Mark Deutsch, Master Musician… www.bazantar.com. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar¬–a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions. He will be speaking about Sonic Mandala's–music in the future: connecting with vibration and sounds underlying archetypal patterns. Usually hidden from our awareness, these sonic structures have profound effects on the body's nervous system that allow for shifts in consciousness of a deep transcendental nature. He will also be performing the Bazantar live.

After receiving an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and being on a PhD track in Electrical Biophysics there, Prashanti de Jager moved to India in 1990 and has lived there 9 out of the last 18 years sitting at the feet of a many great Advaita Saints and Tibetan Lamas. He studies and practices various Vedic Sciences including Advaita, Yoga, Ayurveda, Vastu Shastra and Jyotisha. Pioneering Organics and Biodynamics in India he has founded the herb companies Ayurveda Organics, Om Organics and Organic India which won the award for the Most Socially Responsible Company in the entire Natural Products Industry as it supports over 100,000 people in India to live in sustainable organic biodynamic fair trade havens. He writes the sustainability blog site www.earthdais.com.

Prashanti will present many of the ancient and perennial Vedic Views of Sustainability and then as an example will describe the work that is currently going on in India to empower rural marginalized farmers and enable them to create sustainable Fair Trade Organic Biodynamic havens out of reach from the addictive and deadly Multinational Corporate toxic products.

Asha Deliverance - She started young, became a raw foodist at age 13, (She worked for Dr. Walker in Phoenix making vegetable juices for his clients) taught Kundalini yoga at age 15, helped found the UCSC French intensive biodynamic farm project at age 16-20, became a midwife at age 18-30, trained midwives, founder of Unicorn Village Sprout Co. in Tucson at age 22, founded Pacific Domes–which she is still working on–in 1980... She also organizes speakers and events and teaches workshops on sacred architecture and sungazing...

Her presentation is on the new solar cycle. The Mayans calculated that at this time we are beginning a new Solar cycle. We are moving from the 5th sun into the 6th sun. What this means is that we are crossing the Event Horizon of Hunab Ku, the Central Sun of our galaxy. We have entered the event Horizon of the Great Central Sun and will be in the midst of it in 2012.

The changes we are experiencing in both the earth and our consciousness are from the light frequency of the Great Central Sun, transmitting thru the portal of our Sun, the light or wisdom (photons are information) illuminating human consciousness. We will create a world of beauty, joy, and peace through this activation. Ancient wisdoms and many new possibilities are emerging. The focus is on New world we are birthing, describing some foundations of the new and ancient sciences, with a focus on the sun, solar cycles, sungazing and the teachings of Mayan on the physics of creation, sacred geometry and sacred architecture, sacred technology.

John Harrison, MA, PsyD. is Principal Investigator for MAPS observational case series study of ibogaine-assisted therapy in the treatment of opiate addiction at the Pangea BioMedics Ibogaine Association in Playas de Tijuana , Mexico. Besides being an addiction treatment specialist, John is a Drug War veteran, therapist, mountaineer, music lover and connoisseur of magnificent sunsets .

The Multidisciplinary Ass'n for Psychedelic Studies ( MAPS ) is a membership-based non-profit research and educational organization . We assist scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for, and report on studies into the risks and benefits of MDMA, psychedelic drugs, and marijuana. MAPS mission is to sponsor research designed to develop psychedelics and marijuana into FDA-approved prescription medicine, and to educate the public honestly about the risks and benefits of the drugs.

John Harrison will discuss and give brief overview of the wide-ranging MAPS research projects and protocols. From Switzerland to Russia to Canada to Israel to Mexico and to here in the USA in South Carolina MAPS is sponsoring a myriad of ground-breaking studies investigating these tools for healing and self-discovery.

Chris Sia has been asking questions since he could use his voice. And making art since he could hold a pencil. And raising hell since puberty…. A multimedia artist dedicated to using the canvas/stage as platform for ideas as well as beauty and intensity. He is currently secreted away at the Armageddon Preparedness Team's headquarters, developing Advanced Peace Technologies.