James Andrew
Barrett, a student of religious and mystical
traditions, embarked on an odyssey in 1995 to
create a heart based biofeedback device that would
aid recognition of a natural intelligence spoken
of by wisdom traditions. An Intelligence, mystical
philosophy claims, bypasses our genetic gifts, IQ,
age, cultural conditioning, and education; an
intelligence called Heart Intelligence. The goal
at the time was a “real-time” cardiac biofeedback
device that would support development of a
Compassionate Heart and recognition of this unique
heart based intelligence.
Success came with
the help of several individuals, particularly a
former Air Force human-machine interface control
systems analyst at Wright Patterson Air force Base
in Dayton, Ohio. Resulting data from their
innovative approach demonstrated inherent heart
based intelligence driving many of the
psychological and physical systems important to
wellness.
In March of 2000,
a life-altering epiphany occurred when his son of
twenty-seven year suddenly died without a known
cause. During those weeks of grief, Barrett was
given a clear vision of a book and a clear
personal experience of the “witnessing” facet of
mind. His priority then changed from developing
the cardiac device and its protocols, to research,
writing and lecturing on the subject of Human
Potentiality. The Silent Gospel: The Science
of Divinity-The Creation of the Shroud of
Turin is a result of this period of
inquiry.
In his book he
marries Eastern and Western Science to decipher
the embedded testament left in the ancient cloth
known as the Shroud of Turin. He claims that it is
a Silent Gospel meant specifically for humanity
during these times. Ultimately he has come to
believe that the Shroud of Turin illuminates both
the topic of Ascension and the Nature of
Reality.
James currently
lives in Northern California and is working on a
screenplay about the “History of the Shroud.”
Paul Mackan -
The Cockamamy
World of A. Yold
His first book, The
Cockamamy World of A.Yold, newly published by
PublishAmerica (not, absolutely not, a vanity
publisher) that is to be officially launched by
Collected Works Bookstore at the Ottawa Bagelshop
& Deli, Monday October 6th, 2008. A. Yold is a
fictional character he created based upon a
Yiddish word Yold, meaning a native,
gullible dolt. It takes the form of diary notes of
fads and fashions he observes from under his desk
in Ottawa’s civil service. It’s a small book of
wit and wonder.
He had
a few good years as a freelance broadcaster with
CBC radio, winning an ACTRA award. He now lives a
widower missing his Sara Lee
acutely.
Mel Hurtig – The
Truth About Canada
Renowned as a passionate
Canadian, best-selling author Mel Hurtig has
combed through world statistics to see how Canada
really measures up — and the results are
astonishing, and often shocking.
This book is about how Canada
has changed, very much for the worse, in the last
twenty years. As a result of these profound (often
hidden) changes, we are no longer the people we
think we are. To take one example, the Canadian
media usually leaves us with the impression that
Canadians are really heavily taxed. Yes, compared
to the U.S.A., the usual point of comparison.
Compared to other countries with our standard of
living, other OECD countries, for example, we come
in 23rd on the high-tax scale.
The shocks in this book build
up, chapter by chapter. How do we rank in the
world in voter turnout? Try 109th. Number of
physicians per 100,000 population? Try 54th. Our
rank in reducing pollution? 126th out of 146
countries.
Some of the statistics are
internal, comparing Canada then and now. They back
up two of the book’s most powerful themes: the
failure of Canadian big business to turn record
profits into ongoing investment in our country,
and (no coincidence) the sellout of our assets at
a rate that no other country would allow.
This statistics-based book
ranges across all areas of our lives — including
health, wages, productivity, culture, the media
(“the most concentrated in the world”), and much
else. Mel Hurtig’s message is that we can’t do
anything to fix the direction we’re drifting in
unless we recognize it — and recognize The
Truth About Canada.
About the
Author
Mel Hurtig is the legendary
Edmonton bookseller, publisher, and creator of The
Canadian Encyclopedia and founder of the “Council
of Canadians” who became a political activist,
then an author in 1991 with his huge bestseller
The Betrayal of Canada. He is also the
author of Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids, The
Vanishing Country, and Rushing to
Armageddon. He is a member of the Order of
Canada, and has received many honorary degrees and
honours. He lives in
Vancouver.
Jonathan Goldman
The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing
Jonathan Goldman is one of
the most highly recognized international
authorities on sound healing. He founded the Sound
Healers Association over twenty five years ago,
establishing his name as one of the major pioneers
and innovators in the field. A gold selling
artist, he is an outstanding facilitator whose
highly regarded workshops have been attended by
many thousands throughout the world. His seminal
book, HEALING SOUNDS, has been translated into
numerous foreign languages and has received
international critical acclaim. His recording of
“Chakra Chants” remains one of the top selling
healing music of all times.
AUTHOR
HEALING SOUNDS: The Power
of Harmonics, Inner Traditions, 2001
SHIFTING FREQUENCIES,
Light Technology, 1998
THE LOST CHORD, Spirit
Music, 1999
TANTRA OF SOUND, Hampton
Roads (March 2005)
THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND
HEALING, Hay House (March 2008)
AWARD WINNING
MUSICIAN & AUTHOR
#1 Best Selling Recording
CHAKRA CHANTS - NAV, May 2000 (Retail Trade
Pub.), 1999 Visionary Award Winner for "Best
Healing-Meditation Album" & "Album of the
Year" and Top 10 Best Seller NAR; 2001 -
2004,
ULTIMATE OM - "Top 20 Must
Have CDs!", NAR (Retail Trade Pub)
Top 10 Best Selling
ULTIMATE OM - NAR; Feb. 2003 - 2004 (Retail
Trade Pub)
THE LOST CHORD - 2001
Visionary Award Runner Up for "Best
Healing-Meditation Album"
HEALING SOUNDS -
Instructional accompanies book for 1997
Doubleday Health Book series
MEDICINE BUDDHA - Created
for H. H. the Dalai Lama's 2001 US Teachings
CHAKRADANCE - 2005
Visionary Award Runner Up for "Best World Music"
DIVINE NAME (with Gregg
Braden) - 2005 Visionary Award Runner up for
"Best Healing" Album
CELESTIAL REIKI—"Best
Sustained Trance Music of the Year" - Yoga
Journal
SACRED TIBET - First
studio recording of H.H. the Dalai Lama's Gyume
Tibetan Monks
DOLPHIN DREAMS - "Best
Special Production of the Year” -
Wholelife/Earthstar
Vocalist on Kitaro’s 2001
Grammy Award Winning THINKING OF YOU
Grammy nominated
co-creator of Lama Tashi's "TIBETAN MASTER
CHANTS"
Named #5 "Most Popular
Recording Artist" in "New Age Retailer" 2006
FREQUENCIES - 2006
Visionary Award Finalist "Best Healing Album"
TANTRA OF SOUND - 2007
Visionary Winner "Best Alternative Health Book"
Newest book THE 7 SECRETS
OF SOUND HEALING #1 in the Healing Category for
books week of March 10, 2008
Longtime Best Selling CD
"Holy Harmony" #1 in the Healing Category for
music week of March 10, 2008
EDUCATION &
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Master's Degree from
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 1986 in Sound
Healing
Founding Director of the
Sound Healers Association
President of Spirit Music,
Inc
Lecturing Member for the
International Society for Music Medicine
Empowered by the Chant
Master of the H.H. Dalai Lama's Drepung
Loseling Monastery to teach sacred Tibetan
Overtone Chanting
Initiated as Hindu Swami
by Swami Brahmananda
Lectures and teaches
internationally, including major sound
conferences & health expos – including in
2003: Prophets Conference, Science &
Consciousness Conference, Wesak Festival,
Healing Sounds Intensive, East-West Books,
Solstice Institute
MEDIA
Featured on National
television, radio, print and videos, including
Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM, USA Today,
New York Times, Spectrum, Vogue, Nexus, Boston
Herald, Rocky Mt. News, CD Review
Quoted in numerous books,
including Julia Cameron's VEINS OF GOLD, Dr.
Mitchell Gaynor's SOUNDS OF HEALING and Don
Campbell's MOZART EFFECT
Featured interviews and
articles in many books including: MUSIC:
PHYSICIAN FOR TIMES TO COME, HEALING
SPIRITS, SONIC ALCHEMY, MUSIC
MEDICINE, THE MOSES CODE
Chapter in the McGraw-HIll
textbook MUSIC IN OUR WORLD devoted to
Jonathan's recording of DOLPHIN DREAMS and
included in accompany listening CD
Featured on video HEALING
SOUNDS, OF SOUND MIND AND BODY, CYMATICS
Featured on soundtrack
including Oliver Stone's HEAVEN AND EARTH as
well as EARTH ON FIRE and THE LEGEND OF
THE CHOSEN ONE
Hosted Internet's World
Puja live Webcasts, and creator of global events
including: World Sound Healing Day
Monthly column (with wife,
Andi) in "Mystic Pop Magazine"
The World's Most Powerful
Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It
Pulls back the curtain on Big Oil -
uncovering virtually unparalleled global power,
influence over elected officials, lax regulatory
oversight, the truth behind $150-a-barrel oil,
$4.50-a-gallon gasoline, and the highest profit in
corporate history. Exposing an industry that thrives on
secrecy, Juhasz shows how Big Oil manages to hide its
business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and
most of all, consumers. She reveals exactly how Big Oil
gets what it wants - through money, influence, and
deception. Juhasz then provides a clear set of
meaningful and achievable solutions, including the
break-up of Big Oil.
The Tyranny of Oil
prepares readers for election 2008 - allowing them to
interpret the constant stream of competing proposals and
perplexing news stories about the economy and oil. It
arms with the facts while guiding readers through the
industry's rapacious history - demonstrating how the
worst abuses of the robber-baron era are being revisited
today.
Drawing on considerable historical
research, Juhasz explores the parallels between today's
companies and Standard Oil, the most powerful
corporation of the early 20th century, whose
stranglehold on the economy and government was broken
only by the vision and persistence of activists and
like-minded politicians.
It has taken nearly 100 years, but
Standard's pieces have nearly been put back together.
Since the 1990's, more than 2600 mergers have taken
place in the U.S. oil industry. Juhasz traces a radical
transformation in antitrust law in the U.S., concluding
that many, particularly the largest of these mergers,
should never have been permitted.
Gas prices:
ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell, and
Valero control almost 60% of the U.S. refining market -
roughly twice as much as the six largest companies
controlled just 12 years ago - and more than 60% of U.S.
gas stations. Thousands of independent oil refineries
and gas stations have been bought up or pushed out,
leaving a market dominated by a few oil giants.
Oil prices: Oil
industry power also helps explain today's skyrocketing
oil prices - not just the weak dollar, supply shortages,
or rising demand - but rampant industry speculation.
Juhasz demonstrates how as much as half of the price of
a barrel of oil is largely determined by the actions of
energy futures traders, including those working for and
on behalf of Big Oil. Having succeeded in gutting
government oversight and regulation, Big Oil has helped
make oil futures one of the hottest, least monitored
trading properties in the world.
Politics: Juhasz
reveals how Big Oil turns hundreds of billions of
dollars in annual profit into unparalleled influence
over local decisions, state governments, Congress, the
White House, and the international arena. Through candid
interviews and investigative research, Juhasz traces a
tangled web of high-powered lobbyists, lawyers, and
money.
Environment: She
reveals Big Oil’s disingenuous claims that it's part of
the solution to global warming - finding that in 2006
and 2007, no major oil company spent more than 4% of its
expenditures on green energy, and most spent far less.
Instead the industry is intent on pursuing the
energy-intensive and pollution-heavy processes of
wringing oil from shale and tar sands and offshore
drilling - pushing the planet ever-closer to climate
catastrophe.
War: Oil is not
only about warming it is also about war. Juhasz uncovers
Big Oil's role in the war in Iraq and a potential war
against Iran. As Juhasz argues, you could study a map of
Big Oil's overseas operations, the world's remaining oil
reserves, and oil transport routes to predict the
deployment of the U.S. military in the decades to
come.
Solutions: The
Tyranny of Oil enables readers to recognize the
smokescreens Big Oil uses to obscure its role in the
crippling of the economy, and to understand how Big Oil
exercises its influence over the most pressing political
questions of our day. Arguing that the elections offer a
unique opportunity for bold change, Juhasz puts forward
real solutions, including an immediate call to action
for the break-up of Big Oil and a "Separation of Oil and
State," challenging elected officials to renounce all
oil company money.
Antonia Juhasz is a leading expert
on international trade and finance policy and the author
of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy
at a Time. A fellow with Oil Change
International and the Institute for Policy Studies, she
has served as an aide to two U.S. members of Congress
and holds as Masters degree in Public Policy from
Georgetown University. An award-winning writer and
frequent media commentator, her work has been featured
in dozens of publications, including the New York
Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
Petroleum Review Magazine, and Alternet.org. She
has appeared on Kudlow & Company, National
Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show and
Marketplace, Washington Journal, Hannity & Colmes,
and Democracy Now! among many other shows.
She lives in San Francisco,
CA.
AUTHOR
Antonia Juhasz is a leading expert
on international trade and finance policy and the author
of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy
at a Time. A fellow with Oil Change
International and the Institute for Policy Studies, she
has served as an aide to two U.S. members of Congress
and holds as Masters degree in Public Policy from
Georgetown University. An award-winning writer and
frequent media commentator, her work has been featured
in dozens of publications, including the New York
Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
Petroleum Review Magazine, and Alternet.org. She
has appeared on Kudlow & Company, National
Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show and
Marketplace, Washington Journal, Hannity & Colmes,
and Democracy Now! among many other shows.
She lives in San Francisco,
CA.
