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“Turning of the Wheel” with Chris Flisher
February 7, 2008
Paul Laffoley
Topic: "Mystical Dimensions"
Paul Laffoley is otherworldly. That is no overstatement. His talent and experience are huge. This will be a remarkable interview. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1962 with honors in Classics, Philosophy, and Art History.
In 1963, he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and apprenticed with the sculptor Mirko Basaldella before being dismissed from the institution. He was dismissed for "conceptual deviance", after the majority of his designs were given a grade that designates the project not as good or bad, but as 'currently technologically or physically impossible'.
Thereafter, he moved to New York to apprentice with the visionary architect Friedrich Kiesler. He was also hired for the design team of the World Trade Center, but was soon after fired by the chief architect, Minoru Yamasaki, for his unconventional ideas. He had apparently always been quite an 'unconventional' person. By Laffoley's account, he spoke his first word ("Constantinople") at the age of six months, and then lapsed into 4 years of silence, having been diagnosed with slight Autism. Laffoley has written that, in his senior year at Brown, he was given eight electric-shock treatments. As a child he attended the progressive Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont, Massachusetts, where his draftsman's talent was ridiculed by his Abstract Expressionist teachers.
In 1998 Laffoley was featured in "The Mystery of Genius" (two part series). It aired on the Arts & Entertainment Channel. He has produced an estimated 600(?) of his immensely detailed canvases. Paul has been quoted as saying that at any given time there are dozens of these works already fully-articulated in his mind, waiting to be painted and circling like airplanes in a holding pattern waiting to land.
After the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Laffoley was one of a number of architects who submitted designs accepted for the competition to plan the Freedom Tower. Laffoley took his inspiration from the work of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. His conception was to plan a gigantic hotel in the style of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. You can see Paul's submission in the archives of the Official WTC memorial website.
www.laffoleyarchive.com/index.html
January 31, 2008
Laurence Hillman
Topic: "Planets In Play- How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology "
Born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman began to study astrology at the age of sixteen and this has remained his passion for thirty years. He is a full-time professional astrologer, specializing in helping his clients understand their deeper purpose and their life's calling. A force in the ongoing movement to merge astrology with depth psychology, his approach is practical and full of metaphor and Jungian insight. He has lectured internationally and conducted workshops including "Star Cross’d Lovers" and "Mercury at Shakespeare’s Globe," and at London's Globe Theatre presented on Shakespeare and Astrology. At the Cycles and Symbols Conference in California, he lectured on "Venus in America" (co-presented with his father James Hillman). He has also taught at Jean Houston's Mystery School. He is the author of numerous articles, Planets in Play - How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology (Tarcher/Penguin 2007) and he is the co-author of Alignments - How to Live in Harmony with the Universe (Lantern Books, 2002).
Laurence holds a B.A. in Architecture and masters degrees in both Engineering Management and Business Administration. He has traveled extensively in more than forty countries, and is fluent in five languages. He now lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and two daughters.
www.lhillman.com
January 24, 2008
Jan Spiller
Topic: "Cosmic Love"
Jan Spiller is one of the world’s most popular astrologers. She is the author of, “ASTROLOGY FOR THE SOUL,” “NEW MOON ASTROLOGY,” and “SPIRITUAL ASTROLOGY.”
Jan has been a guest on both national and local programs, including The Roseanne Barr show; CBS Women 2 Women; Fox News; and many other local television venues. She has hosted her own local television and radio shows: Ecliptic; The Good Life; and the nationally syndicated, daily radio show: Astrology Education Now.
Her latest book, “COSMIC LOVE” has just been published. COSMIC LOVE focuses in on your relationships, major areas of growth that you and your partner are working on in order to experience more love, the gifts you are meant to exchange, and specific past life contracts you are working out with this Soul.
COSMIC LOVE is the second book of a trilogy starting with Astrology For The Soul. A third book that Jan is currently writing will complete the series of this fascinating journey into using astrology to bring empowerment into your life by discovering your individual life purpose.
www.janspiller.com
January 17, 2008
Sylvia Jean Smith
Topic: "Eclipses"
Sylvia Smith's main passion has been research of the Eclipses and their Saros cycles, which she has been avidly involved in since 1992, and yes, there is a book begging to be completed. Out of her in-depth study of the Saros cycles led to a separate study, and testing of a hypothesis (theory?) about the eclipse that occurs before the birth of an individual. Testing of this developed into a two-year distraction that was more astrological than the technical astronomy of eclipse patterns. Results were most encouraging. The dilemma is whether to include this study in the book, or whether to proceed with a reference text/manual about eclipses and their Saros, and do a separate book on the theory about the pre-birth eclipse.
Sylvia has lectured in Canada and the USA, and has been published in The Mountain Astrologer along with various other American and British publications. She single-handedly edited and published a Canadian copyrighted astrological newsletter (S.H.A.P.E.) from 1995 to 2003, and carried her own by-line in this periodical. She also organized speaking engagements for outside speakers in her community... again single-handedly.
She is a card-carrying associate member of the Canadian Astronomical Society, and holds membership with NCGR, ISAR, and AFAN.
January 10, 2008
Suzanne Keating
Topic: "Sacred Geometry"
Suzanne Keating is a professional astrologer who moved in 2003 from her birthplace on Nantucket Island to Woodstock, VT., where she maintains her 18-year private practice with clients from around the world. For 5 years, she wrote a weekly Astrologic Forecast column in the Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror and a quarterly column for Waves of Insight, a holistic newsletter. Suzanne had a TV spot on local cable television one season, and taught at the Nantucket Community School for 8 years. She was a frequent guest lecturer at the Albert G. Brock Noonday Lecture Series, presenting astrological topics free to the public for six years. She is an active member of the Boston Chapter of NCGR, National Council for Geocosmic Research and AFAN, American Federation for Astrologic Networking.
Suzanne is available for private consultation, in person or by phone. If you’d like to arrange a private consultation email her at: skyoverack@yahoo.com.
January 3, 2008
Henry Seltzer
Topic: "Time Passages"
Henry began to work within this remarkable field of study, and to share his insights with other people, and in 1985 created the computer program that eventually became TimePassages. His goal was to make generally available the information that Astrology can provide. By making it easier for people to explore their own and other people's charts, or "horoscopes", Henry hoped that anyone could gain greater self-knowledge and also that the world-shaking information that Astrology really does work would spread.
Henry Seltzer has a graduate degree in Linguistics and has studied Computer Science, and attended MIT as an undergraduate, but his real study is Astrology and Tarot. Henry's study of Astrology began with an interest in Jungian psychological symbolism in 1975. He was immediately fascinated by how accurately the planetary patterns reflect individual psychological reality. He believes Astrology is a window from the material world into the spiritual. Because Astrology is based on concrete observable phenomena, and yet makes use of this data in an entirely different way, it forms a bridge between the scientific materialistic world view and that of the Artistic, the Esoteric, and the Spiritual.
Henry Seltzer developed Time Passages software.
www.astrograph.com
December 20, 2007
Esperite Ananas
Topic: "The Federation of Damanhur"
Esperite Ananas is the writer and Damanhur’s Communications director. She has been the International Ambassador for the Federation
Founded in the early 1970's, the UN award winning Federation of Damanhur is an internationally renowned center for spiritual, artistic and social research. Damanhur is an eco-society, a federation of communities and an active member of GEN. Damanhur has established itself in Valchiusella, in the alpine foothills of Piedmont, Italy. Damanhur comprises 20 small communities, each one built around approximately twenty people. Damanhur is based on diversity and change. Constant and harmonious transformation is applied to all aspects of community life.
The Philosophy of Damanhur is based upon optimism. Every human being contains a divine principle and is part of an active spiritual eco-system that includes higher and higher forces. The physical form that we inhabit and the dimension of time and space in which we exist are transitory. The principle goal of the human being is to become conscious of his inner divinity and render matter sacred, in order that the universe can become a conscious part of God.
Damanhur represents a life choice based upon experimentation, a game of transformation to go beyond the limits of habit and reach a wider vision of reality. Research is important in all fields, from social structure to alternative energy, from the Arts to Physics. Citizens of the Federation constantly study, explore and experiment to reach a deeper understanding of the universe and the role of human beings in the divine plan. Humility, constance, the ability to be amazed and a constant desire to play the game are indispensable in the realization of all Damanhurian research projects.
www.damanhur.info/en/html/home.asp
December 13, 2007
Donna Cunningham
Topic: "Pluto In Capricorn"
There is no planet so powerful in the zodiac as Pluto. Despite what astronomers may dictate, trust in this; Pluto is alive and very relevant especially in huge life changes. Donna Cunningham has written extensively about Pluto and the power this tiny planet possesses. Learn how Pluto affects your life.
Donna Cunningham, an internationally respected astrologer with over 35 year's experience, is the author of 18 books on metaphysical topics. Listed in several Who's Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC. She also has a Master's Degree in Social Work from Columbia University. She uses this combined approach in her "Dear Abby" type column in Dell Horoscope and her ongoing series of articles in The Mountain Astrologer.
For environmental reasons, her newest works are in ebook format, published by Moon Maven Publications, at www.moonmavenpublications.com. She's also co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly about flower essences, which can be seen at 5the following URL:
www.floweressencemagazine.com
December 7, 2007
Erin Sullivan
Topic: "Mid-Life Musings"
Erin Sullivan has been a consultant astrologer, author and teacher since the late 1960’s. She has lectured worldwide and led workshops and symposia on many aspects of human development using mythology, psychology and the rich language of astrology. She has been called “the astrologer's astrologer” and is one of the world's most eminent consulting, writing and lecturing astrologers. Erin’s thirty-something years of astrology practice, her Classical Studies background and training in archetypal analytic psychology, add a unique depth and breadth to her work. Her approach brings the profession of psychological and practical astrology into contemporary times, and to its rightful position in today’s and tomorrow’s global society. Her astrological history is broad and varied. Just to mention a few distinctions, she received three awards from the Fraternity for Canadian Astrologers -- The Sun Award (1982) for her inspiring work in co-founding the BC Astrological Society in 1972 and creating The Ecliptic Journal; then, the Venus International Award (1984) for international networking; and the Mars Award (1986) for achievement.
November 29, 2007
Jerry Wennstrom
Topic: "The Inspired Heart"
Artist, author Jerry Wennstrom was born in New York on January 13, 1950. He attended Rockland Community College and the State University of New Paltz. After producing a large body of work, at age 29 he set out to discover the rock-bottom truth of his life. For years he questioned the limits of his creative life as a studio painter. After destroying all of his art and giving away everything he owned, Jerry began a life of unconditional trust, allowing life to provide all that was needed. He lived this way for 15 years. In 1998 he moved to Washington State, where he eventually married Marilyn Strong and produced a large new body of art. Marilyn and Jerry’s charming Whidbey Island home is now filled with his unique interactive sculptures and paintings. Jerry also built a 40-foot meditation tower on his property, which is featured along with his story in a book by Laura Chester called Holy Personal.
Jerry's story is told in his book, “The Inspired Heart: An Artist’s Journey of Transformation” (foreword by Thomas Moore) published by Sentient Publications and in the Parabola Magazine documentary film called In the Hands of Alchemy: The Art and Life of Jerry Wennstrom. There is also a Sentient Publications DVD with the same name ,which includes a short new film called Studio Dialogue. Studio Dialogue is a presentation Jerry did before a live audience with music by Susan McKeown, sung by Marilyn Strong. Jerry travels internationally lecturing, teaching and presenting his film and work and he writes a monthly piece on the spirit of the times for a New York City consulting firm.
Jerry Wennstrom has presented at the Birmingham Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the EMP (Experience Music Project), Glen Arbor Art Association, the Old Firehouse Art Center, Other Side Arts, Pacifica Graduate Institute, UCS-NAROPA (Wisdom University), the Vancouver Public Library, Western New Mexico University, California Institute of the Arts and NYU. He has also done over 50 radio, TV and magazine interviews and art features.
www.handsofalchemy.com
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