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Guest Occupation: Biologist, Microbiologist, Ecologist, Steward, Scientist, Researcher, Instructor, Publisher, Educator, Environmental Activist, Scholar, Writer, Columnist
Guest Biography:

Dr. Wes Tunnell is a broadly trained marine biologist/ecologist with a particular interest in field studies on coral reefs and coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Although his current focus is on biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico, he has studied and published on coral reef ecology, coastal ecology, molluscan distribution and ecology, oil spill impacts, brachiopods, colonial waterbirds, and vertebrate fossils from the seabed. Dr. Tunnell published a book on the Laguna Madre of Texas and Tamaulipas in 2001 and another on Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico in 2007.

Education: Ph.D. in Biology; Texas A&M University (1974)
M.S. in Biology (Geology Minor); Texas A&I University (1969) 
B.S. in Biology (Chemistry Minor); Texas A&I University (1967)

Expertise: Dr. Tunnell joined the University in 1974. Through his instruction, insight, and interests, his depth of experience and understanding of the Gulf of Mexico have reached throughout the world. He was an early advocate for strong relationships between the United States, Mexico, and Cuba to research and support the Gulf of Mexico. As a broadly trained marine biologist/ecologist with a particular interest in field studies on coral reefs and coastal areas of the Gulf, he is often asked to present to a variety of audiences.

Dr. Tunnell has been instrumental in developing not only the Harte Research Institute, but also founding the Center for Coastal Studies and pioneering the concept of co-locating environmental and natural resources agencies to the TAMU-CC campus. As a committed steward and scientist, Dr. Tunnell balances research, instruction, and publishing with his administration activities.

Additional Activities: Dr. Tunnell is an educator at heart. During his career with the University, he has taught 13 different courses. He works closely with his associates and actively supports a wide range of environmental initiatives. In 2007, he was recognized by the University as an Outstanding Research Scholar.

Research Focus and Interests: Dr. Tunnell leverages his research to maximize the information available on the Gulf of Mexico. He is researching the Biodiversity of the Gulf of Mexico working with 140 authors/taxonomists from 80 institutions in 15 countries. He is leading the initiative to update Bulletin 89, a comprehensive research series. And, he is conducting research focusing on coastal and marine environments across the southeast for NOAA.

Selected Publications: Throughout his career, Dr. Tunnell has been committed to publishing his works through journals, articles, and books. Recently, key volumes have been completed and become available through the Texas A&M University Press. As his work continues with updating Bulletin 89, those interested in the Gulf will have even more resources available.

Guest Category: Earth & Space, Plant & Animals, Science, Biology & Chemistry
Guest Occupation: Psychic Medium, Spirit Messenger, Metaphysical Researcher, Educator, Author, Speaker
Guest Biography:

Being one of the most respected psychic mediums and spirit messengers on the world stage, John takes his work seriously and treats it with the utmost integrity and respect. As he says: “If I can help people connect with someone on the Other-Side – by linking with the Spirit World – to bring peace, comfort, and perhaps some closure, or if I can help you to understand and tap into your own inner-guidance (psychic intuition) for answers, then I’ll be satisfied that I’ve done my job!”

John was born with an inner sense of knowing – knowing that he was the different one in the family. As a naturally gifted psychic medium, he’s studied metaphysics all his life, spending over two intensive years in England, training and working with some of the top psychic mediums. He received confirmation of his special psychic abilities after a near-fatal accident when he was 30 years old, when his unique skills were amplified and brought to the surface.

John's charismatic and lively demonstrations provide his audience with a rare opportunity to experience the fascinating phenomenon of mediumship, which he delivers with his distinctive style of humor, intensity, and compassion. When he contacts the Spirit World, one of his most familiar sayings is: "They want to talk to you as much as you want to talk to them!"

John sees his role as two fold. He loves to educate as much as being a medium, and offers a rare insight into the actual mechanics of mediumship, explaining every step of the way, just how he’s linking with spirit and the different forms of communication, both in words and images that spirit uses to send messages through him.

John passionately believes that his job as a psychic medium is not only to help those to connect with their loved ones, but just as importantly, to empower everyone to follow their own spiritual journey. Often, for those who lose a loved one, it can cause you to question your own beliefs about life after death and as a spiritual teacher, John can help you also to tap into your psychic intuitive abilities and help you discover and recognize the signs and symbols associated with your loved ones who have passed on.

Guest Category: Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Spiritual, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Author, Speaker, Former Sheriff, Detective, Gun Rights Activist, FBI, Instructor, Supervisor, Administrator
Guest Biography:

Author/speaker and former sheriff Richard Mack has served in a wide variety of roles over the course of his nearly twenty year career in law enforcement, which began in Provo, Utah.

Mack began his career with the Provo Police Department as a parking enforcement cadet while attending BYU. A couple of years later he became a full-time officer and was soon promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, and Detective. His most traumatic experience there was a one-year assignment as an undercover narcotics agent. After nearly 11 years at Provo PD, Mack decided to return to his childhood turf in Arizona and run for Graham County Sheriff. His campaign took off and he was elected in 1988.

He was sheriff for two terms until 1997. He was named Elected Official of the Year by the Arizona-New Mexico Coalition of Counties in 1994, received the NRA Law Officer of the Year, inducted into the NRA Hall of Fame, 1995 Cicero Award, Samuel Adams Leadership Award from the Local Sovereignty Coalition, and Gun Owners of America Defender of the Second Amendment Award.

During his tenure, federal officers informed the sheriffs of the state that they would be required to enforce the so-called "Brady Bill" and run background checks at their expense under the law. In 1994, Mack and six other sheriffs from across the country, challenged the constitutionality of the Brady Bill and ultimately, fought it all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where they won a monumental decision for freedom.

Three years later, in a landmark 5-4 split decision based on the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Mack won his case.

A graduate of the FBI National Academy, some of Mack's positions include: patrol officer, undercover narcotics officer, hostage negotiator, youth officer, school resource officer, communications supervisor, corporal, front desk sergeant, detective, sheriff, Search and Rescue supervisor, jail administrator, and DARE instructor.

Mack has been a consultant on numerous cases regarding police abuse, brutality, and other misconduct by public officials. He has joined with other members of the law enforcement community to speak out in favor of drug policy reform.

A graduate of Brigham Young University, Mack lives with his wife and family in Safford, Arizona.

Guest Category: News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Elderly Care Manager, Investigative Archaeologist, Giza Foundation Founder, Author
Guest Biography:

The Author has lived a lifetime of profound Supernormal experiences which opened his mind to a memory of how matter functions up to and beyond quantum. He offers his knowledge of how life, the universe and everything functions and shows how in his case this awakening was in preparation for a task of discovery he would eventually conduct along with his twin flame in Giza, Egypt. Their calling was in pursuit of our true origins as a species and for the lessons we may learn from our highly advanced ancient ancestors. Part 3 of the book documents their explorations above and beneath the Giza Plateau over the last decade, seeking evidence. A profound discovery was made and the Author explains how its implication may forever change the way you think of yourself and the place where we all originated. The Author lives in Ross-On-Wye, England, and privately works in Care Management of the Elderly. His continuing investigative archaeology work along with his writing, his pursuit of the animal welfare work with The Giza Foundation and his web site management are given their own space. Twin Flame Judith, though residing in the USA, assists at every stage. Work continues with field research and exploration as it is enabled.

Guest Category: Earth & Space, History, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Politics & Government, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Energy Health Specialist, Writer, Lecturer, Educator, Author, Instructor, Presenter, Teacher, Holistic Health Expert
Guest Biography:

Debra Greene, PhD, is an Energy Health Specialist and frequently quoted expert in the field of energy medicine and mind-body integration. She combines the best of ancient wisdom with modern science in her clinical practice, writings, lectures, and nationwide media appearances. Debra has worked with thousands of clients and taught hundreds of workshops.

Author of the acclaimed book, Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy Health, Debra is an engaging instructor, a dynamic presenter, and sought-after practitioner. She started her energy health practice in 1993 and is the founder of Inner Clarity (IC), an integrative balancing method that uses energy kinesiology to pinpoint hidden core beliefs and a variety of energy based techniques to facilitate lasting improvement.

Debra has co-presented with Biology of Belief author Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., and has been an invited guest panelist on energy medicine topics. Along with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, J.K. Rowling and other notable women, Debra is a contributing author in the new book, Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change. She has facilitated hundreds of workshops, trainings, and presentations over the years for organizations such as the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM), the American Institute of Stress (AIS), the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), and the Energy Kinesiology Association (EnKA).

A former regular teacher at Esalen, Debra taught trainings and workshops there between 2001-2006. She has also been a frequently invited teacher-in-residence who worked with the Esalen staff as well as the Esalen Directors Team. She taught full-time in the Graduate School for Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University where she developed a Master's degree program in Holistic Health Education. Teaching courses such as Principles of Holistic Health, the Psychology and Physiology of Stress, Social Transformation, and Paradigms of Consciousness were her passion. She worked with author Fred Luskin, Ph.D., as a founding member of the Academic Consortium for the Advancement of Holistic Health.

A graduate of Ohio State University with a rigorous and rare Ph.D. in Communication and Somatic Studies, Debra is an energy adept, professionally trained facilitator, presenter and writer. As an energy kinesiologist, she trained directly with then President of the International Kinesiology College (IKC), Grethe Fremming, and IKC faculty Rolf Havsboel, completing their eight level training program in record time.

In 2004, when LifeFest needed a presenter to speak on Energy Work alongside Phyllis Foromoto, the Lineage Bearer of Reiki, they invited Debra. She served as President of the Hawaii Wellness Tourism Association (HWTA) for two consecutive terms and worked in conjunction with the Hyatt Regency Maui and Maui Wellness Institute to develop a wellness program. Currently, she presents and offers sessions as part of the Wellness Series at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui.

Debra has a private practice on Maui, where she lives. If Maui is not in your immediate travel plans, she also offers the life-transforming distance learning program, Energy Mastery, as well as private phone or Skype video sessions worldwide. Choose from Healthy Living, Inner Clarity (IC), and Subconscious Self Integration (SSI).

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Biography:

BIO FROM: http://www.picknettprince.com/about.htm

Clive, a Londoner, had worked for several years as a systems analyst for a major national charity before meeting Lynn Picknett Lynn.

Clive Prince & Lynn Picknett

However, after meeting they abandoned their 'proper' jobs to concentrate full-time on research into religious and historical mysteries, which became a successful and enduring joint career in authorship. This took them on an amazing journey, often frustrating and sometimes even dangerous, but never less than fascinating, through subjects such as the Shroud of Turin (Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History) and the origins of Christianity (The Templar Revelation), the hijacking of the myths of ancient Egypt by intelligence agencies (The Stargate Conspiracy), and the political skulduggery of the Priory of Sion (The Sion Revelation).

Clive Prince In 1998 Lynn and Clive met the charismatic researcher Stephen Prior who, together with his Edinburgh-based friend and colleague Robert Brydon, had a fascination for the wartime mysteries of Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland in 1941 and the death of the King’s brother, George, Duke of Kent, in a plane crash there a year later - which they had come to believe were intimately connected. When Stephen and Bob suggested they collaborate with Lynn and Clive on a book, they jumped at the chance - and so the foursome's three-book career began with Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-up, followed by War of the Windsors and Friendly Fire.

However, in 2003 tragedy struck. Stephen died, aged 56, and Lynn and Clive returned to their more usual topics, with The Sion Revelation, revised and updated editions of Turin Shroud and The Templar Revelation, and The Masks of Christ.

Lynn PicknettDespite a tendency to attract surreal and dramatic happenings, their work has taken them to many exciting and mysterious places, from Egypt to the 'heartland of heresy', the south-west of France, from the USA to Ireland, and all over the British Isles, sometimes with film crews, sometimes alone.

Over the years they have appeared on many television and radio programmes - their Shroud/da Vinci research being a particular hit with the Leonardo-loving Japanese - including the James Whale Show, This Morning, Ireland's Big Bite, Sky News, and Good Morning America.

They are also professional speakers, appearing regularly for the Saunière Society, the Questing Conference and the Fortean Times UnConvention, besides enjoying a host of one-off speaking dates, from all over the UK, Holland and Germany to the USA.

Lynn and Clive's most recent book is The Forbidden Universe: The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God, published in the UK and USA in March 2011.

Both Lynn and Clive live in Croydon, south London.

Guest Category: Literature, History, Religion, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Teacher, Stand Up Comic, Editor, Columnist, TV Presenter, Curator, Researcher, Writer, Author
Guest Biography:

BIO FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Picknett

Born in Folkestone, Kent, England in April 1947, Picknett grew up in a haunted house in York, attending Park Grove Junior School and Queen Anne Grammar School. After graduating from university with an Upper 2nd (hons) degree in English Literature, she briefly became a teacher, a shop assistant, and a stand-up comic before moving to London in 1971 to join Marshall Cavendish Publications as a trainee sub-editor.

In the 1980s, she was Deputy Editor on The Unexplained and contributor to many other publications. She was also a regular contributor on various radio shows, including Michael van Straten and Clive Bull's on LBC and Talk Radio. She was also a television presenter for both Anglia and Southern TV.

In 1990 she was guest curator for the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition The Unexplained at Bath, performing the same function in 1999 for the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television at Bradford.

In the early 1990s, she teamed up with fellow researcher and writer Clive Prince. Their first book, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History was the first mainstream work to reveal how all the so-called miraculous characteristics of the Turin Shroud could easily be reproduced only using a pinhole camera (camera obscura), and argued that Leonardo da Vinci not only faked it, but used his own face for the model of Jesus'.

Their 1997 The Templar Revelation was credited by Dan Brown, both in The Da Vinci Code and in the 2006 court-case (Baigent & Leigh v. RandomHouse), as the main inspiration for his novel.

Between 1999 and his death in 2003, she and Clive Prince worked with Stephen Prior, described in book blurb as "a historian specialising in intelligence matters".

Picknett and Prince perform most of the research for their books themselves, though they are sometimes helped by several friends and fellow researchers. They have credited Keith Prince as a main contributor for their work on the Turin Shroud, Philip Coppens in The Stargate Conspiracy, and Robert Brydon for their work on Rudolf Hess.

She nurtures her interest in the paranormal through her membership of The Ghost Club.

Picknett, as well as Prince, makes a brief appearance in the film The Da Vinci Code. The pair appear on a London bus as the protagonists are traveling to the Temple Church in London. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) leaves his seat to join Sophie (Audrey Tautou) at the back of the bus, and Picknett and Prince are seen sitting on the left.

Guest Category: Literature, History, Religion, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Chaplin, Author, Public Speaker, Whistleblower, Oil Industry Insider
Guest Biography:

Lindsey Williams

During the 1970's, Lindsey Williams went to Alaska to work as a missionary for the workers of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He spent 3 years working as a chaplain on behalf of the 'elite', who spent several billion dollars constructing the 800-mile, 4-foot-wide oil pipeline.

As an 'executive insider', Lindsey Williams was afforded the rare opportunity to participate in private meetings where he overheard the secret plans of the oil cartel. He later authored the best-selling book, The Non-Oil Crisis."

After a 33-year career as a whistleblower, Lindsey Williams, under duress, shut down his web site and ceased appearing as a radio-show guest. He returned to the airwaves in late-2009 and has produced two 3-part DVD presentations which again reveal the intentions of the self-described 'elite' of the oil industry.

In his newest DVD production, "The Elite Speak," Mr. Williams reveals their latest plans to completely control the world's resources. THE ENERGY NON-CRISIS

Guest Category: News, Politics & Government, Theory & Conspiracy