The Spiritual Care Collaborative, is inviting 90-minute workshop proposals for the Spiritual Care Summit ‘09 at Walt Disney World®, Florida, February 1-4, 2009 see http://www.spiritualcarecollaborative.org/scc_summit09.asp

We have been working on “Ten Steps to do a Reading” and it is going well. It will be a little handbook with pointers as to how to set up a reading space and gauge if the reading is going well. Ultimately, only one thing is required in order to do a reading for the benefit of another being: the desire to help that being. Typically one thinks of the Tibetan tradition, the books of the dead, when referencing the art of reading. I use the American Book of the Dead by EJ Gold because has the same bardo guidance material but is more culturally relevant. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche is a good source book on this as well as Luminous Emptiness by Francesca Fremantle and several texts of Robert Thurman