Pia Orleane, Ph.D., is an author, lecturer, and former practicing psychologist. The recipient of an international award from Saybrook University for her research on the importance of natural cycles for life and the author of Sacred Retreat, she travels the world giving talks on the value of the divine feminine and natural cycles. Cullen Baird Smith, trained in anthropology and archaeology, is coauthor, with Pia Orleane, of two books, Conversations with Laarkmaa and Remembering Who We Are. Orleane and Smith are the chosen channels for the group of Pleiadian beings known as Laarkmaa. They live in Europe.