Melissa Escaro is an author and life coach who teaches individuals mind and body connection and personal development skills. Melissa attended the University of Delaware obtaining her Bachelors degree in Psychology and then Widener University, obtaining her Masters in Clinical Social Work. Her experiences expanded to include mind and body connection through yoga, massage therapy, reiki, meditation, and life coaching, focusing on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnotic Language. Melissa’s integration of modalities, with her positive outlook, allow her to connect with individuals on many different levels, helping them to make their own connection with their mind and body. She is a blog contributor for the Huffington Post and the author of In10tions: A Mindset Reset Guide to Happiness.

DICK RUSSELL has published eleven books on subjects ranging from natural history to the assassination of President Kennedy. Of five books co-authored with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, four have reached the New York Times Best-Seller list: They Killed Our President! (2013), 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read (2011), American Conspiracies (2010), and Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me (2008). A monumental biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Volume One: The Making of a Psychologist, was published in 2013 and will come out in paperback in autumn 2014 – which will also see hardcover publication of a memoir, My Mysterious Son.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, Russell has recently been featured in documentaries by Shane O'Sullivan ("Killing Oswald") and in "Last Word on the Assassination" by John Barbour, both available on Amazon. "On the Trail of the JFK Assassins," Russell's second book examining the conspiracy behind what happened to President Kennedy, appeared in 2008, when Russell was also a consultant on the web-based documentary film, "The Warning" and was featured in a National Geographic documentary on whales.

For most of the past twenty years, the primary focus of Dick Russell's magazine writing and personal activism has been the environment - particularly the crisis impacting the world's fisheries and oceans. A longtime sports fisherman, Russell spent the better part of three years fighting for stronger regulations to protect the endangered Atlantic striped bass. He organized a national conference in Washington, D.C., and appeared on numerous radio and TV programs. For his efforts, Russell was awarded the citizen's Chevron Conservation Award in 1988. Today, the return of the striped bass is considered the foremost example of the resiliency of the oceans - provided a species is given a chance to recover. His new book on this subject, Striper Wars: An American Fish Story, was published by Island Press/Shearwater Books in Summer 2005 and is now available in paperback. The book has been described as "one of the most amazing fish stories...ever" by the Philadelphia Inquirer and "a can't-put-down read" by the Boston Globe.

Russell's previous book is Eye of the Whale (Simon & Schuster hard-cover; paperback edition by Island Press/Shearwater Books), which upon publication was named among the Best Books of 2001 by three major newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It is an account of his following the migration of the California gray whale, from Mexico's Baja peninsula all the way to northern Alaska and Siberia. According to L.A. Times' reviewer Richard Ellis, this book "will change the way you think about the natural world."

Russell has written dozens of articles about other environmental issues, for publications ranging from The Nation to Parenting, and served for eighteen years as a Contributing Editor for OnEarth (formerly Amicus Journal), the award-winning quarterly publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has also been a recipient of the National Coalition for Marine Conservation's Golden Swordfish Award (1984), and is an active member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and PEN USA.

He has published two other widely-acclaimed books. The Man Who knew Too Much (Carroll & Graf, 1992) was hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "a masterpiece of historical reconstruction" focusing on the Kennedy assassination. The book was reissued in a revised, updated edition in 2003, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of that tragic event. Black Genius: And the American Experience (Carroll & Graf, 1998) is a path-breaking study of African-American artists, writers, musicians, educators, and scientists, past and present. According to one reviewer, the book "signals a maturity in our sea-to-shining-sea culture that's long overdue." Including a new chapter about Barack Obama, "Black Genius" was reissued in a revised, updated paperback edition in 2009 by Skyhorse Publishing.

In earlier "incarnations," Russell was a staff writer in the Hollywood Bureau of TV Guide Magazine (1977-79), and a staff reporter for Sports Illustrated (1969-70) in New York. His free-lance articles have appeared in numerous publications, from Family Health to the Village Voice. His work has been published in ten other books. He has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the Joan Rivers Show and NBC Nightly News, and has been a guest lecturer at universities including Harvard and the University of California, at the National Arts Club, and elsewhere.

Married and with one child, Russell divides his time between Boston and Los Angeles. He has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and Central America. He is a 1969 graduate (BA, Humanities) of the University of Kansas.

Elizabeth Carman, PhD, and Neil Carman, PhD are the authors of Cosmic Cradle: Spiritual Dimensions of Life before Birth. It's a compilation of incredible, natural, firsthand accounts, cross-cultural research, memories and experiences of pre-birth + inter-life realms and the study of human consciousness beyond our typical conscious awareness. The authors have been researching pre-birth communication and pre-birth memory for over 45 years, and they are passionate about sharing what they've learned with others. Cosmic Cradle, Spiritual Dimensions of Life before Birth sheds light on how the life of the Soul in a human body is only part of our experience in a multi-dimensional universe. Cosmic Cradle traces our journey from the heavenly world to birth via pre-birth experiences, memories and communications. Stories reveal how gifted individuals remember planning their journey to Earth and how Souls make contact with prospective parents. Cosmic Cradle is filled with wisdom gathered from interviews with gifted individuals as well as classical and traditional sources.

Scott Werner was born with the gift of higher dimensional sight, which means that when he “tunes in” to someone, he would not only see them in the physical level but also “see” them on multi-dimensional levels.

Scott had two near death experiences when he was young. The first time was at the age of 13 and the other at the age of 20. Each time that he came back into consciousness, he returned with the inner knowing that his role in this life is to assist in the “healing of humanity,” and his “gifts” were enhanced to the degree that he intuitively sees the physical body.

In 1986, at the age of 29, Scott was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, with multiple lesions on his spine and brain. Even though he was working at one of the best Medical facilities in the United States, his was given only 3 months to live. Unsatisfied with that prognosis, he went home and prayed for guidance.

In a dream that night, he was told that he would “heal his own cancer.” He did just that by using parasite cleanses, changing his diet and releasing emotional blockage in his life. He began studying herbs, and there  properties. This started his extensive path into alternative healing methods. Using parasite cleanses, herbs, toning, nutritional support, and detoxing the body.
A Little History

Scott Werner received his Medical degree from Saint Louis University School of medicine in 1986, specializing as an OB/GYN and general practitioner for 14 years.

He practiced at Good Samaritan medical center in Phoenix Az. Scott was recognized in advanced laparoscopic laser surgery and Gynecological laser surgery. He later moved his successful medical practice to Utah and during his career he delivered over 2000 babies successfully. Scott used Alternative/complementary techniques and has seen thousands of patients.

Scott used herbs, homeopathic and energetic remedies and Chelation therapy in the improvement of health and wellness in “untreatable illnesses and dis-ease”. He relinquished his Medical license in Utah and Arizona and left traditional medicine in 2005 and opened an herb store in St. George Utah. Scott has lectured extensively to private and professional groups throughout the United States educating them about multiple healing modalities, and herbal products. He is very gifted, incredibly insightful, informative, animated and entertaining. He has lectured on many health subjects ranging from Parasites to virus and from nutritional support to healing energy blockages. He has thousands of clients all over the world, who have sought him out for his knowledge of these process’. He has also lectured many times for the annual conferences held through Systemic Formulas.

Scott truly believes and is of the opinion, that all “dis-ease” is a combination of too much toxicity and not enough nutrition in the body, coupled with emotions that deplete our health. He has a very spiritual understanding to the approach to wellness and has worked extensively with world class healer, Katherine Beck. He has learned many healing methods and techniques.

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KERANI

Arctic Sunrise

Kerani, one of the top instrumental keyboardists in Northern Europe, explores earth’s polar regions with her third album, Arctic Sunrise, which also symbolizes a spiritual awakening.

“In this time of global climate change with the polar caps melting more than ever before,” explains Kerani, “I felt it was important to call attention to these beautiful and important Arctic and Antarctica wilderness areas.”

The music focuses on her piano and synth playing supplemented here and there with guest musicians on violin, cello, guitar, horn and flute, plus percussion, drums, some nature sounds and a little wordless vocalizing by Kerani.  The tunes were inspired by the native Inuit Indians of the Arctic region, an ill-fated British expedition to the South Pole in 1911, the country of Norway, the Northern Lights, huge blocks of ice breaking off the polar caps and drifting out to sea, and an appreciation for these spectacular wilderness regions.  This new age music, “a true tribute to the mysterious worlds of ice,” is delicate one moment and majestic the next, and is filled with musical imagery, spirituality, grandeur and mystery.

Kerani’s musical career also encompasses writing and performing music for films, and recording and performing with mystical British singer-songwriter Asher Quinn (aka Asha).

Kerani’s albums -- Arctic Sunrise, The Journey and Wings of Comfort -- are available as CDs and digital downloads worldwide at a wide variety of online sales sites including CDbaby, Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, CDuniverse, Spiritualbalance.nl (Belgium and The Netherlands), Magicmusic.de (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Redeye.com.au (Australia).  More information about Kerani is available at her English-language website, kerani.nl.

“When I started writing Arctic Sunrise,” explains Kerani, “I imagined an Inuit seeing the first sun on the horizon after six months of darkness.  I wanted to create a feeling of awe, respect and humbleness.  As we go through life, it is easy to think of our problems and fears as major.  This causes so much emotional suffering.  However, when we place ourselves between the Earth and the Universe, we come to understand that we are being taken care of by the Universe.  Then all our problems become meaningless. In this sense the idea of an Arctic Sunrise -- a time of coming out of the cold darkness into the beautiful warm light -- can surely be interpreted as a spiritual awakening.”

Leading up to this album, Kerani wrote scores for “Antarctic Inspection” and “Rothera,” documentaries made by the NWO (Dutch Institute for Scientific Research).  She also did her own research on Arctic and Antarctic exploratory expeditions.  The title track was specifically influenced by a report written by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen during the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-1924 in which he recorded a genuine Inuit poem that says that despite all our adventures and fears, “There is only one great thing...the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world!”  Kerani also was inspired to compose “Aurora Sky” after reading the 1894 report by the Bureau of American Ethnology that describes the Eskimo legend surrounding the Northern Lights (“torches held in the hands of spirits”).

The tune “Discovery” captures the excitement of when explorers and scientists finally managed to travel all the way to the North and South Poles.  “Spirit of the Last Wilderness” was influenced by the fact that, Kerani states, “The Poles are basically the last mostly untouched places on our planet, and their Spirit asks us to keep them pure and unspoiled.”

The most dramatic and heart-wrenching piece on the album is the ten-and-a-half-minute epic “Far Away From Home,” a tribute to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British expedition team that perished in Antarctica in 1912 when they raced to be the first explorers to the South Pole, but arrived a month after Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian team.

“I wrote the track ‘Norway’ after a cruise to that country.  As we entered a fjord I was standing on the bow of the ship and I imagined what it must have been like in ancient times when the Vikings would return home in their dragonship hearing their wives on the shore humming a welcoming song.”

Kerani says, “‘Ice Kingdom’ is representative of any ice-covered landscape, but my imagination was mainly triggered by stories that my mother used to tell about her childhood in Hungary where the winters can be exceptionally harsh. She described how the villages were snowed in and the people were not able to go outside for days.  There is also something magical and mysterious about a cold, snow-covered landscape. The knowledge that the earth beneath that blanket of ice comes to life each spring is fascinating, almost miraculous.”

Kerani was born in Belgium to a Hungarian father and German mother, and Kerani currently lives in the south of The Netherlands near the Belgium border and the area where she grew up.  “As a child I listened to the great classical composers like Mozart, Liszt, Schumann and many others.”  Her family got an old piano when she was four.  “I was strangely drawn to that weathered old thing.  Slowly I taught myself to play and I discovered the magic of composing music.  The rise of electronic music in the late Seventies and Eighties was a revelation to me -- Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Electric Light Orchestra and Mike Oldfield.  These new sounds boosted my inspiration.  In 1986 I teamed up with a couple of studio musicians to record the instrumentals ‘Seagullsong’ and ‘Oblivion’ which I released as a single.  It got regional airplay and the B-Side became the theme song for the morning show on Radio 2 Flanders.”

She performed as the lead vocalist and keyboardist in the band Liaison in the city of Ternat where they mostly performed the popular music of that time.  Kerani moved to Italy for about three years where she taught English language courses (she speaks English, Dutch, French, Italian, Hungarian and German).  She wrote and published a book of children’s stories called Cherub (“it tells the story of a little angel who helps children”), and also re-orchestrated 15 children’s songs for an instruction DVD for disabled children.  In 2011 Kerani composed the soundtrack for the documentary film “Merlick 1967” commissioned by the Historical Society of the Roerstreek.  Kerani released her first album, Wings of Comfort, in 2011, and her second, The Journey, in 2012.  Both received positive reviews and strong airplay.  Recently Kerani sang backing vocals on two Asher Quinn albums, State of Grace and Heal Your Heart, and performed with him in concert.

A decade ago Kerani began broadening her spiritual journey.  “Without abandoning my Christian faith, over the years I have been expanding my spiritual horizon by reading books by Ute Kretzschmar, Drunvalo Melchizedek, James Redfield, Steve Rother, Deepak Chopra, H.H. the Dalai Lama and Paulo Coelho -- to name just a few.  These are people who managed to provide answers to my countless questions.

“It was not until my first meditations that I grasped the essence of spiritual life.  It is fascinating to experience that the core of life can be touched and the truth approached by communicating to the divine guide. All channels are open and it is always a two-way street.  To me, meditation simply means tuning in, finding balance and connecting emotionally and spiritually with the Source.  I already have a lot to be grateful for and each day comes with a lesson,” Kerani explains.

“I believe that now my compositions tell stories that speak to the heart simply because they are made from the heart.  Most of the time ideas come to me quite unexpectedly and once I have caught their essence, I try to maintain their purity by keeping the flow to and from Above constant and natural.  I have learned to never push, never force it, but to just listen with an open heart.”

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GUEST:  ELISE BALLARD

Elise Ballard is the host and creator of the online community and website, Epiphany Channel, and the author of Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage and Transform (Random House/Crown Publishing), a collection of over 50 interviews with amazing people from all walks of life recounting the stories of their greatest epiphanies. She started her career in entertainment working as an actress and moved into independent filmmaking and producing in Los Angeles as a partner in a production company who had films distributed by Lions Gate and Monarch Entertainment. Her directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, TX, became a cult hit.

She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and the wildly popular website, Positively Positive, and she recently was invited to speak at a TED event where she delivered two talks – one for middle and high school kids and one for adults. Elise also had the privilege of being invited to attend and cover the 2011 Nobel Prizes, and she serves as one of the judges for the prestigious Humanitas Prize in Los Angeles, awarding writers for emphasizing and celebrating humanistic values in their work. She has created, directed and produced numerous projects including the YOU DVDs accompanying the YOU book series by world-renowned, bestselling authors, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen. She currently is in development on several projects, including more for the Epiphany Channel, film and television versions of the Epiphany project, and future books for the Epiphany series.

To CONTACT Elise about interviews, speaking engagements or workshops or anything else interesting and fun, please reach out to her at elise@epiphanychannel.com

Lantz Lazwell & the Vibe Tribe service the deep, melodic desires that drive us to dance with their eclectic Rock ’n Soul beat—sourcing the highest class of funk to deliver you to your most righteous dance floor groove.

Lantz has not only been a national touring artist for years, touring and sharing the stage w such greats as George Clinton, Bernie Worrel, Eric McFadden, Norwood Fisher (Fishbone), Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction), but also was the winner of a Los Angeles Music Award for “Best Rock Male vocalist ” in 2007.
His new project “Lantz Lazwell and the Vibe Tribe”, utilizes interchangeable mediums for sound, like their soul-satisfying electronic collaborations fusing Live instruments and electronic sub bass lines. Lazwell & Tribe are often found performing with aerialists, fire spinners, & top-notch performers of a divinely peculiar breed. A power house of talent & noteworthy showmanship, each member takes joy in maximizing viewer experience to the highest level. Thru pairing digital & performance art with their interstellar funk, this Band immerses its audience in a captivating auditory & visual realm—dictated solely by the stories issuing from Lazwell & Tribe’s soul-melting lyrics & musical score.

A festival staple & “Burner-Approved” venue sweetheart, Lantz Lazwell & the Vibe Tribe bring the groove-based anthem back into your heart & rock you right. For booking info contact phYne Entertainment – booking@phYneentertainment.com