"Fascinating detail. . . a wealth of research applied to an obscure subject produces a truly groundbreaking work.' -- Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions
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Jay Weidner is an author and filmmaker. Besides co-authoring 'A Monument to the End of Time' (with Vincent Bridges) Jay has two new books due for release in 2003, one is 'Alchemical Kubrick': An Examination of the Esoteric in the films of Stanley Kubrick' and his memoirs 'Season of the Apocalypse'. He has also Produced and Directed the documentary films 'Earth Under Fire' (shown on national television), 'ArtMind' with noted sacred artist Alex Grey, 'Healing Sounds' with best selling writer Jonathan Goldman, Path of the Priestess: Awakening the Divine Feminine' by author and sacred dancer Sharron Rose, and 'Healer, Shaman, Sage' with Shaman/author Dr. Alberto Villoldo.
In 1980, at the age of 26 he directed the feature film cult classic 'The Legend Of Johnny Kill'.
He was also the Public Affairs Director at KCMU-FM in Seattle. From 1992 to 1995 he produced and hosted the weekly radio show 'Mind Over Matters' where he interviewed a who's-who of dynamic and important personalities such as Noam Chomsky, Terence McKenna and Peter Dale Scott.
He is currently in production as Writer/Director of a major motion picture titled 'The Bird People', due out in 2003.
Vincent Bridges is an historian, author and a self-proclaimed "anthropologist of the weird." He is also the co-author of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross (by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges, Aethyrea Books, 1999, 2000), and Interlude with Sally Hemings: Diary of a Spiritual Healing (by R.J. Gabriel, with Vincent Bridges. His shorter work is well represented on various websites. His book length works available on the internet include The Gnostic Science of Alchemy, The UFO Enigma: spirits of the dead, phantom airships and flying discs, The Apocalyptic Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau, Arthur and the Fall of Britain, and High Weirdness, a collection of articles by Vincent Bridges and his co-author, Jay Weidner.
In addition, his widely published and reprinted articles include "Innocent Murder: The Real Story of JonBenets Death" (with Jay Weidner) which was described by former Boulder police detective Steve Thomas on the Larry King Live Show as the best article, and the most likely solution, ever published on the JBR case ("Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?" Larry King Live, CNN, 31 May 2000), and "Death of the Feminine," his 1997 article about the death of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa and JonBenet Ramsey, which was one of the most widely circulated articles on the subject on the web for almost two years after the event.
Vincent Bridges is also a pioneer researcher in the field of psycho-acoustic therapy, a trauma abreaction technique using light and sound entrainment of brain frequencies, a pagan political activist and a world traveler, having organized and led tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. He has produced his own translation of the I-Ching, and his Egyptology work is widely respected and quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, Moira Timms, and Daniel Colianus.
He has been instrumental in the creation of three schools or educational organizations, The Fifth Way Mystery School, The Newport Earth Institute in Newport, New Hampshire and Pendragon College, and has been a featured speaker at venues such as The International Fortean Organizations (INFO) FortFest and the Subtle Technologies Conference, sponsored by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Center of Toronto, Canada, as well as a guest on the Laura Lee and Jeff Rense radio shows. He was also featured in the Discovery Channels documentary Atlantis in the Andes (June 2001). The title for the documentary in fact came from Chapter Nine - section three of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanel
