John is the inventor of SomaSwivels and works part-time at a Cancer Support Center offering SomaEnergetics Sessions to assist with their stress and help improve their quality of life.

CHRIS AMODEO

Chris Amodeo’s recent burst into music has been mythic. As a Rolfer®, Shaman and voiceover artist, he already lives an unusual life. ” I’ve spent the last 26 years in my own little magic box working with people individually exploring realms of therapy and personal transformation. Now, with the music, it’s still about transformation…. it’s just being delivered in a way that’s more familiar, accessible and fun .”

” I think people are hungry for what’s real, soulful and transparent, more than ever in this jaded, post-meltdown world. Now music can offer more than the status quo in this new, internet-based “free-for-all”. The epitome of rock’n roll has always been to challenge the status quo. Artists don’t have to play down to some vast demographic. We’re already seeing too much dumbing down of our culture…just look at what most of the world watches on Youtube. Reality is nearly degrading to what the movie Idiocracy portrayed. What I’m doing has an underlying shamanic/spiritual energetic wrapped in a musical idiom influenced by 60’s and 70’s folk, American and British pop and, of course, classic rock.”

Check out Chris Amodeo’s CD “Homo Luminious.”  Homo Luminous refers to a new kind of human emergence, foretold in Incan myth, characterized by a quantum shift in consciousness to a more essential, perceptual state that is capable of dreaming a new world into being. It represents our collective evolutionary journey.

VALERIE VON SOBEL

A survivor of the Communist era, Valerie Sobel fled her native Hungary during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet regime, eventually to settle in Toronto, Canada. She vividly remembers that time. She recalls carrying her younger brother on her back while walking eight miles with her parents to safer ground in Austria, and thereafter many months of stays at refugee camps.

In high school, Valerie was interested in acting. Through a fortuitous chance encounter, she was flown to Los Angeles for a film test, got the role and was introduced in Mr. Hobbs takes a vacation” with Jimmy Stewart. She became and remained a California resident since 1962 to date. Marriage followed, with the birth of her son Andre and daughter Simone. She eventually left film to focus on her family and later developed a successful career in interior design with her projects appearing in several books and magazines, including Architectural Digest. She remains a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) as a “keepsake from that career.”

A new period marred the life of Valerie Sobel the day her teen age son Andre was diagnosed with a malignant and inoperable brain tumor. After a year in 1995 the family suffered his devastating loss.

Shortly after Andre’s death Valerie’s mother died, and a year later to the day, her husband Erwin 54, took his own life.

Through the subsequent months of crushing grief, Valerie sought to re-direct her life. What has continued to haunt her was the witnessing of children that were alone in hospitals; facing pain, treatments, their fears and often death alone. These were mostly the children of single parents/ single caregivers. Almost as a spiritual revelation, a vision for the organization came to her. Going through her own personal experience with her son in a financially secure position that these parents did not have. The injustice of this was the motivation for establishing the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation. “Experiencing the sudden onset of a life-threatening illness of a child devastates every family,” she said. “But for the single caregiver without financial resources, it is unimaginable.” The Foundation is named after Andre because if gives his mother great pleasure to see and hear his name.

The vision statement of the organization is “We care for very ill children by caring for their caregiver”

The Foundation fulfills its mission by offering emergency assistance to those single parents who are experiencing a financial crisis brought on by the medical crisis of their child. Their program operates at an ever-growing network of affiliated hospitals, and their social workers identify the families where other resources have been exhausted or are unavailable.

The hallmark of the ASRL organization is to provide “help in 24 hours”, and so far they never had to say no. Over the past six years, they have supported thousands of family members. They pay rents, mortgages, utilities, non covered medical costs, transportation, and often for burials. Many other organizations take up to three months to provide help; The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation is there when it matters most. “We spend tons of money on overnight Fed-ex and hand-delivered checks,” Sobel said.

The Foundation’s pioneering work in servicing caregivers highlighted a problem that in turn engendered a study by the National Institutes of Health about the subject of how single parent families cope with the life threatening illness of their child. Valerie’s expertise has led to collaborative efforts with Harvard pediatrician, Dr. Elizabeth Rider, in the creation of a book titled “Caring for the Caregiver: A formula for Survival.” “I know what a caregiver feels and needs by paying the full price of admission,” said Sobel.

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation began with Valerie Sobel and her family’s financial contribution and now their program operates at 12 prestigious pediatric hospitals in 7 states; including the Children’s Inn at the NIH, Stanford’s and Harvard’s Children’s hospitals “By the time a child is seriously ill, they are no longer in the hands of a pediatrician, so our system of delivery is through the hospitals,” Valerie says that her prior life and its accomplishments have been eclipsed by the passion she now feels for the work that no life can prepare one for , the extraordinary mission of the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation. Her sole priority has become the plight of the single caregiver caught in the devastating struggle of their child with a life threatening illness.

Valerie is a recognized speaker on the subject of caregiver support, a trained Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), a charter member of the Women of Washington/Los Angeles, the Music Center’s Blue Ribbon Society, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Council of Women World Leaders, the recipient of Nawbo’s (National Association of Women Business owners) “inspiration of the Year Award” and is a founding member of the Women’s Foundation of California’s Donor Circle. She is a Purpose Prize Fellow a Stanford initiative. She resides between Los Angeles and her mountain home in Idyllwild, California.

Kira Asatryan, a team coach who trains Silicon Valley startups to work cohesively, also helps newly committed couples solidify their relationship. She has run marketing campaigns across major platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Google Search and lives in San Francisco,

International bestselling and award winning, author and speaker, Dr. Jo Anne White, pioneered a program for the Philadelphia school system for children who weren’t allowed to attend public school until a Federal law mandated that every state in US serve these children.  Her new book, More Heaven: Because Every Child is Special is based on the true story of educating these kids and the successes and challenges they faced. Jo Anne is the CEO and Founder of the Power Your Life Network, a broadcasting network, and the Power U Online University.  Jo Anne’s also the Executive Director and Host of the popular Power Your Life TV & Radio Shows, and CEO/President of Dr. Jo Anne White Consulting Services, LLC.  She is a certified professional coach, lead generation expert, trainer, a Therapeutic Energy Healer, and image and branding specialist.  Jo Anne's been featured on CNN.com, Good Housekeeping, More, and WebMD and a frequent guest on NBC, CBS, FOX, and Voice America. Dr. White was named a 2015 Worldwide Branding Top Female Executive for Professional Coaching by Worldwide Who’s Who and is featured in Women of Distinction Magazine in 2016.

Manny Bartolome and Francis Klein of 'Pieces of Light' -

Our company ‘Pieces of Light’ is the culmination of over thirty years of research,

collecting, experimenting and experience with gemstones and minerals of

all kinds. We reached a point where we first wanted to be able to make

wearable pieces out of the many stones we'd collected. We'd come to

appreciate the subtle but, for us, very discernible energy shifts that

occur when gemstones are kept close to the physical body. After making a

few pendants for ourselves, we decided that it would be fun and

satisfying to be able to make them for others as well. After all this

time, there is no longer any doubt for us that the energies we describe

for each piece are real and powerful. For us, it is that property which

is the most important facet of the items we make. We do strive, however,

to make the pieces aesthetically pleasing and fashionable as well. When

asked by a few friends if they had to believe in the stones to buy them,

we replied immediately. The stones don't need for you to believe in them

to be what they are, and do what they do. If you're just in the market

for a beautiful piece of jewelry, that's perfectly fine. We only ask

that you keep an open mind, and let yourself observe whatever changes,

if any, take place when you wear them. Since the energy component of our

work is foremost to us, we want you to know that each piece has been

cleared of all prior intents and energies. It was also charged with pure

light frequencies and is ready to go to work for you.



We hand make one of a kind spiritual tools that can be worn as jewelry.

We've developed a style to our wrapping techniques which we are told by

most of our buyers is unique in the online market. Each piece is

designed for the energy it offers the wearer. The aesthetics are

important in that they encourage people to wear and use the tools we

make. The stones we use are handled with respect and appreciation for

their unique appearance and inherent qualities. We work in relationship

with the stones themselves, allowing them to guide us in our design

choices. This insures that each piece is as unique as the stone that it

features. For us, this is more than commerce, it is both art and a

spiritual calling.

JOSEPH McMONEAGLE

Owner/Executive Director of Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc.

Joseph McMoneagle has well over 30 years of professional expertise in research and development, in numerous multi-level technical systems, the paranormal, and the social sciences. Experience includes: experimental protocol design, collection and evaluation of statistical information, prototype design and testing, Automatic Data Processing equipment and technology interface, management, and data systems analysis for mainframe, mini-mainframe, and desktop computer systems.

He is currently a full time Research Associate with the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, where he has provided consulting support to research and development in remote viewing for 14 years. As a consultant to both SRI-International and Science Applications International Corporation, Inc., (1984–1995), he’s participated in protocol design, statistical information collection, R&D evaluations, as well as hundreds of remote viewing trials in support of experimental research and active intelligence operations for what is now known as Project STARGATE. He is well versed with developmental theory, methods of application, and current training technologies for remote viewing, as currently applied under strict laboratory controls and oversight.

With a career spanning 34 years, Mr. McMoneagle has provided professional support to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency, Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Customs, the National Security Council, and most major command within the Department of Defense. Twenty of those years have been within paranormal operations, as viewer No. 001 (372).

McMoneagle has also been responsible for a Military Occupational Specialty at Army Headquarters level, to include control and management of both the manned and unmanned sites, within the Continental United States as well as overseas. He was responsible for all tactical and strategic equipment, including aircraft and vehicles, development of new and current technology, planning, support and maintenance, funding, training, and personnel. He has performed responsibly in international and inter-service negotiations and agreements in support of six national level intelligence agencies. And he has acted as a direct consultant to the Commanding General, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), Washington D.C., as well as the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), Pentagon.

Other employment has included, Assistant to the Security Officer for a multi-billion dollar overseas intelligence facility, with responsibilities that included physical plant communications, personnel, and technology security; as well as counter-terrorist, counter-intelligence operations. He has served as the Detachment Commander at two remote intelligence-collection sites overseas, providing field intelligence collection, analysis and reporting at theater, region, country, and city levels. He has also served on an Air and Sea Rescue team, in long range reconnaissance, as a quick reaction strike force team leader, and rifleman. He has earned 28 military decorations and numerous awards, to include a Legion of Merit for support to the Nations Intelligence Community.

His publications include:

Book: MIND TREK, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1993 (revised edition 1997).

Book: THE ULTIMATE TIME MACHINE, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. (release date: October 1, 1998).

Journal: J.W. McMoneagle, PERCEPTIONS OF A PARANORMAL SUBJECT, The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 61, June 1997.

Article: J.W. McMoneagle, JULES VERNE: WRITER, PSYCHIC, OR REMOTE VIEWER, The Anomalist, No. 5, Summer 1997. (translated) J.W. McMoneagle, Julio Verne: Visionario o Vidente? Ano 4, No 3, January 1998.

Book: THE STARGATE CHRONICLES, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. (2002).

Joseph McMoneagle is currently a full member of The Parapsychological Association.