by Joanna | Mar 9, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Christian de Quincey PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University; Dean of Consciousness Studies at the University of Philosophical Research; adjunct faculty with Wisdom University. He is also founder of The Wisdom Academy, offering private mentorships in consciousness. Dr. de Quincey is author of the award-winning book Radical Nature: The Soul of Matter and Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through...
by Joanna | Mar 2, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Jan is a pragmatic dreamer and licensed psychotherapist, in practice for over 25 years. She is the director of Holos Institute where she provides most of the individual and group supervision, oversees clinical policies and operations, and organizes the public educational programs. Her work is based upon her faith in the inherent wisdom each being carries within. She believes that healing is a process of coming into an active relationship with that wisdom. She...
by Joanna | Feb 24, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Joan Halifax is a Zen Buddhist Roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and Spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph...
by Joanna | Feb 17, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Rev. Cynthia Brix is an interfaith minister and Co-Director of Satyana Institute. Cynthia is co-director of the Gender Reconciliation International project, and co-founder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project. She was formerly a campus minister at the University of Colorado for United Ministries of Higher Education, and she led meditation workshops at regional and national Unitarian Universalist conferences. Cynthia co-chaired the Race Relations Committee for...
by Joanna | Feb 10, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Kingsley Dennis, PhD, is a sociologist, researcher, and writer. He is the author of numerous articles on complexity theory, social technologies, new media communications, and conscious evolution. He co-authored After the Car (Polity, 2009), which examines post-peak oil societies and mobility. He is the author of the forthcoming book New Consciousness for a New World (2011); as well as “The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle to...
by Joanna | Feb 3, 2012 | Gaialogues |
Author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy on identity, community and local economies, and is a leading proponent of ‘localization,’ or decentralization, as a means of countering those impacts. Since 1975, she...
