PARTIAL FACULTY LISTING

José Arguelles is widely known for his role in popularizing the Mayan calendar with his book The Mayan Factor and being the first one to bring 2012 into public awareness. He is credited with organizing the Harmonic Convergence event of 1987. As one of the originators of the Earth Day concept, Argüelles founded the first Whole Earth Festival in 1970, at Davis, California. He is the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time.

Coleman Barks is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977.  His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyer’s Language of Life series on PBS (1995).

John Perry Barlow is a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, following a term as a Fellow with the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Don Beck is a bold, inspiring pioneer of the Integral Age whose Spiral Dynamics integral offers a powerful and new transformational system, complex and simple as life itself that brings the Integral Vision into manifestation in the real world.

William Bloom, Ph.D. is one of the UK’s most experienced teachers, healers and authors in the field of holistic development.

Rosalyn Bruyere is the founder and director of the Healing Light Center Church in Sierra Madre, California. As a leading practitioner of laying-on-of-hands healing, she teaches these skills throughout the world.

Rhonda Britten is the Life Coach who makes a difference on the NBC daytime TV show, “Starting Over,” and, as the founder of the Fearless Living Institute, she has developed a powerful model for mastering the emotional fears that exists today.

Helen Caldicott, M.D. is the Founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). PSR was the co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and Dr. Linus Pauling individually nominated Dr. Caldicott for the Prize.

Miguel Angel Vergara Calleros is a Mayan cultural teacher and a master in his own right, known as Master Nazul, and teaches seminars in Mexico and abroad on Mayan astronomy, philosophy, calendar, glyphs and symbols, medicine, cosmovision, traditions and prayers, ceremonies and healing.

David Carson is of Native American Choctaw descent, the co-creator of Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals, and a novelist who has written for newspapers, films and social reform publications.

Caroline Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer, devoted to the principle that Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train to follow.

Deepak Chopra, M.D., is acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, continuing to transform our understanding of the meaning of health.

Ellis Cose is a columnist and contributing editor in the US for Newsweek and the New York Daily News, and is the author of Bone to Pick: On Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge He has worked with the Truth and Reconciliation Committees in Peru, South Africa, Ghana, and East Timor, and points us in the direction of a more just and harmonious world.

Andrew Cohen is founder of What Is Enlightenment? Magazine, a spiritual teacher and acclaimed author recognized as a defining voice in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality.

Lama Surya Das has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia. He teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year.

Ram Dass has led the life of seeker and traveler, teacher and social activist for 45 years. The quality of his consciousness is legendary, not only for the words spoken, but because of the spell that is somehow invoked in his company.

Larry Dossey, M.D. is deeply rooted in the scientific world and has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare, the ramifications being radical and calling for no less than the reinvention of medicine.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer authored a prose poem entitled "The Invitation" which was unexpectedly copied and shared by thousands around the world through bulletin boards, the Internet and readings at weddings, funerals, spiritual gatherings, and workshops.

Donna Eden is a gifted energy healer with the inborn ability to see the body's energies. Together with her partner David Feinstein, Ph.D. a clinical psychologist, they run the non-profit Energy Medicine Institute in Ashland, Oregon.

Timothy Freke is the best-selling author of over 25 books on spirituality including the groundbreaking Jesus Mysteries. He is a ‘stand-up philosopher’ who presents the timeless wisdom of awakening in a funky new way, making it accessible to the modern world.

Jacque Fresco co-created The Venus Project in the mid-1970s with his partner, Roxanne Meadows. Fresco writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society. The film Future by Design was produced in 2006 describing his life and work.

Alex Grey is an artist and author whose work has also been exhibited worldwide, including in the Tibet House, the Stux Gallery, the Outsider Art Fair, the New Museum (New York), the Grand Palais (Paris), and in the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil).

Stanislav Grof, M.D. is a psychiatrist with nearly forty years of experience researching non-ordinary states of consciousness whose work has taken psychology into realms so radically new and far-reaching they challenge our understanding of the laws of nature and physics.

John Hagelin, Ph.D., is a world-renowned quantum physicist, educator, author, and public policy expert who shows how, through educational programs that develop human consciousness, and through policies and programs that effectively harness the laws of nature, it is possible to solve acute social problems and enhance governmental effectiveness.  He was featured in the popular movie “What the #$*! Do We Know.”

Stuart Hameroff M.D. is a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Thom Hartmann is an internationally known speaker and author on culture and communications, an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics, and has been written about in Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and on numerous radio and TV shows including "All Things Considered," CNN, and BBC. 

Andrew Harvey is a modern mystic who teaches his vision of the inner unity of all religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a noted futurist, author, and public speaker who shows that while the multiple, converging crises our planet is going through may appear meaningless, painful and confusing, they are simply birth pains.

Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods and is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.

Dadi Janki, at 90+ years old dedicates her life to the principles and practices of the Brahma Kumaris organization, sharing a vision of a world of peace, purity and passion to experience the essence of spiritual truths.

John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher, best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. His writings are particularly associated with 2012 millenarianism and the development of Mayanism in contempary and popular culture.

Michio Kaku, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics and also the environment that holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the co-founder of string field theory.

Olga Kharitidi, M.D. is a practicing psychiatrist in the United States and teaches workshops and lectures on the "transformation of trauma" throughout the world. Dr. Kharitidi was the originator of the title Dream Healer in her book Masters of Lucid Dreaming.

John Kimmey, a student and traveling companion of the late Hopi Prophet and village leader, David Monongye, was given permission to teach the Hopi Prophecy and the wisdom of the Hopi Elders. As a “seedplanter” John founded Talavaya Center which in 1984 received the United Nations Environmental Programme Award for its successful efforts in the conservation of genetic diversity of important germplasm and the farming lore of the ancestral cultures of the Southwest.

Satish Kumar is a former Jain Monk who is the recipient of the Gandhi prize, editor of Resurgence Journal and founder of Schumacher College, and the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in Britain.

Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D. is founder and President of the Club of Budapest and one of the first representatives in the area of systems philosophy and general theory of evolution.

Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit and is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.  His work summarizing his findings is entitled The Biology of Belief.

Howard Martin is with HeartMath which is at the forefront of human development with techniques that use the transforming power of the heart to release stress, access higher levels of intelligence, establish emotional balance and stimulate higher brain functioning which can greatly improve performance, health and relationships.  

Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist and author who is best known as founder and editor of some of the UK and the US's leading health newsletters and for her book The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe.

Edgar Mitchell, Sc,D., an Apollo astronaut who having taken the hero's journey to the moon and returned, brilliantly delineates how humankind's exploration of both outer and inner space represents the next epoch in the evolution of life itself, a process over which human beings have increasing control.

Thomas Moore, Ph.D., is a best-selling author and commentator on the Soul and spirituality and a leading lecturer in the areas of archetypal psychology, mythology, and the arts.

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and activist who has worked for 25 years as Amazonian projects director for the Swiss non-profit "Nouvelle Planète." He is the author of The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature, and he is co-editor of the anthology Shamans Through Time with Francis Huxley.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures around the world and is founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) renowned for its groundbreaking work promoting sustainable alternatives to conventional development on 4 continents.

Judith Orloff, M.D. is accomplishing for psychiatry what physicians like Larry Dossey and Dean Ornish have done for mainstream medicine - she is proving that the links between physical health, mental well-being, and spiritual connectedness cannot be ignored.

Christine Page, M.D. is a gifted intuitive, mystic and alchemist, who shares her insights and knowledge through teaching, soul readings and writing. Known as a mystical physician, she has over 30 years of experience in the caring professions as doctor and homeopath.

Joseph Chilton Pearce is a world renowned thinker, author, and advocate of evolutionary child-rearing practices, who has expertise that strongs a broad range of disciplines: psychology, anthropology, biology, and physics.

John Perkins is a leading authority on shamanism and a New York Times best-selling author of many books, including Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire, and Hoodwinked.

Daniel Pinchbeck is a member of New York's literary select and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, ArtForum, and many other publications. Critics acclaimed his first book, Breaking Open the Head, as the most significant contribution to psychedelic literature since the work of Terence McKenna.

James Redfield is a best selling author who synthesized his interest in interactive psychology, Eastern and Western philosophy, science, futurism, ecology, history, and mysticism in The Celestine Prophecy. 

Tom Robbins might be called a confectioner of prose. He can take the most mundane concepts - sheets of rain coloring winter, a leftover building from the world's fair, ruddy beets freckled with soil and with his own brand of verbal alchemy make them into rich, sweet treasures.

Llyn Roberts, M.A. is a prominent teacher of healing and shamanism. A modern-day mystic and Buddhist trained therapist, Llyn’s work inspires a deep sense of belonging with the natural world. Her books include The Good Remembering, Shamanic Reiki, and Shapeshifting Into Higher Consciousness.

Gabrielle Roth is founder and director of The Moving Center and is an internationally renowned theater director, philosopher, and recording artist who has created her own form of ecstatic dance.

Peter Russell is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest, whose principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through.

Norman Shealy, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Duke and the founder of both the American Holistic Medical Association and the Pain Rehabilitation Center at the Shealy Institute in Missouri, is one of the world's leading experts in pain management and longevity.

Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is an internationally acclaimed biologist and author who is best known for his Theory of Morphogenetic Fields.

Joanne Shenandoah, Wolf Clan, Oneida Nation, Six Nations Iroquois, has been selected as North America's Native Artist of the Year (2003).  With 12 albums to her credit and a Grammy Nomination she has been described by the Associated Press as the most honored aboriginal musician of her time.

Vandana Shiva, Ph.D. is a trained physicist who has become world renown for her work in biodiversity, contributing in fundamental ways to changing the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food.

Huston Smith is the holder of eleven honorary degrees and is considered to be the world’s foremost religious scholar. His book The World's Religions has been the most widely used textbook on its subject for a third of a century.

Russell Targ is a Zelig-like character whose story is an idiosyncratic journey through the highways and byways of American intellectual, scientific, and cultural life in the 20th century. Along the way he has rubbed elbows with Ayn Rand, Alan Greenstrong, Alan and Arlene Alda, Bobby Fischer, and Sally Rand. He was a pioneer in laser research and spent many years developing airborne laser wind sensors for Lockheed and NASA. In addition, he co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remove viewing program—which was funded by the CIA—and was instrumental in tracking Soviet and Chinese weapon installations during the Cold War. And to round it out, he is a legally blind motorcyclist—who happens to be a Buddhist.

Richard Tarnas is a psychologist, intellectual historian, and astrologer and author of The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. His work suggests a new possibility for reuniting religion and science, soul and intellect, ancient wisdom and modern reason in the quest to understand the past and create the future including how major planetary cycles are correlated to the trends in this current period in history.

William Tiller, Ph.D. is a Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Professor Emeritus of Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science, and founding director of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and The Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Robert Thurman, Ph.D., who was named as one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential People of 1997, is a professor at Columbia University and writer and is acknowledged as a key figure in American Buddhism.

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., anthropologist, has studied shamanic healing techniques with the descendants of the Incas for more than 25 years. He makes energy work accessible to a broad audience and paves the way to its acceptance by the medical community.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer.

David Whyte is a poet and captivating lecturer and author of five books of poetry and two best-selling books of prose.  He is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many American and international companies.

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. is a theoretical physicist and an honored member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars and has taught courses at the Philosophical Research Society, the Holmes Institute, and numerous universities, and is featured in the popular movie “What the #$*! Do We Know.”

Danah Zohar is the author of the best-sellers The Quantum Self and The Quantum Society, books which extend the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization.