For Spiritually Transformative Experiencers & Those Who Love Them Proposed Date: TBD ACISTE is planning its first retreat for people who have had spiritually transformative experiencers (STErs) and for those who love them! It will be held on the beautiful island of Maui some time in 2024.

For Spiritually Transformative Experiencers & Those Who Love Them Proposed Date: TBD ACISTE is planning its first retreat for people who have had spiritually transformative experiencers (STErs) and for those who love them! It will be held on the beautiful island of Maui some time in 2024. 

About the Conference Please join us for our first virtual event! UP TO 24 HOURS OF CEs AVAILABLE* The main conference will be held from 11am to 7:30pm EST – Online Friday, October 8, 2021 and Saturday , October 9, 2021. Register Now! Conference recordings will be available to ticket holders for 30 days. The Main Conference tickets sales are non-refundable.

About the Conference Please join us for our first virtual event! UP TO 24 HOURS OF CEs AVAILABLE* The main conference will be held from 11am to 7:30pm EST – Online Friday, October 8, 2021 and Saturday , October 9, 2021. Register Now! Conference recordings will be available to ticket holders for 30 days. The Main Conference tickets sales are non-refundable.

Throughout history, during contemplative practice and during everyday life people have felt oneness with others, nature, or the universe. ACISTE members are invited to participate in a ground-breaking survey on ONENESS.  Eric Van Lente is conducting this research as part of his PhD program at the School of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Eric is especially interested if you have some type of meditative practice, but he’d like to invite everyone to participate. …

Participatory Aesthetics: A Phenomenological Study of Aesthetic Experiences of Persons in Substance Abuse Recovery Participatory aesthetics is understood as an active involvement in a creative endeavor. Similar to Spiritually Transformative Experiences, (STEs), an aesthetic experience can be explained as a transformative experience; awakening self to being interconnected with creation and beauty. For this study, 25 participants will be asked to describe their transformative experiences …

People everywhere have experiences like hearing voices and seeing things other people don’t. Sometimes, these are part of mental illness. Often, however, they occur in healthy individuals. There are usually a few differences between the experiences of people who seek psychiatric care and people who don’t. One difference is the ability to regain empowerment in the distressing life experiences that aren’t working for them—specifically with perceptual experiences. For example, many people say th…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of hundreds of scientific and other types of conferences worldwide through December of 2020 (and beyond), underscoring that despite our best efforts the environment is not conducive to the forward momentum for ACISTE’s 2020 annual conference. Many people are facing massive financial losses and unemployment, thus it is easy to see how sponsors and participants in conferences like ours confront these same challenges as well. Therefore, we regret…

About the Conference UP TO 24 HOURS OF CEs AVAILABLE* The main conference will be held from 10 to 7 pm EST Friday, October 9, 2020 and Saturday , October 10, 2020. The Main Conference tickets sales are non-refundable The Open Conversation and Drumming tickets sales are non-refundable

On August 14-16, the International Association for Near-Death Studies will hold its annual conference virtually for the first time: Unlocking the Healing Wisdom of NDEs. Featured speakers include: Anita Moorjani (Dying to Be Me, NDE-related healing from end-stage lymphoma), Mary Neal, MD (To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death), Howard Storm (from atheist to NDE to MDiv), and Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD (Research Survey of Near-Death Experien…