2012 Conference: Shift By the Bay

"2012 CONFERENCE: SHIFT BY THE BAY" BRINGS TOGETHER PREEMINANT THOUGHT LEADERS AT A CRITICAL TIME: THE WEEKEND PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, WHICH DETERMINE WHO WILL LEAD OUR COUNTRY TOWARD THE YEAR 2012 WHO: The world-s leading 2012 scholars, thinkers, philosophers and best-selling authors of the movement including Daniel Pinchbeck, History Channel contributor Jay Weidner, Dr.Alberto Villoldo, Sharron Rose, John Major Jenkins, James O-Dea, Dannion Brinkley, Rev. Brian Keneipp of The Aetherius Society, Rick Levine, Dr. Christine Page, Ariel Spilsbury, Shanti Shivani, Mike Bara, Marza Millar, Dwight Loop, and James V. Hardt Ph.D. (full bios below) WHAT: An opening party and weekend intensive with top authorities who have deeply explored the various themes and aspects of the 2012 phenomenon with panel discussions, lectures, FREE sacred Maya, Vedic and Q'uero ceremonies, sustainability dialogues, intimate and interactive think-tank sessions, film premieres, Sacred Geometry energy portal art, official launch of SoundsTrue-s Mysteryof2012.com web site, plus more. WHERE: Fort Mason, San Francisco (entrance is at Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, between Fisherman-s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge; easy access by MUNI and BART) WHEN: Party October 31st, Conference November 1st & November 2nd, 2008 (final pre-election weekend) The Conference opens at 10am November 1 with a Maya Ceremony led by Wisdom Teacher Erick Gonzalez who brings a lifetime of knowledge and authenticity from the lineage of Chieftains in his blood. WHY: To prepare yourself...Many ancient cultures, such as the Maya, the Q'uero Elders and the Hopi Indians, point concurrently to 2012 as a year of dramatic change and this is a unique chance for the average person to make sense of and receive survival skills for what may be the greatest shift or our generation, with a collection of expert scholars and thinkers who have extensively explored this intriguing subject for more than twenty years. SPONSORS: Sacred Mysteries Live, Harmony Festival, Reality Sandwich, Ancient Visions, TOSA Center, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Honest Tea, Sounds True, Common Ground COST: Tickets range from $15 for the 10/31 opening night party and musical premieres, to $30 for featured speaker presentations, to $199 for a day pass, to $399 for a full three-day conference VIP pass, available via http://www.2012conference.org/tickets.html or www.2012conference.eventbrite.com INFO: (800) 984-0897, www.2012conference.org , www.sacredmysterieslive.com CHECK OUT NEWS COVERAGE OF SOLD OUT CONFERENCE IN L.A.: Fox News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AK-eXlygv4 Los Angeles Times: http://2012conference.org/la-times.html BIOS OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS (as of 10/9/08): Dr. Alberto Villoldo is a Cuban American medical anthropologist and psychologist who has studied and practiced shamanism in the Andes and the Amazon for more than two decades. His books include Courageous Dreaming, Shaman, Healer, Sage, The Four Insights, and Dance of the 4 Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel. Daniel Pinchbeck is the best-selling author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head. He is the Editor of Reality Sandwich and is featured prominently as a leader in the new counter-culture movement. John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy. Featured in the New York Times Magazine, John has authored or contributed to dozens of books including Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 and The Mystery of 2012. James O'Dea is the President of the prestigious Institute of Noetic Sciences, an active member of The World Wisdom Council and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including The Mystery of 2012 and Consciousness and Healing. Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, is an author, filmmaker and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology Dance and Theatre, writer/director of the feature length documentaries 2012:The Odyssey and Timewave 2013, and a producer of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection. Dannion Brinkley is the international best-selling author of the Saved by the Light, drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters. Dannion's expertise in the area of death and dying has educated millions not to fear the presently held concept of transition from this world to the next. As a result of his journeys to the 'other side' and back again, he brings to the forefront the wondrous truth that there is indeed no such thing as death. Jay Weidner, a frequent contributor to the History Channel, is also an author, filmmaker, hermetic scholar, the producer of the documentary films: 2012: The Odyssey and Timewave 2013, and director of Secrets of Alchemy: The Great Cross and the End of Time, and the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection. Dr. James V. Hardt is the author of The Art of Smart Thinking and was privileged to participate in special ceremonies with The Mayan Council of Elders. He serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. and holds a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has also done post-doctoral training in Psychophysiology at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations, and has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life to the research and development surrounding brain wave training. Dr. Christine Page, known as a mystical physician, has over 30 years of experience in the caring professions as medical doctor and homeopath. Receiving her medical degree from London University, she now focuses on education and is a gifted intuitive and mystic who shares her insights and knowledge through teaching, soul readings and writing. As an international speaker, she sees herself as a messenger and bridge builder between different worlds whether this includes modalities of health care or levels of consciousness. Author of 6 books, the best known being Frontiers of Health, her latest, 2012 and the Galactic Center to be published in September 2008. Christine is past president of ISSSEEM and president of Holos University. She lives with her husband in Northern California. Rick Levine is a renowned astrologer, astrological scholar, author, an active voice in the global Astrology community, a presenter of seminars around the world, and has a special gift for bridging the gaps between Astrology and spirituality, science and religion, and the head and the heart. Mike Bara, co-author with Richard Hoagland of the New York Times best-seller Dark Mission: Secret History of NASA, brings his experience as an aerospace engineer in tetrahedral physics to the Conference and its connection to the 11:11 phenomenon, and ultimately its connection to the Mayan Calendar. Shanti Shivani, an internationally acclaimed Singer of Sacred Music, Nada Yogini and Sound Healer, is one of the few Western pioneers bringing the sacred traditions of Nada Yoga and Dhrupad, the most ancient style of Hindustani Classical Music, to the West. Since 1981 she has been a disciple of the esteemed Dagar family, masters of Dhrupad. She has been leading workshops internationally since 1986 and performing and recording Dhrupad vocal music and World Fusion Music since 1993. Shanti is currently living in Eugene, Oregon. Dwight Loop has been composing and performing electronic music since 1979, as a solo performer, groups (Tropozone, Tone Pharaoh, Universe 1221, Zeta Reticuli, ArtIsIndustry Orchestra, Mitochondria). Loop was founder and president of New Music New Mexico, Inc., a non-profit new music presenting organization from 1981-1986 and creator of the NEA-funded "Concentration Music Series." Loop also received grants from the NEA and New Mexico Arts Commission for many "new music" public radio series. Dwight currently is special projects director at Cobalt Sun Gallery in Sausalito, CA with founder and light artist Lynn Augstein, and is currently curator of the Synapse Electronic Arts Series (2005-2007) at Cobalt Sun and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Ariel Spilsbury calls herself ?a mumbling mystic, a brilliant fool, a savant of symbols, a wily wordsmyth, a crone and wisewoman of wyrd, a fairy godmother, a sound priestess and crystal singer, a consciousness trainer, a ceremonial magician, an initiator and truth teller, a lifelong cheerleader for the Goddess, a serpent moon visionary, a scribe and oracle of the Mystery, a Glass Bead Game magister, an archetypal agent for transformation, a mythic guide, a Crazy Wisdom initiator, divine child magician, a mythic script writer, a dragon dreamer, a harmonic navigator, a planetary midwife and inner dimensions journey guide.? Rev. Brian Keneipp is the Executive Director of The Aetherius Society, founded by Dr. George King, which continues to use his tools and wisdom to help heal and raise humanity to better understand and weather the approaching shift, for example the mystical text known as Twelve Blessings. Marza Millar explains her background as ?Owner of Ancient Visions in Grass Valley, California, and an anthropologist and a Shamanic practitioner. My father was Shamanic practitioner so I was raised with and around indigenous people all my life. I taught Hawaiiana at the University of Hilo but I never spent anytime with a trained native Hawaiian Shamanic practitioner until 1994 when I began studying with Aka Pule, Hawaiian Spiritual Guide and decedent of a high priest lineage. My goal is to build a bridge from Hawaii to the Mainland to bring knowledge from an ancient people in how to live in balance and harmony with ourselves and our world. Speakers subject to change upon availability. ###