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  Date / Time: 11/29/2007 9:46 PM UTC

  There was a substantial time delay in Professor Bagnolo's call in...

  There was a substantial time delay in Professor Bagnolo's call in for the broadcast today, which resulted in my talking, alone, for the first hour, or so. But, it would be well worth tuning in to, at least, the last half hour of the broadcast to hear what Professor Bagnolo said in the time that he spoke.
  
  We agreed to schedule another full broadcast, which I hope to do and post in the near days to come.
  
  In the meantime, and always - Do the best that YOU Can!!!
  
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• Original Air Date: 11/29/2007 8:00 PM UTC

  Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo

  Professor Bagnolo is a prime example, or prototype, so to speak, for an INdividual human who has been, and is functioning on the leading edge of Consciousness Frontiers - in his living, work and play!
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• Date / Time: 11/29/2007 10:26 AM UTC

  Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 3 PM EST.: Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo

  Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo has had an amazing life thus far. He is truly a Renaissance man in the fullest sense of the term: Architectural designer, painter, sculptor, writer, novelist, intellectual, and inventor, and as a young man, athlete.
  
  Professor Bagnolo was offered an opportunity to skip three grades in grammar school at age 8. However, his parents in their Italo-American wisdom allowed him only a one-grade skip. Otherwise he would have graduated primary school at age 10, high school at age 14, and college at age 18. Certainly a wonderful start for a wunderkind, but not for a boy or man socially.
  
  Later, he was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, but because of a serious bout with polio a few years before, and a relapse of muscular atrophication, his parents refused to allow him to attend classes. Despite his polio, he became a baseball player talented enough to gain try-outs and contract offers from several major league ball clubs at age 16-18. At that time, one had to be 21 years of age for a contract to be valid and his parents refused the bonus offers, preferring him to go to college instead.
  
  He became a Ford Foundation Fellowship Recipient in college, and was the first of only 12 out of 1200 accepted into a special program as a result. He later won a full tuition Talent-merit/gifted based scholarship for his figure paintings in his senior year, the first such award granted in 25 years at his university. The University credited him with a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Architectural/Exhibition Design and Advertising - the last they ever granted, and a minor in Cultural Anthropology (which actually qualifies as a Major). Uncertain of how to present his much faceted degree, they titled it formally: Environmental Design.
  
  Lothar Wittebourg, Director of the Field Museum Department of Exhibition Design, mentored him through the exhibition/architectural segment. His graduate architectural structural model, plans, and thesis, with Witteborg's mentoring and input. He was also responsible for a great many large scale stained glass projects, sometimes in collaboration with others, sometimes designing the color scale presentation art, sometimes doing the full-size and working drawings for the windows, sometimes choosing the many colored glass pieces for the entire window and at other times doing all of those things, depending upon his availability.

  
  Early in his career, he drew 110 larger than life-sized realistic charcoal figure drawings complete with buildings, back/foreground and landscaping for a mural in less than 10 days.  Continued
  

  [The above bio harvested from the comments of Deans, colleagues, students, clients and collector's.]
  
  Websites are at, Saatchi Gallery Website London at: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//14586.html
  
  LOS ANGELES SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS SILA
  http://www.si-la.org/artists/pbagnolo-home.html
  Website:  http://www.bagnoloart.com/
  RELIGIOUS ART SITE http://www.bagnoloart.com/sacredart/
  GALLERY VIEW ART http://www.BagnoloArt.com/oil_paintings/index.html
  

  
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• Date / Time: 11/26/2007 10:13 PM UTC

  Thursday, December 13, at 7 PM EST: Professor William Christopher Epler

  Professor William Christopher Epler (Bill) 'Proteus' teaches at two universities. In his words; (1.)  I stopped one year short of finishing a PhD in Philosophy since I wanted to write my dissertation on Alan Watts and my committee freaked out, so I decided academic philosophy was a contradiction of terms and went into math.  I also started that Ph.D. from scratch in my late 30's, and not many people dare to that.
  
  (2.)  I spent several years in my youth passionately playing the piano (sometimes practicing 10 hours a day).  I had a shot at 2 world-class teachers, but life intervened and my Rachmaninoff ambitions didn't come to pass.
  
  (3.)  I used to do lots of Kundalini Yoga, but the Sikhs left Albuquerque, and I sort of ran out of yoga centers.
  
  (4.)  I am married with 2 adorable daughters whom I love, as I tell them, more than the sky.
  
  (5.)  I started to write around 10 years ago and have manuscripts to burn of plays, poetry, essays, partial novels, and (as you know) quantities of op-eds.  I have the material  for several diverse books and I may compile it and see about publishing. As you can see, I have a least at book of material on my blog (including a play, poetry, and lots of out of the box stories).  I think you would enjoy my short stories if you find time to read some, e.g., the caR, the staR, the birD, bonE, and the rooM, as a few suggestions.
  
  (6.)  I have several mathematical conjectures I may do some hard core research into.  I particularly like Bayesian probability which is a subject I could say some interesting things about since the alternative is "frequentist' probability which is grounded in British Empiricism, whereas Bayesian probability is related to continental Rationalism, especially Kant.  Many people don't know about these mathematical/philosophical connections, but they certainly exist. 
  
  

  As he describes on his The Liberation of Realism web site "The reality/thought distinction lies at the precise center of human existence. The problem is that thought (including religious and scientific thought) keeps abstracting theoretical realities "behind the scenes" of raw living, but ultimate realness is where we already are. Spontaneous, immediacy is itself reality process and the sublime self activity of that which is already the case forever transcends the thinking about point of view. Thus, mystery groundedness is all . . ."

  
  Professor Epler wrote about his statement above that "It pretty much says everything and most of my essays are variations of those themes.  It is self evident to me that ultimate realness is where we already are and that "time and space" are merely conceptual human projections into that which is already the case.  An ancient Chinese word for nature is tzu-jan which means (very roughly) the of itself so, hence immedicying is the of itself soing of untheoretical realness. 
  
  These things can be said like a bouquet of intuitions, which harmonize into a greater whole. Most of my essays are grounded in these intuitions.  Many years ago, this life ceased to be personality grounded, and that has been wonderfully spiritually liberating.  Said differently, the dreamer isn't what finally "wakes up", but rather the dreamer is what something more real wakes up from. The more real is all. "
  
  

  A liberal American, PhD mathematician, bipedal Earthling.

  http://www.theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/

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• Date / Time: 11/26/2007 9:52 PM UTC

  THE HISTORY Of GOD (continued) Thursday December 6, 2007 7 PM EST

  God, gods, conscious awareness, truth, religions, free will, thinking, logic, reasoning, history, humans, extraterrestrials, followers, rulers, leaders, beneficial, potential

   

  The word God, or god, is one of the words used most often by many to most people. Many of who have been and are willing to die and kill based on their "belief" and/or "blind faith" in what they've told and taught, for many generations.
  
  Although, very few know or have a clear idea and understanding about how the three dominant monotheistic (a concept previously unknown in the world) religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - shaped and altered the conception of God; or, how those religions influenced each other; or, how those religions refashioned "the One God" to suit the social and political needs of their followers*; or how humans have perceived and experienced "God" throughout the times of recorded human history. Huh? * [I think the primary priority - of those elite few who have, and have had, the power and influence to determine what the rules, tenets, and "laws" are for the "followers", who happen to be the mass majority of this planet's population - is and has been to control and dominate what they consider to be the "ignorant, dangerous, and pesky", 90% or more of this, earth's humans, "by any and all means necessary". RDD]
  
  HOT TIP: Beware of anyone claiming that they represent and speak for Jesus, The Christ, or anyone else who is not currently incarnated here to speak for their self. If what YOU seek YOU do not find in the quiet of YOUR heart and mind, YOU, with a certain amount of inherent "Free will", from the Source, need not fully accept anything from any human, or, uhmm, any of our telepathically and holographically communicating extraterrestrial relatives, especially any  "message(s)" claiming to be from "God", the originating Source of Everything in existance, if YOU do not clearly understand it, and can practically apply it in your life to benefit YOU, and whoever else YOU choose to help.

  A primary reference for this topic "THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" book A HISTORY OF GOD, authored by Karen Armstrong (b. November 14, 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England). Ms. Armstrong is also the bestselling author of "The Battle for God" (2000), "Islam: A Short History" (2000), among many other books, spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, taught modern literature at the University of London, teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and the Training of Rabbis and Teachers, and was awarded the 1999 Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award...and much more.

  "Karen Armstrong is the most provocative, original, and inclusive thinker on the role of religion in the modern world." Exclusively Represented by The Lavin Agency

  http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/karmstrong.html

  http://smithsonianassociates.org/programs/Armstrong/armstrong.asp

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• Original Air Date: 11/23/2007 12:00 AM UTC

  Happy Thanksgiving

  Rev. Laura Thompson: Born Sept. 7, 1949, San Diego, CA.-Legal Secretary, President Women’s Caucus for Art/San Diego 2006-present, “A Course in Miracles” studies more than 2 years Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and “new age” belief systems, exploring and developing intuitive and psychic abilities. YOUtopia INstitute Secretary - 2000 to present. Ordained in April 1979 with 6 years studies of comparative religions, Scientology tenets and doctrine and spiritual counseling, numerous spiritual retreats
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• Date / Time: 11/22/2007 8:45 PM UTC

  Reverend Laura Thompson, and "Thanksgiving: The National Day Of Mourning"

  Websites are at, http://www.artdesignzz.com/  - Art Gallery  - www.sdwca.org
  
  Reverend Laura Thompson: Born September 7, 1949, San Diego, California - is part of the San Diego Chapter http://www.allofusornone.org/about.html and Non Violent Peace Force - San Diego Chapter http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/ - www.npsand.org

  Education: Various Public Schools thru 3rd grade, including Our Lady of The Assumption Parish School, Claremont California - 4-8^th grades Pomona Valley Catholic Girls School, Pomona, California - 9^th and 10^th grades St. Lucy’s Priory School for Girls, Glendora, California - 11^th and 12^th grades Mt. San Antonio Community College-Pomona, California - Undergraduate courses, Church of Scientology of California-Los Angeles, California Executive Organization and Administrative Specialist, Data Evaluation Project and Programming Specialist, Personnel Establishment Specialist
  Platt College, San Diego, California Production Art and Graphic Design Certification

  Affiliations: Church of Scientology 1973 – 1985, full time staff member,
  Ordained minister in April 1979 after 6 years of study of comparative religions, Scientology tenets and doctrine and spiritual counseling
  Highest rank achieved as staff member Lt. Commander in 1981
  Held various administrative positions including: Administrative support supervisor and 1973-1981 Program Production Supervisor for the United States Upper Management Legal office, 1981-1985 International Management Public Relations Research and Survey Director and Logistics Specialist

  Legal Secretary for over 20 years
  YOUtopia INstitute 2000 to present – Secretary
  Universal Life Church – June 14, 2000 – Ordained Minister
  Women’s Caucus for Art/San Diego –2004-2005 – Secretary, 2006-present – President

  Spiritual self-study:  Numerous spiritual retreats, Studying “A Course in Miracles” in a study group for more than 2 years Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and many “new age” belief systems including exploring and developing my intuitive and psychic abilities. 

  Websites are at, http://www.artdesignzz.com/  - Art Gallery  - www.sdwca.org

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    On "Thanksgiving: The National Day Of Mourning"

  As for "Thanksgiving" day celebration, I wrote in the YOUtopia INstitute September 17, 2006 QUIET As IT’s Kept newsletter, titled  I and YOUtopia INstitute have Relocated to Rocky Mount, North Carolina: "I choose Rocky Mount, rather than some other similar place, because I have never spent any time there, and it is the birthplace of my mother, Nettie Mae Ford - her father Arthur Ford, My grandmother, Roberta, and my great grandfather, Eli - Cherokee - native person of this continent. I'm not sure how far back my immediate bloodline ancestry goes back here, and I AM about  doing research on that matter." 

   

  Although I have not been able to find any paper documentation of the fact that any of my immediate bloodline relatives, which includes my biological mother, ever existed here, I AM as sure as I can be that I'm living, walking and driving around, at least - in the immediate area, over the bones of one of my grandfather's and grandmother's and their ancestors going back several thousands years. Which I reflected deeply on during the night and morning in the context of the "Thanksgiving" day celebrations, and firmly concluded, once again, that I could not - with a clear conscious, and would not ignore, deny or in any other way disrespect the knowledge and memory of what actually happened to the millions that were slaughtered, at the beginning of "America", followed by establishing a day of "Thanksgiving" for the results. Indigenous Native "American" Prophecy (video)

   

  Today I received the attached newsletter with links to more comprehensive historical perspective and information in the linked articles that follow, from The BLACK Commentator on the matter of "A Day to Commemorate Genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples".

   

  http://www.blackcommentator.com/254/254_cover_end_of_american_thanksgivings.html

   

  http://www.blackcommentator.com/254/254_thanksgiving_national_day_of_mourning_wampsutta.html

   

  I will leave the matter with the above, for now.

   

  Good food and good relationships should be enjoyed, appreciated and respected whenever we have them, while never forgetting ALL of those who are less fortunate, as well as ALL of those who have sacrificed ALL, and allows US to enjoy what we have.

   

  My neighbors are bringing me more excellently delicious food than I can immediately eat, as I write this. I will certainly do my best to insure that none of it is wasted. I remain continuously THANKFUL for all of my many true blessings, not the least of which is the capacity to think clearly and act accordingly, all things considered.

   

   

  Best regards,

  Rama Demetrius Dyushambee, DD

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