Julian Haynes (Julio)

“The Pyramid Project”
Business Owner, Director and Architect
Iquitos, Peru (March 2007 – Present)

This exciting project is to build a 24.44m high, floating pyramid situated at the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Peru.  Construction completion is September 2009 
  
This $3m pyramid is a 7 story hotel, a theatre that houses an audience of 500, a gymnasium, an Internet Café, a health restaurant and a place of meditation.  It is a shrine to Amazonian shamanism and a spiritual haven 
  
During a week’s stay visitors will experience a Personal Development course that draws the best from nutrition, emotional balance, New Ageism and the esoterical.  Visitors will also be guided into the Amazon jungle to meet the shaman and learn their secret

The profits from the Pyramid Project are to be used to research and develop renewable energy, to tackle growing environmental problems in Peru and to support the people of Iquitos 

Conducting business in a third world country and in a second language has been challenging

“A Study of Shamanism”
Shamanic Apprentice
Iquitos Peru (October 2006 – Present)

Having identified that the main problem mankind faces today is his disconnect from nature; nutritionally, medically and in a lack of respect environmentally, I decided that luckily I was in a position to dedicate my life to tackling this problem 
  
Shamanism is about mankind’s connect to nature and I believe it is in that domain that we will make useful ground.  So, what better place to seek answers than in the middle of the world’s most diverse natural space?  Here we have a shamanism that has been passed down over the centuries and a people willing to share their secret

Shamanism teaches a different way to regard reality.  It views the elements of nature as being intelligent, sentient beings that one can communicate with and that are willing to teach us.  Of course this is something that Western science cannot fathom out at all but nevertheless, I decided to open my heart and mind to shamanic teachings 
  
During one year, and working with over twenty different shaman, I have learnt their secret and been shown the different realities which exist to all if only we would open our eyes to the possibilities. Discovering what I could only initially term as “alien intelligence”, I knew from then on that my work would be guided.  Interestingly, most of the pyramid designs were received during or just after shamanic ceremony

“Personal Development”
Life Mastery University
UK, US, Fiji, Egypt, Peru (22nd June 2002 – Present) 

Personal Development is the continued commitment to improve oneself in any aspect in order to try to be a better person.  I started with the physical and in the gymnasium.  I slowly became an expert on nutrition and went on to perform cleanses of all my body organs; kidneys, liver, bowels even the toxic mercury from my teeth! 
  
As one becomes more knowledgeable on health, particularly the virtues of natural medicine, one cannot help but become more concerned for institutions such as the Food and Drugs Administration (F.D.A.)  The question that arises is this; are the systems that it employs (to check the safety of new foods and drugs), in anyway susceptible to misguided motivations?  It is my concern that market pressure rather than health safety has infiltrated their systems and so I have been led to reject most foods and medicines believing that the natural ways are the safest 
  
I am grateful to all the work of Tony Robbins especially in the areas of motivation, emotional well being, positivism etc. I studied his approaches to life and graduated from his “Life Mastery University” after completing the last stage in Fiji in 2006.  I also read many books seeking inspiration from the great masters such as Napoleon Hill and Paulo Coelho amongst others

Altho I am no follower of any organised religion, my spiritual development remains a major priority in my life.  I believe that personal integrity is key to a healthy life.  Personal development never ends, and I continue to strive to be the best version of myself that I can comprehend

  
“18 Years I.T. Career”
Inform Information Systems, Maidenhead UK (1998 - March 2005)
Hays Document Exchange, Iver UK (1996 - 1998)
Aspen Field Marketing Ltd, Maidenhead UK (1994 - 1996)
Econocruise Ltd, Rugby UK (1987 - 1994)
  
My interest in computers began from the age of 12 and I consider it a great fortune that I grew up during the Information Revolution.  Having the kind of mind that can focus intensely on a problem, a proven mathematical background and a passion for logic, I was able to impress many companies from an early age with my talent for programming computers.  I tended to resist promotion into management and preferred a hands-on, technical career.  In this way my work became very specialised, particularly in the field of databases 
  
Towards the end of my I.T. career I was travelling to different places in the world and working through IIS for the oil company ExxonMobil.  I led the IIS team that designed and transferred all the customer master data from Exxon’s legacy downstream retail systems into their new SAP system, a mammoth task that was completed on time and successfully

I enjoyed my I.T. career, worked with some great people and solved some of the most difficult problems for the industry.  I left in March 2005 because I wanted to dedicate my life to something different


“Education”
Northampton (Aged 5-11)
Rugby (Aged 12-18)
Portsmouth Polytechnic (Aged 18-19)
Reading University (Mature student 2006) 
  
I always enjoyed school, was well liked and was a grade A student.  My favourite subjects were Mathematics and Art.  At aged 9 I was the chess champion of my school and represented my town.  Later on I also represented my town in cross country running 
  
At 16 I passed all of my exams (except French) and consider I had a very good all round education. I went on to do A’ levels and achieved a grade A Advanced level in Mathematics.  At Polytechnic I learnt more about social life than anything academic and I left early to begin my I.T. career where the computers were bigger and sexier

At the age of 36 I again had the fortune to spend time at University, this time Reading.  I studied Artificial Intelligence and I became particularly interested in the application of Artificial Evolution which I pitted against the Stock Market.  I concluded however, that there is more to evolution than we currently understand – that anything beyond optimisation takes more than random mutation to improve it’s species and speculated that an external, intelligent force is required to govern evolution.  This kind of thinking is certainly not on the syllabus

Thank you for your interest!