Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Nick Redfern is a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena.
He writes regularly for the London Daily Express newspaper, Fortean Times, Fate, and UFO Magazine. His previous books include Three Men Seeking Monsters, Strange Secrets, Cosmic Crashes, and The FBI Files. Among his many exploits, Redfern has investigated reports of lake monsters in Scotland, vampires in Puerto Rico, werewolves in England, aliens in Mexico, and sea serpents in the United States. Redfern travels and lectures extensively around the world. Originally from England, he currently lives in Dallas, Texas.
Nick has appeared on more than 60 TV shows to promote his books and his research. In the late summer of 2004 he traveled to Puerto Rico for two weeks with a film team from the Sci-Fi Channel’s series, Proof Positive, to make a documentary about the Chupacabras. He appeared on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on February 9, 2005. He also traveled to Puerto Rico in September 2005 to make a show about the Chupacabras for Canada’s Space Channel. He has lectured at a variety of conferences, including the Laughlin UFO Congress (in 1998 and 2001); the Mutual UFO Network Conference in 2004; the Aztec UFO Conference in 2003; the Texas Bigfoot Research Conference in 2004; at numerous events for the British-based UFO Magazine between 1997 and 2000 (now closed); and at the UFO Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas (in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006).
Dr. John Hall is a medical doctor in San Antonio, Texas and the author of A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America. He is a board certified diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He is also an active member of the Mind Science Foundation dedicated to the study of human consciousness. He sits on the medical committee of the human rights organization, Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance.
Dr. John Hall practices anesthesia and pain management medicine in San Antonio, Texas. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and is currently working on a second book detailing the safeguards against satellite surveillance. Dr. Hall says, “Criminals are accessing the government’s most powerful surveillance tool to commit near perfect crimes. In the book I cover the basics of satellite imaging and weaponry and the affects it has had on its innocent victims.
My services include Spiritual mentoring, psychic readings, workshops and retreats. This has been my path for the last twenty-five years.
I have just republished The Secret Key, a book I wrote about the importance of developing our innate psychic ability as a key to the spiritual path. You can read more about the book by clicking on the tab to the right.
At this point in my life, with the teachings I have been studying and experience I have gained, I am available to support other seekers, as they journey their spiritual path. The wisdom I have gained has come from my own hard work and deep desire to connect with all that is spiritual in life. My life's intention is to bring together all that I have studied, combined with my own experiences, to be of service to others. This is my heart's desire.
I have been a member and student of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC for over 20 years. Concurrently, I have also studied the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda for about the same number of years.
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Stephen Thomson’s life journey is as a seeker of the spiritual path. For the last twenty years he has been a teacher and guide for many people.
He has lectured across the United States and in England on Psychic Development, The Kabbala, Spiritual Practices and the integration of Western beliefs with Eastern practices.
He leads tours and facilitates workshops and retreats around the United States and Peru. Stephen specializes in uncovering the source of mastery within, inner well-being and self-actualization. He lives in San Diego.
Dr. David K. Hill is the Chief Medical Officer of dōTERRA Intl, LLC. He is a pioneering expert and dynamic leader in the field of integrative medicine with special expertise in the use and application of essential oils. Driven to seek alternative solutions to health, Dr. Hill devotes his time to extensive research and study in the area of natural medicine, more specifically essential oils and their extraordinary healing powers. He is the developer of the ArōmaTouch™ Technique – a clinical approach to the application of essential oils.
After receiving his degree in Chiropractic medicine from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Hill spent time increasing his experience and knowledge of the field of medicine, both traditional and integrative. This included years of family practice, and working with the staff in many hospitals. Joining the hospitals as a member of their active physician and ancillary staff provided him with valuable insight into the traditional protocols and practices of modern medicine. In addition, it allowed insight into where the gaps between traditional and integrative lie; and where they could complement each other.
Dr. Hill is well recognized in the field of integrative medicine and essential oils, and as such he has been invited to interact with a number of large, established hospitals including Beth Israel Medical Center, one of New York City’s premier hospitals, consulting with them on ways to integrate essential oils into modern medical practice. Dr. Hill was also an active member of the advisory board for the Urban Zen Initiative, an organization created by Donna Karan to promote the implementation of integrative medicine into traditional Western medicine.
Today, Dr. Hill is often invited to participate in radio and TV programs, most recently speaking about essential oils on BBC radio. He travels the globe sharing his expertise with doctors, educators, researchers, and individuals on the value of essential oils and whole body system health. He is the author of numerous books, manuals, and pamphlets. After extensive experience, Dr. Hill stands at the head of a new era of education and understanding of natural medicine and essential oils. He remains on the cutting edge of technology by immersing himself in research, and is dedicated to educating and empowering others to take control of their own health.
Internationally celebrated author, Canadian Stephen Dafoe, has been exploring Secret Societies both as a researcher and as a member for many years. His books have been lauded and studied by Freemasons, Knights Templar, and the members of other initiatic societies around the globe as authoritative texts on their history and rites. His books include: The Warriors and the Bankers, and The Knights Templar Revealed. His most recently published book is Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry, which is a 500-page examination of the abduction and probable murder of William Morgan by Freemasons.
Stephen Dafoe has written, co-written or contributed to more than a dozen books and anthologies since 1997. They are in chronological order:
- Unholy Worship? (1997)
- The Warriors and the Bankers (1998) republished (2006) +
- The Templar Continuum (1999) +
- Everything I Needed To Know About Freemasonry (2004)
- The Knights Templar Revealed (2006) * +
- The Templar Papers (2006)
- Heredom Vol. 14 (2006)
- Heredom Vol. 15 (2007)
- Tales From The Harbor Vol. 2 (2007)
- Nobly Born (2007)
- Secret History of the Knights Templar (2008) * +
- Tales From The Harbor Vol. 3 (2008)
- The Compasses and the Cross (2008)
- Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry (2009)
* These titles are republications of 1999’s The Templar Continuum
+ Co-written with Alan Butler
Tom Campbell began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe's laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study (guinea pigs) all at the same time. Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness.
During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems.
Tom is the "TC (physicist)" described in Bob Monroe's second book Far Journeys and has been a serious explorer of the frontiers of reality, mind, consciousness, and psychic phenomena since the early 1970s. My Big TOE is a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell's scientific research and first hand experience. It represents the results and conclusions of thirty years of careful scientific exploration of the boundaries and contents of reality from both the physical and metaphysical viewpoints. The author has made every effort to approach his explorations without bias or preconceived notions. There is no belief system, dogma, creed, or unusual assumptions at the root of My Big TOE.
By demanding high quality repeatable, empirical, evidential data to separate what's real (exists independently and externally) from what's imaginary or illusory; Campbell has scientifically derived this general model of reality.
Born In Selby North Yorkshire in 1970 Tony is no stranger to paranormal encounters his first one occurring aged two years of age with his father, as Tony grew he became no stranger to paranormal encounters, his school life was not an education but he describes it as a war zone, and his dream of commencing an acting career started at the Academy Of Live & Recorded Arts in 1991, his first UFO encounter happened at the age of 7, his true journey began in 1999.
In early 1990 Tony’s first UFO encounter began over his house, this then led to a commencement of strange encounters in 1996 in London and Kent, including the seeing of UFO objects over St Mary Cray, Paddington, and Orpington, moving back to Selby in 1996, his experiences truly began with two UFOs coming over his home, and during the years of 1999 a constant appearance of a UFO object near his home as a result of this Tony encountered a covert UFO secret police who made his life a living hell, it is Tony’s mission to tell his story and expose the corruption, his first appearance on TV was for Channel 4, and he has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly of UFOs he is engaged in writing the book of his story The Journey Man which he describes as a Spycatcher expose of the UFO cover up.
Mahala Gayle is an Astrologer, writer, lecturer, minister, one of the founders of the Asklepius Light Center, the editor of the Asklepius Light Center Newsletter since 1988 and writer/editor of Planet Alert articles. Planet Alert articles have appeared in many publications over the years.
Studying the science of Astrology since the early 1980′s has allowed her to become an expert in Mundane Astrology (study of world events). Over the years, her tracking of the planets in connection with their relationship to earthquakes, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomenons as well as man made phenomenons (such as war) enhances her abilities as an expert Mundane Astrologer.
Mahala Gayle has also extensively studied the Book of Revelation in the Bible. From that study she has been able to correlate the Bible and its relationship with the stars. She has appeared on many local (Puget Sound Area) TV programs discussing this topic in depth. After watching the predicted events transpire one after another, she came to the conclusion that there is a master plan in action and a path to understanding that master plan is through Astrology.
Evidence that Astrology is a path to understanding this plan, is best demonstrated by the history of Jesus. The science of Astrology was held in high esteem during the time of Jesus, as the wise men (Magi) who visited Jesus shortly after his birth, were known to be Astrologers.
Dr. Stapleton is a licensed psychologist who has worked in the Augusta area since moving here in 1997. Connie, her husband, and their three children are originally from Iowa. Dr. Stapleton completed her doctoral degree at Texas A&M University and her internship at the Medical College of Georgia.
Dr. Stapleton and her husband opened Mind Body Health Services in 2006. The business continues to grow steadily and the providers see people of all ages for therapy.
In addition to seeing individuals for therapy, Dr. Stapleton also works with couples. She sees patients at Mind Body Health Services in the evenings. She also works at the Medical College of Georgia in Student Health Services. In addition, she works extensively with local surgeons who conduct weight loss surgery.
Dr. Stapleton recently published a book on living a balanced life and the prevention of weight regain following bariatric surgery.
Dr. Stapleton is a certified addiction therapist, specializing in all addictions. She most recently obtained certification in sex addiction. She currently works extensively with persons suffering from obesity. She has written a number of articles for Obesity Help magazine, has been cited as an expert in several other magazine articles, and has appeared on the WGAC Morning Coffee Break with Harley Drew and Mary Liz Nolan. Dr. Stapleton is a presenter at the National Obesity Help conferences at various locations throughout the United States. She has also been a presenter at local CSRA events, speaking on topics including the stress associated with infertility and the stress associated with diabetes.
Dr. Stapleton is available to speak at local organizations. She enjoys educating people. Her passion is to inspire others to live full, happy, balanced lives.
Spending time with her husband and children are Connie’s favorite way to spend her time when she is not working. She is an outdoor person who loves playing at the lake with her family friends, and animals.
Dr. Herb Joiner Bey is a seasoned clinician, educator, seminar leader, public speaker, medical editor, medical consultant, and author in therapeutic nutrition, Western botanical medicine, and classical homeopathy. Dr. Bey has conducted countless acclaimed seminars and presentations for health professionals, medical students, and the public, across the United States and the United Kingdom, on the philosophy and clinical application of modern natural medicine. He is a regular guest speaker on radio programs nationwide. He has served as adjunct professor in the naturopathic medicine curriculum at Bastyr University for the disciplines of classical homeopathy, geriatrics, and advanced integrative therapeutics. He has also served as a scientific editor of several journals in holistic health. Dr. Bey serves as a consultant and technical researcher for manufacturers in the nutriceutical industry. Dr. Bey brings to his students more than 30 years of formal education, personal study, and clinical experience in natural and conventional medicine. Dr. Bey received a B.A. degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an N.D. degree (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine) from Bastyr University in Seattle. He is also a graduate of the Professional Course in Classical Homeopathy, sponsored by the International Foundation for Homeopathy.
Ben Hammott (real name = Bill Wilkerson) is the maverick archeologist featured in the Bloodline ducumentary who followed clues left behind by 19th Century priest Berenger Sauniere to discover an assortment of 2000 year old artifacts said to be linked to Jesus and Mary Magdalene. He also found a tomb containing chests of treasure, parchment, a book, and a mummy that might be Mary!
Lou Bognon is a spiritual healer and therapist, who produces and presents The Inner Voice, and inspirational, spiritual radio program with is broadcast in English and French all over the world, via short wave, satellite and internet radio.
She is also the author of How To Light A Candle - an 'abc' of spirituality for the greater number. Prior to devoting herself to her gift of healing, Lou worked as a teacher, tour guide, diplomat and entrepreneur.
Stephan Martin, M.S., is an astronomer, educator, and writer who has taught astronomy and physics at colleges and educational centers across the U.S. for over twenty years. Currently Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Bristol Community College in southeastern Massachusetts, he graduated with honors from Colgate University and earned his M.S. in physics and astronomy from the University of Wyoming. His graduate and subsequent astronomical research has focused on dark matter, infrared studies of spiral galaxies, and observations of the solar corona. He has worked for the Space Telescope Science Institute, and has also been supervisor of the Williams College observatory, where he participated in research expeditions around the world to study and observe solar eclipses.
With a background in both science and the humanities, he has also been active in exploring and promoting interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the universe. He attended the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, and has been core faculty in the graduate-level Consciousness, Healing, and Ecology program at New College of California, where he helped design an innovative curriculum that integrates rigorous academic work with personal and cultural transformation.
His current research and writing focuses on the transformative potential of the insights of modern science and their integration into personal experience and everyday life. He continues to lead innovative and learning programs in educational, holistic, and nontraditional learning settings that explore the innovative results of modern cosmology with the insights and practices of the world’s spiritual and indigenous traditions.
A well-respected and popular teacher, he is noted for his ability to render complex scientific ideas accessible to a broad audience and present them in innovative and personally relevant ways. He frequently lectures and gives presentations on astronomy and the wonders of the night sky at observatories, planetariums, and other popular venues. He has published a wide variety of articles on a multitude of topics that range from technical scientific research to academic papers in philosophy and humanities to popular-level articles on science education and everyday spirituality. His writing has appeared in a variety of professional and popular journals, including Shaman’s Drum, The Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, and The Focusing Connection. He lives with his wife in Westport, Massachusetts.
TURNING TRAGEDY INTO A MIRACLE: Zinc gluconate dietary supplement tablets (used as throat lozenges) containing 23 mg of zinc were serendipitously discovered in 1979 by George Eby's 3-year old daughter, Karen, while being treated for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) as an effective method to cure her common colds -- even though she was on powerful chemotherapy and was highly immunosupressed. After using the first lozenge for several hours while she napped, she came out of her bedroom and proudly announced, "Zinc cured my cold!" Who on Earth would believe that a 3-year old child discovered the cure for common colds!? George Eby, her dad did, because he saw that her horrific cold was completely and totally over, and comparing those results with her physician's expectations for her cold to last months or until she was finished with her chemotherapy was a very clear wake-up call. George used the same zinc glucconate tablets (as lozenges) in a number of other people with colds, both children and adults, and soon became convinced that a clinical trial was needed.
Following the initial discovery, the first clinical trial using the exact same tablets (as lozenges) used by Karen showed stunning success as shown in this Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotheraphy clinical trial report. Those tablets were not bitter since no sweeteners were included in the tablets. Studies by others were conducted and use of lozenges containing zinc gluconate or other zinc compounds was patented in a series of patents starting in 1985 with the "Cure for Common Cold" patent being issued in 1995.
Much newspaper, magazine, radio, and television publicity ensued the initial report in 1984, and numerous manufacturers placed on the market "improved" zinc lozenges that were sweetened and flavored. Some of those improved and sweetened formulations were submitted to clinical trials by reputable pharmaceutical companies under patent license, while others simply placed them on the market.
Manufacturers soon found that zinc gluconate forms very bitter complexes with sugar, corn syrup, dextrose and other sweeteners upon aging for a few days to a few months, depending on the exact formulation, probably because of the presence of zinc gluconate-hydroxide at physiologic pH. Manufacturers and researchers alike in desperation to solve the taste problem added metal chelators, reduced dosage or used other nonionizable zinc compounds, resulting in a loss of Zn2+ ions and efficacy, with at least two formulations actually making colds worse in clinical trials; reports of which temporarily discredited this major medical discovery.
Fructose, the only sweet tablet base that does not result in zinc gluconate bitterness upon aging, was used as the tablet base in the successful and confirming zinc gluconate lozenges tested by the British Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit in 1987 without complaint of bitterness.
Sometime before 1990, George Eby discovered that zinc acetate, which tastes horrible, could be made into compressed tablets or hard candy lozenges that were flavor-stable and pleasant tasting. Research was conducted until ZIA 100 zinc acetate lozenges were proven to be readily mass produced on modern rotary tablet presses and candy making machinery.
Today's ZIA 100 zinc acetate lozenges work much better against colds, and totally without those side effects associated with zinc gluconate.
Dr. Thomas Lobe, M.D., FAC’s, FAAP, Founder and Medical Director of Beneveda Medical Group in Beverly Hills, California. He obtained his baccalaureate degree at George Washington U, and during his medical education studied with leading physicians at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University. He also studied with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D. and graduated from medical school cum laude and with honors in pediatrics. After medical school he trained at Ohio State University Hospital in general surgery and the Children’s Hospital in pediatric surgery. He has additional degree in naturopathic medicine and a Physician’s Executive Masters in Business Administration and passed his boards in both medical hypnosis and medical acupuncture He was Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and made national news as being the first to successfully separate a particularly difficult variety of Siamese twins and lead the nation in complex reconstruction of the airway. He started the first pediatric surgery training program in the south at the University of Tennessee in Memphis and LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center .There he lead the world in the development of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery in children and wrote the first textbook and established the first medical journal on the subject. While in Tennessee he began his television career and remains the host and moderator of //What’s Up Doc?// a medical talk show on GHS-TV in Germantown, Tennessee.
At Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa he was pioneer in advances in minimally invasive surgery and with his associates was the first to develop an advanced technique to perform major head and neck surgery such as thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy. Through a small incision in the armpit, the procedure leaves the patient with no visible, unsightly scar and no pain. He is a board member and founding advisor to Neatstitch, LLC, a laparoscopic instrument company based in Israel and now in the United States, and also co-founder for Visual Medical Solutions, LLC, the producers of BodyViz, a new medical imaging tool for surgical planning and medical education that makes use of virtual reality engineering to improve patient care. He had written over 200 books, book chapters and peer reviewed articles. Most recently, Dr Lobe followed his dream of putting together the most advanced medical practice in existence, focusing on the new medical specialty called energy medicine. Beneveda Medical Group offers the best integration of Western and Eastern Medicine and is the first practice in the United States to specialize in Energy Revitalization and manage problems many consider resistant to conventional approaches such as chronic pain, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, insomnia, weight loss, osteoporosis, and others.
Dr. Hauser received his M.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Loyola-Hines VA-Marianjoy Hospitals, and received his baccalaureate degree at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaigne. He is currently the Medical Director, CEO, and Co-founder of the physician run, comprehensive natural medicine clinic, Caring Medicine and Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois.
Dr. Hauser is most well know for his expertise in the technique of Prolotherapy, a medical procedure that stimulates the body to repair painful, injured areas. He trained under Dr Gustav Hemwall who is the grandfather of this procedure. As a result of his expertise and books on Prolotherapy Dr Hauser sees patients from all over the USA and abroad.
Dr. Hauser is a consultant for Beulah Land Nutritionals, a comprehensive nutriceuticals store and with his wife developed some of the products for optimal health.
Dr. Hauser and his wife co-authored the national best seller Proto Your Pain Away! Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy. along with a four-book topical mini series of Prolotherapy books. They also wrote the Anthology of Prolotherapy- Prolo Your Sports Injuries Away! Curing Sports Injuries and Enhancing Athletic Performance with Prolotherapy a 900 page sports book that discusses the use of Prolotherapy for sports injuries and other topics including nutrition, surgery, x-rays, cortisone shots, MRI’s, and other aspects of sports medicine.
They also coauthored Treating Cancer with Insulin Potentiation Therapy and more recently Prolotherapy: An Alternative to Knee surgery. In additional to national lectures he is a preceptor for Bastyr University’s naturopathic medical students and also Midwestern University’s Physician Assistant Program.
Cyndi Dale has been a natural intuitive since she was young, and offers these gifts to clients and groups seeking to make real and positive change. Her passion includes helping people open their “essential energy,” the powers and perspectives unique to them. She works with thousands of individuals a year, in the United States and internationally, because once an individual understands their own essence, they can tap into the energies of—and beyond—the world, joining the community of like-minded people who want to better themselves and others.
Cyndi is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant. Her books to-date includes the bestseller, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, published by Sounds True. The Subtle Body has garnered over 70 five-star reviews on Amazon.com and continually sells in the 1,000 place, leading millions of books. It has also won four internationally recognized Publisher’s Awards.
Her other world-renown books include New Chakra Healing, now published in over twelve languages and revised in an all new edition The Complete Book of Chakra Healing; Advanced Chakra Healing: The Four Pathways Approach; Everyday Clairvoyant; Kundalini: Divine Energy, Divine Life; Attracting Prosperity Through the Chakras; Attracting Your Perfect Body Through the Chakras; Advanced Chakra Healing: Heart Disease, Advanced Chakra Healing: Cancer, The Littlest Christmas Star, and lluminating the Afterlife.
Other books and audiotapes include Sounds True productions such as the six-part CD training, Advanced Chakra Wisdom, and other CDs including Healing Across Space and Time, Illuminating the Afterlife, The Littlest Christmas Star, and Energy Clearing. Also available is her intuitive training DVD, The Songbird Series.
Cyndi has presented seminars and workshops in Russia, England, Wales, Amsterdam, Iceland, Scotland, and has led groups across South and Central America and into Africa. Her training has encompassed studies in shamanism and healing across the world, taking her into the Peruvian, Belizean, Hawaiian, and Costa Rica jungles, the Moroccan sands, the Venezuelan savannahs, the glaciers of Iceland, and other exciting places. She seeks to unify the world’s most vital spiritual messages, encouraging understanding and community among all peoples.
On a daily basis, Cyndi works with clients and groups, serving as an intuitive coach and an energy healer. Clients are commonly referred by professionals, including psychiatrists, medical doctors, and therapists. She continues to hone her ability to help people discover their essential selves so that they can make healthy and positive changes in their lives.
Cyndi offers training, classes and apprenticeship programs in the United States. Through Normandale College in Minneapolis, MN, she offers a seven-class certificate program, “Energy Works: The Subtle Body Certificate,” which is also being developed for on-line learning. She is also noted for her one-year Apprenticeship Program, an in-depth developmental process of the spiritual gifts; and training in clairvoyance, clairaudience, and healing.
With Anthony J.W. Benson, she provides creativity and writing classes through their business, Dreams Made Manifest. One arm of this endeavor is Deeper Well Publishing which serves as a publishing company for her own and Anthony’s projects as well as other books and products.
Cyndi has been trained in several different healing modalities, including shamanism, intuitive healing, energy healing, family of origin therapy, therapeutic touch, the Lakota way and faith healing and holds a fourth degree mastership in Reiki. Her travels and training have taken her around the world. She taught business ethics at the University of Minnesota; served as a public relations consultant to 3M and Tonka, and has been honored in “Who’s Who in American Business,” “The American Women of Noteworthy Achievement” and the “International Association of Business.
Cyndi lives in Minneapolis with her sons, Michael and Gabriel, as well as way too many pets, all of which believe they have voting rights to her time.
Exciting new Books being released in 2011 are:
Kundalini: Divine Energy, Divine Life (Llewellyn Worlwide)
Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life (Sounds True)
The Intuition Guidebook: How To Safely and Wisely Use Your Sixth Sense (Deeper Well Publishing)
After attending Antioch College, Jim Wasserman spent several years traveling in the U.S. in search of spiritual teaching. He settled in New York City in 1973 and began working at Samuel Weiser's Bookstore, then the world's largest English language occult specialist. After six months, he moved to the publishing department, where he rose to General Manager and helped develop Weiser's in-house production department. Among his many responsibilities, he discovered a love for book design while creating his first book jacket.
In 1977, he left Weiser's to establish Studio 31, offering full service book production and graphic design. In 1994 Bill Corsa of Specialty Book Marketing joined Studio 31 as a partner with responsibilities for marketing and financial management. Bill and Jim have joined their talents to offer book packaging and printing in addition to traditional design and production through Intrinsic Books.
Jim has also played a key role in numerous seminal publications of the literary corpus of the English philosopher Aleister Crowley. Three of the most important of these include his supervision of Weiser's 1976 edition of The Book of the Law, in which the holograph manuscript was appended to the corrected typeset text of the O.T.O.'s 1938 publication, in conformity with the book's instructions, for the first time in a popular volume. After several years of negotiation, he successfully arranged to professionally re-photograph the Crowley/Harris Tarot paintings for an improved second edition of the Thoth Tarot deck published in 1977, to which he contributed the Booklet of Instruction. In 1983, he helped to produce The Holy Books of Thelema, the critical collection of Crowley's inspired (Class A) writings.
In 1992, Jim wrote and designed Art and Symbols of the Occult (Inner Traditions), which was revised and expanded in 2005 as The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art. This magnificent collection of full color occult images is unmatched in its depth, scope, and beauty.
In 1993, he edited and wrote an extensive introduction to Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary, which was revised and expanded in 2006 for Redwheel/Weiser. Now fully annotated, it is an immensely useful text for both beginners and serious scholars of Crowley's works.
In 1994, after 15 years of development, his groundbreaking edition of The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day was published by Chronicle Books. The book features a magnificent color reproduction of the complete Papyrus of Ani with an integrated English translation. Modern technology and painstaking book design were joined to reclaim and recreate an ancient masterpiece.
In 1996, he edited a new edition of Aleister Crowley's epic poem AHA! Liber CCXLII with commentaries, to which he contributed an Afterword and redesigned text and cover (New Falcon Publications).
In 2001, his book The Templars and Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, a major study of the medieval Order of Assassins and the Knights Templar, was published by Inner Traditions. It would provide a prophetic look at Islamic Terrorism just four months prior to the September 11 attacks.
The Slave Shall Serve: Meditations on Liberty, published in 2004 (Sekmet Books), is his most controversial book. It is a collection of essays devoted to the relationship between Political Liberty and the Spiritual Path.
In 2005, he and his wife Nancy launched The Weiser Concise Guides, a series of books on basic occultism. Each book is written by an expert in the field and follows the overall theme of accessibility in theory and practice, as well as listing the best resources for continued study. The series includes five titles: Alchemy, Yoga, Herbs, Astrology, and the teachings of Aleister Crowley.
In 2006, Jim assembled a magnificent collection of Crusader images for An Illustrated History of the Knight Templar. This full-color masterpiece offers a visual cornupia of the Knights Templar Order, their fortifications in the Holy Land and Europe, historical battles, interpretative romantic paintings, along with modern photographs. The accompanying text and captions help to place the modern Crusades in context.
In 2007, Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons, and the French Revolution was published by Ibis Press. An enlarged edition of the classic text by Una Birch, Secret Societies and the French Revolution, this book has nearly been doubled in length by Jim's editorial efforts. A must for those who seek to understand the real influence of the Illuminati.
In 2007, he and Keith Stump completed the screenplay for Divine Warriors: The Birth of Heresy, an epic historic drama. Against the sweeping background of the medieval Crusades, two political and religious enemies from opposing mystical secret societies, the Knights Templar and Syrian Assassins, discover a unifying faith that leads them in a fight to protect and liberate mankind.
In 2008, The Secrets of Masonic Washington: Signs, Symbols, and Ceremonies at the Origin of America's Capital was published by Inner Traditions. This full-color guide provides a history of Freemasonry and our Founding Fathers, as well as an inspiring walking tour of Washington, D.C. It includes important Masonic structures and symbols that fill the center of AmericaÕs capital. It is a visual and poetic testament to the spiritual principles underlying the unique American experiment.
In early 2009, he and his wife Nancy released To Perfect This Feast: A Performance Commentary on the Gnostic Mass. An outgrowth of their resource website on Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass, it breaks new ground in the understanding of that key rite.
In 2010, he and J. Daniel Gunther completed Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings, published by Ibis Press. Theh book is a compendium of classical sources on the Father of Philosophy, one of the most influential figures of all time.It has been and expanded for a modern audience. Originally written by Thomas Stanley and published in 1687, thiss edition includes a Preface by Manly P. Hall and an Introduction by Dr. Henry L. Drake. It includes a study of Greek and Latin sources and is illustrated.
In late 2011, The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Secret Societies was published. The Temple is the intersection between Heaven and Earth, the dwelling place of the Lord among His peoples, built when ancient Israel was at the peak of its political and spiritual power. The site of Solomon's Temple became the headquarters of the Knights Templar, and is at the center of the founding myth of Freemasonry.
In June of 2012, his In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966–1989 was published by Ibis Press. This is an explosive and revealing account of the origins and early years of TAHUTI Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis in New York City, the 1976 magical battle between Grady McMurtry and Marcelo Motta in which Jim played a pivotal role, and the copyright contest over the Aleister Crowley literary estate fought in courtrooms from Maine to California. In addition, he shares tales of his experiences in the New York City bohemian culture of the 1970s and 80s.
In addition to his love of graphic design and an interest in religion and creative mythology, he maintains an ardent passion for political Liberty. He is a student of the United States Constitution, the writings of the Founding Fathers, and is a lifetime member of the NRA. Born in New Jersey in 1948, Jim is married with two children.
Mike Mitchell is an American artist known for his pop surrealism and for leading the online grassroots movement in supporting Conan O'Brien during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict. He designed the "I'm with Coco" poster, which was based on a photo, that went viral on the internet in January 2010. The poster has been widely circulated and displayed on the web and at various rallies during the 2010 Tonight Show conflict, and afterwards for O'Brien's The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. He also designed a poster in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill depicting a dead SpongeBob SquarePants floating on a polluted sea, with the caption: "Who died in an oil spill because of BP".
I believe health includes body, emotions, mind, relationships (with each other and with our environment) and spirit. Healing is a movement towards wholeness, a never-ending project.
