Calen
Rayne
Calen Rayne is a lay minister for Peace Lake UU in Hillsboro, NH.
Calen is a Certified practitioner of Interior Alignment
(Instinctive Feng Shui and Space Clearing), Certified Master of
the Himalayan singing bowl, Certified Reiki Master and Teacher in
four lineages (Usui, Japanese, Tibetan and Soul-Wind), a Veriditas
Certified Labyrinth facilitator, Certified practitioner of Sacred
Geometry, Japanese candlestick theorist, poet, photographer, folk
singer, contemplative brush artist and master of Eastern philosophy.
Calen has also completed certification training in Egyptian Bio-geometry
and Celtic/Druid sacred geometry and geomancy.
Calen received a BA in English from Purdue
University, an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa
University in Boulder, CO, and a DMin Degree from Wisdom
University in San Francisco. Calen is currently a member of adjunct faculty at Wisdom University. He has traveled extensively
and spent time in both North America, Latin America, Europe and
Asia studying with great masters of both Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist
traditions, with Bon and pre-literate Bon masters, with geomancers
from both Celtic and Druid traditions, and with alchemists of various
indigenous religions, including the first
(nameless) religion of the Himalayas, known as "sacred
conventions" or "patterns of heaven and earth."
Calen
has a private energy consultation practice based in Hillsborough, NH. Instruments used for his sound/energy work include Himalayan
Singing Bowls, shaman drum, Ghanta and Dorje, Tingshas, Bonpo Shang
and Phurbas. Calen offers meditation and mandala instruction in
support of the sound/energy modalities. Calen is also a “circuit
rider” in the tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Rev. Quillen
Shinn, and presents worship services for Unitarian
Universalist congregations, including “Old Time Buddhist
Gospel Hour.” Calen is a member of the Unitarian Universalist
Society for Community Ministries, Spiritual Directors
International, and Unitarian Universalist PSI Symposium.
Jini
B. Rayne
Jini Rayne is a business and teaching professional, certified Master
Teacher of Feng Shui and Interior Alignment™,
an Independent Reiki Master in the Usui, Japanese, Tibetan and Soul-Wind
traditions and a Rebirthing consultant.
Jini is a student and disciple of His Holiness, Grand Master Thomas
Lin Yun, Rinpoche, a Chinese-born Feng Shui master. Professor Lin
has expanded traditional Black Sect doctrine and philosophy to include
knowledge and influences from Western medicine, psychology, social
science, architecture, ecology and natural science. Jini has studied
extensively with Professor Lin for nearly 15 years.
In addition, Jini has studied with Denise
Linn, author of Sacred Space and many other books. Interior
AlignmentTM, which incorporates Instinctive Feng ShuiTM, embraces
ancient Feng Shui principles and little known information from native
cultures as well as modern techniques for present day life. It also
includes pioneering space clearing and house blessing techniques
to clear subtle energy fields. She is one of only 36 certified Master
Practitioners of Advanced Interior AlignmentTM worldwide. Jini has
also completed teacher training with Denise Linn and is authorized
to offer certification training in Interior AlignmentTM and Instinctive
Feng ShuiTM.
Jini has consulted in homes, offices, businesses, and health care
facilities from coast to coast and in Latin America and presents
numerous classes and workshops throughout the year.
Phone:
603.724.5818
Email:
raynemakers@gmail.com
TEACHERS
Following
is a partial list of people Calen and Jini have studied with in
classes or workshops:
Teachers
Calen has studied or trained with include:
Lauren
Artress - www.veriditas.net/
B.A., Ohio State University
M.A., Princeton Theological Seminary
Analytic Training, Institute of Religion and Health
DMin, Andover Newton Theological School, 1986
The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress serves as a Canon at Grace Cathedral.
In 1996 she created Veriditas, a non-profit dedicated to introduce
people the healing, meditative powers of the labyrinth. The labyrinth
is a twelfth century mystical tool symbolic of the Path of Life
that is re-introducing the walking meditation back into the Christian
tradition. She travels worldwide offering workshops and lectures
on the labyrinth and on Hildegard of Bingen. She offers a yearly
program in Chartres, France, called Walking a Sacred Path that nurtures
spiritual maturity. In addition to her ordination as an Episcopal
priest she is a spiritual director and licensed MFT psychotherapist
in the State of California. She is the author of Walking a Sacred
Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth.
Lynn Bell - www.cpalondon.com/staff/lynn.html
B.A., English Literature, Northern Illinois University
Lynn Bell is a Paris-based astrologer whose work spans multiple
cultures as a speaker, teacher, author and consultant in astrology.
She is one of the principal tutors at The Centre for Psychological
Astrology in London, where she has taught since 1995, and she has
had an active consultation practice in Paris for over twenty-five
years. Lynn was a recipient of an undergraduate teaching fellowship,
The Dean’s Award, and a Kester Svendson Fellow during her
graduate work at the University of Oregon.
Lynn has spoken at most of the major astrology conferences in the
world, and teaches seminars internationally. She led the first Astrology
in Bali workshop with Steven Forrest, and also teaches for the New
Chartres School, sponsored by Wisdom University, as well as for
Caroline Myss and her CMED Institute. Her most recent book is Cycles
of Light: Exploring the Mysteries of Solar Returns (2005). She is
also author of Planetary Threads: Patterns of Relating among Family
and Friends (1999) which explores family patterns in astrology,
and co-author of the Mars Quartet (2001) (with Darby Costello, Liz
Greene and Melanie Reinhart) all at CPA Press. Her articles have
appeared in the Mountain Astrologer, the AA Journal, Meridian and
many other publications. She helped create L'Association Française
d'Astropsychologie in Paris.
Jack
Collom - www.bigbridge.org/Issue2/Text/Bios/Collom_Bio.html
Collom
teaches ecology-poetics and oversees Project Outreach at the Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he has been resident
faculty for over a decade. A prolific writer, he has been published
in over a hundred magazines and anthologies in the United States
and abroad. His books include Arguing With Something Plato Said,
The Task, and Entering the City. He has worked extensively with
the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City and published
his ars poetica on teaching poetry, Moving Windows, under their
aegis. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship. Red Car Goes By (a selected poems 1955-2000) is published
by Tuumba Press. Jack Collom lives in Boulder CO.
Pamela (Apela) Colorado - www.traditionalknowledge.org/
B.A., University of Wisconsin
M.S., University of Wisconsin
Ph.D., Social Policy, Brandeis University, 1982
Apela Colorado is a member of the Oneida tribe and is a traditional
cultural practitioner. She established the Spirit Camp cultural
revitalization project at the University of Alaska. She began the
Native Social Work Concentration at the University of Calgary. With
Assistance from the Canadian International Development Agency, Apela
founded the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network (WISN) in 1989.
WISN brought together Western scientists and indigenous practitioners
of traditional knowledge in a series of international workshops,
conferences, and overseas projects. The work created a forum and
established a process to promote consensus, collaboration and cooperation
between experts of Western and Indigenous knowledge in conservation
and education programs and alternative resource development. She
created the first Doctoral Program in Traditional Knowledge at the
California Institute of Integral Studies.
Apela heads the Master’s Degree Program in Indigenous Mind
at Wisdom University.
Neil
Douglas-Klotz - www.abwoon.com,
www.eial.org
Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning
M.A. Somatic Psychology, 1985
Ph.D., Religious Studies and Psychology, 1997
Neil Douglas-Klotz (Saadi Shakur Chishti) holds a Ph.D. in religious
studies and psychology and an M.A. in somatic psychology. He is
an independent scholar with a background in hermeneutics, Middle
Eastern languages, and sacred movement. For 8 years he served as
co-chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion
and was the first practicing mystic to hold this position. He currently
lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and directs the Edinburgh Institute
for Advanced Learning (www.eial.org) He has followed the Sufi path
for 30 years and is initiated as Murshid (senior guide) in the Sufi
Ruhaniat International. He also serves on the advisory board of
the International Association of Sufism.He is the author of the
books Prayers of the Cosmos (1990), Desert Wisdom (1995), The Hidden
Gospel (1999), The Genesis Meditations (2003), The Sufi Book of
Life (2005), Blessings of the Cosmos (2006), and co-author of The
Tent of Abraham (2006) with Sr. Joan Chittister and Rabbi Arthur
Waskow.
Based on the work that led to the book The Tent of Abraham, he co-founded
the Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality
and Peace in 2004, which has been acclaimed as a new interspiritual
model for peace conferences, based in spirituality and the arts,
rather than in religious concepts around faith and belief.
In 2007 Neil initiated the Abwoon Interspiritual Leadership Program,
a three-year program for spiritual directors, interfaith ministers,
retreat directors and meditation instructors. The program will be
informed by both the best practice of past spiritual traditions
as well as the latest research on mind-body psychology and new science
(www.abwoon.com)
Neil has taught at the various manifestations of Wisdom University
since 1986. He was the first Director of the Deep Ecumenism Emphasis
at the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality and also
taught Body Prayer for ten years at the Institute. He currently
teaches: The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spiritual Message of the
Aramaic Jesus; The Aramaic Lord’s Prayer: Body Prayer, Chant
and Dance; Genesis Now! Creation Mysticism and Mystical Practice
in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Original Healing: The
Aramaic Beatitudes in Body Prayer, Chant and Dance; and Sufi Meditation
and Movement (based on The Sufi Book of Life).
Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche - www.mangalashribhuti.org/html/rinpoche/index.html
was born in 1964 in North India to Tibetan parents. At age 9, the
16th Karmapa recognized Rinpoche as a tulku -- an incarnation of
Kyabje Jamgon Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye called "the Great,"
the one who gave life to the rimay [non-sectarian] tradition. Rinpoche
trained in all aspects of Buddhist doctrine. His Root-Guru was H.H.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche of the Nyingmapas, the oldest of the Tibetan
Buddhist denominations. In 1989, Rinpoche and his family moved to
the USA where he founded Jigme Samten Chöling, a retreat centre
in Colorado. He spends most of his time there guiding his students
through extended periods of retreat. Rinpoche occasionally teaches
around the world or pursues his own studies.
Lawrence L. Edwards - www.threeeyesofuniverse.org/
A.B. Chemistry, Occidental College, 1963.
Ph.D., Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 1969.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1970
Larry Edwards is a chemical-physicist and author of many scientific
articles as well as a contributor to Arab Resources: The Transformation
of a Society. He is co-founder of the Epic of Evolution Society
and currently teaches the Universe Story and its implications for
a sustainable and fulfilling personal and cultural life at Wisdom
University, California Institute of Integral studies, Saint Thomas
University, Genesis Farm as well as through an at-Home/online program.
He teaches: The Universe Story; Celtic Spirituality; and the New
Cosmology.
Karuna Erickson - www.yogakaruna.com
B.A. Psychology, Stanford University, 1968
M.S.W. Psychiatric Social Work, University of California, Berkeley,
1970
Interfaith Minister, Metaphysical Interfaith Church, 1998
Karuna Erickson is a psychotherapist and a yoga teacher, practicing
in both fields for over 35 years. The focus of her work is the integration
of body, mind, heart, and spirit. She is the director of the Heart
Yoga Center, a registered yoga teacher training school with Yoga
Alliance, and has trained yoga teachers for over 20 years. She teaches
yoga internationally, interweaving Sufi poetry and Buddhist practices
of mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, and draws upon her
profession as a psychotherapist in her yoga teaching to explore
the union of body and mind.
She has taught many workshops, classes and retreats with Andrew
Harvey in which the peace of yoga is combined with the passion of
mysticism. Karuna and Andrew are presently co-authoring a book entitled:
Direct Path Yoga: the Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism. She
has lived in the mountains of British Columbia for over 35 years,
and her teaching is inspired by her love of the peace and beauty
of the mountains. She teaches Direct Path Yoga, The Sacred Marriage
of Yoga and Mysticism, The Divine Feminine, Yoga and Meditation,
Ecstatic Yoga, Remembering the Beloved, Communication Skills, Stress
Management, and Exploring Relationships.
Karuna is a Registered Counselor, Canadian Counseling Association
and Registered Yoga Teacher (advanced), Yoga Alliance, and D. Min.
student Wisdom University (since 2001).
Matthew Fox - www.matthewfox.org/sys-tmpl/door/
Matthew Fox is author of 28 books including “Original
Blessing,” “The Reinvention of Work,” “Creativity:
Where the Divine and the Human Meet,” “One River, Many
Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths,” “A Spirituality
Named Compassion” and his most recent “A New
Reformation!.” He was a member of the Dominican Order
for 34 years. He holds a doctorate (received summa cum laude) in
the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique
de Paris.
Seeking
to establish a pedagogy that was friendly to learning spirituality,
he established an Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality
that operated for seven years at Mundelein College in Chicago and
twelve years at Holy Names College in Oakland. For ten of those
years at Holy Names College, Cardinal Ratzinger, as chief Inquisitor
and head of the Congregation of Doctrine and Faith (called the Office
of the Holy Inquisition until 1965), tried to shut the program down.
Ratzinger silenced Fox for one year in 1988 and forced him to step
down as director. Three years later he expelled Fox from the Order
and then had the program terminated at Holy Names College.
Rather
than disband his amazing and ecumenical faculty, Fox started his
own University called University of Creation Spirituality nine years
ago in Oakland, California. Fox was President and a member of the
Board of Directors for nine years. He is currently lecturing, teaching
and writing and is President of the non-profit that he created in
1984, Friends of Creation Spirituality.
The
principle objections from the Congregation of the Faith to Fox’s
work were that he is a “feminist theologian;” that he
calls God “Mother” (Fox has proven the medieval mystical
tradition did exactly that); that he prefers “original blessing”
to “original sin;” that he calls God “child”;
that he associates too closely with Native Americans and people
of the wikka tradition; that he does not condemn homosexuals; that
he has replaced the naming of the spiritual journey as Purgation,
Illumination and Union with the four paths of Creation Spirituality:
The Via Positiva (joy, delight and awe); the Via Negativa (darkness,
silence, suffering, letting go and letting be); the Via Creativa
(creativity); and the Via Transformativa (justice, compassion, interdependence).
Matthew
Fox has been renewing the ancient tradition of Creation Spirituality
that was named for him by his mentor, the late Father Marie Dominic
Chenu, o.p., in his studies in Paris. This tradition is feminist,
welcoming of the arts and artists, wisdom centered, prophetic and
caring about eco-justice and social justice and gender justice issues.
Fox’s effort to reawaken the West to its own mystical tradition
has included revivifying awareness of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister
Eckhart and the mysticism of Thomas Aquinas as well as interacting
with contemporary scientists who are also mystics.
Fox
is a well received lecturer who has spoken at many professional
and community gatherings on many continents and in many countries
around the world. Fox’s books have received numerous awards
and he is recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award
of which other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa
and Rosa Parks. He has led a renewal of liturgical forms with “The
Cosmic Mass” that mixes dance, techno and live music, dj,
vj, rap and contemporary art forms with the western liturgical tradition.
Fox
believes that by "reinventing work, education and worship we
can bring about a non-violent revolution on our planet" and
has committed himself to this vision for many years.
Mara Freeman – www.celticspiritjourneys.com/
B.A. Bristol University, 1972
M.A. London University, 1974
Chapman University, 1992
Mara Freeman, British author and storyteller, is a keeper of the
ancient Celtic Spirit. Her life is dedicated to reweaving the ancestral
traditions of the British Isles and Ireland for today’s world.
She is the Honorary Chief Bard in the international Order of Bards,
Ovates and Druids, and an Archdruidess in the Druid Clan of Dana.
Dividing her time between California and West Wales, Mara teaches
at many universities and learning centers, including Omega Institute,
New York, Naropa University, Colorado, and the University of California
in Santa Cruz. She leads annual retreats and pilgrimages in the
British Isles and Ireland.
In 2005, Mara founded the Avalon Mystery School, a three-year training
program in the Western esoteric arts. Mara also has a private healing
practice in the Celtic tradition of Anamcara, or soul-guidance work,
using her extensive training in the arts of psychotherapy and seer-ship.
She is also a psychotherapist and seer who carries on the Celtic
tradition of Anamcara at The Chalice Center, Carmel, California.
She is author of Kindling the Celtic Spirit: Ancient Traditions
to Illumine your Life through the Seasons, (Harper San Francisco,
January, 2001.) She teaches: Celtic Spirituality and A Celtic Experience.
Lama Gape
Gape Lama (Konchog Thubten Nyima) was born in 1965 into conditions
of political turmoil and exile associated with the Chinese “Cultural
Revolution.” Beginning at age 14, Lama Gape had the good fortune
to receive dharma from many great Tibetan masters including the
great yogi Tamga, Khenpo Munsel Rinpoche, H.E. Garchen Rinpoche,
and Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok.
Lama
Gape traveled to Gar Monastery where he received refuge ordination
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, and full monastic ordination from the great
siddha Karma Norbu. At Gar Monastery, he trained in the ritual practices
of the tantras of Old and New Schools and other diverse religious
activities. He was selected for special training at Hlo Lungkar
Monastery, including the Eight Heruka Sadhanas, the Embodiment of
the Masters’ Realization, Vajrakilaya, and Essence of Great
Bliss. He served as chant master and, later, as disciplinarian of
the Gar monastery.
Subsequently, at Gar Monastery, Gape Lama took responsibility for
instructing the nuns at the Fivefold Mahamudra Meditation Center
of Gargon Nunnery. In the year 2000 he went to India, Singapore,
Malaysia and Taiwan. He currently resides in America, and is the
Chant Master for His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche’s Dharma centers
in the West
James Garrison
B.A., World History, University of Santa Clara, 1973
M.T.S., Christology and World Religions, Harvard Divinity School,
1975
Ph.D., Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University, 1982
Jim Garrison became President and Chairman of Wisdom University
on February 2, 2005. Garrison founded and serves as President of
the Gorbachev Foundation/USA and the State of the World Forum, both
San Francisco based non-profit institutions created to establish
a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable
global civilization. With President Gorbachev as its Convening Chairman,
the Forum convenes leaders from around the world and a spectrum
of disciplines to its annual and regional conferences and catalyzed
the creation of several independent organizations. Garrison published
his first book in 1980, The Plutonium Culture (SCM). This
was followed by The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima
(SCM/1982); The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities (Gateway
Books/ 1983); The New Diplomats (Resurgence Press/1984); Civilization
and the Transformation of Power (Paraview Press/2000); and America
As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? (Barrett Koehler/2004).
Garrison is also active in Mosaic Networks, a business development
company of which he is a Founding Partner.
Robert J. Gilbert - www.vesica.org/
Dr. Gilbert has a multi-faceted background in both spiritual and
scientific studies. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps Instructor
in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Warfare Survival; since leaving the
service in 1985 he has conducted independent research into the Geometric
basis of modern science and new technologies. Dr. Gilbert is also
a Rosicrucian with more than 20 years of experience in Sacred Geometry
and its hidden uses by the world's great spiritual traditions. His
non-sectarian approach is inclusive of individuals from all spiritual
traditions. Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in International Studies and
is a published academic author in that field, contributing to the
first academic textbook in the new field of Transformational Politics.
In 1997 Dr. Gilbert began for the first time to teach publicly the
results of his two decades of intensive research. Today he teaches
both publicly and privately in Asheville, NC. Dr. Gilbert also offers
a small number of his VESICA series of special seminars throughout
the United States every year. He is currently completing his first
book 7 Keys to Creation: Sacred Geometry and the Patterns of Life.
Allen Ginsberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg is probably one of the best known contemporary poets
in recent history. He was born in 1926 in Newark, NJ and recieved
his B.A. from Columbia University in 1948.
Like many other artists, Ginsberg held a variety of odd jobs before
becoming an established writer. His employment history includes
work on various cargo ships, a spot welder, a dishwasher and he
also worked as a night porter in Denver. He has partcipated in numerous
poetry readings, including the famous Six Gallery event that occured
in San Francisco.
In 1954, San Francisco painter Robert LaVigne introduced his model
and companion, Peter
Orlovsky to Ginsberg. Soon after this first meeting, Orlovsky
and Ginsberg became lovers and moved in together, defining their
relationship as a marriage. Despite periods of separation, this
arrangement remained intact until Ginsberg's death in April 1997.
Ginsberg was the recipient of numerous honors and awards during
his lifetime including: the Woodbury Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim
fellowship, the National Book Award for Poetry, NEA grants and a
Lifetime Ahievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
In addition to the almost epic poem Howl, Ginsberg has authored
numerous books, too voluminous to mention here. Many of his writings
were interpreted as contrevertial and even obscene. The reading
of Howl resulted in the arrest of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, the owner of City Lights Books, on obscenity charges.
The authorities objected to Ginsberg's openess concerning his homosexuality
as well as the graphic sexual language. Many of his other writings
deal with subjects such as narcotics and the experiences on has
while under their influence.
However, many other prominent writers, including Jack
Keroauc, William
Carlos Williams and Kenneth
Rexroth, realized Ginsbergs importance. Ginsberg was greatly
influenced by Keroauc's spontaneous and carefree style and often
worked in a "stream of consciousness" manner until he
completed a work. Ginsberg also once, influenced by Williams, arranged
some of his poems "according to how you'd break it up if you
actually to talk it out" and the latter was greatly impressed
by the feat.
Like many of the writers of his period, Ginsberg had a desire to
attain the mystical. The metaphysical poets of the nineteenth century,
including William Blake, were perhaps his greatest influence. It
was the desire to expand the mind and reach the spiritual that inspired
Ginsberg to experment with substances such as marijuana and Benzedrine.
He claimed that many of his writings, including Howl were written
while he was under the influence of drugs.
Ginsberg's theme of politics was once described by Rexroth as "an
almost perfect fulfillment of the long, Whitman, Populist, social
revolutionary tradition in American poetry". Many of his writings
contain a war motiff: subjects such as the Nazi gas chambers and
Viet Nam are the topic of many of his poems.
Ginsberg is perhaps one of the most respected and revered Beat writer's.
His work is definitely worth a glance even if the writers of this
period are of little interest to certain readers. After his recent
death, City Lights had a celebration of his work which included
the playing of some of his taped readings.
Ginsberg's writing has been compared to Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman
and has been said to contain "that old gnostic tradition".
Bernard Glassman sensei - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsugen_Bernard_Glassman
Tetsugen
Bernard Glassman, Zen Buddhism Master(Roshi) and pioneer in the
American Zen Movement (also known as Roshi Bernie) is a spiritual
leader, published author, accomplished academic, and successful
businessman. Dr. Glassman currently teaches and travels, giving
talks and workshops on spiritual practice, socially responsible
business and international peacemaking. He is the founder and co-spiritual
director of the Zen Peacemakers Order.
Alex
Grey - www.alexgrey.com/,
www.cosm.org/
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings which “X-ray”
the multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving the physical and
biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual subtle energies. Grey’s
visual meditation on the nature of life and consciousness, the subject
of his art, is contained in the monograph entitled Sacred Mirrors:
The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, published in five languages. His
second book, The Mission of Art reflects on art as a spiritual practice.
Grey’s art has been exhibited worldwide including a mid-career
retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the
Sao Paolo Bienniale, The Grande Palaise, Paris, and solo exhibition
in Tokyo to accompany the Japanese translation of his book Sacred
Mirrors. Grey previously taught for ten years at New York University
as well as teaching at Rhode Island School of Design and Philadelphia
College of Art. Grey’s art work has been used as album art
for such multi-platinum bands as Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Tool (Grammy
award winner), and String Cheese Incident where the album art recently
won a Jammy Award.
With his wife, artist Allyson Grey, Alex co-founded the Chapel of
Sacred Mirrors, a cultural and non-denominational spiritual center,
now in its temporary location in New York City. The future Chapel
of Sacred Mirrors will provide a permanent public exhibition of
Alex Grey's most outstanding and widely appreciated works of transformative
art, fostering a vision of the fully awakened human potential. The
Sacred Mirrors speak to our highest aspirations as a species: universal
compassion, respect for all life, a deep appreciation of all cultures
and wisdom traditions, awakened consciousness and a full flowering
of our human potential.
Stanislov
Grof - www.holotropic.com
Stanislav Grof, M.D.,PH.D., is a psychiatrist with an experience
of over fifty years of research in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he also received his
scientific training -- an M.D. degree from the Charles University
School of Medicine and a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine)
degree from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. His early research
was in the clinical uses of psychoactive drugs conducted at the
Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague. There he was Principal
Investigator of a program systematically exploring the heuristic
and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances.
In 1967, he was invited as Clinical and Research Fellow to the Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. After completion of his fellowship,
he remained in the United States and continued his research as Chief
of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
and as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, MD. In 1973, he became Scholar-in-Residence at the
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he lived until 1987.
He spent this time writing books and articles, giving seminars and
lectures, and developing with his wife Christina Holotropic Breathwork,
an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy. He also was invited
as special consultant for the Hollywood movie Brainstorm.
Stanislav Grof is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of
transpersonal psychology and founding president of the International
Transpersonal Association (ITA). At present, he is Professor of
Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS),
teaching in the Department Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness.
He lives in Mill Valley, California, writes books, conducts training
seminars for professionals in holotropic breathwork and transpersonal
psychology ), and gives lectures and seminars all over the world.
Among his publications are over 130 articles in professional journals
and the books Realms of the Human Unconscious; LSD Psychotherapy;
Beyond the Brain; The Adventure of Self-Discovery; Beyond Death;
The Stormy Search for the Self (the last two with Christina Grof);
The Holotropic Mind; Books of the Dead; The Cosmic Game; The Transpersonal
Vision; The Consciousness Revolution (with E. Laszlo and P. Russell);
Psychology of the Future; When the Impossible Happens: and The Ultimate
Journey. He also edited the books Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science;
Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution; and Spiritual Emergency
(the last one with Christina Grof).
Andrew
Harvey - www.andrewharvey.net
B.A., Oxford University, 1972
Andrew Harvey was born in South India where he lived until the age
of nine, a period he credits with shaping his vision of the inner
unity of all religions. He left India to attend private school in
England, and entered Oxford University in 1970 to study history
on a scholarship. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person
ever to be awarded the Fellow of All Souls College, England's highest
academic honor.
In 1977, Harvey became disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned
to India to begin his spiritual search. He has since lived in London,
Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and has continued to study a
variety of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
Harvey has written and edited over 30 books. Honors he has received
include the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award
(both for Mary's Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations),
and the Christmas Humphries Award for A Journey In Ladakh. Among
Harvey's other well-known titles are: The Tibetan Book of Living
and Dying, edited with Patrick Gaffney and Sogyal Rinpoche; Dialogues
with a Modern Mystic; The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi;
Hidden Journey; The Essential Gay Mystics; and Son of Man.
Andrew has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart
and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral
Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as
numerous spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was
the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern
Mystic and also appears in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness
of the Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for a new Humanity.
Kabir Helminski - www.sufism.org/books/helm.html
M.A. in psychology, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, 1990
Ph.D. (hon.) in literature from Selçuk University, Konya,
Turkey, 1996
Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order and is the Co-Director
of the Threshold Society, a non-profit educational foundation that
has developed programs that provide a structure for practice and
study within Sufism and spiritual psychology. He has translated
many volumes of Sufi literature, including the works of Rumi, and
is the author of two books on Sufism: Living Presence and The Knowing
Heart.
From 1980 until 1999, he was the director of Threshold Books, one
of the foremost publishers of Sufi literature. Between 1994 and
2000 he toured with the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, bringing the
spiritual culture of the Mevlevis to more than 100,000 people. His
books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German,
and Turkish. For more than twenty years Kabir's focus has been developing
and sharing a contemporary approach to Islamic concepts and practice
both within the Islamic community and outside of it. In 2001, he
was the first Muslim to deliver the prestigious Wit Lectures on
spirituality at Harvard Divinity School, which will be published
as a book by The Paulist Press. Living with his family in Santa
Cruz, Kabir now focuses on Sufi music, writing, teaching, and developing
a program of spiritual education with an international team of scholars.
Jennifer Hereth - www.jenniferhereth.com
B.FA, Art Institute of Chicago
M.FA, Art Institute of Chicago
Jennifer Hereth has taught painting at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago for 17 years. She is currently head of the Painting Department
at the College of DuPage and Visiting Lecturer at Dominican University
in Chicago. Jennifer has had several museum exhibitions in this
hemisphere. She received a three-year Kellogg Foundation Grant for
studies between North and South America during which time she did
several public art projects in Brazil. In 1999 she was named one
of “100 Women in Chicago Making a Difference”. In 2000
Jennifer won the outstanding volunteer award from the Chicago Coalition
for the Homeless for a program where her painting students illustrated
the poems of homeless poets and gifted 200 paintings to the poets
in this shelter project. She teaches Tapates: Central American Earth
Mosaics and Altaring Your Life with the Black Madonna.
Anselm Hollo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Hollo
Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland, and was educated there
and in the U.S. (senior year in high school on an exchange scholarship).
In his early twenties, he left Finland to live and work as a writer
and translator, first in Germany and Austria, then in London, where
he was employed by the BBC's European Services in their Finnish
Program from 1958 to 1967. Translations into Finnish from that time
include Allen Ginsberg's Howl and John Lennon's In His Own Write.
For the last thirty years, Hollo has lived in the United States,
teaching creative writing and literary translation at numerous colleges
and universities, including SUNY Buffalo, The University of Iowa,
and The University of Colorado. He has read his work, lectured,
and conducted workshops at many universities and colleges, art museums
and galleries, literary conferences, coffeehouses, and living rooms.
He is now Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics
Department at The Naropa Institute, a Buddhist-inspired nonsectarian
liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado, where he and his wife,
the painter Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, make their home.
Hollo has published more than thirty-five books and chapbooks of
his poetry, most recently Corvus (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press,
1995) and AHOE (Erie CO: Smokeproof Press, 1997). He has also translated
many contemporary Finnish poets, among them Paavo Haavikko (Selected
Poems 1949 - 1988, Manchester UK: Carcanet Press, 1991) and Pentti
Saarikoski (Trilogy: the last three books, Los Angeles CA: Sun &
Moon, 1998), as well as fiction, plays, and poetry (by a.o. Brecht,
Paul Klee, Genet, Blok, Louis Malle) from the German, French, Swedish,
and Finnish.
Hollo's honors and awards include the New York State Creative Artists'
Public Service Award (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Poet's Fellowship (1979), the P.E.N./American-Scandinavian Foundation
Award for Poetry in Translation (1981), the American-Scandinavian
Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation (1989), Fund for Poetry
Awards for Contributions to Contemporary Poetry (1989, 1991), The
Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature (1996),
and a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry 1995-1996
(1996).
John Daido Loori - http://www.johndaidoloori.org/
John Daido Loori, author, artist, Zen Master is the founder and
abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. Under
Daido Loori’s direction, Zen Mountain Monastery has grown
to be one of the leading Zen monasteries in America, widely noted
for its unique way of integrating art and Zen practice.
Daido Loori is also an award winning photographer and videographer,
with dozens of exhibitions to his credit and a successful career
in both commercial and art photography. He has had 54 one-person
shows, and his work has been exhibited in 118 group shows both in
the United States and abroad. His photographs have been published
in leading photography magazines, including Aperture and Time Life
Photography.
Michael Mansfield
B.A., Philosophy and Letters, with additional English and Theater
Majors, and a Secondary Education Teaching Credential, St. Louis
University, MO, 1982
M.Div., Spirituality and the Arts, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley,
CA, 1988.
M.F.A. (British Post-Graduate Diploma), Acting, Arts Educational
Schools, London, 1993
D.Min., Spirituality and the Arts, University of Creation Spirituality,
Oakland, CA, 2001
Michael Mansfield has been teaching dance, ritual, theater, spirituality,
and justice-making since 1980. His interest is in the intersection
of education, worship, and performance. He has taught art and spirituality
at graduate theological schools in the Bay Area for the last 19
years, including 6 years at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.
He has been on the faculty at ICCS/UCS/WU since 1994. He is on the
faculties at Chabot College and Naropa University, Oakland, as well
as teaching throughout the Bay Area in the grade schools and high
schools as a guest artist-in-residence.
Michael
preaches, teaches, and speaks nationally on the importance of bringing
forward the wisdom of our bodies through the arts, faith, and justice.
He trains staffs, faculties, and leadership teams in both religious
and corporate settings, and leads retreats with groups and communities
around the country. He serves as academic administrator at the University
of California at Berkeley in the Theater, Dance, and Performance
Studies Department. He directs and choreographs theater and dance
productions at colleges and schools. He writes arts-based curricula
for educational publishers and articles and columns for magazines
regularly. All of his work has a definite kinesthetic bias.
Courses Taught at ICCS/UCS/WU include: Body Prayer; Loving Otherness:
Differing Sexual Mysticism and Activism; How They Love One Another:
Creation-Centered Sexuality; Dancing Sacred Texts; Body Prayers
for the Soul of the Community; Creating Techno Cosmic Masses and
Rituals Theokinetics: Dancing Our Wisdom; Dancing with Sexuality;
Process Group.
Carolyn
Myss - www.myss.com
B.A. Journalism, 1974
M.A., Theology, 1979
Ph.D. Energy Medicine, 1996
Caroline Myss began her career as a medical intuitive in 1984 when
she met C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard trained neurosurgeon,
who had an interest in the science of medical intuition. They began
a colleagueship that continues to this day. During their early years
together, Norm helped Caroline to develop her skills by having her
conduct health readings on his patients. During Norm's interview
with a patient in his office in Springfield, MO., he would phone
Caroline for her assessment of the patient's health. The only information
Caroline requires is the name and age of a patient and his/her permission.
From that data, Caroline is able to profile the physical/psychological/emotional/and
family history of the patient.
Through this research, Caroline developed the field of Energy Anatomy,
a science that partners specific emotional/ psychological/ physical/spiritual
stress patterns with the specific diseases that they create or influence.
This research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter
of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm: The Creation of Health.
Eventually this ground-breaking research became standard classroom
material for students studying the principles of holistic health,
psychological stress patterns, and the alternative methods of healing.
In 1996, Caroline compiled her years of research in medical intuition
with her work in the field of human consciousness, releasing the
book, Anatomy of the Spirit. This book became a New York Times bestseller
and has been published in 18 languages. Her next book, Why People
Don’t Heal and How They Can also became a New York Times bestseller
as did her fifth book, Sacred Contracts.
In 2003, Caroline founded CMED (Caroline Myss Education), her own
educational institute. CMED offers two programs per year, each three
sessions long. The first is on Sacred Contracts and the second is
on Mysticism, Intuition, and Healing. The Institute draws students
from nineteen nations as well as across the United States. In 2004,
Caroline released her sixth book, Invisible Acts of Power, which
also became a New York Times bestseller. Her new book, Entering
the Castle: Spiritual Direction for Dialoging With Your Soul will
be released in March, 2007.
Chokyi
Nyima Rinpoche - www.choklingtersar.org/teachers/CNR.htm
In the seventh lunar month of 1951, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche was born
into the Tsangsar family as the first-born son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
whose family has, for many generations, held the now rare Barom
Kagyu lineage.
At 18 months of age, Chokyi Nyima - Sun of the Dharma - was recognized
as the seventh incarnation of the Drikung Kagyu Lama, Gar Drubchen,
a Tibetan siddha and spiritual emanation of Nagarjuna, the second-century
Indian Buddhist philosopher. Soon after, he was enthroned at his
predecessor's monastery, Drong Gon Tubten Dargye Ling Monastery
in Nakchukha, Central Tibet where he resumed his role as Dharma
Master to 500 monks.
Shortly before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, Chokyi Nyima
migrated with his parents and younger brother, Chokling Rinpoche,
to Gangtok, Sikkim. During his younger years, he was enrolled at
the Young Lamas' School in Dalhousie, India. At the age of 13, he
entered Rumtek, seat of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism, and
spent the next eleven years studying the Karma Kagyu, Drikung Kagyu,
and Nyingma traditions under the guidance of such eminent masters
as H.H. the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,
and Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. His studies included such philosophical
treatises as Vasubhandu's Abhidharma Kosha, the Five Texts of Maitreya,
Dharmakirti's Pramanavartika, Shantideva's Bodhicarya Avatara, and
Chandrakirti's Madhyamaka Avatara. At a very early age, Tulku Chokyi
Nyima achieved the degree of Khenpo.
In 1974, Tulku Chokyi Nyima left Rumtek, where he had been personal
aide to the 16th Karmapa, and joined his father and younger brother,
Chokling Rinpoche, in Boudhanath, Nepal where, at the command of
the 16th Karmapa, they established Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery
close to the Great Stupa Jarung Khashor. After its completion in
1976, he was instructed by the Karmapa to become its 25-year-old
abbot. His Holiness also advised Tulku Chokyi Nyima to turn his
efforts towards instructing Western practitioners. To fulfill this
directive, Rinpoche honed his English language skills and began
to offer weekend teachings to the Western travelers.
In 1980, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and his father, Tulku Urgyen, embarked
on a tour of Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia where
they gave Dzogchen and Mahamudra teachings and empowerments to numerous
people.
In 1981, Tulku Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche founded the Rangjung Yeshe
Institute for Buddhist Studies, and later established the Rangjung
Yeshe Publishcations who have produced many transcripts of his teachings
and commentaries.
Rinpoche has a good command of the English language, and has been
instructing a growing number of Western students in meditation practice
since 1977. When his busy schedule allows, Rinpoche opens his doors
and gives weekend teachings to interested Westerner travelers, and
each fall conducts an English-translated Dharma Seminar.
Beatriz M. Orive - www.awakeningthesoul.net
Beatriz is a multi-cultural and trilingual entrepreneur born and
raised in Guatemala and educated in the United States. She has had
an extremely successful business career in Strategic Planning and
Strategic Marketing for the past 16 years, working with several
Fortune 200 multinational corporations across many diverse industries
and obtaining her MBA from Northwestern’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate
School of Management. At the age of 33 she left Motorola as Vice
President of Latin America’s Paging Division to start her
own business consulting company, in order to allow time for her
spiritual path. During the past 12 years, Beatriz has been immersed
in studying many diverse spiritual disciplines as part of her own
personal quest to find that “something missing”, finally
settling on Energy Medicine and Shamanism within the last 6 to 7
years. She most recently studied at Healing the Light Body, a mystery
school. Beatriz has transitioned out of the Corporate Business world
and into the arena of Teaching and Healing, delving into her mission
and passion by developing Awakening the Soul.
Rolf Osterberg
Rolf
Österberg is a seasoned executive in the film and newspaper
industries. He has served as President and CEO of Svensk Filmindustri,
Scandinavia’s largest film company; President, CEO and Chairman
of the Board of the Swedish Newspapers Association; and executive
vice president and deputy CEO of the Dagens Nyheter Group, Scandinavia’s
largest newspaper company. He was also chairman of the board of
over twenty companies and trade associations. He has a law degree
from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He has also attended the
Senior Management Program of the Harvard Business School. Österberg
lectures and gives seminars around the world on the relationship
between humans and businesses organizations in a rapidly changing
society. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and Inverness, California.
He is the author of Corporate Renaissance and the Search for Meaning
in the Workplace, the latter with Thomas H. Naylor and William H.
Willimon.
Khenpo
Sherab Ozer
Khenpo
Sherab Ozer Rinpoche, born in 1966 to a nomadic family, entered
Drong Ngur Monastery, in Nakchu, Tibet, in 1985. In 1992, he began
eight years of study in India and Nepal at the feet of many learned
masters from both the Old and New Schools (Nyingma and Sarma), culminating
when he was awarded the title “Khenpo” during the Drikung
Kagyu Snake Year Teachings in 2000. During his time in Nepal, he
spent two years as a teacher at Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's monastic
college and its sister college for foreigners.
In 2001, Khenpo Sherab Ozer was invited to the United States by
H.E. Garchen Rinpoche. He has been asked by H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche
and H.E. Garchen Rinpoche to stay in the West specifically in order
to teach the Bodhicaryavatara. In May of 2004, Khenpo Sherab Ozer
established the Buddhist center Drikung Namgyal Ling in Tucson,
Arizona, where he currently resides.
Khenpo Sherab Ozer has devoted his life to serving the Drikung Kagyu
lineage. He is known for his crystal-clear, uncompromising presentations
of the authentic Dharma and the loving care with which he guides
his students. He is an accomplished scholar and a skilled teacher,
author, singer, songwriter, and sewer. He maintains an active teaching
schedule in America, Europe, and Asia.
Paul Ray - www.culturalcreatives.org
BA, Yale University
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Paul Ray designed and ran the original survey research that identified
the Cultural Creatives during the 1980s. His current research includes
surveys on developments beyond left and right in politics, "the
New Political Compass," and theoretical and practical work
on the design of a wisdom civilization, working with NGOs, with
new political groups and governments, and with green and socially
responsible businesses. Formerly, Paul was Executive Vice President
of American LIVES, Inc., a market research and opinion polling firm
specializing in surveys based on the Lifestyles, Interests, Values,
Expectations and Symbols of Americans; Chief of Policy Research
on Energy Conservation, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
of the Government of Canada; and Associate Professor of Urban Planning
and a Faculty Associate of the Institute for Social Research, at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Russill Paul - http://www.russillpaul.com/home.html
Indian Institute of Engineering Technology, Chennai, 1982 - 1983
College of Technology and Engineering, Chennai, India, 1983 - 1984.
Traditional Education (Indigenous System):
Birla Institute of Sanskrit Studies, Karnataka, India Internships
in 1994, 1998 and 2000.
Kalai Kaveri Institute of the Arts, Tiruchy, India, 1985 - 1987
Saccidandanda Ashram, 1984 - 1989
EminRussill Paul is recognized nationwide as a forerunner in understanding
and applying sonic mysticism from the Indian tradition of yoga.
Combining years of monastic training in India as a Benedictine monk
and yogi under the renowned cross-cultural Benedictine monk, Dom
Bede Griffiths, with extensive studies in Sanskrit mantra and Indian
music in the great temple cities of South India, Russill Paul offers
a comprehensive and contemporary teaching on the role of sacred
sound in healing and in spiritual practice.
A world-class musician, Russill Paul is the artistic producer of
several best-selling yoga chant albums including Nada Yoga and AM
& PM Yoga Chants (The Relaxation Company, 2000, 2001); he is
also the author of The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of
Music and Chant (New World Library, 2006). He teaches: Journeying
with the Chakras, Introduction to The Yoga of Sound, Music as Healing,
An Overview of Hinduism, Meditation through Mantra, Elements of
Hindu Rituals, and The Art of Contemplative Prayer.
Collette van Praag http://www.gatewaysofthedivine.com
Collette
is a visionary artist, a performer of mystical poetry, and the creator
and publisher of Gateways of the Divine, An Illouminated Manuscript
for the Modern Age. Collette is Director of Program and Artistic
Development for the New Chartres School.
Kim
Rosen - www.kimrosen.net
Kim
is a poet, spoken word artist and guide of self-inquiry and transformation.
Whether she is speaking poems or guiding individuals and groups,
her work focuses on dissolving patterns of suffering to reveal the
"Self within self" as the 15th century poet Lala says.
Kim has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. in poetry from
Sarah Lawrence College. For over twenty-five years, she has led
trainings, workshops and retreats in the U.S., Canada, South America
and the United Kingdom and has taught on the faculty of the Omega
Institute, Wisdom University and the International Pathwork Foundation.
In 1983 she began exploring the consciousness-shifting power of
the interface between spoken poetry and music. She has offered Poetry
Concerts and workshops in collaboration with such musicians as Jami
Sieber, Peter Kater, Paul McCandless, David Darling, Chloe Goodchild
and Gary Malkin. She has worked - both as a group facilitator and
a spoken word artist - in a wide variety of settings including concert
halls, conferences, universities, professional trainings, corporations,
retreats, hospices and juvenile lock-down facilities.
As
a facilitator of inner work for groups and individuals, Kim is a
Pathwork Helper and a certified practitioner of the Breathwork and
the Work of Byron Katie. In addition, her work is inspired by her
training in Core Energetic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Drama Therapy,
and Hands-on Healing as well as her personal immersion in the non-dual
teachings of Gangaji, Adyashanti and Peter Fenner.
Ed
Sanders - http://www.woodstockjournal.com/
Education: BA in Greek, NYU 1964.
Sanders has taught at the Naropa Institute, now Naropa University
a number of times during the past 25 years, teaching courses on
Investigative Poetry, the theory and practice of writing book-length
poems, how to operate a small town newspaper, how to set poems to
music, and other themes. He has lectured at the Rock and Roll Museum
and Hall of Fame in Cleveland on the music scene in New York City
in the 1960s; has taught several courses at the Schule für
Dichtung in Vienna, including one titled “The Poetry and Life
of Allen Ginsberg” and another on the Metrics & Verse
of Sappho. And he has lectured on poetics and literature at many
colleges, universities and cultural centers throughout the United
State
Sanders has received a number of awards and fellowships, including
a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, and a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship in poetry. His Thirsting for Peace in a Raging
Century, Selected Poems 1961-1985, won an American Book Award in
1988. He was awarded a $25,000 poetry fellowship for 1997-1998 by
the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts, Inc. in New York
City. In 1997 Sanders received a Writers Community residency sponsored
by the YMCA National Writer’s Voice through the Lila Wallace
Readers Digest Fund.
Andrew Schelling - www.raintaxi.com/online/2002summer/schelling.shtml
Andrew Schelling, born January 14, 1953 in Washington D.C., grew
up in New England's Transcendentalist country. He moved west to
Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions
of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas and studied Sanskrit and Asian
literature at U.C. Berkeley. An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer
of wilderness areas, he has travelled extensively in North America,
Europe, India, and the Himalayas. In 1990 he relocated to Colorado
to join the faculty at Naropa University where he teaches poetry,
Sanskrit, and wilderness writing. Poet, amateur naturalist, mountaineer,
and translator of India's classical poetry, he lives in Boulder,
along the front range of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
In 1992, Schelling received the Harold Morton Landon Translation
Award from the Academy of American Poets for Dropping the Bow: Poems
of Ancient India (1991). His volumes of translation also include
For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai (1993, revised edition
1998) and The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems of Old
India (City Light Books, 1998). His collections of essays and poems
include Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia (2003),
Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry (2001), The Road to
Ocosingo (1998), Old Growth: Poems and Notebooks 1986-1994 (1995),
The India Book: Essays & Translations from Indian Asia
(1993), and Moon Is a Piece of Tea (1993). Schelling has also received
two grants for translation from the Witter Bynner Foundation for
Poetry.
Rupert Sheldrake - www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html
B.A. Cambridge University
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Cambridge University
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific
papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society,
he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was
a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honors degree
and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy
at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before
returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He
was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried
out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells.
At Clare College he was also Director of Studies in biochemistry
and cell biology.
From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University
of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974
to 1985 he worked at the International Crops Research Institute
for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he
was Principal Plant Physiologist. While in India, he also lived
for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil
Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life. In September
2005, he was appointed to the Perrott-Warwick Scholarship administered
by Trinity College, Cambridge.
Rupert’s books include: A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis
of Formative Causation (1981); The Presence of the Past: Morphic
Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988); The Rebirth of Nature:
The Greening of Science and God (1992); Seven Experiments that Could
Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science
(1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute
for Social Inventions); Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming
Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of
the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical
Network); The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the
Extended Mind (2003); Trialogues at the Edge of the West With Ralph
Abraham and Terence McKenna (1992); and Natural Grace: Dialogues
on Science and Spirituality (1996) and The Physics of Angels: Exploring
the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996) with Matthew
Fox.
Bruce Silverman - www.souldrumming.com
B.A., History, Washington University, 1968.
M.A., Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy University,
1973
Bruce Silverman is a practitioner of Afro-Cuban/Haitian, and Brazilian
drumming, North Indian Classical music/drumming and is a performer
with Batucaje, a Brazilian Folkloric Ensemble, and co-founder and
Director of the Performance Troupe. He is founder of Sons and Daughters
of Orpheus, a community of artists, musicians, drummer/ritualists
and healers which he directs, now in its 19th year. Bruce has been
offering healing work in California and throughout the US for over
25 years and has a private counseling practice in the east bay.
Bruce and the Sons of Orpheus have appeared on NBC-TV nationally,
and in a feature article in Newsweek Magazine. Bruce has worked
with Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Mimi Fariña, Caroline Casey,
Matthew Fox, and Jean Shinoda Bolen, and has been interviewed by
Charlie Rose. He has taught or presented in many locations, including:
the Zellerbach Auditorium, The Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)
the Esalen Institute, Grace Cathedral, and the San Francisco Aids
Foundation. He teaches Body Prayer, From Drum Time to Dream Time,
and Men’s Rites of Passage.
Jeremy Taylor - www.jeremytaylor.com
B.A., Psychology and English Literature, State University of New
York at Buffalo, 1961
M.A., American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo,
1972
D.Min. University of Creation Spirituality, 2001.
Dr. Jeremy Taylor, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked
with dreams for over twenty-five years; he blends the values of
spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective.
Past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, he has
written three books integrating dream symbolism, mythology, and
archetypal energy.
Jeremy is Director of Wisdom University’s Institute for Archetypal
Studies and Projective Dreamwork. He teaches Archetypes: Wounded
Healer and Willing Sacrifice, Empowering Your Passion for Social
Change, Dreamwork and Ethics: Dreams and Liberation, Counsels of
the Night: Dreams as Messengers; Dreams: Cross Cultural Contexts
and Personal Visions Exploring the Personal and Collective Unconscious
with an Open Heart. Universal Themes in Myths and Dreams, Dreamwork
and Social Change, Dreams and Spirituality, Dream Work: Discovering
the Deep Myths Underlying Personal Development; and Dreams: Exploring
the Archetypes of Wounded Healer & Willing Sacrifice.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche http://gomdeusa.org/photoalbum/speciallineage/TulkuUrgyenRinpoche.htm
Tulku
Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 - 1996) was widely acknowledged as one of
the great meditation masters of modern times. Leaving Tibet in the
face of the Chinese invasion in 1959, he settled in the hermitage
of Nagi Gompa, on the northern slopes of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley.
Here he lived quietly as a true Dzogchen yogi, visited by a steady
stream of scholars, students, and practitioners from around the
world. Throughout the course of his life he spent more than 20 years
in meditation retreat.
Tulku Urgyen was famed for his profound meditative realization and
for the concise, lucid and humorous style with which he imparted
the essence of the Dzogchen teachings. His method of teaching was
'instruction through one's own experience.' Using few words, this
way of teaching points out the nature of mind, revealing a natural
simplicity of wakefulness that enables the student to actually touch
the heart of the Buddha's Wisdom Mind.
Tulku Urgyen's startlingly clear teachings have been captured in
several books, including Rainbow Painting, Repeating the Words of
the Buddha, Vajra Speech, and As It Is. He had many foreign students,
and was keenly interested in the expansion of the Dharma to the
West. It was his wish for a North American seat that motivated his
eldest son, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, to found Gomde in 1998.
Carol Vaccariello - www.snowswan.org
D.Min., Ecumenical Theological Seminary, 1992
M.Div., Equivalency, Ashland Theological Seminary, 1991
M.B.A., Baldwin Wallace College,
M.S.E., Saint John College of Ohio, 1985
LPC Licensed Professional Counselor for State of Michigan, 1996
B.A. Music Education, Notre Dame College, 1975
Carol Vaccariello is the formerly the Co-Director of the Doctor
of Ministry Program. She is an ordained minister in the Christian
Church, Disciples of Christ and has served as Senior Minister and
Bridge Builder in Ohio, Michigan and Texas Congregations. Carol’s
emphasis is bridging among western, eastern and indigenous spiritual
expressions. She is a practicing facilitator of the Labyrinth, a
teacher of the Medicine Wheel, and a builder of Sacred Drums. Carol
is a teacher, lecturer, leader of ritual, healer and spiritual guide.
She teaches: Immersion in Creation Spirituality.
Anne Waldman - www.poetspath.com/waldman.html
Anne
Waldman is a poet & teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded
of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute
in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was born April 2, 1945 in Millville,
New Jersey. During the late Sixties she ran the St. Mark's Church
Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of
her own work. She was featured along with Ginsberg in Bob Dylan's
experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.'
Waldman is one of the most interesting, vibrant and unpredictable
members of the post-Beat poetry community. Her confluence of Buddhist
concerns and thought-paths with sources of physicality and anger
is particularly impressive. Over the years,she has worked her magic
on audiences throughout the United States and around the world,
giving poetry readings in Germany, England, Italy, Scotland, Czechoslovakia,
Norway, The Netherlands, Bali, India, Nicaragua and Canada. She
has also worked and performed with a number of well-known musicians,
composers and dancers. More recently, she has collaborated with
many visual artists.
Her list of publications is voluminous. She has written more than
42 books, most recently Kill or Cure (Penguin Poets) and her book-length
poem, Iovis (Coffee House Press). She is now working on Book III
of Iovis.Throughout the poem, Waldman is trying to come to terms
with her own male energy and impulses.
Waldman has been acknowledged as a major--and a mature--voice in
American poetry. She delves deeply into the masculine soul and its
sources of energy. Her goal: to speak against, about, around and
through the all-pervasive forces of Western patriarchy and its many
manifestations.
Waldman's goal for her poetry is simple, and yet anything but simple
to achieve. She says, in effect, that what she is attempting to
do on the page is to give readers not "a refined gist"
or "an extrapolation" of feeling, thought and emotion,
but an actual "experience" of "a high moment."
In effect, Waldman is attempting to bring to poetry on the page
the same kind of immediacy and sense of immersion that she brings
to her poetry, in public performance.
Jane A. Weaver - www.vesica.org
Jane Weaver has been an enthusiastic student of mathematics, music,
and the connections between these two sciences for nearly all of
her life. Following her college and graduate studies in the areas
of music, mathematics and general systems theory, and several years
of public sector teaching, she served as a faculty member of the
music department at Princeton University. Having relocated to Western
North Carolina she teaches piano, cello, and violin in her private
studio. She also provides instruction in piano pedagogy and the
geometry of music. Her Mennonite upbringing and interest in mandalic
geometries led her to pursue quilting as an art form. Jane has participated
in numerous local and juried national quilt shows, receiving several
awards, and has commissioned work hanging in offices and homes.
Her conviction that geometry and proportion lie at the heart of
all creation inspires an interest in sharing that perception in
both written and workshop formats. Jane's current projects include
applications of projective geometry, interpreting and furthering
the work of the French radiesthesists, exploring non-quantum geometric
theories of nuclear structure, and consulting in application of
sacred geometry in architectural design. Jane works with architect
Alice Dodson in Sacred and BioGeometric Design.
Teachers Jini has studied with include:
Denise Linn - www.deniselinn.com/index.htm
Denise
Linn has been called "America’s best-kept secret."
For the last three and a half decades she has traveled to the far
corners of the world speaking to standing-room only audiences of
thousands. Her spiritual journey began as a teenager when she had
a near-death experience after being shot by an unknown gunman. The
revelations she received on the "other side" and her subsequent
quest to heal her body from the damage caused by the gunman’s
bullet, lead Denise to eventually become an internationally acclaimed
healer, writer, and Lecturer.
Denise
has taught seminars in 19 countries and has written 14 books, including
the best-selling Sacred Space and the award-winning Sacred Legacies.
Her books have been translated into 26 languages, and she has been
featured on Oprah, Lifetime, Discovery Channel, BBC TV, NBC and
CBS. Denise is a world-acclaimed expert in feng shui and space clearing
and established her own system, Interior Alignment™, to incorporate
traditions from around the world. In addition, she is the founder
of the International Institute of Soul Coaching. She has distilled
the information and wisdom she has gained from indigenous cultures
around the planet, as well as from her own Native American roots,
into her teaching.
His Holiness, Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin-Yun
- www.yunlintemple.org/professor.htm
His
Holiness Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin-Yun Rinpoche is the founder
and supreme leader of contemporary Black Sect Tantric Buddhism at
its fourth stage. His teachings incorporate the essence of Confucianism,
Taoism, Yin-Yang philosophy, Eclecticism, Exoteric Buddhism, Esoteric
Buddhism, I-Ching, Theory of Ch'i, holistic healing, feng shui,
and folkloric studies. For more than three decades, Professor Lin-Yun
has introduced his profound and insightful teachings, especially
Feng Shui, to the West by lecturing at universities and institutions
all over the world. His Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui School
has been practiced widely, received wide acclaim and created a trend
in America, Europe, and Asia. He is committed to bridging Eastern
and Western cultures.
David Daniel Kennedy - www.daviddanielkennedy.com
David
Daniel Kennedy”s interest in feng shui grew out of his studies
in other forms of Eastern metaphysical arts, including yoga, martial
arts, Ch’i Kung and Buddhism. His widely acclaimed book, Feng
Shui for Dummies, is accessible and useful to beginner and professional
alike. His passion is to help people transform themselves and their
lives.
Karen
Kingston - http://www.spaceclearing.com/html/pages/contents/karen-kingston.html
Karen Kingston is recognized as the world's leading authority on
Space Clearing, the Feng Shui art of clearing and consecrating energy
in buildings. Her two ground-breaking international best-sellers,
Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui (published 1996) and Clear
Your Clutter with Feng Shui (published 1998) have both been translated
into more than 10 different languages and have widespread appeal.
Born in England, Karen has made her home in Bali since 1990 and
spends half of each year traveling and teaching internationally.
Karen's teachings are based on over a quarter of a century of intensive
personal exploration of the unseen worlds, which have become as
tangible to her as the seen worlds. Her workshops are a unique blend
of spiritual insights and practical information, delivered with
her own lively brand of humor. She teaches to packed audiences around
the world, primarily in the UK, USA & Bali.
Seann Xenja - http://www.seannxenja.net/
Feng Shui practitioner Seann Xenja, based in Mill Valley, California,
gives slide presentations, lectures, and provides site analyses
worldwide. A construction and design professional, he has an MA
in Education, a BA in Psychology, and is a disciple of Feng Shui
Master Lin Yun.
The founding editor of Feng Shui Journal, Seann Xenja serves as
a bridge between East and West, and is able to bring Feng Shui to
clients and workshop participants ranging from homemakers to business
owners, from health care professionals to real estate developers.
His Feng Shui consulting and teaching work, as featured on CNN,
has been written about in New Age Journal, The San Francisco Examiner,
The San Francisco Chronicle, AXXIS, Credencial, and many other publications
in North and South America. He is the author of two best selling
videos, Feng Shui: The Ancient Chinese Art of Placement, and Advanced
Feng Shui Techniques for Your Home or Office.
