• Brian O'Leary, Ph.D suffered the ridicule of his schoolfriends when - several years before Sputnik - he announced his intention to go to the moon. Yet by the age of 27 he was a member of NASA's astronaut program, slated to be one of the first to visit Mars.

Several years later, he resigned (for various reasons) and took up a career in academia where he rubbed shoulders with - among many others - Carl Sagan at Cornell and the pioneering psi investigator Robert Jahn at the physics department at Princeton.

A near-death experience in a auto accident encouraged his exploration of the paranormal, and soon after he applied his considerable abilities to the investigation of Free ('overunity') Energy and psi phenomena. He authored several books and became a well-known Free Energy activist.

An optimistic, gentle man, Brian O'Leary is gifted to possess intellect, vision and graciousness in equal measure. We are delighted to welcome him to Switzerland - where, as a young man, he climbed the Matterhorn 47 years ago.

His list of personal friends reads like a Who's Who of notable paradigm-challenging researchers and out-of-the-box thinking scientists. In his presentation at the Zurich conference, he will summarize his exceptional life, and present his vision for the future.

• The following is a detailed summary, written by Brian himself, of what he plans to talk about in Zurich:

Dr. Brian O'Leary will be speaking on the topic of his latest book: "The Energy Solution Revolution: A socio-political journey through the tangled web of free and clean energy, its promise, its suppression and its logical necessity for our survival."

Drawing on more than two decades of personal visits to the laboratories worldwide of leading researchers who have proven several concepts of over-unity energy, Dr. O'Leary has concluded that we can have a New Energy Age if we can remove the controlling elements that have decisively suppressed this research in order to preserve a dangerous status quo vested in 'dirty' energy.

In his presentation, Dr. O'Leary will examine the evidence for zero-point (vacuum) energy, cold fusion and advanced hydrogen and water technologies, and explains how a unified research and development effort could be launched to bring these sources into practical use under responsible stewardship.

These new energy sources promise a world of clean, cheap, decentralized, safe and publicly-transparent energy leading to a sustainable future for humankind. At the very least, the possibility of implementing one or more of these concepts needs to be understood and debated in a more democratic way than has happened so far.

The immediacy of solving the energy-environmental-climate crisis through implementing solution energy technologies also suggests that we found a new science of consciousness, healing and ET contact. Dr. O'Leary makes a plea for the world community to join together with benevolent ET cultures to overcome the tyrannies of control, warfare and pollution and to create a world of sustainable abundance under responsible regulation.

He writes, "Embracing the possibility of a breakthrough energy solution revolution and a new science of consciousness should be our mandate, not an idle speculation to be ignored or ridiculed or feared. To make this possible, we'll need all the help we can get from off-planet cultures to help us make the necessary transitions toward an enlightened future for a humanity in balance with nature."

Brian O'Leary, Ph.D., is a scientist-author-philosopher with fifty years of experience in academic research, teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy. He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and participated in unmanned planetary missions as an Ivy League professor.

Over the past four decades, Dr. O'Leary has been an international author, speaker, peace/ environmental activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive US. Congress members and presidential candidates. In 2004, he and his wife, the artist Meredith Miller, moved to the Andes in Ecuador where they co-created Montesueños or "mountain dreams" -- an eco-retreat and educational center dedicated to creativity and to the rights of nature.

His books on new science solutions to environmental challenges (in reverse chronological order) are The Energy Solution Revolution, Re-Inheriting the Earth, Miracle in the Void, The Second Coming of Science, and Exploring Inner and Outer Space.

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