 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. |
 Born
in Guatemala, OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez is an Aj Q'ij-
a DayKeeper, Mayan Spiritual Guide, Teacher, and Healer.
He was initiated into Native sacred rites over a 30 year
period with various spiritual elders throughout Abya Yala
(the Americas). He has facilitated international gatherings
and preservation of sacred wisdom teachings since 1979,
promoting cooperation and unity with diverse communities
throughout the world. He is the Founder and Spiritual Leader
of Tinamit Junan Uleu – Earth
Peoples United, and
is working to manifest models of spiritual land stewardship
in Guatemala on the shores of Lake Atitlan, and north of
Mt. Shasta in Northern California.
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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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Shanti
Shivani, an
internationally acclaimed Singer of Sacred Music, Nada Yogini
and Sound Healer, is one of the few Western pioneers
bringing the sacred traditions of Nada Yoga and Dhrupad, the
most ancient style of Hindustani Classical Music, to the West.
Since 1981 she has been a disciple of the esteemed Dagar family,
masters of Dhrupad. She has been leading workshops internationally
since 1986 and performing and recording Dhrupad vocal music and
World Fusion Music since 1993. |
Speakers subject to change upon availability
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