BRUCE GARNITZ

Originally from Chicago, Bruce Garnitz honed his talents in San Francisco’s eclectic music scene and polished them at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating, he joined the faculty. Arriving in Los Angeles, Bruce built a reputation for musical excellence. Bruce is an outstanding entertainer, a dynamic guitarist and vocalist and has toured worldwide with his band.

An accomplished composer, arranger, songwriter and musical director, his musical talents have been heard in several popular television shows. His song “Telephone Blues” was in the Sony Pictures release “Are We There Yet?”, his song “Circles” was in the Warner Bros. current release “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster” and his song “Wishing Well” as well as an on camera performance by Bruce was featured in an episode of the TV Show: “Children’s Hospital”. Most recently, he had four songs in the made for TV movie: “Game of Love” starring Heather Locklear in which she sings the song “We’ll Be Together One Day” which he wrote for the film and which she sings in one of the scenes.

His latest CD is called “I Must Be Dreamin'” and is available through iTunes, Amazon

A few words about Bruce Garnitz’s music:

Bruce Garnitz’s music has been described as “Jazz-Clectic”. There is a strong Blues influence from early Chicago roots. With a voice that channels the character in each song, ranging from the lighter to darker sides of life, usually with a twist, his songs take the audience on a musical, maiden voyage through the joys, sorrows and absurdities of the world around us.

KERI BOWERS

As an international speaker, filmmaker, writer, artist and autism advocate – but always an autism mom first – Keri is the owner of Normal Films, and co-founder of The Art of Autism. Keri has made 4 films, including:

Normal People Scare Me Too; a film about autism (2016), created and co-produced with her 27 year old autistic son, Taylor Cross, and produced by Joey Travolta.

ARTS (2008), a documentary highlighting the importance of music, dance, fine arts, and drama as vital tools to help develop a wide variety of skill sets, including educational, vocational, social, and life skills for people with disabilities.

The Sandwich Kid (2007), featuring her son, Jace (Taylor’s brother,) who interviews siblings to explore the intrinsic issues experienced by siblings of people with disabilities.

Normal People Scare Me; a film about autism (2006), which explores interviews (conducted by Taylor) of 65 individuals about living with autsm.

Keri is the author of three books, including Autism Movement Therapy: Waking up the Brain! (Jessica Kingsley, 2015); Mapping Transitions to Your Child’s Future, a workbook supporting transitions and life planning (Self-published; on demand), and Single Pregnancy, Single Parenting (Park Alexander Press, 1994). She was the editor of The Art of Autism: Shifting Perceptions (D. Hosseini). A featured columnist for Autism Asperger’s Digest Magazine, and occasional blogger, Keri focuses on the arts and autism as “power tools” to grow skills in autism.

In addition to operating Normal Films, her small indie production company, Keri is the founder of PAUSE4kids (1999) a non-profit supporting families of kids with special needs. She co-founded The Art of Autism in 2005, a social-entrepreneurship project that connects artists, bloggers, poes and other creatives with opportunities and venues to showcase their varied talents. She has been the creative art director for The Friendship Circle of the Conejo for 7 years, and has worked extensively with The Miracle Project, Los Angeles.

Keri’s numerous awards and recognitions for her work in program development over nearly 3 decades includes the prestigious Phoebe Apperson Hearst Award for Excellence in Education (best program at both the state and national levels, 2002). She has created numerous sustainable programs in the arts and awareness over the years.

John A. Horton is an author and Medical Doctor practicing general and preventative medicine and has experience in travel medicine and teaching in Africa and Asia. "Integrative medicine makes sense when one recognizes the value of different schools of medicine in different situations." His current interests are: the quality of life and medical care at the end of life, medical psychotherapy, and another book. He is a co-author of "The inner Game of Stress" with renowned sports psychology expert Timothy Gallwey. 

About Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert in the metaphysical and paranormal fields, with more than 60 books published on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual, and mystical topics, including nine single-volume encyclopedias and reference works. Her work is translated into 15 languages. Her current work focuses on interdimensional entity contact experiences, the afterlife and spirit communications, contact with extraterrestrials, aliens and nonhuman intelligent beings, problem hauntings, spirit and entity attachments, psychic skills, dreamwork for well-being, spiritual growth and development, angels, past and parallel lives, and investigation of unusual paranormal activity. She has worked full-time in the field since 1983.

Rosemary has done ground-breaking research on Shadow People and the Djinn, entities who are involved in different kinds of paranormal encounters and problems, published in The Djinn Connection: The Hidden Links Between Djinn, Shadow People, ETs, Nephilim, Archons, Reptilians and Other Entities.

She serves on the board of directors and the research committee of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE), a scientific organization to educate, support and research the field of ET and entity contact and abduction experiences. FREE has conducted the largest ever global survey of experiencers.

Rosemary is a certified hypnotist with the International Hypnosis Federation, and is trained in bioenergy and Johrei energy healing. She is a Tarot reader, and also conducts dreamwork, intuition/psychic development, and past-life recall sessions. She is a Dream Oracle consultant for the DreamSocial.co website.

Her radio show, Strange Dimensions with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, airs on the top-rated KGRA-db network on Wednesday nights from 8-10 PM Eastern (starting June 1, 2016).

She has monthly radio segments on “The Conspiracy Show” with Richard Syrett and “Exploring Unexplained Phenomena” with Scott Colborn. She is a frequent guest with George Noory on “Coast to Coast AM,” with whom she co-authored Talking to the Dead, about emerging technology for communicating with the dead and other beings. In addition, she has been a guest on “Fade to Black” with Jimmy Church, “Ground Zero” with Clyde Lewis, “Provocative Enlightenment with Eldon Taylor,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town” with Dave Schrader, and other major radio shows.

Rosemary is a consulting editor of FATE magazine, and a board director of the National Museum of Mysteries and Research, a nonprofit educational organization in Columbia, Pennsylvania. She has served as visiting faculty for the International Institute for Integral Human Sciences in Montreal. she is book review editor for the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies.

Previously, Rosemary was a board member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research Academy (now the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies).

She is featured in documentaries and docu-dramas on the History, A&E, SyFy, Discovery, Animal Planet, Destination America, and Travel channels. She is a popular speaker at conferences, colleges, and universities, and speaks yearly at the College of Psychic Studies in London. Among her major events are Contact in the Desert, Conscious Life Expo, the International UFO Congress, Exopolitics Great Britain, ECETI, Universal Life Expo, Victory of Life Expo, Phenomenology, Life in the Afterlife, the International Association for Near Death Studies, The Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Mothman Festival, Haunted America, various MUFON chapters, and numerous paranormal events.

In 2017, Rosemary will be a speaker at the Afterlife Explorers Conference in Brisbane, Australia, and will be a keynote speaker, with Mary Rodwell and Dr. Robert Davis, at the Close Encounters Conference following that, also in Brisbane.

In addition, Rosemary runs her own independent publishing company, Visionary Living, Inc., and also publishes a monthly e-newsletter, Strange Dimensions. She lectures internationally and makes numerous media appearances. She lives in Connecticut. Her husband, Joe Redmiles, runs Visionary Living, Inc. with her.

In August 2015 Rosemary was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in the paranormal, from the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society in Michigan. The award was presented at the MI Paracon VI in Sault Ste. Marie.

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A personal statement from Rosemary:

Like many people, my interest in the paranormal began in childhood, inspired by experiences, extraordinary dreams, an intense interest in astronomy, and a voracious reading of nonfiction and fiction related to the paranormal, occult, science fiction and fantasy. My interests were always wide-ranging, and that continues to characterize my research and work today. All things in the paranormal and metaphysical realms are interconnected. My research includes history, mythology, folklore, religion, occult traditions, psychology, parapsychology, science, medicine, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as anecdotal experience.

My work is oriented around the how and why of our extraordinary experiences. It was clear to me early in life that the paranormal and the unseen realms are real, and that human beings have encounters and experiences that have been documented since ancient times. Our experiences form patterns throughout history that reveal our constant interaction with the afterlife, spirit realms, other dimensional realities, the Divine, and uncharted territories.

I examine both the light and dark sides of our experiences, from the mystical and angelic to the invasive, demonic, and problematic. To know one side, you must also know the other.

Dr. Alison J. Kay is the founder of the Vibrational UPgrade System. She is an experienced subtle energies practitioner and natural healer with a holistic approach towards helping others thrive in mind, body and spirit. She spent ten years in Asia studying subtle energies & ancient wisdom. This is combined with her twenty years experience working in & teaching Yoga, Meditation, Energy Medicine, Mind Body Fitness, Longevity and Holistic Health, where she has been serving both private clients and larger groups, doing private sessions, group clearings & activations, speaking, and teaching classes & trainings. You don’t need to believe in this in order for it to work… that’s the beauty of what Dr. Alison accesses – as soon as you experience her work, you feel the shift within you.

Dr. Alison is available for guest speaking & teaching engagements including radio, print, television podcast interviews, tele summits and workshops.

Wayne Pacelle (puh-SELL'-ee) is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Humane Society of the United States.

Pacelle took office June 1, 2004, after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's chief lobbyist and spokesperson.

Under Pacelle's leadership, The HSUS has been approved by the Better Business Bureau for all 20 standards for charity accountability, voted by Guidestar's Philanthropedia experts as the #1 high-impact animal protection group, named by Worth Magazine as one of the 10 most fiscally responsible charities, and is ranked in the top 10 for nonprofit brands.

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During his tenure as HSUS President and CEO, Pacelle has spurred major growth for the organization, which is now the nation's largest animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents, annual revenue of $160 million, and assets of more than $200 million. The organization is the 155th largest charity in the United States. The growth has partly been achieved through successful mergers with other animal protection organizations. In 2004, Wayne Pacelle and Michael Markarian (President of The Fund for Animals and now Chief Program and Policy Officer of The HSUS) helped engineer the corporate combination of The HSUS and The Fund for Animals, the national organization founded by Cleveland Amory. In 2006, Pacelle was the architect of a combination with the Doris Day Animal League, which was founded nearly 20 years ago by iconic actress Doris Day, and is one of the major American animal protection organizations. He created the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, after the formerly named Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights was brought into the HSUS family.

Wayne Pacelle has also dramatically grown the animal care programs of The HSUS. He arranged a corporate combination with the SPCA Wildlife Care Center (now the South Florida Wildlife Center) of Broward County, Fla.—now the fifth animal care center of The HSUS. The HSUS created Duchess Sanctuary, a safe haven for horses in Oregon, in 2008, and acquired the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch and The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Southern California, in 2005 with the union with The Fund for Animals. The HSUS provides services for more animals than any other animal protection organization in the United States.

Since 1990, Pacelle and Markarian have played a central role in more than 25 successful statewide ballot measure campaigns. In 2010, Pacelle led the effort to pass Proposition B in Missouri, which is the first statewide ballot measure addressing the problem of cruelty at puppy mills. In 2008, he led the effort to pass Proposition 2 in California, halting the intensive confinement of 20 million farm animals. Prop 2 was the third in a series of anti-factory farming measures he and HSUS advanced, with Florida voters banning the use of gestation crates for housing breeding sows (Amendment 10 in 2002) and Arizona voters putting a stop to the use of gestation and veal crates (Proposition 204 in 2006). He led successful efforts to ban the use of bait and dogs in the hunting of bears, cougars and bobcats in Colorado (Amendment 10 in 1992), Massachusetts (Question One [PDF] in 1996), Oregon (Measure 18 in 1994), and Washington (Initiative 655 in 1996); to ban the use of cruel traps in California (Proposition 4 in 1998), Colorado (Amendment 14 in 1996), Massachusetts (Question One in 1996), and Washington (Initiative 713 in 2000); to outlaw cockfighting in Arizona (Proposition 201 in 1998), Missouri (Proposition A in 1998), and Oklahoma (State Question 687 in 2002); and to ban mourning dove hunting in Michigan (Proposal 3 in 2006), among other ballot measures. In 1996, Campaigns and Elections named him "a rising star in politics," saying the honor was "largely for his achievements in crafting, qualifying, and passing statewide ballot initiatives."

He led successful campaigns to defeat ballot measures hostile to animal protection in California (Proposition 197 in 1996), Oregon (Measure 34 in 1994), Arizona (Proposition 201 in 2002 and Proposition 109 in 2010) and Oklahoma (State Question 698 in 2002). Pacelle previously served on the national advisory board for the Initiative and Referendum Institute, and is a frequent speaker on the initiative and referendum process.

Wayne Pacelle and The HSUS have worked for the passage of more than 500 new state laws since 2005, and he has helped to pass more than 25 federal statutes to protect animals in the last decade—including laws to protect the great apes in their native habitats (2000), to halt any interstate transport of fighting animals (2002) and to make interstate transport of fighting animals a felony (2007), to halt commerce in big cats for the pet trade (2003), to establish federal standards to include pets in disaster planning and response (2006), to ban the import of puppy mill dogs from foreign countries (2008), to require accurate labeling of fur garments (2010), to combat cruel "animal crush" videos (2010), and to strengthen protection for sharks from the inhumane practice of finning (2011). He has also been the architect of a large number of amendments to halt funding for programs to harm animals, including a program to halt funding for the mink industry and the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.

He has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees on a wide range of animal protection issues, on subjects relating to the mistreatment of downer cows, the banning of "canned hunting," securing adequate funding for the Animal Welfare Act and other wildlife and animal protection programs, halting the trophy hunting of threatened and endangered species, combating cockfighting and dogfighting, stopping horse slaughter, cracking down on puppy mills, stemming the exotic pet trade, halting bear baiting, protecting Yellowstone's buffalo, and managing Chronic Wasting Disease.

Wayne Pacelle's work on animal issues has been featured in thousands of newspapers and magazines across the country. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on almost all of the major network television programs—including "60 Minutes," "The Today Show," "Ellen," "Oprah," "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," "Larry King Live," "Good Morning America," MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and ABC's "Primetime Live." Pacelle spoke at The City Club of Cleveland (2011), and City Club of Portland (2011), and TEDxManhattan (2012).

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In addition, Pacelle is an experienced writer with numerous pieces published in a variety of newspapers, journals and magazines, including Foreign Affairs, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Campaigns & Elections, and George Wright Society. He has written columns for dozens of major daily newspapers, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News, Detroit Free Press, St. Petersburg Times, The Seattle Times and San Francisco Chronicle. He has written chapters in a number of books dealing with animal issues and the initiative process. Pacelle's best-selling book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, was published in April 2011, and his book The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals was published in April 2016 (both books are published by William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins). He also blogs at A Humane Nation, where he covers the latest news and insights into our relationship with animals, and keeps readers informed about efforts to protect them.

Wayne Pacelle is the founder of Humane USA, the non-partisan political arm of the animal protection movement, and the founder of The Humane Society Legislative Fund, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization that lobbies for animal welfare legislation and works to elect humane-minded candidates to public office. Working with both organizations, Pacelle has helped to defeat some of the most active anti-animal welfare politicians in the United States, including Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Michigan (2008), Rep. Richard Pombo of California (2006), and Rep. Chris John of Louisiana (2004).

Prior to joining The HSUS, Pacelle served as the Executive Director of The Fund for Animals (1988-94). Pacelle also served as Associate Editor (1987-88) and, later, President of the Board for The Animals' Agenda magazine, and as a guest instructor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge Training Academy. He serves on the board of the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust, Humane Society International, the South Florida Wildlife Center, Global Animal Partnership and Humane USA. In 2006, Wayne Pacelle co-founded the National Federation of Humane Societies (NFHS), a trade association principally representing local humane societies across the nation, and he now serves on the board of that organization.

In 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported, "Pacelle has retooled a venerable organization seen as a mild-mannered protector of dogs and cats into an aggressive interest group flexing muscle in state legislatures and courtrooms." In 2007, The New York Times reported, "The arrival of Wayne Pacelle as head of the Humane Society in 2004 both turbo-charged the farm animal welfare movement and gave it a sheen of respectability." In 2008, Supermarket News included Pacelle on its annual Power 50 list of influential individuals in food marketing, writing that "there's no denying his growing influence on how animal agriculture is practiced in the United States."

Wayne Pacelle was named one of NonProfit Times' "Executives of the Year" in 2005 for his leadership in responding to the Hurricane Katrina crisis. In 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2015, The "NonProfit Times" named Pacelle to its annual "Power and Influence Top 50" nonprofit executives. In 2008, the National Italian American Foundation presented Pacelle with the Special Achievement Award in Humanitarian Service. In 2010, Pacelle received the Knight of Honor Award from Notre Dame High School.

Wayne Pacelle received his B.A. in History and Studies in the Environment from Yale University in 1987.

Dr Veronique Desaulniers,. better known as Dr V, has maintained sucessful practices in the Wellness Field since 1979. Because of her passion for health and wellness, Dr V undertook extensive study in various fields of Energy Medicine, specializing in Chiropractic, Bio-Energetics, Meridian Stress Analysis, Homeopathy, and Digital Thermography. Dr V brings a unique approach to Health and Wellness.

After 30 years in active practice, she decided to “retire”  and devote her time sharing her personal  non-toxic healing journey with Breast Cancer. Her years of experience  and research have culminated in The Essentials™ , a step-by-step  coaching program.

Dr. V is a #1 best-selling author and has a # 1 Best Selling  book on Amazon, Healing Breast Cancer  Naturally. Her website and her personal healing journey have touched the lives of thousands of women around the globe. More information is available at: http://healbreastcancernaturally.org/

JP SOTTILE is a freelance journalist, published historian, radio co-host and documentary filmmaker. His credits include a stint on the NewsHour news desk, C-SPAN, and as a newsmagazine producer for ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington. Joseph “JP” Sottile is a two-time Washington Regional Emmy Award Winner. Documentary film credits include: writer, director, producer of The Warning and various production and photography credits on other public interest films. His weekly show, Inside the Headlines w/ The Newsvandal, co-hosted by James Moore, airs every Friday on KRUU-FM in Fairfield, Iowa. He is the Newsvandal.