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Introduction

Richard C. (Rick) Cook is an author, consultant, and teacher who works out of College Park, MD, Williamsburg, VA, and Roanoke, VA. His interests are local economic sustainability, monetary reform, health and wellness, meditation and spirituality, and space exploration. He attended the College of William and Mary, the alma mater of Thomas Jefferson, where he graduated with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is married to Karen Shirron, a public school teacher in Maryland. He has five children and four stepchildren.

Rick is a former U.S. federal government analyst who in 1986 became one of the foremost whistleblowers of modern times. He was instrumental in exposing multiple layers of cover-up in the wake of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. As a witness to the incident and a participant in the subsequent investigations, he received the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government for his testimony. In 2007, his memoirs of the tragedy were published in a book entitled: Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age. It has been called by one reviewer, “The most important space flight book in 20 years.”

As a policy analyst for the U.S. government from 1970 until 2007, Rick’s career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. He also taught history at the Field School in Washington, D.C., and owned and operated an organic farm for 10 years while commuting to work from rural Virginia.

Rick’s most recent book is We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, released in December 2008. He is also author of a book about a guru from India: In the Footsteps of the Yogi: The 1999 U.S. Tour of Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj.

Rick’s articles on public policy issues appear widely on the internet and in print. He was an adviser to Congressman Dennis Kucinich during the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns and a contributor to the American Monetary Act drafted and currently being promoted by the American Monetary Institute. In a June 2007 article entitled “It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy Has Begun,” he accurately predicted the current worldwide economic crisis. On February 27, 2009, he presented his solutions at the 8th Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network in a paper entitled “A Bailout for the People: Dividend Economics and the Basic Income Guarantee.” He has encapsulated his prescriptions in a concise proposal for monetary reform called “The Cook Plan.” The plan calls for payment of a basic income to all citizens.

Rick is available for speaking and consulting in a variety of fields, including monetary systems, sustainable economics, and contemporary spirituality, and he is working with citizens of Roanoke, VA, on local currency initiatives. He is also exploring the creation of a new adult education center called The Blue Ridge School of Holistic Development. Rick recently became an ordained minister with the Society of the Beloved, a 501c(3) non-denominational church that operates internationally. He is available to conduct weddings and other sacraments.

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Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.