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Presenters and Presentations from the 2001 Conference:
Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist, President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, author, The Revelation, Conscious Evolution and others |
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Charles Tart, PhD, editor, Scientists' Transcendent Experiences, author, Altered States of Consciousness, Waking Up, Living the Mindful Life and 10 other books In 2001: Workshop: A Taste of Mindfulness in Real Life |
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Victor Sanchez, anti-anthropologist from Mexico, author, The Teachings of Don Carlos and The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul In 2001: Keynote: The Transformative Power of the Other Side of Consciousness Workshop: The Secret of the Feathered Serpent In 2002: Keynote: Kinam: Balancing Duality: New Pathways for Enhancing Awareness Workshop: Kinam: Balancing Duality: Experience New Pathways for Enhancing Awareness |
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Huston Smith, PhD, author, The World’s Religions, Cleansing the Doors of Perception, The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition, One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church; and many other books In 2001: Workshop: Can Entheogenic Mystical Experiences Be Accepted as True? |
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Stanley Krippner, PhD, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, Saybrook Institute, author, Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Tribal Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care, Human Possibilities, Realms of Healing, The Mythic Path and 17 other books, former Director, Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center In 2001: Workshop 1: Spiritual Dimensions of the Ayahuasca Experience Workshop 2:Shamanism, Dreams and Drugs |
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Dmitri Spivak, PhD Psycholinguistics, PhD Psychology, PhD Economics, senior researcher, Russian Academy of Science Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Department of Science and Theology, author, Altered States of Mass Consciousness, Linguistics of Altered States of Consciousness, Language under Altered States of Consciousness and others In 2001: Workshop: Gender-Specific Altered States of Consciousness |
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Laura Huxley, PhD, author, This Timeless Moment, describing life with her husband, Aldous Huxley, Fellow, International Academy of Medical Preventics, founder, Children: Our Ultimate Investment In 2001: Workshop: One Example of Visionary Common Sense |
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Steven Halpern, PhD Music Psychology, composer, recording artist, author,
Sound Health, Sound Matters and Sound, Stress and Inner Peace In 2001: Workshop: Psycho-Active Sounds: A Multi-Cultural Approach to Altered States of Consciousness |
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Kay Cordell Whitaker, PhD, author, The Reluctant Shaman and Sacred Link In 2001: Workshop: The Humpty Dumpty Trajectory: Cracking Open Consciousness |
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Adnan Sarhan, Sufi Master in Naqshabandi, Qadiri, Rafai and Melevi Orders, founder, Sufi Foundation of America, master drummer, Whirling Dervish, dancer, author, Dance Your Way to Spirit In 2001: Workshop: Sufi Methods to Alter Consciousness and Put You in the Moment |
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Metta Zetty, editor, Awakening Into Awareness: Reflections on Reality and the Experience of Realization In 2001: Workshop: The Miracle of Ordinary Awareness Workshop:Directly Discover Your Natural State |
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Arthur Deikman, author, MD, author, The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy, and The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior and Personal Freedom In 2001: Workshop: Service as an Altered State |
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Belinda Gore, PhD, author, Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook, Vice President, Cuyamungue Institute In 2001 Workshop: Ecstatic Body Postures: A Doorway to Non-Ordinary Reality |
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Tina de Souza, Ialorixa Brazilian Priestess of Umbanda, clinical psychotherapist, trance medium, healer In 2001 Workshop: Trance and Altered States of Consciousness |
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Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), Picuris Pueblo master storyteller, author, Being and Vibration, Tracks of Dancing Light, Ceremonies of the Living Spirit and others In 2001 Workshop: Being and Vibration |
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Bruce Eisner, author, Ecstasy: The MDMA Story, Founder, Mindware Catalog, editor, Island Views, Founder, The Mind Media Life-Enhancement Network In 2001 Workshop 1: Workshop: MDMA and Human Nature Workshop 2: The History and Future of LSD |
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Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD Anthropology, author, Ayahuasca Visions and Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Amazon In 2001 Workshop: The Ayahuasca Experience in a Controlled, Non-Shamanic, Non-Religious Setting |
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Sabrina Mesko, DH, author, Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands, creator, Mudras: Gestures of Power video In 2001 Workshop: Healing Mudras: Ancient Healing Hand Gestures |
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ShantiMayi, founder, Terre de Sacha Ashram France, founder, Ganesh Foundation, Mahayana Chan (nondual Buddhism) teacher In 2001 Workshop: Impermanance, Emptiness and Possibility |
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Marc Ian Barasch, author, The Healing Path, Remarkable Recovery, Healing Dreams, editor, Natural Health, editor, Psychology Today, producer, The Roswell Incident, Dreamers, Disturbance and >Future Visions, composer, musician |
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Hanniah Morgan, Certified Reiki master, breath work teacher In 2001 Workshop: Breathecstasy: Using Breath and Music to Achieve an Altered State of Consciousness |
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Matthew Cross, producer, An Introduction to Resonance Therapy In 2001 Workshop: The Resonance Effect: Spiritual Technology for Individual, Ecosystem and Planetary Restoration |
| Dan Moonhawk Alford, PhD, professor of linguistics, California Institute of Integral Studies, originator of "Quantum Linguistics," convener of The Language of Spirituality dialogues originated by the late David Bohm and Leroy Little Bear In 2001 Workshop: Alternative States of Language and Consciousness | |
| Maboud & Tara Andrea Swierkosz, Mentor Teachers Guild, Dances of Universal Peace In 2001: Special Evening Event; The Dances of Universal Peace | |
| Eric Kaufman, certified hypnotherapist, mindfulness and meditation teacher In 2001: Morning Activities: Guided Morning Meditation | |
| Ed Katzenburger, minister, Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator In 2001: Special Evening Event: Labyrinth; Replica of Chartres Cathedral Labyrinth | |
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Valerie Gremillion, PhD, neuroscientist, researcher, neurochemistry of attention and consciousness In 2001 Workshop: Entheogens, Altered States and Evolution of Human Consciousness |
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Ken Eagle Feather, author, A Toltec Path, Traveling with Power and Tracking Freedom In 2001 Workshop: An Energy-Body Approach to Altered States Workshop: Experiencing an Altered State In 2002: Workshop: Bioenergy, Healing and Enlightenment |
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Jacotte Chollet, founder, Institute for Development and Expansion of Consciousness (France), researcher, multidimensional music and its effects on consciousness In 2001 Workshop: Experiential Journey into Altered States of Consciousness Induced by Resonance with Multidimensional Music |
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Prasad, Satsang teacher In 2001 Workshop: Come Out of the Closet as God |
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Cork Kallen, JD, Certified Master Firewalk Instructor, former personal injury attorney In 2001 Special Evening Event: The Firewalk Experience In 2002: Special Evening Event: The FireWalk Experience |
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Irene Lamberti, DC, producer and host, Aerobic Prayer PBS television series, producer, Dances of the Soul documentary, author, Spirit in Action In 2001 Workshop: Can Entheogenic Mystical Experiences Be Accepted as True? |
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Skip Atwater, Research Director, The Monroe Institute, former Operations and Training Officer, U.S. Military Remote Viewing Program In 2001 Workshop: Using Induced Focused States for Exploring Spiritual Domains |
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David Cumes, MD, Sangoma Zulu medicine man, author, The Spirit of Healing: Venture into the Wilderness to Rediscover the Healing Force, founder, Inward Bound Healing Journeys travel company In 2001 Workshop: Peak and Transcendent Experiences in Nature and How to Facilitate Them |
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Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda), comedian, author, Driving Your Own Karma and When You See A Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth |
| Arjuna Nick Ardagh, founder, Living Essence Foundation, author, Relaxing into Clear Seeing and How About Now? In 2001 Workshop 1: Cocreative Spirituality Workshop 2: The End of Seeking | |
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Deborah Davis, LAc, licensed acupuncturist, clinical hypnotherapist, massage therapist, herbalist, ethnobotanist, medical intuitive, qigong instructor, video producer, The Spirit of Qi Gong, editor, Healing Retreats and Spas magazine In 2001: Morning Activities: Qi Gong |
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Russell Targ, former senior research physicist, Stanford Research Institute, coauthor, Mind Race, Mind-Reach, The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World and Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing In 2001 Workshop: Remote Viewing, Spiritual Healing and Expanded Awareness |
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Toni Bergins, cofounder, DramaWorks Interactive Business Theater, Kripalu DansKinetics instructor In 2001 Workshop: Awakening Energy Through Movement, Awakening Heart Through Song |
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Hank Wesselman, PhD, research paleoanthropologist, author, Visionseeker, Spiritwalker and Medicinemaker Keynote: The Master Game: Awakening The Evolutionary Sleepers In 2002: Workshop: The Sacred Garden |
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Brooke
Medicine Eagle, ceremonial
leader, songwriter, descendent of Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph,
ecologist, author, Buffalo
Woman Comes Singing, Dancing Awake the Drum, The Last Ghost Dance
and others In 2002: Workshop: Lodge of the Dreamers |
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Isaac
Shapiro, author, It
Happens By Itself and
Outbreak
of Peace,
satsang facilitator in Australia, South Africa, Europe and U.S In 2002:. Workshop: Truth In Your Own Experience |
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John
Mack, MD, founder, Center for Psychology and Social Change, author,
Abduction:
Human Encounters with Aliens, Passport to the Cosmos and
others, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School In 2002: Keynote: Anomalous Experience and the Transformation of Consciousness Workshop: Anomalous Experience and Self Transformation |
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John
Hagelin, PhD, Director, Institute of Science, Technology and
Public Policy, Natural Law Party candidate for President of the United
States of America In 2002: Keynote: The Neurophysiology of Consciousness: Scientific Discovery of Higher States of Consciousness |
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Warren
Grossman, PhD
Psychology, healer, author, To
Be Healed By The Earth In 2002: Workshop: Love: The Ultimate Alteration of Consciousness Workshop: The Earth to Heart Connection: Life from Head to Toe |
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Gay
Luce, PhD,
founder, Nine Gates Mystery School In 2002: Workshop: Shifting Personal Presence and Consciousness: Using the Magic of a Coherent Energy Field (with Ilona Ireland) |
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Buryl
Payne, PhD,
author, Getting
There Without Drugs: Theories and Techniques for Altering Consciousness,
Love and Sex without Conflict, The Body Magnetic, Magnetic Healing
and others, inventor, founder, Psycho Physics Lab In 2002: Workshop: Brain Hemispheric Synchronization: A Step Toward Telepathic Training |
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Ralph
Metzner, PhD
Psychology, author, The
Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience In 2002: Workshop: Shamanic Divination and Visionary Experience |
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Linda
Jean Shepherd, PhD Biochemistry, author, Lifting
the Veil, The Feminine Face of Science In 2002: Workshop: Paying Attention: Cultivating The Skill of Observation |
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Jeffrey
Mishlove, PhD
Parapsychology, President, Intuition Network, host, PBS series Thinking
Allowed,
author, The
PK Man, The Roots of Consciousness: Exploration Through History,
Science and Experience In 2002: Workshop: Mind Over Matter: Psychokinetic Weather Control |
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Helen
Stewart, PhD,
President, University of Metaphysical Studies, ESP researcher In 2002: Workshop: A Typology of Altered States: From Trauma to Ecstatic Experience (with Don Wismer) |
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Richard
Kimball, PhD
Cross-Cultural Psychology, Shaman in Zimbabwe Shona Ng’ganga
tradition, Director, Hsi Lai Buddhist Psychology and Counseling Research
Center, Shamanism researcher in China, Peru, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan,
India and Zimbabwe In 2002: Workshop: Southern African Shamanism for the 21st Century: What We Can Learn from Our True Heart |
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Ilona
Ireland, Director,
Nine Gates Mystery School In 2002: Workshop: Shifting Personal Presence and Consciousness: Using the Magic of a Coherent Energy Field (with Gay Luce) |
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Peter
Gorman, ethnopharmacology
researcher, botanical specimen collector with the Matses, Irula,
Ticuna, Jibaro, Lancandon, Shipibo, Auchino, Bora, Yagua and other
tribal cultures, playwright, editor-in-chief, High
Times Magazine,
writer and adventurer In 2002: Workshop: The Unexpected Healing Power of Ayahuasca |
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Joyce
Hawkes, PhD Biophysics, author, The
Nature of Healing, Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science In 2002: Workshop: Bali and Beyond: Navigating Trance States for Healing |
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Jonathan
Robinson, author, Shortcuts
to Bliss, The Little Book of Big Questions, Real Wealth
and many other books In 2002: Workshop: Shortcuts to Bliss: How to Induce Profound Altered States in Under Twenty Minutes |
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Deborah
Milton, PhD,
certified instructor, Ecstatic Body Postures, multimedia artist In 2002: Workshop: Experiencing the Tree of Life Cosmology Through Ecstatic Body Postures (with Carol-Lynne Toleno) |
| Arjuna
Ardagh, founder,
Living Essence Foundation, author, Relaxing
into Clear Seeing and
How About Now? In 2002: Workshop: Radical Awakening in the Snap of a Finger Workshop: Practical Tools for Living in the Finger Snap |
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| Karin
Thron, MD,
Women’s Health Services, alternative healing modalities and
spiritual aspects of healing In 2002: Special Sessions: The Joy of Creativity (with Gale Litvak) |
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Don
Wismer, Chairman,
University of Metaphysical Studies, former Pastor, pioneer in treatment
of Dissociative Disorders In 2002: Workshop: A Typology of Altered States: From Trauma to Ecstatic Experience (with Helen Stewart) |
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Kristin
Madden, author,
Shamanic
Guide to Death and Dying, The Book of Shamanic Healing
and others, Director, Ardantane School of Shamanic Arts, tutor, Order
of Bards, Ovates and Druids, former raptor biologist and environmental
chemist, certified hypnotist, deathwalker In 2002: Workshop: Spirit Guidance Through Shamanic Journey |
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Carol-Lynne
Toleno, DC,
instructor, Ecstatic Trance In 2002: Workshop: Experiencing the Tree of Life Cosmology Through Ecstatic Body Postures (with Deborah Milton) |
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Montserrat
Auso, founder, El Sol Institute, leads intensive leadership and
transformational workshops around the world In 2002: Workshop: Energy and Brain Symmetry |
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Deborah
May, Tai
Chi Chih and Seijaku instructor In 2002: Morning Session: Tai Chi |
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Alorah
Lavender, Kripalu
Yoga instructor, massage therapist In 2002: Morning Session: Yoga: Inviting Body Awareness |
| Gale
Litvak, designer,
weaver and creative arts teacher In 2002: Special Sessions: The Joy of Creativity (with Karin Thron) |
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Maboud
Swierkosz, Dances
of Universal Peace instructor In 2002: Special Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace |
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and Presentations from the 2005 Conference: Margot Anand, full bio Author, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, The Path of Sacred Sexuality, Sexual Magic Meditations and many other books. Keynote: The Yin and Yang of Sexual Energy Workshop: The Sacred Union of Yin and Yang In 2001: Keynote: From Orgasm to Ecstasy: Love is the Gateway to Altered States of Consciousness |
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 Barry & Joyce Vissell |
Barry Vissell MD & Joyce Vissell, RN, full bio
Author,
The Shared Heart, Models of Love,
Risk To Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom
and Meant To Be |
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 Richard Moss |
Richard
Moss, MD,
full
bio
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Isaac Shapiro, full bio Author,
It Happens By Itself and Outbreak of Peace,
satsang facilitator
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 Peter Levine |
Peter Levine, PhD, full bio Author,
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, and Sexual
Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound Keynote: Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound Workshop: Body-Centered Awareness in Healing of Sexual Trauma |
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 Wilbert Alix |
Wilbert
Alix, full
bio
Contemporary
healer, teacher of progressive psychology, |
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 Sandra Ingerman |
Sandra
Ingerman. full
bio
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 Lewis Mehl-Madrona |
Lewis Mehl-Madrona MD, PhD, full bio Author,
Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine, Coyote
Medicine:
Lessons from Native American Healing
and Mind and Matter: Healing Approaches to Chronic Illness |
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 Onye Onyemaechi |
Onye
Onyemaechi, MBA, full
bio |
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 Brant Secunda |
Brant Secunda, full bio Shaman,
healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian tradition of
Mexico. |
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 Alberto Villoldo |
Alberto
Villoldo, PhD, full
bio |
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 Stephen Wolinsky |
Stephen Wolinsky, PhD, full bio
Founder
of Quantum Psychology Workshop: The Nirvana Sutras and Advaita-Vedanta: Beneath the Illusion of Being |
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