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Pat is the founder of SOS (Skydivers Over Sixty) and helped set the world freefall formation record (39 skydivers, ages 60-83).  Pat and Alicia are part of the show team “The California Aerial Circus”.  Pat has been in many movies, TV programs, and commercials, usually involving skydiving stunt work.  He was also Mr. Nude USA in 1973.

Nicki Scully -  internationally acclaimed author and teacher.  During her first tour of Egypt with the Grateful Dead in 1978, Nicki experienced an epiphany on the top of the great pyramid, and realized her gift in this life time to bring forth the hidden shamanic arts of Egypt. Drawing on the knowledge gained through decades, she enlightens and uplifts all whom study and travel with her.

Hailing from Seattle, Nathaniel “Nate” Hinde has performed on stage and street, and is pretty well known wherever the language of “free style” is spoken.  He has been writing and performing spoken word pieces since he was sixteen years of age, and now at twenty-three, Nathaniel emerges as a poet ahead of his time . . . sometimes with an edge, but always with the scars to support it.  He has a style all his own, with powerful words, complex ideas, and a stage presence far more mature than his years.

Michael Datcher is the author of critically acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences.  His most recently produced play Silence was commissioned by and premiered at the Getty Museum. His poetry is widely anthologized.  He is a frequent news commentator who has appeared on Nightline, Dateline and the BBC. He teaches poetry, literary nonfiction and journalism courses at Loyola.

Melanie Duchin has been with Greenpeace for almost 20 years and has campaigned on a variety of issues including global warming, toxic pollution, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, forests and ocean ecology. Most recently, she worked on a Greenpeace campaign to halt commercial whaling. In early 2007, she spent seven weeks on a Greenpeace icebreaker in Antarctica where the Japanese government planned to kill almost 1000 whales as part of its sham “scientific” whaling program. Once back on land, she returned home to organize and coordinat

A positive conscious emcee, Marv Ellis has progressed through time to become a seasoned powerful performer.  From rapping and singing all original self written music, to exhibiting incredible crowd control, his skills have broadened to a new level of entertainment.

Coming off the release his seventh album, this time his second solo release "Underwater not Underground," he has taken a personal oath to make his music human, timeless, and authentic, while maintaining his integrity as an artist.

mark iktomi>hitunkala thompson, ph.d. is one of the founding elders of the Otter Clan. Trained in the history and philosophy of religions, specializing at UCLA in indigenous shamanism of the Americas, he studied with three Lakota shamen during the 1970s when he worked for the US Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs.  He is a retired educator, a social justice- environmental activist, who continues to work on issues of educational philosophy and cultural review.

Mark Harris, an award winning journalist and educator, has spent decades working for the recovery of culture, promoting sobriety, healthy non-addictive living, and the importance of uncovering hidden history for personal and community healing. Mark has worked with school districts, communities, and both national and state task forces on gangs, and culturally specific addiction prevention coalitions.

Larry Weinerman is the director of White Bird’s Chrysalis drug treatment program.   Larry has worked for the Willamette Aids council doing outreach to help preventing the spread of the HIV virus to the drug using population.  Working with thousands of drug abusing clients in the last sixteen years and knowing the potentially dangerous effects of drugs, Larry has come to believe that America’s longest war, the War On Drugs has to, and will end soon.

Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist, studying the relationship between plants and people, folk uses of plants and mushrooms in ritual, art, medicine, materials and food.  Kathleen works with an emphasis on the beliefs and practices that illustrate indigenous peoples’ appreciation of nature.  Her fieldwork has focused on the cultures of Mexico, Amazonian Peru, Ecuador, and the contemporary psychedelic and shamanic sub-cultures of the western United States.