April 16, 2007

From Dannion's website, www.dannion.com

Dannion Brinkley is an international best selling author. In 1994 Dannion's first book (with Paul Perry), Saved by the Light became an instant success. It was closely followed by  his next best seller,  At Peace in the Light, in 1996. He has recently written the third installment of his Light Trilogy drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters entitled, The Secrets of the Light: Spritual Strategies to Empower Your Life...Here and in the Hereafter (Heart Light Productions). This eloquent and highly inspirational book is an intuitively profound manual focused on spiritual strategies to empower life on both sides of the veil. 

Co-authored by Dannion's wife, Kathryn Brinkley,  The Secrets of the Light shares 7 powerful truths that will compel you to re-evaluate  your  current belief system  in order to assist you in connecting  to higher awareness.  As a result, true understanding evolves into self-realization, and ultimately, spiritual enfoldment is accelerated. This holistic guidebook introduces the Four-Fold Path to Power, and shares the system that you may have not previously considered as a truly effective means to raise one's consciousness and its relationship with humankind. Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Secrets of the Light offers insights for practical application as well as a key to understanding the big picture.

In his lectures and tours, Dannion imparts a paramount message designed to empower his listeners, teaching them step by step how to find purpose, power and greatness in their everyday lives. He has been praised as 'the best orator in the field' by many of his compeers on the lecture circuit. Dannion's speaking engagements lend a vibrancy and colorful approach to the world as we know it, and are highlighted with a savvy sense of humor and genuine style. The Secrets of the Light lecture series offer a candid, celebratory approach to the spiritual dynamic.

Dannion's  previous works, Saved By The Light and At Peace In The Light, have sold millions worldwide, garnering international acclaim in addition to being a New York Times best seller. His books, tours and workshops have literally transformed the consciousness of audiences on a global capacity.

Dannion's expertise in the area of death and dying has educated millions not to fear the presently held concept of transition from this world to the next.  As a result of his journeys to the 'other side' and back again, he brings to the forefront the wondrous truth that there is indeed no such thing as death.

Dannion has survived insurmountable odds including two lightning strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery and a massive grand mal seizure. Many concur that Mr. Brinkley is a truly one of the world's most incredible near-dear survivors, truly a  "walking miracle"!

In related issues surrounding the death process, Brinkley is one of the early crusaders of hospice and palliative care bringing the topic of end of life care to the forefront of discussion and education in America. Dannion created a non-profit organization, The Twilight Brigade (Compassion in action) to recruit hospice volunteers for dying Veterans. He has been a hospice volunteer for over twenty-seven years, having personally accrued more than 18,000 hours at the bedside. These decades of tremendous hands-on experience qualify him as a leading expert in the grief and bereavement process as well as being an authority in the field of necrophobic reduction.

In 2001, Dannion was nominated for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association's prestigious Heart of Hospice Award. Dannion was also a contributor in the story compilation of Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul. His input was used to improve awareness of the honor of veteran service. Compassion in Action / The Twilight Brigade was featured in the December 2000 issue of The Oprah Magazine segment on Volunteerism. In 2004, Dannion provided testimony, "Describing Death in America" to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the Institute of Medicine and presented comment to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medical Policy, on "Improving End of Life care with Complementary and Alternative Medicines" and "You Cannot Drug A Child to Safety: Ways of Reducing Stress in America."

Dannion has appeared on every major national television and radio show, including Larry King, Oprah, Dateline, Unsolved Mysteries, Art Bell, The Pax Network, and many others. A made for television movie based on Dannion's best seller, Saved By The Light, debuted as one of the highest rated television movies in FOX Television Network history. This exceptional movie starring Eric Roberts is currently airing on a regular basis on the Lifetime Network.

When not on tour, Dannion enjoys his time spent at home with his wife, Kathryn, and their six children. Life with his twin soul, five girls and one boy afford him the luxury of witnessing the transformational transactions of true love and spirituality in action.

April 9, 2007
E.P. Grondine
E.P. Grondine, the author of "Man and Impact in the Americas," is a veteran
space journalist who covered the Russian space program for many years, with
his coverage carried in publications circulated to the leaders of the United
State's space industry. Excerpts from this coverage may be read by the
public on Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica internet site:
http://www.astronautix.com, including among other exclusive items his report
of the Chinese effort to develop a manned space program, which was the first
public report on this in the west.

"E.P.", as he is known, has covered asteroid and comet impact science and
policy since 1997, with his reportage circulated to the specialists in the
field by Dr. Benny Peiser's Cambridge Conference, the archives of which may
be viewed at: http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/cccmenu.html
or at http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/CCNet-Archive.htm

His earlier essays on asteroid and comet impacts and the First Peoples in
the Americas may be read at
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/ccemenu.html.

"Man and Impact in the Americas" is available through amazon.com.

In his spare time Ed likes to hang out in bars, smoke cigaretttes, drink
coffee, and listen to musicians perform original music or arrangements.

April 2, 2007
Dr. Cyril Wecht
J.F.K. Assassination
Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., is a forensic pathologist, attorney and medical-legal consultant.

Education

Dr. Wecht received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and his law degree from the University of Maryland. Dr. Wecht is certified by the American Board of Pathology, in anatomic, clinical, and forensic Pathology, and is also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.

Academic Appointments

Cyril H. Wecht is a Clinical Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Graduate School of Public Health, and holds positions as an Adjunct Professor at the Duquesne University School of Law, School of Pharmacy, and School of Health Sciences. He has served as President of the American College of Legal Medicine, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine and the American College of Legal Medicine Foundation. The author of more than 500 professional publications, Dr. Wecht is also an editorial board member of more than 20 national and international medical-legal and forensic scientific publications; editor of the five-volume set, Forensic Sciences (Matthew Bender); co-editor of the two and three-volume sets, Handling Soft Tissue Injury Cases and Preparing and Winning, Medical Negligence Cases (both published by Michie).

Medical-Legal Consultant

Formerly the Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Saint Francis Central Hospital in Pittsburgh, Dr. Wecht is now the President of its medical staff and is actively involved as a medical-legal and forensic science consultant, author, and lecturer. Dr. Wecht has organized and conducted Postgraduate Medical-Legal Seminars in more than fifty countries throughout the world in his capacity as Director of the Pittsburgh Institute of Legal Medicine. He has performed approximately 14,000 autopsies and has supervised, reviewed or has been consulted on approximately 30,000 additional postmortem examinations.

Nationally Acclaimed Forensic Expert

Being an expert in Forensic Medicine, Dr. Wecht has frequently appeared on several nationally syndicated programs discussing various medicolegal and forensic scientific issues, including medical malpractice, drug abuse, the assassinations of both President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the death of Elvis Presley, the O.J. Simpson case, and the JonBenet Ramsey cases. His expertise has also been utilized in high profile cases involving Mary Jo Kopechne, Sunny von Bulow, Jean Harris, Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, the Waco Branch Davidian fire, and Vincent Foster. A comprehensive study of these cases are discussed from the perspective of Dr. Wecht's own professional involvement in his books, Cause of Death, Grave Secrets, and Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? (All published by Dutton/Penguin). See Dr. Wecht's site here.

We spoke with Dr. Wecht about all kinds of things from JFK to Elvis to JonBenet Ramsey.  Also,  J. Scott gets his bar exam results!  Don't miss this one!