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$" 3 4 )(" %+" -)+0 )# $)4, $) ... /1)("!%+" -)+0 2 )(("&& "!% )'* (0 '%&-)( (- +%) ( ! ... +"& ' + )' Education : Graduated from College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, in 1970. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Degree(s) : BA with Honors. Affiliations : Teacher and practitioner of Ascension Meditation and Healing™ at the Lifestream Center, Roanoke, VA. Member U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network. Member Exopolitics Advisory Board. Keynote speaker for International Reciprocal Trading Association annual conference, 2011. Media Credits : New York Times, Washington Post, Roanoke Times, Global Research, New Dawn Magazine, Guardian Political Review, BBC, Russian Times, ITN, CBS News, Op-Ed News, etc. One of 25 Americans featured in Vince Reardon's: "Legacy: Passing on Cherished Values in a Values-Starved World." Distributor of Books : U.S. distributor for The LITE in the Heart by Omna Last. Authored : "Return of the Aeons: The Planetary Spiritual Ascension" (2013), "We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform" (2009), "Challenger Revealed" (2007), "In the Footsteps of the Yogi" (2000). Contributor: "The Global Economic Crisis", Global Research (2010). Over 60 major articles on alternative economics and contemporary spirituality (2007-2012). Merchandise : Signed copies of books available at www.richardccook.com. Awards : Cavallo Foundation Award For Moral Courage In Business And Government (Space Shuttle Challenger Investigations). Bio : In 1960, Richard C. Cook moved with his family to Williamsburg, VA, where he spent his formative years in the restored colonial capital. In 1970 Cook graduated from the College of William and Mary, the alma mater of Thomas Jefferson, receiving a degree with honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa. He then came to Washington, D.C., to study the Gurdjieff Work and serve as an analyst with the federal government. Cook continued his study of the world's spiritual teachings over the next forty years, working with several realized masters, including Hugh Ripman, Abdullah Dougan, Pir Vilayat Khan, Sri Chinmoy, Swami Satchidananda of Kerala, India, and Sri Shivabalayogi. His spiritual name is Ramcharandas, which means, "Servant of the Feet of God." He works within the lineage of the ascended master Babaji. With the federal government, Cook first worked on the policy staff of the U.S. Civil Service Commission followed by the Food and Drug Administration. Having been promoted to the Jimmy Carter White House, he served under Esther Peterson, President Carter's special assistant for consumer affairs. He witnessed first-hand how the Federal Reserve crashed the U.S. producing economy by bringing on the recession of 1979-83. This was the start of the takeover of the economy by the big bankers and Wall Street. One result of the recession was Carter's loss to Ronald Reagan in the election of 1980. Cook then relocated to operate a farm he had purchased in West Virginia. Returning to Washington in 1985, Cook went to work for NASA as an analyst on the space shuttle program. While at NASA he warned of a possible disaster due to faulty O-ring joints in the solid rocket boosters. The disaster came to pass with the loss of Challenger and seven American astronauts in January 1986. Cook then told the investigating commission and the press that NASA had known of this problem for years. For his testimony Cook received the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government.