Freddy Silva is one of the world's leading experts on crop circles and sacred space, and best-selling author of Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles, hailed by many as the most comprehensive book ever written on this fascinating and multi-disciplinary phenomenon.

He is a researcher, international lecturer, and a life-long student of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Space and ancient systems of knowledge. Freddy has appeared in TV documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Channel, as well as numerous video documentaries, and has been a guest on radio shows throughout the US. He will be sharing his experience of orbs from crop circles and Egyptian temples, and what exactly they are.
www.cropcirclesecrets.org

James Gilliland was raised in a small desert town spending most of his time in nature. Following a diverse education and a successful business career he experienced a near death experience brought about by drowning which opened his eyes to the larger picture. This began a spiritual journey and 20 year quest which included 6 years of Yoga, The Inner Christ Ministry, and the Tibetan foundation were he was certified as being an intuitive visionary of the highest consciousness and energy. He has studied with other yogis, lamas, master teachers and continuously has been taught from within through his extensive practicing of meditation. He is a teacher, spiritual counselor, energetic healer, and published author, Becoming Gods 1 & 2. He was recently honored by a venerated teacher in the Lama traditions as ”Rigdzin Norbu” which translated means "Jewel of Pure Awareness".

Gilliland has 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. Over the years Gilliland and others at the Sanctuary have experienced a multitude of orbs and a variety other phenomena that are responsive to human expression such as calling them into awareness. At the Palm Springs conference James Gilliland will share with us his experiences and conclusions about orbs and in so doing help us to open ourselves to the possibility of connecting with something of vast significance.
www.eceti.org

John Pickering and Katie Hall. When, 12 years ago, artist Katie Hall asked the universe for help she had no idea at the time that the tiny twinkling lights which were sent to her would lead her to a new life and love, or that they were the beginning of an amazing odyssey into realms of light beyond our normal Reality.

Synchronicity and light phenomenon have been part of Katie and John’s life since they first met and for over 4 years they have been given the unique photographic encounters with orbs and light beings which led them to write, Beyond Photography. Documented by some of the most astounding and consistent images ever taken of the paranormal, their book is the most complete photographic account in the world of one couples personal experience of orbs and light beings.

Artists, writers and researchers, Katie Hall & John Pickering live and work together in their home in the United Kingdom. Katie has a degree in design and is also a contemporary artist. John is a writer and cartoonist. He has worked in health education and has a lifetime interest in comparative religion and humanity's spiritual quest.

Between them, Katie & John have two cats and four children. Since the publication of Beyond Photography they have had positive responses and interest from people all over the world. Their experience of other realities is on going and John is currently writing two new titles exploring in more depth some of the issues merely touched on in Beyond Photography.
www.lights2beyond.com

Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is an internationally well-known scientist, healer and cosmic geomancer, who has directly experienced multidimensional realities and worked with higher guidance from an early age.

Based near Avebury, England, at the heart of the crop circle phenomenon Jude has researched consciousness, perennial wisdom and metaphysics since childhood. She holds a PhD in Archaeology and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University, specializing in cosmology and quantum physics. Her PhD thesis entitled Walking between Worlds, was an exploration of ancient wisdom teachings, the landscape embodiment of cosmology and the connection between people, the Earth and the wider Cosmos. Additionally, Jude is a master dowser (on the professional register of the British Society of Dowsers) and a healer and teacher at the College of Psychic Studies, London.

With her husband Tony, she is pioneering the wholistic science of cosmic geomancy, which combines leading edge scientific research with perennial wisdom to explain and experience the universal principles of integral reality.

Jude is the author of The Wave, The 8th Chakra, and just released in June 2007 The 13th Step.
www.judecurrivan.com

JZ KNIGHT, THE CHANNEL OF RAMTHA. We will be presenting her talk on "Dimensional Entities" (orbs) from our May 2007 Orbs Prophets Conference Sedona.

JZ Knight was born March 16, 1946 in Roswell, New Mexico to a family of migrant farmworkers. She was the eighth child in the family and spent her early childhood in the cotton fields while her mother worked picking cotton. JZ Knight, through hard work and dedication, became a very successful businesswoman. Her professional work was interrupted by Ramtha, a channeled entity who selected JZ for his teachings and who started her on a journey of self-discovery and mastership.

JZ was featured in the hit film “What The Bleep Do We Know?”. She travels the world with the teachings of Ramtha and heads the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm, Washington where an abundance of the mysterious Orbs appear whenever she is teaching and channeling.

Her insight on the subject will add significantly as we come together to flesh out the orbs enigma, and in so doing perhaps assist in the manifestation of a more evolved human species.
ramtha.com/html/aboutus/aboutus.stm#JZ

Klaus Heinemann holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Tübingen and has worked for many years in materials science research at NASA, UCLA, and as a research professor at Stanford University. He is founder and CEO/CFO of ELORET Corporation (contract research in space science for NASA). He has authored of over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and three books and is co-author, along with Dr. Miceal Ledwith, of The Orb Project, which will be released at our Palm Springs October 2007 conference and which details their extensive research of the Orbs. With his science background, Klaus has followed a calling to communicate, primarily to people with similar educational background, that the spiritual realm is no less real than the pyhsical reality which is so familiar to us. In his most recent book, Expanding Perception - consciousness, wisdom, compassion, love, he has presented how even a person with a formal natural sciences background can come to the expanded perception/view that "there is more to Life than life."
www.acviews.com/kh/klaus.htm

Miceal Ledwith, Ph.D., is a delightful and fascinating speaker who introduced Orbs to the Prophets Conference at our event in Santa Monica last year. He has come to be recognized as someone who perhaps has done more work on the orb phenomenon than anyone else. He has the largest and most significant collection of orb pictures – more than 100,000 images as of now, from the past five years, and some forms of them like the ones of the torsion vortices, have not been seen elsewhere. Dr. Ledwith was Professor of Systematic Theology for sixteen years in Ireland and was a college President for ten. Chairman of the Committee of Heads of the Irish Universities; and member of the Governing Bureau of the Conference of European University Presidents (CRE). His "Hamburger Universe" analogy and the Diseases of the Mind 'template' help us observe and gauge our common thoughts. (Dr. Ledwith appears in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?)
www.hamburgeruniverse.com

Nancy Burson is best known for her pioneering work in 'morphing technology', which age-enhances the human face, enabling law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults. Her 'Human Race Machine', which allows people to view themselves as a different race, was featured on US TV's Oprah in 2006, and is currently touring the US college and university market as a diversity tool that provides students with the profound visual experience of being another race. Nancy is the author of Focus: How Your Energy Can Change the World, and Lineage, and she has also authored four books of her photography. As a photographer, writer, inventor, healer and minister, Nancy lectures and teaches worldwide, including a visiting professorship at Harvard and an adjunct position at New York University. Her photography is shown in museums and galleries worldwide.

For the past few thousand years, the Universe has asked mankind to believe in the Divine without proof. There's now been a policy change, says Nancy, who presents her experiences with the energies she met in a crop circle, beings that now reside with her and which are detailed in her new book Lineage.
www.nancyburson.com

Randy and Hope Mead have approached the Orb phenomenon from their perspective as artists and healers. Hope is a professional photographer and massage therapist who uses her ability as a natural empath to help people relax, creating an open energy flow to experience their inner and outer beauty. Since she was a young child, Hope has been aware of other dimensions and is thrilled that she can now photograph and share what she has always felt.

Randy is a musician and producer who works in many genres and is deeply involved with the healing properties of vibration. He wrote his master's thesis on "tuning and psycho-acoustics" which launched him on his lifetime quest. He has worked with Reiki, Angelic Shamanism, and quantum healing machines as synergistic compliments to sound healing. His latest solo flute CD, "Ascending Spiral", incorporates scalar waves with the audio program for a multi- dimensional healing experience.
ToolsForTranscendence.com

Shelley Yates is an ordinary woman on an extraordinary journey. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has not only died and come back, but had the wonderful good fortune to come back with a message of hope and love for our earth and its inhabitants. Shelley first learned how to apply her new knowledge from beyond to bring her son back from death (he drowned 30-minutes underwater) in an unprecedented display, using the power of faith, love and the manipulation of personal human energy. Her son returned whole and happy. She was told "what you did for a dying boy with a small group of people you can do for a dying planet with a large group." She shares her story of miracles and her knowledge of human energy potential with all that are willing to listen. Her final outcome has been the creation of a world project in which all of humanity can contribute to change the earth we live on, creating prosperity, peace and healing for all that desire it. Watch Shelley's compelling story on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4
www.firethegrid.org

William A. Tiller, Ph.D. is a Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Professor Emeritus of Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science, and founding director of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and The Institute of Noetic Sciences. For the past 30 years, he has been avocationally pursuing serious experimental and theoretical study of the field of psychoenergetics which he thinks will become a very important part of "tomorrow’s" physics. In this new area, he has published to date, an additional 100 scientific papers and two seminal books. With our prompting, Bill has engaged the Orb phenomenon and will be lending us the benefits of his research into both physical and metaphysical aspects.He was a featured scientist in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?.
www.tiller.org