Conference Speakers

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The Honorable Paul Hellyer is a former Canadian Minister for National Defense (1963-1967) in the Cabinet of Lester Pearson and Senior Minister in the cabinet of Pierre Trudeau (1968-1969). While Minister for Defense, the occasional UFO sighting report crossed his desk, he claims to never have had time for what he considered to be a "flight of fancy."While Minister for Defense, he was guest of honor at the opening of the world's first UFO landing pad at Alberta, Canada in 1967. Though interested in UFOs he did not give much thought to UFO's having serious policy implications. His position dramatically changed after reading Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell. He contacted a retired United States Air Force General and spoke to him directly to verify Corso's claims. The unnamed General simply said: "every word is true and more". Finally convinced that the UFO phenomenon was real he decided to come forward and speak at the September 2005 Exopolitics Toronto about some of the "most profoundly important policy questions that must be addressed." The key policy questions Mr Hellyer addressed concern the possible targeting of extraterrestrial visitors with space weapons. These questions are vitally important for exploring the implications of visiting extraterrestrial civilizations and world peace. For more information, click here.of E

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Ambassador John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, in Washington D.C., which focuses on national and international ethnic conflicts. He has written or edited eight books on negotiation and conflict resolution. Ambassador McDonald holds both a B.A. and a J.D. degree from the University of Illinois, and graduated from the National War College in 1967. He was appointed Ambassador twice by President Carter and twice by President Reagan to represent the United States at various UN World Conferences. For more information, click here.

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JZ Knight is considered by many religious experts and historians to be one of the most charismatic and remarkable spiritual leaders of the modern age. She is the "channel" through which Ramtha the Enlightened One delivers his message, an ascended Master Teacher who learned the secrets of immortality during his lifetime 35,000 years ago. His powerful message of hope, freedom, and truth has already altered countless lives - none more powerfully and dramatically than the life of JZ Knight herself. It is, indeed, a life she was chosen for but a life with every conceivable hardship and obstacle imposed on it. Throughout her life JZ Knight has fought disease, prejudice, and loneliness and has triumphantly overcome them all. She has experienced extraordinary paranormal phenomena, a UFO encounter, and a miraculous healing. She is the president of JZK, Inc., parent company for Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, and the avid founder and chairwoman of JZ Knight Humanities Foundation. Some of the main humanitarian charities sponsored by JZ Knight through her foundation have been the empowerment of women, world peace, and education scholarships for children. Since 1988, JZ Knight has contributed over $1,200,000 to 200 graduating High School seniors so they could pursue their educational goals. She has also helped local church's charities aiding communities in Africa and participated as the address speaker in international women's conferences affiliated with the United Nations. For more information, click here.

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JOAN OCEAN, M.Sc, is one of the nation's leading researchers in the field of human-dolphin and whale communication. She is co-founder of Dolphin Connection International, an organization that explores the advancement of human consciousness, biophysics and spirituality by producing visionary films, books, artforms and Ocean Seminars encouraging friendships between people and ocean-swimming dolphins and whales. Her best selling books, Dolphin Connection: Interdimensional Ways of Living & Dolphins into the Future, are published in five languages. She was the convenor of the first Dolpin-Extraterrestrial Civilizations conference in Kona, Hawaii (2005), and is pioneer in human-dolphin-extraterrestrial communications. Her principal websites are: www.joanocean.com and www.etfriends.com

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C. B. Scott Jones, Ph.D is founder and president of the Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth. Previous to this he was co-founder and president of the Human Potential Foundation. Prior to this position he was Special Assistant to Senator Claiborne Pell from January 1985 until March 1991. Retiring as a Commander in the U.S. Navy, approximately half of his thirty-year naval career was spent in intelligence service overseas and in the United States. In 1989, he and Senator Claiborne Pell co-founded the Human Potential Foundation that was involved in a number of research projects. Under the Center for Interspecies Communications, the Human Potential Foundation conducted Projects Neptune Helper I and II, dolphin research with Atlantic Bottlenose and Spotted dolphins. A major two-year program funded by Laurance Rockefeller was completed with an international conference, When Cosmic Cultures Meet, in Washington, D.C. in May 1995. In November 1998, the Human Potential Foundation was dissolved and its principal undertaking, a global peace initiative, transferred to the newly established Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth, Inc. Principal Website: www.peaceroom.com

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Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in International Law. He is a former Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy at Stanford Research Institute, where he directed a proposed 1977 Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication Study. He is an author, futurist, lawyer, environmentalist and a space activist who promotes an Exopolitics Initiative, and a ban on weapons and warfare in space. Alfred Webre is presently International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, and host of a public affairs radio talk show in Vancouver, B.C. His principal websites are www.exopolitics.com and www.peaceinspace.com

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Paola Harris, MEd. is an Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial related phenomena research. She has studied extraterrestrial related phenomena since 1979 and is on personal terms with many of the leading researchers in the field. She has been a speaker on many radio shows and conferences in Italy, San Marino, Belgium and Germany, and has appeared many times on Italian TV. She has written for Nexus, UFO Magazine, Notizario UFO and Dossier Alieni, among others publications. Her book is entitled, Connecting the Dots: making sense of the UFO Phenomena (Granite Press). Her principal website is: www.paolaharris.it

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Dr Thomas Hansen received his Ph. D. in higher education administration and began his teaching career in the Peace Corps in Liberia in 1964. He was a mathematics and computer education author for Scholastic Publishing, IBM, Silver Burdett, Scott-Foresman, and Encyclopedia Britannica. Dr. Hansen was the Founder and President of the Peace Exchange Foundation, which coordinated citizen exchanges between Russia and the US in the 1980's. He was a NGO representative at the Earth Summit in 1992. Dr. Hansen is also a songwriter, recorded singer, guitarist. He wrote and recorded UFO Oil, a CD with over 10,000 copies distributed free. He is the author of a Declaration of Cosmic Cooperation, and of the book Trying To Remember. His principal website is: http://www.cosmiccooperation.com/

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Lt Col Wendelle C. Stevens (Ret) was born in 1923 and enlisted in the U.S. Military Service at an early age. He alternated his career between pilot and Air Technical Service assignments with the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright Field. In 1947 Stevens was assigned from ATIC to Alaska where he first encountered stories of real UFOs, and became interested in the subject. Mr. Stevens now has one of the largest collections of actual UFO photographs in private hands in the world. He has been actively investigating UFO contact cases since 1975 when his photo interests brought him into investigating a UFO contactee case in Switzerland.

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Capt. Robert Salas (ret.) served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force for seven years after graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964. He served at Tyndall AFB, Florida before his assignment at Malmstrom AFB, Montana in 1966. He earned a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He also worked with the Titan III Missile Systems program office at Los Angeles AFS. After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1971, Mr. Salas briefly worked as an engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace and Rockwell International. From 1974 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Salas worked for the Federal Aviation Administration as an aircraft structures engineer. Mr. Salas has spoken publicly about the 1967 UFO/Missile Shutdowns since 1995. He is co-author of Faded Giant .

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Philip Corso, Jnr is a self-made man born into a military family in Gadsden, Alabama during World War II. His father's Army career took the family to Japan, Italy, Germany and postings in the United States. Phil Corso grew up, married twice and had a daughter and three sons. He parlayed his talent for mechanical engineering into a career and now builds experimental aircraft and runs his company, High Speed Composites.

But his life was to take an extraordinary turn in 1997, when the senior Corso, his father, Colonel Philip J. Corso (ret.), published a memoir written with William J. Birnes. That memoir, The Day after Roswell , is easily one of the most controversial and implicative books published in the 20th Century. Now Phil, Jr. has an additional vocation - protecting, extending and validating his father's legacy.

Philip J. Corso, Sr. died in July of 1998 at the age of 83. He had made a decision to tell his story as best he could. He spoke eloquently about the need for the United States government to tell the American people about their world. Now his son speaks for him. It is a worthy vocation, the product of which may well be a paradigm change in human affairs and world peace.ay w

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Neil Freer is a researcher, writer, lecturer, philosopher and poet living in Santa Fe, NM. Neil holds a BA in English and did graduate work in Philosophy and Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has taught college courses in Philosophy and History of Religion, gives private and public seminars and lectures and has done over two hundred radio and TV interviews. Neil is the author of Breaking the Godspell, a book which explores the ramifications of the archaeological, astronomical and genetic proof for our being a genetically engineered species and presents the ramifications of this new paradigm of human nature that resolves the Creationist-Evolutionary conflict. His principal website is: www.neilfreer.com

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James Gilliland was a succesful businessman until he experienced a Near Death Experience (NDE) over twenty years ago. After his NDE, James received the gift of Interdimensional Mind and the ability to transfer powerful consciousness and energy to others, helping them in their own awakening and healing process. He is a author of REUNION WITH SOURCE and BECOMMING GODS II. He's lived a semi-reclusive life since 1986 at the Sattva Sanctuary, a 70 acre mountain retreat located at the base of Mt. Adams in Trout Lake, Washington. He has filmed many UFOs passing over Sattwa Sanctuary and hosted numerous scientists, UFO researchers abd filmakers who have been investigating the UFO phenomenon in the Mt Adams area. James has had several direct experiences with extraterrestrials, and communicates with extraterrestrial races in the vicinity of Sattwa Sanctuary. He claims Mt Adams is the location of an extraterrestrial base that is frequented by a number of extraterrestrial civilizations interested in raising human consciousness and promoting world peace. His principal website is www.eceti.org

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Darryl Anka's spiritual journey began after two very close encounters with triangular UFOs in 1973 and, as a result of that contact, he has channeled Bashar, an extraterrestrial consciousness, for over twenty years. Darryl currently has ten books of Bashar's information in print in the US and Japan and is a co-author/illustrator of two other UFO-related books. Darryl also has a thirty-year career in film design and special effects and has expanded his focus to screenwriting, producing and directing in film and television. Most recently, Darryl became the Executive Director of a non-profit organization called the Extraterrestrial Contact Act (ECA), under the National Heritage Foundation, with the goal of establishing global protocols for open contact with Extraterrestrials. More information about Bashar, Darryl and the ECA can be found at: http://www.bashar.org & http://www.contactact.org

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Mary Rodwell RN ACERN (Western Australia) is a former nurse, midwife,now a professional counsellor, hypnotherapist, ufologist researcher and metaphysician. Founder and Principal of ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network.) ACERN supports individuals and their families with “encounter” experiences. It provides information to raise public awareness, both in the media, psychological, therapeutic/medical and complementary healing professions. Mary has appeared in several television documentaries, nationally and internationally. Mary directed and presented the EBE award winning documentaries, Expressions of ET Contact..a visual Blueprint?& Expressions of ET Contact a communication and Healing Blueprint? Author of ‘Awakening” How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life.’ Mary's research focus's on the transformative changes after Contact such as heightened psi abilities, telepathy, clairvoyance and healing. She explores the implications of the unusual and complex artwork, scripts, symbols and strange languages, with “down-loading” of complex data conveyed through mental images and concepts, ‘energy signatures’ or “wave forms ‘ at this heightened consciousness level. The "new human' ie children with a history of Contact.“Star Children.” who can exhibit a maturity and wisdom beyond their years, past life memories and dual consciousness sharing, and conscious awareness of the spirit and angelic realms. ACERN explores such connections to the so called 'indigo's, the rise in multidimensional awareness, and the medical /scientific and metaphysical evidence to support this hypotheses. Principal websites: www.acern.com.au and www.maryrodwell.com

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