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Betty J. Kovacs’ extensive study of the shaman-mystic spiritual tradition of prehistory reveals how their early knowledge of the blueprint for our evolution was distorted and covered up by Western religion. She shares her knowledge and passion through her books, speaking, teaching and media interviews in the United States and Europe. She speaks to national and global audiences through webinars, keynote presentations and media interviews.
More than 2,500 years of repression by both Church and State have thwarted our evolution, forced our science into a limited, materialistic understanding of life, and now threatens the survival of all life on our planet. We need to know this history. Twentieth-century scholars have unearthed this lost history in the nick of time. In spite of its repression, this is the fifth time this ancient knowledge has emerged in Western history. Only now are we able to see its origins, its continuity, and the depth of what it can mean for us today.
The ultimate fruit of the tree of life is the knowledge that we are all Universal Mind, immortal, divine, and creators. Without this knowledge of who we really are, we have fallen into depression, violence, fanaticism, fundamentalism, addiction to power, death and drugs that promise to transform our experience of a world without heart and soul. We are destroying ourselves and the planet.
We have forgotten that the heart connects us to a larger reality that nurtures the birth of a just and feeling world. Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World returns to us our shaman-mystic-scientist heritage that carries the blueprint for heart consciousness. This blueprint is revealed in the heart wisdom of the mystic and in the new science of quantum physics. The return of this Consciousness is changing the world.
Author Betty J. Kovacs, Ph.D., a recognized expert, shares her knowledge and passion through her books, speaking, teaching and media interviews in the United States and Europe. She speaks to national and global audiences through webinars, keynote presentations and media interviews. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic/ Mythic Language. She taught Literature, Writing, and Symbolic/Mythic Language for twenty-five years. She served many years as Chair and Program Chair on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation.
Within a three-year period, she experienced the deaths of her mother, her son, and her husband in separate automobile accidents. While she had studied shamanism before her son’s accident, she and her husband actually experienced their son’s consciousness after his death for an extended period of time. These experiences completely changed their lives. Her first book, The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life, is about these altered states of consciousness. After her retirement, she began an intensified period of research into our ancestors’ experience of a vaster consciousness, Cosmic/Christ Consciousness, which she relates in her new book, Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award and The Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. Anthony Chene’s documentary, A Spiritual Renaissance, is about her life and work (YouTube 2021). She is also featured with several others in A Quest for Ascension (Gaia.com, Amazon.com 2022). Her website is www.kamlak.com.
Here [in Merchants of Light] are the spiritual secrets that the priests of the patriarchy and their drive for power have tried to repress, but which we urgently need at this present moment of evolutionary crisis.
__Lewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D., Sufi teacher and author
The complementary roles of the scientist and the shaman/visionary
The blueprint for our conscious evolution and its negation in Genesis
Examples of people who have experienced Cosmic/Christ Consciousness
Death and the surprising creativity of grief
The “secret tradition” that Jesus taught
Mystic/contemplative/esoteric Christianity
Discoveries about the relationship of the brain/mind/heart and the centrality of the heart in the development of higher consciousness
The urgent message of indigenous peoples around the world
The sacred gifts of our ancestors, including the San Bushmen
What are the new discoveries about the relationship of the brain/mind/heart?
What are some of the major techniques for entering altered states of consciousness?
What is the dominant negative story we have been told about ourselves in Western culture?
In what way did the Roman Church determine the development of materialistic science?
What is the definition of Cosmic/Christ Consciousness?
What is the blueprint for our conscious evolution?
What is the “secret tradition” that Jesus taught?
What do we know about the continuity of life after physical death?
What was the purpose of the Great Mysteries of the ancient world?
How did our ancestors’ worldview differ from ours today and what are the sacred gifts they preserved for us?
Anthony Chene production, discussion topic: "A Spiritual Renaissance" (YouTube)
Buddha at the Gas Pump with Host Rick Archer, discussion topic: "Shamanism, Mysticism, Spiritual Awakening" YouTube: https://youtu.be/aVAgMItbFhg
A Quest for Ascension (Gaia.com) – Featuring Betty Kovacs, David Lorimer, William Henry, Ravi Ravindra and Rahelio Rodriguez
Gaia.com – Watch Preview: https://www.gaia.com/video/a-quest-for-ascension?fullplayer=preview
Betty Kovacs and Andrew Harvey discuss Merchants of Light (YouTube)
Evidence of the Afterlife Podcast (second interview) with Host Maverick Vardöger with Betty Kovacs, Anne Baring, Annine van der Meer, discussion topic: “The Divine Feminine”
Curiously Wise Podcast (first interview) with Host Laurin Wittig, discussion topic: "discussion topic: "Reclaiming the Divine Feminine Energy from History"
Work Your Energy with Host Elisabeth Hancock, discussion topic: "The Field of Light" - Part 1 of 2
Work Your Energy with Host Elisabeth Hancock, discussion topic: "The Field of Light" - Part 2 of 2
The Time of the Feminine (second interview) - a Global Sisterhood Podcast with Hosts Lauren Elizabeth Walsh and Shaina Conners, discussion topic: "Divine Masculine and Feminine Throughout History & In Within Us"
Closer to Venus with Host Johnny Burke, discussion topic: "Evidence of Our Shaman-Mystic Past: What the Church Doesn't Want You to Know"
Evolving Humans with Host Julia Marie, discussion topic: "The Myth of Death: There is Only Life"
Talk Gnosis with Host Jonathan Stewart, discussion topic: "Consciousness, Gnosis & Merchants of Light"
YouTube: https://youtu.be/RtOvV2FagvE
Guided Spirit Conversations with Host Marla Goldberrg, discussion topic "Remembering Who We Are"
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zLXnUSYgg8Y
The Ageless Wisdom Mystery School with Host Michael Benner, discussion topic: "Spirituality Before Religion/Prehistoric Shaman-Mystic Cultures"
IANDS Videos / Boulder Explorers & Experiencers of the Sacred (BEES) with Host Jacqueline Arnold, discussion topic: “Profound Messages Point to a Return to the Light /Back to the Light” (YouTube)
Blossom Your Awesome with Host Sue Dhillon, discussion topic: "Altered States of Consciousness"
The Nick Lugo Show, discussion topic: "There Is Nothing But Life" YouTube: https://youtu.be/ehxx1MYCdlQ
Humanity Meets Business: Business Therapy with Host Christine Salvo, discussion topic: "Remembering to remember, how storytelling and writing heal"
TruthSeekah with Host Derek Grosskurth, discussion topic: "Who Are the Rosicrucians?" YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZKtL86CcFtQ
Mind the Shift with Host Anders Bolling, discussion topic: "Leaving an age-old spiritual wasteland" YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e5dMUEX
Roscoe's Wetsuit Neuro Podcast with Host Toby Pasman, discussion topic: "Mysticism and Consciousness" YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEXVmy_kiGw
The Ethical Evolution with Host Bindi Heit, discussion topic: "Ethical Consciousness"
What's New with Host Gabriel Sanders, discussion topic: "Everything Is Connected"
Seek Reality with Host Roberta Grimes, discussion topic: "The Miracle of Death"
The Dream Catcher with host Seline Shenoy, discussion topic: "How to Live with Joy and Compassion using Ancient Wisdom" YouTube: https://bit.ly/3mqGYkM
Future Design with Host Takatoshi Shibayama, discussion topic: "Consciousness of Ancient Civilizations" YouTube: https://youtu.be/SzeC97vPMDY
Life Illuminated with Host Maggie Kelly, discussion topic: “Synchronize Your Heart”
The Fifth Dimension (1st interview) with Host Evan McDermod, discussion topic: “Retracing Our Lost Shamanic History” YouTube: https://youtu.be/X16AcIjosWk
The Fifth Dimension (2nd interview) with Host Evan McDermod, discussion topic: "The Cosmic Awakening of Light" YouTube: https://youtu.be/iTwD_c1IPqc
In Search of Reality with Host Dylan Thomas, discussion topic: “Great Can Loss Bring Great Awareness” YouTube: https://youtu.be/664P9-Mk2I8
Turning of the Wheel with Host Chris Flisher, discussion topic: “Merchants of Light"
Authentic Talks 2.0 with Host Shanta, discussion topic: "Questioning authority and being brave enough to follow your own soul's journey”
Mystic Times (1st interview) with Host Rafa Martinelli, discussion topic: “The Winter Kingdom & the Alchemical Renaissance of the Divine Feminine” (YouTube)
Mystic Times (2nd interview) with Host Rafa Martinelli, discussion topic: "The Dance of the Symbolic & the Conceptual Mind"
(YouTube)
Mind Reader University with Host Jonathan Pritchard, discussion topic: “Ancient Shaman Traditions, Hidden Wisdom, and Integration of Heart Consciousness”
New Thinking Allowed (1st Interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: “The Inversion of Our True Myths” YouTube: https://youtu.be/FRpdxZyHZp0
New Thinking Allowed (2nd Interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "Working on What Has Decayed" YouTube: https://youtu.be/fWPttqMyzqA
New Thinking Allowed (3rd Interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "The Language of the Soul" YouTube: https://youtu.be/QoAVF-KTMRk
New Thinking Allowed (4th Interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "Spiritual Awakening in the High Middle Ages" YouTube: https://youtu.be/8a0etWb83E4
New Thinking Allowed (5th Interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "Spiritual Awakening in the Italian Renaissance" YouTube: https://youtu.be/wu4vVRXcr5k
New Thinking Allowed (6th interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "The Rosicrucian Enlightenment" YouTube: https://youtu.be/6zXMPWJX9-I
New Thinking Allowed (7th interview) with Host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., discussion topic: "The Afterlife and the Unconscious Mind" YouTube: https://youtu.be/wOAR8A97AH0
Seek Reality with Host Roberta Grimes, discussion topic: "Merchants of Light"
Turning of the Wheel (1st interview) with Host Chris Flisher, discussion topic: “The Miracle of Death”
Turning of the Wheel (2nd interview) with Host Christ Flisher, discussion topic: "Merchants of Light"
Signs of Life Radio, discussion topic: "The Miracle of Death"
Webinars/Live Events
Webinar, “Merchants of Light,” hosted by Forever Family Foundation
Dr. Betty Kovacs has also delivered numerous live presentations in the United Kingdom on these topics. She presented at The Scientific & Medical Network’s Beyond the Brain 2019 Conference, London, November 2019: a Preconference Workshop entitled “Retrieving Soul From the Pathology of Western Culture” and a main conference presentation entitled “Death and the New Consciousness.”
U.S. Media mentions include
The Claremont Courier (CA); Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA); 210 Magazine (CA): East Valley Tribune (AZ)
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