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Yvonne Kason is a Canadian Family Physician, Transpersonal MD-Psychotherapist, originator of the term “Spiritually Transformative Experience™” (STE), STE Researcher, five-time Near-Death Experience (NDE) experiencer, multiple Spiritually Transformative Experience experiencer, and Author of multiple books, previously on faculty at the University of Toronto.

After a Near-Death Experience in a traumatic 1979 medevac plane crash, she went on a quest to understand spiritual and paranormal experiences happening to people today. In 1990, Kason became the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize her medical practice in the counseling and research of persons having Near-Death Experiences and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences.

In 1990, she also co-founded the Kundalini Research Network and in 2000, Kason co-founded the Spirituality in Health-Care Network. In 2019, in her book, Touched by the Light, she describes four other Near-Death Experiencers she had, two in her childhood, and two more NDEs in her adult life. In 2020, she co-founded and became President of Spiritual Awakenings International with Vice President, Robert Bare Ph.D., who also had multiple Near-Death Experiences.

Books

 * Yvonne Kason. Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2019.
 * Yvonne Kason. Farther Shores: Exploring How Near-Death, Kundalini, and Mystical Experiences Can Transform Ordinary Lives. HarperCollins Canada, Toronto, 2000; and Author’s Choice Press, iUniverse Inc., Bloomington, IN, 2008.
 * Yvonne Kason. L’Autre Rive: Comment les experiences de mort imminente et autres phenomenes extraordinaires peuvent changer votre vie. Editions de Mortagne, Boucherville, PQ, Canada, 1996. [French translation of A Farther Shore.]
 * Yvonne Kason. A Farther Shore: How Near-Death and Other Extraordinary Experiences can change Ordinary Lives. HarperCollins Canada, Toronto, 1994.
 * T. Degler and Yvonne Kason. Liebe, Grenzen, und Konsequenzen: Erziehung mit Herz und Disziplin. Knaur Press, Berlin, Germany, 1993. [German translation of Love, Limits and Consequences.
 * R. Buckman, and Yvonne Kason. How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992; and Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992.
 * T. Degler, and Yvonne Kason. Love, Limits, and Consequences: A positive practical approach to kids and discipline. Summerhill Press, Toronto, 1990.

Selected articles

 * Woollacott, Marjorie H.; Kason, Yvonne; Park, Russell D. (July 2020). "Investigation of the phenomenology, physiology and impact of spiritually transformative experiences – kundalini awakening". EXPLORE: S1550830720302238. doi:10.1016/j.explore.2020.07.005.
 * A.Garg, R. Buckman, Y. Kason MD. “Teaching medical students how to break bad news.” CMAJ, April 15, 1997; 156(8): 1159-1164.
 * Y. Kason MD. "The Modern Kundalini Hypothesis: A Bio-Psycho-Spiritual Model of Transformation of Consciousness - An Explanation of Anomalous Experiences", TREAT Annual Conference Proceedings, Virginia Beach, Spring 1994.
 * Y. Kason MD. "Near-Death Experiences and Kundalini Awakening: Exploring the Links", Journal of Near-Death Studies, 12(3) Spring, 1994. pp143-157.
 * R. Turner MD, B. Greenwell Ph.D., Y. Kason MD, Kundalini: Energies of Transformation, Chapter within "Spiritual Emergence Network's Certification Program Training Manual in Spiritual Emergence Syndromes", Spiritual Emergence Network, Soquel, California, 1993/1994.