Come and join us for the second ARC (Alternative Research Community) Convention, bringing together some of those featured in Karen Sawyer's books,The Dangerous Man: Conversations with Free-Thinkers and Truth-Seekers – A Collection of Alternative Research, and Soul Companions: Conversations with
Contemporary Wisdom Keepers - A Collection of Encounters with Spirit.
You may have already heard how fantastic the first ARC Convention was... (if you haven't, you can view some pictures and feedback by clicking HERE!). The second promises to be just as wonderful as we want it to be... perhaps even more so! More information and speakers will be revealed here as things come together.
Held at the same venue, the Chapel Arts Centre, the event takes place in the very heart of the city of Bath on a bank holiday weekend - the 28th and 29th August.
*Confirmed GUEST SPEAKERS include*
ELLIS TAYLOR
DOGGED DAYS:
The Strange Life and Times of a Child from Eternity –Paranormal Experiences with Extraterrestrials, Humans, and Beings from Other Worlds and Dimensions.
We are not alone. We never were and we never will be. It is high time for us to acknowledge this most fundamental and vital fact. We are not lonely accidents of an explosive cosmic scramble and our lives are not meaningless, inconsequential, aftershocks. Every life, every life, is an infinite experiential opportunity lived in a busy populated multiverse; and its limits can only be described by the binds of its (our) fears.
Besides the myriad forms of life that share this frequency range of our manifestation are others, countless others. Some of these others come and go between their ‘worlds’ and ‘ours’ as we all do in ‘theirs’ to varying degrees and circumstance, whether we realise this or not. Some of them have an agenda – a point to their communications – and they leave their marks.
In this profusely illustrated talk, Ellis tells of his own encounter experiences (which have many times been in the company of others) and he provides stunning photographic evidence, and witness testimony, to illustrate them.
Ellis C. Taylor is an international 7th generation Australian-born author, whose roots and heart are inextricably woven into the Dreamtime of the Isles (the British Isles). Ellis is an acknowledged Original and Seer who moves easily between the psychic world and this one, providing information and inspiration to those who find him. His Otherworld travels colour his perceptions, inform his views, and inspire his writing and his Readings. He is an author, numerologist, tarot reader and diviner. His books to date are:Living in the Matrix Another Way, In These Signs Conquer: Revealing the Secret Signs an Age has Obscured and Dogged Days.
Whether one is committed to tackling poverty and homelessness, the inequity of healthcare, or multinational corporations whose desire for profit threatens us all, the need for action is omnipresent.
Society seems ‘immunised’ from the truth by journalists, and what remains are confused masses, unaware of the machinations of medicine and government, with many paralyzed by fear. How is one to discern what is truth? Writer/director Kevin P. Miller will share the techniques he uses to gather information, challenge corporations, medicine and government. He will show you how he defined his own niche in the course of his 20-year odyssey as a humanistic, socially-conscious filmmaker.
Kevin P. Miller is an international award-winning writer, producer and director whose films Kids In Crisis, Let Truth Be The Bias, The Promised Land, and more, have won multiple international film and television awards. His latest documentary, Generation RX , explores the use of psychiatric drugs among children and teens.
HUMAN DEVOLUTION: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory
Where did human beings, with their attributes of mind and consciousness, come from? Today the most common answer is a process of materialistic evolution. But not everyone is satisfied with that answer, including me. I am therefore proposing an alternative explanation, with roots in the ancient Vedic culture of India . Although I am proposing a Vedic alternative, I am aware that it is part of a larger family of spiritual alternatives, with roots in other religious systems, which I also honor and respect. First I wish to show there is a genuine need for an alternative. There is a lot of archeological evidence that contradicts the currently dominant explanation of human origins, and the current explanation has not been fully demonstrated, to the exclusion of alternatives, by genetics. So there is a genuine need for a new explanation. But before even asking the question, "Where did human beings come from?", we should first ask the question, "What is a human being?"
Today, many researchers believe a human being is simply a combination of the ordinary material elements - but when we look at all the evidence, we see it is more reasonable to say that a human being is a combination not just of matter but also of a subtle (but nonetheless material) mind element and an irreducible element of nonmaterial consciousness. These elements must have some source, and this suggests that our cosmos has levels dominated by increasingly more subtle elements, ending with pure consciousness or spirit. Instead of evolving 'up' from matter, as most scientists now believe, consciousness devolves or comes 'down' from a level of pure consciousness, and becomes covered by the lower energies of mind and matter. This process I call devolution. But it is a process that can be reversed, through techniques of prayer, meditation, and yoga, by which consciousness can be restored to its original pure state. And this is the main purpose of human existence.
Michael A. Cremo has a Phd. (honoris causa) in science and theology. His work focuses on Vedic perspectives on human origins and antiquity. He has presented papers at meetings of the World Archeological Congress, European Association of Archeologists, and the International Congress for History of Science. He has twice presented papers in the bi-annual conference series Toward A Science of Consciousness. He has given invited lectures at the Royal Institution in London, the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, and at other scientific institutions and universities around the world. Cremo is the principal author of the book Forbidden Archeology; a comprehensive survey of archeological evidence consistent with Vedic accounts of extreme human antiquity. The abridged popular edition of Forbidden Archeology, titled The Hidden History of the Human Race, has been translated into twenty languages. Cremo's latest book is entitled Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin 's Theory. Cremo is particularly interested in examining the history of the archeology and anthropology from the standpoint of alternative worldviews, particularly worldviews with foundations in consciousness-based ancient Indian thought. He has been a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness since 1974.
