2007 CPAK PRESENTERS

Dr. Robert Schoch, PhD

Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., is well known for his studies of ancient pyramids and megalithic structures across the globe. Since 1990, Schoch has been examining the accomplishments of ancient cultures, particularly as recorded in their stone monuments. He is renowned for his work on re-dating the Great Sphinx. Based on his geological studies, he has determined that the Sphinx’s origins date prior to dynastic times. He has also focused his attention on the Great Pyramid and various other temples and tombs in Egypt, as well as studying similar structures around the world. Most recently he has been carrying out research on ancient structures in Peru.

Dr. Schoch is an author and coauthor of both technical and popular books, including the trilogy with R. A. McNally: Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations, Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America, and Pyramid Quest: Secrets of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization. Schoch is a coauthor of the textbook Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions. Dr. Schoch’s most recent book publication is The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research (compilation and commentary by Robert M. Schoch and Logan Yonavjak). His books have been translated into numerous languages and distributed around the world. Dr. Schoch has appeared on many television and radio programs, and is featured in the documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx (originally aired on NBC and rebroadcast many times since). Schoch has lectured widely on geology, ancient cultures, pyramids, and the age of the Great Sphinx, and his research has helped spur renewed attention to the interrelationships between geological and astronomical phenomena, natural catastrophes, and the early history of civilization. Among other subjects, Dr. Schoch is currently pursuing research on the unusual characteristics, and possible capabilities, of ancient and traditional cultures from a psychical studies standpoint.

A full-time faculty member at Boston University’s College of General Studies since 1984, Schoch completed his graduate work at Yale University, earning a Ph.D. (1983) in geology and geophysics. His personal website address is: www.RobertSchoch.com

CPAK 2008 Topic: The Human and Cosmic Psyche

There is growing recognition of, and solid scientific evidence for, anomalous mental capabilities and phenomena such as telepathy (direct mind-to-mind information transfer) and higher levels of consciousness. Furthermore, such phenomena show correlations with environmental factors, for example the geomagnetic field of Earth, Local Sidereal Time, and other subtle energies. The concepts of precessional ages and a cycle of descent from a Golden Age are found in many cultures. Could there be a genuine basis for such traditions? Might mental capacities and capabilities alter over the course of time due to external influences on our planet? Were ancient temples and ritual sites used to focus energies and enhance anomalous mental capabilities? These and related subjects will be explored in the presentation by Robert Schoch.

Listen to Walter Cruttenden and Geoff Patino Interview Robert Schoch on Their Podcast, The Cosmic Influence.

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Robert G. Bauval

Robert G. Bauval was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1948. In 1967 he went to England to complete his higher education in Building Construction and Management at the University of the South Bank in London. From 1973 to 1985 Bauval worked on various construction projects in Oman, Iran, Sudan, Guinea, and Saudi Arabia. He now lives in Cairo near the Giza pyramids with his wife Michele.

In 1989 Bauval published a study which proposed that the layout of the three Giza Pyramids and their relative position to the Nile was intended to mirror the layout of the three stars in Orion’s belt and their relative position to the Milky Way. This thesis, now known as the ‘Orion Correlation Theory’, became the subject of his first book, The Orion Mystery, published in 1994. The Orion Mystery has been translated in more than twenty languages and has also been the subject of TV documentaries, by the BBC, ABC, Discovery Channel, Germany ZDF-Arte, Italy RAI, France A3, and many other European channels. Bauval’s second book, Keeper of Genesis (Message of the Sphinx in the USA) was co-authored with Graham Hancock, and has been translated in more than twenty-three languages as well as being the subject of several major TV documentaries. Other books by Bauval are Secret Chamber (1999), Talisman (2004, with Graham Hancock), and The Egypt Code (2006). Bauval is presently working on a new book, Sirius Rising, that will track the influence of the Egyptian star-goddess Sopdet (Sirius) from prehistoric times up to the early Christian era, with special focus on her role in the rebirth cult and temple rituals and alignments.

Laird Scranton

Laird Scranton, a software designer from Albany, New York, is the author of two books on African and Egyptian cosmology and language. His focus is on the study of comparative cosmology, which is the study of the classic myths, symbols, deities, cosmological concepts, rituals and words of various ancient and modern cultures. His emphasis is on defining fundamental similarities between the cosmologies of the modern-day Dogon tribe of Mali, ancient Egypt, and Buddhism. These studies have culminated in a new symbolic approach to interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphic words that is based on words and definitions drawn from comparative cosmology, rather than the traditional comparative texts of the Rosetta Stone. His articles include three Dogon-related topics in Temple University’s forthcoming Encyclopedia of African Religion, and a recent article in support of Marcel Griaule’s Dogon cosmology in the University of Chicago’s academic journal Anthropology News.

The Dogon, an outwardly primitive African tribe from modern-day Mali, preserve a detailed cosmology in ancient form, cast in the themes, symbols and storylines of the classic world mythologies, and couched in the clearest of modern terms, yet expressed using ancient Egyptian words. The cosmology is founded on an aligned ritual shrine that takes the same form and evokes the same symbolism as a Buddhist stupa, and culminates in a religious tradition that expresses itself through many of the signature rituals of Judaism, such as the wearing of skull caps and prayer shawls, the practice of circumcision, and the celebration of a Jubilee year. This presentation is an introduction to a pivotal culture that appears to stand at the very crossroads of ancient knowledge.

Walter Cruttenden

Walter is a researcher of ancient cultures, author of the book Lost Star of Myth and Time and the writer producer of the award winning documentary The Great Year, narrated by James Earl Jones.

He presently serves as the Director of the Binary Research Institute where he explores the cause and consequences of the “precession of the equinox” according to modern science and ancient cultures. He is the founder and director of the annual “Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge” (CPAK) and he hosts the radio show and podcast, “The Cosmic Influence”, which interviews leading authors and scientists in the fields of ancient cultures and consciousness studies. His talk this year will examine the cause, consequences and scientific implications of solar system motion.

John Burke

John Burke has a background in physics and works with hi-tech startup companies, developing new discoveries into useful, marketable tools. His chief avocation is using Occam’s Razor to explore physical as well as mental mysteries in terms of known scientific principles. Years of combining library and archival research with major field work is often required, and has proven fruitful in several fields.

In 1993, he and co-author Kaj Halberg stumbled into a mysterious arrangement of stones at Avebury stone circle (the much larger forerunner of Stonehenge). Five weeks and 1,000 magnetometer measurements showed that all 66 remaining stones had their magnetic north poles all pointed at the next stone in line. Realizing that such an accomplishment required ancient knowledge on a scale never-before suspected, Burke and Halberg began a multi-year quest over several continents to find that a variety of sophisticated approaches used known, natural electromagnetic earth energies for surprising purposes. In 2005 they combined this research into book form: Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty: Discovering the Lost Technology of the Ancient Megalith-Builders.

Their work has been featured on Coast-to-Coast AM, TV’s 20/20, Fox Networks, Discovery Channel, and History Channel.

For thousands of years our ancestors have sought out places of natural, geologically-concentrated electromagnetic energy and often built enormous megalithic structures there. The same spots were also prized for their effects on the psyche, and some remain active vision quest sites to this day. Learn about the psychic effects of certain geological structures which magnify natural electromagnetic energies by several hundred percent, how they effect your brain, where you can visit some of these sites today in the U.S. and elsewhere, and how you can locate new ones, perhaps quite near your home.

John Anthony West

John Anthony West is a writer, scholar, Pythagorean, and rebel Egyptologist, having traveled to this region more than 100 times. He is the author of The Traveler’s Key to Ancient Egypt, and consulting editor for the Traveler’s Key series. His previous book, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt is an exhaustive study of the revolutionary Egyptological work of the French mathematician and Orientalist, the late R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz.

In The Case for Astrology, West presents compelling new evidence that corroborates the astrological premise: that correlations exist between events in the sky and on Earth, and that correspondences exist between the human personality and the positions of the planets at birth.

West won an Emmy Award for his 1993 NBC Special Documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, hosted by Charlton Heston.

John Anthony West is today the leading authority and proponent of the ‘Symbolist’ school of Egyptology, an alternative interpretation of ancient Egyptian culture advanced by the French scholar and philosopher, R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1891-1962).

They may ride white stallions and wear white Stetsons, and spread televised ‘tidings of comfort and joy’, but they are not necessarily the Good Guys. This talk examines Capitalism, Patriotism, Democracy and Technology and their roles within the Precessional Yuga Cycle.