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Patricia Aburdene is one of the world's leading social forecasters and co-author of four Megatrends books with John Naisbitt—including the New York Times bestseller Megatrends 2000. She is a highly respected speaker and lectures around the world on global trends. For more...
Dr. Jeanne Achterberg is a scientist and transpersonal psychologist whose in-depth research has brought her international recognition. A former faculty member at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and past president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, she has authored five...
Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings, at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Adyashanti's teachings have been compared to some of the early Ch'an (Zen) masters of China as well as...
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute and a practicing clinical psychologist. His original research centers on a psychodynamic process of "tending the living image," particularly in the context of dreamwork. In 1995, Dr. Aizenstat...
Mark Albion is a social entrepreneur. He has cofounded six start-ups, including Net Impact (formerly called Students for Responsible Business), is the creator of the Making a Life Worldwide newsletter, and wrote the New York Times bestseller Making a Life, Making a Living. In his former life,...
Tsultrim Allione, M.A. is an author, teacher, and founder of the Tara Mandala retreat center. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1970, Tsultrim studied with H.H. the Dalai Lama, Kalu Rinpoche, Apho Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and other great lamas. She received her master's degree in...
A.H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali who has written more than 14 books including his most recent The Unfolding Now. In 1976, he founded the Ridhwan School, an organization with members in North America, Europe, and Australia that is dedicated to promoting the...
Margot Anand is a student of world mystical practices, particularly the role of sexuality in sacred traditions. Her bestselling book The Art of Sexual Ecstasy helped introduce Western readers to the science of tantra and the cosmic relationship between creativity,...
Shri Anandi Ma is a meditation and yoga teacher with students and disciples in India, Europe, and North America. She is the spiritual heir of the legendary teacher Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandasji, who specialized in using the power of mantras and meditation for uplifting the human spirit. While...
Ted Andrews is an internationally recognized author, teacher, mystic, and master storyteller in the shamanic tradition. He is author of more than thirty-five books, including the bestselling classics Animal Speak and Animal-Wise.He is a highly acclaimed speaker and teacher who...
Jack Angelo has been a teacher, writer, and healer in the fields of energy medicine and natural spirituality since the mid-1980s. Since then he has developed Distant Healing—a comprehensive healing method based on his research and work with individuals and groups in the...
Nguyen Anh-Huong is one of the first students ordained as a dharma teacher by Thich Nhat Hanh. She has taught Mindfulness Practices across the U.S. since 1988....
Arjuna Ardagh is the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a non-profit organization dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. He is the author of Relaxing into Clear Seeing, How About Now?, The Last...
Kimba Arem is an international recording artist whose eight CDs include Peace Journey and Creation's Overtone. Classically trained in piano and flute, she holds a BS in molecular and cellular biology, and has developed a unique form of sound therapy that incorporates Reiki, Taoist...
Father Carl Arico is a founding member and the current vice president of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. Father Arico has practiced Centering Prayer since 1975 and taught the prayer since 1978. He is known for his humor and his ability to bridge the gap between the clergy and...
Karen Armstrong is a freelance writer who lives in London. Her bestselling tell-all book Through the Narrow Gate details the seven years that she served as a Roman Catholic nun. Today she lectures on the common threads of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Her other...
Angeles Arrien is a teacher, author, and cultural anthropologist. She received her master's degree from the University of California – Berkeley, and her doctorate from the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Arrien's teachings bridge the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, and...
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki is director of The Servants of the Light School in England, and has taught thousands of students in the esoteric path. A third generation occultist, she is author of 17 books, including The Shining Paths and The Ritual Magic...
Thomas Ashley-Farrand is one of the West's foremost authorities on Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras. He has been recognized for his flawless mastery of mantra practice by swamis, pundits, and shastris across India....
Nicolai Bachman has been teaching Sanskrit, ayurveda, chanting, and yoga-related topics for over ten years. He studied extensively at the American Sanskrit Institute, VagYoga Institute in India, the American Institute of Vedic Studies, and the Ayurvedic Institute, receiving his MA in Eastern...
Christina Baldwin is an author, educator, speaker, and retreat leader. She is known for her groundbreaking work in the fields of personal writing, group process, and spirituality. With author, Ann Linnea, she is co-founder of PeerSpirit, Inc., offering a wide variety of consulting seminars,...
Coleman Barks is a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. In addition to publishing two books of his own poetry (The Juice and Gourd Seed), Barks has published 12 volumes of translations from Rumi and others, and contributed to over 20...
Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D., holds a doctorate in chiropractic and a degree in naturopathy from Bastyr University. After discovering his own extraordinary healing capabilities, Bartlett created Matrix Energetics as a system for helping others access their untapped potential....
Edward W. Bastian, PhD, is a Buddhist scholar and teacher and was executive producer for a series of award-winning BBC and PBS programs about religion and three films about Tibetan Buddhism for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He taught classes about world religion...
Stephen Batchelor was trained as a monk in the Tibetan and Korean Zen traditions, and currently serves as Director of Studies at Sharpham College in Devon, England. He has authored Alone with Others; The Faith to Doubt; The Awakening of the West, and has translated a...
Charlotte Joko Beck teaches Zen to students around the world.She is the founder of the Zen Center in San Diego, which she ran for more than two decades, and also the Zen Center of Prescott.In the 1960's she studied with Soen Nakagawa Roshi, who she considers her teacher.Her two books,...
Don Beck, Ph.D. co-founded the National Values Institute and is CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc.He has used Spiral Dynamics for over thirty years to find solutions to real problems, including over sixty visits to South Africa between 1981 to 1988 to inspire solutions for a peaceful...
Martha Beck is a monthly columnist at O: The Oprah Magazine. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Diet (Crown, 2003), Finding Your Own North Star (Three Rivers Press, 2001), and Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic...
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational community in Los Angeles. He is the founder of the University of Transformational Studies and Leadership, and an international speaker and teacher...
Alessandra Belloni is a singer, percussionist, dancer, and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. For her mastery of musical styles – both at home and abroad – she has been acclaimed as one of the greatest living...
Regina Laudis is a monastery of contemplative Benedictine women living in union with the Roman Catholic Church and following the Rule of St. Benedict according to the Primitive Observance. Founded in 1947 in Bethlehem, Connecticut by Mother Benedict Duss.Regina Laudis was elevated to the...
Tessa Bielecki is Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a Carmelite community with hermitages in Colorado, Nova Scotia, and Ireland. She studied for a career in international relations at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., before entering a monastery in 1967. Mother Tessa is actively...
Peter Block is a cofounder of the New School for Managing and founding partner of the training firm Designed Learning Inc. For more than 25 years, he has consulted to businesses, schools, and governments worldwide, helping to change and improve the way organizations work. He is the author of the...
Bodhipaksa was born Graeme Stephen in Scotland, and currently lives and teaches in New Hampshire. He is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been practicing within the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order since 1982, and has been a member of the Western Buddhist Order since...
Murray Bodo, O.F.M is a Franciscan priest, associate professor, and writer-in-residence at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky. He is the author of A Retreat with Francis and Clare of Assisi; Song of the Sparrow; Clare, A Light in the Garden; Tales of St. Francis; Through the Year...
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. An internationally renowned lecturer and workshop leader, she is author of The Tao of Psychology; Goddesses in Everywoman, and Close to...
Sylvia Boorstein is an author, grandmother, a cofounding teacher of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is the author of several bestselling books, including It's...
Joan Borysenko, PhD, is a cancer cell biologist, a licensed psychologist, and a yoga and meditation instructor. A cofounder and former director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital, she has also taught at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Borysenko is a pioneer...
Cynthia Bourgealt is the principal teacher and advisor to the Contemplative Society. A retreat and conference leader, teacher of prayer, and Episcopal priest, she is the author of The Wisdom Way of Knowing (John Wiley & Sons, 2003), Mystical Hope (Cloister, 2001), and Centering...
Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975 and leads Buddhist meditation retreats at centers throughout North America. She is a clinical psychologist, the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and the author of Radical...
Gregg Braden is a leading authority on ancient prophecies, sacred sites, and the lost spiritual practices of cultures around the world. He is the author of Awakening to Zero Point (Radio Bookstore Press, 1997), Walking Between the Worlds (Radio Bookstore Press, 1997), andThe Isaiah...
Tommy Brunjes, also known as Tommy Be, is a highly acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, and master of the frame drum and world percussion instruments. He has collaborated with platinum-selling artists PM Dawn and drummer Layne Redmond, and has taught at the Berklee...
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