Dick Larson is a counselor with a background in education, business and communication. In addition to being a guest on radio talk shows nationwide, he has co-hosted a radio program and produced and hosted a series of public access television shows that air around the nation. Mr. Larson served in the US Air Force and as a special education teacher with the Los Angeles School District, and was a corporate business executive for over 20 years. Creator of the audiotape series "Points to Ponder," Larson is a native of Minnesota, where he obtained a degree in Sociology before duty in the Air Force ultimately brought him to the Los Angeles area in 1971. Larson’s familiarity with the spiritual side of life comes from his study of world religions and the ageless wisdom teachings, facilitating Christian adult Bible studies, and participating in meditation groups for many years.

In these difficult times, he tends to be hopeful about our future and tries to help others see the positive as well. Larson entertains and inspires as he shares his strong conviction that we are now in a very special time of world change – one that marks the beginning of a new era of awareness which will offer tremendous opportunities for personal growth and enlightenment. Dick Larson, a long time student of the Ageless Wisdom teachings, says they are linked to an unprecedented planetary event that is just now taking place – the public emergence of the World Teacher for the Aquarian age. Tonight Larson will discuss who creates crop circles; how and why they do it; who the world teacher is and why he’s come now; who the Teacher is here to help, and what the Teacher’s presence means for our future.

Dr. Bob Curran was born and raised in County Down in Northern Ireland. He left school at the age of 14 and took up a variety of different occupations including the job of a gravedigger, a lorry driver, a professional musician, a journalist, and a scripter of comics. He is well traveled, and settled down to work in a Civil Service position. Dr. Bob Curran later continued his education and received degrees in educational psychology, history, and education. He is presently a consultant to a variety of cultural bodies within the Province, and he manages cross-border matters with the Irish Republic while working for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. He has authored a total of 38 books mainly on the subjects of culture and history. His works have been published in Italian, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, German, Latvian, and Urdu. He presently resides in the North Derry Coast of Northern Ireland with his wife and family. Tonight, Dr. Curran will discuss his book: Zombies: A Field Guide to the Walking Dead.

Jules Watson’s parents emigrated from England to Australia where she was born and she grew up in Perth. Jules Watson is a historical fiction author with a Bachelor of Science degree in Archeology. While not a practicing archeologist, she has amassed a wealth of knowledge while researching for her five highly praised books of historical fiction, all based on the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.

Jules is very well travelled and now resides in Argyll Scotland. Her books include The Swan Maiden, The Dalriada Trilogy, The Dawn Stag, The Boar Stone, Song of the North, and her latest book, The Raven Queen, set to be released on February 22nd, 2011. Tonight Jules joins us to discuss her newest book, the popularity of otherworld beings, and Irish and Scottish mythology.

Dr. Gillian Holloway, PhD, is a psychology researcher who believes that our dreams are packed with insights and that paying attention to them can help us heal, make better decisions, recognize threats, and even shed light on our relationships. Dr. Gillian Holloway is a respected expert in the area of dreams and intuition. She is the author of four books on dreams, and has taught at Marylhurst University for 16 years. Her work has been featured on ABC’s 20/20 as well as the New York Times Health Blog and The Washington Post.

Gillian’s direct approach to dream symbolism and modern stress dreams is widely quoted by journalists. Her latest research focuses on the impact and implications of our dreams of the dead. Her book, The Complete Dream Book, is the result of 30,000 case studies of the common dreams in English speaking countries around the world. Her most recent book, The Complete Dream Book of Love and Relationships, focuses on relationship dreams and how to read the clues that they are giving you. Tonight she will discuss her writing and will reveal how dreams about the dead are often dramatically different in almost every way from typical dreams; how timing of dreams about loved ones is distinct, and comes in three separate windows of timing; how an astounding number of people dream of the “goodbye” scene, roughly at the time the person was passing, although they had no objective knowledge of it at the time; how these dreams occur to believers and non-believers alike, and what other surprising dream patterns have emerged.

Geoff Crocker graduated from Durham University in the UK with a First Class Honors degree in economics, specializing in econometrics, public and social economics, and advanced economic theory. His corporate clients have included IBM, BP, Yamaha, ABB and other industries in Europe, Asia, the United States, Africa and Australia. Over the last 20 years, he has also advised leading businesses on corporate strategy development in the Russian industrial economy. He is also the founder and Managing Director of Bristol Care Homes, a UK healthcare business.

Recently achieving an MA in Philosophy from Bristol University (UK), and as a regular literature reviewer and contributor to economics blogs, Crocker continues to maintain his multi‐faceted focus. From his unique synthesis of the secular and sacred, he has developed a core concern for how faith can be interpreted for the increasingly dominant atheist movement.

An early adopter of evangelical Christianity, at age 14, Crocker embraced the charismatic movement in the Anglican Church. In midlife, personal crises caused him to reexamine his faith. In particular, the evangelical formulistic doctrinal idea that (divine) forgiveness depended on punishing someone else seemed perverse, even repulsive, as he believed that forgiveness needs to be freely given. He shifted away from traditional belief, eventually accepting the conclusion of secular philosophy that there may be no external God. Although he himself underwent a major re‐evaluation of faith, Crocker retains a strong conviction in the value of religion as interpreted in myth. His groundbreaking new book, An Enlightened Philosophy, inspires readers to move beyond a barren confrontation between atheism and religion.

Marianna Boncek is an English teacher, astrologer, and sense medium. She holds a BA from Vermont College and an MA from Goddard College. She is a member of the Woodstock Poetry Society, the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the NCGR, Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Poughkeepsie Paranormal Research Group.

When Marianna is not teaching Shakespeare, reading the stars, or talking to dead people, she is off looking for another mystery to solve. She has a particularly keen interest in researching “lost” local history. She lives in the Catskill Mountains on the road to the lost town of Bittersweet. Tonight Marianna joins us to talk about her book: Spooky Hudson Valley published by Schiffer Publishing.