Archived information about the 2017 symposium follows.
Learn and share with open-minded seekers like you.

You will learn . . .
- What the dead say about how we should live
- How wisdom is channeled from higher realms
Methods families use to share the death transition
- How to record afterlife voices yourself
Ways to develop and enhance mediumship
How to have Self-Guided Afterlife Connections
How to have a circle with materialization
The proofs of the afterlife that convince skeptics
- How to fix today’s racial tensions and divides
- How to use table tipping for spirit communication
- Ways to help groups have afterlife connections
- How psychotherapists aid in afterlife connections
- Insights into having great medium readings
- What happens in the life review
- How the death transition can be wonderful
- About having life-between-lives experiences
- How spirits are cooperating with us
- The importance of after-death care
- How to become a new human
- And much more!
Make this symposium the start of something big in your life.
Special Events!
AREI Presents ~ Mediums Rare

Expect the unexpected. There may be laughter or tears, but one thing is certain: you will feel the presence of spirit when these extraordinary souls share the stage.
You will hear their personal stories and see them in action as they give messages from the spirit world to audience members at random. No one is guaranteed a message, but if you pay close attention, you may well find a gem that touches your heart.
We will throw it open and see if we can do any double- or triple- or even quadruple-link messages. Fun!
George Noory Asks Our Experts Questions from the Audience

George Noory will lead one of the very popular panels he is known for. He will choose six of the presenters to be on a panel. Audience members will write questions, and Tom Danheiser, George’s affable organizer, will collect them to give to George. George will ask the experts the questions, while Tom asks some questions himself as he’s in the audience hearing from audience members. The panels are always enlightening and entertaining. There is no predicting the questions, and answers, or George’s and Tom’s reactions.
Everyone will then have an opportunity to meet George.
Susanne Wilson Will Perform a Session of Platform Readings

Susanne Wilson is well known for her platform readings, with highly evidential messages coming for audience members. Susanne’s performance and accuracy have been researched and documented by world renowned afterlife researchers including Dr. Gary Schwartz, Dr. Victor Zammit, Dr. Craig Hogan, and Attorney Roberta Grimes. She has 70+ verified legitimate testimonials published by Bob Olson on his highly respected Best Psychic Directory.
Not everyone is guaranteed of a reading, but listening to the readings everyone receives is enlightening, heartwarming, and entertaining.
How to Record Afterlife Voices
Free Workshop
Reverend Dr. Sheri Perl is an Afterlife Research and Education Institute ITC facilitator. Sheri is using Instrumental TransCommunication to record the messages from spirit to their loved ones here on earth. Although her focus centers around connecting-up children who have passed with their parents, Sheri will do readings for anyone in need. The title of her book “Lost and Found, “ indicates her firm belief that what you have lost in the flesh you CAN find in the spirit.
According to Sheri, who has been recording for a little over a year, the messages are becoming longer and clearer. In her readings, the parent or bereaved loved-one is brought into the reading via cell phone and they are able to ask questions. The answers from spirit are recorded and through a careful auditing process, Sheri is able to hear and isolate the answers. According to Sheri, these readings provide “A joyous exchange of love.”
Sheri will hold a two-part workshop which will meet in the mornings on September 15th and 16th. This workshop will literally walk you through the steps necessary to set up your computer to record EVPs. If recording EVPs is something you want to do, then bring your laptop with you to the workshop. Sheri believes that it is possible for anyone who is coming from a place of sincerity to record voices using the same method she is using, which is based on Sonia Rinaldi’s work.
“I cannot guarantee that you will connect-up, or that the voices you record will be the voices you want, but I do believe that our loved ones-in-spirit want this connection too, and that if you persevere, you will succeed.”
Suzanne Giesemann Will Channel Higher-Level Beings

In this demonstration, renowned evidential medium Suzanne Giesemann will go into trance and channel messages from the higher realms. There is no agenda and no way of predicting or controlling what will come through.
In a special presentation about channeling and how to channel, Suzanne will discuss her connection with a collective group of higher level beings called Sanaya. She will help you understand evidential mediumship and channeling, and how you can know about your own abilities and abilities of people you know.
Hay House author Suzanne Giesemann is a retired U.S. Navy Commander with a master’s degree in Public Administration who served as a Commanding Officer and as aide-de-camp to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. The author of 10 books, today former-commander Giesemann is an evidential medium and spiritual teacher.
Sonia Rinaldi Plays Recordings from the Afterlife, Nonspeaking People, and the Unborn

Sonia Rinaldi is recording clear voices of people in the afterlife, people on the earth plane who are unable to speak because of nonverbal autism, Lou Gherig’s Disease, dementia, and other such maladies, and unborn children. She is flying in from Brazil to explain how she does her work and to bring examples of these voices from her groundbreaking work.
Sonia communicates with a team of researchers, engineers, and scientists in another realm at what they call the BrazilianStation, using a clearly defined procedure. The recordings are crystal clear. She will play some of them during a special session at the symposium.
Be part of a momentous gathering of the leading experts in afterlife communication and end-of-this-life activities
Mental Mediumship for Channeling Wisdom from the Higher Realms
Suzanne Giesemann will describe her connection with a collective group of higher level beings called Sanaya. She will help you understand evidential mediumship and channeling, and how you can know about your own abilities and abilities of people you know. Learn More
What Really Happens When We Die?
Victor and Wendy will be speaking about What the evidence shows about ten common beliefs about what happens when we die. They write that evidence taken from many different areas of credible afterlife investigation is in total agreement. This Learn More
How Science is Proving that Spirits are Collaborating with Us ~and~ Lessons from Mediumship Science for Spirit Communication Technology Research
In his first presentation, Gary will present compelling new research that demonstrates how science is proving that spirits are collaborating with us. He will explain experiments where (1) scientists in spirit identify themselves to blinded mediums under controlled conditions, (2) Learn More
The Fun of Living Together ~ How We Can at Last Fix America’s Racial Problems
Roberta Grimes, Esq., and her co-author, Kelley Glover, have determined that America's racial issues entirely trace to our botched emancipation amid the chaos of a disastrous Civil War. And understanding what is wrong is half of fixing the problem! In Learn More
Healing Grief by Understanding Quantum Consciousness and the Other Side
Since the dawn of recorded history, millions of people worldwide have described Near-death Experiences. These Spiritually Transformative Experiences include encounters with spirits of deceased loved ones. Using a colorful and dynamic PowerPoint Presentation, paranormal expert and spiritual bestselling author Mark Learn More
George Emcees Questions from the Audience for the Experts
George adds his flair as an entertainer and investigator into all things paranormal to assemble six of the our expert presenters questions onstage to answer questions written on slips of paper by members of the audience. Anything is fair game Learn More
Extraordinary End of Life Experiences: Evidence of an Afterlife
In this presentation, William Peters, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of the Shared Crossing Project, will provide insights into how people can have profound transition experiences. Learn about shared crossings, extraordinary end-of-life experiences that confirm communication between Learn More
Orb Science Identifies What Orbs Are
Virginia Hummel is Chairman of Orb Encounters at Eternea.org. She is an author, Spiritual Grief Coach, Dynamic Speaker, and creator of OrbWhisperer.com. Orbs appear in photographs as spheres of light. Digital cameras allow capture orbs with ease, yet skeptics believe Learn More
The Procedure Psychotherapists Are Using to Help Clients Have Afterlife Communications
Rochelle Wright,M.S., LMHC, CDP, NCC, EMDR Certified, a Washington-state licensed psychotherapist, explains how she and over 100 psychotherapists she has trained are helping grieving people reduce and heal their grief in a single session by helping them have an afterlife Learn More
Evidential Mediumship: Raising the Bar (Including Platform Demonstration)
Susanne will explain how the energies of the deceased, the medium, and the sitter each take responsibility for the reading's level of success. She will then demonstrate evidential mediumship by doing readings for members of the audience as messages come Learn More
What the Dead Say About How We Should Live
Roberta has discovered that the dead tell us things about God, reality, death, the afterlife, and the meaning and purpose of our lives that are consistent over hundreds of communications received by various means for more than a century. Roberta Learn More
Using Technology to Record Voices from the Afterlife and Nonverbal People’s Minds
Sonia Rinaldi is recording clear voices of people in the afterlife, people on the earth plane who are unable to speak because of nonverbal autism, Lou Gherig’s Disease, dementia, and other such maladies, and unborn children. She is flying in Learn More
Organizing Physical Mediumship Circles
Susan has been practicing Spiritualism and natural law for years. In this presentation, she explains how to set up physical circles, in which remarkable phenomena occur such as objects flying around the room, people in spirit speaking, tables levitating and Learn More
VoicesAcrossTheVeil.com – Connecting People with Those They Love
Voices Across the Veil is a research program of AfterlifeData.com that makes medium readings available to a broad range of people. It offers small group sessions of two to six people who, for 45 to 90 minutes, link via video Learn More
Weighing of the Heart: What Happens in the Life Review?
Alan Hugenot's "Weighing of the Heart" presentation explains how the ancient Egyptian religion's concept of weighing of the heart matches the life review, which has now been verified by our best NDE science. He also explains from the scriptures that Learn More
How to Use Electronic Voice Phenomena to Communicate with Your Loved Ones in Spirit
Sheri Perl explains the procedure she uses to record voices from the afterlife when a parent wants to connect with their children in spirit. The parent calls and Sheri puts the phone up to a recording microphone so the parents Learn More
Keys to Having Self-Guided Afterlife Connections
Craig Hogan, president of AREI, has developed an online training program that enables anyone to connect with loved ones living on the next plane of life. It uses a form of self-relaxation to bring the experiencer into a state in Learn More
Facilitated After-Death Contact and Pre-Birth Planning
Mark Pitstick, MA, DC, has 45 years' experience and training in hospitals, pastoral counseling settings, mental health centers and holistic private practice. He received his certification in past-life regression therapy by Brian Weiss, M.D., and in the psychomanteum technique by Learn More
Raising the Consciousness of Humanity–We Are All One
Dr. Tracy Coen explains how transformative experiences everyday people have show we are one with each other and the universe. Tracy is an Advisory Board Member, Division of Perceptual Studies at University of Virginia in the field of neuroscience and Learn More
After-Death Care and the Three-Day Vigil
Rev. Olivia Bareham, founder of Sacred Crossings is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide and Celebrant. She currently guides individuals toward a natural, conscious dying experience and supports families in reclaiming the lost art and healing ritual of a Learn More
Learning Who You Were to Understand Who You Are
In her presentation, Hypnotist Patricia McGivern will show you how exploring your soul through regression will give you the understanding of who you were for a new understanding of who you are. She shares how learning about past lives results in Learn More
A Skeptic Learns to Communicate with the Afterlife
The fear of dying led Sandra Champlain on a 15 year journey to find evidence of the afterlife. She privately studied the worlds of psychic ability, mediumship, past life regression, near death experiences, induced after death communication, reincarnation, electronic voice Learn More
Developing Physical Medium Communication Abilities
Rob Blackburn is an emerging physical medium sitting with the AREI Circle of the Masters of Light. At this stage in his development, he is going into trance at every seance and is experiencing the physical and mental development physical Learn More
How to Develop and Enhance Mediumship Abilities
Camber Wilson is a certified intuitive life coach and spiritual medium. She serves on the Afterlife Research & Education team at AREI. Camber is a rising star in mediumship who Susanne Wilson is mentoring (and although we have the same Learn More
Holding Physical Mediumship Circles Resulting in Table Levitation
Dr. Jan W. Vandersande completed his undergraduate work at Swarthmore College, his M.Sc. in physics at Cornell in 1969, and Ph.D. in physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa while studying the thermal properties of diamonds. He then Learn More
Research in Life between Lives ~ Michael Newton Institute
Dr. Ann Clark is the Director of Research for The Newton Institute for Life between Lives®. She is the owner of Wisdom for Wellness, a holistic health service and practices Past Life Regression and Life between Lives Regression. She is Learn More
Communicating with Dead People During OBEs
In this presentation, Jurgen Ziewe describes how he communicates with dead people during out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Jurgen wrote, I communicate a lot with dead people during OBEs. It has become the main source of information for me. Often, when the Learn More
AfterlifeData.com and AfterlifeLibrary.com
In 2007, Dr. Dennis Grega reached out to the creators of Afterlife101.com. After having read through the large amount of channeled material on that website, Dr. Grega was curious to speak with its creators. As conversations unfolded, questions arose as Learn More
A Near-Death Experience Results in Teaching Others We Are One
In 1997, Jeff experienced a horrific automobile accident. The accident caused multiple life-threatening injuries, including crushing both his legs. He had 18 surgeries and spent six months in the hospital. His left leg was amputated above the knee. The most devastating Learn More
Parent Responses to Sheri Perl Voice Recordings
Sheri Perl, AREI ITC Communication Facilitator, is regularly having parents call in questions for their children living in the afterlife. The responses are remarkable. Examples of the responses are at http://www.afterlifesymposium.org/parents-link-children-using-itc/ The parents send responses to the recordings Sheri provides Learn More
Symposium Book with Your Name and Information
The key to helping humankind grow to live in peace, love, and joy is having people communicate with each other on this plane and with people now living on the next plane of life. We learn from each other, support Learn More
Unusual and Profound Out-of-Body Experiences
Cyrus, author of Understanding Life After Death, travels out of body regularly. He will present a short, slightly tongue-in-cheek presentation about his remarkable afterlife experiences: among them, leaving his body and tasting things as an experiment, meeting a neighbor who Learn More
Arizona Bell ~ A Millennial’s View of Spirit
Arizona Bell is the founder and editor of Spirit Guides Magazine—a publication dedicated to spiritual exploration of both physical and non-physical worlds. Bell began her writing career a decade ago as an intern at Curve Magazine and has since been Learn More
General Symposium Dates and Times
This is a preliminary schedule. The times may change slightly. Symposium fee discount schedule ~ Registration fee $295 Thursday, September 14 ~ Thursday evening, socializing ~ Tours of Sedona, red rocks, Native American ruins, Phoenix, and the desert ~ More Learn More
Mediums Available for Readings

Tina Powers

Mark Anthony

Renee Richards

Mark Nelson
We now know more about afterlife communications and end-of-life activities than humankind has ever known. We want to share what we’ve learned with you. Join us.
Enjoy comfortable, cool rooms at the beautiful Embassy Suites Hotel, tours of Sedona, views of the beautiful red rock cliffs, hot air balloon rides, Botanical Gardens, Musical Instrument Museum, close by restaurants, and all the attractions of Phoenix, Arizona.
Register now before the symposium is filled!
Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Inc., Founders

Roberta Grimes, Esq.

R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D.

Susanne Wilson, M.A.

Victor Zammit, Ph.D.

Wendy Zammit, M.A.