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May 17, 2023 57 mins

Spirit animals appear in our lives in a variety of ways from real life encounters, to dreams and mystical experiences. Our guests today will explain how these profound encounters affirm our intimacy with the animal world and the realm of Spirit. Are you open to receive gifts of wisdom, guidance, protection, comfort, support, power, and even healing? We’re going to learn how to experience the magic of Spirit Animals and hopefully you will even marvel at physics and consciousness and what these kinds of stories can teach us in everyday life.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS:

STEVEN FARMER is the bestselling author of ANIMALS: Personal Tales of Encounters with Spirit Animals, a book in the Common Sentience series. He is a licensed psychotherapist and somatic therapist, shamanic healer, ordained minister, and former college professor. His extensive experience in the fields of psychotherapy and shamanic healing enables him to provide his clients with a comprehensive and highly individualized counseling experience. Dr. Farmer’s unique approach as a psychospiritual healer is the result of his in-depth studies of spiritual transformation, trauma recovery, shamanism, hypnotherapy, breathwork, and energy psychology.

Dr. Farmer’s online course The Path of the Shaman is a popular course on Sacred U. Steven has written a copious amount of bestselling books, including Healing Ancestral Karma; Animal Spirit Guides; Shaman’s Path Cards; Spirit Animals as Teachers, Guides, and Healers; Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals; Earth Magic; Earth Magic Oracle Cards; Power Animal Oracle Cards; Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides; Sacred Ceremony; Children’s Spirit Animal Cards and Children’s Spirit Animal Stories CD Volumes I & II.

Dr. Farmer hosts workshops on animal spirit guides, shamanism, ancestral healing, and Earth-centered spirituality. His dynamic and entertaining teaching style helps to fully engage participants on their spiritual healing journeys. He also offers individual consultations in person or online. Dr. Farmer has a B.A. in psychology from University of California, M.A. in counseling psychology from Chapman University, and a Ph.D. from Madison University. He serves on the board of the Society for Shamanic Practice.

Dr. Thomas Brophy holds a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from The Colorado College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Dr. Brophy’s academic and scientific backgrounds include work on NASA’s Voyager and Cassini spacecraft projects and an appointment as a National Science Foundation Exchange Scientist at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Brophy was appointed President of CIHS, July 1, 2019. 

Dr. Brophy is the author of several books, including The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism and The Origin Map, and he is co-author of Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt, and Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos. He has also published peer-reviewed articles in premier scientific journals including Science, Icarus, and IEEE Journal, and his work has been featured in Nature. 

Dr. Brophy has presented at numerous scientific conferences, including several times to the Toward a Science of Consciousness conferences. His research in the field of Archaeoastronomy has be

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