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DR. MICHAEL BECKWITH and RICKIE BYARS BECKWITH are founder and musical director of the Agape International Spiritual Center based in Culver City, CA. In 1986, Dr. Beckwith founded the Center, a trans-denominational spiritual community whose doors are open to all seekers in search of authentic spirituality, personal transformation and selfless service to humankind. Agape’s active teaching and practice of the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality has expanded into a movement and community of 9,000 local members and 1,000,000 friends worldwide. Rickie Byars Beckwith is the Music and Arts Director at Agape, where she directs the 200-member Agape International Choir, as well as a singer-songwriter whose tenth album is “Supreme Inspiration”. She has performed in five sessions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at Green Festivals across North America, and at countless peace concerts that promote unity and the principles of non-violence. She will lead the Conscious Evolution Wisdom Council Round Table at Harmony. HYPERLINK "http://www.agapelive.com" GEORGE NOORY is the host of Coast to Coast AM, the most listened to overnight radio program in the country (500+ stations including the Bay Area’s KSRO and KSFO). This captivating program discusses paranormal phenomena, time travel, alien abductions, conspiracies and all things curious and unexplained. George has hosted the show since 2003, and he says he is driven by the desire to solve the great mysteries of our time. George was born, raised and educated in Detroit. He has three children and grandchildren. He served nine years in the U.S. Naval Reserve and has won three Emmy Awards as a news executive. His new book is "Worker In The Light.” HYPERLINK "http://www.coasttocoastam.com" CAROLINE CASEY is the creator and host of the weekly Visionary Activist Show heard on the Pacifica Radio network from DC to Berkeley and LA, webcast, podcast and archived at www.KPFA.org. She is dedicated to Pragmatic Mysticism, Democratic Animism and the Trickster Medicine that brews it all together to fuel social change. Born in Washington DC to a political family, she has brought astrology's guiding story to politics by providing informed commentary to mainstream media outlets including Nightline, Crossfire, and The Washington Post. She is author of "Making the Gods Work for You”. HYPERLINK "http://www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com" *JOANNA MACY is a teacher, author, and the creator of the Work That Reconnects. Drawing from Buddhist practices, systems theory, and love for life, her workshops empower environmental and social activists worldwide. Her many books include Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; World As Lover, World As Self; Widening Circles, A Memoir; and translations of Rilke's poetry. She feels that this is the time to hone our skills and relationships for the transition to a life- sustaining civilization. Ms. Macy will be speaking about The Great Turning: The Best Ever Chance to Discover Our Courage, Beauty, and Solidarity. HYPERLINK "http://www.joannamacy.net" *JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL is most known for having lived in an over 1000 year old redwood tree for 738 days without touching the ground in order to protect the tree, now known as Luna, and to call attention to the plight of the world’s ancient forests. Founder of Circle of Life and Co-founder of The Engage Network and What’s Your Tree, she works tirelessly to restore the sacred interconnection between humans and all life. A major motion picture is in the works based on her best-selling book and story The Legacy of Luna. In 2000, the city of Berkeley designated April 2 Julia Butterfly Hill Day in her honor. Julia comes to Harmony Festival to promote and support the work of Women’s Earth Alliance, an organization of which she is a founding and ongoing advisor and donor, and will speak not just about what we are meant to DO, but who we are called to BE. HYPERLINK "http://www.juliabutterfly.com", HYPERLINK "http://www.circleoflife.org" JERUSALEM PEACEMAKERS are speakers from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian backgrounds who will be presenting a program on Healing the Children of Abraham, speaking between musical acts on the Main Stage, being joined by special guests leading chants in Hebrew and Arabic, and presenting films on their work at the Kraft Hall throughout the weekend (with a special sneak preview for volunteers and early campers on Thursday night, June 11). HYPERLINK "http://www.jerusalempeacemakers.org" *STARHAWK is a committed global justice activist and organizer, and the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Starhawk explores key insights that can help guide the world onto the good road, the road of justice, peace and abundant life. HYPERLINK "http://www.starhawk.org" DANIEL PINCHBECK is the author of 2012 and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary. His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, ArtForum, Arthur, and many other publications. He is currently the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and a national columnist for Conscious Choice magazine. He lives in New York City. A popular speaker at Harmony Festival, this year he will present a talk, Beyond 2012: Prepare for Transformation, which addresses the question: How do we make our communities self-sufficient and transform our planetary culture in the time we have left? HYPERLINK "http://www.realitysandwich.com" *RICHARD HEINBERG is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute whose monthly MuseLetter has been published since 1992 and whose essays and articles have appeared widely and in many languages. He writes a monthly column for The Ecologist magazine, and has been featured in many film documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour. He is also the award-winning author of eight books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse; and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Since 2002, he has given over three hundred lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences around the world. HYPERLINK "http://www.richardheinberg.com" AND ALSO WITH: In Multiple Appearances: DAVID WOLFE is a world authority on chocolate, raw food nutrition, superfoods, herbal healing and Co-Founder of the online health magazine, TheBestDayEver.com. Join David for a journey into the world of the greatest superfoods in the world including everyone's favorite, chocolate (cacao). David is the author of Amazing Grace, Naked Chocolate, Eating For Beauty and The Sunfood Diet Success System. David and HYPERLINK "www.sunfood.com" (formerly Nature's First Law) were the first to bring raw and organic: cacao beans/nibs (raw chocolate), goji berries, Incan berries, cacao butter, cacao powder, powdered encapsulated mangosteen, maca extract and cold-pressed coconut oil into general distribution in North America. David will share his latest nutritional discoveries and breakthroughs for optimal health and longevity and explain how chocolate can save the planet! HYPERLINK "http://www.DavidWolfe.com" *ANDY LANGFORD & LIORA ADLER are the co-founders of Gaia University, based in the San Francisco North Bay. Since 1993, Andy has been founder and CEO of The Permaculture Academy of Britain which now has over 160 graduates in five countries. Since 2000, Ms. Adler has been on the Board of Directors and NGO Representative to the United Nations, Global Ecovillage Network, where she is currently an Advisory Council Member. They will co-lead workshops on Cultural Remediation and Bioregionalism, and lead the Transition Town Panel. HYPERLINK "http://www.gaiauniversity.org" JAMIE JANOVER/LYNX & JANOVER When not playing music, you can find Jamie Janover connecting dots around the world by giving presentations on the Unified Field Theory of Nassim Haramein of the Resonance Project as their most active official emissaries, creating natural sculptures from organic materials in nature and/or practicing the art of photography during his extensive international travels. Jamie will discuss Nassim Haramein’s lifelong journey into the geometry of spacetime, Crossing the Event Horizon, which has lead to a coherent understanding of the fundamental structure of the universe and our existence in it. HYPERLINK "http://www.jamiejanover.com" *LORI GRACE STAR, MA has been teaching approaches to communication and conflict for nine years and Tantra for fifteen, and maintains a private practice for couples and individuals. She will be co-leading three workshops--with Phil Willcher, Penny Livingston, Scott Catamas and Ritch Davidson--so be sure to check the web site for all of the details. JENNIFER GRAY is one of the pioneers of the Transition Town movement in the UK, a practical, positive and inclusive process that is being used by communities all over the world to facilitate the creation of vibrant and resilient communities. She will give an informative and inspiring talk on how the Transition model can work to effectively engage a community in tackling the challenges of peak oil and climate change. It addresses the process of how we might make this transition through the relocalization of our energy, food, transport, economy, and health systems. *SAMANTHA SWEETWATER is Creatrix of Dancing Freedom, Founder and Visionary of the PeaceBody School of Embodied Awakening, and runs an Embodied Mystery School where she trains Dancing Freedom facilitators to spread the work globally. She has been developing and sharing the processes of Dancing Freedom for over 15 years in the US, Europe, Australia, India, Brazil and most recently Japan. She and Yuba Devi present N.O.W.! the Natural Order of Wonder, a dance to rededicate to be, do and act in total authenticity and natural wonder, and she and Lotus (Lauren Thomas) will present Beauty Way, a communal meditation. HYPERLINK "http://www.dancingfreedom.com" ### |
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