Dr. Yvonne Kason MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP,  is a retired family physician and transpersonal MD-Psychotherapist, who taught at the University of Toronto for 25 years.  Dr. Kason is the author of 5 books, her most recent new release: Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences (2019). This is a synthesis  of her 40 years of research into peak spiritual experiences and their after-effects. She is a current Board member of IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies, and a member of ACISTE, the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences. In 2000 she was the co-founder of the Spirituality in Health-Care Network and the Kundalini Research Network. She was also the founder of the Spiritual Emergence Research and Referral Clinic, and Canadian Coordinator of the Spiritual Emergence Network. Dr Kason retired from medical practice for health reasons in 2006 (Traumatic Brain Injury). Following a dramatic brain healing in 2016, she has now resumed writing, public speaking, research, and giving media interviews. She was recently interviewed  on the Dr Oz Show, episode airing December 6, 2019.