Speakers at the 2010 SymposiumFriday 23rd July 2010 | Jason Porthouse |
Jackie Queally |
Ian Crane | Saturday 24th July 2010
| Andy Thomas |
Barrie Trower |
Bert Janssen |
Christopher Booker | Sunday 25th July 2010
| John Dalton |
Rod Bearcloud | Sunday Night Special Feature
Andrew Collins
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FRIDAY 23 JULY 2010
JASON PORTHOUSE:Website: Linked-in
Jason Porthouse is a longstanding member of the croppie community, having joined the Sussex crop circle group in 1992. He's had a lifelong interest in all things metaphysical and mysterious, having been brought up in a household where 'spiritual' beliefs were the norm. The arrival of the crop circle phenomenon, along with joining a psychic development group run by Paul Bura, sparked a much more active role in exploring the mysteries of our world. Jason is a keen dowser and occasional meditator ('must try harder!'). Back in the 'real' world, Jason is an Emmy award-winning TV editor whose work ranges from short films to BBC's Panorama. He lives on the Somerset Levels with his partner Di (co-organiser of the Symposium) and four cats. PRESENTATION: Middle Earth - Crop Circles, Liminal Spaces and the Mess We're in JACKIE QUEALLY:Websites: shamiir-orion.org celtictrails.co.uk graillands.co.uk
Jackie has a life-long interest in how landscape features reflect higher geometries and energies that can be observed, understood and worked with to facilitate the current planetary evolution. She has spent the last eleven years writing books relating to her tours of sacred sites that form part of the intricate 'Metatronic' evolving earth (and off-planet) grids that resonate with the 'Reshel', a little known and very sacred metascience that organises, supports and creates new creational energies. There are many applications to the Reshel, including crop circle formations, the common purpose being to align with specific geometric formats so that the higher intelligences guiding the evolution of the cosmos can interact with human consciousness. PRESENTATION: The Higher Purpose of Earth Grids and Crop Circles in the South West of England IAN R CRANE:Website: ianrcrane.co.uk
Ian is a veteran of a 20-year career in international oilfield services, which provided him with the opportunity to live and work in the Middle East (including during Gulf War One), mainland Europe and the USA. His experiences have led him to his current and highly influential work in exposing the many layers of global deception. Having chaired the British 9/11 Truth Campaign for two years, Ian moved on to his now ongoing programme of lecturing and set up the hugely successful 'Alternative View' truth conferences, which have played to packed audiences hungry for unfiltered information on the world around them. In 2009, Ian was presented with a special award by Scott Tips of the US National Health Federation for his unceasing work in helping to expose the worryingly restrictive intentions of the global food 'safety' body, Codex Alimentarius. PRESENTATION: Exposing the Global Fiefdom SCOTT SIMPSON:Website: thespiritparlour.com
Paranormal investigator and ghost-hunter Scott is enthusiastic and passionate about considering the 'After Life' and is particularly intrigued by the enduring and almost universal interest in 'what happens next?' He has discovered that the past 'can come to life when people try to understand death' and he never tires of sitting in the cold and the dark, waiting for the two worlds to touch 'through the veil'. Although '99%' of what he has experienced can be 'logically explained away', it is the 1% that keeps him coming back for more. Scott describes himself as an eternally hopeful sceptic. PRESENTATION: A History of Ghost-Hunting MARY HYKEL HUNT:Website: hykelhunt.co.uk
Describing herself as a 'personal growth consultant with a difference', Mary combines cutting-edge psychological approaches with intuitive techniques to produce personal and professional development programmes and consultation/coaching sessions that are effective, creative and productive. 'Too often, we live out of the attic of our minds', says Mary. 'We settle for a life that's less than it could be - and I'm not just talking materially. My mission is to help people live more successful lives by tapping into resources they don't know they have'. PRESENTATION: Learning From the Future
TIM HALL (music):Websites: myspace.com/timflatus last.fm/music/Tim+Hall Described by some as the first chaired Bard of Glastonbury, or 'Glastonbury's own enchanting troubadour, in recent times Tim has been honoured to provide supports for Robin Williamson and Dom Duff, in-between regular gigging. Tim also recently delivered a talk on Celtic Spirituality at Lowender Peran, the Cornish cultural festival. PRESENTATION: Celtic Folk
OPEN FORUM:Your chance to participate in an audience discussion with a panel of distinguished guests from the world of truth-seeking and mysteries research, some speakers from the weekend, and others not, to explore many of the matters arising from the issues of the event - and beyond. For many, our lively and heartfelt forums have become one of the highlights of the Symposium. SATURDAY 24 JULY 2010
ANDY THOMAS:Websites: truthagenda.org vitalsignspublishing.co.uk
Andy is a leading researcher into unexplained mysteries and is the author of the acclaimed The Truth Agenda, which explores the link between paranormal phenomena, global cover-ups and 2012 prophecies. His many other books include Vital Signs, described widely as the definitive guide to the crop circle phenomenon. Andy is founder of Changing Times, which holds events on truth and liberty issues, and also runs Vital Signs Publishing, which produced Geoff Stray's seminal Beyond 2012, which Andy edited. He is also author of four books on his home town of Lewes. Andy extensively writes and lectures in Britain and abroad, and has made numerous radio and TV appearances. UK spots have included Channel 4's Richard and Judy, BBC 2's Esther, ITV's GMTV, BBC 1's The One Show and Sky 1's Pineapple Dance Studios. Andy has also featured in television programmes as far afield as the USA, Peru, Japan, Germany, Italy and many other countries. PRESENTATION: Who are the Torch-Bearers? BARRIE TROWER:![]() Barrie trained in microwave research for the military when he worked with the underwater bomb disposal unit of the Royal Navy. He then spent eleven years 'de-briefing spies' involved in stealth microwave warfare during the Cold War, before becoming a campaigner on the detrimental health effects of electronic communications, such as mobile phones and wireless internet services. PRESENTATION: Will the Communications Industry be the Final Straw for our Planet's Eco-Systems? Janet Ossebaard has been taken ill and is unable to attend the Symposium. Instead, her friend and colleague Bert Janssen is joining us. BERT JANSSEN:Website: Crop Circles and More
Dutch native Bert is an award-winning author, researcher and world traveller who has appeared in numerous documentaries and on radio and TV shows. His interest in the power of shapes, form, harmony, and geometry has led him into the mysterious world of crop circles, Gothic Cathedrals, and ancient sites. He travels all over the world to study, photograph and record these mysteries on film, which has led to the production of three documentaries. Bert has written many articles on the subject of crop circles, the geometry behind them, and how the landscape of England plays its part in this great crop circle enigma. He is the author of several books including The Hypnotic Power of Crop Circles and Sophia's Egg. Bert Janssen's life quest is to unravel the great mysteries of humankind, to go to the place where science and spirituality intersect: There where quantum physics meets shamanism. There where the world consists of images and where life is based on the power of perception. There where matter meets Spirit, where Heaven meets Earth. Bert says: "The most wonderful awe-inspiring aspect of unraveling the great mysteries is that you are actually unraveling yourself. It's a mind-provoking adventure to explore these realms, to unveil these great mysteries. Once the cascading chain of discoveries is ignited within you, the quest for truth is unstoppable. It never ceases to fascinate me that once this process has begun, the stream of new and remarkable breakthroughs appears to be endless". PRESENTATION: Crop Circles and The Great Time CHRISTOPHER BOOKER:Website: telegraph.co.uk
Christopher is an English journalist and author. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read history. His parents founded the elite girls' school Knighton House. He has been described by James Delingpole in The Spectator as doing 'the kind of proper, old-school things that journalists hardly ever bother with in this new age of aggregation and flip bloggery: he digs, he makes the calls, he reads the small print, he takes up the cause of the little man and campaigns, he speaks truth to power without fear or favour'. Booker is also well-known for holding contrarian views on a number of topical issues, including global warming, the link between passive smoking and cancer, and Intelligent Design. In 1961, he was one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye, and he now regularly contributes to major British broadsheet newspapers, especially the Sunday Telegraph, and is never far from controversy. PRESENTATION: The Real Global Warming Disaster PALDEN JENKINS:Websites: palden.co.uk paldywan.blogspot.com
Palden is a humanitarian working in Bethlehem, Palestine, an author, editor, webmaster and 'general purpose soul-implant and troublemaker on a weird world called Planet Earth'. A sixties veteran 'who never quite got over it, been at it for years and as yet unfinished', Palden is an old friend of the Symposium, a former longterm resident of Glastonbury now living in Cornwall, and author of Living in Time, The Only Planet of Choice and Healing the Hurts of Nations. His latest book, Pictures of Palestine, is due out in 2011. PRESENTATION: Will They Still Serve Tea in 2023? LUCY PRINGLE:Website: lucypringle.co.uk
Lucy was a founder member of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and is Chairman of UNEX (Unexplained Phenomena Research Society). Widely known as a crop circle photographer and an international authority on the subject, she is also a pioneer researcher into the effects of electromagnetic fields on living systems. This includes the physiological and psychological effects reported by people after visiting or being in the vicinity of a crop formation, as well as animal behaviour, remote effects, luminosities, mechanical failures and audio effects. Her research shows measured changes in human hormones following short exposure to the circles, and also changes in brain activity. PRESENTATION: The Latest Crop Circles
THE AVALONIAN FREE STATE CHOIR:The traditional appearance of Glastonbury's inspirational acapella choir, which has performed at many prestigious events, including the Three Choirs Festival and, naturally, the Glastonbury Festival. The choir will present rousing and inspirational choral pieces from around the world, sung with enthusiastic energy to open the Saturday night proceedings, providing uplifting, beautiful entertainment. PATTY GREER:Website: PattyGreer.com
Patty Greer had been known as a singer, songwriter, pianist and harpist for over 30 years. In 2007 she came to England seeking a 'different kind of healing' and laid down in the centre of a crop circle. Within two weeks she had taken more than 1,100 photos of crop formations and attended the Glastonbury Symposium. She decided to interview a few speakers there, along with the passionate 'croppies' she met in the fields day after day. Patty hired a UK film crew and created her crop circle film The Wake Up Call - Anybody Listening? with no previous experience or training. Six months later she made a full feature documentary on UFOs. Six months after that she made her movie on 2012, which will be shown this evening. Her world has now turned to full time editing and filming and 'being enveloped by the magic of the unseen worlds'. Her original music fills the soundtracks as she delivers heavy material with a feminine touch. FILM and DISCUSSION: 2012 - We're Already In It SUNDAY 25 JULY 2010
JOHN DALTON:Website: harpjohn.com
John Dalton is a renowned player of harp and wind instruments. Although he began with Celtic harp, John Dalton has very eclectic tastes and soon began to enjoy the instrument's wider repertoire: Latin American, medieval, classical, jazz, world folk music and much else. He has made three CDs and is working on a fourth. Long interested in the esoteric aspects of music and the other arts, he was formerly assistant editor of Guitar magazine, editor of New View and Avalon magazines, and managed Rudolf Steiner Press in the 1990s. He also sings and plays woodwind and electric guitar in The Dalton Gang. PRESENTATION: The Evolution of Music and Consciousness ROD BEARCLOUD:Websites: bearcloud.com starnationgallery.com chameleon-project.org
Rod Bearcloud Berry, world-renowned vision seeker/seer and artist has spent a lifetime painting hidden layers of inspiration and messages of the Earth, and is renowned in the crop circle world for his beautiful analyses of the geometry and form of the phenomenon. Now after twelve years of research involving what he refers to as 'starglyphs' - magical symbols which often appear as crop formations - as well as investigating the great pyramids of Egypt, he has transcribed those messages into the pages of a book called The Seven Fires. PRESENTATION: The Seven Fires MARY RODWELL:Website: etworldpeace.com
Mary is the principal of ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network) and a former nurse/midwife, counsellor and hypnotherapist. She is the author of Awakening, and the director of EBE-award winning documentaries Expressions of ET Contact: a visual blueprint? and Expressions of ET Contact: a communication and healing blueprint?. Born in the UK, Mary emigrated to Australia in 1991 and resides in Queensland. ACERN offers professional counselling support, hypnotherapy and information to individuals and their families who have 'anomalous' paranormal experiences, particularly specializing in abduction/contact cases. PRESENTATION: The New Human GEOFF STRAY:Website: diagnosis2012.co.uk
Geoff has been studying the meaning of the year 2012 since 1982. Around 1996, he started to compile the information into a stapled booklet called Beyond 2012. In 2000 he made it available on the internet via his website Diagnosis 2012. Since then the website has become renowned as the most comprehensive database available on 2012, and has gathered input from every corner of the globe. PRESENTATION: Tortuguero and the Species Passage Rites of 2012 PATRICIA CORI:Websites: patriciacori.com bbsradio.com
Patricia is a world-renowned author/channel, teacher/lecturer, radio host and spiritual guide to the sacred sites of the world, awakening people to Earth energies and the Secret Wisdom. A native of San Francisco Bay, Patricia has been immersed in the New Age movement since its inception there in the early 1970s. She has utilised her clairvoyant abilities in healing and support work throughout her life, which has been dedicated in great part to the study of mysticism, philosophy, ancient civilizations, metaphysical healing, spirituality and unexplained mysteries. Patricia is well-known on the international lecture circuit, actively offering courses, seminars and workshops around the world on a vast range of topics. PRESENTATION: Galactic Citizens of the Multiverse SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIAL FEATURE
ANDREW COLLINS:
An intrepid writer and explorer, Andrew is renowned for his books on ancient civilisations and lost knowledge, including the acclaimed From the Ashes of Angels and Gods of Eden. Previously, Andrew was a leading figure in the 'psychic questing' movement, producing the influential books The Seventh Sword and The Black Alchemist. Andrew has also been involved in investigating the link between Wilhelm Reich's 'orgone energy' experiments and the energetic properties of crop circles, as explored in his book The Circlemakers (recently updated as The New Circlemakers). PRESENTATION: Beneath the Pyramids PLEASE NOTE: Please note that this presentation must be booked separately from the rest of the weekend events. |
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