Press Release – Monday evening, June 30th (for our Australian listeners, Tuesday morning, July 1st), A Global Focus interviews Victor Viggiani (first hour) and Mary Rodwell (second hour)

Posted by UFG-ts at 6/29/2008 7:36 PM and is filed under Press Release

June 28, 2008

(Metropolitan Washington, D.C.)

Monday evening, June 30th (for our Australian listeners, Tuesday morning, July 1st) A Global Focus  interviews Victor Viggiani (first hour) and Mary Rodwell (second hour)

The program, A Global Focus, can be heard on:   Station UPRN 105.8 FM – New Orleans, the Paranormal Radio Network (broadcasting across our beautiful nation to more than 170 cities and worldwide to 71 countries), Station WPRN – New Orleans, Live 365 (www.live365.com/stations/jojomon1), the PalTalk forum (www.paltalk.com), Aussie Cast and ubroadcast.com.

Victor Viggiani, B.A., M.Ed.  – Guest for the first hour: 7 – 8 PM Central, 8 – 9 PM Eastern/Toronto Time

Victor Viggiani, B.A., M.Ed., serves as the Director of Media Relations for Exopolitics Toronto (www.exopoliticstoronto.com).  Victor also is an educator, researcher, author, journalist, radio program co-host, and an Advisory Board Panel Member of the Exopolitics Institute (www.exopoliticsinstitute.org).  A recently retired Toronto school principal, Victor now serves Medaille College of Buffalo, New York, as their Faculty of Education Advisor.  A graduate of York University (B.A., Sociology and Psychology) of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Brock University (M.Ed. – Educational Administration and Curriculum Development), St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, Victor incorporates his academic insight into his innovative research, journalism, dynamic presentations, and leadership in the domestic and global exopolitical fields.

For more than 30 years, Victor has studied paranormal subjects, including anomalous aerial phenomena, the geopolitical aspects of an extraterrestrial presence, and the crop circle phenomenon.  While on sabbatical, during a year-long Australian lecture and research tour, Victor Viggiani presented his research in Brisbane, Sydney, and Adelaide, Australia.  In addition, he assisted the Australian Disclosure Project in its initial development and investigatory efforts.  The extensive scope of Victor’s investigative research in ufology includes in-depth study at such American Southwestern locations as Corona, Roswell, and Socorro, New Mexico, Area 51, Groom Lake Nevada, and White Sands, Los Alamos, Dulce, and The Very Large Array, New Mexico.

In a dedicated effort to inform the Canadian and global community as to current developments on UFO sightings and exopolitical subjects, Victor Viggiani serves as co-host and radio journalist on the popular The Richard Syrett Show, broadcast on CFRB 1010 AM – Toronto, Canada (www.richardsyrett.com/index.htm).  In his radio program segments, Victor interviews experts in ufology and related fields and produces audio material.  In addition, Victor has appeared as guest on both television and radio in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

Moreover, as Director of Media Relations for Exopolitics Toronto, Victor Viggiani coordinated the 2005 event – A Symposium on UFO Disclosure and Planetary Directions, held at the Convocation Hall of the University of Toronto.   This Symposium witnessed the historic presentation of a former Minister of National Defense of Canada.  Victor also served on the distinguished panel of speakers at this Symposium (www.exopoliticstoronto.com/archives.html).   Victor’s most recent presentation in the United States was a powerful address given as a member of an expert panel at the PRG Press Conference, April 21st, at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (www.paradigmresearchgroup.org).  That prior weekend Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird, both panelists representing the Exopolitics Toronto organization (www.exopoliticstoronto.com), gave informative and compelling presentations at the 2008 X-Conference held in Gaithersburg, Maryland (www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/X-Conference2008/X-Conference2008-2.htm).

Victor Viggiani’s published works encompass not only professional articles in educational journals, but also such analytical articles as:

Disclosure:  The Ultimate Terrestrial Imperative (www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc314.htm);  Area 51:  A Desert Journey; Exopolitics and Global Warming:  A Cosmic Connection; (www.agoracosmopolitan.com/exopolitics.html); and Alien Abduction Symposium, Boston, Mass. – “The Abduction Experience:  A Dialogue in Boston” – A review of Alien Abduction Dialogue Between Dr. John Mack and Budd Hopkins  (www.alienjigsaw.com/Articles/TheAbductionExperience.html).

Mary Rodwell, RN – Guest for the second hour:   Monday evening, June 30th,  9 – 10 PM Eastern, 8 – 9  PM Central Time; and Western Australian Time, Tuesday morning, 9 – 10 AM, Tues., July 1st

Mary Rodwell is a registered nurse, multi-credentialed author, researcher, therapist, counselor, metaphysician, producer/director, and principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (with acronym ACERN – www.acern.com.au), and Advisory Board Panel Member of the Exopolitics Institute (www.exopoliticsinstitute.orgwww.exopoliticsinstitute.org).

Mary Rodwell’s numerous achievements include her book:  Awakening: How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life, and her award-winning documentaries available in DVD or video  format: “Expressions of ET Contact . . . . A visual blueprint?” and “Expressions of ET Contact – a Communication and Healing Blueprint?”  In addition, Mary has produced the meditation series:  Journey to the Stars and Inner Alchemy, a metaphysical series available in CD form.  Mary Rodwell’s published articles include:  “Star Children,” “Counseling the Abductee, “The Abductee Support Group,” “Awakening to Contact,” “Why did you take my son?,” “Honoring Multidimensional Realities,” and “The New Human (2005).”

An international speaker at academic, conference and media program venues, the very extensive list of Mary’s speaking credits include (and this list represents but a fraction of her appearances):   Oxford University, Oxford Union, United Kingdom (April 2006); Murdoch University Perth, Wandjina, Australia; Institute of Integral Human Sciences – Montreal, Canada; UFO International Conference 2002 at Leeds University, United Kingdom; UFOR Sydney; UFOCUS, New Zealand; the Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference, Hawaii 2006; and National Radio ABC.

The ACERN website offers several informational pages, including an ACERN’s Resource Center category.  Included in that material you will find a webpage, “Conversations with Mary,” with responses to frequently asked questions on phenomena subjects:  http://members.iinet.net.au/~starline/.  The Website addresses for both ACERN and Mary Rodwell are located at www.acern.com.au and members.iinet.net.au/~starline.

T.Sheridan

 A Global Focus

World renowned paranormal expert, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, will guest.  She will share her up and coming works, as well as, what she is up to now.  It should make for a very good show.  It airs on Friday at 9pm.  Please hit the link below for more details.

http://beyondtheedgeradio.blogspot.com/2008/06/paranormal-party-of-summer-sizzles-with.html

Album Review | The Mars Volta enters the paranormal realm
Four out of five stars
Ellie Steever
Issue date: 2/4/08 Section: Arts

Nearly everyone over the age of 12 will testify that Ouija boards are fake and a waste of time. But progressive rock band The Mars Volta (TMV) obviously doesn’t feel that way.

Disbelieve what you will, but TMV’s fourth full-length effort, “The Bedlam in Goliath,” is a bowl full of secrets poured forth from the occult.

While touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, the band purchased a now-famous Ouija board nicknamed “the Soothsayer.” During the tour and the initial stages of recording for “Bedlam,” the board began to mystify the band with the demands, stories and names it supposedly gave them.

However, the Soothsayer began to curse TMV and its efforts to record with a chain of bizarre mishaps. Cedric Bixler-Zavala, vocals, had foot surgery that required him to relearn how to walk, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s, guitar, home studio burned.

Three drummers quit during the recording process (leading to the addition of Thomas Pridgen), and the original sound engineer also left after a nervous breakdown.

Eventually Rodriguez-Lopez buried the board and forbade band members to speak of it, but the pandemonium and peculiar eeriness it stirred up cannot be missed in “Bedlam.”

The band is known for its musical chaos, and “Bedlam” pushes this element to the breaking point, mainly through sheer speed. In previous TMV albums musical buildups often lead to ten-minute sections featuring feedback, guitar chirps and frog belches. In this latest album, there is no such downtime, and buildups only lead to more of that fast, hard, loud rock that makes listeners bang their heads so righteously.

“Cavelettas,” ringing in just short of ten minutes, toys with fans’ expectations for long reprieves found on earlier LPs. The musicians and production team show off their utter genius by playing with the volume on this track. Different instrument sections and sounds alternately rise and fall until the audience believes the familiar feedback solo is coming, before being whipped back into the main body of the song, ecstatic that there is nothing to fast forward through.

Distorted vocals and looped effects that TMV is so fond of show up in nearly every song, as well as wailing saxophone and string sections that remind the listener of the geographical spans that influence the music.

“Soothsayer” begins with Middle Eastern sounds and guitar melodies, eventually erupting into gypsy-infused tambourines, chimes and violins amidst the pulsing guitars and drums. To complete the foreign effect, the song ends with children’s voices singing a Catholic prayer, which is no doubt some ironic reference to the supernatural, pagan ideas that sculpted the album.

The paranormal themes found in the Soothsayer Ouija board are most lyrically apparent in “Goliath.” Bixler-Zavala’s yipping falsetto and deeper, accusatory vocals catch the listener’s attention with lines like, “I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on/ It’s numbing a stump/ Clearing in my throat/ And I just can’t lose grip of it.”

The single, “Wax Simulacra,” is the shortest track on the album and is all the stronger with power chords played over palpitating drums, alternatively giving way to an over-exaggerated downbeat or some fluttering sax overtone.

The recent performance of this song on “Late Night with David Letterman” did not give it justice. The vocals were given precedence over the rest of the instruments, whereas in its recorded works TMV always makes each sound just as powerful as the next.

Moreover, TMV consistently ensures that each album is as powerful and inspired as the next. Most fans can hardly say which album is their favorite, and now “Bedlam in Goliath” enters into this debate. When TMV first formed, there was no other band with the same sort of sound, and this remains true today.

But just because they have a unique sound doesn’t mean they shouldn’t keep exploring new styles. If there is anything bad to be said about “Bedlam” it is that a conceptual exploration of an idea through complex time signatures and depraved guitar mashing can form a masterpiece – but isn’t that what The Mars Volta has been doing all along?

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