Admission is always FREE to the Holistic Arts Fair and all its events.

Speakers, workshops and concerts in 2017 Here is the schedule of events for 2017. All events were FREE. Schedules were also available at the Fair and at local libraries and stores.

Saturday Sept.23, 2017 10 AM: Quli Zhou, professor of Chinese medicine, speaks on "Natural solutions for pain, stress and allergies." Suffering from chronic pain, stress, lack of energy, weight gain, etc.? Why not consider activating your own healing power? Come learn the simple but practical and effective way to relieve stress and pain, strengthen immune function, and improve overall health and well-being. You will learn how to balance nutrition with food and supplements, how to increase energy flow and circulation with acupressure, how to lose 10 pounds in 21 days, and much more. Quli Zhou has practiced healing arts for over 30 years. 11 AM: Award-winning European Psychic Lai explains the repetitive patterns in our lives and also why we have certain phobias, likes or dislikes for things, people or places. She also tells about the principles of reincarnation and answer questions about it. If there's time, Lai will give one past life reading to as many members of the audience as possible. Psychic Lai has made many TV and other media appearances. 12 Noon to 2 PM: Meir Schneider presents "Awaken Your Power for Self-Healing" for your eyes and your whole body. Meir has presented "yoga for your eyes" here for many years, and is director of the Center for Self-Healing in San Francisco. 2 hours. 2 PM: Cynthia Starborn on "Telepathy 101." Attention Silicon Valley! Do you love your electronic gadgets, yet long for an even faster way to communicate? Would you like to know how to transmit messages without relying on a cell phone or internet connection? Join Cynthia Starborn, soul guide and teacher, for an enlightening talk about telepathy. Learn what telepathy is and gain some tips for starting to practice it. 3 PM: Nancy Newsom of Botanic Organic speaks on "The Power of Raw, Plant-Based Oils to Protect, Nourish & Repair Your Skin." Oils pressed from seeds are beautiful, colorful, vibrant, nourishing, soothing and medicinal, and come from all corners of the world. Every seed has the capacity to make oil and carries unique properties from its parent plant. They come in many colors, scents and textures, with many different nutritional compounds and healing properties. Join us for an introduction to some of nature’s most exquisite oils that can help to repair and nourish your skin! 4 PM: Paul Barbaro, massage therapist and metaphysical philosopher, on Heal Your Heart; Heal Your Life. An audience-participation, hands-on treatment; effective and permanent for all who come. Learn a rapid technique for fast healing. 5 PM: Liza Miron on "Family Constellations - Secrets to having abundance and success in life." Do you want to have more abundance in your life? Do you feel stuck or in a pattern regarding success in life? Are you tired of trying to change and always coming back to the same point? This often happens because you have an entanglement with someone else in your Family System. You are "following their steps" because of unconscious and archaic love. Come and learn how to have success and abundance in your life with the knowledge from Family Constellations. 6 PM: Ed Simon, Crystal Bowls Meditation. Soothe and awaken your soul and tune into higher consciousness with resonant sounds, correlated to your own inner frequencies. 7 PM: Sondra Sneed, SOURCE TALK: "What the End will Look Like." Many souls are trapped on the Earth who go largely unnoticed by people with bodies. In order to prepare for the end, souls that have bodies must be aware of what they are that is a body. This talk will separate for you, the difference between the soul's existence and the body's. Sondra Sneed is a Source Communicator, Soul Reader, and Godscribe. She allows the being we call God to speak through her in Source Talks and Soul Readings.

Sunday Sept.24, 2017 10 AM: Shu Chin Hsu, Master Teacher Certified by Tao Academy, on How Oneness Tao Calligraphy Transforms Your Life. Come early and be ready to enjoy a healing experience of artistic writing that opens your spirit to "the way." Shu will explain Oneness Tao Calligraphy, its power and significance, and how to apply it to transform your life. Plus a demo healing calligraphy blessing. 11 AM: Christine Emmerling minister of Community of Infinite Spirit provides an illuminating and liberating chakra meditation. We focus on each of the major energy or soul centers within us called chakras, expanding consciousness by moving through the lower up to the higher spiritual centers. When the chakras are cleared and activated through breathing and meditation, our energetic spirit-body becomes more healthy and balanced, and we are prepared for silent communion in which divine consciousness and connection with all life is opened. 12 Noon: Marie Katherine Dacanay, psychic medium and reiki master, offers a Group Reading. Join Katherine to receive messages from Spirit. Messages come from loved ones who have crossed over, or from their Angels and Guides. 1 PM: Scout Bartlett on "Aligning Energy with your True Life Path." Ever felt pulled in opposite directions inside, or recognized parts of you were on your side while other parts held you back or sabotaged those intentions? All of us have a core flow of life-force energy, and between trauma, drama, and karma, that core beam becomes bent and constricted into patterns that play out in our lives. Experience your energy flow coming back into alignment with your true path. Scout Bartlett, a natural-born clairsentient, is the founder of Life Insights, which offers trainings of "Higher Learning." Both the clarity and wit with which Scout presents his life insights have benefited thousands of individuals. 2 PM: Ann Barham speaks on what spiritual truths our past lives may reveal for us. Awareness of prior lifetimes can help resolve issues in our current lives and also help us live in greater consciousness. Ann Barham LMFT is a past life therapist and author of The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes. 3 PM Robert Perala, author of The Divine Blueprint, and singer-songwriter, presents "The Divine Intelligence: Meet the Extraterrestrials." The Divine Intelligence is all around you, as people feel the vast sweeping changes in consciousness in this time of rebirth and ET visitation. In addition to his meetings with ETs, Robert shares some of his knowledge of how to bridge the Worlds of New Science & Ancient Wisdom as we reach into the Golden Age of Enlightenment. Robert will showcase his personal abduction by extraterrestrials in addition to looking at the spiritual ramifications, how accepting our society is of the idea that ET’s are here, and how Earth is being birthed into a larger expression that includes disclosure in the near future. 4 PM Lynn Rogers, prolific writer, artist and intuitive, speaks on "Jessica Madigan, the female Edgar Cayce: latest discoveries." 5 PM to 7 PM: UFO Panel with host, author Robert Perala, and with the assistance of panel co-organizer Ruben Uriarte (tent.), Northern California MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) State Director. Robert Perala and Lorien Fenton present an in depth look at the massive UFO sightings, discuss Earth Changes, and showcase some stunning photos that show we are not alone in the Universe. The big question is why are they here. Panelist Sondra Sneed is a frequent speaker at UFO conferences where 35% of her readings are people whose souls come from other worlds. She is also an official Gaia, (formerly Gaiam TV), Ambassador. Other panelist (tent.) tba. The presentation includes a question and answer session. We want your input in this vital conversation.

History

The first Holistic Arts Fair was held Nov.21-22, 1998 at San Jose City College. We had some 60 exhibitors, 40 speakers, and about 500 people attending. Exhibitors reported good results from our smaller second Fair on Sept.23-24, 2000 at Divine Science Community Center, and our third there on Sept.22-23, 2001, and all attendees enjoyed our wonderful program.

Attendance was higher in 2002 (Sept.21-22), 2003 (Sept.20-21), and especially in 2004 (Sept.25-26), and most of our booth spaces were filled. Business was good at our event in 2005 (Oct.1&2); and attendance was up in 2006 (Sept.23-24), and in 2007 (Sept.22-23, despite the rain on Saturday!) and 2008 (Sept.27-28). By 2009 we had almost 50 exhibitors. In 2010 we were joined at the Divine Science Center by the new Metaphysical Pathways Fairs in July and November, and its successor Fair in Feb.2013. They helped inspire me to modify the floorplan to include indoor exhibit spaces in the sanctuary for the first time in 2012, which was successful. Attendance increased in 2012, and in 2013 (and again in 2014, 2015 and 2016) we almost filled all of our spaces up for the first time. After the Fair in 2012, I voted along with the other members to change the name of the Center to Community of Infinite Spirit.

Personal note: The Center was also my girl friend Crystal Graham's house until the property became home to the Unity Church in c. 1961, and later a Divine Science church. The mansion next door to the south was the home of my friends The Wedges in the sixties. The house number of the Center's building at 1540 Hicks related to my favorite piece of music, Toccata in F by J.S. Bach BWV 540-1, which I often played personally parts of on the organ for services, and which I played recordings of during the Solstice Celebration, as long as I was allowed to run it there until 2017. In 2018 the Solstice Celebration moved to the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, where I now occasionally also play.

In 2014 Community of Infinite Spirit, inspired by the success of our Fair, and by the February Fair in 2013, produced its own Fair on March 15, 2014 called the Soulful Living Arts Fair, and it went very well. The Soulful Living Arts Fair continued on each Spring through 2019.

The Holistic Arts Fair continues the 16 year tradition of the New Age Renaissance Fair, from 1982 to 1997, which attracted 1500 to 5000 people each year, about 200 exhibitors, and dozens of speakers and performers over the years. We have scaled back the size of our event from the days of the New Age Renaissance Fair of the 1990s. We have designed this new approach to work better for our exhibitors and to be more accessible to the public. The Holistic Arts Fair and the New Age Renaissance Fair have been given good publicity over the years, and we have always gotten great support from many exhibitors. I continue to express my deep admiration for the people in the holistic and new age fields who offered themselves and their work. I also want to thank the many local businesses who have helped us by putting out our flyers for their customers these many years, and my staff who helped put on the Fairs. It is up to the people to create a new age and holistic renaissance, and to support public events like this which are necessary for it to happen.

The leadership of Community of Infinite Spirit decided to shift me out of my leadership of the Holistic Arts Fair, so they could take over its date and run two Soulful Living Arts Fairs each year. The center then seemed to become more of a Fair producing company than a church. The success of the Fair declined under this new arrangement, and could not survive the covid pandemic-- having been cancelled by order of the County Health Dept. in March 2020. Soon thereafter the CIS building at 1540 Hicks was torn down and its property taken over by the neighbors who now own the mansion to the south.

Watch for updates on future events.

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SPEAKERS AND MUSIC AT THE FAIR
EXHIBITORS AT THE FAIR in 2017
see floorplan here
INTERESTING LINKS
HOROSCOPE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
BACH, CHAKRAS, TAROT
Producer Eric Meece's homepage and Index/links
Paranormal Insights with Joseph Martin
Scott Catamas on Compassionate Communication on You Tube