Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a professor of particle physics turned writer and speaker. He has worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, and Cornell; discovered a new type of matter and was on the team that discovered the top quark. During the tech boom that ended in 2001, he directed patent development for a wireless web startup and, a few years later, became an expert on timing noise (aka, jitter) which is what paid his bills while he wrote The God Patent.

Ransom lives in Petaluma, California and makes a living by writing novels, giving speeches, producing and MCing literary events, helping engineers solve problems, and teaching writing seminars. He is the author of over 200 articles on impossible subjects like quantum physics, the future of publishing and parenting teenagers.

His first novel, The God Patent, is set in the battle between science and religion over the nature of the soul and the origin of the universe. The story is wrapped around the role of faith in both science and religion and concludes with a surly adolescent math prodigys discovery of the nature of the eternal soul.

Novels are capsules of thought and reading one is akin to reading the authors mind. Its an intimate experience that ought to breed familiarity. To that end, Ransom would like it if you were to share your thoughts with him: ransom @ ransomstephens dot com.

Echan Deravy
DIRECTOR of EARTH PILGRIMS

Echan Deravy, a lifelong pilgrim from Scotland, passed through 75 countries before settling in Japan where he established himself as an author and public speaker on issues of planetary concern, metaphysics, spirituality, and remote viewing. Echan has become a vital link between Japanese culture and the West, acting as interpreter for figures such as Graham Hancock and leader of many journeys with Japanese to sacred sites around the planet. He currently has over a dozen books in print in Japanese and a series of DVD talks recorded over the last 6 years-all in Japanese. His key concern is conscious evolution. Find his homepage at http://www.echan.jp/

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Earth Pilgrims: A spiritual adventure documentary with profound thinkers and insights that lead us on a journey to discover our own inner solutions to the global problems that surround us.

On a planet in peril, in a world swamped with problems, how can we - as individuals - make a difference? How can we make the world a better place? Earth Pilgrims is a spiritual adventure documentary that journeys across four continents, beginning in the eastern Buddhist pilgrimage tradition, moving westwards across the old world through to the new. Featured are profound interviews with great thinkers and important figures including Graham Hancock, Satish Kumar, Nassim Haramein, Wade Davis and Peace Pilgrim who share their own insights as to how the grand pilgrimage of life is affected by everything we do.

The underlying message of the film is that we cannot fix the world problems around us with external solutions because they do not work. But each of us is a part of the whole, and if we can work on ourselves to become more aware and productive people, then we are already making a difference in the world, and making it a better place.

To prove the point, the film climaxes at 16,000ft among 60,000 Quechua Indians making the annual Qoyllur Rit'i pilgrimage of gratitude to water, and to the spirits and forces that surround and uphold them, leaving us with the insight that, as the Hopi say, we are the one's we've been waiting for, and that if we just realise this and accept our burden, we can leap from the jaws of imminent destruction into a new era of human consciousness on this planet.

The Earth Pilgrims film crew had an ordeal of altitude sickness and headaches climbing to 16,000ft in order to capture this magnificent ceremony on film. However the harmony that emerged between us as outsiders and the 60,000 indigenous pilgrims astonished us all and we were greeted without a hint of discord or unwelcome. The sense was that the shamanic cactus ceremony undertaken in preparation for this pilgrimage had brought us into a mental and emotional space that the Quechua natives easily related to.

I WELCOME YOU HERE WITH ALL MY HEART

I'm here to teach people how to love.

At the beginning, in the middle and at the end of our lives, LOVE is the only thing that matters.

Love--or the lack of it--is what shapes us. Love is what gives our lives beauty, inspiration and hope, what makes us feel that the trip is worth taking. And our relationships, our personal emotional connections, are the most profound expressions of our human longing for love. Nothing on earth will change you, fill your heart or break your heart so much as a relationship; and nothing can take you apart at the seams like a relationship break-up.

We are all desperate, hungry for love; and that's never been more true than at this chaotic and pivotal moment in human history. As we find ourselves going through more changes in a single lifetime than we ever imagined, we are stressed, afraid, and discouraged. We all need more love; but we don't how to get it. This is the greatest human tragedy, something our hearts and souls are begging to be changed.

I have devoted my life to writing books, and speaking and teaching about love, because that is my soul's calling. The purpose of my books and, really, of all my work is to illumine you about the things that stand in the way of loving yourself, having deep emotional connections, and experiencing more love in every single relationship in your life.

What are we all so scared of? Why is it so terrifying to open our hearts, show ourselves and receive the love that's coming toward us? How can we be more loving? What can you do so the person you love can feel it? How can you fight without killing each other? What, exactly, are the words and actions and attitudes that can make a difference?

I have written more than a dozen best-selling books about every topic related to love: how to survive the end of a relationship, how to find a true love, nourish the relationships you do have and embrace the spiritual dimensions of your relationship life. Most recently, I've written about how to get through the very tough times so many of us are in.

I also work as a therapist, counselor, spiritual guide and life coach, addressing the emotional issues that stand in the way of your becoming more intimate with yourself and everyone you want to hold dear, as well as how to express your essence through your creativity. I’ve been a guest on Oprah six times and my books have sold more than a million copies. Among them are The Future of Love, Coming Apart, The 9 Types of Lovers, Finding True Love, The Men We Never Knew, Loving Yourself; and most recently, the award-winning The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook.

Whatever your pain or your journey, I'm here to help you have more love in your life.

With abundant love,

Daphne

Robert Bruce is an internationally respected mystic author and speaker from the land down under (Australia). Robert has spent his life actively exploring metaphysical, paranormal and spiritual phenomena, making some groundbreaking discoveries.  Robert is the author of the best-selling books: Astral Dynamics, Practical Psychic Self-Defense, Energy Work, and coauthor of the Mastering Astral Projection workbook and audio series, with Brian Mercer. A true spiritual pioneer of our times, the depth and scope of Robert's experience is quite remarkable.

Robert's firsthand experience with the greater reality brings profound understanding to spiritual and paranormal areas. His lifetime spent exploring this field brings great depth to his books, tutorials and seminars. Robert strives to give people the tools they need to evolve as spiritual beings. His workshops are dynamics and inspirational. Robert is a man who lives in the greater reality and invites others to join him.

Born in the year of the Sheep under the star sign of Cancer, Robert currently resides in The Land Down Under, Sunny Australia.

Dr. Claude Swanson was educated as a physicist at MIT and Princeton University. During those years he worked at the MIT Science Teaching Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory and a Virginia cyclotron in the summer. At Princeton he received the National Science Foundation Fellowship and Putnam Fellowship. His Ph.D. thesis at Princeton was done in the "Gravity Group," which focuses on experimental cosmology and astronomy, and was headed by Dr. Robert Dicke. His thesis advisor was Prof. David Wilkinson, who later became chairman of the physics department.

Swanson conducted postgraduate work at Princeton and Cornell Universities on the design of superconducting plasma containment vessels for fusion energy systems. He then began work for Aeronautical Research Associates of Princeton, a consulting company, and later formed his own consulting company which carried out studies in applied physics for commercial and governmental agencies, including DuPont, United Technologies, the U.S. Army and Navy, DARPA and the CIA, among many others.

For the last fifteen years, interspersed with his conventional professional career in applied physics, Dr. Swanson has pursued investigations into "unconventional physics." His principal interest has been unified field theory, the so-called "Theory of Everything" which could explain the universe at the deepest possible level. This has led him to investigate many aspects of the paranormal, which appear to be completely real phenomena which violate our present science. Paranormal phenomena, which have now been proven in the laboratory in many cases, offer a window into the deeper universe, the mysteries of consciousness, and unlock new forces and principles which conventional science has only begun to glimpse.

Among paranormal phenomena which are now known, it has been found that signals can move much faster than light, and the human consciousness and even human influence, can move backward and forward in time. Science fiction concepts such as teleportation and levitation seem to occur in reality in paranormal events, and offer powerful evidence that this will be the new frontier of science.

At the same time, thousands of out-of-body and near-death experiences show that other dimensions and other realities do exist. This has been the domain of speculation by theoretical physics, but OBE and NDE cases indicate that parallel realities and dimensions are in some sense real. And finally, paranormal research suggests that the human soul, the center of human consciousness, can survive death and is apparently an energy form which can move and exist independently of the body. Science is discovering that, in the words of the pioneer Robert Monroe, " we are far more than our physical bodies."

Dr. Swanson has conducted extensive research in these areas, including research of the scientific literature, interviews with scientists in these fields, attended and spoken at conferences, and conducted experiments and investigations, to better understand how such paranormal phenomena can be incorporated into modern science.

This research has involved underwater archaeology in Bimini, scientific measurements in haunted houses, experiments in remote viewing and psychokinesis, and testing of new devices which can measure these strange forces. He has just published a book, The Synchronized Universe, which summarizes some of the new discoveries of this emerging science.

Dr. Michael Edelstein, Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Michael Edelstein is a clinical psychologist with an in-person and telephone therapy practice. He has appeared on over 300 radio shows, lectures regularly, and trains professionals. He was awarded "Author of the Year" by a the NACBT for Three Minute Therapy and was past president of the Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapists. He has trained volunteers at the National Save-A-Life League in New York City and acts as a professional advisor for SMART Recovery, an addiction self-help group in San Francisco. 

Dr Edelstein has lectured nationally and internationally, has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, and has written extensively for professional journals. He has appeared on hundreds of interviews on radio, TV, Internet, newspapers, magazines and journals.

Personal Statement:

"I'm very lucky I discovered Albert Ellis and REBT at the age of nineteen. I can't say enough about how it has improved my personal life and given me a career I love. I feel deeply rewarded when I see my clients improve dramatically over a short course of therapy."

Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better. You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful.

DaEl Walker is the Director of the Crystal Awareness Institute. For over 25 years he has focused research on subtle energy, crystals, healing, and sensitivity training. He has taught in 9 countries on 4 continents. He was the first western healer to teach healing to Japan. In February 1996, he was the only international speaker at the first New Age Expo in Asia, in Hong Kong. November 1996 he was the only American among 28 presenters at the first "Conference of Alternative Therapies" held in Eastern Europe, in Romania. His presentation was officially voted Best of Conference by the attendees. In 1998 he received the Martin De La Cruz Prize from the Academia Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional, at the 12th International Conference on Traditional Medicine, cosponsored by the University of New Mexico. This prize is given each year to the individual or organization that has contributed the most to alternative healing.

He has been involved in Crystal Skull Research since 1986 when he was part of a team of researchers who went to Canada and worked with the Mitchell-Hedges Skull. He has since worked on 27 crystal skulls and is the guardian of Rainbow, an ancient crystal skull. He is now travelling with the skull and bringing it to the attention of the world.

DaEl is part Native American, descended from the Cherokee tribe. He is an elder in the Spirit Horse Medicine Society.

He is the author of The Crystal Book, The Crystal Healing Book, co-author of the Crystal Sourcebook, has just finished the soon to be published Crystalotherapy, and is presently writing another book, Physics of Emotion. He has written a series of articles on alternative therapies for the Tin Tin Daily News in Hong Kong. He was recently the guest editor for Insight magazine in Australia and now writes a monthly column.

DaEl is a favorite of the media and has appeared on over 500 radio and TV shows in 9 countries. He has been the subject of news specials on ABC, CBC Canada, CBS, CNN, and NBC.