BIO FROM: http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/jean.htm

Jean Hudon - He was born in Quebec City on the 19th of June 1952, and lived there up to 1979. After completing his education, he became a self-taught musician, playing electric bass in many bands, as well as composing songs and lyrics in a progressive rock band called Maelstrom which recorded an album and played at major venues. In 1979, after a 10 year musical career interspersed with various jobs, he moved to a rural community in the Saguenay area where he built a comfortable three-storied house, and learned organic gardening. He also took part in the creation of an intentional community called Les Plateaux Commun'o'Terre on their 540 acres communally-owned land, home today (2010) to 29 adults and 11 children living in 17 individually-owned homes.

In 1981, he became a social activist when he joined a local environmental group which organized the first demonstration in Quebec against the scourge of acid rains. In 1982, he set up the Quebec branch of a program called Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose. More than 50 Exploration Groups were formed all across Quebec to study documents on various problems facing humanity, and discuss ideas to solve them. With 20 delegates from Quebec, he participated to a Planetary Congress in Toronto which resulted in a final document later presented to the U.N.

At the end of 1983, in view of the growing threat of a nuclear holocaust, he launched a global initiative to help increase public awareness and commitment to defuse the crisis. Called Peace Bomb, this 5 minute globally synchronized moment of prayer/meditation was widely publicized and observed in numerous countries on the 21st of December 1983. A weekly meditation called Love Chain was then launched to help sustain the momentum for peace and kept going over many years.

In 1985, he was invited to the founding meeting of a group called the World Federation for Peace whose motto was The Earth is my Home and Humanity my Family. His contribution was to design and publish in French and English a Guiding Manual for a New World presenting various perspectives on the emerging new paradigm as a way to foster a transformation process within participating individuals.

In 1986, he was inspired to write a book called The Immortal Child whose purpose was to present to a vast audience the concept of our planet as one single global entity, also known as the Gaia Hypothesis. This book published in English, French, Japanese and Portuguese led to 2 years of intense work to promote the idea of an Earth Concert which finally took place on December 31st, 1989 through 20 concerts held in 15 different countries. Hundreds of people were directly involved in organizing these events and a major heightening of awareness ensued as to the plight of our endangered planet.

In 1990, he planted 40,000 tree seedlings during a 6 week period in summer. He then made the transition towards becoming a professional translator on a full time basis and has so far translated over 30 books. In addition, he regularly wrote and mailed out around the world various documents outlining his visions as a way to foster change and action on key issues of peace, environment and global governance.

In 1993, he joined the Green Party of Quebec as an elected member of the National Executive Committee. After 2 years of efforts to promote ideas of sustainability, decentralization, participatory democracy and social justice, he jumped on the Parti Québécois bandwagon, 6 months before the provincial election, with the hope of increasing the exposure of its leaders and members to the ideas mentioned above. Following this, he was hired to write the green platform of the Parti Québécois and produce a video on sustainable development featuring Mr Jacques Parizeau, former prime minister of Quebec.

On November 29, 1996, he decided to re-activate the Earth Concert worldwide network in order to create an unifying global event to mark the beginning of the new millenium. He has co-founded the Earth Rainbow Network in February 1997 for that purpose. Over time, this network evolved and his focus shifted towards sharing information, visions and feedbacks on a broad range of subjects as a way to expand and deepen global awareness and the sense of forming a global spiritual community gradually empowering itself to contribute in shaping the future of this world. He has since networked over 50,000 pages (US letter format) of material (all archived on this site) to a thriving global community of over 3200 English subscribers in more than 50 countries.

He has also co-created the Global Meditation Focus Group in April 2000 to regularly issue Meditation Focuses designed to focalize the attention and healing energies of a growing number of meditators around the world onto situations and crises in need of peaceful resolution and spiritual assistance. It has also become in the past few years a means through which thousands of people around the world are regularly joining in meditation to foster humanity's spiritual awakening and increase their own sense of Oneness with All That Is.

You may also review HERE what others wrote about his work, as well as some of the 550 entries posted over the years in this guestbook.

Klaus Dona has been the Art Exhibition Curator for over 30 cultural exhibitions in Austria, Japan and Korea, like "The Glory of the House of Habsburg", "Rubens and his time", etc. Being a specialist in culture and art exhibitions, his attention was automatically drawn to a phenomenon called 'Ooparts' - out of place artifacts. These are artifacts that should not exist according to current science. Klaus Dona has been researching these types of artifacts for over a decade and, after a long preparation, decided to set up an exhibition of 470 of these (Ooparts) pieces, which he called ''Unsolved Mysteries''. Klaus will speak about many of his strangest Ooparts, as well as the bones of ancient giants that have been presented to him, and the recent discovery of the remains of a 20 foot tall giant in Bolivia he has been asked to examine.

As the granddaughter of illustrious author Ernest Hemingway, Mariel appeared predestined to be well known and publicly recognized. However, at the tender age of 13, Mariel became famous in her own right when she made her silver screen debut in "Lipstick." Four years later, her work in Woody Allen's "Manhattan" earned her an Oscar nomination. She has since made 30 films as well as numerous television appearances in series and as a host of environmental and humanitarian documentaries.

Now 47, Mariel is the mother of two daughters: Dree, 22 and Langley, 20. She is also the fond caretaker of anywhere from two to six delightful dogs at a time. For over 20 years, Mariel has been pursuing her passion for yoga and health and is now seen as a voice of holistic and balanced health and well-being. As part of that role she has lead wellness retreats all over America, sharing her insights about movement, home, silence, and nutrition. In 2003, Mariel published her powerful bestselling memoir, Finding My Balance, the insightful and inspiring story of her life's journey as viewed through a lens honed by yoga and meditation. Her highly successful second book, Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out (Harper Collins, San Francisco, 2007), is a how-to guide for finding and enhancing personal balance and health through the utilization of self-empowering lifestyle techniques. The book is a valuable boon for those who incorporate Mariel's sage and thoughtful advice. Most recently, Mariel published her third book, Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life, in which she offers you ways to easily and deliciously turn your kitchen into the heart of your home.

Her latest exciting project is Mariel's Kitchen… a company that will produce real food products with a real life message! Mariel believes that caring for the health of the body, mind and spirit is the first step in becoming conscious of the health and well-being of the environment that surrounds us. Eating real food, grown organically and locally, may help us get more in touch with who we are and how we interact with our communities. Begin educating yourself about Mariel's message and her mission in the pages of this site and begin to build a bridge between how you care for yourself and your world.

Shelley Yates lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has not only died and come back, but had the wonderful good fortune to come back with a message of hope and love for our earth and its inhabitants. Shelley first learned how to apply her new knowledge from beyond to bring her son back from death in an unprecedented display, using the power of faith, love and the manipulation of personal human energy. Her son returned whole and happy. She was told "what you did for a dying boy with a small group of people you can do for a dying planet with a large group." She shares her story of miracles and her knowledge of human energy potential with all that are willing to listen. Her final outcome has been the creation of a world project in which all of humanity can contribute to change the earth we live on, creating prosperity, peace and healing for all that desire it.

Shelley Yates and her son, Evan, were drowned in 2002 when their car hydroplaned off the road, overturned, and sank to the bottom of a flooded marsh in Nova Scotia. Shelley was trapped in the car. A voice told her not to struggle or she would not be able to be revived when she would be rescued. She had never heard such a voice before this. She did not believe in God. She says of herself, "I was a 'diehard atheist'." Yet, she did not struggle, and she drowned. It was 15 minutes before she was rescued. After she was revived, she alerted the EMT's to find her son, who was age 4 at the time. Close to 30 minutes passed before he was pulled from the water. It took more time for the EMT's to get him breathing again. At the hospital, he was diagnosed as brain dead with non-viable organs, and given only 1% chance of surviving. However, Shelley was told by the voice that he would recover if many persons came and shared the energy of their auras for 20 minutes each.

Grand Marshal of North America, the Honorable Dr. Eric Carter of "The Sovereign Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem". Pontifical Knight of Order St. Sylvester Pope and Martyr

The Grand Marshal is the Minister of Public Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Transportation, and Chief Ceremonial functionary of the Order.

Mark is the co-author of two books, both of which he wrote with international bestselling author Richard Lawrence, namely Prayer Energy (Cico, 2009) and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels (O Books, 2007), which was voted “best book on spirituality 2007” by readers of Kindred Spirit magazine.

He is an International Director of The Aetherius Society, a worldwide spiritual organisation, whose teachings he chose as his spiritual path at an early age. His varied work includes spreading spiritual wisdom through giving radio interviews and lectures around the UK.

He is an uplifting, dynamic speaker who is known to captivate his audience with radical ideas about how we can all help to make the world a better place.

Mark was born in 1980 in southeast England. He studied Chinese (language, history and philosophy) at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2002, where he attained the highest prize-winning first-class degree in this subject in his year. He then worked briefly in the publishing industry, before starting to work full-time for The Aetherius Society.

Mark has travelled extensively, having spent time not only in China, but also in Europe, India, Mongolia, West Africa and the Caucasus. He currently lives in Fulham, London.

Lauren Artress - A Recognized Cultural Creative

There are few women who epitomize the emergence of the new American Culture as much as Lauren Artress. Over the past 20 years, Lauren has been a spiritual pioneer and a leading force in popularizing the Labyrinth in the US and around the world, helping hundreds of thousands of people to experience this ancient spiritual practice. She is a featured presenter in the leading centers for consciousness expansion such as the Omega Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Chautauqua Institute. Lauren is a key catalyst of our emerging awareness of the mind-body connection, the impact of our thoughts on our lives and the importance of living with compassion.

Lauren Artress is a Canon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and author of three books on the labyrinth. Her first book, Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, was instrumental in launching what is now known as The Labyrinth Movement. Her work includes speaking on the contemporary spiritual issues we are confronted with in our daily lives.

Laurance S. Rockefeller recognized her visionary work and funded her creation of Quest: Grace Cathedral Center for Spiritual Wholeness in 1987. It was out of the spiritual programming she did through Quest that she taught herself large group spiritual work. This work eventually led her to the labyrinth.

Lauren founded a non-profit named Veriditas, the World-Wide Labyrinth Project in 1996 to “pepper the planet with labyrinths”. Her organization works in partnership with the Institute of Noetic Sciences and her office is located on the Earthrise Retreat Center in Petaluma, California. Lauren is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California. She offers Spiritual Direction, Soul Coaching and brief psychotherapy in her home office in San Francisco or by phone and Skype. She offers couples’ therapy to those in the Bay Area.

Lauren received her Bachelors Degree in Special Education at Ohio State University, her Master’s Degree in Education at Princeton Theological Seminary and her Doctor of Ministry Degree in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Andover Newton School of Theology. She trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute at the Institute of Religion and Health in New York City and held a private practice there from 1974 to 1986. She holds an honorary doctorate from The California Institute of Integral Studies and the Gandhi, King, and Ikeda Peace Award for her work in bringing people together in creative, peace-giving ways. She is on the Editorial Board of Presence Magazine, a publication of Spiritual Director’s International.

As a couple, Robin and Joseph have been practicing Conscious Loving for ten years. Though they are polar opposites, they have become each other's greatest friends and together have experienced the deepest pain of separation.  Through a tenacious commitment to persevere and create Unity, inside and out, their marriage has become the catalyst for their Souls to awaken and heal.  Joseph and Robin have been blessed with three amazing children who have initiated them into a new form of parenting honoring the needs of each child's soul evolution.  Two of the children developed challenging physical/emotional conditions.  Robin and Joseph were shown that unconscious family dynamics, ancestral conditioning, and the Soul beliefs of the children needed to be transformed in order to create holistic healing miracles.  The whole family system evolved consciously to support the physical and behavioral changes.

Joseph has created several successful architecture and construction-related businesses, responsible for built projects totaling over $2 billion.  When he moved to Santa Fe in 1999, and immediately met Robin, he was ignited to pursue the multidimensional healing gifts that he maintained throughout his life.

As a trained architect and psychic, Joseph envisions the physical and finer bodies, Soul and Essence structures, and the organization of the Universe in architectural terms: interrelated systems of elements synergistically intertwined.  Joseph assists people to transform the structures of consciousness to allow them to create different realities.  He integrates dimensional DNA healings with grounded structural healing techniques.