The Intentional Spirit ... Seeing and Being

Joyologist Pat Armistead's life has been devoted to helping others to transform their lives. Her unique personal perspectives, traumatic past, repeated losses, and eventual mastery as an award-winning speaker, TV and radio host, and exhibiting artist are a rare combination of talents. As a master storyteller, she combines methodology with human experiences to bring understanding and meaning to life events. Pat sees crisis as a catalyst for personal growth and ongoing transformation, enabling high levels of intimate communication and authentic expression. She is a best-selling author of two books and coauthor of another six, including the recent Amazon best-seller Common Threads. She has also produced 10 documentaries and anchored her own award-winning radio show. Pat provides a spiritual and creative perspective in the challenging areas of life, including facing our own mortality, grief, loss, and trauma. As a highly accomplished artist, her art is not only full of visual metaphors, it is a reflection of her encounters with humanity.

Orion Foxwood grew up with the second sight in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, an area rife with the folk practices of the southern and Appalachian tradition. He is a witch and Elder in Romano Celtic-Traditional Craft, High Priest in Alexandrian Wicca, and teacher of the Faery Seership tradition. He is also the founding Elder of Foxwood Temple and a primary founder of the Alliance of the Old Religion, a national network of covens in his line that have united to preserve the ways of his Elders. He was the codirector of Moonridge, a center for metaphysical, Craft, and Faery studies in Maryland. For more than 20 years, he has lectured extensively across the United States and in the United Kingdom on the Craft, Faery Seership Tradition, Southern Folk Magic, and conjure. He is the author of The Faery Teachings (R.J. Stewart Books, 2007), a collaborative CD project with R.J. Stewart named Faery Seership and is author of The Tree of Enchantment (Weiser books, 2008).

Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard has been an ordained minister for more than 20 years. He served in pulpits in Maryland, Florida, and California, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Religious Science Interntational (now Centers for Spiritual Living) for 9 years. He travels the world with his wife, Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, speaking, teaching, and coaching spiritual leaders. He has a bachelor's from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.P.A. from the University of Miami. He is the author of Sacred Thinking: Awakening to Your Inner Power (2010). His new book Creating the Beloved Community is about the qualities, attitudes, and practices that are needed to manifest the kind of world envisioned by Howard Thurman and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a world of peace and harmony.

What is surprise in your life but an instant opportunity for transformation, an unexpected moment that sends you careening into joy and wonder, spiraling into deep thought, and life-changing new awareness? The (Not So) Little Book of Surprises brings all that home in-of course-surprising ways! A mystical journey into consciousness, an exploration of what touches our souls, a laugh you never saw coming, and an inspiration for becoming our better selves are just some of the milestones in store for those embarking on this magical journey. Created by William Arntz, the filmmaker who brought you What the Bleep Do We Know!? this book takes the poetry, wisdom teachings, and otherworldly visions of Deirdre Hade and the exquisite images of award-winning photographer Endre Balogh into a new world of words and pictures, of revelation and delight.

Dr. Tom O'Bryan is an internationally recognized speaker and workshop leader specializing in the complications of nonceliac gluten sensitivity and celiac disease as they occur inside and outside the intestines. He is the founder of thedr.com. He recently hosted the paradigm-shifting gluten summit, bringing together 29 of the world's experts on celiac disease and nonceliac gluten sensitivity.

As the founder of Hello, From My Heart Days, you'll find me to be a wealth of information aimed at measurably creating a happier, healthier, and more peaceful company, community, or school. My methods have now reached more than 100 million people from 115 nations. What happens when we are happier, healthier, and more at peace. Absenteeism decreases, productivity increases, employee stability increases, and the bottom line increases. Gallup will now support these concepts with a statistical rendering of Engagement. Natrually, the title of my book is "How to: Have a Nice Day." It received the Inspirational Book of the year award from the 1st World Library. Some say the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Be prepared to discover how your "whole" can truly be greater.

Dr. Alison J. Kay, a.k.a. "The Lightning Bolt," is the founder of the Vibrational UPgrade System (VUPS). She is an experienced subtle energies practitioner and natural healer with a holistic approach toward helping others thrive in mind, body, and spirit. She spent 10 years in Asia studying subtle energies and ancient wisdom. This is combined with her 20 years' experience working in and teaching yoga, meditation, energy medicine, mind-body fitness, andlongevity. She has been serving private clients and larger groups in holistic health, doing private sessions, group clearings, activations, speaking, and teaching classes.

Rev. Dr. Jon Mundy is an author, lecturer, and the publisher of Miracles Magazine. Rev. Jon and Rabbi Gelberman began Interfaith Inc. in New York City in 1977, and they cofounded The New Seminary for Interfaith Ministers in 1981. He is the author of nine books including his newest book, Living a Course in Miracles, published by Sterling Ethos of New York City, a division of Barnes & Noble.

Author and stress management expert Jane Clarkston works with individuals and corporate wellness programs to assist people in learning how to use their own abilities to relax and let go of stress. She is the author of The Shrouded Caverns and has assisted thousands of students, CEOs, and other individuals on how to tap into their own God-given abilities. As a hypnotherapist and counselor, she gently uses her voice to take the person into a deeply relaxed state where they learn how to lower blood pressure, boost the immune system, and overcome anxiety as they improve their overall health and well-being. She has been a go-to expert on Fox News, ABC, NBC, and CNN on the topics of relaxation and alternative health.

Jonathan Greye is a creative strategist and spiritual branding expert who believes everyone has a personal brand, whether they are aware of it or not. Your thoughts, emotions, actions, and language are all contributing to it. Awakening your spiritual brand is an exciting and sometimes challenging feat that requires fierce devotion and focused intent. After working in advertising for nearly a decade, Jonathan decided to risk it all to follow his passion and create his own personal branding business. Combining his big agency knowledge and experience with his interest in ancient wisdom and personal development principles, he began creating a new method of branding that he had never seen before. After applying these practices within his own life, he began seeing a shift occur. He started to take more risks, started following his own intuition, and began discovering his own unique voice.

My friends call me Ev. I am an artist who likes to have fun. When I was younger I didn't have many friends. I looked for people, things, or labels to validate me. It wasn't easy to find a voice through my language barrier and learning disabilities. Before I learned my ABC's, I learned that I was unlovable. It was hard to believe I was love when I was suffocated in a closet by a preschool teacher, bullied with baseball bats, abused, and humiliated. Figuring out how to express'y answer myself pushed me to communicate through art. Communicating through art gave me a purpose to live when I didn't think I had a purpose! People often ask how I got through those experiences. Through art, I was expressing and expanding the good I wanted to experience. Sharing heartwonders is my voice, but it's also a playground of insight. Heartwonders helps us reclaim our good and discover our higher purpose through art. Heartwonders teaches the awareness of Good through art so there is less self-hatred and more love. Let's be kind and loving to ourselves regardless of what the world tells us. We are love and we are worthy of our good. We are here to champion our good!

Janie Boisclair (aka "The Clairvoyant Gourmet") is a rare 5C Clairvoyant, meaning that all five of her senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell-are "clear" (Clair) channels to the spirit world. The spirits seem to especially want to connect with Janie through her senses of taste and smell. For years, every reading she has given has had some type of food element. Through her readings, she brings back missing ingredients, lost family recipes, joyous mealtime memories from the other side, and memories that need to be revisited for therapeutic reasons. She can even connect with spirit guides who offer insight about what foods are needed to balance your chakra energy system.

Dawn Maslar, M.S., is the go-to authority on the science of love, an adjunct biology professor, and author of the upcoming acclaimed book Men Chase, Women Choose: The Neuroscience of Meeting, Dating, Losing Your Mind, and Finding True Love. She is the award-winning author of From Heartbreak to Heart's Desire: Developing a Healthy GPS (Guy Picking System). She is the TEDxBocaRaton 2016 speaker of "How Your Brain Falls in Love." She worked with the TED Education division (Lessons Worth Sharing) to create a video titled The Science of Attraction. She is a contributing author at scienceofrelationships.com, a collection of the leading experts in the field of scientific relationship research.

Sometimes it seems like the world is caught in an endless cycle of acrimony and retribution. From wars and terrorist attacks to petty slights and insults that explode into full-blown disputes and destroy relationships, bad behavior seems to rein. Yet you don't have to look far to find people who practice kindness and intentionally work to sow peace, friendship, and goodwill. That's the intention of Darlene and Ken Tipton, aka "Karma Dar" and "Karma Ken." The California couple created Amazing Karma around the simple nonreligious concept of "What goes around, comes around."

Dr. Rajiv Parti is a renowned anesthesiologist and author of Dying to Wake up: A Doctor's Voyage Into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back. As the chief anesthesiologist at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in Bakersfield, California, Dr. Parti underwent an emergency surgery for a life-threatening infection. While under the knife, he had a near-death experience (NDE) that changed his life completely. Dr. Parti was so profoundly affected by his NDE he underwent a near complete personality transformation in the weeks and months following his operation. He sloughed off the materialistic trappings he and his family had accumulated over time, selling his mansion and all his expensive cars. He began to reconnect with his wife and children, especially his eldest son, to whom he had often been abusive. He gave up his anesthesiology practice to help people overcome "diseases of the soul" like addiction, depression, and chronic pain through a more holistic, "consciousness-based" healing system that the angels had revealed to him during his NDE.