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.
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.netAlberto 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 Levy
independent art curator, artist and art writerAmy 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
Angelina 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.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, intergalactic DJ and sonic freedom fighter.
He resides in Providence, RI, and enjoys turning other people on to his newest discoveries, whether music, art, culture, politics, or beyond.
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, our sons Griffin and baby Skyler born in June of 2008.
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 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 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.
Craig Reuter
Consciousness housed in human husk. Contributor/Events Producer: Reality Sandwich Founder: Sublingual Innovations, DeisignsDaniel 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 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.
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.
Elizabeth Hart
Elizabeth Hart is a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico who currently lives in Antigua, Guatemala.Ellen Pearlman
Ellen Pearlman is a writer, film maker and photographer who splits her time between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Beijing.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
I'm a 20 year old creative writing student from Los Angeles with an interest in media and communications. I'm a total novice to consciousness studies, but I think it's a good sign that conventionally-raised young people like myself are catching on.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.
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.
Homegrown Evolution
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are the authors of the Urban Homestead and blog at www.homegrownevolution.com.
Ido Hartogsohn
Ido Hartogsohn is a journalist, media artist, blogger and dreamer. He works from Tel Aviv, where he is engaged in underground operations for making the middle east a more psychedelic place. Ido is the non-navigator of the Intergalactic Underground (http://www.intergalacticunderground.com/) which published The Intergalactic Masters Course, http://www.youtube.com/user/IntergalacticUnder, a pop-theological video course for enlightenment which can be found on You Tube. He is interested in interactions between technology, media and consciousness and is working to develop mind transforming games. Ido also writes extensively in his Hebrew blog Technomystica (http://www.notes.co.il/ido/) and English blog Digital Minds Blog (http://digitalmindsblog.blogspot.com/) about technology, mysticism, psychedelics, culture critic, media critic.
J.F. Martel
J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Toronto, Canada.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.
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 a writer, DJ and philosopher who goes by the name TRUE out on the internets. Her blog, BRANDTRUEBOY (http://trueboy.blogspot.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 writing a novel, honing her text message poetry skills and building the dopest vinyl based beat library in NYC.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.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 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 a law student and artist. His mission is to serve the creation of a more sustainable global society. His practice is to become love, every minute.Jonathan 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.
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.
JWA Tucker
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 of Reality Sandwich.
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.
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.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.
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 - an integrative songwriter, essayist, and visionary artist living in Boulder, Colorado. You can download my latest music and view a gallery of my performance paintings here. You can also read the full archive of my essays on music, science, and spirituality here.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.Morgan Maher
Morgan Maher is an artist, designer and explorer. Born in Cala-ghearraidh, Beach of the Pasture, he currently resides in a log cabin on the banks of the Elbow river. morganmaher.net/organism
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.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.
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
Paul Lonely is an American post post-modern visionary poet, mystic, artist and philosopher born in 1978 and raised in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. His early writings were both critiqued and praised by his mentor, the much esteemed writer and intellectual, Guy Davenport. The two sustained a four-year friendship until Davenport’s death in 2005. It was then that Paul, once again, secluded himself in the Kentucky countryside feverishly inhaling the works of renowned philosophers, theologians, poets, and spiritual masters of all traditions while simultaneously engaging in his own self-styled transformative practice highly influenced by Zen Buddhism. His initial kensho experience became the creative pulse and inspiration he needed to begin writing his first published creation, a contemporary Upanishads titled Suicide Dicitionary. The book was released in November 2007. Paul is now affiliated with Ken Wilber's think-tank, Integral Institute. He is currently writing volume two of Suicide Dictionary while residing in Los Angeles, California.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.
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.
Reid Mukai
Reid Mukai is currently a lab technician living in Seattle who has been an amateur artist, activist, futurist, media critic and countercultural scholar for almost twenty years.
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.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 writer
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.
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).
Spiros Antonopoulos
Searcher, practitioner, experimenter, worshiper, discerner, perceiver, enjoyer.ST Frequency
ST Frequency is the alias most associated with writer and musician S. Corey Thomas. Residing in Atlanta, he holds a BA in English and has studied British and American Culture at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, where he developed a chronic wanderlust. As part of the artist collective Kids with Codenames, ST has organized electronic music events and is currently working on a new album.
ST Frequency is a contributing editor at Reality Sandwich.
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
a traveller; passing through this conjunction on the interconnected web.
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 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.
Thomas Vaughan
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.
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 Tidepool Ripple
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.
wanderlust
Seeker. Pisces. Musician.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.
