Welcome to the V J Enterprises Web Site. V J Enterprises is a New Age organization whose goal is to share with the public the best information which describes the prophecized Golden Age. One of our services is to provide spiritual journeys for individuals who desire to travel to various powerful planetary energy vortexes. These journeys not only offer to others an opportunity to experience the power of these locations but the possibility to grow spiritually in this process. Other services include New Age lectures and classes on a variety of topics, the sales of New Age books (some self published), networking services and important information being shared through computer online services such as Internet.

V J Enterprises was founded by Vera and Joshua Shapiro in 1991. The story of how Vera and Joshua met in Brasil in 1990 is told in Brad Steiger's new book, "Angels of Love".

Vera Lopez Shapiro, a native Brazilian, begun her spiritual practices at the age of 18, studying in Brazil with Luiz A. Gasparetto and working in his spiritual center as a channel, healer, and spiritual counselor. She is a networker and metaphysical teacher for the healing and energetic quality of crystals, Brazilian Mediumship, Women's Empowerment and is a certified Reiki Master. She has conducted many successful spiritual journeys to Peru and the America Southwest since 1989. It is her goal to expand her journeys to other sacred sites in the future.

Joshua "Illinois" Shapiro is an Aquarian Age Networker, author and speaker since 1980. He is the author of the books, "Journeys of an Aquarian Age Networker" (1982); "UFOs, Space Brothers & the Aquarian Age" (1985); and is the co-author/co-publisher of "Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls Revealed" (1989). Joshua has given many lectures throughout the U.S. and parts of South America about Crystal Skulls, UFOs, Peru, New Age Networking and intutitive spiritual readings. He is currently working on various projects connected with Crystal Skulls including a journal of his personal experiences, a novel and a movie project. In addition, he is the creator of NA NET, a computerized New Age networking system, that helps to link local resources and organizations/individuals, which he envisions as a key component to help build the Global Online Network.

ASSISTANTS: For the year of 1996, V J gave a call out to the Internet World for some helpers. We are proud to announce that Siam has volunteered to help the site. So here and there you may notice some subtle changes to the site presentation or a few new pages .... So you will just have to guess who is behind it. Welcome Siam!!! In addition, starting in March (1996), we have a new helper, Dave Vetterick, who will be scanning the airwaves for new leads on key UFO information. Yes Dave!!! .... Flash: --> Also joining us to help spruce up our site will be Andy from Iowa, who will be helping us create and maintain a Network of UFO Web Sites, the development of a search engine and index of pages within V J as well as miscellaneous news related to UFOs and maybe some page enhancements, more sound and video. Our family sure is growing this year!!!

IN August (1996), we once again have heard from a few new people who have offered to help our site ... we welcome Sean Bennetts of Melbourne, Australia, our first International Helper who will be working with Siam to improve and add to our New Age Section. Also starting September 1st, the Sentinel will be returning to add new insights about the UFO scene. We welcome Sean and Sentinel as the V J Site continues to grow. Then towards the end of August we have Don Bright, graphics wizard who will help to transform the look and feel of our site including motion and also Michael Furfey, who helped us with the interviews from the Star Knowledge Conference is jumping on board to help put more UFO information and Shockwave Movies!!!

PLEASE NOTE: - For a summary of What New Information has been most recently posted to our site, go to the Section entitled "What's New V J?". This section post descriptions and links to new material added to the site. The section gives a chronological llisting of additions to the site. We recommend that you consult this section each time to see what new material we have included. New information is added usually once a week. (This page contains only the latest postings for 1996, we have another page which shows pages posted to our site for 1995 as well.)

FLASH!!! - Recently we have experimented with a new online product that is free called PowWow by Tribal Voice in Colorado. This product allows seven people to speak at once online. We would like to support the work of the people at Tribal Voice (mostly Native American programmers) and also experiment with this product as a way to have live conversation with our readers. In addition, you can vote on PowWow for your favorite site ... so why not give the old V J a vote of confidence there?

So if you would like to speak to use live via PowWow, Click Here to Speak to Illinois Live. In order to do this, you must have PowWow started up before you can access us. The best time to search for us is usually a weeknight (8-11PM central time in the US) or during the weekend (8 AM - 11 AM central time in the US). If you have any problems with PowWow, you can talk live to a technical person at Tribal Voice or link to PowWow Help.

Happy Hunting .......... ILLINOIS

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