development…..and how we all share in this journey to the top of the mountain! Kathleen M. Salyers worked for 30 years in many varied community agency settings as a social worker and counselor. She retired after 13 years as a tenured professor of Counselor Education and Supervision where she also served as the Program Coordinator of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program. She has a Bachelor Degree in Social Work from Ohio University, a Master Degree in Social Agency Counseling from the University of Dayton, and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Ohio University. She is a lifelong medium having been introduced to spirit communication by her grandmother and mother as a very young child. Her spiritual journey led her to Lily Dale where she is a year round resident. She is a graduate of the Fellowships of the Spirit School of Healing and Prophecy. She is an ordained Spiritualist Minister and serves as a medium in Lily Dale. www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 39 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Sunday – Monday, August 14-15 SPIRITUAL HEALING COURSE – INTERMEDIATE LEVEL – PHASE II Season Highlight Friday – Saturday, August 12-13 Colette Baron Reid Fri. 8/12 - 7:00pm-10:00pm, Sat. 8/13 - 9:30am-4:30pm, Auditorium Fri. $50.00, Sat. $100.00 Colette Baron-Reid is an internationally renowned intuitive counselor, educator and best selling author who helps others recognize and connect with their own intuition, potential and purpose. Powerful motivational speaker, charismatic broadcast personality, and acclaimed performer, storyteller and recording artist, Colette uses her extraordinary spiritual gifts to empower her clients to live a life that is “awake and authentic”, and to create a reality that is spiritual, deliberate and meaningful. Passionate about people, Colette’s work as an intuitive and medium is to help individuals see the magic and meaning in the Story of their lives. She has brought her message of hope, healing and humor to audiences of thousands in 150 cities across North America, Europe and the U.K. Her popular books and audio programs are found worldwide. Remembering The Future, Messages From Spirit,The Wisdom of Avalon, Wisdom of the Hidden Realms can be found in 8 languages. Her newest #1 selling book on Amazon and Barnes and Noble – The Map – and companion oracle cards; – the Enchanted Map Oracle have been translated into 18 languages. She lives in New Hampshire with her fabulous husband and two children dressed in furry Pomeranian suits. Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 40 Barbara Sanson 2:00pm-5:00pm daily, Healing Temple $100.00 Using the learning from Phase 1 we will continue to develop your techniques for clear intentions and focus to reach and support the requests of the receiver through the flow of Divine Intelligence. As we share and develop our awareness the instruction will cover color, sound and magnetic energy as used in healing. Developing the heart and mind of the healer is a journey of love and compassion, while also accepting the flow of love to enter and heal ourselves. In additional skills we will share how to support with healing words and find empowerment through our inner spirit. It is more and more apparent that our present day world seeks the comfort and balance of spiritual healing. It is a consciousness of love and compassion that holds no barriers or limitations. It is available to everyone who has a willing heart. See bio 7/17. Monday – Wednesday August 15-17 MARI Michele Takei 9:30am-4:30pm, Leolyn Garden Room $430.00 (materials fee $300.00 paid to presenter) MARI is a Jungian assessment based on one’s intuitive choice of symbols and colors. It is highly accurate because, unlike traditional psychological tools, it accesses the rightbrain functions as well as all four functions of consciousness -thinking, feeling sensing and intuiting. MARI is based in Wholeness and allows the psyche to “speak” as well as heal. If you are a counselor, teacher, life coach or psychologist who is searching for a viable alternative to traditional psychological tools and approaches, this class is for you. While the training is geared toward mental health professionals, and provides 21 CE’s (NBCC and NASW,) it can be helpful to anyone who provides guidance to others. It is similar to an intuitive reading only with MARI, the intuition comes from the subject not the medium. A MARI session is nonthreatening, allows for full client autonomy, and is remarkably accurate and insightful. MARI provides a visual picture of one’s psyche – allowing for more rapid understanding and change to occur. The class provides a hands-on learning experience where the student creates and learns Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide to interpret their own “drawn”mandala and MARI card test. It includes PowerPoints, lecture, learning experiences, excellent materials – and a highly enjoyable three-day learning experience. Shelley Takei is a long time summer resident of Lily Dale and the owner of Angel House Guest House with her husband, Frank. She has a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and Women’s Studies and has taught psychology classes in traditional and transpersonal university settings for many years. She specializes in classes that highlight the Feminine Principle. MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) is a feminine instrument that draws on the wisdom of the intuitive and creative right brain. She is the author of SHE-Q, Why Women Should Mentor Men and Change the World and Mandala Magic (a mini version of MARI.) She lives in Raleigh, NC in a multi-generational housing complex with her daughter and son and their families. Monday – Friday, August 15-19 EXCELLENCE IN MEDIUMSHIP – REACHING THE TOP OF YOUR PRACTICE INTENSIVE Lisa Williams & Sharon Klingler Mon. 9:30am-4:30pm, Tues.–Thurs. 9:30am-7:30pm, Fri. 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $955.00 In this exciting weeklong intensive for advanced students, Lisa and Sharon will share techniques that help bring you to the top of your game in all of your work with spirit. Learn two distinct styles of mediumship in an atmosphere that both supports you and pushes you to new heights in spirit communication. This highly experiential workshop will include: Monday: Your Private Practice • Ways to expand your mediumship and your practice • Therapy v. readings • Boundaries and structures in working with clients and spirit • How to run and market message services and private readings Tuesday: Platform Foundations • Practicing different styles of public mediumship • Getting powerful evidence • The language and energy of platform • Group practice 2016 Workshops Wednesday: Bringing Mediumship to the Stage • Video samples of mediumship from around the world • Working with multiple connections at once • Message delivery to the audience • Group practice – Stompin’ at the Stump Thursday: Becoming the Elite Medium • Raising the bar and striving for excellence • Speed reading • The fast and the furriest – getting animals in spirit • Demonstration practice to build exquisite mediumship Friday: Funday Friday – Opening to Other Tools of the Trade • Meeting spirit through light trance and deep trance • Quick practice techniques with other oracles • Adding other tools to your private practice • Techniques to expand Art Clairvoyance into Clairsentience and Clairaudience This workshop is meant for advanced students only and recommended for working mediums and those wishing to build a practice. Many students will have the option to practice at the 5:30 Inspiration Stump service Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This will be immediately followed by a critiquing session conducted by Sharon and Lisa together. Come and join two of the world’s top mediums as you take your work with spirit to new heights of excellence! Lisa Williams – see bio 8/20 Sharon Anne Klingler – see bio 8/4-5 Tuesday, August 16 VORTEX ENERGY Spider 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building, $50.00 We are now in the Fifth World. The Earth is changing frequency and so are we. Our DNA is being triggered to awaken latent talents. We are evolving at the fastest rate in human history since our ancestors first stood upright. Rapidly shifting energy vibrations are calling us to transform. Vortex Energy helps us adapt to the Fifth World vibration as we evolve into multi-dimensional beings with expanded capacities for understanding and communicating. In the 1980’s, the Star People began to visit Spider and teach her how to use Vortex Energy – a simple method of creating a multi-dimensional diamond energy form with your hands. Creating a Vortex opens the doorway of the Void, transforming every level of being. Vortex Energy awakens latent DNA codes, regenerates the physical body, transforms stress, rearranges the opportunities we manifest, and aligns our energy with the Earth and other Universal worlds. In this workshop, Spider will share the system of using Vortex Energy for healing that she developed over the past thirty years from personal and shared Vortex experiences. This workshop will be part lecture and part hands on experience with Vortex Energy. Spider will share Information on planetary energy evolution, currently awakening strands of DNA and the Energy Web. Participants will be introduced to the Energy Band and create a Vortex. The class will end with a Group Vortex experience. Spider is a spiritual leader following the Taino tradition of the Caney Indian Spiritual Circle and the Medicine Wheel philosophy of the Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge. Directed by the Star People, she developed the system of using Vortex Energy for adapting our vibrations to the changing planetary frequency. Spider is the author of Vortex Energy: Creating a Doorway for Transformation and Evolution (Balboa Press, 2015) and several other books on Native American topics. She was a workshop presenter and led sweat lodges at Lily Dale in 2014 and 2015. Spider lives in Fredonia where she shares Taino Glyph, Medicine Wheel and Animal Teachers readings, SpiderHerbs healing preparations, and Vortex Energy healing sessions. www.spidersmedicine.com Wednesday, August 17 LEARNING MEDIUMSHIP THROUGH FUN & GAMES Susan Barnes 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 Through active learning mediumistic skills can be developed in a fun and supportive environment. Come to this class prepared to work rather than listen. This class is six funfilled hours of giving and receiving message through techniques that promote the idea of play. Focusing on play is a great way to overcome hesitation and help to clear the mind for spirit messages. Examples of exercises include: • • • • • ring around the medium musical chairs jump messages hide and go seek fun with fruits and vegetables Exercises are designed to provide participants with practice in their mediumship and are not the typical children’s games. The instructor is sensitive to the mobility needs of participants and will adapt exercises to meet the needs of participants. All skill levels are welcome. Come and enjoy a day of fun and games, while developing your mediumistic skills. Thursday, August 18 UNIVERSAL HEALING PROTOCOL Cassandra Butler 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 The way of the healer (to make whole) has many paths. During this workshop you will be introduced to a most unique healing method which combines east/west traditions and can be applied for self-healing, spiritual healing and body work of all forms. You will learn how to identify the five emotions of Traditional Chinese Medicine and how they connect with the western twelve anatomical patterns within the body. After a lively and informative lecture and discussion participants will be encouraged to use their integrated knowledge to direct spiritual healing on self and others. Participants will: • Learn ways to identify the five `emotions’ at the root of health. • Learn specific pressure points to work to unblock energy. • Learn the twelve anatomical patterns. • Learn ways to integrate east/west healing for deep and effective mind-body-spirit healings. A background in healing is not necessary to attend; just a sincere desire to learn and direct the universal healing force. Cassandra Joan Butler, BSW, MS, LMT has devoted the past thirty years to learning… and teaching…spiritual tools for healing. A master astrologer, medium, and licensed massage therapist, she integrates her learning into a teaching style that is both accessible and fun! For ten years she served as the program director of the Trocaire College of Massage Therapy, and has taught at various colleges throughout WNY. She has been an instructor at the Chautauqua Institution Special Studies Program since 2000, and, has taught at Lily Dale since 1998. She is the pastor of the Church of the Divine Grace in Buffalo, and, director of the Sanjo Institute of Spiritual Studies. She maintains a busy practice providing integrated readings and healings throughout the United States. www.cassandrascosmicconnection.com Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 See Bio 7/10 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 41 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Thursday – Friday, August 18-19 PATH OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT Viven Perumal 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $200.00 The Sanctuary hosts four specific practical modules to understand the path of spiritual development. The course has been formulated by Spirit to help open minds to a higher consciousness, ultimately to become at one with the God Mind within. These modules are integrated so that the conscious mind evolves as each module unfolds, ultimately evolving the path to selfrealization into and through meditation. The workshop is intense with practical application of knowledge, removing of blockages, and guaranteed spiritual evolution. Module 1: UNDERSTANDING THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL This is a module designed to help people understand the spiritual evolution of a soul through its many lives. • Understand the purpose of life by understanding the journey of the soul, pre-destiny and destiny. • Understanding the decision making and the tests awaiting the Soul, on each plane of progress in Spirit, the Ten steps to God. • Understanding teachings from High Spirit Guides on the Akashic Records, The Homes of Rest, The Halls of Remembrance, The Birth of Perfection and the Transition of the Soul into Spirit. • Guided meditation into spiritual realms so that each one can experience the higher planes of love and peace. • How to overcome grief, how to pray and send love to Loved Ones in Spirit, and to help them on their journey to higher planes. Module 2: LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL, THROUGH SPIRITUAL HEALING The Spiritual Healing that is practiced in the sanctuary has been taught by highly evolved Spirit Guides, Doctors and Surgeons, since 1966 in our mother sanctuary, the White Chapel. The module in Spiritual Healing and Psychic Surgery, one understands the importance of maintaining the mind at a high consciousness by working with the Healing Guides and Doctors from the sixth and seventh Planes and using the Healing colors from the Eighth Plane in Spirit. Healing is required for development of the consciousness. • Designed for all who are called to the practice of healing, either as a beginner or for those who want to increase their knowledge and practice of healing. • This is a very interactive, hands-on, practical course that will involve not 42 only the presenter providing healing for class participants, but will involve you as a participant to perform healings and receive healing. • Healers will be taught to use specific healing colors, and how to work with Spirit Doctors and Surgeons. • Distance Healing practices and different mind projection techniques will be practiced. Module 3: THE POWER OF THE MIND, THE MAIN MOTOR TO EXPERIENCE GOD The mind is now ready to be engaged to clear out blockages and impurities to uplift the consciousness to more subtle energies. • Understand the workings of the most precious gift God has given us, the mind. The relationship of the three minds. • How to identify blockages of past situations that could explain bodily ailments and sicknesses in present day. • Techniques will also be taught to recondition the mind to create a healthy life and a more prosperous future. Module 4: MEDITATION – JOURNEY WITHIN TO THE GATEWAY TO GODHEAD The preparation of the mind of the learner is now ready to investigate the state of stillness. Meditation is the process of going within and becoming at one with the soul within. This is the final component required to strength ones spiritual foundation, and start the journey within – the path of self realization. • • • • • Understanding the Meditation process The Ancient Siddha Breathing Technique Clothing, Posture and Diet Time of day and duration Guided Meditation Viven Perumal was born in Durban, South Africa, and has been involved with Spirituality for over 35 years. He is the Spiritual Head of The Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom, which has been est. in 2004. The Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom is the third generation spirit sanctuary, established after The White Chapel and The Sanctuary of Love and Light, both of which has laid the foundation for miraculous healings and teachings to manifest. He is a Spiritual Healer that channels Spirit Doctors and Surgeons for the purposes of Psychic Surgery. This is achieved by using The White Light of The Master level to perform all healings. Viven has conducted many international, national and local spiritual courses and talks. He frequents several parts of the USA and Canada, to promote the White Chapel Teachings. The Sanctuary of Truth and Wisdom is very active with training programs, seminars, development circles, daily physical healings, regressions, possessions, and counseling. Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Thursday – Sunday August 18-21, 10am-4pm Artisans’ Guild Annual Plants, Crafts & Curiosities Sale Sponsored by The Artisan’s Guild Bandstand behind the Maplewood Hotel See page 9 for details. Friday, August 19 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Adam Bernstein 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 Get ready for a journey that will take you straight to the very heart of the numbers universe! We will start out with a special process to attune you to the vibration of the different numbers, which will provide you with a strong experiential foundation to develop a working knowledge of numerology. We will then work with some practical knowledge by teaching you the meanings of the different numbers and how to calculate your “life path number” and from there how to calculate your personal year numbers, month numbers and even your personal day numbers and how to use that knowledge to give you an advantage in your life. We will conclude by learning how to use numbers as triggers for accurate psychic reading. Adam Bernstein is a Hudson Valley based Medium and presenter with an international following. He has studied with a wide array of teachers including Sharon Klingler, Janet Nohavec and Simone Key of the Arthur Findlay Institute. His extensive resume includes working with Court TV in promotion of their Psychic Detectives series, TV appearances and live readings on network radio. He’s had numerous write ups in magazines, books and newspapers including a profile in the book Psychic New York along side a small elite group of New York’s best and most famous. Adam currently does private and group “gallery” readings as well as workshops and seminars at a variety of locations and he enjoys a sterling reputation as a highly accurate and compassionate Evidential Medium. www.adambetweentheworlds.com 2016 Workshops Season Highlight Saturday, August 20 Lisa Williams Friday – Sunday, August 19-21 SPIRITUAL INSIGHT TRAINING Elaine Thomas & Don Scott Friday, 7:00pm-10:00pm Saturday, 9:00am-6:00pm Sunday, 9:00am-3:00pm, Lyceum Building $325.00 Spiritual Insight Training – Part I Experience 3 courses in 1 Weekend Retreat Whether you are new in your training of spiritual gifts, or a seasoned professional, this weekend will take you to new levels of awareness and accomplishment with our synthesis of ancient techniques and accelerated learning. For over 29 years, this highly experiential retreat has produced the following excellent results for its participants: • Meditation: You will receive meditation techniques designed to deepen your meditative experiences and enhance your psychic and mediumistic abilities. You will be given the solid foundation needed to enhance and enjoy your meditations. • Spiritual Healing: Learn healing methods for opening your heart and the “How To” of allowing Divine Love and Healing to move through you to others. • Intuitive… Mediumistic… Psychic Development: Learn a Spiritually Centered approach to unfolding and working with your God given abilities. Witness and Learn How to Use the naturally occurring processes that professionals use in the Intuitive, Mediumistic and Psychic work. Before this weekend is over, you will have firsthand experiences of: • Deep Meditative States • The Joy of being an instrument and receiver of Spiritual Healing • You will be doing accurate readings for yourself and others This training stays with you when you go home, because You Do It Yourself. Elaine D. Thomas, M.S., has worked for over 46 years as a minister, medium, healer, teacher and editor. Elaine was a student of Rev. Edith Sandy Wendling, who herself was a student of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lady Doyle. Ordained in 1974, as a Spiritualist Minister, Elaine is cofounder of the School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy and the Foundational Pastor of Fellowships of the Spirit and the longest continuously Registered Medium in Lily Dale. www.revelainethomas. BEGINNERS MEDIUMSHIP 9:30am-4:30pm, Auditorium, $100.00 This exciting one-day course is to help open up to the spirits that are around you and others, so that you can see the signs, experience their energy, connect and communicate with loved ones who have crossed over. You will learn how to connect through clear messages that loved ones are around. You will learn to interpret the symbols and information that you see, and you will learn how to open up for daily communication to your spirit guides, family and friends on the other side. This day is primarily aimed towards beginners and those wishing to explore the afterlife further. However more experienced mediums are welcome and will be given exercises to push you to further your ability. You will be guaranteed fun, laughter, lots of exercises and connection to your loved ones. GALLERY MESSAGES 7:30pm-9:30pm, Auditorium $50.00 Lisa will connect with the other side. Lisa Williams is a world-renowned medium and clairvoyant with an amazing ability to Don Scott is a highly respected and an accomplished healer and teacher. He is a graduate of the School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy, a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner and a graduate and practitioner of Master Robert Peng’s Elixir Light Healing School of QiGong. Don brings a depth of calm and peaceful support, combined with a terrific sense of humor to his teachings and healing. Sunday, August 21 MANIFESTING: How To Use Your Intention & Your Divine Power To Manifest Anything Lynn McKenzie 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Unblock The Channels To Prosperity And Your Divine Power… And Gain Direct Access To Limitless Prosperity And Abundance Somewhere deep inside, you know it’s possible to manifest all that you desire; you’ve seen hundreds of others do it, and you’ve envisioned it for yourself for years. The fact that you’re reading this, right now – in your current communicate with those who have passed on to the other side. Born in England, Lisa was discovered by Merv Griffin and introduced to audiences through two seasons of her own hit show, Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead, along with Voices from the Other Side and Lisa Williams Live. All of these shows are now airing around the world. She has also appeared on Anderson Cooper, Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Larry King Live and Jimmy Kimmel Live. As well as performing in front of large live audiences worldwide, Lisa also offers workshops and courses in mediumship, developing psychic ability and intuition. She has recently launched Soul Connections, a website featuring spiritual advisors who have been personally trained and selected by Lisa to offer mediumship and psychic readings, as well as her International School of Spiritual Development through which she personally delivers her classes and workshops with her own unique and very hands-on method of teaching. Lisa hosts her own weekly radio show on blogtalkradio.com, and writes regularly about her life and spiritual teachings on her website lisawilliams.com, where she interacts with the public as well as her site members. She is an accomplished author of books on mediumship and spirituality, including Survival of the Soul and Life Among the Dead. Lisa is also a trained Reiki and crystal healer. She lives in Southern California with her son, Charlie, and their two dogs. experience and consciousness – means that now is your time. Prosperity in its countless forms is merely awaiting your next step. In this program you’ll learn Lynn’s proprietary Eight Channels of Alignment for Manifesting™ which you will come to know as your foundation for building and maintaining your manifestation powers. This is a reference that you will return to over and over again to walk yourself through the process to success. You’ll also learn her 7 Step Manifestation Signature System which is easy to follow and shows you the exact steps you need to take, and the precise order (which is important), to manifest whatever you desire. Energy clearing and attunements comprise a significant portion of this program because they are essential to successful manifestation. They act powerfully at both the conscious and subconscious levels. This program is energetically calibrated with “manifestation consciousness upgrades.” Given the recent and continuing universal consciousness up-leveling that’s occurring, what better time than now to experience core shifts that support your manifestation efforts! www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 43 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS If this course interests you, you’ve manifested this opportunity…will you step up? Lynn McKenzie is an internationally acclaimed Psychic, Energy Master, Animal Intuitive and Spiritual Teacher who has mentored spiritual seekers and conscious entrepreneurs since 1994. She is a sought after speaker, whose passion lies in awakening others to their Divine Gifts, Power, and Mission. With over 14,000 clients spanning 52 countries, Lynn is the creator of many in-depth training programs including Clairvoyance Mastery™, Psychic Development Mentoring™, Psychic Business Academy™, Money Manifestation Acceleration, Animal Energy® Certification and The Chakra Healing, Clearing and Attunement Intensive™. Her clients include leaders and celebrities in the intuitive, coaching and business worlds. She has been featured regularly in the media and has been published in a Hay House book. Lynn hails from Ontario Canada. Monday – Friday, August 22-26 TO TOUCH THE SOUL: How to Become a Medium Judith Rochester 9:30am-12:30pm daily, Assembly Hall $250.00 Develop your mediumship as you seek to fulfill your divine nature. Understand the spiritual laws that make each phase of mediumship possible. Let your wondrous Spirit Workers express, through you, the truth of eternal life. Each day includes: • Prayer, relaxation and meditation • Handouts with discussion and exercises • An unfoldment circle and opportunities to lead and practice your mediumship Monday: Attune to Spirit for Daily Guidance • Open to the Unseen • Unfold your gifts of perception and grasp the language of your Spirit Guides • Receive messages from Spirit that illumine your path Tuesday: Communicate with Spirit Loved Ones • With Spirit support, contact your Dear Ones soul-to-soul • Explore evidence • Communicate with others’ Spirit Loved Ones in messages from the Spirit World Wednesday: Get Closer to Spirit • Contact the members of your Spirit Band and learn who they are and what they do • Be an instrument of your Spirit Control and give a mini-reading 44 Tuesday, August 23 DEVELOP YOUR OWN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD • Perceive your partner’s Guide and draw this Spirit Presence with materials provided Thursday: Embrace Public Service • Refine your mediumship and give a reading • Demonstrate proof of the continuity of life with coaching • Receive inspired knowledge from your Master Teacher and present it Friday: Honor Your Soul’s Progression • Celebrate your mediumship • Give thanks as Spirit unveils your sacred path of service • Pray for peace in a closing ceremony See bio 8/1 Monday – Tuesday, August 22-23 TWO DAYS OF TRANSFORMATION David Winfree & Cristo Bowers 9:30am-4:30pm daily, Lyceum Building $200.00 THE TRANSFORMATIONAL OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! Cristo Bowers will look into each participant’s energy field and will share with them their unique spiritual name (identificative, descriptive, or corrective). Knowing one’s spiritual name is powerfully transforming. This is a rare opportunity, as very few people have the capacity to give a true spiritual name. Cristo will also share other life-changing insights (as time permits) pertaining to what he sees in the participants’ energy fields that would be healing and transforming for them to know. Types of life-changing insights that may be received can range from archetypal patterns, pastlife/ karmic patterns, disrupted chakras, negative and limiting beliefs, to the specific vibrational quality that is most beneficial for one to be aware of at this time in one’s life. David Winfree will share insights on how to use the information received for maximum benefit, and will provide powerful practices for rapidly transforming one’s energy field and one’s life and for becoming a brighter, fuller expression of one’s Divine archetypal patterns in this life. David and Cristo will transmit powerful healing and transforming energy to those present to assist them in moving forward in healing and transforming their lives. Useful details about this workshop, important information regarding receiving one’s spiritual name, and insights on how one may maximize this opportunity will be posted at www.davidwinfee.com/ two-days-of-transformation See Bios 8/24 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Maryanne Steiner 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 Have you ever felt alone and wondered where is God? Have you ever felt angry at God? This workshop has been created for you to explore your relationship with your God. Connecting with your God is one of the most intimate relationships one can have in this physical experience. We have all been taught a certain form of prayer that as we grow older no longer fulfills our adult needs. In this workshop we will explore how to seek our own understanding of God. To find your own spiritual path. Discussions will include: • • • • Who is God? Who is God to you personally? How do we talk with God? How do we hear God? The program will include: • • • • • prayers and meditation group interaction handouts and discussions experiential exercises sharing and feedback A spiritual principle states that God is all there is. Come join us to develop your own personal relationship with God. Maryann Steiner is a spiritual minister ordained in 2006 in the Great Pyramid in Egypt by the Universal Spiritual Circle Church. She is a licensed certified social worker who has worked the last 30 years as a psychotherapist and medical social worker. Maryann resides the summers in Lily Dale where she serves in her churches and serves the community. Wednesday – Thursday August 24-25 LEARN TO READ THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD Cristo Bowers 9:30am-12:30pm, Leolyn Garden Room $100.00 Limit of 15 students In this 6-hour workshop, Cristo Bowers, a highly skilled clairvoyant and intuitive, will inform each workshop participant of his or her dominant intuitional sense, as well as the most significant negative belief limiting its further development and conscious use. 2016 Workshops Cristo will provide a detailed overview of the various types of intuition, as well as the chakras with which each ability is associated. Knowing one’s dominant intuitive faculty greatly expedites the development of the dominant intuitive faculty and aids in the process of bringing it under conscious control. Participants will be provided an opportunity to practice consciously directing their dominant intuitive faculty under the guidance of Cristo. Each workshop participant will be given the opportunity to volunteer to be examined by the group, as time allows. The information provided through the practicum portion of the workshop is often life changing itself. This workshop is especially valuable for those who have a sincere interest in harnessing the awesome powers of the intuition. Cristo L. Bowers has conducted studies in consciousness since he experienced an expanded state of awareness brought about by physical exhaustion at the age of 16. That experience led him on a 22-year quest to understand God through spiritual, religious, scientific, and metaphysical studies, and the practice of meditation in 1998. In 2007, after approximately 9 years of meditation practice, Cristo experienced another expansion of consciousness, which ultimately led to his ability to perceive and interpret the superphysical structures that define the human energy field. www.cristobowers.com Wednesday – Thursday August 24-25 ILLUMINATION, AWAKENING, ENLIGHTEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, THE BRAIN & THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD David Winfree 2:00pm-5:00pm daily, Lyceum Building $100.00 This workshop provides insights into various types of illuminated and awakened states and experiences. It will examine the different levels of spiritual consciousness, based on the works of Dr. David Hawkins. It will explore the concept of the problematic ego and look at how to dismantle it. It will look at how brain function changes in illuminated beings, as portrayed by recent brain research. It will explore how the human energy field transforms as higher states of consciousness are attained (based on insights from the clairvoyant spiritual teacher Cristo Bowers). This workshop will provide helpful insights and exercises for those who are seeking to attain higher states of spiritual consciousness. David Winfree will share some of his own experiences and spiritual practices and meditation techniques that he has found especially effective. Participants will have opportunity to explore and practice the techniques presented. David Winfree, After many years of study and spiritual practice, in pursuit of illumination and transformation, experienced a profound transformation, entering into a state of deep inner silence and unity consciousness. Transformation has continued since that time, with a fuller opening of the heart, the activation of the chakras above the crown, and completion of the channel between the crown center and the higher centers of consciousness. Several powerful archetypal energies express through David, including, “The One Who Pours Forth Blessings, Grace, and Divinity” and “The One Who Opens The Door for Others.” David has worked for many years as a spiritual teacher, presenter, writer, energy healer, and spiritual guide and mentor. He is a conduit of Divine healing and transforming energies to individuals and groups. He is the author of The Evolution of the Human Energy Field and Humanity’s Ultimate Destiny, written in collaboration with Cristo L. Bowers. www.davidwinfree.com Thursday, August 25 SPOON BENDING PARTY Ron Nagy 7:00pm-9:00pm, Assembly Hall $ 45.00, Limit of 40 students Spoon Bending is a great way to demonstrate what can be accomplished when you are able to defocus your mind and let go of all the negative thought patterns that have blocked the higher energies that empower us. This workshop will explain the basic mind over matter aspects of bending metal objects and also explain how the mind and body can react together and cause harmonious health conditions. During this Workshop the bending of Spoons is accomplished by holding the metal with the hands and slight pressure is applied when the metal feels soft. This workshop is intended to be fun – a party! It may seem remarkable that with very little training one might be able to accomplish this extraordinary proof that spirit and mind over matter is more powerful than certain realities. Participants are encouraged to bring silverplated or stainless spoons – the more the better. Ron Nagy is the Lily Dale Assembly historian, museum curator, walking tour guide and a year round resident of Lily Dale. Ron is a published author of The Spirits of Lily Dale, Precipitated Spirit Painting and Slate Writing-Invisible Intelligence. Ron has conducted Spoon Bending Parties across the northeast United States and is an amateur paranormal Investigator. Friday, August 26 AWAKENING AWARENESS Peggy & Bob Rometo 9:30am-4:30pm, Lyceum Building $100.00 A heart-opening combination of Kundalini Yoga (as taught by Yogi Bhajan) facilitated by certified teachers Peggy & Bob Rometo and Intuition (as taught by Peggy Rometo) is designed to awaken and increase your psychic abilities through mind, body and spirit. The Kundalini yoga sets chosen will awaken and elevate your intuitive abilities, align your mind and body, and help your spirit soar. Throughout the day yoga, meditation and experiential exercises will be used to help you tap into your strongest intuitive sense. Peggy & Bob will provide practical tools, guidelines and information through experiential exercises to deepen this innate ability. This hands-on experiential class will get you in touch with the on-going communication that is available to each and every one of us in a grounded, common sense, and non-threatening manner. Whether you are a novice or well versed intuitive or yogi this empowering class is sure to provide you with a deeper knowing and better understanding of your ability to receive information. Many of us experience these heightened senses at one time or another and naturally gravitate toward their use in both business and personal endeavors. Once understood and embraced, you’ll be able to rely on this deepened sense of awareness any time you choose. This exhilarating class is open to all individuals who are interested in clarity and discernment of their intuitive abilities. No prior yoga or intuitive experience is needed. Peggy Rometo is an Intuitive Healer, PsychicMedium, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Hay House author. Peggy has received praise from some of the worlds most famous professionals in their field…Deepak Chopra, Donna Karan, and Demi Moore, are just a few of the notable names that praise Peggy’s extraordinary intuitive abilities and healing gifts. Bob Rometo, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, has been an active real estate investor and coach for over three decades, he played a significant role as one of the founding members of HomeVestors of America, the Ugly House guys that you now see nationwide. Bob has worked with the likes of Anthony Robbins, is a student of Kabbalah, and most recently a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga. Today you may find Bob solving the problems of a distressed individual, or wearing a turban while teaching and coaching a group of business professionals to relax, breathe, and trust the process of life. For more ways to connect go to www. PeggyRometo.com or www.BobRometo.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 45 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Season Highlight Friday – Sunday, August 26-28 IGNITING YOUR SPIRIT POWERS FOR MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE Sandra Taylor & Sharon Klingler Fri. 8/26 – 7:00pm–10:00pm Sat. 8/27 – 9:30am–5:00pm Sun. 8/28 – 1:30pm–4:30pm Assembly Hall $210.00 Friday, August 26 7:00pm-10:00pm, $55.00 A NIGHT WITH SPIRIT: MESSAGES FROM THE OTHER SIDE In this exciting event your spirit guides and their messages will be coming to you, for you, and all around you! Unlock the mysteries of sensing and knowing the presence of spirit in this exciting and moving trip to the other side! • Build a bridge to a whole new world through processes you can use to connect with spirit yourself • Many selected class members will receive powerful and moving messages from the spirit world about their relationships, work, life & past-life experience • Learn how to have your own personal experience with your loved ones in spirit using fast and easy commands and exercises that take only moments • Learn more about spirit through a lively question and answer period about the world beyond, what happens when we die, and the purposes those in spirit hold Saturday, August 27 9:30am–12:30pm, $55.00 WORKING WITH YOUR ANGELS TO MANIFEST LOVE, SUCCESS, POWER AND JOY Your angels are a greater source of power and assistance than most people realize – and even fewer utilize. You can build a daily rapport with these radiant and ubiquitous being who stand at the ready to help you in every way. • Learn how to identify the angels and how to summon them around you • Master techniques in lifting your vibration to know and work with the angelic realm more easily • Connect with the angels psychically to receive their guidance about the questions, decisions, and challenges in your life • Discover the words, commands, and prayers from the ancient that help you connect immediately with your angels to solicit their service in any situation • Learn a powerful healing technique with the angels that you can renew in moments throughout your day • Create unlimited success by accelerating your intentions in the angelic realm and blending angelic service with your purpose and path Saturday, August 27 2:00pm-5:00pm, $55.00 JOURNEY TO YOUR PAST LIVES Presents patterns concerning love, money, and health can be traced back to past-life experiences, and you can learn how to clear the past, shift the present, and redirect your future in surprising and unexpected ways. Discover how to use your past-life history to create an exquisite future! • Learn about the different types of karma and reasons for reincarnation so that you may recognize them in your life today • Experience a powerful past-life regression that leads you to a greater Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 46 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide understanding of your life now and of the lessons that lie before you • Meet your past-life guides who reveal enlightening information about places and thime you’ve lived before and the people you’ve known there • Learn how to release and rewrite past life patterns for greater happiness and success • Discover how to tap into past-life talents and skills that you can bring to your present life endeavors Sunday, August 28 1:30pm–4:30pm, $55.00 CALLING ALL SPIRIT GUIDES – BUILDING YOUR SPIRIT DREAM TEAM Discover the mechanics of spirit communication and learn the finer points of perceiving spirit and speaking their language. Practice the methods that help you create a direct link to your guides – and to all the spirits at every level – so that you can receive their guidance, their energy, and support every day! • Identify who’s who on your spirit team and learn how to work with their various energies and vibration • Receive a precise exercise that takes you immediately out of the left brain and puts you firmly into the right brain experience of spirit • Learn how to expand your team and call new guides for specific projects and purposes • Easy methods for you to link with spirit and receive their guidance for yourself as well as give reading to others • Use precise words and commands that immediately open you to all those on your spirit team • Discover how to perceive spirit’s messages and understand their symbols 2016 Workshops Sunday, August 28 AROMATHERAPY MEETS CHINESE MEDICINE Timothy Miller 2:00pm-5:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 (materials fee of $15.00 paid to presenter) Chinese Medicine is an ancient tradition, having been used for at least 2,000 years. Essential oils are the “jing” or “essence” of each plant. As such, they resonate at very high frequencies and can be used to stimulate vitality and the flow of qi. This creates a harmonious state of health and wellness. In this class, you will learn how to use essential oils to balance your Chinese medicine meridians. You will learn how to locate acupuncture points that are used for headaches, insomnia, stress, anxiety, nausea, and other common conditions. You will learn which essential oils can be applied to these points, as well as different application techniques. This class is designed for all – for those with little to no experience in either Chinese medicine or aromatherapy to the expert of Timothy Miller, ND, MAc, LAc, RA is a Naturopathic Doctor, Licensed Acupuncturist, Registered Aromatherapist, and Certified Reiki Practitioner. Dr. Miller travels the world learning and teaching about essential oils. As an energy medicine practitioner, he has insight on their energetic properties and how they can be used for healing and wellness. Dr. Miller maintains a busy private practice in Lockport, NY. Dr. Miller offers services of natural medicine consultations for all health conditions. The naturopathic approach is a unique one that addresses the whole person and the root cause of disease. With a wide range of tools including aromatherapy, herbs, supplements, homeopathy, nutrition, and energy medicine, Dr. Miller is committed to helping people change their lives with natural medicine. www.timonthymillernd. com Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 Monday – Friday, August 29-Sept. 2 PAST LIFE REGRESSION EXPERIENCES Patricia Price 2:00pm-5:00pm daily, Lyceum Building $250.00 • Learn and experience three techniques for Past-Life Regression • An opportunity to be certified by the Trilogy Institute • A pleasant past-life experience that will deepen your understanding your present life relationships • How Natural Law and Karma can be used to create a better life • The memory of Karmic choice as a pure soul essence • Information for learning on your soul path through Karmic choices • How your past-life Karma affects your life right now • Karmic debt and Karmic resolution • How DNA restructuring can happen during Past-life Regression for your benefit • Information that can help you make Karmic decisions for a joyful life now Join us for this training designed to guide you through three full-length past-life regressions. Explore the experiences of past lives filled decisions for Karma. Work with more awareness as you explore the use of Natural Law in the past, present and future. We will unravel the mystery of relationships that carry over from lifetime to lifetime and how you can benefit from it for yourself and those around you. Bring a mat for the floor if you prefer to lie down during these experiences. We do trust that you can join us for these hours of unforgettable information, understanding and fun. Patricia L. Price has been a medium in Lily Dale for over 30 years. She has a Masters Degree from SUNY at Fredonia. Patricia is Director of the Trilogy Institute where she teaches Past-Life Regression, Mediumship, Spiritual Healing and Ministerial Training. During the Season, you will find her in the Healing Temple every Thursday Night for a Home Circle Development Class. Patricia spends a few of the winter months in California where she writes, teaches, does readings and healing work. She has books, cd’s and home study courses for sale on the internet and at the Lily Dale Bookstore. Patricia is an international lecturer and teacher. In years past she has taught metaphysical topics in Canada, Egypt, Greece, Ireland, Peru and England. Patricia is well known for her warmth and clarity as a teacher and spiritual leader. www.patriciaprice.com Monday, August 29 ETHERIC PROJECTION ASTRAL TRAVEL & REMOTE VIEWING Benjamin Gleisser 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 Whether you’re a novice when it comes to energy work, or you’re already working with your aura and the etheric realm, this workshop is for you. When you strengthen your etheric body – your “human energy field” – you sharpen your awareness, deepen your spirituality, and heighten your ability to sense spirit. Working with your energy allows you to better connect with others, your higher self and the spirit world through astral projection. In this fun and fascinating class, you’ll visualize your etheric body, and experience how another person’s aura can be sensed. We’ll also do intriguing yet simple meditative exercises that will allow you to project your awareness into a picture, travel to your home, and even enter the spirit realm. See how interesting it is to be “out of your mind!” Benjamin Gleisser, A popular speaker at Spiritualist churches, has taught mediumship and etheric projection at the Christian Spiritualist Temple (Columbus, Ohio) and the Church of Universal Love (Toronto), where he is a former President of the Board of Directors. He co-authored the books Compassionate Messenger: True Stories from a Psychic Medium, and From God’s House to You: The Amazing Journey of a Psychic Herbalist, the stage play Voices of Hospice, and has co-written guided meditation CD’s. Benjamin is also a medical writer and an award-winning journalist who has taught writing and creativity workshops in the United States and Canada. His article on Lily Dale for The Toronto Star can be found on the Internet. For more information, see www.bengleisser.com. Tuesday, August 30 IGNITE THE SPIRITUAL POWER WITHIN YOU Benjamin Gleisser 2:00pm-5:00pm, Octagon Building $50.00 Strengthen your spiritual awareness by creating your own energetic field of dreams. If you build it, they will come! Discover how to change your thought processes so you can manifest your intentions more productively. Then, allow your creativity to inspire your unique path of spiritual evolution in three ways: as an individual (the transformation within your “self”), as a mate (your role in intimate relationships), and as a member of society (your connections to your community). Using entertaining and instructional exercises, you’ll experience the divine power that flows through you and sparks your spiritual www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 47 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS growth. An empowering sound meditation will align your chakras, and encourage you to realize your creative potential. And please share with us your own lessons of spiritual evolution – you may be the greatest teacher you know! See Bio 8/29 Tuesday, August 30 NATURAL LAWS: Keys To Well-Being, Harmounious Living, Prosperity & Health Carole Obley 7:00pm-10:00pm, Lyceum Building $50.00 From the beginning of time, a body of immutable, eternal, binding principles that govern the dynamics and consequences of human behavior have existed. Much like the laws of physics (which govern the dynamics of the physical world), natural laws are constantly operating, regardless of our awareness of their existence. If we understand these spiritual laws and align our life choices in harmony with them, we substantially reduce the creation of our own “negative” karma, realize peace and move more closely to our soul’s sacred purpose. In this workshop, you will learn about the seven natural laws and their direct, profound influence on the quality of your life. • The Laws Simplified • The Objective Reality of Spiritual Truth vs. Man-Made Law • The Planes of Cause and Effect • The Gift of Free Will and Personal Responsibility • Freedom vs. Slavery According to Natural Laws • The Importance of Right Discernment/ Judgment in Making Choices • Microcosms/Macrocosms • The Real Meaning of Freedom and its Application to Your Life • Recognition and Acceptance of the Divine Masculine and Feminine within • The One Problem with the World Today • Implications for humankind’s destiny through Alignment with Moral Choices Carole J. Obley, (soulvisions.net) - is a professional spiritual medium from Pittsburgh who has done thousands of readings, been the subject of newspaper articles, spoken on both radio and TV and is the author of three books on mediumship and healing. She has produced audio programs to help people with spiritual development and teaches many workshops on spirituality. 48 Wednesday, August 31 ACKNOWLEDGING THE KNOWLEDGE & INTELLIGENCE OF SPIRIT Wednesday, August 31 MEDITATIVE EXPLORATION Joseph Shiel 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Join Mavis Pittilla from the UK, one of the most knowledgeable and experienced mediums of the day to share the knowledge she has gleaned from her partners in the Spirit World. All too often people rely on the understanding of the mechanics of mediumship rather than the spirituality of the miracle of communication. Mavis believes the God Source or Great Spirit is at the very heart of this journey. Mavis was taught by the colossus of `Spiritualism in Great Britain, Gordon Higginson and was proud that he was her mentor and friend, however she has also received amazing tuition from her partners in the Spirit World and she will use this to help you on your mediumistic pathway. She believes that real communication is essential both with the incarnate and discarnate spirit and without this most mediumship is superficial and comes from the mind and not the soul. Enhance your power and understanding to enrich your experience. A tutorial with Mavis is a unique experience and all who listen to her are enchanted and want more. During this day you gain will great knowledge and understanding from Mavis. Practically you will begin to know: 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 Join Psychic Medium, Reiki Master and Spiritual Teacher Drew Cali for this 3-hour workshop on the fundamental keys of meditation, inner exploration and heightening your intuition. Drew will create a sacred and safe space, infusing music and voice, guiding you into several inspired meditations allowing you to go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond self. This interactive workshop offers you an opportunity to experience and explore the Aspects of Spirit within. Recognizing that every individual has their unique expression of Spirit, Drew will offer his feedback and intuitive insight on your questions and experiences after each meditation and will share with you his personal experience of how meditation continues to assist and enhance his personal development as a psychic, medium and healer. • Your soul‘s pathway on this journey • The partners you may meet or have met upon the path • How to build your power for communication • The difference between communication and mind mediumship Mavis Pittilla is a former senior tutor at the world-reowed Arthur Findlay College in the UK, where she has worked for over forty years. She received her training from the colossus of Spiritualism, Gordon Higginson. She therefore fully appreciates the need for structured, intensive training in order to ensure that the “Essential Aspects of Mediumship” are fully understood and absorbed. She works all around the world demonstrating and teaching. She also runs her own very successful mentorship programs both on-line and physical with students from all corners of the globe. www.mavispittilla.com Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Drew Cali Drew Cali, Born a natural Psychic Medium was no longer able to ignore his gifts after a series of life altering events his early thirties. Being relentless with his thirst for spiritual understanding and knowledge he set out on a path that would forever change his life. Drew attended the prestigious Arthur Findlay College of Mediumship and Intuitive Sciences in England and continues to work with and learn from mentors, colleagues and the spirit world as well as from the people whom he lovingly serves. Recognizing true personal development and spiritual growth begins with honor, integrity and authenticity, it is Drew’s intention to assist people with opening their hearts and minds in order to realize their full potential of healing, learning, loving and living in the here and now. www.drewcali.com Wednesday – Friday, August 31-Sept. 2 MOVING YOUR MEDIUMSHIP TO THE NEXT LEVEL Carolyn Molnar 9:30am-12:30pm daily, Octagon Building $150.00 You can always deliver compassionate and powerful messages filled with heart and hope, whether you’re speaking one-on-one with a client, or before a congregation at a Spiritualist church. In this informative and interactive workshop, you’ll build on your mediumship skills in new ways to deliver compassionate messages that empower your clients while you tactfully and tenderly give the not-so-great news that people sometimes need to hear. We’ll also practice 2016 Workshops different styles of delivering messages. This seminar is great for intermediate and advanced mediums, and those who are eager to strengthen their intuitive gifts and speak their truth in a compassionate, empowering manner. • A brief background on how mediumship affects our emotions. Hands-on exercises will let you discover our intuitive strengths, as well as help you begin to develop new clairs! Using meditation, we’ll connect with our guides, angels and the spirit people who want to help us sharpen our message delivery skills. • Nurture yourself while being a messagebearer, and avoid burn-out! We’ll also practice mediumship techniques, then role-play various scenarios of how to tell clients, fellow church-members and others messages in a positive, uplifting manner. Experience the joy of being a compassionate messenger. • Weather permitting, we’ll visit Inspiration Stump and the Forest Temple during non-service hours to give participants the chance to experience the energy of public message work. At the end of class students may elect to give a message during a scheduled message service at Forest Temple or Inspiration Stump. Here’s your chance to receive one-on-one feedback! (Times to be arranged with the instructor.) Carolyn Molnar, In her 30 years experience as a psychic medium, has developed a confident, gracious and gentle manner. Besides working full-time offering readings to clients all over the world, she teaches classes on developing intuition – a skill, she believes, that everyone can learn. She has worked in England and has given seminars throughout North America, including at Lily Dale. She has written Compassionate Messenger: True Stories From A Psychic Medium and It Is Time: Knowledge From The Other Side. Her three guided meditation CDs help people explore their life’s purpose while experiencing their own inner peace. She is featured in the books Psychics and Mediums in Canada and Medium 7: Evidence of The Afterlife and Predictions. Carolyn has been profiled in The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and The National Post. The North York Mirror newspaper voted her “Favorite Psychic” two years in a row. www.carolmolnar.com Thursday, September 1 THE REALMS OF SPIRIT: Exploring Your Connection with the Spirit World Rita Neustifter 9:30am-4:30pm, Assembly Hall $100.00 Join Rita for the opportunity to awaken the energies and connections that you possess with your own higher self. Rita will walk you interactively through: • What “the other side” is • Free Will both “here” and “there” • Why souls incarnate to realities and dimensions • The process of incarnation for a soul • Merging of the body and soul • The soul experience when the merge is over • Why soul connections between “here” and “there” are strengthening Rita M. Neustifter is an R.N, is and has been, a Psychic Medium, Energy Healer and Teacher in this, and past lives. In this life, she comes from an ancestry of sensitives that included her grandmother and great grandmother, who are among her spirit guides. Her connection to “the other side” was apparent even as a very young child who saw, spoke with and played with those unseen. It has always been a loving, continuously flowing, comfortable experience for her to communicate with them for the highest good. At the age of 4 years, her body died in an accident. She remembers the event in detail, as well as her trip immediately afterward. The trip included instructions, insight, understanding and a cherished visit with beloved souls there before returning. Rita’s mission is to continue learning, teaching and working to bring forth the healing messages and energies she is honored to transmit from the spirit realm. Her daughter once remarked, “When they sent you back, they left the door open.” Rita M. Neustifter is an R.N, is and has been, a Psychic Medium, Energy Healer and Teacher in this, and past lives. In this life, she comes from an ancestry of sensitives that included her grandmother and great grandmother, who are among her spirit guides. Her connection to “the other side” was apparent even as a very young child who saw, spoke with and played with those unseen. It has always been a loving, continuously flowing, comfortable experience for her to communicate with them for the highest good. Friday, September 2 THE REALMS OF SPIRIT: Exploring Direct Soul Communication When the Body is Unable to Communicate Rita Neustifter 9:30am-12:30pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 When the body is not able to fully communicate with those around them, the soul that is merged through the brain and mind remains intact and open to communicate in other ways. Join Rita for the opportunity to explore and experience ways for connections to the souls of those with physical limitation such as diminished or limited learning abilities, Alzheimer’s, dementia, degenerative brain disorders, coma, mental illness, cerebral palsy, brain damage from injury and other disease conditions which isolate all involved in the situation. Rita will walk you interactively through: • The process of incarnation for a soul – how the body and soul merge for incarnation • Why souls incarnate to realities and dimensions • Why things sometimes aren’t as expected – grieving the disappointments, losses and moving on • Where the soul is when the physical body is severely limited. • The importance of giving and receiving information and comfort through communication directly with the soul • Learn and practice direct soul to incarnate soul communication • Who is there for us and why • Why soul connections are strengthening See Bio 9/1 Thursday, September 1 NUANCES OF ENERGY AWARENESS Lee Two Hawks & Shadow Fox 7:00pm-10:00pm, Assembly Hall, $50.00 The energies from Cosmic, Universal, Spiritual or Natural Laws, influences every aspect of human life and death. These nuances, include a philosophy, a logic and syntax of language that when utilized can empower anyone who understands their delivery. We will present ideas, perceptions, powerful tools, and keys that can help influence a greater awareness of self. This presentation is to efficiently and effectively penetrate the veil that constricts the healing process, through focus. We will show how to utilize their nuances for empowerment, healing and manifesting. Why do people fail or struggle to create what’s really desired, yet, are successful in creating exactly the opposite? These teachings are the missing puzzle pieces that have been elusive to many and will work effectively in your life. It matters not, whether you are looking to create a deeper awareness of mediumship, healing, work, relationships, abuse, or step into forgiveness; this class can help you create a Destiny by Design. • Energy; how to understand and apply • Human logic as understood by the Universe • Concise use of thought, language & focus • Past, present and future; how or do they serve us? • Encompassing the Nuances of Laws applied to self (tuning in & focus) • The “I Am Phenomena” & “ The 90 second rule” • How to stop or avoid swimming upstream, so you do not arrive cold, wet, late and utterly exhausted Based on the book Want Not and be Open to Receive by Shadow Fox www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 49 2016 SEASON WORKSHOPS Lee Two Hawks a spiritual leader, specializes in teaching, lecturing and healing energies, which traverse into the realm of Cosmic Laws, expanding consciousness and lighting the way by example. With his by-side Shadow Fox, created ‘The Sapphire Teachings’, empowering, encouraging, and igniting the fire of who we are through selfvalidation. Author of Ageless Wisdom vs. The Winds of Lunacy. Shadow Fox shares the practical application of Ancient Wisdom and how it influences our daily lives. She is a participating World Server who is Certified as a Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and who also functions as a Mother, Life/ Spiritual Coach, Medium, and Reverend. Author of Want Not and be Open to Receive. www.universalnuances.com Friday, September 2 THE LAW OF ATTRACTION – CREATING THE LIFE YOU DESIRE Peg Crawford 2:00pm-5:00pm, Assembly Hall $50.00 How do we create the joyful, loving, and prosperous life that we all desire? The Law of Attraction states that we attract into our lives whatever we choose to give our attention to, whether wanted or unwanted. We are truly creative partners with the universe! During this workshop, Peg Crawford, counselor, healer and Certified LOA Coach and Trainer will explain how this process works, and how to create the wonderful life that you envision. When you have completed this workshop, you will know how to: • Create and deliver clear and powerful statements of Desire • Raise your vibrational levels to match your desired state of being • Identify and resolve beliefs and emotions that block your soul progress • Trust and allow the universe to deliver your heart’s desires and your highest good! So come prepared to do some clear visioning of how your life can be, and to begin taking steps forward with the universe. Join us in a joyful co-creation and celebration of your fabulous new life! Peg Crawford, M.S. is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 40 years of experience in counseling, healing, coaching and teaching. She is a graduate of SUNYAB Counselor Ed program and currently conducts a private practice in Amherst, N.Y. Over the last 14 years, she has learned and integrated a variety of energy healing techniques into her counseling practice, including Reiki, Sound Healing, LOA Coaching/ Training and EFT. This unique blend of traditional counseling/therapy and energy techniques has created an accelerated process to produce change and healing in her 50 Friday – Sunday, September 2-4 UNLOCKING THE WISDOM OF THE MASTERS WEEKEND John White Friday, 7:00pm-10:00pm Sat., 10:00am-1:00pm & 2:00pm-5:00pm Sunday, 2:00pm-4:00pm & 5:00pm7:00pm, Assembly Hall $320.00 Friday, 7:00pm-10:00pm, $55.00 BRINGING THE SACRED INTO EVERY DAY LIFE We will work with special mediations to help you awaken the SACRED SELF to: • Remember your NATURAL TALENTS & GIFTS • Understand your SACRED CONTRACTS • Learn how the HIGHER MIND thinks • Use the Higher Mind for the purpose of MANIFESTING YOUR DESIRED LIFESTYLE • Learn how to put yourself in a LUCID TRANCE STATE Saturday, 10:00am-1:00pm, $70.00 MEDICAL INTUITIVE & ENERGY MEDICINE The late American legend Edgar Cayce is known known as “the Sleeping Prophet,” and for the ability to do health readings just by knowing a person’s name. John White is known for helping people to learn to conduct such psychic health readings. • Learn how to give HEALTH READINGS on people, just by knowing their name • Learn more about ENERGY MEDICINE, and the MEDICAL INTUITIVE • Understand how the MEDICAL INTUITIVE MIND works • Using the 5 modalities of INTUITIVE INTELLIGENCE, become aware of differing HEALING MODALITIES • Gain knowledge, and understanding of, the 4 MAIN CAUSES OF DISEASE: Genetic, Environmental, Emotional, and the Influence of Past Lives • Work with the 5 forms of intelligence: Physical, Emotional, Physical, Mental, and Intuitive, to EMPOWER YOUR TOTAL WELL-BEING Saturday, 2:00pm-5:00pm, $70.00 REMOTE VIEWING Remote Viewing is a mental, intuitive ability that allows a viewer to describe and give details about a “target” - a particular person, place or thing - that is otherwise inaccessible. Potential uses of Remote Viewing include: Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide • Possible future events • Unsolved cases and mysteries • The effect of personal decisions & solutions to problems • Personal family history and events • Historic events and information • The location and condition of a missing person or object Sunday, 2:00pm-4:00pm, $70.00 AKASHIC RECORDS The Akashic Records are the SACRED CONTRACTS between you and the DIVINE. They contain all information regarding everyone’s past, present and future. In fact, the Akashic Records, housed in your spiritual dimension, are a vast library of all events and relationships that have ever occurred. By waking your SACRED SELF, you can access this DIVINE LIBRARY. • Understand and work with your TIMELESS MIND and ENDLESS BODIES • Visit your PAST & FUTURE LIVES and RELATIONSHIPS • Channel your HIGHER SPIRITUAL RECORDS • Learn to work with the ANGELS, SPIRITUAL GUIDES & MASTERS Sunday, 5:00pm-7:00pm, $70.00 DREAMS, VISIONS & APPARITIONS The Dalai Lama teaches that, when you’re dreaming, and you are aware that you’re dreaming, you can learn to consciously manifest and play within your dreams. Learn to work with, and understand, the DREAM BODY, SOUL TRAVELING. • Initiate visits with loved ones in spirit, ancestors, spiritual guides and teachers • Time travel into other dimensions • Experience future possibilities in your lucid dreams • Become aware of past lives • Soul travel into other dimensions • There will also be a short question-andanswer segment during the workshop John C. White has been a teacher of the Spiritual Sciences for over 35 years. He travels throughout America, Canada and India, teaching on many spiritual topics. You may have seen him on The Discovery Channel, The Vision Channel, on HBO, on the documentary, “No One Dies in Lily Dale,” among other TV specials. John is known for the ability to unite Eastern insight and Western mysticism. John reveals the secrets of the ancients. He is the Vice President and Co-founder of The Spiritual Science Fellowship in Montreal, Canada, and is a beloved registered medium and resident of Lily Dale, NY. Visit www.revjohnwhite.com. 2016 Workshops clients while minimizing the physical, emotional and spiritual pain which often accompany life challenges. Using these techniques, she has worked with hundreds of individuals, and taught them to lead happy and fulfilling lives. In addition to her private practice, she teaches energy healing and counseling to students and professionals at UB, Daemen College and Canisius College as well as through private workshops. Saturday – Sunday, September 10-11 REIKI III Jan Cooke Sat. 9:30am-5:30pm, Sun. 10:00am-2:00pm Leolyn Garden Room Register Today! www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-595-8721 $320.00, Limit of 12 students, pre-registration required Review fee of $170 for those certified in Level III who wish to refresh their skills Pre-requisite: Level I and II Certification plus a minimum of one year’s documented experience. Lynne Forget Since techniques and material differ within the Usui lineage, if Level I and II certifications were received from another teacher, Reiki I and II offered at the reduced/review fee are generally a pre-requisite for this Master Class. If you have questions, email [email protected] Registered Lily Dale Medium This intensive workshop provides the participants with the tools and training required to utilize and teach all levels of Reiki. Students will be required to demonstrate and provide written documentation of Reiki I and II experience. 20 Second Street Lily Dale, NY 14752-1157 • • • • Review of Reiki I & II Master Level Initiation, Attunements and teaching techniques Manual for all three levels Certification awarded upon successful completion of class spirit to spirit ... heart to heart 716-595-2194 In-person, Telephone, Skype www.lynne-forget.com [email protected] See bio 6/18. Universal Unity of Spirit 89 N. Main St. (Rt.60) Cassadaga, NY 14718 [email protected] (716) 595-2617 Workshop Highlights Ellen Bourn, Dream Analysis & Mediumship; Your Aura-aura photo included; Liz Cox, Sound Healing; Normandi Ellis, Egyptian Mystical Symbol0gy & Oracular Readings. Dates & additional classes TBA Monthly interfaith lectures, weekly development classes/circles and workshops, May-Oct. Co-pastors, Rev. Jan & Jay Cooke, Prayer Chaplains, Rev. Kimberly Kibler & Rev. Teresa Schaeffer Information and schedule of events: www.universalunityofspirit.org Savvy Hair Design Dawn Beckman (716) 969-1842 Mon 1-6, Wed 9-5, Thu 12-6, Fri 10-6 Sat 9-1, Closed Sun & Tues Walk-ins Welcome 17 South Main Street Cassadaga, NY 14718 Sharon K. Earsing Medium Spritual Counseling For Appointment (716) 595-3895 11 Third Street, Lily Dale, NY 14752 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 51 52 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Willa White REGISTERED LILY DALE MEDIUM Spiritual Counseling 17 North Street, Lily Dale, NY PO Box 114, Lily Dale, NY 14752 AVAILABLE YEAR ROUND In Person Readings • Phone Readings • Lectures Workshops • Seminars • Classes Spiritual Consultations (716) 595-3755 www.willawhite.com Brookside Manor Bed and Breakfast Enchanting Victorian Manor 10 minutes from Lily Dale Assembly Four tastefully appointed spacious non-smoking guest rooms with private baths Queen beds, A/C, TV, WiFi, refrigerator and coffee maker in each room Memorable Gourmet Breakfasts Relax in our peaceful surroundings after a day at Lily Dale Assembly Hosts Andrea Andrews and Dale Mirth Summer Rates $115-$119 MC/VISA 3728 Route 83, Fredonia, NY 716-672-7721 | [email protected] www.bbonline.com/ny/brookside April J Hair Design April J Nold Owner/Hair Designer 17 N. Main Street Cassadaga, NY 14718 716-595-3944 [email protected] American Board Certified Hair Colorist Gretchen Clark Spiritualist Medium N.S.A.C. Certified Medium Clairvoyant ~ Counselor Workshops/Seminars Telephone Consultations Available 716-595-3380 11 Marion Street Lily Dale, New York 14752-0120 E-Mail: [email protected] www.gretchenclark.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 53 Coming Fall 2016 Modern Jan and Jay’s Lakeside Cottage 15 Cottage Row PO Box 1114 Lily Dale, NY 14752 (716) 595-2617 [email protected] Celebrating our 30th year hosting guests in Lily Dale www.janandjays.com Mediumship Guest House Accommodations: Lakeview rooms, guest kitchen, common area w/TV, internet access, lakeside deck and spacious back yard Certificate Course Instructors: Susan B. Barnes, Ph. D and Lauren Thibodeau, Ph. D 716.363.6500 www.sunyjcc.edu/ north-county-center A six-course program with a capstone project *Non-credit bearing course Bonnie White Registered Medium 6 Cleveland Ave Lily Dale NY 14752 716 679 5679 www.brechtsaelens.com 20 North St. • PO Box 1125 • Lily Dale, NY 14752 716-595-3417 • www.bonnspirit.com [email protected] Spiritual Readings • Consultations • Art • Workshops THE BARGAIN SHOPPE Crystals . Jewelry . Incense . Posters . Greeting Cards T’s & Sweats . Tie Dye . Clothing . Angels . Books Candles . CDs . Chimes . Glassware . Dragons & Wizards Oils . Copper . Semi Precious Stones Candy . Cold Drinks . Snacks Low Bargain Prices 14 East Street, Lily Dale, NY 14752 716-595-2273 (Business) / 716-672-7408 (Home) Summer Hours: 9:30am-7pm Daily American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover 54 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Peter D. Clark ATTORNEY 2 West Main Street P.O. Box 109 Fredonia, NY 14063-0109 Phone: (716) 673-1361 Fax: (716) 673-1365 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 55 Rev. Gregory Kehn Medium, Teacher, Lecturer, Counselor Greg is an acclaimed 4th generation Registered Medium in Lily Dale for over 35 years. His highly detailed and accurate work has made him a regular guest throughout the U.S. on radio and T.V. Rev. Gregory Kehn 8 Cottage Row P.O. Box 1054 Lily Dale, NY 14752 Florida Winter Office: The Brooks Town Center 9990 Coconut Road Bonita Springs, FL 34135 Mailing Address: 8252 Quaker Place Naples, FL 34104 716-595-3529 • www.RevGregoryKehn.com • Email: [email protected] 56 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 57 Fellowships of the Spirit Since 1988 ...A place your soul can call home™ Spiritual Insight Training Weekend retreats with instruction by Rev. Elaine D. Thomas, Rev. Jessie Furst and Faculty Training Schedule 2016 PART I DATES (choose one) SPRING: May 13 - 15 or 20 - 22 FALL: Sept. 16 - 18 or 23 - 25 PART I AT LILY DALE ASSEMBLY: August 19 - 21 (For tuition info & to register: www.lilydaleassembly.com or call 716-8721) This is the renowned transformational course which thousands have raved about... the course that started everything we do! If you believe that communication with Spirit is only available to a few exceptionally gifted and unusual people – please think again. Fellowships of the Spirit believe it is the birthright of every human being to experience this connection, and this three-in-one weekend retreat will show you how and prove it to you! Meditation Learn the basics of spiritual meditation and the techniques that will enrich and deepen this experience. Discover the insight, clarity and lasting peace that come from practicing deep meditative states. Spiritual Healing Learn ways of opening your heart to allow Divine love and healing to move through your body into other people, and experience the joy and satisfaction of being both an instrument and a receiver of spiritual healing. PART II DATES (choose one) SPRING: June 17 - 19 FALL: October 14 - 16 COMBINED PART I AND II DATES August 11 - 14 (See website for details) RETREAT HOURS FRIDAY: 7 - 10:30 pm SATURDAY: 8 am - 8 pm SUNDAY: 8 am - 4 pm TUITION* Early Registration: $375 (Up to one week before classes start) Late Registration: $395 *Tuition includes instruction and meals ONLY. For information on local guest houses and hotels, visit our website or call 716-595-2159. Intuitive, Psychic and Mediumistic Development Learn a spiritually centered approach to unfolding and developing the abilities that you already have within you. Study the ways in which professional mediums work, and then discover your own inherent ability to give accurate spiritual readings! Retain These Abilities When You Get Home Completion of Spiritual Insight Training Parts I and II are prerequisites to being considered for entrance to the School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy. Even if you have never done anything like this before, this weekend course will show you how to recognize and trust the spiritual gifts that God has given you: gifts that will remain with you when you go home, and provide you with a solid foundation for continuing spiritual growth. www.fellowshipsspirit.org • (716) 595-2159 • 282 Dale Dr, Cassadaga, NY 14718 58 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Fellowships of the Spirit Since 1988 ...A place your soul can call home™ A warm greeting to you from all of us at Fellowships of the Spirit Since 1988, Fellowships of the Spirit, an independent Spiritualist Church, has provided a place to worship, dynamic in-depth training in Mediumship, the Healing Arts, and a broad spectrum of spiritual studies for both beginner and advanced students. Every year we invite some of the world’s most respected and effective teachers of spiritual studies to present ‘master classes’ at our Lakeside Learning Center. Many of these seminars are available simultaneously on-line as webinars. Our Ongoing Activities include: • • • • • Spiritual Insight Training School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy Open Seminars Spiritual Development Circles Weekly Sunday evening Worship Services As a part of our local community service we: • • • Conduct the Daily Meditation in Lily Dale’s Healing Temple during the Summer. Co-chair a weekly Healing Service from September – June in conjunction with Church of the Living Spirit and Lily Dale Spiritualist Church. Continue to maintain the Labyrinth in Lily Dale (built by Fellowships in 1992) for enjoyment and learning of all who walk its pathway. For more information contact us at: Fellowships of the Spirit P.O. Box 252, Lily Dale, New York 14752 • Email: [email protected] Phone: (716) 595-2159 • www.fellowshipsspirit.org www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 59 Fellowships of the Spirit Since 1988 ...A place your soul can call home™ School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy OBJECTIVES OF THIS TWO-YEAR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM A comprehensive two-year Certification Program in spiritual enrichment Our aim is that every graduate of this program be able to confidently and competently demonstrate the following abilities: Self-Discovery Is the Key 1. Reach deep levels of inner peace through meditation If you feel that the next step in your spiritual development could include a firm commitment to profound spiritual discovery and the joy of living your spiritual truths in an everyday, practical way, then this School is for you. In this concentrated two-year Certification Program we bring together a world-class faculty of instructors representing many different spiritual disciplines. 2. Use multiple approaches to directly channel and deliver effective spiritual healing Our teaching approach is rooted in deep meditation and spiritual healing approaches that will move you through and beyond your mediumship and psychic abilities into the realm of actual prophecy. The unique Live Learning™ process we developed to teach our Spiritual Insight Training programs, keeps us on the cutting edge of body-mindspirit integration and will empower you to absorb large amounts of material in short periods of time, while simultaneously capturing and distilling the essence of what our faculty has to teach you. Our weekend and week-long retreats provide a relaxed, distractionfree environment where you will accelerate the pace of your inner awakening and experience new spiritual capabilities, stimulating growth on all levels of your life simultaneously. You will learn to use these techniques in practical applications every day, from this point forward in your life. By sharing your discoveries with one another you will be brought into a new awareness and a deeper understanding of both yourself and other people. 3. Bring accurate prophetic messages by means of Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience, and thereby assist themselves and other people in both spiritual and mundane matters 4. Experience specifically clarified spiritual direction to bring inner and outer activities of the student’s life into harmony 5. Create ceremony and sacred space for healing and worship 6. Organize and conduct development circles and workshops in meditation and healing 7. Use “Live Learning™” concepts, as desired, in all aspects of their lives Our students come from diverse religious and spiritual walks. Because we believe each person’s spiritual calling is unique and personal, we offer three options for students who graduate from the School of Spiritual Healing and Prophecy: Mediumship and Healing Certification, Metaphysician Certification, and Ministerial Ordination. www.fellowshipsspirit.org • (716) 595-2159 • 282 Dale Dr, Cassadaga, NY 14718 60 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide o We offer books, CD’s, workshops, and down-loadable courses to support you on your spiritual journey, as well as MANY MEDITATION DOWNLOADS for healing, attraction, and connecting with Spirit. Down-loadable Seminars Psychic Development–Opening to Your Sixth Sense with Sharon Anne Klingler This comprehensive workshop is designed to provide a variety of tools and processes for maximizing your psychic senses and opening to the energy of your higher Self. Includes over 3 hours of audio course work and corresponding hand-outs. Total Tarot—The Door to the Best Psychic Readings Ever! with Sharon Anne Klingler Whether you are a seasoned professional or just a beginner, this dynamic workshop will introduce you to new insights about the cards and powerful twists on their intuitive applications, bringing together Tarot with the practice of psychic message work. Includes over 16 hours of audio programming and 30 pages of class instruction and illustration. Breakthrough To Prosperity with Sandra Anne Taylor In this seminar you will learn to identify and deal with the present cycles of life–and how to shift internal consciousness, external circumstances, and even karmic patterns to breakthrough to the peace and prosperity you deserve. Includes 4 hours of audio lecture with corresponding hand-outs. Sharon Anne Klingler is an author, medium, and an inspiring international speaker. The Huffington Post declared her most recent book, Power Words, “my kind of book...as it, gives extraordinary superpower tools.” Sandra Anne Taylor is the New York Times best-selling author of Quantum Success, Secrets of Attraction, and her most recent book, Your Quantum Breakthrough Code, which offers an amazingly easy yet profoundly powerful tool for change. At-Home Study Seminars Act To Attract o by Sandra Anne Taylor 9 CD’s, Workbook, and Energy Cards Speaking To Spirit by Sharon Anne Klingler 8 CD’s, Book, Workbook, Journal, Cards Advanced Spirit Communication by Sharon Anne Klingler Advanced Workbook and 4 CD’s o Go to our website for a current list of seminars and products ~ www.starbringerassociates.com Starbringer Associates 871 Canterbury Road, Unit B • Westlake, Ohio 44145 • 440-871-5448 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 61 Don’t Miss These Life-Changing Seminars by Sandra Anne Taylor and Sharon Anne Klingler! Totally Transform Your Life! A Special Three-Day Intensive with Sandra Anne Taylor August 1st–3rd; 9:30–4:30 In this enlightening and extensive seminar you will learn how to use your consciousness to accelerate healing, power, confidence, and joy every day! August 1st: Cracking Your Karma Code: Release the past, heal the present, and create a fantastic future--in this life and always! August 2nd: A Wealth of Spirit! The Science and Power of Spirit in Your Life: Open the spirit pipeline for love, abundance, and personal healing. August 3rd: The Ultimate Attraction Power Intensive: Direct Your Energy, Consciousness, and Intention to achieve all that you truly desire! How to Do Past Life Readings and Future Projections With Sharon Anne Klingler: Thursday August 4 and Friday August 5, 2016; 9:30–4:30 Join us for this dynamic two-day intensive and learn how to link with many spirits from different times. Discover how to perceive past life information as well as future details that bring insight, power, and clarity to every reading you do! L Season Highlight l Igniting Your Spirit Powers for Miracles in Your Life An Exciting Weekend with Sandra Anne Taylor and Sharon Anne Klingler Friday, August 26, 7–10pm: A Night with Spirit: Messages from the Other Side Discover dynamic exercises to connect with spirit for yourself. Many selected class members will also receive powerful and moving messages from the spirit world! Saturday, August 27, 9:30–12:30: Working with Your Angels to Manifest Love, Success, Power and Joy: Your angels are a greater source of power and assistance than most people realize – and even fewer utilize. You can build a daily rapport with these radiant and ubiquitous beings who stand at the ready to help you in every way. Saturday, August 27, 2:00–5:00: Journey to Your Past Lives: Present patterns concerning love, money, and health can be traced back to past-life experiences, and you can learn how to clear the past, shift the present, and redirect your future in surprising and unexpected ways! Sunday, August 28, 1:30–4:30: Calling All Spirit Guides — Building Your Spirit Dream Team: Discover the mechanics of spirit communication and learn the finer points of perceiving spirit and speaking their language. Create a direct link to your guides so that you can receive their insight, energy, and support every day! The above seminars can be taken in their entirety or in the individual sessions or days. 62 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Power Words Igniting Your Life with Lightning Force by Sharon Anne Klingler With Power Words, you can generate new actions and lightning-fast results! Each word triggers its own specific purpose and activity. You can choose the precise words that provide extraordinary success, and learn to direct profound force to all of your goals. Power Words can create an electrical current in your life that will light up your world! High Praise for Power Words: “This is…my kind of book, as it gives us all extraordinary superpower tools to help uncover our highest selves.” - B. Fonger, The Huffington Post “Power Words is…perhaps the most profound, transformative book ever written on the influence that…language has on our lives.” - Denise Linn, author of Soul Coaching; Kindling the Native Spirit; and Sacred Space Order Power Words now at Amazon.com or HayHouse.com Or you can find Power Words at the Lily Dale Bookstore and the Crystal Cove. 871 Canterbury Road, Unit B • Westlake, Ohio 44145 www.starbringerassociates.com Colleen Vanderzyden Registered Medium and Spiritual Life Coach “I just wanted to thank you for my reading on Saturday. I left feeling like I had gotten this huge hug from beyond.” –RS “Your description of my daughter was so accurate, it amazes me.” –TP “I wanted to thank you again for reconnecting me to my Mom and Dad. I really felt that they were right there with us.” –DA “I just wanted to thank you for my reading yesterday. It was very comforting and quite relieving in a sense. You made things very easy for me especially because it was my first time getting a reading done.” –AR 716-672-9751 • ColleenVanderzyden.com 15 First Street, Lily Dale, NY • [email protected] www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 63 Rev. James M. Barnum Spiritual Counselor Lecturer Teacher Medium Healer Registered Medium with Lily Dale Assembly 9 Second Street . Lily Dale, NY 14752 716-595-3644 Evening and Phone Appointments Available on Request 64 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide JAKE SAMOYEDNY THE COMPASSIONATE MEDIUM REGISTERED LILY DALE MEDIUM Recognized by The Times Square Press as the 6th Most Recommended Medium in the World and voted as the 3rd Best Medium in The United States for 2015/2016. 2016 LILY DALE WORKSHOP Thursday August 11, 2016, 7pm-10pm “The Compassionate Medium” Individual Readings are for 30 minutes and will be recorded onto a CD that you take with you. $110.00 per person, per reading cash please. All major credit cards are accepted; no personal or business checks please. Phone Readings and Skype Reading are available and are just as meaningful as in person readings. Reading Room – 16 Third Street, Lily Dale 914-227-5398 compassionatemedium.com | [email protected] www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 65 Reverend Jessie Furst Registered Spiritualist Medium for over 19 years Jessie is also owner of the Lake View Guest House at 17 Cleveland Avenue, PO Box 0243, Lily Dale, NY 14752 To schedule a reading or room reservation Call 716-595-2482 Check out my web page at jessiefurst.com | Open year round! Monika’s Delites 716-244-0657 Located at the Pagoda Building on Melrose Park Ext. Serving Lily Dale and the surrounding area since 1996 House-made Soups, Salads and Sandwiches Made fresh to order! Home of the Original Monika’s Delites GARLIC SOUP Visit us on Facebook to see our Daily Specials 66 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide e Rev. Dr. Kathleen Salyers Spritual Counselor • Medium Teacher • Mystic • Healer Phone and In-Person Readings Donations: $85 – 30 Minutes $170 - 60 Minutes A CD is given as a gift with in-person readings! 18 Second Street Lily Dale, NY 14752 716-467-5848 [email protected] www.RevDrKathleenSalyers.com Crystal Cove Unique Gifts 21 Cleveland Ave Lily Dale, NY 14752 { One-of-a-Kind Jewelry v Unique Crystals Clothing & Accessories v Aromatherapy Books v Decks v Music v Incense Candles v Greeting Cards { Jana & Rod Potter, Owners Phone/Fax 716-595-3750 [email protected] Like us on Facebook Rev. Elaine D. Thomas, MS Spiritual Counseling and Teaching For 40 years as Lily Dale’s longest continuously Registered Medium, I have assisted people who are seeking practical guidance, communication with those who have died, comfort from grief, answers to spiritual questions, inspiration and peace of mind. 7 Library Street Lily Dale, New York 14752 716-595-3939 www.RevElaineThomas.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 67 Ron’s Treasures CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY’S NEWEST & MOST FUN ANTIQUE SHOP! Over 3,600 Square Feet of Gift Ideas Furniture • Tools • Sporting Goods • Glassware Lighting • Home Decor & More! Ron Wilcox, Owner 88 N. Main Street . Cassadaga, NY 14718 . 716-595-2555 / 969-5411 Between Qwik-Fil & White Horse Inn Open Thursday-Saturday, 10-7pm, Sunday 10-3pm A Return to Tradition Full Restaurant & Bar 9-Hole Golf Course • Pro Shop Open to the Public 55 Frisbee Road, Cassadaga (716) 595-3003 www.cassadagacountryclub.com FREDRICKSON BUILDERS SUPPLY INC. 320 Maple Ave, Cassadaga 716-595-3100 www.fbshome.com 68 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Just Breathe Healing Touch Massage just-breathe-massage.com Christine Freebery, LMT Therapeutic Massage . Abdominal Massage Myofascial Release . Hot Stone . Light Therapy (716) 785-4779 Call for Appointment – Early morning and evening hours available 17 S. Main Street, Cassadaga, NY Just 1.2 miles from Lily Dale gate, in the heart of Cassadaga Parkside House Rental 28 Park Ave Cassadaga 1 mile from Lily Dale 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Modern Kitchen Loft with Daybed and Trundle Lake View Close to Beach www.homeaway.com Listing #3915164 or call 844-275-2006 www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 69 Dr. Lauren Thibodeau 4 Library St. Book Online, or via Text or Email: Book Directly Online at: DrLauren.com Text to: Sarah at 716-467-5957 (text only, no voicemail) Email: [email protected] A Registered Medium at Lily Dale since 1996, Dr. Lauren is often seen wearing her rose-colored glasses or other distinctive eyewear. (She may have harmed her eyesight earning an MBA, M.ED. & Ph.D.) Watch for her at Inspiration Stump and Forest Temple! Dr. Lauren sees clients in person in Lily Dale from May to October. Her summer home at 4 Library St. is around the corner from Assembly Hall, on the same street as the Museum, down the street from the Healing Temple. She is available by phone and email year-round. Spiritualists believe in an infinite God, free will and individual responsibility. Dr. Lauren is able to connect with your loved ones and guides in spirit. Choose to experience a “walk down memory lane,” or focus on their insights about present and future events. Be Part of the World’s First College Affiliated Program in Modern Mediumship Dr. Lauren Thibodeau and her “Psychic Professor” colleague Dr. Susan Barnes, an accredited medium with the SNU, have established the philosophy-based Modern Mediumship program at Jamestown Community College, North County Center, easily accessed from Erie, Buffalo and Jamestown, just off NYS Thruway Exit 59 in Dunkirk. It’s comprised of six 6-week courses (meeting Thursdays at 6:15 pm) and two 8-week supervised practica experiences, along with a capstone project of your choice. You’ll earn a certificate from JCC upon successful completion of the program, which can be done in as little as one year. Series begins March & September, 2016. Just $359 per 6-week class session! Visit SUNYJCC.edu to learn more or call 716-363-6500 to register. Still have questions? Email [email protected]! 70 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide Donald W. Scott LMT Healing Therapies for Whole Body Health Qigong Healing • Photonic Light Therapy • Massage • Yoga Therapy 716-622-6332 www.donaldwscott.com By appointment only “I would be honored to help you with difficult times in your life bringing you together with your Spirit Loved Ones.” Rev. Sherry Lee Calkins The Story Of Your Life - Moving In A New Direction An Aura Chart reading with Rev. Sherry Lee includes an inspired drawing done by the hand of Spirit – moving you forward from today to the new opportunities and blessings that await you. Rev. Sherry Lee, internationally known Lily Dale medium, joyfully connecting people with Spirit for more than 30 years (716) 595-3174 | [email protected] www.revsherryleecalkins.com www.lilydaleassembly.com | 716-595-8721 71 SPIRIT ART • HEALING JEWELRY • LILY DALE IMAGES PERSONALIZED SPIRIT ART • GIFTS ART CLASSES ee Open This Summer Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11AM-6PM Art Class Wednesdays 7-8:30pm ee Gallery Exhibits June-July: Spirits All Around (Group Show) August: Spirit Photography By Shannon Taggart ee 60 North Main Street (Rt. 60), Cassadaga, NY www.spiritartgallery.net (716) 595-2921 72 Lily Dale Assembly 2016 Workshop Guide 2016 REGISTERED MEDIUMS Victor Abbott Lynne Forget E. Gerta Lestock Kris Seastedt-Richard 16 Fourth Street (716) 969-2482 20 Second Street (716) 595-2194 2 Second Street (716) 595-2434 11 North Street (716) 499-9773 Jackie Avis Jaccolin Franchina Patty Lillis Joseph Shiel, III 3 First Street (216) 970-3429 1 South Street (716) 595-3661 2 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-3916 16 First Street (716) 785-9849 James Barnum Jessie Furst Eileen McClure Patricia Stranahan 9 Second Street (716) 595-3644 17 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-2482 6 Second Street (716) 595-2724 14 North Street (716) 595-3949 Patricia Bell Carol Gasber Mary Ockuly Lauren Thibodeau 1 Fourth Street (716) 595-2332 3 Library Street (716) 595-3590 2 Buffalo Street (716) 595-3724 4 Library Street TEXT (716) 467-5957 Debra Boardman B. Anne Gehman Sharon Pieri Elaine Thomas 3 Marion Street (716) 595-2621 16 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-2019 17 South Street (716) 595-2848 7 Library Street (716) 595-3939 Sherry Lee Calkins Connie Griffith Peggy Rogers Stephanie Turachak 7 South Street (716) 595-3174 22 Second Street (720) 432-4317 2 Third Street (814) 881-9047 1 Library Street (716) 595-2259 Simon Caudullo Brenda Hawkins MK Roland Colleen Vanderzyden 6 South Street (716) 384-4043 6 Buffalo Street (716) 595-2049 28 South Street (716) 203-1530 15 First Street (716) 672-9751 Gretchen Clark Sharon Hill Tom Rugani Bonnie White 11 Marion Street (716) 595-3380 5 Fourth Street (716) 413-2491 14 Buffalo Street (716) 595-8291 20 North Street (716) 595-3417 Elli McCabe Cratsley Paul Hodges Neal Rzepkowski John White 10 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-3551 8 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-3996 / (585) 967-5551 15 Second Street (side entrance) (716) 665-0768 3 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-3752 Martie Hughes Brecht Saelens 14 Third Street (716) 595-3754 6 Cleveland Avenue (716) 679-5679 3 Melrose Park (716) 595-3927 Gregory Kehn Kathleen Salyers 8 Cottage Row (716) 595-3529 18 Second Street (716) 467- 5848 Kim Kelleher Jake Samoyedny 10 South Street (716) 595-2667 16 Third Street (914) 227-5398 Tammarishka Kerman Barbara Sanson 7 North Street (416) 407-4323 7 Cleveland Avenue (716) 595-2676 Sharon Anne Klingler Teresa Schaeffer 2 Melrose (Lower Bookstore) (440) 871-5446 (716) 595-2405 14 Cottage Row (716) 595-3112 Janice L. Dreshman 12 South Street (716) 595-2467 Sharon Earsing 11 Third Street (716) 595-3895 Celeste Elliott 19 First Street (716) 589-0701 Kathleen Elliott 19 First Street (716) 467-8125 Margaret Ferris 9 Library Street (716) 595-2897 Pamela White Willa White 17 North Street (716) 595-3755 Lynne Wiltsie 1 Second Street (716) 595-2027 Shirley Yusczyk 7 Marion Street (716) 595-2433 Appointments are advised. We cannot guarantee mediums will be available. We would like to thank the following proof readers: Connie Dutcher, Fran Walsh, Margaret Ferris, Dot McCarthy, Simon Caudullo, Karen Loomis, Alice Spring and Kim Williams. Lily Dale Assembly 5 Melrose Park PO Box 248 Lily Dale, NY 14752 NON-PROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID BUFFALO, NY PERMIT #912 5 Melrose Park, PO Box 248, Lily Dale, NY 14752 www.lilydaleassembly.com 716-595-8721