Listen Now to Brad Olsen on The Dr. Future Show 4.29.14
Tune into our free-ranging conversation on pyramid star alignments, Free energy, Alien overlords, underground bases, secret occult knowledge, Indigo children, shadow space program, dream learning, mass planetary awakening, and the upcoming How Weird Street Faire, with Brad Olsen!
Brad Olsen
Writer Brad Olsen announced the release of “The Esoteric Series” in early 2013, with the release of two books in two years. Future Esoteric: The Unseen Realms was released to many favorable reviews in January, 2013 through CCC Publishing in paperback and all e-book formats. The second installment of the series, Modern Esoteric: Beyond Our Senses was released in March, 2014. The website devoted to the book series is: www.esotericseries.com Already, “Modern Esoteric” has won the Pinnacle Book award as Best Book in the Catergory of “New Age.”
Though book publishing occupies most of his year, Brad Olsen is also the founder and event producer of the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco, the city where he currently resides. Wearing his publisher’s hat, he makes the stated goal of only releasing only the kinds of books he would value owning himself, which incorporates thought-provoking and critical content, and with a wide appeal to readers. His book publishing business CCC Publishing is distributed by Independent Publishers Group.
Brad Olsen’s critically acclaimed “Sacred Places: 108 Destinations” series added author Karen Tate in 2005 with her Sacred Places of Goddess title. The first book in the series Sacred Places: North America was released as a second edition in April, 2008 to rave reviews and a gold award for “Best Travel Book of the Year.” Sacred Places Around the World” was reissued as a second edition in February, 2004, and the final book in the series was Sacred Places Europe: 108 Destinations, released March, 2007. Both titles were nominated as “Travel Guide of the Year” byForeword Magazine.
Brad is also the author/illustrator of the “Extreme Adventures” series of adrenaline-pumping guidebooks.Extreme Adventures Hawaii and Extreme Adventures Northern California were both released by Hunter Publishing in 1998. In July, 2005 he was interviewed for the Outdoor Life Network new extreme sports series called “The World’s Wildest Rides.”
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
Brad Olsen was interviewed on the hit History Channel series “Ancient Aliens” for two episodes in Season Six, which aired in late 2013. His commentaries have appeared on Coast to Coast AM, National Public Radio, CNN, the X-Zone, Buzzsaw and the Travel Channel among other outlets. Brad enjoys public speaking on travel to sacred places, the mystery of esoteric subjects, and extended global explorations. He has also photographed and written the script for two dozen Visual Travel Tours (uploadable travel guide podcasts).
PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTOR
His syndicated sacred destinations travel column for Examiner.com is available both as a national column and a local profile for San Francisco, the city where he currently resides. Brad is a travel columnist for Yahoo! Contributor Network and Perceptive Travel. He is also a Contributing Editor for World Explorer magazine. Brad Olsen has contributed to several Rough Guides titles, including the World Party guide.
BOOK AWARDS
Brad Olsen gained the distinction of “award-winning author” in February, 2010 when his travel guide book Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations (2nd ed.) won the Bay Area Travel Writers top gold prize award (First Place winner) for the “2010 Best Travel Book for the Planet Earth” category, and again the top prize in 2013 when his book Future Esoteric: The Unseen Realms took the winning category of “New Age” in the Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 
Filmmaker artist Ken Adams shares a few thoughts with us on the making of his new film “Imaginatrix, The Terence McKenna Experience,” an extremely artistic exploration of the most psychedelic mind ever to speak of such realms. Check out his Kickstarter video teaser..
