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Living Dialogues features pioneers in new paradigm thinking in a broad variety of fields. "It is a fire-keeping space where together,we can ignite each other's unique creative spark to bring forth our individual transformation and the evolution of our planetary community." Each show provides a different facet of the vision emerging from the work of many to transform our individual lives—and our planet. Duncan Campbell, "Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya formulated a profound galactic cosmology. They saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly moving toward the heart of the galaxy. Naturally enough, with their uncorrupted intelligence intact, they suspected that the world would go through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes aligned. They devised their Long Count calendar to target when the cosmic alignment would maximize, and that time is AD 2012. We are lucky that the brilliant skywatchers who devised the 2012 calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that they have survived the decay of centuries, so that we can know exactly what they prophesied and believed about 2012. " John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy. His careful scholarship and cutting-edge insights into why the Maya chose 2012 to end a great World Age cycle have been endorsed by the most progressive thinkers of our day. He has authored five books including Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 which reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for our own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world. John is currently writing a new book which is due out in late 2009. William Henry’s newest research is an investigation into America’s Capitol. The American Rite is a call to action. In his presentation you will come to understand that America’s Capitol is a place of transformation. America, says Henry, is both a place and a psychological space created by the Enlightened founders. There are astonishing alchemical and stargate symbolism that reveals the sacred science of the ancients in the temples of America. Now is the time to activate those temples for personal transformation and enlightenment. William reveals the astonishing alchemical secrets of the Apotheosis of George Washington, the painting in the rotunda which portrays Washington’s transfiguration from a man into a god, how the U.S. Capitol corresponds with the seven chakras in the human body, and the U.S. Capitol unveiled as a Temple of Man in the model of the ancient temple of Luxor in Upper Egypt. William Henry is an investigative mythologist, author, radio talk show host, seeker and teacher. He has specialized in synthesizing myth and cutting edge modern science to reveal a startling but undeniable pattern of fact – that throughout history and across widely diverse cultures, there is an absolutely seamless tradition of the existence of gates to the stars, which have been preserved in the art and myths of each era and place. William Henry has become known as one of the most dynamic speakers in the consciousness field today. 
Host of "Living Dialogues" on KGNU Boulder, will be the Master of Ceremonies. Duncan presented on "The Art of Dialogic Myth-Making" at the Joseph Campbell Centenary "The Re-enchantment of the World", sponsored by the International Transpersonal Association in Palm Springs in June, 2004. He was the Master of Ceremonies of the Human Forum 2005 Conference sponsored by the Alliance for the New Humanity,leading nine dialogues over three days with many international participants, a very partial list including Jeffrey Sachs, Jeremy Rifkin, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Satish Kumar from England, Ashok Khosla, Vice-President of the Club of Rome from India, Andres Botran from Guatemala, and Prince Cedza Diamini and Jean-Paul Wobatai from Africa. www.livingdialogues.com 
www.alignment2012.com 
His presentations are edgy and factual, crossing ancient sacred science with modern science and spirituality.
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Richard Tarnas Ph.D.is a cultural historian, author, and professor of philosophy and depth psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also serves on the faculty of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. A growing consensus of scientists, scholars, and visionaries now recognize that the Earth community is facing an unprecedented evolutionary challenge. The ecological, political, and spiritual crisis of late modernity calls for a fundamental reorientation of our civilization, including a transformation of both our institutions and our own consciousness. The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) program has been designed to help shape the intellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership necessary for meeting this historic challenge. Rick Tarnas is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1972) and Saybrook Institute (Ph.D., 1976), he was formerly director of programs and education at Esalen Institute. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind (1991) and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View (2006). Richard's research interests include the history of Western thought and culture, the evolution of consciousness, the interface of philosophy and psychology, epistemology and cosmology, new paradigm studies, depth psychology (psychoanalytic, Jungian, archetypal, transpersonal), psychedelic research, and archetypal astrology.
 | Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View shines new light on the unfolding drama of human history and our own critical age. It also suggests a new possibility for reuniting religion and science, soul and intellect, ancient wisdom and modern reason in the quest to understand the past and create the future. “The evidence suggests that our universe is informed by a powerful, creative intelligence, and an ordering principle of truly astonishing power, complexity, and beauty,” Tarnas says. “Some scientists describe this intelligence as having an Einsteinian quality, but I think it’s Shakespearean as well. It’s richly multidimensional, requiring the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual imagination as well as the scientific and mathematical. Seeing the patterns emerging in life awakens us to the fact that meaning happens not only within the psyche but also within nature and the cosmos. It suggests that the whole universe is supporting our spiritual evolution.” www.cosmosandpsyche.com |
 | Robert Sitler Ph.D is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida where he also serves as Director of the Latin American Studies program. His PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 focused on representations of the Maya world in the Spanish-American novel. Robert has enjoyed over three decades of involvement with numerous indigenous groups in Mesoamerica, especially with the Mam-speaking Maya of northwest Guatemala. His most recent publications focus on the developing social phenomenon surrounding the 2012 date in the Maya Long Count calendar. Currently, he is translating a novel written by the Q’anjob’al Maya writer Gaspar González that focuses on the significance of 2012. |
| Esperide Ananas, is a writer, lecturer and spokesperson of Damanhur, the pioneering spiritual community in northern Italy. She has been living in Damanhur since 1992, and in 1993 she graduated from Damanhur School for Spiritual Healers. Esperide leads seminars on healing, community building, and the development of human potential. She has participated in many conferences worldwide on new society models, new financial models and the establishment of a culture of peace sharing Damanhur’s vision with political, artistic and communal organizations worldwide. A member of Damanhur’s Way of the Oracle, Esperide specializes in research on subtle and intelligent energies. She is the author of “Damanhur: The Temples of Humankind.” www.damanhur.org |
Performance Art
 | Speed of Darkness/Velocity of Light is a surrealistic theatrical journey exploring the roots and ramifications of events and forces that have propelled humanity to the brink of economic, political, ecological, and spiritual collapse. With its free-form multimedia treatment this performance art piece weaves striking imagery and provocative textual fragments into vivid dramatic and dance performances. Speed of Darkness/Velocity of light also opens onto vistas of possible change, liberation, transcendence, and eventual transformation. Concieved and directed by Peter Anthony; a multi-disciplinary theatre artist, a director, and designer of over sixty productions in Colorado, California, and Oregon. |