Contributors listing

Adam Apollo

In his personal work, Adam Apollo is a theoretical physicist and researcher, exploring new developments in modeling our relationship with the Universe and applying these principles to new technologies. Some of this research has also branched into Genetics, looking at the permutations of DNA and the many ways that chemical, physical, and energetic changes can affect the genome. These studies fuel his vision of a sustainable, peaceful, and healthy planet, and provide enrichment to his own Metaphysical and Spiritual growth. As a traveller, Adam Apollo has carefully assembled a global alliance of dedicated individuals and organizations, and continues to bridge networks and communities through online and personal communications. Adam is founder and Executive Director of Access Granted, a multimedia educational resource development company.

Adam Beavers

I like stuff. Do you? At least we have something in common.

Adam Elenbaas

Originally from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Adam Elenbaas holds a BA in Philosophy and Theology, an MA in English Language & Literature, and an MFA in Creative Writing. A recovering Christian fundamentalist, Elenbaas is currently working towards the publication of his book, Fishers of Men, an experimental-memoir based upon his recent years of work with shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon. Adam is a Contributing Editor for RealitySandwich.

Adam Pollina

Adam Pollina is a comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' X-Force comic book. In 1996 he drew the four-issue limited series Rise of Apocalypse, again for Marvel. He has also produced a creator-owned limited series Big Daddy Danger, which was published by DC Comics in 2002.

Alan Scheurman

I live in Detroit.  I want to live in a sustainable city.  Let's make Detroit sustainable.

Alan Steinfeld

Alan Steinfeld is the host of the popular television program New Realities. This has been running on Manhattan cable for the last 15 years with a history of over 500 interviews with cutting edge thinkers, scientists, artists and spiritual teachers. (www.newrealities.tv) He is also the founder of http://www.newrealities.com - the most comprehensive web portal for body, mind, spirit events in the New York area. To contact Alan email: newrealities@earthlink.net

Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo PhD is a medical anthropologist who has spent the last 30 years investigating the healing practices of the shamans of the Amazon and the Andes. He is the founder and director of the Four Winds Society, and author of Shaman, Healer, Sage, Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval, The Four Insights and Yoga, Power and Spirit. His next book, Courageous Dreaming will be available in bookstores April 2008. His website is thefourwinds.com.

Aleidria Lichau

Aleidria Licahu is the founder, CEO, and Executive Director of OEDSI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. She has been working for hte past five years on case studies about the cultural and environmental impact of education systems in developed and underdeveloped countries. Aleidria is currently developing an online teacher training and education program that incorporates education for sustainability within standard curricula.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a playwright, filmmaker, composer, mime, psychotherapist, and author of many books on spirituality and tarot, and over thirty comic books and graphic novels. He has directed several films, including The Rainbow Thief and the cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. He lives in France.

Alex Grey

Alex Munslow

Alex Munslow is an independent video producer based in Brighton, UK.

Alexis Zeigler

Alexis Zeigler is a communitarian, builder, orchardist and environmental activist living in central Virginia. He is the author of a recently published book, Culture Change; Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire. More information can be found at conev.org. 

Ali Hossaini

Ali Hossaini is an American philosopher, filmmaker and pacifist.

Aline Duriaud

Aline Duriaud is a mental health advocate and freelance writer. She is currently co-curating an art exhibition with Vegas Gallery in East London, to open in February 2009. 

Alison Beth Levy

independent site-specific art curator, artist, art writer, astrologer

Amy Baczkowski

I am fascinated with various media and its rapid adaptation to the times we now live in. Reading, observing, exchanging information, and writing are great passions of mine. I love new points of view.

Amy George

Amy George is a transsexual mystic, memoirist and dream interpreter.

Andras Jones

Andras Jones is a writer, actor, musician and the creator of Radio8Ball, a live musical divination show which can be heard Tuesdays from 6 to 8pm (pacific standard time) at www.kaosradio.org, and now on Thursdays from 2 to 3pm (PST) at 1150 AM - KKNW in Seattle. In relation to the new masculine archetype Andras describes himself as "either one of the last 20th century men or one of the first of the 21st century men. Probably a little of both."

Andrew Boyd

Andrew is an author, humorist, and a 20-year veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He co-founded the 2004 media sensation "Billionaires for Bush." He's written a few books, including two books of "serious" humor published by W. W. Norton: "Daily Afflictions" and "Life's Little Deconstruction Book." He's at work on two others: "Wherever You Go, They're Already There," about the ironies of adventure travel when there's no elsewhere anymore; and "Enlightned Machismo," about the odd challenges men face in a "post-feminist" world. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The Village Voice, Salon.com, Marie Claire, and elsewhere. For part of his bread and butter he's been training the next generation of creative activists. For another part, he's a founding partner of Agit-Pop Communications, a "subvertising" agency cranking out award-winning flash animation and on-line video for environmental & social justice campaigns. Last year he co-produced "The Oil Enforcement Agency," a mini-mockumentary on global warming (think Inconvenient Truth meets Spinal Tap). This year he co-wrote and produced "Stop the Clash of Civilizations," which became the 2nd most discussed political video on youtube ever – woo-hoo. He lives in New York with his wee laptop. 

Andrew William Smith

Andrew William Smith (aka Andy Smith) got his start in peace activism, music journalism, and independent radio as a high school student in suburban Detroit in the mid-1980s. Around 2005, with a full-time teaching gig secured to teach freshman comp at Tennessee Tech, Andy embraced rock journalism and radio with the gusto of his youth. Today, he’s an editor at the pop-culture webzine Interference.com and hosts a weekly radio show on WTTU 88.5 FM every Monday night called “Teacher on the Radio.” Each summer, he is the “dean” of The Academy, a workshop tent at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.

Andy Dale

Andy Dale is the founder and president of ooTao, having worked in software development for over 10 years as a company principal and team leader.

Andy Warren

Music, Yoga, Web Design from Vancouver.

Have done some compilations of podcasts for RS: Podcast Alembic

peace & creativity.

Angela Shannon

 

Antonio Lopez

As an educator, journalist, media producer and trainer, the goal of Antonio Lopez is to bridge worlds—mental, cultural, ecological and technological. López is an expert of media, culture, Native American and Latino issues.

Anu Bonobo

Anu Bonobo is a writer, publisher, and neopagan evangelist based in rural Tennessee. He participates in the Fifth Estate editorial collective and is a founding member of Pumpkin Hollow Community.

Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz is a journalist, blogger, and author of the 2006 book Generation Debt. She is a staff writer for Fast Company magazine and a columnist for Yahoo!. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Nation, New York Magazine, the Village Voice, Penthouse, and many other publications. She blogs at The Narrow Bridge: anyakamenetz.blogspot.com.

Barbara Alice Mann

BARBARA ALICE MANN, of Seneca descent, is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Toledo. Her scholarship in Native American Studies has resulted in several books, among them George Washington's War on Native America (2005), Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds (2003), and Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2000), as well as numerous articles. She lives, writes, teaches, and works for indigenous causes in her home state of Ohio.

Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith is still a student, by all means. He is currently a sophomore at Indiana University, where he is studying creative writing.

Bernard Lietaer

Bernard Lietaer has been active in the domain of money systems for a period of 30 years in an unusual variety of functions. He is currently Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley. While at the Central Bank in Belgium, he was responsible for the implementation of the convergence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system. During that period, he also served as President of Belgium's Electronic Payment System. His consultant experience in monetary issues on four continents ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries. He was General Manager, Co-Founder and Chief Currency Trader for the Gaia Hedge Funds, one of the world's largest off-shore trading funds, during which time Business Week identified him as "the world's top currency trader" in 1990. He is the author of fourteen books, written in five languages, including The Future of Money translated in 18 languages. More information about the author, and technical papers, are available on www.lietaer.com.

Bill Kennedy

I live in a communal living space in Brooklyn with 16 or so peoples of various perspectives (still able to keep my own). I enjoy writing, telling stories, acting, carpentry, bartending, playing dumb and laughing a lot. I'm 26, from St. Louis, and have been in NY near 3 years now.

Bill Machon

Bill considers himself to be a free thinker, technology addict, and intergalactic DJ.

He resides in New York City with his wife, and enjoys turning other people on to his newest discoveries, whether music, art, culture, politics, or beyond.

Bob Kull

Bob Kull is the author of SOLITUDE: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes. A radical adventurer and spiritual seeker, he has spent 45 years exploring the wild edges of North and South America and the risky depths of his inner world. He began undergraduate studies at age forty and now holds a Ph.D. from University of British Columbia. 

Brad deGraf

Brad has been an innovator in computer animation in the entertainment industry since 1982, particularly in the areas of realtime characters, ride films, and the Web. In 2000, Wired called Brad "an icon of 3D Animation," and it's been all downhill since then. 

Brian George

Brian George is a writer and artist living in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including "Maps of the Metaphysical Double; In the Footprints of de Chirico" and "To Akasha; An Incantation for the End of History." He has just completed work on "Masks of Origin/ Part 3; The Transplantation of Omphalos", the last of a three book series of essays.

Bridget Algiere

If I were a structure, it would be a geodesic dome home - my mind in the skyloft, my heart in the hearth. I am a seasoned poet who was senior editor of a literary arts magazine for three years ten years ago. Since then I have travelled all around the USA and Mexico, worked housing homeless people in Minneapolis, Minnesota and started a family consisting of my husband Jeffrey, and our sons Griffin and Skyler.

C.C. Treadway

CC Treadway is an energy and sound healer, channel and artist with a private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the four-year program, The Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She is also a Theta Healer, having completed the rigorous course "Intuitive Anatomy." She has studied and traveled extensively with world-renowned author and teacher, Drunvalo Melchizedek, working ceremonially with indigenous tribes for Earth's healing. Her articles are published monthly on his online magazine, The Spirit of Maat. CC regularly teaches workshops, performs original sacred music and facilitates global healing circles in NYC.

Catherine Austin Fitts

Catherine Austin Fitts is the Founder and President of Solari. She served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. She also served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc.

 

Catherine Burns

Chad Carpenter

Chad Carpenter is Director of Corporate Communications for HOV Group, Inc. based in New York City. HOV Group, Inc. is dedicated to improving the world's human and environmental health through outstanding vegetarian foods and foodservices. To accomplish this mission, we commit to using the following core values to make key decisions: Humility, Empathy, Providence, Passion, Integrity.

Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker, and the author of The Ascent of Humanity and other books.

Chip Tennille

DC-bred and Minneapolis-based, Chip Tennille is a veteran DJ and aspiring writer. Under his alias Norton Fortune, he hosts the long-running electronic music radio show Strictly Butter (http://strictlybutter.blogspot.com) every Saturday night on KFAI 90.3 FM/106.7 FM www.kfai.org). Chip is continually creeping towards finding an actual use for his BA in English from Kenyon College while plunging ever deeper into a dedicated yoga practice. He has recently been asked by his guiding teacher to begin instructing others in Vipassana meditation. Chip offers his gratitude to the friends, family, and teachers who help keep him on the good foot.

Chris Kaplan

An anthropologist, writer, and artist exploring comparative iconography through altered states of consciousness within the depths of the Collective, Gaian, and Omniversal Consciousnesses, in which we are all subject. 

Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus is the author of three novels - most recently, Torpor - and a book of essays about the contemporary Los Angeles art world.  She is a co-editor of Semiotexte (http://www.semiotexte.com) and is currently Visiting Professor in the Literature Department of UC San Diego. 

Christopher T. Funkhouser

Christopher T. Funkhouser is Associate Professor of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 (University of Alabama Press, 2007), an historical view of the birth of electronic poetry, Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works (forthcoming) and Selections 2.0, an eBook. 

Christophoros

A seeker since childhood, I have left everything behind and journeyed to the Bay Area in pursuit of Spiritual Knowledge...

Craig Reuter

Author, teacher, investor of paradigm shifts.

Daenin Tejeda

I am a catalyst, a mirror and a friend.

Daniel Pinchbeck

Author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002). He is Editorial Director of Reality Sandwich.

David Jay Brown

David Jay Brown is the author of four bestselling volumes of interviews with leading-edge thinkers, Mavericks of the Mind, Voices from the Edge, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, and Mavericks of Medicine. He holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University, and was responsible for the California-based research in two of British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s books on unexplained phenomena in science: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At. David’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Scientific American Mind and Wired, and he is periodically the Guest Editor of the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Bulletin. David is also the author of two science fiction novels, Brainchild and Virus. To find out more about David’s work visit his award-winning Web site: www.mavericksofthemind.com

David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing (www.whybirdssing.com) is currently writing Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music In a Sea of Sound, to be published by Basic Books in March 2008.

David Ulansey

David Ulansey is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University, and has taught at Princeton, Barnard College, Boston University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vermont, and Pacifica Graduate Institute.  David specializes in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean, particularly the Mystery religions, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, ancient astronomy and cosmology, and the relationship between religion, myth, and the evolution of consciousness. David is creator and webmaster of MassExtinction.net, founder of the Species Alliance, and  co-founder of the Planetwork Project.

Dean Radin

Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His early career as a concert violinist diverted into science after earning a masters degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories; for over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and three Silicon Valley think-tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government. He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006). His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics, to Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and Journal of Consciousness Studies. He has been interviewed on television shows ranging from Oprah and Larry King Live, to the BBC's Horizon and PBS's Closer to Truth, and he has presented over a hundred invited lectures in venues ranging from the physics department at Cambridge University, to the psychology department at Princeton University, the computer science department at Virginia Tech, DARPA, and Google headquarters.

Debra DeSalvo

Deb DeSalvo is the author of The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (with a foreword by Dr. John), which the LA Times called "one of the wittiest, bawdiest and most fascinating dictionaries ever." The book includes stories from her interviews with many legendary blues artists and over 20 photos, some previously unpublished. DeSalvo is also "one of the great guitar players of our time" according to Lucid Culture. She leads a rock power trio called DEVI with John Hummel on drums and Dan Grennes on bass. Listen to their 9/11-inspired song "Welcome to the Boneyard."

Deidra Vrooman

I am a spatial wizardess, receiving my first degree in Landscape Architecture, before turning my focus to the architecture of our physical bodies and how to enhance our brilliant and efficient functioning.   The Rolf Recipe, once experienced, occurs as an ingenious tool to align my spirit with my body.  Practicing the awakening of alignment, as a Structural Integration Practitioner of the Dr. Ida P. “Rolf” method, has been my practice most of my 30’s. 

Derek Beres

Derek Beres is one of the leading figures in international music in America, working in numerous facets of the industry, from journalist and DJ to producer and presenter. He has written three books to date, including Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music, and has contributed to dozens of magazines regarding the traditional and digital realms of global music. He has also toured internationally, playing alongside some of the most important figures in the scene today. Well versed in international music, he is equally adamant about world cultures, devoting his life to the path of yoga, Eastern philosophies and world mythology. He currently teaches eleven weekly yoga classes at Equinox Fitness in Manhattan, and is certified as a Budokon teacher and in Thai Yoga Massage. In 2008, he will be publishing three new books, including his first philosophy book, Yogatheism: The Gods of Yoga or There is No God, and Mysterious Distance, his first novel. 

Diana Reed Slattery

Diana Reed Slattery is practicing writer, VJ and Xenolinguist. She is currently working on her Ph.D. with the Planetary Collegium. Topic: Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere. She is the author of a novel, The Maze Game.

Dimitri Ehrlich

Dimitri Ehrlich is the author of Inside the Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians about Spirituality, Creativity, and Consciousness. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Interview, Vibe, Details, and New York Magazine. He has  written numerous television shows for MTV, VH1 and the Sundance Channel. He is also a singer songwriter who has released three critically acclaimed albums and written with artists ranging from Moby to the Backstreet Boys. 

Dmitry Orlov

Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer who has contributed to fields as diverse as high-energy Physics and Internet security, as well as a leading Peak Oil theorist whose writing is featured on such sites as www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and www.powerswitch.org.uk. 

Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He has just finished a book for HarperBusiness, applying renaissance principles to today's complex economic landscape, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. He's now writing a monthly comic book for Vertigo called Testament.

Eliezer Sobel

Eliezer Sobel is the author of The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures.

Eliott Edge

Is featured in 8 albums, director of 10 short films, and video instillation, cartoonist, DJ, VJ, actor, poet, consciousnes researcher, and performance artist born to perturb the comfortable and comfort the perturbed. http://realitywideweb.tumblr.com/

Elizabeth Hart

Elizabeth Hart is a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico who currently lives in northern California.

Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman is a writer, film maker and photographer who splits her time between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Beijing.

Eric Peterson

Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an award-winning journalist, independent scholar, and “performance lecturer” based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, with photographs by Michael Rauner. He also wrote Led Zeppelin IV and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, the latter a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages. His essays on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary spirituality have appeared in over a dozen books, including AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man, Zig Zag Zen, The Disinformation Book of Lies, 010101: Art in Technological Times (SFMOMA), and Prefiguring Cyberculture. Davis has contributed articles and essays to a variety of publications, including Bookforum, ArtForum, Salon, Blender, the LA Weekly, and the Village Voice. For many years he was a contributing writer at Wired. 

Erin Shaw

Erwin Laszlo

Founder of The Club of Budapest and Chancellor-Designate of GLOBALSHIFT University (www.globalshiftu.org),.and author of more than 400 papers and articles and over eighty books including THE CHAOS POINT (2006), SCIENCE AND THE AKASHIC FIELD (2007) and QUANTUM SHIFT IN THE GLOBAL BRAIN (2008). 

Ethan Nichtern

Ethan is a Buddhist meditation practitioner and teacher. His parents were both early students of the Buddhist pioneer Chogyam Trungpa. A poet and writer, Ethan is a featured performer in Sacred Slam, a performance series which brings together artists from different spiritual traditions. He is the author of the acclaimed book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Pubs) and a forthcoming novel, The Last Year on the Island. His writing has been featured in Tricycle Magazine and BuddhaDharma Magazine, Sentient City, Shambhala Sun, as well as other online publications.

Fiore Grey

Franklin LaVoie

Franklin LaVoie is a visionary artist, with a background in Earth Science Edu. Franklin underwent intense shamanic initiations, throughout the 1970‘s, to become a natural healer. His research appears in a wide variety of books, including, most recently: The 2012 Story, by John Major Jenkins (2009); Shadows of the Western Door, by Mason Winfield (1997); and Planet Heartworks, by Dan Winter and Friends (1989); et al. Franklin’s essay Why Nature and The Arts Can Heal Us (2007) was included in The Society for The Arts in Healthcare’s International Conference, in 2009. Franklin designs stage sets, mechanical contraptions, and musical instruments; he’s written plays, short stories, and poetry. He’s a gifted storyteller who appears as a tree, and plays the harp. Franklin is preparing to publish The Sacred Geography of Buffalo-Niagara.

Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman is the author of several books on the link between consciousness, culture, and alternative thought. His books include Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius; A Secret History of Consciousness; In Search of P.D. Ouspensky; A Dark Muse; Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Thought; and The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters. As Gary Valentine he was a founding member of the rock group Blondie, played guitar with Iggy Pop, and fronted his own groups the Know and Fire Escape. New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation is an account of his years on the New York and Los Angeles underground music scenes in the 1970s and 80s, and in 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a regular contributor to Fortean Times, Independent on Sunday, Strange Attractor, What is Enlightenment and other journals in the US and UK. A frequent lecturer on the history of the counterculture, Lachman has appeared in several UK television documentaries and has broadcast for the BBC. He lives in London. His most recent book is Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen (Quest, 2008).

Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as his country's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil began playing music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.

Greg Wendt

Greg is a community catalyst for new and emerging projects in the fields of local business organization, online event management, socially responsible investing and general metathinking.

In his business he is one of five principals of Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, a well established registered investment advisory firm with offices in Los Angeles.

A native of Southern California, and long time resident of Santa Monica, Greg continues lifelong learning and study of reality, generally speaking.

 

You can see more about Greg and his business on www.gregwendt.com

and read his blogs at www.sustainablewealth.blogspot.com and www.wakeupdream.blogspot.com 

 

Gregory Heller

I'm an eco-geek and web technologist currently living mostly in Seattle, originally from New York, and spent 10 years living in the East Village and Lower East Side in New York City. I'm a partner at CivicActions, LLC a professional services firm specializing in free and open source web development for progressive non profit, political, media organizations as well as socially and environmentally responsible businesses.

Haale

Halle's music invokes both a swaying trance and a rock sensibility she describes as "Psychedelic Sufi Trance Rock." Haale's debut recordings, produced by Dougie Bowne, were released on her own DarYaRecords in January. The "Morning" EP is sung mostly in Persian and features the words of mystical poets Rumi and Attar, while the drone-folky "Paratrooper" is primarily in English. After David Byrne invited her to be part of his "One Note" series at Carnegie Hall, she has been touring nearly continuously, playing clubs, colleges, and festivals like South by Southwest in Austin, Bonnaroo in Tennessee and the MIMIFestival in Marseilles, France. Her band is now recording its debut full-length album for release in February 2008. 

Hardin Tibbs

Hardin Tibbs is an independent management consultant who specializes in futures research and strategy development. Now based in England, he used to work for Global Business Network (GBN), the scenario development firm in California, playing a role in its early development in the 1990s. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, and a Fellow of the RSA in London. His writing about industrial ecology in the early 1990s helped to define a new way of looking at environment and technology, and he regards his recent work as a further extension of the same line of thinking.

Homegrown Evolution

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of the Urban Homestead and blog at www.homegrownevolution.com.

Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and educator specializing in the cultural implications of modern communications media such as the Internet and virtual communities. He was editor of Whole Earth Review and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, and was the founding executive editor of Hotwired, the first commercial web magazine. Rheingold is the author of several books including Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mobs. He teaches courses on social and participatory media at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant to build a Social Media Virtual Classroom. Howard Rheingold's blog can be found at www.rheingold.com.

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David McConville is a media artist and researcher in the Planetary Collegium, co-founder of The Elumenati, and Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

Ido Hartogsohn

Ido Hartogsohn is a writer, journalist, Ph.D. candidate in the Bar Ilan university in Israel, media artist, blogger and dreamer. He works from Tel Aviv, where he is part of underground operations for making the middle east a more psychedelic place. Ido is the non-navigator behind operations such as The Intergalactic Underground  which published The Intergalactic Masters Course, a pop-theological video course for enlightenment which can be found on YouTube, and the Israeli Psychedelic Party, which participated in the 2009 Israeli elections.

Ido’s debut book “Technomysica: Technology in the Age of Consciosuness” which has been published in 2009 and received wide coverage in Israeli media, was the first book written in Hebrew to have dealt extensively with the psychedelic issue.

Ido is interested in interactions between technology, media and consciousness. He also writes extensively in his Hebrew blog Technomystica and English blog Digital Minds Blog about technology, mysticism, media, psychedelics and culture criticism.

J.F. Martel

J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

James William Gibson

Jamye Waxman

Jamye Waxman is a sexologist, writer, producer, and educator with her Masters in Sex Education from Widener University. Besides teaching courses on blowjobs, sex toys and partnersex, Jamye writes the advice column "Sex Ed" for Playgirl Magazine, and podcasts Playgirl's Sexpod for Playgirl.com. Jamye is the author of two books. Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation and Women Loving Women. Jamye co-wrote, directed and hosted the educational and erotic "Personal Touch" Video Series for Adam and Eve Pictures and produced "Under the Covers" with adult film pioneer Candida Royalle.

Jared Rinaldi

Jason Thompson

Jason Thompson studied English Literature at Oxford University and worked in the UK and US media for ten years before moving into work as a counselor with homeless youth. He recently finished a memoir, STELLA, about his relationship to his mother and her struggle with mental illness. He lives in San Francisco and is married with one daughter. He writes regularly about mental health issues at his blog, Neurotransmission.org and can be contacted at jasontomp@hotmail.com. 

Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson is a writer and teacher whose work focuses on the intersections of sexuality, spirituality, Judaism, and law. He is a Ph. D candidate in Jewish Thought at Hebrew University, a Visiting Professor at Boston University Law School, and, outside the academy, a teacher who has taught Kabbalah, meditation, and spirituality for fifteen years, from Yale University to Burning Man, NPR to Elat Chayyim. Jay is the author of the books God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (Jewish Lights, 2006) and Another Word for Sky: Poems (Lethe Press, 2007), a columnist for the Forward newspaper, the executive director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality, and the chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (http://www.zeek.net)

Jay Weidner

Jay Weidner is a filmmaker, author and hermetic scholar. He is the producer of the feature documentary film, 2012 The Odyssey and its forthcoming sequel, Timewave 2013, as well as director of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.  He is also the co-author of The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye; Alchemy and the End of Time and A Monument to the End of Time (with Vincent Bridges).  In addition, he is a contributing writer for the book The Mystery of 2012. 

Jeffrey Roth

Jeffrey Roth is an eclectic possibly non-idiot potential-savant. After starting at U.C. Berkeley, he turned down offers from Harvard and Dartmouth to go to Naropa University, née Institute, to study psychology, theater, and dance, as well as himself and the world. He has since gone on to study diverse subjects, and create a company to explore conscious capitalism, www.GiftedTouch.com, amongst other things. 

Jennifer Braun

Jennifer Braun is the Program Director of International Midwife Assistance.  IMA provides aid to areas experiencing crisis in maternal/child health.  Ms. Braun has spent the last few years working in Afghanistan, Uganda and Haiti.  She has been a midwife for 26 years.  Learn about IMA's work at www.midwifeassist.org

Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and avid dreamer. Her publications and lectures about the Urban Dreamscape practice can be viewed at www.urbandreamscape.com. Her other publications have focused primarily on religion, particularly spontaneous shrines, sacred space in Japanese Shinto, and the emergence of a feminist American Buddhist tradition.

Jennifer Flynn

Jennifer Flynn is a long time student of consciousness studies, transpersonal psychology, metaphysics and most things mysterious and unexplained. When not tiptoeing over moss in the woods or jumping off waterfalls she may be found working in a recovery setting performing ecotherapy or administrating a worker rights organization.

Jennifer Palmer

Jennifer Palmer is the news editor of Reality Sandwich and Community Director of Evolver--two dream jobs merged into one.  She is a writer, DJ and innernet philosopher who goes by the name TRUE out on the internets. Her blog, BRANDTRUEBOY (http://www.brandtrueboy.com), started as an art experiment in 2002, in which she posted as three fictitious characters that she passed off as "real" people who emailed, commented and chatted with other bloggers. Her current projects include willing the (r)evolution with love, writing a novel, honing her Twitter stream skills and building the dopest vinyl based beat library in NYC.

 

Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist and writer best known for his books The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature. Narby spent years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon cataloging indigenous uses of rain forest resources to help combat ecological destruction. Since 1989, Narby has been working as the Amazonian projects director for the Swiss NGO, Nouvelle Planète.

Jessica Dean

Jessica Dean is a massage therapist and energy bodyworker. Her work with energy has become a muse for her observations and writing. Jessica lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.  

Jill Ettinger

Jill Ettinger is well-repsected member of the natural products industry with more than a decade of experience in all aspects of the organic movement. She is a consultant, event coordinator and writer bridging the consciousness of our varied cultures with triple bottom line business.

Jim Fournier

Jim Fournier is founder and President of the Biomass Energy & Carbon, a Colorado based R&D company commercializing biomass gasification and developing a revolutionary new "carbon negative" bio-fuels technology that can remove CO2 from the air by generating sustainable energy and a high-carbon fertilizer from biomass. http://www.biomassec.com Jim is cofounder of Planetwork, a San Francisco based network of people using information technology to address the pressing ecological and social issues of our time. Planetwork produced the first international conference on global ecology and information technology in May 2000, and several major conferences since then. http://www.planetwork.net He is also working on a doctoral dissertation and book which situates energy technology within the context of biological evolution and shows how and why our moment in history represents a shift point at the dawn of a new phase of climax technology leading toward a plateau of long-term stability. http://www.metanature.org A former industrial designer, entrepreneur, software developer and industrial ecologist, Jim left a graduate program at MIT to found an industrial design firm, owned and operated an international consumer goods design and manufacturing company, and developed 3D software as a geometry partner with Silicon Graphics. He retired from business in 1995 to work full time on global sustainability and over the last several years focused on initiatives to create an Internet identity protocol to more effectively inter-connect global civil society. He is involved with a number of projects related to strategic philanthropy, including an effort to reframe the loss of biodiversity in the context of accelerating mass extinction. Jim serves on the boards of Planetwork, Current Innovations and Channel G, and the advisory boards of numerous organizations including Highfield Foundation, Meru Foundation, Parapsychology Research Group, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Many One, Peoples World and SF Green Maps.

Joe Marshalla Ph.D.

Best selling author Joe Marshalla Ph.D. is best known for his discovery of the "Law of Repeatlessness". He has the unique ability to assimilate vast amounts of information from all the sciences, religeons and philosophies and them bring them all together into a completed and unified whole. He calls this "Wholosophy". He is sought after worldwide for his presentations and will be featured this summer in the new documentary "Frequency of Genius".

John Jay Harper

Dr. John Jay Harper is a clinical hypnotherapist, futurist, medical research scientist, public-speaker and writer with the non-profit corporation American Delphi Academy. A former computer specialist, electronics engineer, and senior mental health counselor with the Department of Defense and a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army, today he is a radio/tv talk show guest in Canada, USA, and UK speaking to our worldwide changes in climate, culture, and consciousness over all else.

John Lamb Lash

 John Lamb Lash is an exponent of the practice of mythology. He is principal author of the Marion Institute’s Web site, www.metahistory.org, an inquiry into the contemporary meaning of humanity’s myths and beliefs. He has written a number of books, including The Seeker’s Handbook, Twins and the Double, The Hero – Manhood and Power, and Quest for the Zodiac.

John Major Jenkins

John Major Jenkins’ pioneering work to reconstruct ancient Maya cosmology began with his early books, Journey to the Mayan Underworld (1989), Mirror in the Sky (1991), Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (1992/1994), Mayan Sacred Science (1994/2000), The Center of Mayan Time (1995), and Izapa Cosmos (1996) and culminated in his groundbreaking book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (1998). He is also the author of Galactic Alignment (2002), co-author of Pyramid of Fire (2004), and has a 3-CD audio program coming out with Sounds True in September 2007, called Unlocking the Secrets of 2012: Galactic Wisdom From the Ancient Skywatchers. 

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer is a certified Master Conserver, organic gardener and scholar of ecological history. The current Grand Archdruid of AODA, his widely-cited blog, The Archdruid Report (www.thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com) deals with peak oil, among other issues. He lives in Ashland, Oregon. 

John Topp

Web worker, musician, and experimenter in the field of instrumental transcommunication (ITC) which is the use of technical devices such as radios and televisions to communicate with realms outside of our own.  Music and ITC results are on my website.  I live in Toronto, Canada. Home page: www.walkthruwalls.org 

John X

John is currently a student of law. His mission is to serve the creation and maintenance of a sustainable and caring global society.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

Jonathan Phillips has worked for The September 11th Fund, served as a columnist for Music for America and spearheaded the street theater/media group, Greene Dragon. After experiencing a number of mystical experiences, he turned his focus towards spirituality. He currently serves as Reality Sandwich’s Community Director. He is the executive editor for the NYC events newsletter, Souldish.com, and organizes the NYC Gnostics. He is a Reiki Master Practitioner and leads Sacred Warrior and Electric Jesus workshops using energy work to bring out the divine.

Joseph Flatley

Writer, musician, artist -- email him and he'll send you a copy of his novel.

Josh Potter

Josh Potter is a 24 year old freelance writer/editor with a chronic inability to settle down. In his travels he has sold books on an Atlantic island, gutted houses in storm-ravaged Biloxi, MS, made bourgie coffee drinks in rainy NW haunts, climbed Mexican limestone, toured as a musician, spent a Spring of solitude in the White Mountains of NH, eaten from dumpsters, and worked on an organic farm in Santa Cruz, CA. He currently resides in upstate NY. In addition to his regular contribution of music journalism to Relix Magazine and Jambase.com, his fiction can be found in Pindeldyboz, Elimae, Thieves Jargon , The American Drivel Review, The Taj Mahal Review, and The No-Record Anthology. He is an editor at 42opus.com.

Juliet rabia Gentile

Juliet rabia Gentile was born in Manhattan, where she currently lives. She has an MA in History from Sarah Lawrence College. She has lectured and written articles on Islamic mysticism, Sufi poetry and Gender issues in Islamic theology. She is the founder of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Oral History Project and has been a member of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order since 2002. She has also performed her poetry, as well as Southern Italian ritual and Sufi dances in venues throughout New York City and the boroughs.

Justin Ruckman

Student, blogger at Centripetal Notion and 9rules, independent web consultant/designer and on-and-off musician from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Justine Kenzer

PsychicGirl.com's Justine Kenzer reviews spiritually inclined CD's and videos.

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Kal Cobalt

Based in Portland, Oregon, Kal Cobalt writes fiction and nonfiction about consciousness, sexuality, food, robots, and whatever else the muse whispers. www.kalcobalt.com

Katrina Caudle

Katrina Caudle is a writer and artist living in Winnipeg, Canada.

Keith M Judge

I am an artist and writer from Chicago.

Ken Jordan

Ken Jordan has been an online pioneer since leading the 1995 launch of the award-winning SonicNet.com, the web's first multimedia music zine and digital music store, which later became a property of MTV. He has written for Wired, Index, and Paris Review, among other publications, and is co-author of the influential white paper "The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet;" editor of Planetwork Journal; and co-editor of the anthology Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (W.W. Norton, 2001). He has written for Wired, Paris Review, Index, and First Monday, among other publications. Ken is publisher and executive producer of Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net.

Kevin Dann

Author of Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia & the Search for Transcendental Knowledge, and Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America, Kevin Dann teaches history at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and plays mandolin in the Vermont-based band “Upstream.”

Kimberlee Auerbach

People call me Kimmi. I'm a writer and storyteller. I'm a triple Leo. I'm a big laugher. And I use the expression "I understand" way too much. I've performed my comedic monologues throughout New York City at venues such as The Original Improv, The Kraine Theater, and The Bitter End. My one-woman show played to sold-out houses at the New York International Fringe Festival, and I have competed in several Moth GrandSLAM Championships. I've also been on TV. I was a "Girls On" girl for a live entertainment segment on Oxygen's magazine format show "Pure Oxygen." I hosted a pilot for Lifetime Television. I did another pilot for MTV where I was on a panel discussing various social and political issues. And I made a brief appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. Latest news: My one-woman show inspired a memoir called The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life in Tarot, which was released by Dutton on August 2, 2007.  

Lawrence Taub

Larry's book, The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and the Last Caste, presents his macrohistorical discoveries and predicts future trends based on them. He has published articles on the subject, presented related papers at conferences, has been interviewed on radio and television, and has successfully predicted unexpected trends and events since the late 1970s. 

Lex Pelger

Lex Pelger recently moved from New York City to Mumbai to work as a journalist. He learned about the March to Tibet from an email by Tenzin Tsundue and joined as a staff writer. He writes the marcher's biographies for the March website as well as magazine articles to spread awareness of the March. If you have a contact for publishing about the March to Tibet, feel free to email him at pelger (at) gmail (dot) com. You can read more of Lex's impressions of the March to Tibet on his blog: A Blond Scientist in India (www.blsciindia.blogspot.com.

Lisa Kirchner

Lisa Kirchner's first paid article, a review of the film, I'll Do Anything, presaged a career. During day jobs with the Ohio Arts Council, The Andy Warhol Museum and Carnegie Mellon University she's written about art, literature, food, film and fame. At one point she was a regular columnist writing about religion for Pittsburgh's gay and lesbian newspaper, Out; weddings for Pittsburgh's society rag, Whirl; and dating for the alternative newsweekly, Pittsburgh City Paper and Pulp. She is a regular contributor on Arab/American issues with Qatar Today and Woman Today and writes about health for Personal Best. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, dialogue: arts in the midwest and Pittsburgh Magazine. In 2004, she attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her flash essay, "My Husband: My Moto," appeared in the compilation Learning to Love You More (Prestel Publishing, 2007). The piece was excerpted from her forthcoming memoir, The Years of Sleeping: 1001 Nights in Arabia. She is currently an associate editor with SMITH Magazine, and occasionally can be seen telling stories at The Moth. She writes and teaches yoga in New York City.

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M.T. Xen

M.T. Xen is an educator, ceremonialist, and event organizer, with an academic (PhD) background in medical anthropology and spiritual ecology. He specializes in the prescriptive teachings of medicinal plants, aka Nature's plan to save the humans. His website is www.tribesofcreation.com.

Marc Lazard

Marc Lazard is an educator in the area of drawing, cognition and creativity (http://learn-to-draw.net), an artist and a filmmaker. Born in France, he has lived in 11 countries and speaks 5 languages. He received a master’s degree in education from Harvard University and a Xerox 9400 certified operator diploma. He hopes to be acknowledged one day as having discovered that when one says ‘If I were you, I would…’ one really means ‘If you were I, you would…’, even if no cash award is involved.

Margarete Jahrmann

Margarete Jahrmann, Artist, professor in Mediapoiesis at New Media Department. University for Arts and Design Zurich.

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Mark Pilkington

Mark Pilkington is a writer and editor of Strange Attractor Journal. His new book, Far Out, is due in late 2007 from Disinformation Publishing. More info at http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk 

Martin Kimeldorf

I've been lucky to have many books and articles published, and more recently my images have been distributed online and in print. Along the pathway, I've won awards for teaching, playwriting, essays, and now photography. My teaching experience spans classrooms in prisons, colleges, public schools, and a variety of retreat settings where I conduct workshops. My current teaching and coaching interests include journaling about photographs, Photoshop & PhotoArt coaching, career portfolios, leisure wellness, and retirement lifestyle planning. I have lived in Tumwater, Washington for almost 30 years. My wife Judy and dog Franky really enjoy the Pacific Northwest. 

Mary Destri

Mary Destri is an enery healer and a student of holistic psychology. She has studied with Stan Grof, Rick Tarnas, Helen Palmer, Peter Levine and Ron Kurtz, among others.

MaryBeth Bonfiglio

Mother, writer, birthkeeper, yogi, dancer, worshiper of dark mayan chocolate and organic espresso.

Matthew Gilbert

Matthew Gilbert is editor-in-chief of Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness, the quarterly publication of The Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org), and author of The Workplace Revolution and Communication Miracles at Work. He is also a facilitator, consultant, and book editor who has served in a variety of research and management positions over the past 20 years. For seven of those years he was the managing editor of NAPRA ReView, the country's leading lifestyle trade magazine in the body/mind/spirit marketplace. He is a trained bodyworker, and for two years was state coordinator for the Colorado State Green Party. 

Matthew Toussaint

Matthew is a writer, explorer, mystic, and lifelong student.  He currently lives in Upstate NY.

 

Matty Miller

Matty Miller is a painter, musician, and writer living in Colorado.

Maxi Cohen

Maxi Cohen is a filmmaker of the feature documentaries & shorts "Joe and Maxi," "Seven Women - Seven Sins," "South Central LA: Inside Voices," & "The Holy Give Me."

Melinda Wenner

Brooklyn-based freelance journalist Melinda Wenner writes about science, health and the environment for numerous publications, and for her website She Blinded Me With Science.

Michael Brownstein

Michael Brownstein is a poet and the author of three novels: Country Cousins, Self-Reliance, and The Touch. He has taught literature and writing at the University of Colorado, Naropa Institute and Columbia University. As a result of his involvement in the anti-globalization movement he wrote World on Fire, from which he has read widely at conferences and universities, including at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in South Africa and the World Social Forum in Brazil. Shamanic work has become part of Michael's daily life. Journeying to the spirit realm, he set aside time to heal Dick Cheney's heart (healingdick.com)because he believes simple protest won't change what is basically a demonic intrusion into our lives.

Michael Garfield

I am a reconstructionist in every sense of the word - a songwriter, essayist, and live painter dedicated to applying my background in evolutionary biology toward the grand synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

You can find the portal to my work (and my biweekly newsletter) at michaelgarfield.blogspot.com.

Michael Robinson

Director of the acclaimed New York design studio Nowhere, Educator, Visual Artist, recent clients include Alicia Keys, Courtney Love, Levi Strauss, Coca Cola; he led the global rebranding of the Ramada Hotels and Kmart. He is currently at work on the first monograph of his Universus project which will feature 22 meditations for people who use Alphabets in their day to day communications. He is Creative Director of Reality Sandwich.

Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens is an internet pioneer. He created two dot.com companies, was (eBusiness) strategic director for the telecommunications company Belgacom, and 'European Manager of Thought Leadership' for the U.S. webconsultancy MarchFIRST. He co-produced the television documentary TechnoCalyps: the metaphysics of technology and the end of man, and co-edited two French-language books on the 'Anthropology of Digital Society.' He was also editor-in-chief of the Flemish digital magazine Wave. Originally from Belgium, he now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he created the Foundation for P2P Alternatives. He has taught courses on the anthropology of digital society to postgraduate students at ICHEC/St. Louis in Brussels, Belgium and related courses at Payap University and Chiang Mai University in Thailand.

Michel P. Anderson

In June of 2009, Michel P. Anderson left an active artist warehouse community in Baltimore, Maryland USA, to illuminate and reveal his perspective as a global citizen. After living on a  secluded mesa in the desert of New Mexico, he moved to Hanoi, Vietnam, to chase shadows throughout Southeast Asia. His primary interests are folk art, mythology, sustainable living, shamanism, avant-garde music, rainbows, and the beautiful people of this world. Visit his website to view his latest photographic work and writings: Playing Shadows

 

Mike Jay

Mike Jay is currently writing High Society, an illustrated cultural history of drugs, for Thames & Hudson. It will be published in November 2010 to accompany an exhibition of the same name at Wellcome Collection in London, on which he is also working. The High Society project includes documentary film and and a series of events - more details nearer the time. His most recent book is The Atmosphere of Heaven, out now from Yale University Press.

Mitch Schultz

I started my journey in Memphis, TN. Since, I've called Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, and New York home. From an early age my love of film, art, music and storytelling fueled my path, and established an extensive background in film, broadcast, and interactive. I've worked with Ghost Robot (ghostrobot.com) , Synthetic Pictures (syntheticpictures.com), and a variety of television work. 

Morgan Maher

Morgan Maher is an artist, designer and explorer. He recently released Espiritu; a collection of photographs of plants, forests, jungles, wild places and magic spaces. More info on the book, as well as links to photos and artwork can be found on morganmaher.net

Morgan von Prelle Pecelli

I am a curator, producer, anthropologist and performing artist who has been working in New York since 1999. I have the current honor of being the Director of Development for Performance Space 122 http://www.ps122.org/ and the curator of the 2010 Prelude Festival http://www.preludenyc.org/, but well before either of those I managed Richard Foreman's theater for 2 years in the middle of this past decade and have been sitting on the Board since.  I was in Foreman's 2008-09  play Astronome, and he has some footage of me in a pewter ball gown that he may or may not use if he ever gets around to editing his New York film footage together.

Moses 2.0

As the lead architect on the Moses 2.0 project I consider myself more of a scribe than an author. I listen to the requirements from all the stake holders and write them down for review and revision.

Nate Summers

Nate Summers, L.Ac. is an acupuncturist, internal martial artist, and qigong practitioner. He has been studying systems of wisdom for over 20 years and divides his time between teaching wilderness skills, bagua, qigong, and taichi and being a father.  His interest in different systems of thought and ways of viewing the universe come primarily from his own wacky experiences on this planet.

Neil Sieling

Neil Sieling is a media arts curator, television producer, and media systems architect. He was the Executive Producer of Alive From Off Center, the experimental arts/television showcase on PBS. He was the Executive Producer for the digitally animated documentary works "Figures of Speech" by Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta (Co-Creators of "Waking Life" and “A Scanner Darkly”). He helped launch and program Link TV (www.linkTV.org), and is currently the New Media Fellow for the Center for Social Media at American University in Washington DC.

Niall Fahy

Seeking to explore the spaces where spiritual consciousness and social/ecological action can intersect. Enjoying every minute.

Noa Jones

Noa Jones is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction.  She is a Hertog Fellow in the MFA program at Hunter College of the City University of New York where she also teaches creative writing. She wrote and edited Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future (Palace Press, 2007) and edited What Makes You Not A Buddhist (Shambhala, 2006). She wrote A Story in Bhutan, a coffee table book about the making of the film Travellers & Magicians (Prayer Flag Pictures, 2005) and contributed to Vogue Beauty a collection published by Conde Nast (Ediciones Conde Nast S.A., 2006). She has written about everything from hula hoops to holy men for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Los Angeles Times, Body + Soul, Buddhadharma, Shambhala Sun, Marie Claire Australia and Seventeen Magazine. Noa grew up splitting her time between parents in New York City and the Sangre De Cristo Mountains and Rocky Mountains and continues to live here and there.  

 

Padmani

Padmani is a lawyer, yoga teacher and spiritual seeker. She lives with her partner in Toronto, Canada.

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York. Miller’s recent collaborative music release, Drums of Death, features Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Chuck D. of Public Enemy, Vernon Reid of Living Color, and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto. Drums of Death was released in April 2005 on Thirsty Ear Records. He is the author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004) and his video remix Rebirth of A Nation will released on DVD in the fall. For more information, check out his website at http://www.djspooky.com.

Paul Devereux

Paul Devereux is an experienced and respected author and researcher primarily dealing with archaeological themes and ancient lifeways, unusual geophysical phenomena, and consciousness studies. His work spans the range from academic to popular. While making his subject matter attractive and accessible to a wide audience, his material is factually based. He has written or co-written 25 books since 1979. He has also written a range of peer-reviewed academic papers. Based in the Cotswolds, England, he is: a Research Fellow, International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group, Princeton; Full Member the Society for Scientific Exploration (USA); Member of the Scientific and Medical Network; Member of the Folklore Society; Member of the Traditional Cosmology Society; Member of the Society for Psychical Research; and Member of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (USA).

Paul Hughes

Paul Hughes is a yoga and meditation teacher, massage therapist, artist, composer, writer, visionary futurist, and transhumanist philosopher. Born on the west coast of California in the 1960's, Paul became immersed in west coast counter culture. He became an immortalist at 12, and was one of the earliest pioneers of Transhumanism. Paul was the founder of the web magazine Future Hi, a spearheader of psychedelic transhumanist thought on the Internet. Paul currently lives near Lake Tahoe and is working on his PhD in clinical somatic psychology. His blog is at http://www.blissful.co.nz/blog/

Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. Don Imus labeled him “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.” (Imus has since apologized for that quote.) And, according to the Los Angeles Reader, “Krassner delivers 90 minutes of the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town.” At the 14th annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Paul Krassner was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame--“my ambition,” he claims, “since I was three years old.” In May 2004, he received an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of expression.

Paul Levy

In 1981 Paul was drafted into a higher-dimensional shamanic initiation process which mimicked psychosis but was an experience of a far different order. A healer, Paul is in private practice helping others who are also spiritually awakening. Now, Psychiatrists study and consult with him and send him clients. As the ex-bookstore manager of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, Paul has been studying Jung’s work for 25 years. He is a long-time Tibetan Buddhist practitioner. Paul is the author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (which can be ordered on his website). He facilitates “Awakening in the Dream Groups,” to help awaken participants to the dreamlike nature of reality.

Paul Lonely

Michael Richardson, writing under the name Paul Lonely, is an Oxford educated American visionary poet, artist and integrative entrepeneur born in 1978 in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. His poetry and writings have been recognized as “works of genius” by such intellectual luminaries as Integral philosopher Ken Wilber. His work is often included in the same category of well known and respected avante garde creative artists as legendary painter Alex Grey and alternative hip hop star Saul Williams.

After completing his studies at Oxford, Michael traveled to Japan for a year where he taught English while studying deeply the theory and practice of Zen Buddhism. Upon returning home to Georgetown, Kentucky, he engaged a five year traditional spiritual retreat of intense meditation practice and writing during which time he experienced the transformative state of enlightenment known as kensho and completed his first inspired creative work of poetry. In 2007, Suicide Dictionary: The History of Rainbow Abbey, was published to rave critical reviews worldwide.

Recently, Michael has been affiliated with Ken Wilber’s Boulder, Colorado-based think-tank, Integral Institute. He has been featured in such cutting edge magazines as Andrew Cohen’s What Is Enlightenment?, and was recently invited to participate in multimedia artist Stuart Davis’ latest television pilot ‘Sex, God & Rock ‘n’ Roll’. As an artist, he is currently writing volume two of Suicide Dictionary, entitled Semiotic Butterflies, and is planning to present his work at the 2009 Parliament Of the World’s Religions. As an entrepenuer, he is an active member of the board of directors of Integrative Performance Group and is currently overseeing the successful operation of the first truly Integrative Wellness Center in Los Angeles, HOLOS.

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Peter Lamborn Wilson is a poet-scholar of Sufism and Western Hermeticism and a well-known radical-anarchist social thinker. He is the author, among others, of Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam and Escape from the Nineteenth Century. 

Philip H. Farber

Philip H. Farber is the author of Futureritual: Magick for the 21st Century, a manual of neurological exploration and Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (Weiser Books, 2008). His articles on magick and popular culture have appeared in Green Egg Magazine, The Journal of Hypnotism, Hypnosis Today, Mondo 2000, High Times, Paradigm Shift, and other unique publications and web sites. Phil is an instructor for Maybe Logic Academy, a Certified Hypnotist and a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-linguistic Programming, with a private practice in New York's Hudson Valley. 

Philip Heying

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Preston Peet

Preston Peet is a NYC-based writer, editor, dj, actor, musician, painter, and practitioner of art and magick in many forms. Currently sharing a tiny apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side with eight cats and a room-mate, Preston has lived in or traveled to and from many Western Countries. Long a self-described psychonaut, he is at this time taking a break from ingesting most any mood or mind altering substance(s). This personal decision aside, Preston has no opinion on what others do or do not put into their bodies, feeling that prohibition is one of the biggest money-making, rights-destroying scams of all time. While not researching and/or writing about the War on Some Drugs and Users, Preston spends much of his time researching and writing about other topics near and dear to his heart, lately focusing on ancient mysteries and baffling, unusual archaeological finds. 

Propaganda Anonymous

Propaganda Anonymous is one approach to a world drowning in images and vertigo.

Propanon is an MC in the underground Hip-Hop scene of New York, and beyond.

He collaborates with the Brooklyn Hip-Hop collective, Mindspray, and has recently released his first solo EP, 'Todo Corazon.'

He is also a contributor to the on-line publication, 'The Maybe Logic Quartely;' a magazine inspired by Robert Anton Wilson.

Rafiq Hilton

I am sometimes a musician, sometimes a would-be poet and philosopher and hopefully will soon be an English Language teacher to adults! I have a degree in English and Film Studies though never felt pulled towards the world of film, media or mainstream teaching, choosing instead to put my efforts into sustainable community activities and the pursuit of enlightenment.

Regina Gelfo

From her mountain hideaway in the Oakland hills, Regina Gelfo designs websites, community events & interactive experiences, practices & teaches yoga & meditation, writes creative nonfiction and new age hip hop, draws, and makes videos. She enjoys redwoods traipsing, systems thinking, singing, learning about gardening, herbalism, & permaculture, and facilitating conscious transformation towards a saner, happier, and more well-organized reality.

Renee Verdier

Renee Verdier is a writer, DJ, and student. She studies political theory at Wesleyan University and is currently working on her senior thesis, on the political ramifications of Web 2.0 technology. She maintains blogs both for her academic writing (freereverie.com/neticulum) and her personal creative writing (freereverie.org).

Reverend Billy

Reverend Billy is the pastor of the Church Of Stop Shopping and the most beloved preacher in the Tri-State area.

Rhythm Spirit

My name is Derek Smith, I am 20 years old and I  play the drums and guitar.  I am an amateur psychonaut, interested in shamanism and the occult and I absolutely love nature.

Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays both in New York City and abroad.  Five of his plays have received "OBIE" awards as best play of the year-and he has received five other "OBIE'S" for directing and for 'sustained achievement'.  He has received the annual Literature award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Lifetime Achievement in the Theater" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Club Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. 

Richard Register

Richard Register is the author of ECOCITIES -- BUILDING CITIES IN BALANCE WITH NATURE, second edition,  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, 2006; ECOCITIES -- BUILDING CITIES IN BALANCE WITH NATURE, Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley, 2002; editor of VILLAGE WISDOM / FUTURE CITIES, Ecocity Builders, Berkeley, 1997; author of ECOCITY BERKELEY -- BUILDING CITIES FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE, North Atlantic Books, 1987 and ANOTHER BEGINNING, Treehouse Books, Berkeley, 1978. He was founding president of Urban Ecology (1975) and founder and current president of Ecocity Builders (1992), both non-profit California educational corporations.

Richard Smoley

Richard Smoley’s latest book is Conscious Love: Insights from Mystical Christianity (due to appear in April 2008). He is the author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition and coauthor of Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions. Other books of his are The Essential Nostradamus and Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism. Richard is the former editor of Gnosis magazine and is currently editor of Quest Books.

Roberto Verzola

Roberto Verzola is a convenor and member of the Philippine Greens. He is active in information, environmental and agriculture issues.

RoseRose

RoseRose is a paleoanthropologist from a distant timeframe, in deep cover on Google Earth as a  video performance artist, writing on domes in 3D light and motion with the glyphs of her native language, Glide.

 

Roy Christopher

In the broadest sense, Roy Christopher's research interests lie in technology's influence on the evolution of culture. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Christopher's main project from 1997 to 2007 was frontwheeldrive.com, through which he established himself as what Disinformation editor Alex Burns called, "one of the internet's leading interviewers of subculture and new-science icons." Scott McCloud described the site as "nicely designed and packed with ideas (a rarity on both counts)," and Mark Dery called it "brutally cool." A book-length anthology of the best interviews from the site, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes (Well-Red Bear), was released in 2007, and has been lauded for its eclectic but consistent content. From April, 2004 to October, 2007, he was assistant editor to Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky on his anthology Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press, 2008). Though his work has been featured on numerous websites, in many magazines, and in a few books, roychristopher.com is now home to most of his writing.

RU Sirius

R. U. Sirius is a writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture icon best known as co-founder and original Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000 from 1989-1993. Sirius was also chairman and candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. He is currently part of the team at the webzine, 10 Zen Monkeys, and hosts two podcast shows on the MondoGlobo Network. The shows are The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles.

Rudolph Wurlitzer

Rudolph Wurlitzer has published four novels – Nog, Flats, Quake, Slow Fade – and a non-fiction book, Hard Travel to Sacred Places, as well as three screenplays – Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Two Lane Blacktop, Walker. Among his twelve produced screenplays are Voyager, Little Buddha, and Candy Mountain, which he co-directed. He also wrote the libretto for the Philip Glass opera, In the Penal Colony, as well as several plays and numerous short stories and articles.

 

Russell Targ

Russell Targ, born in Chicago and raised in New York City, is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and was co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s -- the real X-Files. His work in this new area, called remote viewing, was published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Targ has a B.S. in Math and Physics from Queens College, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He is co-author of seven books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities.

 

Ryan Wartena

Ryan Wartena, Ph.D. is a chemical engineer and postdoctorate at MIT in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, developing small and distributed energy systems and applications for social autonomy with a concentration in electrochemical devices and assembly of energy systems for nanotechnology.  Artistic endeavors include painting, growing architecture, light art and the applied convergence and integration of all things.

Sam Michael

Writer, Kung Fu & Yoga instructor, and Massage Therapist. Born in NYC and currently working on first novel.

Sandhi Ferreira

Sandhi is a Jivamukti yoga teacher, fire hoop performer, hoop yoga instructor and creator, and an aerial dancer.

Sanjay Perera

Sanjay Perera is a Lightworker

sati

Sati is a teacher for at-risk youth in the Los Angeles. Out of the classroom she is commonly found writing short tales, poetry, and ivory tunes. Sometimes she even dances...

Scott Fraser

Scott's enthusiasm for Creation focuses on sacred connections with Land, Food, the Body, Community, and the Aetherical. Living lively with green medicine and diet, movement therapy and trance, earthstory, aetherical orientation, and co-operative sovereignty.

Sera Beak

Sera Beak is a world-traveled Harvard-trained scholar of comparative religion and an intrepid "spiritual cowgirl." Her first book, The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark, is aimed at jaded, yet still spiritually curious young women, although the material speaks to all ages and genders. She calls the book a "firestarter." Sera is called "a woman who is hands down the freshest, boldest breath of fresh air spirituality has heard, read or seen in decades" by Maureen Moss, author, motivational speaker, and radio host of worldpuja.org.

Sergio Lub

Sergio Lub is an architect, inventor, jewelry designer (www.SergioLub.com), and a social networker. He is passionate about interconnecting visionary people and in 1995, more than a decade before Web 2.0, he designed the community building freeware Friendly Favors (www.Favors.org), which is now used collaboratively by over 100 organizations, interconnecting 50,000+ people within a network of trust extending to more than 150 countries. Favors also hosts physical meetings, mostly around the San Francisco Bay Area. You can RSVP to upcoming gatherings at: Favors.org > Events.

Sharon Gannon

Sharon Gannon is a cofounder and codirector of the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City, one of the nation's most popular yoga centers. A student of Brahmananda Saraswati, Swami Nirmalananda, and Pattabhi Jois, she brings a highly disciplined asana and meditation practice to her teaching yoga as a spiritual practice, relating the ancient teachings of yoga to the modern world. She is co-author of Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul (Ballantine Books, 2002) Her recently published book, Cats and Dogs Are People Too!, offers optimistic measures to improve our relationship to animals.

Sharron Rose

Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, is a filmmaker, teacher, author, choreographer and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology, Religion and the Sacred Arts of Dance, Music and Theatre. She is the writer/director of the feature-length documentary, 2012 The Odyssey (Sacred Mysteries Productions, 2006), and producer of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection. Ms. Rose is the author of the award-winning book The Path of the Priestess; A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine (Inner Traditions, 2003 ), and creator of the instructional DVD Yoga of Light. She is also a contributing writer for the book The Mystery of 2012 (Sounds True, 2007).  

Simon G. Powell

A psilocybineticist in the employ of Gaia. Currently scriptwriting the Earth 2.0 movie. A tough job.

Spiros Antonopoulos

Searcher, practitioner, experimenter, worshiper, discerner, perceiver, enjoyer.

ST Frequency

ST Frequency is the alias most associated with Atlanta-based writer and musician Stephen C. Thomas. As part of the artist collective Kids with Codenames, ST has organized electronic music events and has self-released several eclectic EPs. He holds a BA in English from Georgia State University and has studied British and American Culture at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, where he developed a chronic wanderlust.
ST Frequency is a contributing editor at Reality Sandwich and an organizer for Evolver Atlanta.

Stacy Fine

Stacy Fine is a rock n' roller who lives in Woodstock, NY and NYC. A firm believer in the revolutionary ideals of the 1960's, she has turned her PR work to stand for Pushing Revolution. She is an independent publicist, show producer, music and book reviewer and now an associate curator.

Stanislav Grof

Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist with over forty years experience of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness (induced by psychedelic substances and various non-drug techniques) and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology.

Starhawk

Starhawk is the author of ten books on Goddess religion, earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance and her latest, The Earth Path (HarperSanFrancisco). She consulted on the Women in Spirituality series of documentaries the National Film Board of Canada, and together with director Donna Read, founded Belili Productions, www.belili.org,  making documentaries on issues concerning women and the earth.  Their first, Signs Out of Time, explores the life and work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and was released in 2004.  They are presently working on a documentary on permaculture and regenerative design. 

Stella Osorojos

Stella Osorojos is a freelance writer and Diplomate in Oriental Medicine. Her stories have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, InStyle, and more. Her private practice, focussed on energy medicine, is based in Santa Fe.

Stephen Duncombe

Stephen Duncombe is an associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School and a life-long political activist.Stephen Duncombe’s new book is called Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.

Stephen Hershey

Stephen Hershey is an actor and writer currently living in New York City. Graduating from the School For Film & Television in 2006, he has since faced a standard onslaught of spiritual conditioning and universal awakening, originating in Bali, Indonesia during a month-long training intensive titled "Towards The Egoless Theatre." As a storyteller, Stephen is called to the unique mythopoeic potential of the human body--an explorative adventure beginning and ending with imagination. He currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Harmony Theatre Company, and personal assistant to Per Brahe, Artistic Director of STUDIO 5 and the New Moon Repertory. 

Steven Vedro

Steven Vedro is an advisor to government agencies, universities and public broadcasting stations in planning and managing distance learning networks and digital media initiatives. His spiritual and personal transformation work includes twenty-five years of meditation practice and energetic healing. Steven is a graduate of the Inner Focus School of SoulDirected Advanced Energy Healing, the Transformational Attunement Program, andis an Elder in the Mankind Project and an initiate in the Ruhaniat Sufi Order.

Sue Salinger

Sue Salinger has been producing and managing multi-platform creative media projects for national and international audiences for over two decades.  Current focus: participatory, social change media. Current obsession:  digital preservation and archiving of culture and memory. Salinger teaches media history, production and philosophy. 

Sunny Strasburg

Sunny Strasburg's interests lie in art, writing, events planning and depth psychology. She is currently attending the graduate depth counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her therapy practice spans diverse populations, from autistic children to recovering addicts.She has also illustrated and written Goddess Alchemy, a Dream Journal. She is a co-moderator for a visionary artists' hub, the Pod Collective (http:///www.podcollective.com). Her medicine woman name is Rising Red Hawk. She was given this name because she is a macro visionary – connecting and bridging the nodal network to facilitate the birth into the era of the goddess. Her website is at http://www.sunnystrasburg.com.

Taylor Ellwood

Taylor Ellwood is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, Multi-Media Magic, and Co-author of Kink Magic with Lupa. He is also the managing non-fiction editor of Immanion Press and a creativity and marketing life coach. For more information about Taylor please visit http://www.thegreenwolf.com, http://www.imagineyourreality.com, or http://magicalexperiments.wordpress.com

The Hermit

The Yes Men

Andy Bichlbaum is a guy who couldn't hold down a job until he and Mike Bonanno - even more jobless than Andy - became reps for the WTO, George W. Bush, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, and the U.S. federal government. Now they're the Yes Men, and they use humor, truth and lunacy to bring media attention to the local and global misdeeds of their unwilling employers. They have been called "the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass generation" by author Naomi Klein. The Yes Men are currently making a film that follows them on several of their recent adventures, and in the process asks (and answers) some essential questions about the biggest problems now facing the world. 

Thomas H. Greco

Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, educator, and consultant. A former tenured college teacher, he has spent more than 30 years studying and writing about ways to achieve greater harmony, equity, and sustainability through business and economics. As a recognized authority on monetary and financial innovation  he has been invited to give presentations around the world. Among other books and articles, he is the author of, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001). His newest book, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, will be published by Chelsea Green early in 2009. He can be reached via his website, beyondmoney.net.

Thomas Laird

Thomas Laird has been based in Kathmandu, Nepal, for thirty years and now divides his time between there and New Orleans. His most recent book is The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama.

Thomas P. Healy

Thomas P. Healy is a journalist who has been active in print media for three decades. He is publisher of Branches magazine, a bimonthly periodical focused on spirituality, health and well-being, ecology, and peace and justice in Indiana, now in its 20th year. Healy is president of Apple Press, Inc., an Indianapolis-based printing and publishing company he co-founded in 1983.

Todd Bresnick

Todd Bresnick, Psy.D. has drawn from his background in psychology, critical theory, and art to develop Synaesthetic Surround. He currently conducts research as an Assistant Professor at New York University as well as continuing research and development of Synaesthetic Surround.

tony damico

Seeker. Pisces. Musician.

Tony Torn

Tony Torn is an actor, director, and long time member of the Reality Sandwich community. His experimental, satirical web miniseries The Grand Inquisitor can be found at http://newsdate2011.com.

 

Tristan Gulliford

Tristan Gulliford is a writer, poet, musician, and DJ living and working in Colorado. He represents one of a relatively rare segment of the population who believe that art and magic have the power to change the world on a daily basis. As a poet, he articulates the beautiful yet challenging mystical path of trying to integrate the spiritual and revelatory aspects of existence with the mundane realities of modern life. As DJ Dreamcode, he drops ethereal and psychedelic beats spanning several genres of electronic music. As a human being, he loves dreaming, gazing up into the stars, watching interesting films, being with people who laugh often, and (of course) music! Visit the DJ Dreamcode MySpace to listen to some of his music online.

Valis

Reid is a lab tech based in Seattle who dabbles in art, activism, parapolitics, media theory and countercultural history. 

Vee Har O

VerDarLuz

Out of the stripmall dystopias of San Jose, CA, I emerged and discovered my soul first in the giant sequioas of the California redwoods and seaweed of the Pacific Ocean, before traveling thru over 20 countries in the next eight years. From picking avocados and working in an oil barrel factory in an Israeli kibbutz to studying massage in Thailand, from teaching english at the Cambodian LandMines museum and working with the dying in Calcutta, India, from playing music with sufis in Kashmir to treedancing with giant Ceiba trees while studying the mysteries of the year 2012 with Mayan elders in Guatemala, as poet, musician, photographer, and videographer I have been blessed to receive and reflect the tender, aching soul of the world.

Wahkeena Sitka Huva

My name is Wahkeena Sitka, known as Sitka for short. I am a mystic, artist and gypsy, and am continually seeking balance, wholeness, vibrancy, health, mental clarity, ecstatic passion and peace in life. As an artist, I have explored polyrhythmic overtone singing, toning and sound healing, photography, web design, graphic design, poetry, online journalling, songwriting, essay writing, jewelry making & leather working. As a mystic, I have been surfing the zuvuya of consciousness for years studying Reiki, practicing Tantric & Thai bodywork, energetic & psychic awareness, dancing ecstatically and exploring the cosmic psychedelic superconsciousness. My perspectives and attitudes are influenced by personal spiritual & physical & psychological healing, visionary consciousness, full body ecstatic experiences through dance and sexuality, and mindfulness presence meditation. I intend to contribute to the transformation of consciousness on Gaia, by embodying and re-integrating the Divine Feminine energy on this out of balance planet.

Wendy Strgar

Wendy Strgar, the owner and founder of Good Clean Love, manufacturer of all natural love and intimacy products.   She is a sex educator focusing on Making Love Sustainable, a green philosophy of relationships which teaches the importance of valuing the renewable resources of love relationships and family. She lectures on Sustainable Love and is working on both a book and dvd on the topic. She writes on several green blogs and for magazines like Mothering and Natural Solutions.   She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, a psychiatrist, and their four children ages 9-19. 

William McGillis

William McGillis teaches high school English and mythology in Minneapolis. He is interested in the connection between the imagination, trance, psychological symptoms, cultural disorder, and the regeneration of the world's indigenous soul. He is working on a book-length study exploring the contemporary relevance of visionary poet William Blake. 

Yakov Rabinovich

I was born in 1958 in Paterson N.J., home to William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg. I will pass over the follies of my youth, and only note that I went on to take a BA from Columbia, and a PhD in Classics from Brown, which rendered me virtually unemployable, and for some time not very good company. After almost a decade of waiting tables, digging ditches, selling idols, writing for a small newspaper, &c. &c. in Israel, Ireland and New England, the shifting demographic finally brought demand for my skills, and I am now employed as a High School Latin teacher in New Jersey. 

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