Gary has dedicated every day of the past 25 years on personal development. His lifelong enthusiasm and passion is to assist individuals in becoming their best.

Gary has studied extensively life coaching; has learned from some of the most exceptional motivational and inspirational speakers as well as having an extensive and diverse reading background from such authors as: Neal Donald Walsh, Deepak Chopra, Don Miguel Ruiz, Shel Silverstein, Caroline Myss, Harvey Mackay, Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden, T. Harv Eker, Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, & more.

At the present, he is being coached by Loral Langemeier, one of today’s most dynamic and financial strategists, author of the national best-seller The Millionaire Maker and two New York Times bestsellers, The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing and The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life.  In addition, she currently acts as a financial expert on the Dr. Phil Show.

In addition, Gary has been selected as a Bob Burg Consultant.   The emphasis of this format of business coaching is taken from 1 – the basic principles of Bob Burg and John David Mann’s book, “The Go-Giver”, the five Stratospheric Laws of Success, and 2 – the “Endless Referral” Program.  To quote Bob Burg, “If you’re serious about your business, whether you are selling a product, service or yourself, master the contents of Endless Referrals and you will practically guarantee your future success.”

Gary’s coaching does not focus on “why,” but on “what now?” The Relationship coaching process shifts obstacles into plans and goals, looking forward instead of analyzing the past. Gary is trained to listen, observe and customize an approach to your needs; he will work to find solutions and strategies that will help you out of your rut. He tailors the experience, meeting you where you are, not putting you a “box” or forcing you through a program. Gary will help you discover your hidden assets, revealing the real person inside, allowing you to come into your own personal power, perhaps for the first time. Gary will teach to redefine who you are and teach you to release old limiting patterns, allowing you to flourish in all your gifts, as you provide value to others. Ultimately, Gary will uncover your REALized Relationships in your life with yourself and others.

Gary has a strong background in marketing and sales with 30+ years of customer service and 15 years of direct sales, social media. Gary’s will train you to make the best use of social media sites as Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn, train you to find your way around and engage first with your new friends. Times have changed, no longer are customers wooed by commercials and pitches, they are looking for relationships they can feel good about.

“Jennifer, because of my work with you, I am in LOVE!”

– Lisa Barnes

As a gifted teacher, author, lecturer and intuitive coach, Jennifer will lead you through a journey filled with love and awakening. Her clarity, compassion and grace are a natural catalyst for exponential healing and love.

Jennifer has an innate ability to bring out the best in her clients empowering them to radiate their own love into the world. De-creating your past story blocks unlocks your unlimited potential. Her clients become amazing radiant magnets for love, success, wealth, passion and healthy relationships.

She is direct, compassionate and quick to locate the root of your issues. Whether it is self esteem, or becoming orgasmic, having been on this road herself, her deep caring and honesty clears the fog of misunderstanding. Her toolbox is filled with gifts that will dramatically impact your place in this world.

If you are looking for an extraordinary life in and outside the bedroom, Jennifer is the one to guide the way. She illuminates your path with a gift for cutting through your old story and getting to the underlying blocks. Whether you are single or coupled, Jennifer is relaxed, putting you at ease eliminating your discomfort.

Through Jennifer’s own journey of healing: depression, anxiety, illness, sexual trauma,unworthiness and lack consciousness, she radiates light and love. Her wisdom comes from living through her experiences and challenges. Through her own healing journey she has developed an amazing array of tools to help clients transform their lives. Through her 6 week first tier workshop, many clients find their soul mate, or TRUE LOVE as well as their own inner gifts and passion for life. Her coursework is uplifting, grounding and centering. Once you radiate love from within, the perfect partner presents himself. In the process your creativity and gifts are uncorked, like champagne out of a bottle, once out you will never look back.

Instead of feeling broken and fragmented working with Jennifer helps you get connected deeply to your inner being, your True Self. Mastery of the Self is the highest work anyone can do. As Plato said, Self Mastery is the greatest of all victories. Jennifer will be your guide so that you become a master of your life and journey into joy, peace and happiness. This is the greatest git of all.

Jennifer is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotherapists, Alliance Coaching and The Spiritual Response Therapy Association for Healers. She also uses Neurolinguistic Programming.

Her books, Odyssey Victim to Victory is an autobiographical account of her own journey. Orgasm for Life is an amazing and exciting book to ignite your passion and get you back into the saddle, turn you on, power up and spice up any relationship.

Jennifer’s radiance is the power and blessing she has embraced along the way. Being comfortable in her own skin, authentic and true to her gifts, she shares the secret to finding your bliss within. Jennifer is here as a catalyst to help you.

Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock met while DJ’ing. Both avid music fans, frequent bar goers, and enthusiastic men-about-town, the two D.C. residents also were acutely aware of the empty tap handle or store shelf where a local beer ought to be found in their city. In 2009, they combined their years of experience in both brewing and beverage distribution to found the DC Brau Brewing Company. Due to his extensive experience in restaurant management and the beverage industry, including posts with Passion Foods Restaurants, The Henry Wine Group and Frederick Wildman & Sons, Brandon took the reins as CEO to handle the sales and business side of the brewery. 

The partners opened DC Brau on Tax Day in northeast Washington, DC, with the intention of brewing beers within the city limits, available citywide, for the beer nerds and recreational beer drinkers alike to call their own. Over the past 4 years, DC Brau has brewed nearly 100 different beers under their label or in collaboration with restaurant, bar and brewery partners – all of which represent a delicious and uniquely American blend of North American and European techniques and ingredients. At the core of its portfolio, DC Brau offers three signature brews available year-round, including The Public (Pale Ale), The Corruption (IPA), and The Citizen (Belgian style Ale), with seasonal and special brews released on a regular basis, like the award-winning, critically-acclaimed On The Wings of Armageddon (Imperial IPA) and its Penn Quarter Porter.

Alluring, elegant, unique and empowering, Ukrainian/Russian Visionary Songstress Kira Kushnirova, weaves together music, ritual, prayer and magic to take her audience on an intimate journey of depth and passion, welcoming the healing and awakening self-love in to the space while under the spell of her aural melodies…

A dancer from her early age, growing up in ancient lands of Ukraine and Russia, immerse in to folk art and playing classical piano, it wasn’t until 5 years ago, while receiving her Master Degree in Spiritual Physiology at University Of Santa Monica here in United States, going through her personal healing and self discovery, she was awaken to the beauty and healing power of her voice…Her participation in Shamanic ceremonies around the world, her devotion to Divine Mother, her commitment to transformation by celebrating Love and Oneness are the key tones in her music.

Her resent musical project “Midnight Kingdom” is a masterful collaboration with Grammy awarded artist Jonathan Hakakian (HearColorMusic), musical wizards Stanley Clark, Chris Bleth, Artyom Manukian, Sam Babayan, Sunny Solwind and Vahagni takes listener on a dreamy journey through etherial feminine landscape of divinity …

The luscious beauty of her music comes from deep meditations in Mother Nature and Sacred Ceremonial circles.

GUEST: JOHANN URB

Johann Urb, Actor and Model

Johann was born in Tallinn as the son of a musician Tarmo Urb. At the age of ten Johann moved to live in Finland with his mother and her new Finnish husband. Mostly they stayed in Tampere. When Johann turned 17, he moved to the United States where his father lived as he started his career in modeling in New York, which led him later on to pursuing a career in acting. He studied in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

In 2001, Urb landed a small part in the film Zoolander. Later, he made an appearance in the short film Fear of Feathers and had a role in one episode of CSI: Miami. In 2004, Urb appeared in the short-running television series The Mountain. Following that, he guest starred in several television shows and made smaller film roles.

Urb would then get his first major film role in The Hottie and the Nottie in 2008. The next year, Urb made a short appearance in Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic 2012 as a heroic pilot and he played a journalist in the fantasy TV-series Eastwick. He also played the part of Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil: Retribution, which was released in 2012. Most recently he has been playing the part of US Park Ranger, Burt Moore, the boyfriend of Abby Sciuto in the series NCIS.

Johann discovered meditation at the age of 14 and has held a daily practice of various types of yoga/meditations ever since. He believes in the power of spiritual practice, physical health, community, kindness, sharing and giving. And of course, of always being in the process of learning.

To Coach With Johann Urb, Email Him at: spiriturb@gmail.com

Terry Preuss, NBCT, is a career educator who has been teaching children and adults from around the globe for over two decades. Presently a middle school teacher, she also conducts motivational, and writing workshops nationally. With a vast and varied teaching history, her insight into the condition of today's youth reveals a struggle and willingness to reach every child and to inspire other educators to do the same.

Her organization, ABC+LOVE (It's About Brotherhood, Compassion +LOVE), is dedicated to sharing the stories of troubled and at-risk youth in an effort to raise awareness and improve the quality of education for all students, globally. Through her proven effectiveness and dedication to students, she has received every accolade possible within the teaching profession: Grant Recipient, Teacher of the Year, Hispanic Teacher of the Year, Highly Qualified Teacher, Mentor Teacher, Lead Teacher, School Based Management Decision Making Cadre Chair, Teacher Consultant, and National Board Certified Teacher. Presently she uses her expertise, knowledge, and experiences to reach a broader audience by writing about, speaking on and advocating for student and parent concerns.

Through her present appointment on her School Board's District Advisory Council (DAC), she intends to initiate positive changes to benefit student, parent, and teacher relations. Her goal is to raise the bar of education creating a reality where student friendly teaching thrives in every classroom and brings about high achievement and high expectations, hand in hand with high self-esteem. She is presently on the Broward Teachers Union Executive Board, and was recently elected Vice President of her local, the 6th Largest Union in America.  Her term begins July 1, 2016

Terry is also a two time literary award winning author, recognized by The Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine for her personal narrative, A Helping Hand, about discovering her mother's aristocratic past in pre-Castro Cuba, and Florida International University's Josephine Friedman Award for Short Fiction for her story, Cat Soup.

Her newest book "Voices in the Hall" is a riveting and compelling account of kids in our school system, as told to the one adult who will listen to them: their teacher. Based on the true lives of real students, these personal, intimate accounts are heart-wrenching, powerful and at times shocking—a veritable cry for help to parents, teachers and society. She uses her work and her passion for writing to engage students of all ages in the reading and writing adventure, achieving notably high standardized writing scores at her own school, and students who discover their voice by putting pen to paper in her workshops nationally.

She is the mother of two teenage sons who live with her and her husband in Florida.

Pia Smith Orleane and Cullen Baird Smith are extraordinary interstellar communicators! Guided away from using old paradigm terms such as "channeling", Pia and Cullen state that the information they share comes from an energetic "merging" of their hearts and minds to the hearts and minds of other Light Beings who wish to help humanity evolve. It takes a combined presence of both of their energies to bring forth the wisdom of Laarkmaa. As they join hands, the voice of Laarkmaa begins to speak, sometimes through Cullen, but most often through Pia, whose soft voice resonates with the musical Pleiadian tones. Pia, who has accessed parallel realms of Light and Love since she was a small child, also provides a voice for the divine feminine energies of Mary Magdalene, and the Great Mother Mary. Pia is the author of the literary jewel, The Return of the Feminine, and COVR Award for Visionary Fiction, Southern Piercings. Pia co-authored Laarkmaa's books, Conversations With Laarkmaa and Remembering Who We Are with Cullen Smith. Pia holds a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Consciousness and Spirituality. Cullen is a Visionary, a Sensitive, and an Energy Healer, as well as an Interstellar Communicator. Cullen has participated with non-ordinary states of reality under the guidance of Pan's kingdom and star family since early childhood. Co-author of Conversations With Laarkmaa and Remembering Who We Are, Cullen began supporting the healing of others through assisting energy movement when he was four years old. At age nine, he produced a "Findhorn Garden" in his backyard with the aid of the devic kingdom, preceding the magical Findhorn Gardens in Scotland by a decade. When Laarkmaa began communicating messages of love to Cullen and Pia, they were simultaneously stunned and excited! Years of interstellar-human communication were recorded and transcribed into the two books, Conversations With Laarkmaa: A Pleiadian View of the New Reality and Remembering Who We Are: Laarkmaa's Guidance on Healing the Human Condition. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology describes their work as a "must read for anyone interested in the evolution of human consciousness." Working with Laarkmaa accelerated Pia and Cullen's abilities to communicate with other dimensional beings, and now a myriad of other voices are presenting themselves in an urgent attempt to reach humanity and assist in humanity's evolutionary process of elevating consciousness. Acting as Ambassadors to the Pleiadians, this couple brings Laarkmaa's inspiring and heartwarming messages of hope, love, and peace to all those who are willing to listen. Cullen and Pia have dedicated their lives to bringing Laarkmaa's wisdom into the world, helping with the evolution of humanity, and living with Ahimsa (do no harm), by promoting peace, harmony, and responsibility for all our thoughts, words, and actions.

Ira Pastor is Chief Executive Officer; Bioquark Inc. a unique life sciences company that is working on novel bio-products for human regeneration, disease reversion, and biologic age reversal .– Mr. Pastor has over 25 years of experience across multiple sectors of the pharmaceutical industry including pharmaceutical commercialization, biotech drug development, managed care, distribution, OTC, and retail; Previously served as VP, Business Development for drug development company Phytomedics Inc., raising $40 million of private equity, consummating over $50 million of licensing deals, and bringing lead auto-immune botanical drug candidate from discovery stage to Phase III development; Prior to that, employed by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals working in sales, marketing, and business strategy positions. Mr. Pastor has also served as Vice President of Corporate Development for the pharmacy benefit management company Prescription Delivery Systems (acquired by Cigna Health Insurance); MBA, Temple University; BS, Pharmacy, Rutgers University

Terri Jay is an Internationally acclaimed Medium, Intuitive, Pet Psychic, Horse Whisperer, Energy Healer and more. She is also renowned as a medical and veterinary intuitive. She regularly communicates with both people and pets on the Other Side, particularly when helping people deal with the loss of a loved  one. Terri also has the unique ability to communicate with people who have communication disorders such as autism, Alzheimer’s, traumatic brain injuries, coma, etc. Her ability to help people to heal themselves from chronic and“terminal” diseases has helped thousands of people to lead normal lives.

Terri’s love of horses has always figured strongly in her vocations. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she remembers being drawn to horses at an early age. She began riding lessons and by age 16, she was showing horses on a Class A circuit as a junior rider and also taught riding locally. She went on to attend Ohio State University where she studied Animal Science. By the mid 1970s, Terri had moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she started a free, horseback therapy program for disabled children. In 1985, she moved to Reno to become the first Executive Director of the Nevada Commission for the Preservation of Wild Horses, a position she held until 1990 when she decided once again to offer a horseback therapy program. It was during this time that she discovered her gift for intuitive communication with disabled children that soongrew to include horses, other animals and the deceased.

Terri has always been in front of the media spotlight for her therapeutic riding program, which received local and national coverage. She went on to appear on countless television news shows for her intuitive work, in national and international magazines and newspapers and on the TV series “Texas Justice” as an expert witness. She recently appeared on the “Steve Harvey Show.” She will be playing herself in a feature-length movie coming out later this year. Terri is presently working on publishing several books about her abilities and is also developing several television shows for the future.

Our speaker is Dinesh Kashikar, lovingly known as Kashiji or Kashi. He is a senior faculty member who has been with the Art of Living Foundation since 1995. Driven by his passion to serve and inspired by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Kashi has traveled the world teaching Art of Living courses to an estimated half a million people, specializing in Sri Sri Yoga & Vedic Wisdom programs. Kashiji is a certified Yoga Alliance teacher, holding their highest level of accreditation. He has also served as the coordinator for the Sri Veda Agama Samskrutha Mahapatahasala, an Art of Living heritage school and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Vedic Dharma Sansthan, spearheading the delivery of Art Of Living’s Vedic wisdom programs, Kashiji has a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Mumbai and has many diverse interests including sports, music, theater and books.

Jana Shiloh brings 34 years of homeopathy practice to Cosmic LOVE, and we’ll be discussing Jana’s unique path towards mastery of the homeopathic method, her book “HeartFusion™- The Magic of Imprinting Water”, and how you can create your own homeopathic remedies for your pets if not yourself and loved ones.

Jana helped to found one of the first schools in homeopathy in California “The Pacific Academy of Homeopathic Medicine” in 1988. She was named “Honorary Homeopathic Clinical Associate” by Dr. Ronald Davey, Physician to the Queen of England in 1990.

In 1992, Jana taught Post Graduate courses at the University of AZ Medical School, and has also taught homeopathy in Colorado, India and Sedona.

Currently, Jana practices homeopathy at Choices Integrated Healthcare with Dr. Devin Mikles in Sedona, and also privately. She is nationally certified in classical homeopathy
 
Jana has creatively expanded her work to include special frequency essences for spiritual development including one from the fur and milk of a pure DNA tested white buffalo.
 
You’ll also find Jana’s latest research on pet communication fascinating. As the veil thins, new awareness grins and ESP wins:)

Welcome Jana Shiloh to Cosmic LOVE with your Presence,
 
Christopher Rudy
 
PS: Watch a new video on the history of homeopathy and modern medicine HERE.

Energetic Tools to protect and boost a person's subtle energy fields

What are subtle energy fields?

Why is it important to keep these energies balanced? → “energetic health”  

What is “True Health”?  Does Health mean pain free??

Werner Brandmaier, Dipl.Ing., a native of Austria, has an engineering background and more than 10 years of experience in the high tech medical field. After helping his spouse recover fully from cancer, he began to expand his practice of traditional Feng Shui towards energetic principles of true health..In 2000 he founded the Institute of Feng Shui & Geopathology in Portland, Maine, with the intent to raise awareness about Geopathic Stress in the US. In his full time practice Werner integrates traditional schools of Feng Shui and Western forms of dowsing and Geopathology. He teaches seminars and workshops all over the country and is a member of the International Feng Shui Guild and the American Society of Dowsers. 

Application of energetic's tools to protect and bust your subtle energy fields,

Environment

Land

Technology

People 

SHLOMO SAND was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity.

Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently is Emeritus Professor History at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, L’Illusion du politique: Georges Sorel et le débat intellectuel 1900, Georges Sorel en son temps, Le XXe siècle à l'écran and Les Mots et la terre: les intellectuels en Israël. His current book is How I Stopped Being a Jew.

ABOUT 'How I Stopped Being A Jew' by Professor Shlomo Sand

How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.

Extract from 'How I Stopped Being a Jew':

During the first half of the 20th century, my father abandoned Talmudic school, permanently stopped going to synagogue, and regularly expressed his aversion to rabbis. At this point in my own life, in the early 21st century, I feel in turn a moral obligation to break definitively with tribal Judeocentrism. I am today fully conscious of having never been a genuinely secular Jew, understanding that such an imaginary characteristic lacks any specific basis or cultural perspective, and that its existence is based on a hollow and ethnocentric view of the world. Earlier I mistakenly believed that the Yiddish culture of the family I grew up in was the embodiment of Jewish culture. A little later, inspired by Bernard Lazare, Mordechai Anielewicz, Marcel Rayman and Marek Edelman – who all fought antisemitism, nazism and Stalinism without adopting an ethnocentric view – I identified as part of an oppressed and rejected minority. In the company, so to speak, of the socialist leader Léon Blum, the poet Julian Tuwim and many others, I stubbornly remained a Jew who had accepted this identity on account of persecutions and murderers, crimes and their victims.

Now, having painfully become aware that I have undergone an adherence to Israel, been assimilated by law into a fictitious ethnos of persecutors and their supporters, and have appeared in the world as one of the exclusive club of the elect and their acolytes, I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew.

Although the state of Israel is not disposed to transform my official nationality from “Jew” to “Israeli”, I dare to hope that kindly philosemites, committed Zionists and exalted anti-Zionists, all of them so often nourished on essentialist conceptions, will respect my desire and cease to catalogue me as a Jew. As a matter of fact, what they think matters little to me, and still less what the remaining antisemitic idiots think. In the light of the historic tragedies of the 20th century, I am determined no longer to be a small minority in an exclusive club that others have neither the possibility nor the qualifications to join.

By my refusal to be a Jew, I represent a species in the course of disappearing. I know that by insisting that only my historical past was Jewish, while my everyday present (for better or worse) is Israeli, and finally that my future and that of my children (at least the future I wish for) must be guided by universal, open and generous principles, I run counter to the dominant fashion, which is oriented towards ethnocentrism.

As a historian of the modern age, I put forward the hypothesis that the cultural distance between my great-grandson and me will be as great or greater than that separating me from my own great-grandfather. All the better! I have the misfortune of living now among too many people who believe their descendants will resemble them in all respects, because for them peoples are eternal – a fortiori a race-people such as the Jews.

I am aware of living in one of the most racist societies in the western world. Racism is present to some degree everywhere, but in Israel it exists deep within the spirit of the laws. It is taught in schools and colleges, spread in the media, and above all and most dreadful, in Israel the racists do not know what they are doing and, because of this, feel in no way obliged to apologise. This absence of a need for self-justification has made Israel a particularly prized reference point for many movements of the far right throughout the world, movements whose past history of antisemitism is only too well known.

To live in such a society has become increasingly intolerable to me, but I must also admit that it is no less difficult to make my home elsewhere. I am myself a part of the cultural, linguistic and even conceptual production of the Zionist enterprise, and I cannot undo this. By my everyday life and my basic culture I am an Israeli. I am not especially proud of this, just as I have no reason to take pride in being a man with brown eyes and of average height. I am often even ashamed of Israel, particularly when I witness evidence of its cruel military colonisation, with its weak and defenceless victims who are not part of the “chosen people”.

Earlier in my life I had a fleeting utopian dream that a Palestinian Israeli should feel as much at home in Tel Aviv as a Jewish American does in New York. I struggled and sought for the civil life of a Muslim Israeli in Jerusalem to be similar to that of the Jewish French person whose home is in Paris. I wanted Israeli children of Christian African immigrants to be treated as the British children of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent are in London. I hoped with all my heart that all Israeli children would be educated together in the same schools. Today I know that my dream is outrageously demanding, that my demands are exaggerated and impertinent, that the very fact of formulating them is viewed by Zionists and their supporters as an attack on the Jewish character of the state of Israel, and thus as antisemitism.

However, strange as it may seem, and in contrast to the locked-in character of secular Jewish identity, treating Israeli identity as politico-cultural rather than “ethnic” does appear to offer the potential for achieving an open and inclusive identity. According to the law, in fact, it is possible to be an Israeli citizen without being a secular “ethnic” Jew, to participate in its “supra-culture” while preserving one’s “infra-culture”, to speak the hegemonic language and cultivate in parallel another language, to maintain varied ways of life and fuse different ones together. To consolidate this republican political potential, it would be necessary, of course, to have long abandoned tribal hermeticism, to learn to respect the Other and welcome him or her as an equal, and to change the constitutional laws of Israel to make them compatible with democratic principles.

Most important, if it has been momentarily forgotten: before we put forward ideas on changing Israel’s identity policy, we must first free ourselves from the accursed and interminable occupation that is leading us on the road to hell. In fact, our relation to those who are second-class citizens of Israel is inextricably bound up with our relation to those who live in immense distress at the bottom of the chain of the Zionist rescue operation. That oppressed population, which has lived under the occupation for close to 50 years, deprived of political and civil rights, on land that the “state of the Jews” considers its own, remains abandoned and ignored by international politics. I recognise today that my dream of an end to the occupation and the creation of a confederation between two republics, Israeli and Palestinian, was a chimera that underestimated the balance of forces between the two parties.

Increasingly it appears to be already too late; all seems already lost, and any serious approach to a political solution is deadlocked. Israel has grown used to this, and is unable to rid itself of its colonial domination over another people. The world outside, unfortunately, does not do what is needed either. Its remorse and bad conscience prevent it from convincing Israel to withdraw to the 1948 frontiers. Nor is Israel ready to annex the occupied territories officially, as it would then have to grant equal citizenship to the occupied population and, by that fact alone, transform itself into a binational state. It’s rather like the mythological serpent that swallowed too big a victim, but prefers to choke rather than to abandon it.

Does this mean I, too, must abandon hope? I inhabit a deep contradiction. I feel like an exile in the face of the growing Jewish ethnicisation that surrounds me, while at the same time the language in which I speak, write and dream is overwhelmingly Hebrew. When I find myself abroad, I feel nostalgia for this language, the vehicle of my emotions and thoughts. When I am far from Israel, I see my street corner in Tel Aviv and look forward to the moment I can return to it. I do not go to synagogues to dissipate this nostalgia, because they pray there in a language that is not mine, and the people I meet there have absolutely no interest in understanding what being Israeli means for me.

In London it is the universities and their students of both sexes, not the Talmudic schools (where there are no female students), that remind me of the campus where I work. In New York it is the Manhattan cafes, not the Brooklyn enclaves, that invite and attract me, like those of Tel Aviv. And when I visit the teeming Paris bookstores, what comes to my mind is the Hebrew book week organised each year in Israel, not the sacred literature of my ancestors.

My deep attachment to the place serves only to fuel the pessimism I feel towards it. And so I often plunge into despondency about the present and fear for the future. I am tired, and feel that the last leaves of reason are falling from our tree of political action, leaving us barren in the face of the caprices of the sleepwalking sorcerers of the tribe. But I cannot allow myself to be completely fatalistic. I dare to believe that if humanity succeeded in emerging from the 20th century without a nuclear war, everything is possible, even in the Middle East. We should remember the words of Theodor Herzl, the dreamer responsible for the fact that I am an Israeli: “If you will it, it is no legend.”

As a scion of the persecuted who emerged from the European hell of the 1940s without having abandoned the hope of a better life, I did not receive permission from the frightened archangel of history to abdicate and despair. Which is why, in order to hasten a different tomorrow, and whatever my detractors say, I shall continue to write.

Inspirational Speaker, Wealth Coach, & Best-selling Author

Born in Seattle, grew up on South Whidbey Island, founded the Brimstone fireworks company in college, shut down by the ATF my junior year in 1990.

Spent 3 years as a sous chef at a Greek restaurant, won the first computer pinball world tournament in 1994, hired by a PC game publisher in Boulder Colorado the same year, played computer games for a living until 1997. Stayed in the Boulder technology sector ever since.

Never married, never had kids. Most of my extensive free time is spent trying to unravel the hidden truths of our civilization, and the never ending search for the meaning of life itself. If I had to pick a single motto, it would be, "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst". A close second is, "Don't regret what you've done, regret what you haven't".

Contact me at  msargent23@comcast.net

TIM TAKARO MD is a physician-scientist trained in occupational and environmental medicine, public health and toxicology, at Yale, the University of North Carolina and University of Washington. His research is primarily directed toward the links between human exposures and disease, and determining public health based preventive solutions to such risks. His work includes use of biological and other markers for medical surveillance, exposure assessment, and disease susceptibility with a focus on immunologic lung disease, human health and war, clinical occupational and environmental health and population resiliency in the health effects of climate change. Current research on human health and climate change focus on water quality in BC communities and building and mapping watershed resilience in Nicaragua. Current research collaborations include projects in India, Iraq, Mongolia, Nicaragua, the U.S. and Canada.

In March 2015, Dr. Takaro was awarded with the President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability at Simon Fraser University.

Why Age is just a Number?

Reverse the aging process

Learn easy steps to make healthy changes

First 3 callers will get 30-minute online consultation with Chris 

Chris been before on the show talking about :

Life Changing Fitness

Chris Cray is the founder of Total Body Fitness Personal Training company (1998) with a holistic approach to fitness. Chris has been involved in fitness for over 30 years as a College Athlete, Strength & Conditioning Coach, Teacher, Personal Trainer and Research Development Coordinator. He has developed programs with success for multiple populations including athletes, corporate groups, amputees, stroke victims, terminally obese, those suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, and much more. Growing up as an obese child with family members suffering from diabetes, Chris is motivated to help others to achieve a healthier and happier lifestyle.

This call is dedicated to bringing awareness how fitness can change your life and your lifestyle.

We will talk what is the #1 step that Chris is using that is making the difference to achieve the end result.

Why New Years resolutions don't work, make you disappointed ,why you give up and how you can make it work

We will talk about different Myths that people use and what is holding them back...so if you STRUGGLE yourself and you feel stuck and disappointed with fitness and how is not working for you this show may help you to get some answers. So bring your questions and ask Chris! 

Big Lucky Band

It was a vintage swing night in Hollywood, and the freewheeling, speakeasy spirit of the roaring ‘20s was making the dancers crowd the floor. On the stand, torch songstress Val Peterson was at the mic, singing a tune that would have made the Great Gatsby proud. That’s when he walked in. Paul Frederick: composer, arranger, musician. In his hand, a weathered, black case. In the case, a clarinet.

“Who plays clarinet, anymore?” Peterson thought as she watched Frederick assemble his axe to sit in with the band. “Who sings like that, anymore?” Frederick thought to himself as he put a reed on his horn and listened to Peterson finish a chorus. They nodded at each other, and he started to play. With just a few notes coaxed from the licorice stick, Peterson had her answer.

In such moments bands are born. Call it lucky. Call it Big Lucky…

As fans of classic songwriters and performers – Porter, Berlin, Fitzgerald, Shaw – Peterson and Frederick bonded instantly that night in Hollywood, and Big Lucky was born. From there, they set out to evangelize the greatest music of the past, but with a hipster chic style that’s all their own.

Whether performing as a trio or tearing the roof off with a full, 18-piece orchestra, Big Lucky has been wowing audiences and critics from their native Los Angeles all the way to Paris and Budapest with their unique, retro-lounge swing and glamorous sound.

In 20xx they caught the well-tuned ear of NAME, a vintage and rare Gatsby-era jazz connoisseur who commissioned the band to create their album, “The Venture Capital Follies of 1929.” To summon the speakeasy flavor of the roaring ‘20s, Frederick drew upon his skills as a composer/arranger to create original arrangements for a full dance band while Peterson studied 100s of period recordings to capture just the right sass and flavor.

Critics praised the album’s attention to detail, its superlative sound quality, and the excellent musicianship. The album led to Big Lucky’s first appearance at the famed Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles and guest spots on HBO’s hit shows, “Entourage” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Recently, the band inked a deal to create original songs with their patented, vintage ‘20s lounge flavor for international music library XYZ. They’re also hard at work recording their follow-up album. “Around the World with Big Lucky.” Blending the band’s love of 1950’s and ‘60’s movie themes, Peterson’s unique ability to sing in five languages, and the virtuoso accordion stylings of Nick Ariondo, the new album promises music fans a whirlwind tour of continental, folk, and gypsy sounds served up ala “martini chic.”

With the finest touring and studio musician in Los Angeles behind them, Peterson and Frederick’s Big Lucky brings the best in jazz, standards, swing, pop, and lounge to discriminating music fans the world over.