Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. Ecopsychologist, has been living, learning and teaching in the outdoors for over 35 years. He has founded multisensory environmental degree programs at Trailside Outdoor Camps, the National Audubon Society, Lesley College Graduate School, and The Institute of Global Education, a United Nations Non- Governmental Organization where he directs Project NatureConnect. The project is a workshop and internet program for socially and psychologically responsible environmental education. Dr. Cohen, the 1994 recipient of the Distinguished World Citizen Award, refines wholistic methods to help people consciously reconnect with nature. His many articles and books include Reconnecting With Nature, How Nature Works, and Well Mind, Well Earth. He currently lives and teaches on San Juan Island in Washington.

"Dr. Cohen offers an environmentally sound, hands-on educational process that reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit. His work deserves the attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."

Dr. Robert Muller, Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations, Assistant Secretary General Emeritus of the United Nations. the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize for peace.

Norie Huddle is a published author of seven books and numerous articles on environment, education, new concepts of national security and new possibilities for humanity.She is also a professional TV interviewer, workshop presenter, popular and highly respected public speaker and an organizational and creative consultant to private industry, government, NGOs and academia. She is the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Center for New National Security, a nonprofit corporation established in Washington, D.C. in 1979.

Huddle is actively committed to designing and supporting projects in peacemaking on a local to global scale. In the early 1960s, she was an exchange student in Italy for a year, under the auspices of the American Field Service. Since her graduation from Brown University (1966), she has been establishing a network of cooperative working relationships with government officials, leaders in private industry, the media and academia, and creative strategists and problem-solvers around the world.

In her endeavors as a "peacemaker," Huddle has lived and traveled abroad extensively. A former Peace Corps Volunteer from Colombia, South America, Huddle worked for two years at the community level, designing and implementing training programs for women. Huddle lived in Japan for four years while she researched and wrote, with Michael Reich, Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan. She worked closely with Japanese environmental and consumer groups, and helped organize the nonpartisan group, "Japan Plus 20." to look at long range social, political and environmental issues and trends in Japan and Southeast Asia. Huddle has also visited the Soviet Union frequently, to attend conferences and conduct interviews with a wide range of Soviet citizens concerning their perspectives on national and global security, and to meet with Soviet entrepreneurs and design joint ventures.

Huddle "retired" (with virtually no financial resources) at age 25, to do "only what makes absolute sense to me for the rest of my life." A graduate of Brown University, Huddle has lived on four continents, speaks five languages fluently, was active in citizen diplomacy in the USSR, and was active in the antinuclear movement. Then, in 1978, Huddle realized that the path to global peace and justice required transformation at a more core level of structures, beliefs and experience.

A lifelong student of America and the American people, Huddle has also traveled throughout the United States. In 1977, she wrote Travels with Hope, the account of "Project America 1976," a crosscountry bicycle trip which she organized upon her return from Japan in 1975. Project America involved a dozen Americans and Japanese who spent nine months bicycling across the United States from Santa Barbara to Philadelphia, during the American Bicentennial. It was during this time that Huddle began asking Americans about their lives and work, their hopes and ideas for creating a positive future.

From 1979-83, Huddle interviewed over 400 people from all walks of life about their positive visions of the future and their ideas for how to make America and the world more secure. Surviving: The Best Game on Earth, published by Schocken Books, is a compendium of 30 of these interviews. It has been widely reviewed and well received. One reviewer commented, "This is the first time I have weighed the issues of global survival without feeling futility or despair. Instead, reading this collection of interviews on the subject has been an inspiring look at the power of individual effort. If this book, and others like it, were introduced into the curricula of school systems worldwide, a shift toward more planetary cooperation might well occur." Library Journal selected Surviving as one of the top 100 books in the United States in the area of science and technology (1984); Surviving also was on the New York Time's longer bestseller list.

Creative cooperation is the key to Norie Huddle's success as she engages with individuals, groups and organizations in alliances to forward their work and create new agendas in the pursuit of personal and global excellence. Huddle conducts seminars in teambuilding, problem-solving, communications skills, values and goals clarification, productive relationship skills and stress management. She employs state-of-the-art video feedback and learning techniques. She teaches the interdisciplinary KEEPRAH Holistic Approach to Community Development, mindmapping, goal setting, values clarification, strategic planning, leadership training, personal and group dynamics, creative problem solving and designing and facilitating meetings.

Huddle has shared her skills and thought-provoking perspectives on television and radio in the United States, Japan (in Japanese) and the Soviet Union (in Russian). In Japan, she has spoken to radio and television audiences of over 10 million and to live audiences of up to 10,000. She has been interviewed for and has written feature articles for all the leading Japanese daily newspapers and many of their weekly and monthly magazines, as well as for several leading Soviet publications. She has led seminars or made presentations to such diverse organizations as the United Nation's Conference on Population (NGO Forum) held in Bucharest, the Commonwealth Club (San Francisco), the Women's Executive Club (Washington, D.C.), the National Organization of Women, the United States Army, Lorton Prison, the Whole Life Expo (New York and San Francisco), Princeton University, Villanova, the University of California (Riverside), Catholic University and The American University (Washington, D.C.), and to a variety of church congregations and schools (first through 12th grades). She is a warm, humorous and genuine individual who inspires her audiences with her enthusiasm, intelligence and determination to contribute to the wellbeing of all. She gives presentations in a variety of languages including Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.

From 1988-1992, Huddle was the Vice President of Special Projects and a Board Member of Journal Graphics, Inc., a privately held Denver- and New York-based corporation which is the nation's largest producer of television transcripts. She helped JG develop a variety of new information products and reposition itself in the marketplace, represented JG at trade shows, helped negotiate contracts with clients, and assisted with employee and client relations. In 1987-1988, Huddle helped Journal Graphics negotiate (in Russian) a major deal involving Vneshtorghizdat (USSR) and Rank Xerox (England).

In March of 1990, Huddle set up Huddle Books as the publishing division of CNNS, for the purpose of publishing future works related to national and global security. On Earth Day 1990, she published her fourth book, Butterfly, a tiny tale of great transformation to "help usher in the Butterfly Era of Global Civilization." by setting forth a global myth for our times. Butterfly is beautifully illustrated by artist Charlene Madland. In June of 1991, Huddle Books published Huggles, an environmental coloring book for children, also written by Huddle and illustrated by Madland. Huddle is currently completing Money, Power and Purpose, which presents bold new ideas for redesigning economic and social systems.

Huddle began an eight-year project to conduct a Global Oral History on video, launching this at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Brazil, in June of 1992. In preparation for this, she conduced similar interviews with Ministers of the Environment from the Carribbean region at a conference sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency in Puerto Rico (March, 1992) and again with top environmental managers from around the world at an EPA-sponsored conference in Vienna (August, 1992).

A committed peacemaker, Huddle has interviewed people from all over the world on their ideas for creating global peace, health, prosperity and justice. Many of these ideas have been incorporated into The Best Game on Earth, a new global "life game" which Huddle has been designing since 1980. Huddle says The Best Game on Earth, is an experiment in "electronic democracy" designed to support collaborative and innovative approaches to solving global problems. Beginning in 1992, Huddle has been a frequent interviewer and guest host on The Best Game on Earth, a weekly cable television show produced in Salina, KS. Her newest book, Money, Power and Purpose, began as an effort to design the new economic system for Players of The Best Game on Earth.

In August of 1993, Huddle bought 12 acres of land in a beautiful part of West Virginia. She has designed and been building her own house, with the help of neighbors and friends. She continues to maintain an active consulting and writing schedule, as she builds and gardens.

A Brief Butterfly History by Alan Moore

The recent evolution of the butterfly as a metephor symbolizing humanity's conscious evolution to a more loving and cooperative state started over twenty-five years. After the first Earth Day, Trina Paulus came out with Hope for the Flowers and used the butterfly to illustrate a better way so that we caterpillars would stop crawling all over each other to get to the "top". What's at the top anyway? Trina got millions of people thinking about transformation in a new way. On June 26, 1997, Trina joined us at the United Nations Earth Summit+5 for a butterfly release and ceremony.

Then Norie Huddle advanced the transformational theme to usher in what she termed the "Butterfly Era of Global Civilization" in her book, Butterfly, published on Earth Day 1990, and told me Trina's book was an inspiration to her and got her thinking about transformation. In Butterfly she writes:

"The caterpillars new cells are called "imaginal cell." They resonate at a different frequency. They are so totally different from the catepillar cells that his immune system thinks they are enemies...and gobbles them up--Chomp! Gulp! But these new imaginal cells continue to appear. More and more of them! Pretty soon, the caterpillar's immune system cannot destroy them fast enough. More and more of the imaginal cells survive. And then an amazing thing happens! The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together, into friendly little groups. They all resonate together at the same frequency, passing information from one to another.Then, after awhile, another amazing thing happens! The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together! A long string of clumping and clustering imaginal cell, all resonating at the same frequency, all passing information from one to another there inside the chrysalis."

"A wave of Good News travels throughout the system-- Lurches and heaves...but not yet a butterfly."

"Then at some point, the entire long string of imaginal cells suddenly realizes all together that it is Something Different from the caterpillar. Something New! Something Wonderfull!....and in that realization is the shout of the birth of the butterfly!"

Happy Birthday Butterfly!!!

"Since the butterfly now "knows" that it is a butterfly, the little tiny imaginal cells no longer have to do all those things individual cells must do. Now they are part of a mult-celled organism-- A FAMILY who can share the work."

"Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job.----There is something for everyone to do. And everyone is important. And each cell begins to do just that very thing it is most drawn to do. And every other cell encourages it to do just that."

"A great way to organize a butterfly!"

And a great way to organize a butterfly movement!

Bobby Gendron
Owner of Butterfly Encounters

Butterfly Background:

Have studied and reared monarch butterflies for the past 10 years.

Have studied various species of milkweed, the host plant for the monarch, for the past 10 years. During this time I have been able to successfully grow over 50 species of milkweed from all over the world. I have conducted research at wild populations of milkweed in 8 states and 6 countries.

Conducting research for the Monarch Program, a non-profit organization based in San Diego, since 1995. The research involves monitoring milkweed populations, tagging adult monarch butterflies at 10 overwintering sites in California, and writing articles in their monthly publication, The Monarch Newsletter.

Have developed a technique to rear monarch butterflies and control a protozoa that can be fatal to the butterflies. This technique involves many hours under the microscope.

Have contributed many volunteer hours dedicated to working with various schools in the California Bay Area. These volunteer hours include lectures, slide shows, tagging demonstrations, and establishing butterfly gardens on the school's property.

Volunteer work for the Lindsay Wildlife Museum which includes leading butterfly related field trips and talking to groups of children.

Helped with a project dedicated to making a small town in California called Crockett a thriving butterfly habitat. This project has been going on for a year and will continue. Is serving on the advisory board for the International Federation of Butterfly Enthusiasts.

Gave a presentation at the first NAFTA tri-national 1997 North American Conference on the Monarch Butterfly in Morelia Mexico.

Have been featured in the following:

Newspapers: San Ramon Valley Times, Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, San Jose Mercury News, San Ramon Valley Herald, The Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Martinez News- Gazette.

Radio: KKIQ (San Ramon, CA), KSFO (San Francisco, CA).

Television: CBS News (Dan Rathers, National), FOX Channel 2 KTVU (San Francisco, CA), NBC Channel 4 (San Francisco, CA), TCI Channel 6 (Walnut Creek, CA), TCI Channel 6 (Newark, CA).

Other publications: Growing Native, The Monarch Newsletter, The Monarch Watch Newsletter

At 19, Antares Numi*On had an awakening which has become the core of his Vision Quest - which is to help anchor the subtle frequencies on the physical plane and thereby serve as a co-creator of Heaven on Earth. Better known in Malaysian literary, musical, and theatre circles as Kit Leee, he has written, directed and acted in plays; composed and performed music live and in the studio; and contributed reviews to magazines and newspapers. His involvement in the arts has given him valuable insight into contemporary shamanism. Since 1992 he has been living in Pertak, Kuala Kubu Baru, Malaysia - in a reality affectionately dubbed 'Magick River' - and has focused his energies on Earth Healing.

MAGICK RIVER is a rainbow alliance of individuals with diverse talents, promoting ecospiritual activities and community arts projects that involve an Orang Asli (aboriginal) tribe of Peninsular Malaysia, the Temuan - who for countless generations have guarded the rainforests and sacred sites of Pertak, Ulu Selangor, their ancestral home.

"I relate to butterflies and fireflies as the 3D manifestations of 'benevolent' nature spirits. When we abuse the environment, it abuses us right back! The rainforest is home to thousands of magnificent butterfly species - my personal favourites being the large, birdlike, regal Rajah Brooke and the ethereal Spotted Lacewing (or Angelfly), the sight of which leaves one breathless, uplifted, as if having been granted a vision of paradise."

My name is James Duncan and I am the son of Hiawatha, grandson of Ada Vann, seventh generation from Chief Joe Vann and Cherokee (Bird Clan) born at Tahlequah, Oklahoma on September 14, 1946. But even more important, I am a member of the family of people called Native Americans, that indigenous group of people that have from the beginning of time and still do live here in the Americas. We are one of the four parts of humanity.

On March 10, 1995 my wife Norma our five daughters and I started the first walk of the four journeys given in vision. We began in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and arrived on May 10th at New Echota, Georgia. The walk was called "THE TRAIL OF JOY, THE RETURN", it was done to complete the circle that began with the "Trail of Tears" and to reconnect the spirit of our people back with the lands of our ancestors. The Creator is calling for our people to move back to the spiritual road, this journey is needed to rekindle the sacred fire and spirit back in the people and all mankind. We need to reestablish spiritual centers and places for the clans mothers in the East and across the land where the roots of many families were torn out by the " RELOCATION". This relocation known as the "Trail of Tears" by many, affected all the indigenous people and divided us. The "Trail of Joy, The Return" walks and journeys are just another step in the healing. This is not only for our family, it is for all of humanity.

On May 10, 1996 my family and I began the second journey of the vision, back along the path of DeSoto. That journey started from where he died in southeastern Arkansas, about 5-10 miles north of what is now known as Arkansas City and traveled back along his route to south of what is now known as Tampa Bay. Planting trees for cleansing, for life and peace in each of what are now states where he traveled leaving so much death and destruction along the way. These trees are for a sign of renewal,forgiveness and rebirth. If the "Trail of Tears" and subsequent removals were the end of a way of life for the people of the southeast, then DeSoto's journey was the beginning of that end. It was a way of life that had lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. This is true all around our Mother Earth where humanity was brought so much death and destruction to humanity and to all our relations in the name of discovery and God.

We have, and will continue to travel and visit with our relations along the way, to visit with the Elders and the children, to share the visions and to share the call for a great Gathering of the Children of Mother Earth. We are losing our young ones to the modern world at an alarming rate, many are not seeing the beauty of their heritage and traditions that bind them together and to our Mother Earth. It is our prayer that with each journey, humanity will begin to have an even greater understanding and appreciation of each other, that once made us a great people. Prophesy has been given that there would come a time when we would be at a crossroads. The Elders have said that we are now there and it is time for all of our people to come back to the spiritual oneness that bound us to our Mother Earth and each other before European contact. Grandfather William Commanda once wrote that "forgiveness is the key to the awakening of the true meaning of love and understanding."

Judy Guggenheim is co-author of "Hello From Heaven!" which contains 353 firsthand accounts of After-Death Communications (ADCs). Judy says that the largest single category for these experiences involves butterflies, as symbolic ADCs.

An After-Death Communication (ADC) experience occurs when a person is contacted directly and spontaneously by a deceased family member or friend, without the use of psychics, mediums, rituals, or devices. ADCs offer dramatic new evidence of life after death.

The ADC Project was created in May, 1988 to conduct the first in-depth research of After-Death Communications. The founders, Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim, interviewed 2,000 people who live in all 50 American states and the 10 Canadian provinces. They collected more than 3,300 firsthand accounts from people who believe they have been contacted by a loved one who had died.

"Hello From Heaven!" is the first book ever written that documents this exciting new field of research. Published in hardcover by Bantam Books, it contains 353 poignant and deeply comforting ADC accounts and is available in all major bookstores throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, as well as Dutch, German, and Italian editions, and soon to be available in Japanese and Korean.

Judy Guggenheim and her former husband, Bill Guggenheim, worked together on The ADC Project for 7 years from 1988 through 1995, before Judy was offered to the responsibility to continue ADC research with great passion for the last 3 years on her own, following the publishing of their breakthrough book, "Hello From Heaven

During the last several years, Judy has conducted workshops, as the world's leading authority on After-Death Communications, presenting the results of her ADC research at national conferences for The Compassionate Friends, Bereaved Parents of the USA, TAPS, Network for Attitudinal Healing International, IANDS, Association for Death Education and Counseling, MADD, The Findhorn Community, Survivors of Suicide, Widowed Persons Support, and POMC, among others. Judy has also made numerous presentations of her programs and workshops to a variety of bereavement support groups, hospices, churches, and other private organizations that serve spiritual development and value her research results. Her ADC research and book, Hello From Heaven! have been featured on ABC's "20/20," "Leeza Show," numerous other television/radio programs, "New Age Journal" and "FATE" magazines, as well as newspaper/magazine articles worldwide, including presentations on Cunard Lines' "QE2."

Judy makes her home in central Florida and is the mother of 3 adult sons, the youngest two are undergraduates at the University of Florida, and her oldest, Will Guggenheim, serves as Webmaster for the very popular ADC Project website: http:/www.after-death.com which offers the latest on her ADC research, plus public Message Board and various chatrooms dedicated to bereavement support and spiritual development, with volunteer hosts and notable guest "speakers."

Email: adc-project@after-death.com
URL: http://www.after-death.com
Photo: http://www.after-death.com/images/judy.gif
"Reality is in the eyes of the beholder"
a little Judy-ism

David Seaborg is an evolutionary biologist and the son of Glen Seaborg, the discoverer of plutonium. He speaks out on nuclear issues and social change. He founded the Children of the Manhattan project with Stephanie Van Sandt Nelson, whose father codirected the Manhattan Project. He organized the U-Turn Society in San Francisco in 1997 with the focus of turning our destruction of the planet around by 180 degrees, hence the society's name. A more complete bio will be available soon.

Alan Moore

EXPERIENCE

1998 to present Member of the Peace & Justice Commission of the City of Berkeley
1993 To Present BUTTERFLY GARDENERS ASSOCIATION(Director and founder)
1985 To 1997 ALAN'S ORGANIC GARDENING & LANDSCAPING (Owner)
1972 to 1984 S. LEVINE & SONS (Textile management)
1971 TO 1972 QUEENS COLLEGE, NY. (Adjunct Prof. of Chemistry)
1968 to 1971 PAYNE WHITNEY CLINIC/LABORATORY OF PSYCHOENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM/CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER, NEW YORK (Lab director & chemical analyst involved in developing micro-assay for plasma cortisol and urinary steroids. Holds US. patent #149,989 for laboratory test equipment.
1967 to 1968 Institute of Medical Rehabilitation / University Hospital Dept. of Therapeutic Recreation, New york (Staff)
1963 (Summer) Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York (Attendant)

EDUCATION

1972 City Graduate Center, New York Biochemistry
1968 Hunter College, New York Molecular Biology
1963 to 1968 City College, New York B. S. Biology

ORGANIZATIONS

Common Cause Coordinator for the 15 C.D. Worked on Campaign Reform the Sunshine Law, the Lobby Disclosure Act, & Finance Disclosure for public officials. Was PA Publicity Chairman.
Public Citizen Organized local drive for a Consumer Protection Agency.
Sierra Club Organized the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club with Rep. Paul McHale.
Solar Lobby Organized Sun Day in the Lehigh Valley with tours of solar installations & Rodale's Experimental Farm.
L. V. Solar Assoc. Co-founded group to promote solar energy & conservation.
C.L.A.D. Organized Citizens of Lehigh Against the Dam to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from building a dam at the Trexler Game Preserve and flooding farm and scenic areas. This resulted in a county-wide public referendum which was supported by 90% of the voters.
Clean Air Advisory Council Got Congressman Don Ritter to set up local citizens group to advise him on clean air issues. Helped Don to pick the pro-environment people for the group, later to resign charging it was too pro-industry.
Butterfly Gardeners Assoc. Promoting butterflies, wildlife gardens, conservation, ecology, and community organizing.
Citizens for a Better Allentown Promoting cultural diversity and respect between citizens and police, steering committee.
Earth Rainbow Network Publicity Coordinator for San Francisco Bay Area organizing Millenium festivals and concerts.
U-Turn Society Publicity coordinator for San Francisco group focused on Millenium projects and founded by Dave Seaborg.
Action Coalition for Global Change Publicity for United People's Assembly at San Francisco State University.
Tree Island Millennium Gathering Volunteer for publicity and outreach. Butterfly release coordinator.

OTHER GROUPS (past & present)

Earth First, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Berkeley Grey Panthers Environmental Committee, Greenpeace, National Parks & Recreation Assoc., National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Action, National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation Wilderness Society, Union of Concerned Scientists, Amnesty International, Environmental Defense Fund, League of Women Voters, PA Public Interest Research Group, National Geographic Society, PA Turfgrass Council, Master Gardeners Program of Penn State Cooperative Extension, and Saucon Assoc. for a Viable Environment (SAVE), & Lehigh Pesticide Awareness Group


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