Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality. An internationally acclaimed spiritual guide, writer and public speaker, de Mello hosted many spiritual conferences.
The few talks which he allowed to be filmed, such as "A Rediscovery of Life" and "A Way to God for Today," have inspired many viewers and audiences throughout the United States, Canada, and Central America. De Mello established a prayer center in India. He died suddenly in 1987. His works are readily available and additional writings were published after his death.
In 1998, some of his opinions were condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict X
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Portia Nelson was a true renaissance woman: author, singer, composer, lyricist, painter, photographer, and actress. She has appeared in such films as The Sound of Music, Dr. Doolittle, The Trouble with Angels, and The Other, and she appeared on the television soap opera, All My Children, as Mrs. Gurney for many years. She appeared in Broadway in the award-winning musical The Golden Apple.
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Sir David Ramon Hawkins, M.D, Ph.D. was a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, spiritual teacher and lecturer.
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A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.
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He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csi -
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In 1961, Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and in 1966 was awarded Diplomate status in clinical psychology from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. He lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Center for Nonviolent Communication's office is located. -
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Ellen’s scientifically-based, zero-judgment approach has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, goop, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and many other media outlets.
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Leonard Scheff
Leonard Scheff is a practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona -- and a practicing Zen Buddhist.
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Leonard has attended several of the public teachings by H.H. the Dalai Lama including the four day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2003 teaching. He has participated in and led numerous Gestalt workshops.
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He has studied all the major religions and philosophies of the world. However, Vedic literature has been his primary area of interest.
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Robert Holdstock
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Holdstock's writing was first published in 1968. His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical, psychological, anthropological, spiritual, and woodland themes. He has received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel in 1985.
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One of the first assistant teachers appointed by S.N. Goenka, Mr. Hart continues to conduct Vipassana courses, mainly in Israel. His book, The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka, has become a definitive work in its field, translated into more than 15 languages. Fluent in English, French and Hebrew, Mr. Hart has lived for extended periods in Israel, Japan and India. -
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On the surface Howard seems to be the everyday regular guy. However, after asking some of the "big" questions in life, in 2002 at age 35, in the middle of ordinary life, this married father of two went through dramatic shift in consciousness that revealed the answers to these questions and more about life than he ever imagined knowing. The dramatic depth and breadth of this shift in consciousn -
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ROBERT WRIGHT is the author of The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and Three Scientists and Their Gods. The New York Times selected The Moral Animal as one of the ten best books of the year and the other two as notable books of the year.
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Daniel Goleman
Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal ranked him one of the 10 most influential business thinkers.
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Richard Rohr
Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard's teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy—practices of contemplation and expressing itself in radical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized.
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Fr. Richard is author of numerous books, including Everything Belongs, Adam’s Return, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, Immortal Diamond, Eager to Love, and The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (with Mike Morrell).
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Sir David Ramon Hawkins, M.D, Ph.D. was a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, spiritual teacher and lecturer.
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Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He began his training after graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967. Then he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Public Health Service in northeast Thailand, which is home to several of the world’s oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. He met and studied under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. After returning to the United States, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon
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Harriet Lerner
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"Achievement was next to Godliness for my sister, Susan, and me." Harriet notes. "My father would talk about ‘My daughters the doctors’ while we were still in our strollers."
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Peter Russell
Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S., is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and has remained a popular public speaker.
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In 1965 he was awarded an Open Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study Mathematics. In 1969, he gained a First Class Honours in Theoretical Physics and Experimental Psychology. He then went to Rishikesh, India, where he trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1971, he gained a post-graduate degree in Computer Science. From 1971 to 1974, he studied for a Ph.D. on the psychophysiology of m -
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Nicholas Carr
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Jim Rohn
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Pablo d'Ors
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Michael Easter
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Karen M. Rose
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Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of Tiny, a Canadian holding company that owns over 40 businesses ranging from Dribbble, a social network for designers, to the AeroPress coffee maker. Tiny buys wonderful businesses from founders and holds them for the long-term. Andrew successfully bootstrapped the business from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in value and still holds majority ownership. He has committed to give away at least half of his fortune via his foundation, Tiny Foundation, which is primarily focused on global health, investigative journalism, non-profit reform, and medical research. He lives in Victoria, Canada.
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Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho was born Robert Jackamn in Seattle, Washington in 1934. He was raised as Anglican and from 1951 to 1953 studied Chinese and history at the University of Washington. He served as a medic for the US Navy until returning to the University to ccomplete a BA in Far Eastern Studies in 1959. In 1966 he went to Thailand and was ordained as a novice Buddhist; in 1967 he received a full ordination.
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Karen M. Rose
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Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman (IG: @henryshukman) is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Mauro Corona
Mauro Corona è nato nel 1950. Da ragazzo ha lavorato come boiscaiolo e cavatore. Fin da bambino ha cominciato a intagliare il legno. Lo scultore Augusto Murer ha intuito il suo talento e lo ha accolto nel suo studio di Falcade, dove Mauro Corona ha approfondito la tecnica e l'arte che gli ha permesso di diventare uno scultore ligneo conosciuto in tutta Europa.
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Alpinista e arrampicatore, ha aperto numerosi itinerari sulle Dolomiti d'Oltre Piave e partecipato a diverse spedizioni internazionali.
Nel 1997 pubblica il suo primo libro "Il volo della martora". La scrittura diventa così un'altra delle sue grandi passioni, grazie alla quale è oggi annoverato tra gli scrittori più apprezzati in Italia. -
Amos Smith
Amos is a family man, hiker, walker, seasoned Centering Prayer practitioner, workshop and retreat leader, Contemplative Christian writer, and Rehabilitation Therapist. His writing has been published in various newspapers and magazines, including The Billings Gazette, The Spokesman-Review, Friends Journal: Quaker Thought and Life Today, and Chicago Seminary Press.
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Amos published his first book, Healing The Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots with Wipf & Stock Publishers in 2013. The book has been well received and reviewed and is part of the curriculum for the Living School of The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC).
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David Whyte
Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother among the hills and valleys of his father’s Yorkshire. He now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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The author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose, David Whyte holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, Amazon and Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops.
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Mark Lewis
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Kenneth McIntosh
Kenneth McIntosh is a writer, educator and spiritual mentor. As a child he became fascinated with the Celtic legends of his heritage. Degrees in English and theology combined with travels in the Middle East and the Celtic lands of Ireland, Scotland and Wales inspire his writing.
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He is best known for his book Water from an Ancient Well: Celtic Spirituality for Modern Life. In addition, he has written dozens of other books--mostly non-fiction. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona with his wife and pets. In addition to writing he teaches Comparative Religions at a community college and serves as pastor for a progressive Christian church. His hobbies include hiking, investigating rock art and archaeological sites, labyrinth building and fixing vintage -
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John Roger Barrie has served since 2001 as literary executor of influential author, historian, and philosopher Gerald Heard (1889–1971). He is the creator and publisher of geraldheard.com. He has overseen reissues of 18 classic Gerald Heard titles, both nonfiction and fiction (under H. F. Heard). He previously worked for many years as a regional freelance writer and editor.
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For more than four decades, he has practiced spiritual disciplines from many different religious traditions, and he has studied with and received blessings from numerous spiritual teachers. His interfaith approach incorporates teachings and practices from several spiritual paths, including the rich mystical traditions from his native Catholicism, and the universal princip -
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Lisa Oswald is the awake channel for the workspace of Pleiadian Great Light Channel and founder of Project Lightbody.
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Lisa did not learn how to channel; it was simply what she was born to do. It’s over lifetimes of working with Pleiadian energy that she came here not only to be aware of this awake, universal energy but to be able to reflect and transmit it. This rare kind of channeling space is awake to itself. It is a form of communication that the world has not known for a very long time. It has the ability to open a space between the worlds of physical form and energy that blends the energies of sentient life forms in a dynamic experience of amped-up awakefulness. It is an opening and an opportunity for people and kingdoms of consciousnes -
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Paul Rousseau is a Disabled writer. His debut, FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR is forthcoming from HarperCollins September 10, 2024. Paul's work can also be found in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Catapult, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. You can read his words online at Paul-Rousseau.com and find him on X @Paulwrites7.
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Byron Katie
Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker, writer, and founder of a method of self-inquiry called The Work of Byron Katie or simply The Work.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge received her MFA from Hunter College. Greenidge was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship and the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize. She was a Bread Loaf scholar, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence, and a Johnson State College visiting emerging writer. Her work has appeared in the Believer, the Feminist Wire, At Length, Fortnight Journal, Green Mountains Review, Afrobeat Journal, the Tottenville Review, and American Short Fiction. Originally from Boston, she now lives in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman was published by Algonquin Books in March 2016.
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Joseph Selbie
Selbie makes the complex and obscure simple and clear. A dedicated meditator for over forty years, he has taught yoga and meditation throughout the US and Europe. He has also been an avid follower of the unfolding new paradigm of science—with groaning bookshelves to show for it—and he is known for creating bridges of understanding between the modern evidenced-based discoveries of science and the ancient experience-based discoveries of the mystics.
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Author and lecturer, Joseph studied ancient Western cultures at the University of Colorado and ancient Eastern cultures at UC Berkeley. He has had a keen interest in ancient history since grade school. He has taught and lectured on the principles of Eastern philosophy for over thirty years.
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N.B. Hankes
N. B. Hankes served in the U.S. Army from 2005-2009 as an unmanned aerial vehicle operator with the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division serving in Baghdad, Iraq during the Troop Surge of 2007. He holds a Masters of Science in Soil and Water Chemistry from Utah State University.
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Penney Peirce
Penney Peirce is the author of a series of popular guidebooks: Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity; Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration; Leap of Perception: The Transforming Power of Your Attention; The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness; Dreams for Dummies (out of print); Dream Dictionary for Dummies; and The Present Moment: A Daybook of Clarity and Intuition (out of print).
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She is also the author of a series of eBooks: The Present Moment: A Daybook of Clarity and Intuition; Be the Dreamer Not the Dream: A Guide to 24-Hour Consciousness; and Bits & Pieces 1, 2, and 3.
Penney is a gifted clairvoyant empath and visionary, as well as a popular lecturer, counselor, and trainer. She sp -
John J. Prendergast
I am a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and received my undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. I am licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, happily married, and have an adult son. I have a private psychotherapy practice in San Rafael and am a former professor of psychology at CIIS.
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My interest in “spirituality” preceded my formal studies in psychology. I began a regular meditation practice in 1970 and had a brief career as a Transcendental Meditation teacher before leaving that organization.
An unexpected dream with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, with whom I was unfamiliar, happened a month before his death in 1981. This led me to read his famous dialogues in I am T -
Gwendoline Smith
Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books Depression Explained and Sharing the Load. She also goes by the name Dr Know.
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Abraham Flexner
Critical report of American educator Abraham Flexner on American and Canadian medical schools in 1910 resulted in a sweeping reform.
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People best know his role in the 20th century of higher education in the United States.
After founding and directing a college-preparatory school in his hometown, Flexner in 1908 published a critical assessment of the state of the American educational system, titled The American College: A Criticism . His work attracted the Carnegie foundation to commission an evaluation in depth into 155 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. His resultant self-titled Flexner Report , published in 1910, sparked reform in the United States. Flexner also founded the institute for advanced study, wh