Lectures from the 1976 Easter Conference at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Easter and spring are natural times to contemplate birth, death and rebirth; so it is appropriate that the annual spring youth conference sponsored by the A.R.E. over the Easter holiday, April 15-18, 1976, was entitled “Dimensions of Death and Dying, Birth and Rebirth.” One of the main purposes of this conference was to present and discuss current research and thinking on these subjects, and to compare the concepts emerging from this work with related material from the Edgar Cayce readings. This booklet contains the edited transcripts of presentations by three of the speakers featured at that conference: Stanislav Grof, M.D. (“Transitions: Birth, Death, and Rebirth”); Raynor Johnson, Ph.D. (“The Wheel of Birth and Death”); and Hugh Lynn Cayce (“The First Ten Minutes After Death”). Also included here is the transcript of a panel discussion with three longtime A.R.E. staff members: Hugh Lynn Cayce, Gladys Davis Turner, and Ruth LeNoir, titled “Dimensions of Death.”