The Conference
An ongoing inquiry into precession, antiquity, and the cycles that shape civilization.
A living dialogue among thinkers, researchers, and visionaries — scientists, historians, philosophers, and independent scholars exploring ancient knowledge systems, cosmic cycles, consciousness, and humanity's place in deep time. CPAK is committed to rigorous inquiry and to ideas that challenge conventional narratives.
CPAK began in the early 2000s as an informal gathering — Walter Cruttenden, John Major Jenkins, Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, John Burke, and a handful of others meeting to compare notes on ancient sites, mythological stories, and the celestial cycles those stories seemed to encode.
What started as a few people presenting and a small group exchanging ideas has grown into a regular conference convening scientists, historians, philosophers, and independent scholars around a shared set of questions about humanity’s deep past. The audience members are as interesting as the speakers!
CPAK is hosted by the Binary Research Institute, a Newport Beach–based archaeoastronomy think tank directed by Walter Cruttenden — author of Lost Star of Myth and Time and a long-time researcher of solar-system motion and the cyclical models of time encoded across ancient cultures.
Past CPAK gatherings have hosted researchers including John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, Christopher Dunn, Andrew Collins, and many others — voices already questioning conventional narratives about the age and sophistication of ancient civilization.
Over time the conference has widened its scope: from archaeoastronomy and sacred geometry to consciousness studies, anomalous artifacts, and the science of cyclical time. Each gathering brings new findings, new faces, and new evidence.
CPAK XIV takes place September 25–27, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach — bringing together eighteen presenters from across disciplines to continue a dialogue that began over two decades ago.
The Sun moving retrograde through the twelve constellations of the Zodiac over about 25,000 years. Is it all due to a wobbling axis, or does the solar system move?
Tens of thousands of stone constructions around the world, many astronomically aligned, all mysterious, far predating conventional timelines.
How ancient cultures mapped the sky, encoded celestial knowledge in myth and architecture, tracked cycles spanning millennia, and built structures that mirrored the heavens.
The Greek name for the Cycle of the Ages — a.k.a. the Yugas to the Indians — producing changes in consciousness and civilizations over vast timescales, according to multiple ancient cultures.
Evidence for advanced predecessor civilizations — anomalous artifacts, eroded monuments, and geological records pointing to a more complex human past.
Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California.
An ongoing inquiry into precession, antiquity, and the cycles that shape civilization.