Sandra Martin is an acknowledged innovator in the consciousness, paranormal and spiritual genres. During the first half of the show, she joined guest host Connie Willis (info) to discuss her work as a literary agent, adventures in publishing, and all of the breakthroughs she helped make happen in the world of the unknown. Martin recalled speaking recently at a dowsing convention where she was pleasantly surprised to find many in the audience knew the authors she has published. Over the years, she has worked with several writers from Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, as well as sold book by a who's who of former Coast to Coast guests, including Ingo Swann, Jim Marrs, Lyn Buchanan, Whitley Strieber, Colm Kelleher, and Dean Radin. Martin also revealed she got singer-songwriter Jewel a $2 million advance in 1998 to publish a book of poetry.
Martin spoke about her work creating and executive producing a three-hour documentary series titled "The Power of Dreams" for the Discovery Channel. She described her success as a literary agent and publisher selling books on dreams, intuition, and spirituality, and how she tried to convince other book editors to take a chance on these kinds of topics. Martin also shared a story about her own psychic abilities, which she admitted were not consistent enough to count on. The incident took place at a horse race where she checked off each horse in the racing form that she felt would win. "I won every single race," Martin reported, noting that her husband did not bet on her picks until the very last race, which she won as well.
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Antonio Paris is the Chief Scientist at Planetary Sciences, Inc., an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at St. Petersburg College, FL, and a graduate of the NASA Mars Education Program at the Mars Space Flight Center, Arizona State University. In the latter half of the program, he covered several topics, including Pluto's lost planetary status, the shifting of Earth's magnetic pole, humans living on Mars, and exomoons - natural moons that orbit planets outside our solar system.
"In the early 1900s... we rushed to judgment and, boom, called it a planet," Paris reported about Pluto's status which is now considered a dwarf planet because it does not exert its own orbital dominance. New telescope technologies have allowed astronomers to find dozens of objects similar to Pluto, he added. Regarding Earth's magnetic pole, it has been moving in a easterly direction for the past century. "What's weird about it in the last 30 or 40 years it has accelerated," Paris commented. He is working on related research to determine if there is a correlation between the Earth's shifting magnetic pole and planetary anomalies.
Paris briefly touched on his research into living on Mars in lava tubes beneath the surface of the planet. "If we want to survive on Mars the best scenario is that we live in caves," he proposed. Paris also talked about examining data from the retired Kepler space telescope, which had data from 150,000 stars with possible planets. "It took me five months to look through the proposed extrasolar planets," he explained, noting his work was to find the extrasolar planets with possible companion moons, aka exomoons. Paris will be publishing a paper on this research in March.