Dick Larson is a counselor with a background in education, business, and communication. In addition to being a guest on radio talk shows nationwide, he has co-hosted a radio program and produced and hosted a series of public access television shows that air around the nation.

Dick served in the US Air Force, was a special education teacher with the Los Angeles School District, and worked as an international corporate business executive for over 20 years. He then became a chemical dependency therapist and is now at a university in southern California teaching other adults how to do therapy.

Creator of the audiotape series Points to Ponder, Larson is a native of Minnesota, where he obtained a degree in sociology and psychology before duty in the Air Force ultimately brought him to the Los Angeles area in 1971. Larson’s familiarity with the spiritual side of life comes from facilitating adult Christian Bible studies, from his study of the world’s major religions, and from the Ageless Wisdom Teachings and participating in meditation groups and teaching meditation for many years.

In these difficult times, he is very hopeful about our future and tries to help others see the positive as well. Larson entertains and inspires as he shares his strong conviction that we are now in a very special time of world change -- an exciting time -- one that marks the beginning of a new era of awareness that will offer tremendous opportunities for personal growth, enlightenment, and willing cooperation among all men and women around the world

Who Is Maitreya?

According to Dick, "Maitreya is awaited by the world’s major religions as the Christ, Buddha, the Messiah, Imam Mahdi, Krishna, and the Bodhisattva. This is a momentous event that will lead to the transformation of the world.

"Maitreya’s message is very simple: We are brothers all, and only through the relinquishing of division and competition and the acceptance of sharing can mankind manifest love, compassion, social justice, and brotherhood. Sharing will solve our most pressing problems. It will also create trust between nations and people needed to secure world peace.

"Maitreya has been giving television interviews around the world for several years. He does not use His real name or make any claims to status. As time goes on, more and more people will become interested in Maitreya’s insight and the vast extent of his knowledge of the problems besetting humanity, and start asking who he really is.

"This will lead to the Day of Declaration, when Maitreya will be invited to address the world. We will see him on our televisions, but he will not speak. Rather, people will hear him inwardly (or telepathically). This will be after a predicted collapse of the world’s stock exchanges takes place, expected at any time."

Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and innovator in the field of ink painting as well as a critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction.

His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD, described by NEXUS as “revolutionary healing science expanding the boundaries of being,” and POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD.

His latest novel, SNOOZE: A STORY OF AWAKENING, is the riveting, coming-of-age tale of one extraordinary boy’s awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams. Written with young adult and young-at-heart readers in mind, SNOOZE proved its literary merit by receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Beach Book Festival Prize competition in the general fiction category.

Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality.

Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” BEGINNER’S LUKE is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.”

Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination—for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

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Neeta Singhal is the founder of Rudraksha Ratna Science Therapy. For more than a decade she has researched Rudraksha Ratna, the correct methodology of their usage as per ancient Upanishads and Puranas, and the positive influence on people ’s lives. Her Aura/Counseling programs have benefitted thousands of people worldwide.

Through her over 10 year research on Rudraksha beads and Nava Ratna, she has identified how to tap the power of these miraculous holy items to achieve good health, wealth, success, bliss and completeness in all areas of life.

Neeta’s sessions have benefited CEOs, film stars and the masses in general. With a Masters in Computer Science, (MCA from Delhi University), Neeta Singhal is aligned to ‘logical’ reasoning and is revered by her admirers within India and throughout the world. She has received various recognitions and awards such as ‘Jyotisha Vaghdevi’ title by International Astrological Association, ‘Best Research in Rudraksha Ratna Science Therapy’ by NDTV Profit, ‘Indian Achiever for Jyotish Shiromani Award’ by All India Business Development Association and many more.

Fran Szarnicki is an experienced healer, life coach, teacher, author, and lecturer.  Through her integrated healing practice she has helped countless people to accept themselves, heal body and soul, and expand their creative potential. 

Helping others to heal themselves and grow is her lifelong commitment.  Francesca’s approach to health encompasses all levels of being - the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. She believes the process of getting healthy begins at the spirit level and filters down to the denser physical level.

He was the first program director of "World Famous" KROQ-FM. He created one of the first Alternative Rock formats in the country. As Vice President of Programming, he created a new music format that consisted of nothing but "cutting edge, exciting new music. As both PD and on-air personality, the "attitude" he developed, combined with this new musical "niche," resulted in astonishing acceptance in a very short time. Within 6 months it became a number one station. As a radio personality during this period, he won the Billboard Magazine Personality of the Year Award.

After leaving radio for the worlds of television and film, in 1988, he was offered the position of hosting American Top Forty. Casey Kasem left the show, and Shadoe became the new host for the next 6 years. During this time, it became the most successful and widely syndicated radio show in the world. It was broadcast in 120 countries to an estimated 1 billion listeners every week. His voice became one of the most recognizable voices in the world. At the same time, he appeared on Hollywood Squares, which for three years was a top 5 syndicated show. As a regular on the show, he became a household name. The show continued in successful syndication for another three years.

He starred in two network series for CBS, the Fred Silverman production "Loose Cannon," and for four years the Top 20 series "Dave's World" with Harry Anderson, Meshach Tayler, and DeLane Matthews.

He has frequently been a guest star on a wide range of hit TV series including: Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch, The Larry Sanders Show, Caroline in the City, Clueless, Burke's Law, Fast Track, and Sonny Spoon (w/Mario Van Peebles).

As a voice-over artist, he has been the voice of Hollywood Squares, Comic Relief, the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, and countless commercials. He is currently announcer for "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on CBS.

Chief Joseph is a chief and one of the founding members of the original 13 Star Seed Nations. Raised by The Galactics as a child, Joseph found himself questioning his Catholic upbringing and anything to do with God and this world. A reincarnation of Sitting Bull, Joseph has brought forth ancient wisdom regarding the indigenous cultures. He is a Quantum Shamanic Alchemist who offers a unique perspective on what our world is facing today and how we can resolve some of these issues.

The early years of Patricia Hayward, Masters in Theology, Bachelor of Arts, Diploma of Education were spent with parents and seven siblings, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, pioneering the closer settlement of what had been Gurley Station. They lived in a shack while the shearing shed was being built and lived in the shearing shed until their home was built. It was 43 kilometres by rough unsealed road from the nearest town of any size, Moree in the northwest of the State of New South Wales in Australia. Getting the phone connected, and later electricity, were momentous events.

Her early schooling was at a one-teacher Primary school in Gurley village and she cinued on to Moree High School.

In the August of her final year at High School, when she was School Captain and had been the first young person in the district to win The Queen’s Award in The Girls Brigade, Hayward became the first student from that area of NSW to go as an AFS exchange student. Her host family were in Denison, Iowa, USA. During that AFS year of 1971-1972, she became the first exchange student at that school to be inducted into the USA’s National Honour Society, an award given for scholastic ability, character and service.

On returning to Australia, Hayward completed a University Degree in History, English and Politics at the University of New England in Armidale NSW with a Distinction Average, the highest of any student in her college, and then a Diploma of Education with English and History as her teaching methods. She was the first woman to become President of the Evangelical Union at UNE.

Following two years of High School teaching, Hayward completed a Masters of Arts in Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA and it was during this time her oldest son was born. Six years in Newcastle, NSW followed, with Hayward becoming the Regional Coordinator of volunteers for a para-church organisation, Scripture Union. During this time, her 2nd son was born.

Promoted to be Scripture Unions Schools Coordinator for all of NSW again, the first woman to be appointed to this role - Hayward and family moved Sydney. By this time, her reputation as someone who could build a team, inspire confidence, innovate and utilise the mass media had grown and she had gained experience as an anchor person in a mhly television show in Newcastle.

After three years in that role, Hayward returned to her first love, teaching secondary students and having taught in a State school, she now taught in Catholic and Independent schools. In the following decades, her reputation grew, especially following the introduction of  Studies of Religion as a Higher School Certificate subject with the 5th largest cohort of any subject. She has had four textbooks published for this course and spoken at Teacher in-services and student HSC Study Days throughout the State.

Whenever in a position of leadership, frequently as a volunteer, the groups Hayward has led have flourished beyond all previous expectations. After three years on the Committee, in 1992 Hayward became Sydney Convenor of the ecumenical Movement for the Ordination of Women giving 17 press conferences in that turbulent year alone, and then became its National President. By this time, Hayward had often appeared on radio and television and her newspaper and journal articles had been published widely within Australia and overseas.

Not long after relinquishing her position as National President, Hayward was asked to join the Executive of the professional teaching body for teachers of Studies of Religion and the following year became its State President.  With her cinuing commitment to social justice issues, Hayward has been passionately advocating on asylum seeker issues and remained active in the Movement for the Ordination of Women. On the 21st October, she was cacted by Moses Akwiri Okoth from Kenya and alerted to the disastrous vicious circle of poverty, school absenteeism and illiteracy that accompanied the extreme poverty of many menstruating school girls. The major cause of school absenteeism, and girls failing to even enter, let alone complete the last 4 years of high school, was lack of menstrual supplies.

Hayward undertook this to be her major focus. She organised fundraisers, co-opted friends, sent money, promoted, enthused and harangued the couple of supporters in Kenya. At the time of making cact with Hayward, the resources for this project consisted of two mobile phones, one in a very poor state. Within less than two mhs, it had been re-branded The Mul (representing the Mulaha region of Siaya, Kennedy from whence hailed the father of US President Barack Obama) Moon (representing the product: moonpads) Project.

Mo and friends established the Tumaini Girls rescue and Shelter Center under the umbrella of MENding Africa. This was after the corrupt Kenyan election results were announced in 2007. Riots broke out and in the resulting violence, sexual assaults were common. Mo was volunteering at a Red Cross shelter and found the need for menstrual towels was a pressing one. So too was safety for girls who had been raped and were at further risk. Mo moved the girls he could manage from the Internally Displaced Persons camps from Nairobi to Siaya to land left by his father. They established Tumaini especially for victims of sexual assault. This centre (known colloquially and for brevity as the Safehouse) is still going, albeit on a very hand to mouth existence. It accommodates 50 girls at a time and its purpose is to see that these girls complete school.

Every year Walk a Mile in My Shoes operates in Kenya and some of the money raised by this goes to the safe house.  Mo has been to Australia once when the YWCA had a huge meeting in 2009 for HIV AIDS.

Tumaini and The Sons of Africa Sanitary Towel Initiative both exist as projects under MENding Africa as projects with different objectives. With a team of seven dedicated men and women volunteers, they have to work a lot of hours to make sure that the Safehouse is up and running. It was the Sanitary Towel Initiative that ran a pilot program in 2009 to distribute free menstrual supplies to schoolgirls and school absenteeism by girls when menstruating dropped dramatically, from over one third to about 12% - a drop of 67%.

The Mulmoon Project is unique because it has a two-pronged approach to the urgent need for sanitary supplies to keep girls in school. One is making the product locally, thus providing training and the second is distributing the product locally, by bicycle, if we can raise the funds to buy four more bicycles. The carbon print is therefore minimal. The fabric is locally available. The locals, especially local women, are very keen to help with the project. These are girls who have finished school who are very keen to get some vocational training. Some will come from homes that do not have electricity. The girls at the Safehouse will be voluntarily sewing as an after school project and during school vacations. If The Mulmoon Project can rally enough support to keep it going, it could be a model for many such projects in Kenya and indeed in other countries in Africa.

Fundraising is very hard. Gender inequity cinues. Rape and sexual violence cinue. We want a holistic approach, a strategy that enables us to reach our vision and mission towards gender equity, the ending of sexual violence and rape and the unlocking of the true potential of Kenyan schoolgirls to grow up to be recognised as equal, valuable and cributing members of Kenyan society.

For it to work, we really need to widen our support base. So far, we have had one small donation from the USA, five from Australian women and everything else has come from Patricia and Roger. To be viable in the long term, we need to find one hundred people who would be willing to commit to giving one hundred dollars a year or $8.30 per mh. I think that is do-able.

Todd O’Dell heralds from a small town in the Midwest called Sparta Wisconsin. He has since early age been a little different from the other kids. As if from a different planet or star system. His musical styling and definitive sound encompasses that and sets him apart from the rest of the pack. Early influences such as The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Elton John and Kiss ignited his passion for sound and music.

O’Dell’s experience in bands like Krown Vega and Battery Pop where he wrote, performed and produced furthered his passion for session work and producing other up and coming artist as well as providing music for underground independent film makers. Todd O’Dell is an asset to any project as a guitarist or vocalist bringing passion, integrity  and excitement to the music.

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