"I suppose seeing pictures of me at 2 1/2 years old holding a guitar like I'd been playing for years, I should have known that music was my destiny."

From the age of 14, he always felt best when on stage performing at local clubs. "I'd pay the other busboys to close for me so that I could play bass in the lounge for tips."

At 18, Michael had a band in Prescott, Arizona called "Shogun." With Whitfield Mercer III on bass, and Mike Loomis on drums, they tore it up at the St. Michael's Underground as the house band for several months. Note the customized guitar and hand-built light show, or as they called it back then, "color organ."

"The old days (70s and 80s) created the best music ever. It is timeless. That's why they put it in GuitarHero, RockBand, and on half of the TV commercials."

The '80s was a big influence on Michael, and bands such as Styx, Toto, and Nightranger had a power rock sound requiring several band members. The band "SEAL" was the rock/progressive rock band of the 80s in Phoenix. It consisted of Dave Froehlich on drums, Earnie Reed on bass, Dave "Doc" Dixon on keyboards, Christine Aquilino on vocals, Russ Graves on guitar, and Michael on guitar, synths, and vocals. Christine's brother Jon Aquilino was in the Schoolboys, and IKON, which along with Surgical Steel, were the "hair metal" bands of Phoenix.

Michael started with harmonica at age 8, guitar and choir at age 9, bass at 13, drums at 14, and keyboards at 20. His mixed-use of live synthesizers with guitar adds a fullness that one is used to hearing from 5 and 6 piece bands, not trios.

"Element 115 really takes advantage of the multi-instrument talents of all its members."

In 2007 and 2008, the band was the center of attention at the Roswell UFO Festivals.

With a degree in Computer Science, and over 10 years of experience as an electrical engineer and mechanical designer, Michael always has plans for improving the wow factor of Element 115's live shows. As it is, it takes the band 4 or 5 hours to set up the full show (video wall, PA, towers, trusses, robotic lights), and 2 more hours to take it down. A Holographic AL 3.0 is in the design phase now.

"I can relate to Tom Scholz of Boston. He has had his own studio since the late '60s, plays all the instruments, and writes melodic parts which still rock!  I wish I could play the Hammond organ as well as he does."

If you haven't seen Michael or Jess play guitar with one hand, and keyboard with the other, then be sure to check out "Hot Cars" in the video section of the web site.

"People often ask why I created an ALIEN drummer. I just wanted to take diversity to another level. Aliens would love to jam on some good ol' rock 'n roll if it weren't for the MIB's busting their chops!"

There is a more serious side to the alien connection with Michael, however.

"Having been 'abducted' in my own house by five really tall slightly large-eyed aliens, I know first hand that our government is covering up the truth when it comes to alien life here on Earth. I was not hurt or probed (to the best of my recollection) but they did let me know how much they appreciated my sense of humor. All communication was telepathic, and to this day I have conflicting sources as to why I was visited, Carla was numbed, and I was allowed to remember some part of the event.

"I've known from as young as I can remember, and telling my little brother when he was about 3 and I was 7 or 8, that I wasn't from this planet. I remember wanting to tell everybody, but confiding only to my brother. I drew pictures of the world and its moon (which became the new world). I feel that I've been visited from the time I was younger than 2, and I displayed an acute ability to apply logic and mathematics even back then."

The band's music often includes a view on a song's topic from an alien perspective. Element 115 focuses on not only presenting a situation or question, but also on providing potential solutions.

Michael's musical influences include Boston, Def Leppard, the Monkees, Van Halen, the Doobie Brothers, Yes, Aerosmith, Steelheart, Stryper, the writer of Greensleeves, and all the classical music used in Warner Brothers cartoons. His stage show influences include KISS, the Tubes, Pink Floyd, and Queen.

Robert S. Ivker, DO, ABIHM, FAAFP, HTCP

Dr. Rob Ivker is a physician healer, health educator, and best-selling author.  He is a board-certified holistic physician (ABIHM), a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and healing touch certified practitioner (HTCP).  He has been practicing medicine since 1972.  For the past 20 years, after curing his own chronic sinus condition, his holistic medical practice has focused on the treatment of respiratory disease – chronic sinusitis, asthma, and allergies – and the creation of optimal health.

Dr. Ivker is the Co-Founder and Past-President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM); co-creator of the Annual ABIHM Review Course, ABIHM certification examination, and the ABIHM evidence-based curriculum.  He is also a Past-President of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA).  Dr. Ivker is a former Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and is currently a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine. He is the current Medical Director of The Respiratory Healer Network as well as the Chief Medical Officer for Fully Alive Medicine (FAM).

He is the author of four editions of the best-selling SINUS SURVIVAL: The Holistic Medical Treatment for Sinusitis, Allergies, and Colds. Dr. Ivker has also written six other books including Asthma Survival, Arthritis Survival, Headache Survival, Backache Survival, The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine, and Thriving: The Holistic Guide to Optimal Health for Men.

Married for 42 years to Harriet, a psychiatric social worker, they have two daughters and sons-in-law and four grandchildren.  They live in Littleton, CO.

Paul Rees (and Wife Deborah Rees) have been awarded with one of the most prestigious awards given within the USA and Canadian spiritualist movement: The honorary ministers certificates for the spiritual education given to others, presented to them for their excellence of service.

They believe that any demonstration should incorporate proof of survival, and that is what they do best—giving peace to people in the knowledge that those they love, not only live on, but are still around them, always.

Deborah Rees (and Husband Paul Rees) have been awarded with one of the most prestigious awards given within the USA and Canadian spiritualist movement: The honorary ministers certificates for the spiritual education given to others, presented to them for their excellence of service.

They believe that any demonstration should incorporate proof of survival, and that is what they do best—giving peace to people in the knowledge that those they love, not only live on, but are still around them, always.

Sarita is a world renowned Tantra master and mystic offering courses and retreats across the globe.

Having received a direct transmission from Osho, she is true to the spiritual essence of Tantra and leads us on the path to self realisation.

At the same time she takes care to help us transcend the psychological blockages that we carry as a result of our cultural background and past experiences. She is also a master healer, author and consultant.

After a childhood where her sensitivity to subtle energies was already developing, she became a seeker of truth as a teenager – hitchhiking across the globe aged 17 and encountering Osho in Mumbai, India. She spent many years in Osho’s community working through a process of profound personal transformation with direct support and guidance from him.

She learned and then taught Holistic Healing in various parts of the world eventually expanding to teach Tantra with Geho, her partner at the time. She developed courses for individuals, a 7 level training for lovers and founded the ‘School of Awakening’ which has transformed the lives of thousands of people.

Now teaching alone or with a co-teacher, she offers a Tantra transmission in workshops and retreats promoted by individuals and organizations across the world.

Walter  J. Burien, Jr. - Birth name: Bubien (born at Our Lady of Lords hospital, Camden, NJ October 12, 1955,  is an advocate for government fiscal accountability and budgeting.

'''Early life'''

At the age of five he moved from Camden, NJ with his family to Needham, Massachusetts where a trip to Boston or camping on the Cape was just a short drive away. At the age of nine years old Walter moved with his family to East Brunswick, NJ and in 1974 Walter graduated East Brunswick High School.

'''Military career'''

On August 14 1974, Walter and 83 of his friends from East Brunswick and Spotswood, NJ enlisted in the military. Walter with four others went into the Navy, five went into the Air Force, eight into the Army and the rest into the Marines. Walter went to boot camp at Great Lakes where he won the heavyweight boxing title at the "Smoker" that year. From boot camp Walter completed Machinist Mate A School and went forward to Nuclear Power School in Bainbridge, Maryland. Walter upon arriving at Nuclear Power School found out that he was not qualified to participate. His recruiter entered him into the program even though not qualified for it.

Walter put in for an early discharge from the Navy, and as he awaited the discharge to process, he moved on as a standard MM3c to his first duty ship the DD862 Vogelgesang (a destroyer) and then to his second duty ship the FF1084 McCandless (a Fast Frigate). In 1976 Walter received a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy from congressman Frank Tompkins of PA, went through the preliminary testing, was approved for the next starting class at Annapolis but he decided not to go and took an early discharge in 1976.

'''Business career'''

In 1977 Walter worked for XEROX Corp out of the Princeton, New Jersey branch for one year and, in 1978, switched over to working in the commodity markets from New York City with an office at 1 World Trade Center. Walter Burien learned quickly that he had a knack for seeing what was going to happen based on what was happening. This talent can be very profitable in commodity futures trading. Walter found out quickly that he was not good at sales but very good at trading. He and a friend opened a trading account with $1,200 having the intent of generating the money to open up their own commodity trading firm. Well, in a little over three weeks Walter had taken that $1,200 up to a little over $53,000. Walter and his friend Roy pulled $35,000 out of the trading account and started Gabriel Brokerage (named after Arch Angel Gabriel) having an office on the 19th floor of 1 World Trade Center. The first four clients of the firm were other brokers who gave Walter $10,000 each saying "Please trade my account".

Well, Walter did trade their accounts, and made all four of them a 100% profit in their first month and 100% in commissions for himself. Roy was doing a few things illegal per tax shelters Walter did not like and Walter asked Roy to stop. Roy said no, so Walter said to Roy Spiegal: Do you have one dollar ($1), Roy said yes, Walter took the $1 and said to Roy: You now have 100% of the company with payment to me of $1, goodbye. Roy went on to raise 74 million dollars, and got burnt losing most of his money when silver collapsed from $50 to $14 over three weeks in 1980. His federal license was suspended in the USA and he moved to Germany to trade on the US markets and in 1984 he was suspended again from trading on US markets due to options fraud he was involved in.

Walter, after leaving the partnership with Roy in 1978, then started his own company called Anthony's Exchange Inc. that he registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which he shortened to AEI Commodities in 1979.

Walter Bubien from that point would trade for one to three clients at a time. The best record was accomplished for a Bill Monahan a lumber broker from Portland, Oregon. Walter took over trading Mr. Monahan's account having a balance of $1,600 and in three months fourteen days he brought the account up to $387,000 with over 3,400 commodities futures contracts traded in that account over that time period. The performance here was one of the best in the country for capital appreciation in the shortest period of time.

The Commodity Futures market at the end of the 70's had much fraud taking place. At one point in 1979 Walter Burien was offered to work for a firm located at 100 Wall St. This firm was a boiler room operation that was a criminal enterprise for theft. Walter was told he could use any fictitious name he wanted, he would get 60% of the cash he brought in, and the average weekly take was $15,000 to $40,000. What they were doing was using high pressure sales pitches to sell worthless commodity options for gold, silver, and other commodities where they would play on the marks greed, get the cash, and give in return a worthless but official looking piece of paper stating that the person had an option to buy when nothing backed the option. This was outright fraud. The only reaction / response this had on Walter was that he was motivated to contact Don Hewitt of 60-Minutes and briefed him on these boiler room thieves . Mr. Hewitt then did a 60-Minute segment on commodity boiler room operations of which was the first national exposure of this type of fraud. Walter contacted Mr. Hewitt of 60-Minutes several years later on another topic (A billion dollar International investment swindle operating out of NJ and PA) and motivated him to do another 60-Minute segment "Out of Ghana".

Walter became involved providing an international daily commodity commentary with a group called Radio Data Systems - Market Monitor that gave live market and new quotes worldwide via satellite dish service. In 1981 Walter worked for nine months with Merrill Lynch when they opened their first all commodities office located in Morristown, NJ. Merrill Lynch upper management did not want Bubien to continue giving commentary under his name through Market Monitor, so Walter left Merrill Lynch and continued to work independently under AEI Commodities until 1992 when he dropped his Federal Registration as a CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor).

In 1983 Walter Bubien moved to Marco Island, Florida until 1984. During this time he also registered as a CTA under Futures Exchange Corp. along with AEI Commodities.

In 1986 Walter Bubien started a first of its kind market telephone hot-line called Preferred Traders and Brokers (PTB). The service was an interactive hot-line that gave the updated daily commentary of the top twenty-five stock, commodity, and option traders established through open competition. No one could pay to give commentary on the service they could only do so if they maintained the best performance through open competition. What this did is pooled all of the correct thinkers together through one hot-line service. The technical aspects of the service were offered through a new start-off company called Quest Communications founded by Bill VonMiester of Mclean, VA. The new service of PTB was well received. Commodities Magazine in the July 1986 issue did a feature article on PTB. PTB was scheduled to go on Ted Koppel's Nightline but it never happened. Without getting any advance notice from Bill VonMiester, VonMiester declared bankruptcy of Quest Communications and shut down the telecommunications provider to PTB. There was no other telecommunications service that could offer the technical capabilities to facilitate PTB so the hot-line of PTB was discontinued.

'''The crusade begins'''

From 1984 until 1989 Walter Bubien lived in North Hollywood, CA and returned to East Brunswick, NJ in 1989. In 1990, while in NJ, a Governor was elected by the name of Jim Florio on a no new taxes platform. What happened was upon Jim Florio becoming governor, a 2.8 billion dollar tax increase was enacted, the largest one year increase in the state's history. A NJ radio station 101.5 FM with two DJs John and Ken started lighting up the airwaves over this 2.8 billion dollar increase from a governor whose motto to get elected was "No New Taxes". Walter having a background with large numbers, pulled out the NJ State budget report and read on the air the billions of dollars the state was dealing with as shown on their own budget report. The DJs John and Ken from 101.5 FM challenged the listeners to start a group to repeal the tax increase. Walter Bubien and nine others got together and Walter incorporated with the state of NJ a group called Hands Across New Jersey (HANJ).

With the help of John and Ken rabble rousing around the clock, within three months the group had 63,000 volunteers and every county in New Jersey organized. Walter Bubien took over looking at the Budget report, gross income, and identifying the investments held by the state of NJ. It was not too long before he discovered the true accounting book for NJ State Government, a book called the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report). Upon review this report showed that New Jersey state government had three times the gross income that it was showing on its corresponding budget report. Mr. Walter J. Bubien, Jr. upon seeing the NJ CAFR had just learned what he has called ever since: The Biggest Game in Town and he has referred to government ever since as the definition of Organized Crime. When Walter met with governor Jim Florio, when he confronted the governor with the fact that the state was bringing in three times what they were showing to the people of NJ, the governor replied back with: "Yes, I know, I have been trying to do something about that!"

Walter, the day after getting the NJ State CAFR, went to 101.5 and showed it to John and Ken now DJs in Los Angeles, CA saying to them: "Here is the holy Grail" let's hit the air with it!" Well, for the next hour the bottom line numbers in the tens of billions were read off live on the air.. That was the last live interview 101.5 FM did with Walter or for a while with anyone from HANJ. The station came under attack, John and Ken never mentioned the CAFR again, Walter Burien came under attack, all Press articles on HANJ for some period of time stopped. Walter and his friends were threatened and the CAFR was never to be heard about again for the next eight years.

Walter, out of concern of continued reprisal for what he had brought forward, changed one letter of his name from Bubien to Burien and moved to Prescott, Arizona to start a small business, get married, and raise a family. From the end of 1990 until 1994, Walter J. Burien, Jr. stayed off the grid and did fine running a small business.

Then, in 1994 Walter had a press release on a new US Patent #5638433  he had filed that was the first telecommunications router that could bounce calls as data calls through the Internet and could group all subscribers to the service as one account for massive volume discounts on their calls. In doing so he let everyone know where he was. This was a big mistake on his part. Some money as payoffs flowed into some pockets of local officials in Prescott, AZ  through real-estate land / tax-repo property in the Prescott area marked up to equal the payoff amount, paid from NJ (via transfer from Chicago) with the instructions to "xxxx' up Walter's world.. The "xxxx" Walter's world was done  through the local courts and there were eager players from within other government circles to do the job with a little cash changing hands from NJ to AZ masked through these real estate transaction..

From 1994 to 1998, Walter Burien was totally entrenched in trying to protect his new born child Allyson born Dec 6, 1995, business, and future from constant  and pervasive undercurrents of attack and intended negative consequences being intentionally inflicted. Search the CAFR1.com site for key words such as "Political Pandering" or "Custodial interference" or "Judicial Misconduct" for further information. In June 1998, Walter Burien had enough of the corrupt and eager politicians, attorneys that slithered through the halls of government, and corrupted law enforcement who were paid well but in many cases were only strong arm forces to the inherently corrupted who gave them their instructions. Walter knew that the majority of problems the nation was facing was due to the money involved that was changing hands and the corruption that unrestrained money flow bred. The CAFR showed that wealth and the reality of the money involved. So on June 4th 1998 Walter Burien went to war, with that war being a national war of disclosure via radio of the CAFR and the hidden wealth structure behind it. The first radio program was with Tom Valentine, Radio Free America and over the next  four months Walter did about 130 other radio shows that reached far and wide across the nation. The national disclosure had begun.

Walter Burien started the web site of http://CAFR1.com whereby he lists some local government CAFRs for download, and has written many articles on the topic http://CAFR1.com/STATES/ and directs viewers to some example surplus reviews of CAFRs completed by Gerald Klatt a retired federal commander of auditing (Deceased July 11th 2004) who was briefed by Mr. Burien in 1999 and shortly thereafter launched his website CAFRMan.com

Mr. Burien has written many articles about the CAFR and undercurrents therefrom. In January 2000 Walter Burien released on Video VHS a tape entitled The Biggest Game in Town, a video that circulated for viewing across the country in a very short time.

On December 25, 2008, the video The Biggest Game in Town was uploaded to Google Video for the first time and broke all records on Google Video in that class of video getting over 870,000 views in the first five days from release. As of December 2008 the video had been viewed over five million time worldwide.

From June 1998 until June 2009, Walter Burien has worked diligently to inform the people of the CAFR and has completed over 550 radio shows, has had features articles on the front pages of several private publications, such as WorldNet Daily; Spotlight; Media Bypass; Idaho Observer, and has expanded the hits on the Google search engine to where a search for the two basic key words of: Government Wealth will yield 58,000,000 hits with the CAFR1.com website being #1 and The video the Biggest Game in Town, being also. The same will result for a Google search of: CAFR, or: Government Investments. The blackout though from the syndicated media, controlled education, and both primary political parties continues and is diligently enforced due to the symbiotic relationship for the use of the massive wealth  / investment capital involved within the structure of the CAFR. They do what they do due to the money and control involved. Nothing more and nothing less..

Collective government in the USA owns and controls more than any of us knew. Collective totals of investment, gross income, and standing wealth local and Federal government secures, holds, and generates each year is substantially greater than the same from the entire private sector in the USA. Or in other words as Mr. Burien puts it: Russia's (communism's) wet dream of the 1940s per control and ownership held by government with a capitalist / fascist twist. The big earth shaker was that two-thirds of government's gross income was from non-tax sources. Collective standing investment totals held "internationally" from all local and federal government entities in the USA as of 1999 of "liquid" investment assets conservatively as of 1999 exceeded 60 trillion dollars and as of 2010 within its continued growth over 100 trillion dollars has been reached. Did the public or most government employees know this? No, they did not. What about most in the financial arena? No also.. They were not intended to have a cognitive thought on this issue and great efforts were exerted by the control structure to maintain an intentional void and vacuum in the thought processes of the general population not to even think about the issue and specific data was spoon fed the viewers creating a limited view as was intended..

In November 2008, Mr. Burien launched another site designed to offer remedy whereby the collective ownership amassed by government would revert back to the direct benefit of the people through the phasing out of all taxation. The site is called - http://TaxRetirement.com or the TRFA having the registered US Trademark of (Tax Retirement Fund Association) designed to implement the TFR (Tax Retirement Fund) within local venues from across the country through the use of a Four Point Initiative designed to do the job after modification to fit any venue of not lowering but eliminating "all" taxation in this country. Government in its own zeal to take it all over by investment has created the structure necessary to make the TRFs happen tomorrow if the TRF is exerted to happen today. The crusade continues...

Walter Burien since 2002 has primarily lived about fourteen miles outside the city of Saint Johns, AZ by himself and with his faithful pups who are the descendents  (as of 2010 nine pups) of his seventeen year old dog Beasty Beast that can be seen in the picture at the bottom of the CAFR1 front page.

In 1998 Walter filed for a new US Patent for the MAC Cell Phone (Published January 2010, issued 02/07/2012) which has the potential to revolutionize the telecom industry. Possibly even Apple's I-Phone sales and service offered will be dwarfed when and if the MAC Cell phone (US Trademark Pending) is brought forward and reaches the market place. (One device that does it all for every other digital device in the home; office; or out in the field, using "any" technology or "any" service provider worldwide) A utility patent is pending for the invention and issue is expected in 2012-13. Domestic and International manufacturing / service rights can be assigned at this time. Funding / investment to move this invention forward is being sought.

As of 2012 Mr. Burien is looking for a qualified ghost writer to to collaborate in completion of a book entitled:

The Money and motive behind the decades of our masterful entertainment and how a Real Change can make the population the "First-Line-Beneficiary" of the wealth involved.

Sources

    * AEI - NFA -  (Enter ID 0002140)

    * Walter J. Bubien, Jr. - NFA  (Enter ID 0035029)

    * FEC (Futures Exchange Corp) NFA -  (Enter ID 0001346)

    * CAFR1 - http://CAFR1.com

    * Google Search on: Government Wealth

* Walter Bubien's US Patent for the BRTF filed in 1993. The first US Patent with the idea of calls over the internet as data calls

* Walter Bubien's US Trademark of: Tax Retirement Fund Association (TRFA)

* Walter Bubien's new US Patent for the MAC Cell Phone a device that opens up access to all service providers, all data technologies, and facilitates this for other devices such as your TV, computer, and phone used from your home, office, or out in the field. For more info on the MAC Cell Phone, CLICK HERE

* World Net Daily - One of the most read online News Services worldwide - Four articles, one article by the editor Joseph Farah 

* Google search for articles written by Walter Burien

Gary Starr, ZAP Founder, Chairman Emeritus, Manager, Business Development, Product Development

Gary Starr is quite possibly the most prolific electric car entrepreneur today, having been involved in the design and production of over 100,000 electric vehicles since building his first electric car in 1974 as a UC Davis sophomore. In 1993 Automotive News named Starr among the top ten authorities in the electric car industry.

In 2000 Advertising Age honored him and ZAP in their annual Marketing 100. Starr has several publications to his credit, including "Electric Cars: Your Guide to Clean Motoring, "The Shocking Truth of Electric Cars," and "The True Cost of Oil."

He is a holder of several electric vehicle patents. Starr was a sophomore at UC Davis studying Environmental Consulting and Advocacy during the OPEC Oil Embargo and says he was late for a date because he had to sit in a line to buy gas. While waiting he pondered a better way using electricity. He asked one of his professors about electric cars who told him they could not go fast enough, far enough and were too expensive. A few months later, Starr built his first electric car with mostly junk and surplus parts. The converted dune buggy went 50 MPH, had a range per charge of 50 miles and cost about $2,500 to make. "That car taught me that, just because an expert says it can't be done, doesn't mean it's true."

Starr founded ZAP in 1994 and has been a director since the Company's inception, serving as Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman from 2002 to 2008. Prior to ZAP, Starr founded US Electricar's electric vehicle operation in 1983. Starr has provided expert commentary on more than 300 radio and television shows including Larry King Live, The Today Show, CNN Headline News, the McNeil Lehrer News Hour and more.

Living Foods USA thus came into existence in 2004 as a part of the natural movement in our spiritual-scientific journey that is centered on promoting, inspiring, and empowering the spiritual evolution of humanity as it seeks its full potential. And a couple years later we saw the need for the gluten/nut free version of Prime Directive™ thus named, FermPlus™ for all those with gluten intolerance and celiac disease, as well as, raw foodists that choose to stay away from gluten bearing grains. We found a way to make Prime Directive™ even more fulfilling for all. We see this living food matrix of FermPlus™ as a blessing from Spirit working in Nature to help bring our bio-systems back into harmony with the greater dynamic milieu of which we are a part. The multi-dimensional nature of this milieu presents itself to us in the form of interpenetrating realms of life where the subtle and material may intersect. It is at the nexus of the spiritual and the material that we can see the fruitful interface of higher consciousness with that which needs to be awakened in our human biological nature. We believe FermPlus™ is a remarkably unique gift for re-harmonizing our multi-faceted nature. How marvelous to see and feel God's intelligence at work in these very intelligent bacteria that fulfill their purpose while helping us fulfill ours. For this reason we understand this food to be a conscious evolving living matrix, one that is truly "Conscious Food for Conscious Beings."

It is natural to ask what talents, gifts, and knowledge we bring to Living Foods that might qualify us for the task of bringing this gift to the American market. Together we have many years in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): Marianne, a practitioner since 1991 in Acupressure Massage Therapy, Jin Shin Jyutsu, and Inner Relationship Focusing, counselor and instructor, and Bruce teaching on spirituality, consciousness sciences, and the future of medicine since 1979. This diverse background in the healing arts, spiritual teaching, and active participation in the many communities of discourse engaging the Science and Spirituality dialogue, enables us to bring unique insights and understanding of the importance of uniting scientific rigor with spiritual insight. This interface was further developed over 20 years serving as the editorial office for the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research on Practice, Paradigm and Policy (JACM). In that capacity, with Marianne as Managing Editor and Bruce as Associate Editor, we became acquainted with many of the brightest minds in research and practice in CAM. Further, we were able to explore the forefront of much new research, including nutritional studies. This helped us develop a rigorous approach to science and sharpened our ability to evaluate health claims, including stated benefits of various products. Our work culminated in a pioneering edition of JACM on "Energy Medicine" published 2004, in which Bruce also presented an article entitled Consciousness and Quantum Information Processing: Uncovering the Foundation for a Medicine of Light (go to Liebertpub.com/acm — Vol. 10/1, Feb. 2004). It is this discerning eye and heart that we bring to Living Foods USA.

We are grateful for the opportunity to bring you products sourced from organic foods, that are the closest to Nature and the way God designed us to heal and regenerate. We observed the research on our Living Foods Matrix™ Re-Natured® vitamins and minerals in those days with JACM and now we are proud to make them available to you. They, too, are sourced from organics, vitamins and minerals seen as food in the body for 90% absorption! It is to you as conscious, evolving Beings, growing in God's garden, that we offer these Living Foods.

And it doesn’t stop there. We now have a full website dedicated to Living Water. Thanks to the good work and invention of Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi we can now have active hydrogen-rich water available for our health and vitality anytime, anywhere. Water that is truly hydrating, our best antioxidant, our best source of energy.

Soon we will be bringing to you Living Water for your multidimensional being, your spiritual essence and soul.

“Whoever believes in me…streams of living water will flow from within him.” John 7:37-39.

Our new radio program, Truth and Freedom, launched in New York City, May 29, 2009 can be heard at https://prn.fm/ live Fridays at 3pm eastern time, or hear the archives anytime for 12 weeks after each show. We will bring you topics on everything from health freedom, health and vitality, politics, consciousness and spirituality. Because, “and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32. For those of you who wish to be awake and free in your Spiritual Sovereignty we hope you will be enlightened!

Wishing you the Joy of abundant health and unending growth in Knowledge and Wisdom,

Bruce and Marianne Curtis

Richard “Anton” Diaz, born in New York City, raised in Stamford, Connecticut, entered his 1st year in college as a scholarship student at Fairfield University as a math and science major training toward becoming a mechanical engineer. His focus shifted, however, to the studies in human thought, and he began to study philosophy and psychology. It was during these studies that he began to embrace the Tao as his personal philosophy.

The following year,

Anton transferred to Antioch College, then, one the most progressive liberal colleges in America founded by Horace Mann. His interests shifted once again, this time to the arts and he began pursuing a career in Music and Dance. After graduating Antioch, he embarked upon a professional dance career that would last 20 years. As a professional competitive ballroom dancer  he won a World title in 1989 and afterwards twice represented the United States in world championships. During his training as a dancer he was highly impacted be  the Alexander Technique where he began to appreciate the delicate connection between mind and body.

In 1992, he met Master Mantak Chia, and began to deepen his studies in Taoism, and for the first time, was introduced to Taoist sexual cultivation practices. In 1997, he retired from dancing and began teaching Taoist practices full time. In 1999, he founded Sexy Spirits in New York City, as an educational center where sexuality and spirituality could be taught as an integrated part of our human nature.

Today, Sexy Spirits continues as an educational center with classes, lectures, and workshops, both live and online, that are taught in the United States. Richard “Anton” Diaz, is currently authoring 2 books, and teaching courses and trainings he has created. They include: Tantra Tango, Mastering Your Orgasm,  Taontric Massage, and Orgasmic Providers.

From founder…………
In 1999, I had just completed my associate instructor training in the Healing Tao practices under Master Mantak Chia, and decided to create a learning center in New York City that would offer a practical and systematic method of integrating health, sex, and longevity through the Taoists principles that I had learned and began to apply in my life. I was especially enthusiastic about teaching men the sexual cultivation practices that had changed my life. What I had learned had not only increased by state of personal health and well being but also greatly enhanced my understanding and ability in my relationships with the women in my life. You might say I was no longer a slave to my sexual drives but now the master of them. My new way of understanding and experiencing my sexual energy gave me an insight in understanding how love, passion, and sex, could now work together in creating harmonious relationships as well as strong loving community.

Here now nearly 13 years later, Sexy Spirits is become a major community builder and educational center for learning intimacy and sexuality as a conscious practice in one’s life. The Healing Tao practices that were the catalyst for creating Sexy Spirits, are still taught and even recommended as a strong foundation, but now Sexy Spirits has become an online university offering a diversity of subjects ranging from Tantra to BDSM, from practices in Self-Love to building conscious intimate community, from becoming master givers and receivers of sensual pleasure to spiritual freedom and liberation.

My dreams for Sexy Spirits are a world wide system in building conscious community that better supports our relationships for family and intimacy with others. It goes without saying that a good relationship better supports and nourishes each of the individuals within that relationship. But likewise, a good community better supports and nourishes each of the individuals and partners within that community. Sexy Spirits offers a model in creating those communities where ever you live on this planet.

Sexual energy is perhaps the most powerful driving force in our lives. Our sexual energy can provide us with more health, happiness, and well being but can also be our greatest source of distraction, frustration, and confusion. Through sex we can easily create new life or just as easily upset or destroy existing ones. Understanding and mastering our sexual energy will greatly determine whether or not we create the life we desire.

Our sex drive is motivated by two strong and not necessarily dependent urges; the urge to create children and have family, and the urge to experience sexual energy as pleasure. It would seem that mother nature for some reason provided us with far more sexual energy than was actually required to continue our species.

Our current culture partakes in sexual energy far more for the experience of pleasure than it does for making babies. This is actually a better survival choice for our species over-populated would be a great threat to our survival potential. As we learn more and more how to economically populate and successfully prolong life on this planet, the necessity to understand our use of sexual energy as pleasure becomes critical. Even the celebate must manage their sexual drives.

Though current western society on the whole has given great latitude for sexual expression as a function of pleasure independent of procreation, western religious ideologies, since their very inception, have pretty much continued to disassociate sexual energy with spiritual development. In contrast, early eastern religions, the major ones being Taoism that originated in China and Tantra in India, embraced the cultivation and integration of sexual energy as vital to spiritual growth. Unfortunately, these teachings have not so easily been accepted and/or appreciated by the western mind. Teachings in Tantra's goddess oriented philosophy have appealed much more easily to the "feminine" intellect while teachings in the monk oriented Taoist approach with it's pragmatic, logical, and often times clinical presentation to the "masculine".

But what if these teachings could be presented to the western mind in such a way that would be instructive, illuminating, and equally appealing to men and woman alike? What if we could come to our own understanding of sexual energy cultivation that would allow us to honor our sexual urges. What if we could consciously cultivate our sexual energy into a regular practice, as we currently do with diet and exercise, that would increase our physical, mental, and emotional well-being?

Well this is my mission with Sexy Spirits! To empower men and women to cultivate and refine their sexual energy in a way that will encourage and support healthy bodies, clear minds, and harmonious relationships. I invite you to begin by first embracing the Sexy Spirit that lives in every cell of your body. That sexy spirit is YOU and was born the very instant your father’s seed found home in your mother’s womb.

Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned author, storyteller, vibrational healer, and six sensory spiritual teacher in international demand for her guidance, wisdom, and capacity to heal the soul. Her books have sold over a million copies world wide including her New York Times bestseller The Answer Is Simple... She is most recognized for her ability to instantly change vibration, lift depression,  and connect others to their intuition. She helps people understand their souls’ plan and purpose and leads them to a successful, meaningful and peaceful lives.

Dedicated to liberating people all over the world from the severe limitations, that comes from perceiving the world with only five senses when we in fact have six senses, and opening others up to the joys, healing and personal empowerment of six-sensory living. 

A gifted and often hilarious teacher and speaker, Sonia is straight to the point in showing  people exactly how to immediately transform their life experience from fear to joy, activate their intuition, awaken their spirit, and live as the empowered beings they are naturally designed to be.

Educated at the University of Denver, and the Sorbonne, Paris in addition to holding a doctorate in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology, and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, Sonia has been featured on ABC,NBC,CNN as well as New Woman Magazine, USA Today as well as The Chicago Tribune and The London Times. She is also the host of her own weekly radio show Trust Your Vibes on Hay House Radio ( https://www.hayhouseradio.com ). 

Blair Hickey is a working actor and co-founder of CastingAbout, an online Los Angeles casting and production guide, which was recently acquired by Breakdown Services Ltd., and is now preparing for its expansion to other cities, such as New York, Vancouver and Chicago.

Blair's acting credits include roles in many top-rated TV shows, including How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Without A Trace, The O.C., Angel, Ally McBeal, The Practice and Sex and The City. Before moving to LA, Blair worked and trained in New York and regional theatre, serving as a founding member of the Working Group Theatre Company. He received a BFA in Theatre Arts from Brown University in 1991.

The idea for CastingAbout was sparked by Blair's experiences marketing himself as an actor, and his desire for a better, more organized and accurate source of casting information. Blair and his business partner, Brian Wold, launched the website in 2004, and now oversee what has become the newest division of Breakdown Services. The site currently has thousands of subscribers, who include actors, managers, agents and other industry personnel.

MIKE RUTHERFORD No not the guy from Genesis lol! For the better part of his life, Mike's interest in the UFO/Alien experience phenomenon was more of an on the surface interest at best, but seven years ago he had a contact experience that had a profound effect on his life. In order to help others deal with their contact experiences, He is in the process of starting a support group for experiencers, abductees and other interested parties here in the UK. The main focus of the support group will of course be for support of those who have had contact experiences, but the group will not be limited to just this capacity. Valuable information on the confidential level dealing with all aspect of the UFO phenomenon will be shared among the attendee's, and organized sky watches will play an integral part to better understand the phenomenon.

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL RUTHERFORD

It was about seven years ago, when I had my first UFO sighting, experience' and I will outlay the details of this sighting within this short article, just to let you know a little bit more about where I am coming from, regarding the UFO Phenomena.

My sighting occurred in Dagenham, Essex' a place called Parslows Park, not far from where my wife's old house,( I used to visit her at this house , before moving to our present place ).I walked to the corner of Parslows Park, where I caught something in my vision, which was hanging above a group of trees.The date was 23 / 11 / 97 at 8.35pm in the evening. It caught my attention, because of the shape of the object' it was cigar shaped object, and I thought to myself, this is odd? What can this be, and why is no one else taking any interest in this? This cigar shaped object, had flashing lights at both ends of the object, and with its gray exterior color, I could clearly see what can only be described as a set of windows? Having watched this object for a few seconds,so I decided to walk up to it, I crossed the busy road, hoping to catch a better view of it, but with a total surprise' it just shot bolt upright into the air, and completely vanished? This stunned me so much, that it was a point for me to research the whole area of UFOs, and to this day I am still trying to learn more, and dig even deeper!

Dr. Mark Hyman, three time New York Times Best Selling Author, will be interviewed on the Holistic Health Show on Station 3 at 5 p.m. PST on Saturday, January 31 about his new book The UltraMind Solution. He is a leader in the emerging field of functional medicine treating the underlying biological causes of diseases instead of managing or masking symptoms. There are nearly 1 million copies of Dr Hyman’s books in print in the U.S. One book, UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss was published in more than 20 languages, and in addition to the NYT best-seller list, was on the best seller list of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and was # 1 in Health on Amazon.com. He has been on NBC’s Today Show and Weekend Today, ABC’s Good Morning America Weekend; CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s The View with Barbara Walters, as well as on CNN, FOX, PBS, NPR and many other television and radio shows. He is well published in leading journals and magazines.

Dr Hyman is founder and medical director of the Ultra Wellness Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, Editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Medical Editor of Natural Solutions, and on the editorial boards of Body and Soul and Integrative Medicine: A Clinicians Journal. He has conducted research at Harvard Medical School, and has taught at leading medical schools including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. He has also testified often for the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and has consulted with Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona on his diabetic prevention initiative many times.

James Gilliland is a minister, counselor, an internationally known lecturer, best selling author with the books, Reunion with Source, Becoming Gods, and The Ultimate Soul Journey. James appeared in Contact Has Begun, His Story, The History Channel, UFOs then and Now, UFO Hotspots. ABC, Fox News, BBC Danny Dyer Special, Paranormal State, ECETI Ranch a Documentary, the new movie Thrive have all featured James and ECETI which he is the founder. He has appeared on Coast to Coast, Jeff Rense, and to numerous other radio shows to mention also being the host of, As You Wish Talk Radio, https://bbsradio.com and Contact Has Begun, http://www.photon.net/ He is a facilitator of many Eastern disciplines, a visionary dedicated to the awakening and healing of Humanity and the Earth and teaches higher dimensional realities from experience.

Spiritual history

After a near death experience brought about by drowning, James could no longer continue business as usual. His eyes were fully opened, and he saw the lack of love and joy in his life and his work. Success through material acquisition, the American dream, was now seen for its emptiness. He realized that the temporary joy and pleasure possessions and outer appearances brought were not the goal and began his inward journey. After experiencing the pure unconditional love and joy, BLISS, of connecting directly to the source during his near death experience, all that mattered was to reconnect and maintain that contact.

This began a spiritual journey and 20 year quest which included 6 years of Yoga, The Inner Christ Ministry, and the Tibetan foundation were he was certified as being an intuitive visionary of the highest consciousness and energy. He has studied with other yogis, lamas, master teachers and continuously has been taught from within through his extensive practicing of meditation. He is a teacher, spiritual counselor, energetic healer, and published author, Becoming Gods 1 & 2, which can be sent upon request. He was recently honored by a venerated teacher in the Lama traditions as Rigdzin Norbu which translated means "Jewel of Pure Awareness".

After his NDE, James received the gift of Interdimensional Mind and the ability to transfer powerful consciousness and energy to others, helping them in their own awakening and healing process.  He is a Published Author of REUNION WITH SOURCE and BECOMMING GODS II, Master Teacher and Energetic Healer.  His over twenty years of experience include 6 years of Yoga, Teaching of the Inner Christ Ministry and the Tibetan Foundation where he is certified as a conscious channel of the Highest Consciousness and Energy.

He's lived a semi-reclusive life since 1986 at the Sattva Sanctuary, a 70 acre mountain retreat located at the base of Mt. Adams in Trout Lake, Washington. The Sanctuary has been in operation since 1986. It has been recognized by many sensitives, intuitives, adepts, and masters of all walks for its spiritual qualities which greatly enhance and accelerate the awakening and healing process. The Sanctuary and those who participate are dedicated to the awakening and healing of Humanity and the Earth, body, mind and spirit. 

Interviews & Media Coverage

James has appeared on Coast to Coast AM Show, has been a frequent guest on the Jeff Rense Sightings on the Radio, Laura Lee Show, Millennium Mysteries, Sean David Morton and Shine Talk where he demonstrated charging 9 batteries in a row by merely holding them, and other to numerous to mention radio shows.  

He has been a speaker at many events and featured on the The History Channel's, "UFOs Then and now: Hot Spots", ABC and FOX news, King 5 (Seattle) TV's Evening Magazine , Elaine Smitha, Daylene Gates Simply Spiritual, Off The Record with Ted Loman, International UFO Congress, and many other national and now international TV, radio and other media events. 

His articles and UFO reports have been featured by UFO Magazine and have been regularly featured by major UFO information outlets such as Filer's Files, UFO Roundup, MUFON, Skywatch International, PSI Applications, UFORC, Farshores, The Virtually Strange Network. 

He has extensive documentation of the appearance of Spiritual Masters and other Off World Visitors as well.  Interviews can be adjusted to the audience, covering a diverse field of experience and be as unlimited or outrageous as desired. The near death experience opened up what can only be referred to as Interdimensional mind which covers a very wide range of subjects. 

Everyone is feeling it. Something is in the wind. Something grand is unfolding on the horizon, just around the corner. A knowingness and feeling that soon it will no longer be business as usual. Is it tumultuous times of exciting social, economic and physical Earth changes? A collective initiation and ascension into Higher Consciousness & Energy? A grand reunion with ancient ancestors from the stars?

James is available for interviews, lectures, and workshops upon request.

Email: ufojames@gorge.net

Joel Sturgis has been researching the paranormal for over 15 years. He grew up in a haunted house in Northern MN. That sparked hi interest in the paranormal to find out more about the world of the paranormal that we just don’t understand. Joel is married with two great boys Matthew 3 and Cody 8 and a proud member of the Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigators.

Sturgis has been studying the paranormal for more than 16 years. He grew up in northern MN a small farming of Aurora. Sturgis had hi s very first paranormal experience at the age of six. He saw and wittnessed what some call a shadow person on the second floor of the old farm house he lived in. Many, many years passed and he grew more and more interested in the paranormal.

Sturgis started studying works by such authors like Brad Steiger and Hans Holzer and the Warrens. There where no groups in his area at the time so he started experimenting what he read on his own in such places as cemeteries and other public reported to be haunted locations. As he truely honed his skills as a paranomal investigator.

He researched and went to such real haunted places as Atchison Kansas and Dodge city Kansas. And in time began investigating for haunted indiviusals and families and as of today he continues to help with haunted families in paranormal crises.

Brian Leffler and Sturgis met and became fast friends. Share share alto of the same views and opinions on the paranormal.

Sturgis joined NMPI (Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigators) founded by Brian Leffler. Later he was asked to join the shadow talk paranormal radio team." I love coming on shadow talk and talking with the biggest names in the paranormal." :" The fans are what keeps the wheels turning." States Strugis.

So then next time you need your paranormal fix tune and and be turned on to one of the best internet talk and haunted radio show on the internet. I promise you you will be haunted too!

Scottie Stamper's paranormal interest and adventure began when he was in his mid teens. At age 15 Scottie had his first run in with a full blown apparition. After recovering from this initial shock and scare, he decided to look into those moans and groans that frighten all of and go bum in the night.

Well still as of today after numerous scares he is still trying to figure out just what real paranormal activity really boils down to.

Scottie and his lovely Wife Rebecca currently operate "The Ghostville Times" web site "ghostvilletimes". Together they investigate paranormal phenomena and strange activities and do articles on paranormal topics and other paranormal investigators who spend their weekends and late nights trying to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts and the paranormal phenomena in the world around us today.

When I can honestly provide you with conclusive paranormal proof that I myself can’t disprove, I will then tell you yes there are paranormal forces all around us but for now I still have to say Orbs-R-Dirt.

... Scottie Stamper

As a well acknowledged paranormal investigator for many years. Brian Leffler began is his journey as a skeptic. Then he moves into a real haunted house. He can personally tell you of the many paranormal experiences that eventually cracked the hardened shell that is hard-nosed skepticism. He began to study the paranormal he had and how it lead him into becoming a paranormal investigator he is today. He is also a member of the Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigators.

Leffler is also a respected an author, being published on the Internet, in Fate Magazine and his own vest selling book called "Ghosts: Minnesota's Other Natural Resource." published by Schiffer Books 2007. His book is one of the best reads I have had in a long time. The book is actual case-files of the Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigations. That Leffler actually participated in the investigation of the phenomenon. His direct style actually makes you want to get out the EMF meter and start hunting right away.

"Ghosts: Minnesota's Other Natural Resource." published by Schiffer Books 2007.

Real firsthand encounters of paranormal experiences are related straight from Minnesota's most haunted places. • Visit the actively haunted Lakeview Cemetery where the Potter's Field for Shaw Hospital was born. • Interact with a ghostly potato garden spirit who resides at Moon Lake. It makes rounds through the house that sits on its grave. • Eavesdrop on a paranormal investigation at Union Depot, where a bodiless apparition moves between train cars. • At the haunted Grand Marais home, singing star Barry Cowsill roams with other ghostly souls. Gather tips from a first-rate investigative team, the Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigators, who will take you through some of the best ghostly hangouts in the country. Minnesota's ghosts will haunt you. Leffler approaches the paranormal activities he encounters with a direct and unique approach.

As a Radio Talk Show host his voice and personality comes across as someone that loves to conduct interviews. Brian is also a public speaker and is a member of the Robbie Thomas Team and he hopes that you will be watching for the Robbie Thomas Tour to come to your location so that he will have a chance to meet his listeners. What he is most proud of are the advances that he has contributed to in the field of paranormal research such as finding proof that not all orbs are dirt but in fact, a small percentage of them are actually spirit related!

Greta Berlin has been an advocate for justice for the Palestinians since the early 60s. She is the mother of two Palestinian/American children whose father was born and raised in Safad, Palestine and is a 1948 refugee. She has a masters degree in Theatre and a bachelor’s in English and, when she’s not working with the Palestinians, has spent the past 32 years teaching engineers and scientists how to design and deliver presentations. She has been in the West Bank three times (over five months total) since 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that applies nonviolent principles to resist the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

Greta, along with 10 other ISM volunteers, was wounded by Israeli gunfire in July 2003 while trying to pull down the gate in the fence at Anin, just outside of Jenin. She has spent most of the time in the occupied territories as media coordinator in the ISM offices in Beit Sahour and Ramallah.

She is one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement, which seeks to break the siege of Gaza through seaborne nonviolent action and was onboard the Free Gaza, the first boat with internationals to reach this besieged strip of the Mediterranean in 41 years.

You can read some of her articles and interviews by GOOGLING Greta Berlin, Palestine. She has spoken around the world at universities, and organizations about what she has witnessed in Palestine and how to advocate for an occupied people.

I use my psychic abilities to help people discover their life path, solve issues, and achieve fulfillment, and to demonstrate that we are more than we've been taught – that among other things, psychic abilities are natural and in us all.

My fascination with quantum physics, spirituality, consciousness, and metaphysics leads me to study and practice everything I can in these areas. I do believe we create our reality with our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. I use this amazing information to support others in creating the life they desire.

My radio show can be heard live in the Santa Barbara area and simulcast via the Santa Barbara News-Press online. Due to the success of my books, Love Colors: A New Approach to Love, Relationships, and Auras; Life Colors: What Your Aura Colors Say About You; and Make Your Dreams Come True, I've also been a frequent guest on many television & radio shows. I have been a guest lecturer at the International Forum on New Science, Fortune 500 companies, and many seminars for professionals in the psychology, education, health fields and more.

In addition, reading auras for many years, I have finely tuned my ability to recognize common aspects of the various aura colors. Understanding the meaning behind each color has given me insights into my purpose in life, the way I process information, my interactions with people and how I handle relationships.

My purpose in writing about the aura is to bring this knowledge to others, to enable them to understand how and why they process life in a particular way. The information encoded in the aura reveals helpful, life-altering information. It also gives people permission to be themselves, to become more allowing and accepting of themselves and others, while also learning effective ways of changing their unwanted behaviors and attitudes.

There are no good or bad aura colors. The aura reflects one's choices in this lifetime, but does not mean that one is limited to a particular goal or way of processing. We are all free to expand, grow and change any way we choose. My goal is to show that while we may all have different methods, goals and purposes, we are each a part of the whole human aura rainbow.

Roger Nelson, PhD, Director and designer of The Global Consciousness Project, also known as the EGG Project, was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, Princeton University, from 1980 to 2002, when he retired. He founded the Global Consciousness Project (GCP) in 1997, and has directed the project since its inception. Roger's broad interests in psychology, physics, philosophy, and the arts have generated opportunities to collaborate with creative interdisciplinary teams at PEAR and elsewhere, developing technologies for studying consciousness and intention. He has a strong interest in the theoretical, philosophical, and practical implications of direct interactions of mind and matter, which help to define the role of consciousness in the world.

In 1993, building on years of laboratory experiments, Roger began using random event generator technology in the field to register correlations of data with special states of group consciousness. This work led to the world-spanning GCP network, designed to look for indications of a global consciousness responding to major world events or great celebrations like New Year’s Eve. After several years of purely scientific focus, with careful research yielding increasingly persuasive evidence, Dr. Nelson has begun to make public presentations about the GCP. The findings imply that we can be creative participants in determining our future, and that we have the capacity and responsibility for conscious evolution.

It is one of humanity's most enduring spiritual traditions: the idea that all life or all consciousness is interconnected. Human groups, whether ethnic, religious, or racial; as various as the Iroquois, the Sufis, and Western European Freemasons, all incorporate it into their belief structures. References to it can be found in ancient documents of the classical world, both East and West. It is a very compelling idea, spanning both millennia and the vast complexity of human cultures. Yet, as compelling as the concept is emotionally, only in recent decades has any objective evidence emerged that such a construct might be valid. Even this work, in fields as various as physics, parapsychology, and biology, has provided only suggestions, largely because the research was not conceived in global terms but, instead, focused on more limited vistas. Indeed, much of the relevant research has regarded only individual performances in experiments on anomalies such as telepathy, mind/matter interactions, and distant healing. Somewhat broader vistas are opened in studies of group resonance and morphogenetic fields.

Until very recently, taking the kind of global real-time measurements necessary to evaluate objectively what Jung called the Collective Unconsciousness, and Teilhard de Chardin described as the Noosphere -- a sheath of intelligence for the Earth -- was not a real possibility. Two events, however, have changed this picture. The first is the development of a reliable measurement technology using Random Event Generators (REGs) linked to computers, together with soft- and hardware necessary to do very large and complex multivariate analyses on desktop machines. The second is the rise of the Internet, itself a kind of global consciousness network, albeit one linked very much to the physical world of electronics. For the first time, the objective measurement infrastructure necessary to undertake an evaluation of consciousness on a global scale is broadly accessible. This proposal describes such an effort, the Global Consciousness Project (GCP).

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures.