Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head. He is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a columnist for Whole Life Times. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, ArtForum, and many other publications.

Dr. Alberto Villoldo is a Cuban American medical anthropologist and psychologist who has studied and practiced shamanism in the Andes and the Amazon for more than two decades, and has been initiated into the inner sanctum by the last of the Inca shaman masters. He is one of the early seekers of ancient ways in Peru and has studied intensively with the Q’ero for decades. His books include Shaman, Healer, Sage, The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, And Grace of the Earthkeepers, Dance of the 4 Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel. In 1984, Villoldo founded the Four Winds Society, dedicated to bridging shamanic healing to modern medicine and psychology.

Sharron Rose - MA.Ed, is an author, filmmaker and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology Dance and Theatre. She is the writer/director of the feature length documentaries 2012:The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and producer of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.

 

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Jay Weidner - author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. He is the producer of the documentary films: 2012: The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and director of Secrets of Alchemy: The Great Cross and the End of Time, and the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.

John Major Jenkins is a leading voice in elucidating the mysteries of ancient Mesoamerican cosmology. An independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy, John frequently travels to Mexico and Central America and helped build a school in San Pedro, near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Since beginning his odyssey of research and discovery with the Maya, John has authored dozens of books including: Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, and The Mystery of 2012.

Mike Bara is an aerospace engineering consultant and the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller “Dark Mission – the Secret History of NASA,” with Richard C. Hoagland. He has been an associate investigator with The Enterprise Mission, a private, not-for-profit space science research institute for the last ten years. He has authored numerous articles for the Enterprise Mission web site, the Coast to Coast AM website, and he maintains the Lunar Anomalies.com website as well as Dark Mission.net. His essay “The occult history of NASA” will appear in the forthcoming book Secret and Suppressed II from Feral House books.

Rick Levine’s special gift is to bridge the gaps between astrology, spirituality, science, and religion, while connecting the rational head with the feeling heart. His daily horoscopes are read on the Internet by millions on Tarot.com, AOL, and Beliefnet.com. With Jeff Jawer, he is the coauthor of Barnes and Noble’s Your Astrology Guide 2006. Rick is the cofounder of StarIQ.com and a founding trustee of Kepler College in Seattle. Rick Levine maintains a consulting practice in Redmond, Washington, where he has lived for over 15 years.

Dr. James V. Hardt is the author of The Art of Smart Thinking and was privileged to participate in special ceremonies with The Mayan Council of Elders. He serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. and holds a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done post-doctoral training in Psychophysiology at the University of California at San Francisco.
Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations, and has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training.

Sri Ram Kaa and Kira
Sri Ram Kaa is a gifted Psychotherapist and Highly Acclaimed Medical Intuitive with several Master’s Degrees. He is also an Ordained Minister, and Master Avesa Quantum Healer. Kira Raa has been clairvoyant since birth and regained her vision after a near death experience from cancer in 1989. She has come to be known as the most accurate Angelic Oracle on the planet at this time, often being compared to Edgar Cayce. She is also an Ordained Minister and Master Avesa Quantum Healer.
The acclaimed husband and wife team of wisdom teachers, have come to the Forefront of the Higher Consciousness movement in recent years through the quality of information and inspiration they provide to their rapidly growing international audience. In their first three books Sacred Union, and 2012: You Have A Choice and 2012: Atlantean Revelations Sri and Kira present extraordinary insights about our human origins and divine destination. Their fourth book, 2012: Awakenings!, (available September 2008), further validates them as visionaries and positive futurists.

Dannion Brinkley is the international best selling author of the Saved by the Light, drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters. Dannion's expertise in the area of death and dying has educated millions not to fear the presently held concept of transition from this world to the next. As a result of his journeys to the 'other side' and back again, he brings to the forefront the wondrous truth that there is indeed no such thing as death.

The Reverend Brian C. Keneipp is the Executive Director of the American Headquarters of The Aetherius Society, a registered non-profit, religious, scientific and educational corporation, established in California in 1960.
Brian Keneipp worked over twenty years with Aetherius Society founder the late Dr. George King to help build the The Aetherius Society and perform spiritual missions for humanity in cooperation with the Ascended and Cosmic Masters. He is a Bishop-elect in the Aetherius Church as well as co-editor of the new age journal Cosmic Voice. Brian has lectured in America, Canada, England and New Zealand on a wide variety of new age subjects. With a background in science and corporate management, he retains a balanced, common sense approach to the sometimes mysterious world of metaphysics.

James O'Dea is the President of IONS and a native of Ireland. Prior to IONS, James was executive director of Seva and director of the Washington DC office of Amnesty International, testifying before Congress, meeting with two U.S. presidents and many foreign heads of state, and representing Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights. He created and currently co-leads a series of dialogues on social healing.
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