Craig Corrie, Co-Founder, Board Director and Treasurer for the, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice.

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she was kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent IDF forces from demolishing the home. The IDF stated that the death was due to the restricted angle of view of the IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer driver, while ISM eyewitnesses said "there was nothing to obscure the driver's view."

The day after Rachel's death, in a phone conversation Ariel Sharon promised President Bush a thorough, transparent and credible investigation of her death which Rachel's parents - Craig and Cindy felt never happened.

Craig and Cindy founded the Rachel Corrie Foundation in their daughter's memory as well as an attempt to bring attention to the injustice of her death and the cause for which she died - the human rights of the people of Palestine.

Still seeking justice, in 2010, the Corrie's brought a lawsuit against Israel regarding their daughter's death which is now on hold because of an Israeli lawyers' strike. But they continue to seek justice. As Craig put it: "The lawsuit has already in part succeeded in bringing attention to the sacrifice of our daughter."

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice is a grassroots, 501(c)3 non-profit organization that conducts and supports programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities. The foundation encourages and supports grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice, which we view as pre-requisites for world peace. Continuing the work begun and envisioned by our daughter, Rachel Corrie, our initial emphasis has been on Israel/Palestine.

Dr. Judith Boice, award winning author, international teacher, naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, has a special passion for working with wellness and women's health. Dr. Boice conducts seminars throughout North America teaching people how to apply the secrets in "But My Doctor Never Told Me That!": Secrets for Creating Lifelong Health to achieve their personal life and health goals.

Dr. Boice has also created"The High Level Wellness Program©" to support individuals in achieving their personal life and health goals. She designed the High Level Wellness Program© for patients who wanted to improve their health but were unsure of where or how to begin.

Other creative passions include photography, music, and gardening. Her photographs have appeared in several magazines and newspapers, Trees for Life calendars, and Sierra Club Books publications. She also has a radio program, "The Mystic's Almanac."

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College, Dr. Boice is the author of several magazine articles and eight books, including "But My Doctor Never Told Me That!": Secrets For Creating Lifelong Health. Her book, Menopause With Science and Soul: A Guidebook for Navigating the Journey (Paperback), is a 2009 Nautilus Silver Book Awards Winner. Her most recent book The Green Medicine Chest: Healthy Treasures for the Whole Family won two awards in 2011: The Nautilus Silver Award winner for Wellness/Prevention/Vitality and the Living Now Book Awards Bronze medal winner for Health/Wellness .

Dr. Boice has been interviewed on several radio shows and has a youtube video. To watch or listen to her, go to her interviews page.

BIO BELOW FROM: http://drgeorgesteinfeld.com/

My name is George Steinfeld, Ph.D. and I have practiced psychology in Connecticut for over 40 years. I have been highly trained in human behavior and in effective ways of helping people: In addition, I am a Approved Clinical Supervisor in Marriage & Family therapy.

I practice from an Holistic perspective, employing primarily a Cognitive-behavioral and energy approach. My interest is in helping to relieve suffering in the quickest and most effective way possible.

- You identify life situations that cause problems in daily living
- We figure out good ways to deal with life's challenges
- To change problem  behaviors, habits, and thoughts to
- Improve emotional health and deal with  stressful situations
- I am also interested in your spiritual concerns

When thinking about using the professional services of a psychologist, it is important to choose a health professional with appropriate skills and experience. The rest of this site contains more information about my  background and work as a practicing psychologist.

I have worked in mental hospitals,child guidance clinics, prisons (addicted inmates) and private practice.

I have over 40 professionals publications, and many local, state and  national presentations.

BIO BELOW FROM: http://www.scienceandtheneardeathexperience.com/

Chris Carter received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Oxford. The author of Parapsychology and the Skeptics (Second Edition due Spring 2012!), Carter is originally from Canada and currently teaches internationally.

Using evidence from scientific studies, quantum mechanics, and consciousness research, Carter reveals how consciousness does not depend on the brain and may, in fact, survive the death of our bodies. Examining ancient and modern accounts of NDEs from around the world, including China, India, and tribal societies such as the Native American and the Maori, he explains how NDEs provide evidence of consciousness surviving the death of our bodies. He looks at the many psychological and physiological explanations for NDEs raised by skeptics--such as stress, birth memories, or oxygen starvation--and clearly shows why each of them fails to truly explain the NDE. Exploring the similarities between NDEs and visions experienced during actual death and the intersection of physics and consciousness, Carter uncovers the truth about mind, matter, and life after death.

Patricia, "Trisha" is a registered nurse with a Masters degree, activist, public speaker and patent holder for all natural skin products that are used for healing for various conditions. She researches, networks, and is often heard on radio programs all over the Internet as an expert in various communicable diseases and Public Heath and Natural Healing modalities.

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Patricia Springstead is owner of ESP Botanicals, a premium quality patent product base made of pure chemical and artificial fragrance free all natural ingredients packaged in Myron Glass and other organic non-toxic materials. Premium products for a price. When only the best will do, go to ESP Botanicals. Also working with anu water – anu provides full bio-terrain remediation from the inside out.

BIO BELOW FROM: http://wakeupthefilm.com/category/about-the-film/filmmakers/

Jonas grew up in the south listening to people tell the most fascinating stories. Storytelling became his passion leading him to become a filmmaker.

After moving to New York, he got his start at the award winning production company Rockhard Films.  During his time there, Jonas worked on all aspects of production ranging from Director, Producer and Editor.  Focusing primarily on music videos and commercials, he worked with top artist and clients including Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Spike Lee, Nike and ESPN.

In the winter of 2003, Jonas began producing his first feature documentary BEARS.  On this project he traveled across the country for two years, shooting over 200 hours of footage.

So after eight years behind the camera he certainly didn’t expect his next project to be his own story.  His second documentary, WAKE UP, follows him on a personal journey looking for truth and meaning after experiencing a very radical and surprising spiritual awakening.

Jonas is currently signed with Grand Large Inc. as a commercial director and hard at work on his follow-up feature, a southern gothic spiritual thriller, JUNE’S LAST WISH.

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BIO BELOW FROM: http://wakeupthefilm.com/category/about-the-film/

Jonas Elrod was leading an ordinary life until he woke up one day to a totally new reality. He suddenly could see and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts.

The documentary movie WAKE UP follows this fascinating story of an average guy who inexplicably developed the ability to access other dimensions. Physicians gave him a clean bill of health and were unable to provide an explanation. What was it? Why was it happening to him? One thing was certain for this 36-year old man – life as he had known it would never be the same.

With his loving but skeptical girlfriend by his side, Jonas crisscrosses the country as he searches for answers and delves deeper into this thrilling world of the phenomenal and spiritual. Along the way, he encounters an amazing group of religious teachers, scientists, mystics and spiritual healers who help him piece together this intricate puzzle.

The film shows how all of us can search inward for our own peace and happiness while contributing towards a positive shift in global consciousness. WAKE UP is a call to consciousness to everyone who sees it; an invitation to accept that there is more to this life than meets the eye.

WAKE UP had its festival premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2009 and its New York City premiere, hosted by Sting and Trudie Styler, in April 2010. It is being released on DVD in September 2010 by Beyond Words, distributor of the acclaimed films “The Secret” and “What the Bleep Do We Know.” The movie is being privately screened throughout the fall of 2010

Colleen was born into a large family in 1960. The family was plagued with mental illness and depraved individuals that preyed upon the young and the weak. Colleen is no stranger to evil and has been confronted with the dark ones, even to the point of attempts on her life. At the age of 14 the wild and virtually uncontrollable 8th grader was sent away to live with a sister in Russellville Arkansas, within a year the unsupervised wild girl was sexual active and then pregnant.

Never having attended High School and always being treated like she were defective in her mind because she was not intelligent "like men are," Colleen let education go and became a full-time mother of 5 children. Were it not for her personal ethics that pained inside her every time she claimed to have graduated high school in order to look good on a job application Colleen would likely still have an 8th grade education to this day. At the age of 32 Colleen took her GED and did so well she was talked into taking classes at the community college she had gone to for the test.

When the youngest of 5 children started attending school all day Colleen began a full-time Biological Sciences program at the University of NV Reno where Colleen earned her nursing degree. Over the course of her lifetime Colleen has shown unusual resilience and tolerance for others, even those channeling the dark toward her in frequently tormenting, even life threatening ways. A chaotic military life made for a very adjustable, pliable personality in Colleen that is tough as nails when times get hard but completely flexible with life and people otherwise.

It was always in Colleen's nature to stick up for the underdog even when it was her but especially when it was someone else. Colleen has always been very adventurous and daring, too much so at times getting into situations that could have cost her her life but close calls never detoured her from pressing herself even harder the next time. As a girl and young woman Colleen was very much like a strong and powerful man, at 105 pounds and 5ft 4in tall Colleen was like a toy poodle that chases after Great Dane's unaware of the size issue.

Colleen's tough reputation was tried time and again growing up moving from one school district to another more often than she can count, all of them always on the poor side of town where Colleen was not always in the majority race. Under such trying and often times dangerous gang conditions Colleen learned how to put fear into those who challenged her and how to be very diplomatic under fire, resorting to blows only as a last resort when attacked.

A lifetime of seemingly unrelenting hardships and hostility from the dark never killed Colleen's happy go lucky spirit, that is until her 28 year old daughter died unexpectedly 2 years ago. For the first time in her life Colleen had lost all will to live but lacked the will to die either, she was simply ambivalent and adrift. Three hostile marriages, persistent problems with money and 20 years in a Christian cult came crashing in all at once as the anguish of losing a child overtook her.

In the depths of despair a shift took place that caused Colleen to call everything she ever knew or believed into doubt, earlier this year that positionless place Colleen found herself in was finally jerked into a new reality through a kundalini awakening that cleared all her chakras at once on January 31st of this year. On Valentine's day of this year a Pleadian man, an 8 ft tall giant who is a gifted and talented astyrophysicist known throughout the galaxy melded minds with Colleen causing her to awaken knowing things about physics she had never learned before and had sudden clarity on all the quantum physical matters that had puzzled and eluded her understanding before.

For the last several weeks Colleen has become consciously aware of her telepathic connection to mother Earth, other planets and stars and the alien peace keeping forces that have the dark pinned down here on Earth. Colleen was given the all clear, that humanity was safe because the dark were on the run as they realize that the aliens that had simply observed their activity in the past had suddenly began engaging Vril ships and human nuclear weapons of war.

As a Pleiadian contactee Colleen will no doubt have a role to play in building the world of tomorrow where the humans are free from the dark spirited carnivorous sentient reptilians who have been feeding on human suffering for 10,000 years. Earth will be restored to her original purpose which is to serve as an oasis for star travelers to visit and enjoy in peace, a vacation destination of intergalactic fame.

Colleen has become a virtual overnight hit with the pop New Age culture and spiritual people who have always been open to the possibility of sentient life from other star systems. After launching her first speech on July 27th to the very public YouTube site to report on her new knowledge of physics and alien affairs Colleen has attained International attention and support. Over 60,000 people had tuned in to hear what Colleen had to say in just 8 weeks time, clearly her messages are as timely as they are beneficial to others.

Colleen has joined this service so she can earn a living as a world teacher of Pleiadian physics, spirituality and new forms of community based governance without the need for a central government that only served to enslave Americans and other nations to paying taxes with over half their invested energies from working to earn a living. A living need not be earned and the abundance of nature need not be sold, bartering will be the new currency of energy exchange in the future economy that replaces the one that collapsing now.

BIO BELOW FROM: http://www.13moon.com/eden-sky_bio.htm

Since 1995, Eden Sky has devoted her life to researching and teaching the mysteries of the Ancient Maya, their prophecies, and their astounding time science. Eden has studied directly under Dr. Jose Arguelles, the man who is largely responsible for the global interest in the Mayan Calendar System and the now infamous 2012 date, including a 7-week long residential seminary with Arguelles in Chile.

For the past 17 years, Eden has been the author and publisher of the annual “13-Moon Natural Time Calendar”
- a modern application of ancient time wisdom that offers a new paradigm calendar system, currently in use by people in 90 countries around the world. Her mission is bridging universal teachings of wisdom and compassion with the intelligence of cosmic cycles that we may actualize our potential in this great process now underway of
"The Shifting of World Ages."

As a pioneering force within the world-wide movement focused on transforming humanity’s relationship to the nature of time, Eden has participated in many international summits and conferences focused on calendar change, including "The World Summit on Peace and Time" in Costa Rica in which Eden was invited by Dr. Arguelles to serve on the Education Committee. As a “Natural Time Visionary,” Eden has offered many interviews and seminars, and has been highly active in organizing community and educational gatherings that share the wisdom of Arguelles’ solar-lunar-galactic calendar teachings.

In a recent journey to Guatemala, Eden received teachings directly from Maya elders and participated in several Mayan Fire Ceremonies, including one with Grandfather Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, 13th Generation Quiche Maya Priest; Head of The National Mayan Council of Indigenous Elders in Guatemala.

Eden Sky is a featured author in the recently published book entitled: “2013! The Beginning is Here” ~ an anthology of 13 authors, including Jose Arguelles, Ervin Laszlo, Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee, Carl Calleman, Geoff Stray, Aluna Joy, and others.

Eden Sky’s website ~ http://www.13moon.com ~ hosts a 50-page Q&A on the Prophecy of 2012, info on the "2013!" book, and many free resources to assist people in reconnecting to the art, science, and spirituality of Natural Time.

In 1978, Joan Ocean first met John C. Lilly, MD, cetacean researcher, and felt very moved by the information he shared. She offered to work with him on his underwater dolphin communication project. Although this volunteer work did not come to pass, Joan felt a connection with Dr. Lilly and his extraterrestrial experiences that seemed to stimulate her eventual relationship with the dolphins. The dolphins then began to contact Joan through meditation and expanded consciousness, but being a non-swimmer, she did not yet enter the water to meet them.

After meeting Jean-Luc Bozzoli and experiencing his dolphin-inspired, multi-media art presentation, Ms Ocean learned to swim and began swimming with cetaceans in oceans and rivers in many countries. When a California Gray whale came close to the island shores of British Columbia, and looked directly into her eyes, Ms Ocean experienced a communication between herself and the whale that changed her life forever. She understood that cetaceans around the world are trying to communicate with us. She experiences the gentle communication of the dolphins and whales as sound holography, a language that intensifies physical senses, bypasses rational-cognitive paradigms, resonates directly with our cellular intelligence, and awakens multiple levels of perception and consciousness.

In 1984, Mr. Bozzoli and Ms. Ocean founded their organization, Dolphin Connection, to explore the advancement of human consciousness, biophysics and spirituality by producing visionary films, books, artforms and Ocean Seminars encouraging friendships between people and ocean-swimming dolphins and whales.

Ms. Ocean has led dolphin-communication workshops in many countries, including Egypt, England, former Soviet Union, India, Australia, Japan, Spain, Indonesia, Peru, Israel, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Polynesia, where she has swum among Spinner, Bottlenose, Spotted, Common, Amazon, and White-sided dolphins, also Blue whales, Fin, Right, Sperm, Gray, Sei, Humpback, Pilot, Melon-headed, Beaked, Brydes and Orca whales. She has dedicated her life to studying cetaceans by respectfully joining them in their natural habitats and becoming their friend.

She continues to conduct daily personal research with the cetaceans from her Dolphin Connection home in Hawaii. Identifying dolphins by name and noting their family groups, Joan has befriended Pods A, B and C in Kona, Hawaii. Her video film of her daily interactions with the Hawaiian Spinner dolphins is entitled: Dolphin Connection: Open To The Sea.

Regarded as an authority on the subject of Dolphin Tel-Empathic Communication, she has developed the methodologies of her work, entitled Participatory Research, in which human and cetacean species are equally conducting research with each other. Joan has shared her research and knowledge with audiences at both the International Whales and Dolphin Conferences and The Prophets Conferences over the past ten years and has been interviewed in magazine articles and for television by such shows as, CBS' 48HOURS program, Animal Intelligence in 1999, and the TBS [Tokoyo Broadcasting System] programs on dolphins. She has been the subject of numerous radio interviews including an appearance on the Art Bell radio show as his guest in 1998.

A Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, Joan Ocean is a psychologist, shaman and scientist who creates environments that support people in transition from one lifestyle, one dimension, and one physical form to another.

Ms. Ocean is the author of two books, published in ten languages:

Dolphin Connection: Interdimensional Ways of Living and Dolphins Into The Future

In 1989 while swimming in Hawaiian waters, she was approached by a pod of 100 spinner dolphins who surrounded her and then continued to swim with her for two miles. Ms. Ocean understood their empathetic and sound communication through feelings, intellect and acoustic imagery. It is a meeting of the minds in all the cellular receptors of our body.

Her most recent communications from the cetaceans include a process using neuro-sonic harmonies and precise tetrahedral resonances for advancing into varying frequencies of refined, loving energies inhabited by other sentient beings. She can access vibrational-frequency-environments that exist beyond Time. Once beyond Time, we can travel anywhere in the local Universe. This experience has been replicated artistically by Jean-Luc Bozzoli in his latest film.

Joan and the dolphins have been visiting the many futures of planet Earth and using the knowledge obtained there to awaken people to the powerful significance of their own futures and their present lives.

Implementing the teachings of the dolphins, Joan facilitates Week With Joan Ocean Seminar where people visit future worlds and parallel realities accompanied by the dolphins.

The evolution of human beings through gentle enlightenment and natural joy has been the center of Joan Ocean's work for the past 27 years.

Dan Winter is an electrical engineer, trained as a systems analyst with IBM. He has a global reputation after 30 years of world tours teaching sacred geometry, biofeedback, physics of consciousness, science of heart coherence and bio-architecture. His web site is FractalU.com which has many videos with computer graphics and links to his many other websites that go into the deep science of fractal coherence. Dan is the world’s leading pioneer of heart coherence science at the heart of quantum science, holistic healing advances, and the future of interactive global TeLeComm, emphasizing 'TLC' for coherence. Those who know Dan Winter and follow his international lectures and scientific breakthroughs realize that he is a unique genius who speaks an advanced science language that attempts to wrap your head around coherent applications for practical everyday use. For example, Dan has developed a $19.99 app for the i-phone that brings heart coherence into the conversation, a great biofeedback tool for personal or business relationships.  

Frank Joseph is the editor in chief of Ancient American magazine and the author of Atlantis and 2012, The Destruction of Atlantis, The Lost Civilization of Lemuria, Survivors of Atlantis, and The Lost Treasure of King Juba. He lives in Minnesota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Collin

Bill Ryan has a BSc in Mathematics with Physics and Psychology (Bristol University, UK, 1974), and followed this with a brief stint in teaching. For 27 years he was a management consultant specializing in personal and team development, leadership training and executive coaching. Major long-term clients included BAe (formerly British Aerospace), Hewlett-Packard, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In November 2005 he inaugurated the Project Serpo website, the report of an alleged disclosure, in stages, of a US-alien exchange program which took place over 40 years ago. While he had been interested in UFOs, Free Energy research and alternative medicine (he is trained as a kinesiologist) for over thirty years, his first contact with the UFO community at large occurred after establishing the Serpo website. He resigned his management consultancy post in May 2006, having founded Project Camelot with Kerry Cassidy.

Please click here to read more of the history of Project Camelot - which is a topic in itself, way beyond this brief summary. Essentially Camelot was a bold (and highly successful) adventure into cutting-edge investigative alternative media research, generating over 100 full-length video interviews on a number of alternative and controversial subjects addressing some of the most important issues of our times.

Some of the subjects addressed are summarized in the two embedded videos opposite, each of them excellent summaries of Camelot's work in general - and Bill's philosophy and personality in particular.

Bill is currently based in Europe, but travels widely. Project Avalon is his new site, which he runs independently. He is dedicated to continuing the mission of Project Camelot, addressing current global problems with a spiritual focus and a proactive, practical and community-based approach.

She has been writing since high school starting with a monthly newspaper and later starting one of her own. In addition to writing articles online, she has two books for sale online. The first book The Walking Wounded is a book for women on healing the wounds from the past and walks women through healing from past abuse using information the Lord provided when she was suffering from abuse. Her second book is Prophetic Dance which is about prophetic dancing as given by the Lord and how to use it for him. She is currently writing another book on the Healing Wounded that will be for men.

Deb has been healed of migraine headaches of 21 years through her faith. During that period she lost jobs often because of the headaches. Since recovery she has become a pastor and helps others overcome hardships with spiritual healing. And counseling.

Jude Unegbu has been a spiritual healer for over 20 years. Born in West Africa, he traveled with his Shaman grandfather, Job Unegbu, who offered healing to people afflicted with epilepsy, elemental attachments, leprosy, mental curses, depression, and other physical illnesses.

His healing education was further enhanced by the techniques he learned from another great man, His Eminence, Sir George King, founder of The Aetherius Society, whose spiritual and yoga teachings offered a strong foundation from which Jude has built a life dedicated to serving humanity and loving all things.

Combining his knowledge of African Shamanism and the King technique, Jude lectures at colleges and private institutions about health, Earth changes, and protective practices. He also teaches the Spiritual Healing technique and offers Spiritual Healing at hospitals and in his private practice.

Jude also offers Spiritual Healing to animals. He has found that dogs and cats typically respond well to this healing technique.

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Dr Jude Unegbu is a resident shaman and healer at Beneveda Medical Group in Beverly Hills, California. Jude has been a spiritual healer for more than 16 years.



Born in West Africa he trained under his shaman grandfather who healed people afflicted with a wide variety of physical illnesses. Jude's spiritual learning was enhanced by the healing techniques he learned from Sir George King, Founder of the Aetherius Society.



Combining his knowledge of African shamanism and the King techniques Jude's healing procedures utilize all of the major chakra or energy centers to fill the body with spiritual energy and to drive out illnesses. He can help with mental and emotional problems as well as physical ailments.



Some of the conditions he has successfully worked with include depression, anxiety attacks, epilepsy, leprosy, ADD, high blood pressure, back pain, body injuries, cancer, stomach problems, sleep disorders, addiction, relationship issues, job issues, and elemental attachments (popularly known as ghost attachments). Jude also finds spiritual healing is effective for a variety of childhood issues including depression, ADD, OCD, autism, epilepsy, and sleep issues. He blesses homes, offices, and animals to rid them of negative influences.



Jude lectures at colleges and private institutions about health, earth changes, and protective practices. He also teaches spiritual healing techniques and offers spiritual healing at hospitals, and in private practice.



Jude holds a PhD in christian psychology from Reform Theological Seminary.

Captain Paul Watson
Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Co-Founding Director Greenpeace Foundation

One of our greatest warriors for Planet Ocean, Captain Paul has over four decades of experience at sea, and more than two decades as Master and Commander of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society voyages to protect, defend, and conserve the Earth's wild oceans.

He earned his experience in the Norwegian and Swedish Merchant Marine in the sixties and early seventies, and served as First Officer on Greenpeace voyages between 1971 and 1976.

Since 1979, he has commanded over 200 primarily offshore voyages in storms, ice packs, through canals and treacherous currents, and dangerous confrontations without a single accident or a single injury to his crew or to anyone else. In fact, on many occasions he has commanded two ships simultaneously, relaying orders to a subordinate captain when it has been necessary to deploy two ships at once.

Captain Watson is a sea captain in the truly traditional sense - where he is the master and commander of his own ships and is not dictated to by a corporate Board. He makes the decisions and he bears the full responsibility for his actions.

In 1994, Sea Shepherd acquired a miniature submarine Mirage. A spokesperson for the Canadian Navy publicly stated that no one at Sea Shepherd knew anything about operating a submarine and it was ridiculous for Sea Shepherd to acquire one. He guaranteed that someone would be hurt.

Captain Paul Watson responded to the Canadian Naval spokesperson at the time by saying:

"Since World War II, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has boarded more ships, rammed more ships, engaged in more high seas confrontations and sunk more ships than the Canadian Navy. They are hardly in a position to presume to judge what we are competent or capable of doing."

Their record speaks for itself: All these years later - still no injuries.

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy."

Without a doubt, the Sea Shepherd is the most experienced marine wildlife conservation interventionist organization in the world, and Captain Watson is the single most experienced marine conservation sea captain on the high seas today.

I am currently a VIGRE postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in August of 2007 from the University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, with an area of focus in Biomathematics and Biostatistics. I conducted my work at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Pharmaceutical Development Center under adviser Robert A Newman. My background is varied. Prior to my work in Texas, I obtained a BS in civil engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a masters degree in Oriental Medicine from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR. After obtaining my master's degree I operated an acupuncture clinic in Portland for a couple of years. In my study of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I became interested in the use of plant compounds for treating diseases, cancer in particular. This interest eventually led to the publication of two books, which were essentially summaries and syntheses of published preclinical and clinical studies. Between books I met Dr. Newman, and he later invited me to M.D. Anderson to work on a Ph.D.

My primary interest is in developing statistical and dynamic models to predict the pharmacokinetic properties of plant-derived compounds, as well their pharmacological effects on cancer cells. The approach I have taken is systematic in that rather than studying a particular compound or a small set of similar compounds, I am interested in developing larger, more complex models to predict the properties of arbitrary compounds. Accurate predictive models will be useful to efficiently screen large libraries of compounds for promising drugs. Due to synergistic interactions, combinations of compounds can sometimes be more effective than single drugs. Thus I am also interested in modeling drug interactions, which can depend upon protein-drug binding affinity and protein-protein interactions. Specific research interests include:

• Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models and other statistical models for predicting drug activity and absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME) characteristics
• Statistical learning methods, including kernel learning methods (support vector machines, for example)
• Prediction of protein-drug binding affinity and protein-protein interactions using knowledge-based approaches
• Learning methods for relational data
• Systems biology, in general
• Methods to quantify drug interactions (synergism/antagonism/additivity)

Lloyd Pye is a researcher and author known for his work with the Starchild Skull and Intervention Theory. Lloyd began writing in 1975, then became a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1980s. In 1995, he found his passion writing nonfiction in Alternative Knowledge.

Alternative Knowledge is information rooted in mainstream science, but in areas normally kept from public discussion because they cast doubt on the currently accepted paradigms and dogmas of the mainstream.

Lloyd's fields of expertise include Intervention Theory, the origins of life, of human life, of alien reality, of hominoid (bigfoot, yeti, etc.) reality, which makes him a dynamic platform speaker in about Alternative Knowledge.

I was born in Houma, Louisiana, on September 7, 1946, on the leading edge of the famous “Baby Boom,” among the first crop of offspring born to the young men and women who as children endured the Great Depression and as young adults survived World War II.

My mother endured 50 hours of labor in a small clinic before she died. As soon as she died, I was cut out of her in the hope my life could be saved. It was, but my head was so misshapen from the long labor that the doctor felt I was hopelessly brain damaged. He told my father that his wife was dead and I  would be a “vegetable.” As was acceptable at that time, Dad was asked for permission to let me "expire" along with Mom so he could start over fresh from this terrible turn of events.

Dad was wrestling with that awful decision when Mom suddenly came back to life! She had become one of those rare individuals who have gone deep into the brilliant white tunnel of death, seen and spoken to her own deceased father on "the other side," and returned by her own choice to live on. Miraculously, in a time before ultrasounds when she had no way to know the gender of her unborn child, she told the apparition of her father that she could not stay, she had a son that she needed to return to and look after. She has since survived five other near-deaths, none quite as dramatic as that first one at 19, and she is still alive in her early 80s.

I became the oldest of four siblings, an “A” student and good enough at sports to earn a football scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans. I graduated in 1968, with a B.S. in psychology. This was the height of the Viet Nam War, so to avoid being drafted and consigned to be cannon fodder in the infantry, I enlisted in the Army. After a battery of tests I was assigned to the Military Intelligence School at Fort Holabird, Maryland, and after training I was assigned to a small field office in Gainesville, Georgia. My job was carrying out background investigations for people who needed security clearances. Mine was a routine tour of duty with no time spent in Viet Nam.

Through my 20s I worked at a number of ordinary jobs, mostly sales, but none were fulfilling. I wanted to do something more interesting and challenging. I began to lean toward writing, and at 28 began to study that craft in earnest. At 31, I published a sports-based novel that I used as a calling card in Hollywood, where I labored at the edge of success for most of the 1980s. In the late 1980s I published "Mismatch," a high-tech Cold War thriller that dealt with phone phreaking, early computer hacking, and submarine warfare.

While pursuing a career writing fiction, I also indulged a deeply personal interest in hominoids (bigfoot, yeti, etc.). By 30 I was convinced they were the indigenous bipedal primates of planet earth, and that what science told us were “pre” humans were nothing of the kind. They were the ancestors of today’s living hominoids, not of today’s humans, but I had no plausible way to explain how humans had come to be here. I knew we weren’t a part of the flowchart of natural life on Earth, and that we clearly didn’t evolve here in the way mainstream science insisted, but I couldn’t find a valid way to support my position.

Finally, at 45, I read Zecharia Sitchin’s classic book about Sumerian prehistory, The Twelfth Planet, which he published in 1976 but which I didn’t find out about until 1990. His translation of Sumerian history written in cuneiform on stone tablets provided an explanation for human origins that made rational sense based on what I had learned about the reality of hominoids. I had the front end of his work and he had the back end of mine, so I knew I could combine the two and create something unique and valuable. In late 1997 I published "Everything You Know Is Wrong" (EYKIW), which became a proverbial “overnight sensation.”

Through 1998, I traveled all over the U.S. and into western Canada lecturing about it at dozens of conferences and speaking about it in many radio interviews. I then had some appearances on local TV shows. My increasing exposure brought me to the attention of Ray and Melanie Young of El Paso, Texas, who were in possession of an unusual human-like skull. They showed it to me early in 1999 and asked my opinion. I felt it was almost certainly a human deformity of some kind, but I told them it couldn’t hurt anything to be absolutely sure. They asked if I would confirm that for them, and I said I’d be happy to.

That set in motion on on-going series of events as I attempted to definitively determine the genetic heritage of their unusual relic, since dubbed the Starchild Skull. I have shepherded the Starchild through more than a decade of scientific tests, expert analysis, raised public awareness, and have published 

Whenever the Starchild case is over, I intend to refocus on my other career as a researcher of the Intervention Theory of human origins, and as a proponent of hominoid reality. I intend to continue teaching those who decide to enroll in the "Invisible College" of students who care more about establishing actual truths than they do about protecting ossified dogma.

Michael D. Gershon was born on March 3, 1938 in New York, NY.  Nothing in his early life prepared him for a scientific career.  Dr. Gershon’s father was a lawyer and an accountant, did tax law, and ran the Audit Unit of the New York City Board of Education.  His mother was a high school teacher who specialized in teaching stenography to children with special needs.  After a traumatic experience at a truly awful junior high school, Dr. Gershon was offered an opportunity to join an “honors” class in Biology in high school.  His qualifications appeared to be marginal but they needed one more student to fill the class and, although it seemed to the authorities that Dr. Gershon would be hard pressed to cope with the work, they were willing to let him try if he was willing to accept the challenge.  Dr. Gershon accepted that challenge and it set his career path for life.  The Biology teacher was gifted and the subject addicted Dr. Gershon; however, the promised difficulty of the work never materialized.  He “aced” that course; work is not work when it is fun.  Sinclair Lewis’ “Arrowsmith”, read the same year, convinced Dr. Gershon that biomedical research would be his life’s work and so it has been.

Dr. Gershon received his Bachelor’s degree with distinction from Cornell University in 1958.  He went on to complete his MD degree, also at Cornell, in 1963, having taken an extra year to gain a research experience.  That year set his field as Anatomy and Cell Biology.  It also enabled him the find the right woman, Dr. Anne Gershon, to whom he has been married ever since.  After graduation, Dr. Gershon, now the father of one son, omitted clinical training and went on to do post-doctoral work, first at Cornell, and then from 1965-6, in Pharmacology, at Oxford University.  Dr. Gershon returned from Oxford to the Department of Anatomy at Cornell, where between 1964 and 1975 he rose through the academic ranks to Professor.

In December of 1975, Dr. Gershon made the crosstown move from Cornell to Columbia University where he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology until 2006 when he stepped down as Chair, but continued his research and teaching as a Professor.  His old department was fused with the Department of Pathology and is now the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology.  From the time of his graduation to the present, the National Institutes of Health has supported Dr. Gershon, providing funding for his research and for a significant portion of his salary.  

Dr. Gershon has been called “the father of neurogastroenterology” for his explication of the ability of the enteric nervous system (ENS) to function without CNS input, the roles of serotonin in gut physiology, and for his pioneering work on ENS development.  Dr. Gershon’s major discoveries include serotonin’s actions as an ENS neurotransmitter.  Dr. Gershon was also the first to identify intraenteric primary afferent neurons that trigger peristaltic and secretory reflexes and to show that mucosal serotonin activates these neurons.  Dr. Gershon identified and characterized the gastrointestinal functions of many of the enteric receptors that respond to serotonin and he was the first to demonstrate that the serotonin transporter (SERT), which terminates mucosal and ENS serotonergic signaling, is present in enterocytes and serotonergic neurons. Dr. Gershon has also shown that mucosal serotonin is proinflammatory but that ENS serotonin is anti-inflammatory.  These observations have given rise to the concept that serotonin is “the sword and shield of the bowel” driving inflammation to protect the gut from microbial invasion while, at the same time, protecting enteric neurons from inflammatory damage.  Serotonin activates adult stem cells to give rise to new neurons and acts as a growth factor during fetal neurogenesis. Dr. Gershon discovered roles in ENS development of netrins, laminin, and many growth and transcription factors that help explain the pathogenesis of Hirschsprung’s disease and other ENS birth defects.  Drs. Michael and Anne Gershon have demonstrated that varicella zoster virus (VZV), the cause of chickenpox and shingles, infects, becomes latent, and reactivates in enteric neurons, both in an animal model and in the human gut.  These observations raise the possibility that “enteric zoster” occurs and could potentially give rise to a variety of gastrointestinal disorders, the pathogenesis of which is currently unexplained. 

Dr. Gershon has received several prominent honors.  A few of those highlights include serving as president of the Cajal Club in 1994, the Association of Chairs of Departments of Anatomy in 1986, and as president of AAA from 1995-1996.  The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected him as a fellow in 1999.  In 2000, Dr. Gershon was awarded the Henry Gray/Lippincott Williams Wilkins Scientific Achievement Award, AAA’s highest scientific honor.  He was elected as a Fellow of the AAA in 2007 and to membership in the American Clinical and Climatological Association in 2011.  Dr. Gershon’s work has been recognized and honored by the Collège de France, Mayo University, the American Physiological Association, and the American Gastroenterological Association.