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Author of God Has No Edges, Dreams Have No Boundaries and the dream programming series, Dreams: The Wisdom in Sleep, Dr. Bernard is a pioneer in the field of dream work. He's been a clinician, guest lecturer, seminar leader and media expert on the topic for twenty-five years. He has addressed audiences ranging from the Walt Disney Studios, and the Los Angeles Times to the Association of Humanistic Psychology and the National Organization of Women Business Owners. He also hosted his own radio talk show, "Dream Talk," in Los Angeles. For the past several years Dr. Bernard was employed by a professional education service company that sponsored his Dream Workshops for mental health professionals. His lengthy clinical experience has provided a strong theoretical and practical foundation for discussing dreams in a lay format. Aside from his private practice in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Dr. Bernard founded and ran the Dream Center in The San Fernando Valley, Calif., where he taught people in both individual and group settings how to recall, use and understand their dreams to enrich their lives. Dr. Bernard takes dreams from the mystical and incomprehensible realm and makes them practical and plausible. He is known for his ability to take the mystery out of dream work, has a delightful teaching style, keen sense of humor, and creates a supportive atmosphere where learning is playful as well as challenging. He also has a strong Jungian orientation in his dream work. - www.dreamtechiques.com and www.sleepanddreambig.com

The history of Mother's Day is centuries old and goes back to the times of ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honor Rhea, the mother of the gods. The early Christians celebrated the Mother's festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent to honor Mary, the mother of Christ. Interestingly, later on a religious order stretched the holiday to include all mothers, and named it as the Mothering Sunday. The English colonists settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of lack of time. In 1872 Julia Ward Howe organized a day for mothers dedicated to peace. It is a landmark in the history of Mother's Day. In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948), a Philadelphia schoolteacher, began a movement to set up a national Mother's Day in honor of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She solicited the help of hundreds of legislators and prominent businessmen to create a special day to honor mothers. The first Mother's Day observance was a church service honoring Anna's mother. Anna handed out her mother's favorite flowers, the white incarnations, on the occasion as they represent sweetness, purity, and patience. Anna's hard work finally paid off in the year 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honor of mothers. Slowly and gradually the Mother's day became very popular and gift giving activity increased. All this commercialization of the Mother's day infuriated Anna as she believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. Regardless of Jarvis's worries, Mother's Day has flourished in the United States. Actually, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year. Although Anna may not be with us but the Mother's day lives on and has spread to various countries of the world. Many countries throughout the world celebrate Mother's Day at various times during the year, but some such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

He was born in a small house in 1929 in the equally small town of Payne, Ohio. Six months later, his parents moved to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he grew up - almost! He graduated from school in Westwood, California. In 1950 he was drafted to the US Army where he served part of the time with Military History as a combat artist in Korea. After his discharge from the service, he spent most of his career years in the Forest Products industry. He moved on to his boat in Long Beach for four years to do some writing before moving to Oregon in 1991. He now divides his time between the Oregon Coast and Southern Baja, Mexico. The author is still almost grown up. - www.atestimonyoflions.com

Dr. John Williams is an internationally recognized expert in cosmetic surgery. For over 30 years he has attracted patients from throughout the world to his Beverly Hills, and Palm Desert offices. He was trained in anesthesia and general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. His plastic surgery training was with the Stanford professor in San Francisco. He served as a medical officer with the Marines in Korea and was the first plastic surgeon to serve aboard the Hospital Ship Hope on its first mission to Saigon, South Vietnam. An international lecturer, Dr. Williams has made numerous presentations on innovations in the field of cosmetic surgery, and has authored academic articles for leading medical journals and books. Dr. Williams is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He holds memberships in state, national, and international plastic surgery societies and is a member of the American Medical Association. He is on the faculty of the UCLA Medical School and has a long list of celebrity patients - www.plasticsurgeonmemoirs.com

Steve Kates-- "Dr.Sky" has been engaged in the science of Astronomy for well over thirty years, having got his first experiences while a young man from his parents, Bob and Dolores. His first true observations occurred while just seven years old, viewing the moon and planets in a ten dollar telescope provided by family members. The first real event he saw, was the 1966 Leonid meteor shower from his home in New York City, atop a tall building. This encouraged him to make the SKY his passion and has been so ever since. Starting in film and television and at a young age, Steve Kates has worked in many acting and model roles for major studios and had some roles in TV commercials of the 1960"s, through his agent. While a native of New York City, Steve Kates moved to the suburbs of New Jersey in 1967 and found the night sky once again. Having formed the Hackensack Astronomy Club, he and his friends did lots of research on the night sky and were regular contributors to the popular magazine, "Sky and Telescope", specializing in Lunar /Solar observations and Meteor Astronomy. - www.drsky.com

Fifty million Americans are now religiously unaffiliated, and the trend is growing fast. Last week a new study revealed that 30-40% of young people don't go to church -ever. And yet most say they're not atheists. What's happening to religion in America, and what does it mean for our spiritual future? Clark Strand thinks the answer to both questions is i-Religion. "People today download spiritual beliefs and practices just like songs onto an iPod, assembling an individualized play list, rather than just passively accepting the whole-CD approach of organized religion. Today, you can practice yoga without becoming a Hindu, and you don't have to be a Jew or Christian to believe in God. We're on the brink of a global spiritual revolution, assembling the best of everything to guide us on the path ahead." Strand is a former Zen Buddhist monk and the founder of a weekly inter-religious Bible study group. His new book is "How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not." - www. WholeEarthGod.com

For the past 18 years, Bob Hunnicutt has investigated cases of phenomena associated with a wide variety of hauntings of private residences and businesses, historic locations and landmarks throughout the state of Georgia, the Southeast as well as portions of the Mid-west. He has conducted investigations with renowned clergy, investigators, psychics and ghost hunters. The founder and director of the Georgia Ghost Society, Bob and his team have been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles and on many television and radio programs. - www.georgiaghostsociety.com

As a young boy, his family moved into a small house in Harundale, Maryland. What the family didn't know is that a demonic force already occupied their new home. Bill stated, "My family was literally torn apart by an evil force that co-existed among us. The activity began as noises and gradually escalated into violent physical attacks on us by the entities". In his debut book Dark Force, Bill Bean painfully describes in terrifying detail the events that tormented his family. As disturbing as some of the content in Dark Force is, there's a very powerful message of hope and faith that has affected many readers in a positive way. Bill appeared in the Discovery Channel broadcast about his story. The show first aired on September 7, 2006 on the series, "A Haunting" in an episode titled "House of the Dead" and is one of the most frequently replayed segments. As a speaker on the paranormal, Bill has traveled across the country leaving audiences both riveted and inspired. He's given over 100 media interviews including Coast to Coast AM, The X Zone and Spirit TV and is in demand for lectures, conventions and show appearances. - www.billbean.net

Dr. Nick Begich is the eldest son of the late United States Congressman from Alaska, Nick Begich Sr., and political activist Pegge Begich. He is well known in Alaska for his own political activities. He was twice elected President of both the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education. He has been pursuing independent research in the sciences and politics for most of his adult life. Begich received his doctorate in traditional medicine from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines in November 1994. He co-authored with Jeane Manning the book Angels Don't Play This HAARP; Advances in Tesla Technology. Begich has also authored Earth Rising - The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace and his latest book Earth Rising II- The Betrayal of Science, Society and the Soul both with the late James Roderick. He is also the editor of Earthpulse Flashpoints, a new-science book series. Begich has published articles in science, politics and education and is a well known lecturer, having presented throughout the United States and in nineteen countries. He has been featured as a guest on thousands of radio broadcasts reporting on his research activities including new technologies, health and earth science related issues. He has also appeared on dozens of television documentaries and other programs throughout the world including BBC-TV, CBC-TV, TeleMundo, and others. - www.earthpulse.com

John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant (Leisure Books, 2008) and Sacrifice (Leisure Books, 2009). Both novels were originally issued as limited edition hardcovers by Delirium Books. A Polish translation of Covenant was also issued by Poland's Red Horse Books as Demoniczne Przymierze in late summer 2007. Over the past 15 years, John's short fiction has appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Space & Time, Dark Discoveries and Grue, as well as in a couple dozen anthologies, most recently in A Dark and Deadly Valley, Cold Flesh, Damned, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook. His short stories have also been translated and published in Polish and French. A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in three short story collections - Needles & Sins (Necro Books, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000). "Letting Go," one of the short stories from Needles & Sins was nominated for a 2007 Bram Stoker Award and three other short stories from the collection have been included in the Honorable Mention List of the annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology co-edited by Ellen Datlow. John is also the editor of the anthologies Sins of the Sirens (Dark Arts Books, 2008) and In Delirium II (Delirium Books, 2007) and co-editor of the Spooks! ghost story anthology (Twilight Tales, 2004). In 2006, he co-founded Dark Arts Books (www.darkartsbooks.com) to produce trade paperback collections spotlighting the cutting edge work of some of the best authors working in short dark fantasy fiction today (they have since produced four anthologies). He is also a digital artist and musician - some of his dark techno songs serve as the soundtrack to the horror fiction CD-ROM anthologies Bloodtype and Carnival/Circus, and in 2003 he scored Martin Mundt's comedic serial killer stage play "The Jackie Sexknife Show" in Chicago. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of fellow horror author Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle. - www.johneverson.com