Nancy Chrisbaum is an inspiring teacher, author, and shamanic energy practitioner. She has studied and taught the Edgar Cayce concepts for more than four decades and served as an ARE staff member in Virginia Beach for 17 years. Nancy lectures on intuition, dreams, past lives, and mind/body/spirit energy healing. A graduate of the Four Winds Light Body School, Nancy is a certified Luminous Energy Healer and holds a BFA in Film Writing and Directing. She also is co-author of Awaken Your Inner Voice: A Guide to Intuition, Dreams, Meditation, Past Lives, and Your Soul's Creative Purpose, available at Amazon.com.

Dr. Doug Knueven is a longtime student of the Edgar Cayce readings. He served on the A.R.E. Board for seven years, the last three years as chair. Dr. Doug has been practicing holistic, integrative veterinary medicine since 1995 and has written two books on the subject. He has presented hundreds of lectures at veterinary conferences and pet programs, nationally and internationally, and was recognized as the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (AHVMA) “Holistic Teacher of the Year” in 2018. He also delivered the keynote lecture at the 2021 AHVMA conference.

Edgar Cayce (pronounced Kay-Cee, 1877-1945) has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and “the most documented psychic of the 20th century.” For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic “readings” to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. At the heart of that information is the concept that there is much more to us than the physical body, illustrated in an often quoted statement from one of his readings: “Spirit is the life, mind is the builder, the physical is the result.” Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), the nonprofit founded by Cayce in 1931, has the entire set of 14,306 readings that he gave as well as an extensive metaphysical library and can be visited in Virginia Beach.