Dick Sutphen has established distinguished careers in advertising and audio
publishing, in addition to writing several bestselling books and conducting
seminars for over 150,000 people.
Dick grew up in Nebraska in the 1950s and after high school worked in an
advertising agency art department for a year before attending the Art Center
School in Los Angeles, California. Starting out as an art director for major
advertising agencies, he went on to receive over 150 awards for creating
outstanding advertising and design for clients such as Scotch Tape and Betty
Crocker. While still working for the agencies, he launched a publishing company
on the side and was soon selling books to the professional advertising market
internationally. His book, The Mad Old Ads was published in 1966 and received
huge reviews, including a full page in Newsweek.
The publishing venture encouraged him to open his own business--a creative
studio, which initially serviced ad agencies in Minneapolis, while also
creating hundreds of contemporary cards for Hallmark. After moving his studio
to Scottsdale, Arizona, Dick continued to work with ad agencies and directly
for clients such as Texaco Aviation, the city of Scottsdale and political
candidates. He expanded his writing to include a series four-wheel drive
articles for Outdoor Arizona magazine and humorous articles for the local
newspapers.
Effective advertising is the power of persuasion. In the mid-seventies,
Sutphen sought to expand his understanding of this power by studying brain/
mind technology and hypnosis. One of the studio offices became the Scottsdale
Hypnosis Center--a place to experiment with metaphysics, group hypnosis and
past-life regression.
As a result of these explorations, in 1976 he created and marketed the first
prerecorded hypnosis tapes through his own company, Valley of the Sun
Publishing. Today, the company is a leader in this field, offering over 200
audio and video titles in world-wide release. Valley of the Sun New Age music
is often on distributors' top-ten lists.
The Hypnosis Center explorations also led to writing a book: You Were Born
Again To Be Together (Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 1976). It has never gone
out of print and has sold nearly a million copies. Six additional titles on
reincarnation and karma followed from Pocket Books, including Predestined
Love, Finding Your Answers Within, Earthly Purpose, and The Oracle Within.
Valley of the Sun published 12 more metaphysical titles. A 1991 dark-fantasy
collection of short stories published by Spine-Tingling Press was nominated
for a Bram Stoker writing award.
Dick is often a featured speaker at conventions such as the American Council
of Hypnotherapy. Sutphen Seminars are conducted annually in as many as 35 U.S.
cities and England, Ireland and Australia. He has appeared on hundreds of
local and national radio and TV shows, including Phil Donahue, Good Morning
America, and Tom Snyder, where he conducted the first televised past-life
regression. David Susskind built a 90-minute show around Dick's work.
Dick and Tara Sutphen have been together since 1983 and live in Malibu,
California with their children, horses, dogs and cats. Their reincarnation
research is currently centered upon the concept of past-life themes and
documenting one of Tara's case histories--a fascinating past-life/spirit
guide connection that relates back to a shared incarnation in France.
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