2008 CPAK PRESENTERS

Dr. Carmen Boulter

Dr. Carmen Boulter is a Professor at the University of Calgary in Canada. She teaches in the Graduate Division of Educational Research in the Faculty of Education. She has been researching and writing about the sacred feminine in ancient Egypt and goddesses around the world for 2 decades. Her book, Angels and Archetypes: An Evolutionary Map of Feminine Consciousness, traces fragments of information about matriarchal cultures in pre-dynastic Egypt, prehistoric Greece, and around the world. Since 1995, Carmen has been leading sacred site journeys to Egypt, the Mediterranean, Peru, and Tibet. She has traveled to 51 countries exploring ancient mysteries. At CPAK 2008, she will be releasing her documentary series called The Pyramid Code offering a new perspective on ancient Egyptian culture with episodes investigating the purpose of the pyramid fields, high-level technology, sacred cosmology, the empowered human, a new chronology, and the time before the Pharaohs.

CPAK 2008 Topic: Archetypes of the Sacred Feminine in Ancient Egypt

When examining ancient cultures, we tend to look through the lenses of our current cultural paradigm, yet subtle details are easily missed when interpreting ancient Egypt from a patriarchal perspective. Dr. Carmen Boulter will be speaking about archetypes of the empowered feminine in ancient Egypt showing evidence which is clearly depicted in the symbols on temple walls and ancient artifacts. The ancient Egyptians had a sacred cosmology that held the sacred feminine in balance with the sacred masculine thus they were able to function as empowered humans. Carmen will also explore the matriarchal roots of dynastic Egypt.

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

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Joscelyn Godwin, PhD

Joscelyn Godwin grew up in Oxford and was educated at Cambridge (Magdalene College). Coming to the USA in 1966, he studied at Cornell (Ph. D. in Musicology) and has taught for many years at Colgate University in New York State. Alongside his career as a music historian (with books including Harmonies of Heaven and Earth and Music and the Occult), he has written, edited, and translated many works on the Western Esoteric Tradition. They include studies of the Hermetic philosophers Robert Fludd and Athanasius Kircher, The Theosophical Enlightenment, Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival, The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance, The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions, and a translation of the monumental Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an erotic-architectural fantasy of 1499.

Godwin teaches perhaps the only college course on “The Atlantis Debate,” interpreted as the question of whether there was high civilization in prehistoric times. Without claiming to settle the debate one way or another, he uses it to raise questions about cosmology, the scientific method, rejected knowledge, and the will to believe or disbelieve.

CPAK 2008 Topic: Atlantis of the Occultists

The search inspired by Plato’s myth of Atlantis has led to innumerable theories about where it was, what it was like, and why it ended. A special group of theories breaks the rules of rationalist history by allowing spiritual, psychic, and occult realities to play a part. This talk describes some of these, and their consequences.

Marie D. Jones

Marie D. Jones is a widely published author with more than thirty books to her name. Her most recent include PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena, and Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History, co-authored with her father, Dr. John Savino Ph.D. Her newest book is 2013- The End of Days or A New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012, and she is currently completing 11:11 – The Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities with Larry Flaxman of ARPAST, with whom she recently formed ParaExplorers.com.

In addition to her books, Marie has been published in dozens of magazines and national publications, is a popular online book reviewer, and co-creator and producer of a number of reality and children’s videos. She is also a New Thought/Metaphysics minister and spiritual counselor, with a background in metaphysical studies, and an avid reader and student of the paranormal, science and human potential. She serves as President of Progressive Democrats of San Diego, a chapter of Progressive Democrats of America. Marie has been interviewed for dozens of media outlets and has appeared on over 100 radio shows, including Coast To Coast with George Noory, Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland, The Shirley MacLaine Show, Beyond Reality with Sci Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters, and many more. She lives with her son, Max, in San Marcos, California.

CPAK 2008 Topic: Quantum Leaps: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past

Explore the most cutting edge theories and discoveries in quantum and theoretical physics and new science and how they might explain mysterious paranormal or anomalous phenomena. From alternate dimensions to parallel universes to the Zero Point Grid, is reality a many-leveled infrastructure? And what did the ancients know of these truths? Much more than we ever imagined…

Listen to Walter Cruttenden and Geoff Patino Interview Marie D. Jones on Their Podcast, The Cosmic Influence.

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Thomas Brophy, PhD

Thomas Brophy has a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, was a staff research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, with NASA interplanetary spacecraft projects, and was a National Science Foundation exchange scientist with the University of Tokyo and Japan Space Program. A member of one of the Voyager II spacecraft instrument teams, he developed theoretical understandings for data from the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), especially planetary rings and planetary dynamics. He was also involved in defining science goals for future space mission instrumentation. He devised a novel method of testing fundamental theories of planet formation by searching for extrasolar debris, that was reported on by Nature magazine. Those interests in general fundamental theory, and experience teaching at the University level, led to broader studies involving the non-calculable and immeasurable aspects of the universe, and Integral philosophy.

These Integral studies, together with formal practice of contemplative traditions, led to his book The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism. Recombining Integral philosophy with astrophysical dynamics led to his studies of the astro-archaeology of pre-historic and proto-historic Egypt. These studies have led to work on the origin and calibration of the Zodiac, and intriguing evidence for the importance of “Zodiac Ages” in the mind of early human cultures. Some of this is contained in his book The Origin Map.

He has published peer reviewed scientific articles in premier journals including Icarus, Mediterranean Journal of Archaeology and Archaeometry, IEEE Journal, Science. He has been a featured presenter at scientific conferences, as well as Integral spirituality meetings, in the United States, Europe, Japan and New Zealand. He is recently studying the astro-archaeology of Pre-Dynastic Egypt, including newly found evidences of astronomy and astro-ceremonial complexes in the Egyptian “western desert” (eastern Sahara). Regarding this he has acquired the cooperation of international satellite remote sensing, and is co-authoring a forthcoming book.

CPAK 2008 Topic: Integrating Recent Finds in the Egyptian Western Desert, the Origin of the Zodiac, and Yuga Cycles

The prehistoric astronomy of Nabta Playa is considered – astonishing aspects, enduring enigmas, and recent finds. Evidence for proto-historic knowledge and monumentalization of a Zodiac calibration method that integrates with the Yuga cycle is considered.

William Sullivan, PhD

Archaeoastronomer, historian, and student of myth, William Sullivan is the author of The Secret of the Incas: Myth Astronomy and the War Against Time, which was featured in a two hour documentary on Channel 4, England. Having recently completed a five year stint as senior content consultant for a proposed museum of world mythology, he is currently working on a project to clarify the relationship between Algonquian mythology and the enigmatic Native American stone constructions scattered throughout the woodlands of New England.

CPAK 2008 Topic: The Invisible Pyramid of Ollantaytambo

Dr. Sullivan will discuss how precessional change was regarded and recorded in Andean myth, its relationship to the formation of the Inca empire, and how newly discovered monumental earthworks in the Sacred Valley of the Incas confirm this understanding of the myths.

David Hatcher Childress

David Hatcher Childress, known as the real-life Indiana Jones to the many fans of his books, is a captivating speaker and the author or coauthor of over 15 books. He has traveled the world several times over, seeking adventure and the answers to the mysteries of mankind’s past.

Born in France in 1957 and raised in the mountains of Colorado and Montana, David’s curiosity about the world was piqued at a young age. He attended the University of Montana where his studies in oriental culture and philosophy led him to a job teaching English in Taiwan. In 1976, David left the United States on what would become a six-year research and adventure odyssey. During this time, he studied first-hand the ancient civilizations of Africa, the Middle East, and China, sometimes journeying into dangerous territory along the way (like Uganda during the overthrow of Idi Amin).

After more than 20 years of investigating these arcane subjects, David finds his unique views and ideas gaining popularity. He has appeared on Fox’s Sightings & Encounters, two NBC specials, The Conspiracy Zone, and segments for the Discovery Channel, A&E, and the History Channel. He is also a frequent guest on nationally syndicated radio shows. He continues to explore, write and excite people about discovery through his magazine, World Explorer, and his publishing company, Adventures Unlimited Press.

CPAK 2008 Topic: The Mystery of the Olmecs

The oldest, and probably greatest mystery of early Mexico, and North America, in general, is the problem of the Olmecs. Often referred to as Proto-Mayans by academic archeologists, many sculptures and other artifacts from this enigmatic civilization depict individuals who have African, Oriental or European features. The expressions and symbolism in many objects from the period seem to indicate a high level of sophistication, and a shared iconography with other cultures. What does it all mean? Who are these people? Were they isolated villagers or strangers from a faraway land?

David Steinmentz

“Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come  about not from dictates of governments and the results of battles but through vast numbers of people changing their minds-sometimes only a little bit.”
-Willis Harman

Cycles of global Consciousness

David Steinmetz has been giving lectures and classes on the Yuga Cycle model of history and evolution of consciousness for more than a decade. He presently teaches at the Ananda Institute for Alternative Living in Nevada City California. He is in the late stages of writing one book on the Yugas and is co-authoring another. His former careers were in astronomy at the University of Arizona, and optical engineering at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. There is a great need today for a universal model of humanity’s development that reaches back to mythological times, puts recorded history in a meaningful perspective, provides a context for understanding current events and shows the direction of our future. The understanding held by the ancients of many cultures that global consciousness rises and falls in a cycle linked to the precession of the equinoxes fills that need. David Steinmetz will describe this cycle of ages called the Yugas, and show how the concept provides a unifying framework for much that appears inconsistent or anomalous in the conventional model. David will also introduce the Ananda Institute of Alternative Living which offers higher education based on a worldview incorporating universal yoga principles and the Yugas.

About David Steinmetz

David Steinmetz has been giving lectures and classes on the Yuga Cycle model of history and evolution of consciousness for more than a decade. He presently teaches at the Ananda Institute for Alternative Living in Nevada City California. He is in the late stages of writing one book on the Yugas and is co-authoring another. His former careers were in astronomy at the University of Arizona, and optical engineering at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.