Anne and Herb Puryear

Anne and Herb each come with an impressive background of education and experience.  Herbert Bruce Puryear grew up in Lubbock, Texas.  About the time he graduated from high school, he read an article in The Reader’s Digest entitled “Reach of the Mind.” But when he attended Baylor University and tried to discuss parapsychology with his professors and fellow students, they scoffed at him or refused to listen.  Herb thought of himself as a scientist and couldn’t understand why there should be so much resistance to the new research.

Then the Korean War intervened.  Herb joined the military for 5 years where he became a Marine jet pilot.  Back in civilian life, he attended Stanford University where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology.  From there he went to the University of North Carolina where he completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in the study of dreams.  He spent seven years in San Antonio where he was engaged in post doctoral research in dreams at the School of Aerospace Medicine and was a professor at Trinity University.

From there, Herb went to the Edgar Cayce Center in Virginia Beach as Director of Research and Education, and for a time, was President of Atlantic University.  During this time he taught courses on dreams, meditation and reincarnation. He has written eight books, including The Edgar Cayce Primer (Bantam), Why Jesus Taught Reincarnation, Sex and the Spiritual Path, and his current book, God’s Greatest Revelation is due to be published in 2012.

Anne, like Edgar Cayce, was born in Kentucky.  She lived in several places growing up – Danville, Kentucky, Ohio, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Washington, DC.  Anne had experience with a variety of traditional religious organizations including the Church of Christ, Southern Baptists and Reorganized Latter Day Saints.  She had also prayed for ten years for a miracle to heal her marriage.

In a store one evening, she saw Ruth Montgomery’s book, Search for the Truth, written about Ruth’s guides and Edgar Cayce, and heard a voice out loud behind her saying, “Buy that book!”  She did and it was life changing.  “It read like the truth,” explains Anne.  “I was a women’s leader in the Church so I bought thirty books and gave them to everyone.” Unfortunately, Anne’s generosity was neither understood nor appreciated by her ministers.

However it triggered in her a series of paranormal experiences.  She started to see pictures; to hear things; to see colors; to see past lives.  “For about a month,” laughs Anne, “I could read everyone’s mind.  Fortunately, that didn’t last, but they were showing me what our minds are capable of.”

At that point, Anne was raising four children all under ten years old.  She and her husband had two children and had adopted two others.  Her only “free time” was between 2-3pm in the afternoon.  “Sit at your typewriter then,” she was told.  She did and her “Group of Three” told her “everything” she asked about life, creation, the afterlife.  She ultimately left her church and had the courage to end her abusive marriage.

In 1977, Anne and her children and three other families caravanned from Washington, DC, to Phoenix, arriving on July 4.  Later all the others went back to DC, but Anne had read Zane Grey as a child and loved the West and stayed in Arizona.  She was reading The Arizona Republic one day when one of the want ads seemed magically highlighted in white light.  “Secretary wanted for Director of Holistic Clinic” it read.  “We want you to be interviewed,” said her guides.  “You will be hired.”  Anne didn’t know what a Holistic Clinic was – hadn’t heard the term before. “Holistic means body, mind and spirit,” explained the guides. “And don’t tell him what you do.”  The “him” was an MD, and it was many months before he knew his secretary was also highly psychic.

The physician was the director and founder of a Medical Clinic in Phoenix and one of the founding members of the American Society of Holistic Medicine.  Anne was his secretarial assistant but one day her guides said, “Now you can tell him what you do.”  Anne began to work in a special 7 day and a 17 day medical program, using guided imagery and past life information, reading auras and doing life readings in much the same way as Edgar Cayce, where she would respond to questions while in trace.

Ironically, Herb and Anne were often in the same place, but didn’t meet while Anne was on the staff of the medical clinic.  Herb was the keynote speaker at the clinic’s annual medical symposium, where Anne also presented workshops.  The physician wanted her to meet Herb, but in the four years she was on staff as Director of The Department of Spiritual Healing they never met.  Then in 1982, Herb had a free flight to Phoenix to attend a Tibetan/Hopi Conference, but when he got here, the conference had been cancelled.  Anne was supposed to have left for Hawaii but her trip was delayed for two days.  “It was match making from the spirit planes,” Herb and Anne agree, “and I even have Herb’s proposal and hours of conversations on tapes.”

Edgar Cayce said the most important thing in a relationship is to have “a shared spiritual ideal,” and these two definitely have that. The two were married in a Greek Orthodox Monastery on Christmas Eve, just after midnight at midnight mass.  Their seventy guests crowded the small church, which had been a “stable” but was enlarged to accommodate their friends. They like to say they were married in a manger — with Pavarotti Christmas carols in the background and an Abbot who was clairvoyant.

Anne, with Herb acting as the conductor, continued to do Edgar Cayce style readings.  Together they did about 7000, Herb estimates.  “Some were medical,” he explains, “but lots were about relationships, past lives, and soul purposes.”  Anne continued readings until about nine years ago, with a client waiting list of a year and a half.  She decided to take a sabbatical so that she could have some time to write.

Anne has produced several books since she stopped doing readings full time.  Stephen Lives, her first book, published by Simon & Schuster, tells of the suicide of her 15 year old son, son and his communications with his mother from the other side. Anne also wrote Messages from God, and together, Anne and Herb compiled The Millennium Readings.  Coming soon will be a new book from Anne about powerful, clear and credible ways to communicate with the other side called 1-800-Heaven.

Herb and Anne agree with Margaret Mead who said that a “small group of dedicated caring people can make a difference…it’s the only thing that ever has.”  They realized that the Phoenix/Scottsdale area has a lot of community health care professionals, so in 1983 they started Logos as a study group in their home before purchasing property.  The name Logos came to Herb in meditation.  The word in Greek means Christ center.

Their current center had a somewhat unusual start.  The couple bought a house and were about a week from opening the remodeled facility when an arsonist struck and burned the building to the ground.  As they watched the flames, the voice of God spoke three times to Anne and reassured her that “out of this will come great blessings.”  And it was true because the insurance money allowed them to build a new structure specifically designed for the center.  “It was like a phoenix rising out of the ashes,” smiles Herb. The fire occurred in March of 2001. The Logos Center opened its doors in March of 2002 and has been growing more active ever since.

The International Conference on After Death Communications will be sponsored by the Logos Center on April 13-15 with pre-conference events on the 12th.  Speakers for this conference include John Holland, Pim van Lommel, M.D., Larry Dossy, M.D., Diane Ladd, Bill Guggenheim and many others at www.afterdeathconference.org.  The Puryears invite you to attend.

On May 26th, Herb and Anne are leading a Logos Renewal Tour to Italy (their 15th world tour) which includes three nights each in Venice, Florence, and Rome and two nights in Pienza with one of the top award-winning tour guides in Italy along the entire trip. You are invited to go on this uniquely designed healing and renewal tour with Anne and Herb.

So, what things about this fascinating couple might you not know?  Anne wonders if many people know that she did life readings much like Cayce, as she hasn’t done them for awhile.  And did you know that both of them are certified scuba divers?  Anne has mostly dived in the British Virgin Islands and Hawaii, but Herb has made dozens of dives including the Australian Great Barrier Reef.  “We were diving a wreck in the British Virgin Islands, 125 feet down, when two sharks went by and Anne swam behind me to protect herself,” recalls Herb with a laugh.  Herb also loves canoeing (he has 4 canoes) and canoes the Green River for a week each year with his friend and son-in-law, Bill Roberts.

What would they have for their last meals on the planet?  Anne would opt for green tea, a Caesar salad with chicken (but no croutons) and tiramisu for dessert.  “I’d have it all from Arrivederchi,” she laughs….her favorite meal at her favorite Scottsdale restaurant.

Herb, however, had a more “biblical answer” at first – a breakfast of fish and honeycomb.  Then he added that he’d also like coconut macaroons from Kauai with a cup of Kona coffee and maybe a Mark Twain Hamburger found at South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii at a place called Naalehu.  (I wonder if traveling all over Hawaii to get your last meal could be considered a delaying tactic?)

If all this sounds pretty interesting, you should definitely get to know Herb and Anne Puryear.  Check out their website at www.Logoscenter.org, call them at 480-483-8777 or visit the Logos Center at 6401 East Aster Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona.  Find out more about all the things this charming couple has to offer or get involved in their very active community.  You might even get to go to Italy!