The end of the long-count Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012, has provoked apocalyptic fears, doomsday books and films, and parodies, and even triggered outbreaks of panic, as recently reported in a December 1 New York Times article on Russia's end-of-the-world anxiety. By contrast, the far more positive and forward-looking Birth 2012 movement, organized by The Shift Network, offers a creative and hopeful alternative. Rather than feed fears, the movement aims to turn this marker point into a planetary "birth day" for a new era that is healthy, sustainable, and peaceful. The conveners recognize the power of this once-in-five-thousand-years turning point to unify people globally around a commitment to create a world that works for all.
The Birth 2012 movement and its global live webcast will link more than 40 major locations and hundreds of smaller ones. Many of today's top cultural leaders, bestselling authors, religious leaders, and musicians will join together in a call for a collective shift to a world that works for all.
Livecast locations include Mexico, Egypt, India, Japan, Israel, Ghana, Kenya, Scotland, Guatemala, Brazil, and Canada, plus dozens of locations in the United States.
Birth 2012 features thought leaders such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, don Miguel Ruiz, Jack Canfield, John Perkins, Joan Borysenko, and Lisa Nichols; spiritual leaders such as Michael Bernard Beckwith, Ram Dass, Jean Houston, Shiva Rea, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Oscar Miro-Quesada, Mayan elders, and members of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers; actors such as Esai Morales; social change leaders such as Lynne Twist, Dot Maver, and James O'Dea, and ; journalists such as Lynne McTaggart; academics such as Ervin Laszlo of Global Shift University and Ashok Gangadean of Haverford; business leaders such as Rinaldo Brutoco of World Business Academy; and musicians such as Michael Franti, Ozomatli, Donna DeLory and Rickie Byars Beckwith. Many of these leaders will participate in a live celebration on December 21 and 22 at Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, CA, the headquarters of the Birth 2012 broadcast, while others will join the celebration from other locations around the world. Millions more will connect via 12 waves of unity that will be staged every two hours leading up to the "birth moment" at noon Pacific on December 22.
Stephen Powers has more than 30-years of experience as an entrepreneur, producer and chief executive in entertainment and consumer electronics. Powers' numerous credits include the Grammy-winning John Lee Hooker album, The Healer, featuring Bonnie Raitt and million-selling soundtrack albums featuring Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Duran Duran and The Beach Boys. During his 5-year tenure as President of loudspeaker manufacturer, M&K Sound, the Oscar for Best Sound Design was awarded every year to recording engineers mixing only on M&K studio monitors (those films included Star Wars and The Titanic). He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Agape Media International, LLC. Learn more about Agape at www.agapeme.com.
Doug De Vito, BSChE, MBA, is the Head of Planning for The Reconnection and has the privilege and honor of helping to bring this work to the planet along with Eric Pearl. With a very traditional educational background in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing, he thought he would be the last person to be a part of teaching and bringing this forward. However, that was before this work "found him." Find out more about The Reconnection at www.thereconnection.com.
Stephen Dinan is the CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders groups. As the former Director of Membership and Marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program, which grew to 10,000 paying members, and the One Minute Shift video series, which was seen by more than one million. He is also the author of Radical Spirit (New World Library), and a forthcoming book Sacred America. Stephen directed and helped to create the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers. Learn more about Stephen at www.stephendinan.com.
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