Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Bernhard Guenther grew up in Munich, Germany. He moved to California in 1994 to study drums and percussion at the ‘Percussion Institute of Technology’ (PIT), Los Angeles. His exploration into rhythm and music became a journey of self-discovery and healing which led him to bodywork and the Healing Arts.
Being emotionally sensitive and battling depression throughout his early life, Bernhard faced his shadow and fears. His personal healing process inspired him to explore the mysteries and hidden knowledge surrounding our planet and humanity’s origins, questioning the roots of what constitutes “reality”, and how social (and spiritual) conditioning impacts upon our collective and individual search for truth, fulfillment and happiness in all aspects of life.
Over the course of his life Bernhard has studied various healing modalities and graduated from the ‘Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing’ (IPSB) in Los Angeles and the ‘Esalen Institute’ in Big Sur, essentially developing his own unique style of Integrative Bodywork as a licensed certified Massage Therapist (Certified Esalen® Massage and Deep Bodywork® Therapist).
His journey over the past 20 years has also led him to the study and practice of Yoga, Qi Gong, Dance, Psychology, Astrology, Mythology, Shamanism, as well as various spiritual and ancient esoteric teachings.
Bernhard feels that in order to make a shift in consciousness, we need to do the work to separate truth from lies, both within and without; and to bring the darkness to light whilst making the shadow conscious, so that we can truly heal, evolve, and grow, living up to our full soul potential and aligning with our individual purpose.
All of these values are pursued in order to achieve humanity’s collective emancipation, which involves every individual becoming fully-embodied sovereign Beings, playing our unique parts in this evolution of the heart-space, anchoring a higher frequency of love and compassion for self and others.
CLASSIC ROCK LEGENDS
'THE BABYS'
An Interview with Guitarist Wally Stocker
Wally Stocker, born in England, is perhaps best known as the lead guitarist with The Babys. Wally’s distinct style, reminiscent of Paul Kossoff (Free), gave The Babys a distinct, recognizable sound. That sound has found its way back home with the reforming of The Babys!
When The Babys disbanded in 1981 Wally toured with Rod Stewart and Air Supply, as well as Humble Pie – Featuring Jerry Shirley, Jimmy Barnes and Zoomer.
Wally recently made the cross-country move from Florida back to California! We welcome him back with open arms and huge smiles.
With Les Paul in hand – and trusty Marshall stack at his back, Wally is back where he belongs!
The Babys are a rock group best known for their songs “Isn’t It Time” and “Every Time I Think of You“. Both songs reached #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1970s. The 1976–1978 Babys line-up consisted of keyboardist/guitarist Michael Corby, vocalist/bassist John Waite, drummer Tony Brock and guitarist Wally Stocker.
After Corby left the band in August 1978, a replacement was sought and the company brought in two musicians: Jonathan Cain as keyboardist and Ricky Phillips to take over as bassist. From 1979 until the breakup in 1981, The Babys line-up consisted of vocalist Waite, drummer Brock, bassist Phillips, guitarist Stocker, and keyboardist Cain.
After the breakup, John Waite went on to produce a major solo hit, “Missing You“, and continues to be a solo artist today. Jonathan Cain left to join Journey. John Waite, Jonathan Cain and Ricky Phillips formed Bad English in the late 1980s. Ricky Phillips currently plays for Styx. Wally Stocker and Tony Brock (together and separately) worked with Rod Stewart and other mainstream artists including Elton John, Air Supply, Keith Urban and Humble Pie.
In late 2012, auditions were held to find suitable replacements for the departed members. Joining original Babys Tony Brock and Wally Stocker, are John Bisaha (Lead Vocals/Bass) and Joey Sykes (Guitars). The new lineup have played numerous shows over the past year to great crowds and reviews – while pushing forward with new music to be brought to The Babys FANS – who have been sorely neglected low these many years! The new album – I’ll Have Some of That – was released worldwide on June 24, 2014.
Joining The Babys onstage are “The Babettes’ – Holly Bisaha and Elisa Chadbourne, along with keyboardists Francesco Saglietti and Brian Johnson.
The Band is about to release a new video for “Not Ready to Say Goodbye” very soon!
The Babys bring a full sound and look that has not been seen on the ‘scene’ in MANY years!
Visit The Babys official website for current tour dates and latest news at https://www.thebabysofficial.com/
The Babys on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheBabysOfficial/
The Babys on Twitter https://twitter.com/TweetTheBabys/
Purchase The Babys most recent release entitled 'I'll Have Some of That!' at amazon.com
Michelle Edhouse has always thought of herself as a normal middle class girl with an engineering/mathematical brain, but she always knew there was more available than what she saw those around her choosing.
You could say she was always seeking. Meditation, palmistry, Amway and Avatar where just some of the places she looked to find what else may be possible.
When she heard about Access Consciousness and read what she could find online there was such a lightness about it she rang a facilitator and said "I want to do this class". Since then her and her husband Glenn have done many of the Access Consciousness classes including the facilitator training.
"The changes have been subtle in some areas but profound in others. This ease I have with my children now is something I could never have imagined possible."
Michelle has used the tools and techniques in Access to open up possibilities in business and creativity by clearing out limitations and asking "what else is possible here?"
"When I did my first Access class my facilitator heard that I had done computers at Uni and said 'Oh you could build me a website then'. What about doing computers at Uni 12 years ago says I can build a website now? Ok lets put these tools to work."
Michelle and Glenn use the tools of Access Consciousness daily in all areas of life and in all their relationships (especially theirs and with their 2 children).
Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. Born in 1953, he attended Harvard starting in 1970 and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics. From September 1974 to June 1975 he was a graduate student in physics at MIT.
He worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT from 1971 to 1984, learning operating system development by doing it, except for the year he was a graduate student. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1976, and developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance.
In 1983 Stallman announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement he also launched the Free Software Movement.
Stallman began working on this project on January 5, 1984, resigning from MIT employment in order to do so. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation, of which he is president as a full-time volunteer. Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system: the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.
The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also contains the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important, and even include nonfree software in those systems.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license, which implements copyleft.
Stallman gives speeches frequently about free software and related topics. Common speech titles include "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software movement", "The Dangers of Software Patents", and "Copyright and Community in the Age of the Computer Networks". A fourth common topic consists of explaining the changes in version 3 of the GNU General Public License, which was released in June 2007. Another topic is "A Free Digital Society", which treats several different threats to the freedom of computer users today.
In 1999, Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.
Stallman is officially a Visiting Scientist at MIT.
Free Software, Free Society is Stallman's book of essays. His semiautobiography, Free as in Freedom, provides further biographical information.
- 1986: Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
- 1990: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
- 1996: Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
- 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
- 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
- 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
- 2001: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Glasgow
- 2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership
- 2003: Doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 2003: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú
- 2004: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina
- 2004: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
- 2005: Fondazione Pistoletto prize
- 2007: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru
- 2007: First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre
- 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, in Peru
- 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Pavia
- 2008: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru
- 2009: Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University in Canada
- 2011: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina
- 2012: Honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru
- 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru
- 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrión, in Peru
- 2013: Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
- 2014: Doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University in Canada
- 2015: Doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas in Peru.
- 2016: The Association for Computing Machinery's Software and Systems Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.
Meet Ron Finley, a man who will not sit still and watch a problem take root. Having grown up in the South Los Angeles food prison, Ron is familiar with the area’s lack of fresh produce. He knew what it’s like to drive 45 minutes just to get a fresh tomato.
In 2010, he set out to fix the problem. Outside his front door, that is. Ron planted vegetables in the curbside dirt strip next to his home. And quietly, carefully, tenderly started a revolution. I wanted a carrot without toxic ingredients I didn’t know how to spell, says Ron.
His was an exceptionally creative, cost-effective and simple solution; however, it was also an act of spirited rebellion that led to a run-in with the authorities.
The City of Los Angeles owns the “parkways” the neglected dirt areas next to roads where Ron was planting. He was cited for gardening without a permit. This slap on the wrist did little to dissuade his green thumb. So Ron fought back. Hard. He started a petition with fellow green activists, demanding the right to garden and grow food in his neighborhood and then, the city backed off.
This caught the eyes of creative leaders and media voices that lauded his courageous act of ebullient defiance. Ron has continued to share his story and vision with the world, giving a TED talk and planning many exciting ways to continue his involvement in mitigating Los Angeles food prisons.
His dreams have been reshaped into a thriving garden of pumpkins, peppers, sunflowers, kale and corn. But more than being a gangsta gardener, Ron is a community leader.
Determined to change South Los Angeles from food desert to food forest, he wants his actions to be educational, inspiring, and nutritious. He wants kids to grow up with the option of healthy food, instead of fried, fattening staples. He wants to sweep up and transform his street, his hood, the city of LA and communities everywhere.
Besides his community leadership helping people to understand and become involved with gardening leading to better nutrition, Ron owns his own clothing business called "Dropdead Collexion". He has designed clothes for NBA players, Saks Fifth Avenue and Marcus Neiman among many others. He has also been featured on a number of TV and radio shows, a speaker at events, as well as profiled in publications like Reader's Digest, Millenial Magazine, and Aquaponics. Ron is also a recepient of the “Natural American Heroes Award” from Natural News.
ABOUT THE 'RON FINLEY PROJECT'...
Ron is realizing his vision for community gardening and rejuvenation. Let’s grow this seed of urban gangsta gardening into a school of nourishment and change. Help spread his dream of edible gardens, one city at a time.
It’s time for Americans to learn to transform food deserts to food forests. Help them learn to regenerate their lands into creative business models. Let’s make Ron’s philosophy mushroom across the country, and the world.
In part of this effort, Ron is planning to build an urban garden in South Central LA that will serve as an example of a well-balanced, fruit-and-veggie oasis called “HQ”.
Inspired by the idea of turning unused space such as parkways and vacant lots into fruitful endeavors, this garden and gathering place will be a community hub, where people learn about nutrition and join together to plant, work and unwind.
HQ will create a myriad of jobs for local residents, and this plot of land will be a self-sufficient ecosystem of gardening, education, cooking, business learning and management. The community will get their hands dirty together, shovel together, work together and be healthy together.
Dr. Jean Logan is an ordained minister, has a doctorate in Nutritional Healing and has an extensive knowledge of many types of energy healing. Jean is the author of “Unlocking the Power of Glyphs,” “Sacred Symbols of Light,” “Symbols of the Dawn” and recently released “Sacred Symbols Healing Cards.” Her books are now in over 80 countries with all profits going to a provide services to indigenous children through her nonprofit Holy Ground Farm, Inc. Her books are available through Amazon.com
Gail Minogue is a published authority in the symbolic relationship of numbers to our lives, with solid experience as a commodities broker since 1987 and a history of offering visionary viewpoints on world events. Minogue combines many disciplines to deliver wise perspectives coupled with practical understanding of trends and events---past, present and future.
Through the use of Sacred Geometry, Hermetic laws, cyclical data and leveraging proven developmental patterns in diverse areas, Gail is able to bridge the two worlds. Gail helps organizations and individuals remain thought leaders and top achievers. Clients have included major law firms, Caldwell Banker, The Boston Consulting Group, Women in Real Estate (WIRE), the Welfare to Work Program of Chicago, multiple non-profits, as well as key executives, business owners and numerous civic organizations.
Gail is the author of “Divine Design—How You Created the Life You Are Living”. In addition to media appearances on CNN, ABC and Charter Communications, she has produced the DVD, “The New World Renaissance”.
Gail’s talks have included “The Invisible System”, “The USA and Our True Role”, The Extreme Makeover”, the “Rise in Power of Middle-Aged Women” and “How Numbers Empower Your Life—Understanding your blue print, universal numbers and patterns.”
Services/products offered: Book and CD Sales, Private Consultations, Workshops and Speaker Platform
Workshop on “The Rise in Power Of Middle-Aged Women”, August 20th, Santa Ana, CA 10 am to 1 pm. 800-600-0256
Howard is the Executive Vice President of HeartMath® LLC. He is an internationally sought after speaker on the HeartMath approach to advancing human performance based on compelling scientific research linking heart function with health, emotional well-being and intelligence.
Howard Martin brings more than 30 years of experience in business and personal development to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategic Development.
Howard's responsibilities include global alliances, marketing, and program and product development.
He has been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre, founder of HeartMath, in the development and teaching of HeartMath's programs since its inception.
Howard is one of the co-authors of the ground-breaking book Heart Intelligence, Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart.
He is also co-author with Doc Childre of The HeartMath Solution, published by Harper San Francisco. He also developed Nightingale-Conant's tape series, The HeartMath Method.
Howard is a key spokesperson for HeartMath and has conducted hundreds of news media and documentary film interviews including CNN Headline News, ABC Good Morning America, and ABC World New Tonight.
Dick Summer is a story teller.... as stated in the (New York Daily News)
Dick Summer has one of America's most comfortable and familiar voices. He was a top radio personality on the NBC Radio Network in New York City and Boston. Dick is now heard every day on national radio and television commercials. He is also a pilot, a poet, and a hypnotist. He created Quiet Decisions in New York City where he used hypnosis to help people heal. His five highly successful "Lovin Touch" books were published by Random House and Bantam Books. His current best seller is, "Staying Healthy, Happy, and Hot."
Would you like 1,000 monks praying for you? My two guests today have developed technology to give you an energy that is comparable and will raise your vibrations/consciousness. Meet Jeffrey Stegman and Clayton Stedmann.
Jeffrey Stegman’s focus has been on creating a high consciousness culture in his businesses, which parallels his own personal spiritual path. Jeffrey is the co-owner of two manufacturing businesses, including one that has been in business since 1835. FLFE is a confluence of Jeffrey’s manufacturing, engineering, business and spiritual evolution.
Clayten Stedmann has worked in the education, training and coaching business for over 30 years. For the last 20 years he has focused on business as a spiritual path in his coaching practice. Since discovering Consciousness Kinesiology (CK) in 2004 he has done over five million CK calibrations and created over 10 consciousness assessments and several unique energetic medicine protocols. FLFE is a continuation of his purposeful intention to create the conditions for humanity to have a higher level of consciousness.
Focused Life Force (FLFE Innovations Corp) is a service company providing a subscription to greatly increase the level of consciousness of a property and around a mobile object to a very noticeable and beneficial level and provides a free trial so that people can feel it themselves.
For centuries people have been making pilgrimages to places around the world known for their cleansing, healing, restoring and loving energy. The highest aspects of this energy can be expressed on the spiritual path and also by being a loving parent, a devoted husband or wife, a hobbyist gardener, a full-time farmer, a dedicated photographer, a steadfast employee and a business owner.
For almost as long people have been working on ways to re-create and harness this energy through study and inventions. People such as Albert Einstein, Nikola Telsa, Masaru Emoto and Buckminster Fuller are just of a few of the better known of hundreds of researchers who understood that perhaps the greatest contribution to humanity’s evolution that we can make is to raise our own consciousness and sought ways to accelerate that process.
The study of atoms and later quantum physics confirmed what ancient spiritual teachers had been stating for centuries; ‘the law of nature states that everything has a vibration.’ Today most of us use terms like ‘ I do/don’t like the energy or vibe of that room, business or person.’
As humanity evolves new ways of measuring these vibrations emerge. A recent discovery has made it easier to measure vibration in everyday life in order to facilitate positive changes in people’s level of consciousness.
In the latter half of the 20th Century, a very successful psychiatrist, David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., after treating thousands of patients, began to see common levels of thinking, feeling and acting. He realized that people’s challenges and advances depend on their level of consciousness. He first outlined a scale measuring levels of consciousness or vibration, named the ‘Hawkins Map of Consciousness’, in his New York Times bestselling book ‘Power Versus Force’ (1995). Hawkins, along with a group of researchers, over a period of more than twenty-five years, used kinesiology to measure the level of consciousness in everything they could imagine; people, books, music, events, countries, locations.
Hawkins documented these consciousness levels in a scale from 1 to 1,000. On this scale 200 is the level above which we begin to add energy to everything around us. Below 200 we are net consumers of energy. A few of these levels are: Shame, which vibrates at 20, Fear is 100, Courage is 200, Acceptance is 350 and Love is 500. Enlightenment levels range from 600 to 1000. Today tens of thousands of Hawkins students and practitioners in multiple disciplines use the Hawkins Map to measure and effect change in quality of life and personal evolution.
In 2008 two men met through a mutual friend. They were both working on accessing and utilizing high consciousness fields. Jeffery Stegman was creating high consciousness fields and cultures in business and Clayten Stedmann, as a coach in business as a spiritual path, was creating high consciousness fields for healing the human mind, body and spirit.
They came together with an inventor who had devoted his life to creating free energy for humanity. Although he did not create a free energy device, He had discovered a way to re-direct and focus large amounts of life force energy (also known as subtle energy) on an object.
Between Jeff’s experience in engineering and Clayten’s knowledge and extensive practice in Consciousness Kinesiology and the Hawkins Map they re-engineered the original device to broadcast a high consciousness wave to specific locations around the world. At first, Clayten and Jeffrey used the device and associated technology to raise consciousness around the world as a public service project. As they were able to increase the power available and the ability to positively affect a property, they brought the consciousness raising technology to the public as ‘Focused Life-Force Energy’ (FLFE). FLFE Innovations Corp was formed in Nelson B.C., Canada to create the infrastructure to offer the service and to support customers on the FLFE wave.
Today after an additional 8 years of research and hundreds customers and testimonials Jeffrey and Clayten are beginning the process of increasing public awareness of this unique consciousness raising technology. FLFE Innovations Corp offers a monthly FLFE subscription on a property or on a mobile object (FLFE Mobile, also known as the FLFE Bubble). The technology associates (entangles) the FLFE device with an address or photograph of an object using custom developed software integrated with the FLFE device and creates the FLFE wave that works with the property or object. The FLFE wave will clear negative history (on a property), raise consciousness and increase greatly the positive energy available for people and animals on the property or in a specific radius around the FLFE Mobile Object, as well as many other enhancements.
Kara Johnstad is a 'voice visionary' who grew up as a songwriter in Berlin Germany. Kara’s spring debut on Cosmic LOVE (April 16th show) featured her extraordinary voice with this music video, MESSAGE OF HOPE: https://youtu.be/72kuAdiCvSQ
Kara is a fascinating guest with mystical insight into voice dynamics through humming, toning and singing that opens the throat, liberates the voice and releases heart coherent energies.
Listen to Kara’s new July 16th song, WE HAVE A CHOICE at: https://youtu.be/66Om4pp_NCY
Kara utilizes Skype to provide voice tutoring to highly intelligent people worldwide who have lots of heart but haven’t found their voice.
The show today will go further into the science and spirit of the sacred word in frequency and form. Discover how an enlightened voice can not only upgrade one's heart-mind connection, but also, counterbalance the lower vibration of thousands who are stuck in negativity.
Welcome Kara Johnstad to Cosmic LOVE with Your Presence!
Dr. Pedroni is an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Policy Sociology and Director of the Detroit Data and Democracy Project. He teaches courses in critical education studies, curriculum studies, critical youth studies, and critical theory. A central concern in his teaching and research is the promotion of schools as sites in which youth develop the analytical skills and leadership qualities to identify and act upon problems that impact the community and region.
His current research examines educational and social inequality in relation to the post-welfarist educational policy complex of Detroit. Dr. Pedroni has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Teachers College Record and Urban Review, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes. His first book Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform (Routledge Critical Social Thought series) received the 2009 Critics’ Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
Mary Rodwell is a professional counsellor, hypnotherapist, ufologist researcher and metaphysician. Mary is the founder and Principal of ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network) and is recognised Internationally, as one of Australia's leading researchers in the UFO and Contact phenomenon. She is the Vice-President of Star Kids Project Ltd and an Advisory Committee member of Exopolitics.
She has lectured in the USA, Canada, Hawaii, UK and New Zealand and appears regularly in national and international media news programs such as the Australian documentary OZ Files, the BBC television program, Paranormal Files(UK) and Discovery Channel Animal X. She has also participated in a University debate forum on this phenomenon, in 2006 at Oxford University, UK.
Mary's research shows while many "Star Children" sometimes called "Indigo's" have telepathic abilities, and are spiritually awakened and describe seeing "Beings of Light" (angels or light beings), the main difference is that "Star Children" have recollections of encounters with extraterrestrial beings and of being taken aboard extraterrestrial spaceships. Mary's research also explores the evidence from scientific, medical, psychological, and historical perspective to support what she believes is a genetic engineering program, which is part of an upgrading of homo sapiens, and creating a paradigm shift in human consciousness, which these children demonstrate.
ACERN - Australian Close Encounter Research Network
Following is a brief history of the Perth-based UFO Abductee/Contactee Support Group , which was formed in late 1996. Its evolution has sparked interest not only from its participants, but also from organizations Australia-wide, the media and from overseas.
In 1996, a group of Western Australian UFO researchers decided to form a support group for those people who have had 'encounter' experiences. In ufology terms, these are called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind' and simply refer to anyone who believes he or she has had some contact or interaction with extraterrestrial life forms.
At this time, they had in mind at least one facilitator for the group. This was Elizabeth Robinson, a professional therapist/counsellor, trained in group work, who had had her own abduction/encounter experiences. When Mary Rodwell heard about the proposed support group, she contacted the UFO researchers and explained to them that she had already considered forming a support group for the growing number of such clients she was seeing in her counselling practice. Mary informed them of her qualifications and background and a meeting was arranged where Mary learnt that they had already formed an advisory committee which included a psychiatrist to ensure that a professional support group was formed. This was totally in line with Mary's view because, as she had spent ten years in the counselling field, having trained in the UK and had experience in group work, she understood the need to create a credible, professional support network.
It was arranged for Elizabeth and Mary to meet in December 1996, with the hope that they would work together. The goals were to provide a professional and supportive resource for all those abductees/contactees who needed it. This support group would offer total confidentiality, with the understanding that they would honour the clients’ experiences and support them emotionally and psychologically.
As both Mary and Elizabeth were keen to begin, they advertised the Abductee/Contactee Support Group in NOVA, Western Australia’s Holistic Journal in March 1997 and the following month. They obtained further publicity for the group by having two articles published in the May 1997 issue of NOVA. These were 'Counselling the Abductee', written by Mary and a 'A Secret Life Awakened', written by Elizabeth which was about her own encounter experiences.
Initially, fifteen individuals contacted them. A screening process was developed to assess what level of trauma was present. If someone was too severely traumatised, they felt it would not be helpful for them to attend the group immediately, but instead would provide them with one-to-one counselling support. They also wanted to be certain that people presented with the typical patterns associated with encounter experiences, because some individuals who have paranormal experiences that echo some aspects of the encounter experience, are not necessarily abductees/contactees.
Mary and Elizabeth also had enquiries from people who were interested in the phenomenon and wanted to attend the group out of curiosity. It was important to explain to them that this was a therapeutic support group that was only for abductee/encounter experiencers, where group privacy and confidentiality were paramount.
Eight people came to the first meeting, plus a psychologist, who attended as another professional to provide feedback. For many of them, meeting other experiencers was a total revelation. Despite the trepidation and anxiety some felt about coming, it was quite amazing that, once introductions had been made, the floodgates opened. By this, it is meant that they openly talked to each other about their experiences. It was as if the burden they had been carrying in silence and isolation had suddenly been lifted. Even during the coffee break the conversation continued almost without ceasing. Several individuals said they felt a real bond with some members of the group, even though they had never physically met before. It was if they already knew them.
Time and time again, with small variations, they were the typical abductee/contactees pattern. One young woman in her twenties, who was severely traumatised by her experiences, said it took tremendous courage for her to attend the meeting. She said afterwards how pleased she was that she had found the courage to come. "I had always dreamed of something like this, but never believed it would happen." This statement epitomised how valuable a support group is and confirms the need to continue with it.
It was clear that the needs of the group were not just about isolation and past experiences, but also for therapeutic support for on-going experiences. There is a desire by many abductees/contactees to try and make sense of this enigma, a desire to understand it and its meaning in their lives. This includes support for the paradigm shifts that many of them have to make.
One of the main stumbling blocks to any new venture is money. Mary and Elizabeth had no financial resources, so the support group has had to fund itself. There was no money for advertising. Some of the abductees/contactees said they would do their own publicity for the group, via word-of-mouth, but they had to find other ways to inform those people in isolation where they could find help. They did have some assistance with this from the local UFO researchers, who referred clients to them
They also had support of some periodicals from complementary fields that kindly advertised their Support Group free of charge. These were Astrally Yours and The Healing Circle. Although this advertising was very welcome, it did not inform the wider community. Soon it meant that they had to go public via media outlets such as magazines, newspapers, radio and television. To do this was hugely confronting for both Mary and Elizabeth. They were both professional people who had credibility in the conventional therapeutic world. They could not predict what the consequences would be both professionally, or personally. For Elizabeth, there was the added dimension of exposing herself as an abductee/contactee.
Both Mary and Elizabeth knew that with the media, much of the material would be sensationalised and put out of context. In fact, this did happen in several popular women's magazines who told their version of the story -often in lurid colour and with prose that resembled a horror script! With resignation Mary and Elizabeth finally subscribed to the saying: "All publicity is good publicity!"
Mary suspects they will struggle for credibility for some time. "It goes with the controversial nature of this phenomenon. Media exposure, no matter how lurid, can still reach those who are looking for help. For the open-minded in the community, it may just start them thinking. The close-minded, however will probably remain so. Even if a spaceship landed on their front lawn, they would probably want to deny it was there."
To date, the Support Group's exposure had been quite successful and has reached many of those in isolation with this experience. One letter received from a gentleman in his forties said: "Thank you so much for what you are doing, at last I now know I'm not mad!"
It was important to access more information from the professional therapeutic world and it was discovered that the USA had the most to offer in this respect. Mary contacted the PEER (Program for Extraordinary Experience Research) organisation president, Dr John Mack, who is a psychiatrist and the author of Abduction. This organisation invites professional therapists to share their information through newsletters and workshops.
The second resource was the Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists (ACCET) in Sacramento, California, a professional organization whose members are psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors and those in the therapeutic field who are working with abductees/contactees. ACCET run workshops worldwide. Mary became a clinician member of ACCET in 1997 and from their list of members has access to other therapists. It was with interest that to date, Mary counted one hundred and five members. Only recently, a gentleman from Hobart, Tasmania, was referred to her through ACCET. This proves that building contacts and networking is so important.
Moreover, as a result of the media publicity and amount of advertising that had been done, Mary and Elizabeth started to receive an increasing number of telephone calls from local psychologists, therapists, counsellors and others in the healing fields. So, in the latter part of 1997, they were invited to meet with Mary and Elizabeth to share in their understanding of the phenomena and to inform them of what they were doing. Mary and Elizabeth were delighted and heartened by their support and enthusiasm during the meeting and as a consequence, formed the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN).
The main aim of ACERN is to provide information, establish support groups, carry through professional referrals, raise the public's awareness about ACERN, network with organisations Australia-wide and overseas and to have a register of qualified professionals, counsellors and therapists who can provide the necessary support for those with encounter experiences. In fact, within such a short amount of time, the Abductee/Contactee Support Group has expanded its horizons into an organization, which now comprises representatives and support from several of the healing professions.
It was under the banner of ACERN that Mary and Elizabeth attended the Australian International UFO Symposium, in Brisbane in October 1997. Before their departure, they had three main aims, which were: to advertise ACERN, to network with other support groups and professional therapists and to gather the latest information. They were able to achieve much of the above and were delighted when one of the symposium speakers, Cecilia Dean, not only showed support and interest in their organization, but also advertised and spoke about it at the symposium and took the information back to America.
The trip had been extremely worthwhile and it had been very special for ACERN to meet so many well- informed individuals and be able to resource them for information. They also attended the Budd Hopkins' workshop for therapists and experiencers. Through this exchange, they received further validation that they were on the right track.
As the Abductee/Contactee Support Group celebrated its first anniversary in April 1998, over seventy individuals with abduction/contact experiences had contacted ACERN, as well as local and overseas therapists, researchers and UFO groups. The group continues to prosper, with many of the initial members saying how they now feel more confident and less isolated. Some have been courageous enough to go public. It has been an amazing group journey. The ages range from fourteen years to sixty, with more females than males. Some of the members support other family members who are experiencers, but do not attend the group. For some, it is their children who are having the experience. ACERN has heard from a broad section of society, including housewives, schoolchildren, farmers, labourers, university students, teachers and psychologists. The experience has also touched the Aboriginal, European and Asian cultures.
Most of those attending the group have on-going experiences. Meetings are held monthly and have a set agenda. Minutes are recorded for all meetings and then the members are invited to share any new experiences. Techniques or strategies are discussed and they share whatever is helpful, including their intuitive understanding of the experience. Resource material is discussed, including books and videos. If they need one-to-one support, they ask either at the meeting or later by phone. Apart from verbal discussion, strategies for integration such as drawing, meditation and written expression are encouraged. A 'buddy system' has been introduced and for the members, who wish to participate, it has been very helpful.
ACERN continues to explore opportunities to advertise, as their priority is to reach the many abductees/contactees out there which they believe may be having difficulty coping. It is important to say that of the many people who are having encounter experiences who have contacted ACERN, slightly less than a third are traumatised. Many people cope with this experience quite well and some say that it has been a very special experience, which has transformed their lives. They really believe it has opened them to a 'greater multi-dimensional reality'!
Awakening: How Et Contact Can Transform Your Life: How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life by Mary Rodwell
The new bible of the "abductee" phenomenon.
Up until now, the phemonon of alien abduction has been presented in a bleak, oppressive, threatening, and fear filled fashion. As we all "know", abductees are victims and counsellers help them cope.
But what if its not like that at all? What if its only our fear that makes us see this way? What if its our fear prevents us from seeing the truth? What if alien "abductions" are not about experimentation and probing but about spiritual awakening and galactic contact?
Sound fantastic?
This is just what Mary Rodwell, counsellor, registered nurse, and midwife, suggests in Awakenings. After working with over 900 experiencer (abductees) , Mary concludes that it is our fear that prevents us from seeing the truth and our fear that creates our terror. Once we overcome our fear, we see the phenemonon for what it really is.
It is past time that we shrugged off our fear of this amazing spiritual phenomenon. Let Mary help you overcome the fear and conditioning that prevents you from seeing the profound and beautiful truth.
There are ships on our horizon!
Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology and is the author of twenty-one books.
Her latest book is ‘The Book of Sacred Baths’ published by Llewellyn Worldwide. She is a certified life coach, author, teacher, relationship expert, and speaker.
She has a private practice in Manhattan and does coaching by phone.
Kaayla Vedder is an energy mover who has been practicing in the area of energy wellbeing for the last 20 years. She has been seeing and moving energy since she was three years old. Kaayla can actually see the energy and entities that are influencing a person when she focuses on them. This is how she is able to assist others instantly with issues they are ready to release.
A serious illness surfaced in 2007 that had Kaayla turn to Homeopathic Medicine and working on her own energy vibrations to empower her physical body to accept balanced health. She released the experience of the illness through the Kripa technique when Western Medicine failed to produce a helpful diagnosis.
After recovery a massive expansion in awareness and understanding of limitless vibrational increase of ones body and consciousness became clear to Kaayla. She is now able to move energy and clear energy blocks in her physical body and in her higher levels beyond mainstream belief. After realizing and successfully practicing this for herself she was then guided to assist others with energy clearing, activations and limitless expansion.
She started her practice in Pranic healing and her gifts of energy movement have grown into Kripa Quantum Healing.
Kaayla’s ability to move energy continues to expand as she practices the Kripa technique on herself and others. She practices Kripa Quantum Healing both in person and remotely for a variety of leaders. She bridges the gap between higher levels and the physical body with Divine Grace and the results are amazing – transforming lives, creating energy shifts and has been producing instant healing for those she serves. She loves life's dance more than ever!
Fresh out of high school, California native Craig Campobasso found himself working behind the scenes for four years on Frank Herbert’s Dune. The father and daughter producing team, Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis, and director David Lynch, were Craig’s mentors into the business of filmmaking. Raffaella later hired him on the popular Christmas movie Prancer, starring Sam Elliott, as a casting director after he apprenticed as a casting associate on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. Craig has been casting for more than two decades and was nominated for an Emmy for casting David E. Kelly’s Picket Fences. He is also an acting coach in the Los Angeles area.
Craig Campobasso's directorial debut "Stranger at the Pentagon" won Best Sci-Fi Short Film at the Burbank Film Festival in September 2014 and won a Remi award for Best Sc-Fi Short at the Houston Int'l Film Festival in 2015.
ABOUT "Stranger at the Pentagon"...
"Stranger at the Pentagon" is inspired by True Events from the book of the same name. It was first published in 1967. It remains a UFO classic to date.
Valiant Thor, a Created Being and Universal Envoy, met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 16, 1957. This human Angelic came with a divine design for mankind on how to eliminate sickness, disease and poverty. Eisenhower put the enlightened extraterrestrial on VIP status for three years. He lived in a Pentagon apartment three stories underground.
During his tenure, Thor experiences the aggressive government officials who are determined to get the blueprints to his Victor Class saucer, a technological wonder. Thor must also deal with a negative alien race trying to infiltrate Earth under the guise of friendship with the US government. While he circumvents all this, he comes in contact with the Empyrean, the leader of 13 men who make-up the SSS: the Secret Shadow Society--the men who really run the world from behind the corporate curtain. The Empyrean has liaisons across the universe with malevolent beings who have groomed him on how to stop Thor, and gain control of his powers; powers that can create anything at will and transport him anywhere with a mere thought.
Author Dr. Frank E. Stranges first met Commander Valiant Thor in December of 1959.
Andi Katsina is passionately dedicated to healing and changing the lives of teens and their parents, by bringing a fresh new story to bullying—having written the book Phat Girl & The Sankara Parasite, which has been called “the anti-bullying manifesto.” At one point in her life she woke up to the divine art of writing and has now written 20 books. She was called to share this special story as she became deeply concerned by the challenge of bullying and the sad numbers of teen suicide. Her book Phat Girl & The Sankara Parasite, tells a story that is healing, rare and will bring a new open loving discussion to this important subject.
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People call me Nanybel.
The following are “tags” that really don’t define who I am:
A Mom to 2 wonderful grown up sons who are my best friends and allies, an accomplished Portraiture Artist, a Certified announcer for radio and TV in Spanish, a certified Translator and Court Interpreter. I’m trilingual, have lived in 4 different countries, in 9 cities, and have traveled extensively around the World.
I’ve been married 4 times to very different men from different countries, religions and upbringings. And have also been divorced 4 times, but still believe in loving, committed relationships and in marriages! (You might think: how can that be possible?)
You see, such tags are just some of the things that I’ve done or achieved…
I am actually a persistent, caring, determined and self-motivated human being; I spent all my life editing myself to suit other people’s needs and expectations, to fit in my “inside-the-box” loving family, school and society’s traditions.
I’ve lived most of my life feeling like a butterfly whose wings were self-crippled, to be able to fly just enough to feel that I was OK, but not so high or long to be criticized or punished.
And my free-spirited me have felt trapped many times; but I’d talked myself into believing that that was the path, my mission, and that was it. I was wrong.
So now I am on a mission to speak up in a super frank, free and unedited way to debunk life and relationship myths, to give you tools you might not have, sharing with you all my life experiences, listening to yours, and do it while having fun!
Sabrina Risley is the Founder of CERTUS Professional Network, Denver’s longest standing grassroots networking organization, offering multiple networking events each month all along Colorado’s Front Range. Professionals find CERTUS a valuable community through which to meet well-connected business leaders and influencers, receive referrals, and get introduced to key resources, partners and new client prospects. Learn more about CERTUS Professional Network.
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Victoria C. Leo, has master’s degrees in both biology and psychology, as well as being certified in Hypnotherapy for Auto-Immune Diseases. She is a Holy Fire, Karuna, & Usui Reiki Master/Teacher. She has helped her client’s blast through barriers to their heart’s desire through her complete programs, for over 19 years. Her programs focus on the problems that most need “blasting away,” from weight and writer’s block, to finding one’s best and true path in life. Victoria loves to teach and offers a full lineup of webinars and live classes designed to dispel myths about the immune and other systems. Victoria is author of 101 Healthy Meals in 5 Minutes or Less, Journey Out of SAD: Beat the Seasonal Blues Now, Take Back Your Lost Heart: A Toolkit, and Salle and the Alien Invasion, all available on Amazon.
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