Eben Alexander MD

Best-selling author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, Dr. Eben Alexander has been an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years. In 2008, his own remarkable near-death experience radically transformed his understanding of consciousness and the brain. Dr. Alexander’s message is about bringing unconditional love into daily life and better understanding the nature of consciousness. He is also the author of the newly-released book: Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife.

Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty is a Los Angeles-based mortician, death theorist, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death. She frequently gives talks on the history of death culture, rituals, and the funeral industry. Her popular webseries "Ask A Mortician" has become a YouTube sensation with her honest, humorous and often irreverent look at death and dying. She is the author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, a New York Times Bestseller, described as an "eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story ... like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight."

Monica Williams-Murphy MD

Monica Williams-Murphy, MD, is a board-certified emergency physician who is on staff at one of the largest emergency departments in the nation, Huntsville Hospital. Monica is a passionate author, blogger and public speaker whose focus is empowering patients and families in critical and end-of-life decision-making. Her book It's OK to Die is devoted to transforming the end of life into a time of peace, closure and healing.

Jamie The Psychic

Jamie is a physical & emotional healer, a psychic and a medium, whose path is to minister to those in distress and erase the effects of a lifetime of pain and uncertainty. She is currently experiencing her own personal grief journey and writes openly and honestly about the challenges of loss on her popular blog The Deafening Silence. She is the co-host of the Cosmic Caffeine Radio Show and the author of the book Answers, as well as being a singer/songwriter and performer.

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD. is a social anthropologist, researcher, writer, and charismatic public speaker and has been a leader in the field of consciousness studies. Her research and extensive publications focus on personal and social transformation, cultural pluralism, extended human capacities, and mind body medicine.

She is currently touring the world with her feature film Death Makes Life Possible, co-produced with Deepak Chopra, on death and dying, and how engaging that topic in a deep and meaningful way informs the way we live our lives.

Judith Gantly is an actor and an educator who was nominated the best featured actress in a comedy by the Newark Star Ledger for her performance in Mornings at Seven at the Bickford Theater in New Jersey. She performs the one-woman play, Waltzing the Reaper by Paullette MacDougal, at venues around the country to help people overcome their fear of death and dying. Judith has a BA and MA in education and is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.