Butterfly Gardeners Association
Honorary Board

Patch Adams - Honary Board Chairman
Gesunehit! Institute
6855 Washington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22213
http://www.patchadams.org

Dear Alan, Wow! What a wonderful package. Thank you for all your kindness - how I dream of a world of peace and justice. I wish you the best in all your efforts - if I can do something - let me know. When the center opens let me know - I'll send my books there for its library. I didn't know if you had them - so here are copies. I hope when our hospital reopens that you'll come and make sure we're doing our best for the butterflies. I put you on the mailing list for our newsletter. I take five clowns next week for a week in El Salvador orphanages - then home for the weekend and take a hundred folk to Cuba for a week. Enjoy everything. In peace, Patch 11-30-99

Bio: Patch Adams, a former mental health patient who decided to get his own M.D., and in the process, developed a new approach to medicine that went contrary to conventional procedures, but was successful and loved by patients nonetheless. Patch Adams' approach to medicine is to approach his "patients" as people, and talk to them with humor and humanity. To this day, Patch Adams' Gesundheit! Institute provides free medical care to people in West Virginia.

People are fed up with the state of medical care in America, and that's what Patch Adams and his Gesundheit! Institute are all about. Healing is one of the most necessary and humane acts we are faced with tackling in our lives, and it is Patch's opinion that the medical system approaches people in a way that is not condusive to getting better.

A World Forum sponsored conference titled Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century on October 3, 1999, was well-attended by interested participants but generated little media interest until Adams and prominent activist Dr. Helen Caldicott called for the nude demonstration. Although many ideas were discussed at the forum, the main thrust of the meeting were the dangers of nuclear accidents that could occur on Jan. 1, 2000, if computer systems in countries around the world crashed on January 1, 2000.

"Non-violent people like us really have so few tools to face a capitalist system," Adams told the crowd as they uncomfortably disrobed outside Herbst Theater in the War Memorial Building. "All we really have are ourselves and our ideas. Our ideas have not done the job."

With those words, the crowd whooped and hollered their way out of the building and onto Van Ness for a quick stroll down the street, chanting, "Disrobe for disarmament," and, "News, not nukes."

James Twyman
7966 Olypic Road, Joshua Tree, CA 92252
belovedjt@aol.com
http://www.emissaryoflight.com

Bio: Several years ago, James Twyman decided to apply his lifelong gift for music to his spiritual quest. Inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, Jimmy took to the road singing of peace and happiness to whoever would listen. Shortly before leaving on a European tour, James was given a copy of the peace prayers from 12 major religions. He was inspired as he read them and the music started to flow. By the end of the day, James had written music for each of the 12 prayers and knew there was something special about them.

While on tour in Europe , James was led by coincidence after coincidence and ended up in the war-torn countries of Bosnia and Croatia. While there coincidence led him to find a secret society called the Emissaries of Light, that had been anchoring peace in this dimension throughout time. He shared in their meditations and teachings, being told that he would be the one to take their teachings to the world. His adventures in Bosnia-Croatia were told in his book Emissary of Light

Jimmy Twyman is still a Peace Troubadour, travel-ing around the globe, singing the peace prayers and giving workshops on the teachings of the Emissaries of Light. He shares their techniques for transmuting fear from the consciousness and anchoring peace within. For it is when we are peaceful within, that the world will reflect this peace outwardly.

He has since traveled around the world, often risking his life, to sing Prayers of Peace. James was invited to Baghdad, and later, Belfast, Ireland to sing and pray for peace. Each time he called for the world to join him in focused intent; and each time thousands of you did. As you all know, both Iraq and Ireland agreed peace was the answer within days.

James dedicates his life to helping us all become Emissaries of Light. At his workshops and concerts, he teaches practical ways we can all bring more peace into our lives and shares his music singing songs of peace to our hearts.

Steve Bhaerman aka Swami Beyondananda
Lite Headed Productions
400 W. 3 St. #D-144, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 525-0711
swamib@saber.net
http://www.beyondananda.com

I think the butterfly project is a terrific idea ... the butterfly is like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, only smaller and more delicate ... The more butterflies, the healthier the planet and vice versa ... perhaps the Swami could write a little piece on butterflies and you can use it in your promo, etc. Anything else I can do, let me know.

Bio: Steve Bhaerman has been a lifelong student of humor and its sociological and psychological implications. After earning a B.A. in political science and M.A. in education, Steve started an alternative school in Washington, D.C. and he and a colleague wrote a book about their experiences, No Particular Place To Go: Making of a Free High School (Simon & Schuster, 1972). He subsequently taught history at Wayne State University and creative writing at University of Michigan. In the early 1980s, he published Pathways magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first local publications to focus on holistic health, personal growth, spirituality and community. For the past twelve years, he has traveled the country performing comedy as Swami Beyondananda and offering workshops (as Steve Bhaerman) on the transformational power of humor. As the Swami, he has written three books: Driving Your Own Karma, When You See A Sacred Cow ... Milk It For All It's Worth, and his latest,Duck Soup For the Soul. He has also been featured on the nationally-syndicated radio show, Keeping the 70s Alive, and publishes a monthly Ask The Swami column, read by over two million people.

Steve has presented his transformational humor workshops for numerous organizations including the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Association of Humanistic Psychology, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, the Adler Institute, the Pacific Symposium, the Whole Health Institute, the ISI Health Show, the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, and for educational, business and religious groups throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Jonathan Goldman
Spirit Music/Sound Healers Association
P.O. Box 2240, Boulder, CO 80306
(800) 246-9764
jonathan@healingsounds.com
http://www.healingsounds.com

Bio: Jonathan Goldman is a writer, musician and teacher. He is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Jonathan is the author of HEALING SOUNDS; THE POWER OF HARMONICS (Element Books), SHIFTING FREQUENCIES (Light Technology) and THE LOST CHORD (Spirit Music). He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, including the Dalai Lama's Chanting Gyuto and Gyume Monks and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting. He has been initiated into the Hindu lineage as Swami Nadananda Saraswati.

Jonathan is the director of the Sound Healers Association; a non-profit organization dedicated to education and awareness of sound and music for healing. He is also president of Spirit Music, which produces music for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation. Jonathan has created numerous cutting edge recordings including: "Dolphin Dreams", "Gateways: Sacred Drumming and Chanting", and "Trance Tara". His overtone chanting is heard on many of Kitaro's albums. Jonathan's newest release is the best selling recording, "Chakra Chants", winner of the 1999 Visionary Awards for "Best Healing-Meditation Album" and "Album of the Year".

Jonathan has written numerous articles on the therapeutic and transformational uses of sound and music, which have appeared in many national publications. He has also contributed chapters and interviews to many books, including: MUSICMEDICINE, SONIC ALCHEMY and MUSIC: PHYSICIANS FOR TIMES TO COME.

Jonathan teaches Healing Sounds Seminars at universities, hospitals, holistic health centers and expos throughout the United States and Europe. He has appeared on national television and radio and been featured in USA. His annual Healing Sounds Intensive attracts participants from throughout the world.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Film Making from Boston University. He holds a Master's Degree in the Independent Study on Sound Healing from Lesley College. He is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music and Medicine.

Armando Pérez Morales
aperez@plastiformas.com.mx
http://www.psychegame.com

Bio: Armondo is a teacher and gives seminars and workshops in the fields of psychology, history, and mental health. He is a business consultant, psychologist, personnel development and corporate manager. He wants to help develope the business plan for the Butterfly Gardeners and Patch Adams Centers.

Armondo spent over 15 years synthesizing five different sacred oracle/games from the ancient cultures of China, India, Persia, Greece, and Meso-America into one modern game. He combined elements of the I Ching, Leela, Asha, Magic Squares, and Patoli, weaving a many-layered web of psychological, symbolic, mythological and numerical ingredients. What emerged was the archetypal game called Psyche that incorporates the symbol of the butterfly.

Psyche is a game or system which combines the divinatory games of a number of ancient societies into one archetypal game with the added dimension of contemporary psychological paradigms. Psyche functions through the phenomenon of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence) as do its constituent games or systems.

These ingredients operate in Psyche via "synchronicity," a term coined by Carl Jung to describe meaningful and seemingly merely coincidental happenings. Jung stated that these happenings must be based on some principle connecting our psyches with the phenomenal order of energy and matter.

Through the expansion of your consciousness and its connection with the external world, you will find your path to realization and the development of your ability to change your states of consciousness. Thus you will contribute to the transformation of a collective vision, thereby enhancing our hope for the future.

In recent years, more and more people have come to see that a new spiritual vision of the significance of the individual, coupled with a consciousness of our global interconnectedness, is needed to rescue civilization from self-destruction.

If we desire a global change, it will first be necessary to develop individual human potentials. We must explore and transform our own states of consciousness and project a new vision of reality, including the universal acceptance of ethnic and cultural differences.

Modern society has lost contact with the mythological roots of its constituent peoples. These myths are the stories that give meaning to life.

Most ancient cultures developed sacred games, systems of wisdom or guides of conduct based on their visions of the cosmos and religious beliefs. These games were not trivial pastimes. They were fundamental expressions of the perception that people had of the unseen forces which determine human experience and gave guidance for their proper attitudes and conduct in light of their circumstances.

William Thomas
Proposition 1
PO Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038
202-462-0757
prop1@prop1.org
http://prop1.org

Bio: On June 3, 1981, William Thomas sat down on the White House sidewalk with a small cardboard sign, "WANTED: WISDOM & HONESTY," and a flier. He was quickly arrested, the first of many attempts to displace him. He kept coming back.

Thomas' fast ended, but he remained to establish a full-time, unpaid continuous forum in front of the White House. Thomas' message, "WANTED, WISDOM & HONESTY," has stood north of the White House day and night since 1981, except for a three-month period in 1988 when Thomas was sent to prison by U.S. Judges Flannery and Richey, who wanted to "deter others from adopting your lifestyle." He has patiently outlasted most of the police, the media, and even the eager regulation writers, who originally attempted to remove Thomas. Unlike 1981, it appears for now that the White House accepts the presence of the vigil. However, that is subject to change at any moment.
Meanwhile, Thomas has co-founded Proposition One Committee, to promote "Reason and Sanity and an End to War in illustration of the ideals of nonviolence." The greatest success so far, besides the continuing vigil outside the White House, is legislation which has been introduced multiple times into Congress since its win at the ballot in September 1993: the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act." Most importantly, the concepts of Proposition One - global nuclear disarmament, convert the war machines -- are universally appreciated by colleagues and visitors from around the planet.

The award-winning Proposition One website is an archive of news and activities. Believing in the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish (or think) than to feed him, Thomas uses every medium available to help come to common understanding with people. Two documentaries, "The Ground War At Home" in 1991 (about the Gulf War) and "Proposition One: Peace Through Reason" in 1994 (updated in 1999, about HR-2545), have been broadcast on public access television in Washington, DC and elsewhere, and are available for activists who email, write, or call.

Note; This bio contains many hotlinks that are now shown. Please visit http://prop1.org/thomas.htm to see them all.

Dr. Scout Cloud Lee
Magical Child Foundation/Vision Us, Inc./The Ranch
6409 North Country Club Road, Stillwater, OK 74075
(405) 743-2733 (405) 377-2201 (405) 372-3425
vision@cowboy.net
http://www.scoutcloudlee.com
http://www.magicalchild.org/cloud.htm

Bio: Dr. Scout CLOUD Lee's is promoting the vision of a World Party Celebration in 2013. In 1984, while conducting a professional training for psychologists and psychiatrists, Cloud had a unique vision about Teamwork 2000. Since then, she has been on a personal journey to share her vision. Within weeks, she founded the Magical Child Foundation, a non-profit organization established specifically to promote peace through play.

Known as a Champion of the Human Heart and Soul, Dr. Lee has transformed years of commitment and excellence in legislative, academic and experiential work and learning into her performances as a key-note motivational speaker that provide delicious food for the soul.
She has taken recreation to the level of creation, driving home our power to create. Whether she's performing her Mountain Movin' Medicine Show or giving a keynote speech, she is known coast-to-coast as The Master of Playfulness.

On stage, CLOUD transforms the audience into the stars of the show, alive, vital and in step with the music and the message.The songs she writes and sings illustrate her passion for fun, fulfilling dreams and celebrating life. She draws on aspects of soul, rock, rhythm and blues, country and gospel for her unique brand of CLOUD Music toe-tappin', high-spirited, feel good tunes. Her heartwarming and true-to-life stories resound in her music, stories, and talksThe power and energy she brings to the stage is fueled by her passion and belief in world peace. In her presence you are powerfully and heartfully propeled to vision, focus, come together and manifest a world good for all.

A prolific songwriter, she has recorded four albums, one in Nashville and three in her home state of Oklahoma, including her latest CD, Love Medicine. Throughout her lyrics echoes the resounding call and impetus for peace on our beautiful planet.

"Everything that I do goes toward promoting the World Party Celebration," she says. "Every book I write, all the music I make, the stage shows I produce, every motivational speech I give. No matter who I'm addressing, I bring them this vision and wonder with them how they're going to be involved. I regard myself as a hawker at a circus, telling people to come one, come all. This isn't my party. It's everybody's party and I'm just spreading the word." From http://www.worldcelebration.com/About_Cloud/about_cloud.html