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Speakers from 2001 Altered States Conference
The 2001 conference was a wonderful success, especially being the first conference of this series, with over 400 participants representing countries all over the globe. We wish to thank everyone, especially the presenters without whom this conference could never have happened.
Click here to see the list of organizations who sponsored the 2001 conference.
Speakers from 2002 Altered States Conference
The 2002 conference was another success, the last conference of this series, with over 340 participants representing countries all over the globe. We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without whom these conferences could never have happened.
Click here to see the list of organizations who sponsored the 2002 conference.
Speakers from
2004 Enlightenment Conference
This
conference was a great success, with
over 350 participants representing countries all over the globe.
We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without
whom these conferences could never have happened.
Click
here
to see the list of organizations who sponsored this conference
Speakers from
2005 Enlightenment Conference
This
conference was a great success, with
over 500 participants representing countries all over the globe.
We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without
whom these conferences could never have happened.
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here
to see the list of organizations who sponsored this conference
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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
In 2001:
Keynote: Gateway to Our Conscious Evolution
Workshop: Going Through the Gateway: Key Steps in Our Emergence as Universal Humans
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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
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Margot Anand, author, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality, Sexual Magic Meditations and many other books
In 2001:
Keynote: From Orgasm to Ecstasy: Love is the Gateway to Altered States of Consciousness
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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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Onye Onyemaechi, MBA, Nigerian master drummer and dance performer, Director of Igbote Center for the Performing and Healing Arts
In 2001:
Workshop: Awakening to the Soul: Spiritual Practices of the Ancient Ministry
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: The Healing Rhythm Experience
Workshop: Spiritual Communications
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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
In 2001
Workshop: Healing Dreams: A Window into Nonlocal Mind
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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
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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
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Maboud & Tara Andrea Swierkosz, Mentor Teachers Guild, Dances of Universal Peace
In 2001:
Special Evening Event; The Dances of Universal Peace
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Eric Kaufman, certified hypnotherapist, mindfulness and meditation teacher
In 2001:
Morning Activities: Guided Morning Meditation
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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
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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
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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
In 2001
Workshop: Humor as an Altered State
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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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Presenters and Presentations from the 2002 Conference:
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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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Victor Sanchez, anti-anthropologist from Mexico, author, The Teachings of Don Carlos, Toltecs of the New Millennium and The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul
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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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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Ken Eagle Feather, author, A Toltec Path, Traveling with Power and Tracking Freedom
In 2002:
Workshop: Bioenergy, Healing and Enlightenment
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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)
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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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Cork Kallen, JD, Certified Master Firewalk Instructor, former personal injury attorney
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: The FireWalk Experience
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Wilbert Alix, TranceDance instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: TranceDance: Entering Our Body/Mind Consciousness
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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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Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda) comedian, author, Driving Your Own Karma and When You See A Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth
In 2002:
Workshop: Humor as an Altered State
Special Evening Event: Wake Up Laughing
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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
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Gale Litvak, designer, weaver and creative arts teacher
In 2002:
Special Sessions: The Joy of Creativity (with Karin Thron)
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Tara Andrea Swierkosz, Dances of Universal Peace instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace
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Maboud Swierkosz, Dances of Universal Peace instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace
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2005
Presenters
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Margot
Anand
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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
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Barry
& Joyce Vissell
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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
Founders, Shared Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing
consciousness to all relationships
Keynote: The Shared Heart
Workshop: Sexuality, Relationship and Spirituality
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Richard
Moss |
Richard
Moss, MD,
full
bio
Spiritual teacher and visionary thinker inspiring changes of consciousness.
Author, The I That is We, How Shall I Live,
The Second Miracle and others.
Keynote: Presence Is The Turn-On
Workshop: Where Do We Go When We Are Not Here? The Distance
from the Other Is the Distance from Ourselves |
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Isaac
Shapiro
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Isaac
Shapiro, full
bio Author,
It Happens By Itself and Outbreak of Peace,
satsang facilitator
Workshop: Embodying Truth
Workshop: Knowing Yourself
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Peter
Levine |
Peter
Levine, PhD, full
bio Author,
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, and Sexual Healing:
Transforming the Sacred Wound
Founder, Foundation for Human Enrichment Keynote:
Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound Workshop:
Body-Centered Awareness in Healing of Sexual Trauma |
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Wilbert
Alix
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Wilbert
Alix, full
bio
Contemporary
healer, teacher of progressive psychology,
neo-shamanic studies. Prominent in the emerging science
of Body-Centered Psychology. Master Trance Dance facilitator.
Evening Event: TranceDance Ritual Workshop:
Rite of Passage - The 12 Mystical Stages of our Spiritual and Physical
Evolution
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Sandra
Ingerman |
Sandra
Ingerman. full
bio
Author, Soul Retrieval, Welcome Home, A
Fall to Grace, Shamanic Journeying, and Medicine
for the Earth
Workshop: Experiencing The Shamanic Journey
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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
Keynote: How Shamans Inspire Us to Transform and Heal
Workshop: Coyote Wisdom Ways for Spiritual Transformation and
Miraculous Healing |
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Onye
Onyemaechi
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Onye
Onyemaechi, MBA, full
bio Nigerian
master drummer and dancer, founder, Village Rhythms, recording
artist, spiritual advisor, healer
Special
Evening Event: The Village Rhythm Experience
Workshop: Dig Deep - Healing the Heart with Divine Love
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Brant
Secunda
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Brant
Secunda, full
bio Shaman,
healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian tradition of Mexico.
Director, Dance of the Deer Foundation Center for Shamanic Studies
Workshop: The Healing Medicine of Huichol Indian Shamanism
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for full description
Workshop: Earth, Air, Fire and Water - The Healing Elements
of Huichol Shamanism
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Alberto
Villoldo
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Alberto
Villoldo, PhD, full
bio
Founder, The Four Winds Society, medical anthropologist,
author Shaman, Healer, Sage; Dance of the Four
Winds and Island of the Sun
Keynote: Shamanism and the Soul's
Journey
Workshop: Soul Retrieval: The Soul Mending
Way |
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Stephen
Wolinsky |
Stephen
Wolinsky, PhD, full
bio Founder
of Quantum Psychology
Author of fourteen books including Quantum Consciousness,
Hearts on Fire, I Am That I Am, Waking
from the Trance, You Are Not, Walden III:
In Search of a Utopian Nirvana and Nirvana Sutras Workshop:
The
Nirvana Sutras and Advaita-Vedanta: Beneath the Illusion of Being |
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Nicki
Scully
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Nicki Scully,
full
bio
Author,
Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical and Transformational
Medicine and Power Animal Meditations: Shamanic Journeys
with your Spirit Allies Workshop:
Awakening
Alchemical Healing |
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Jenny
Wade |
Jenny
Wade, PhD, full
bio
Author,
Transcendent Sex, When Lovemaking Opens the Veil and
Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness Faculty,
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Workshop:
Transcendent
Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil |
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Saniel
Bonder |
Saniel
Bonder, full
bio Pioneer
of a practical science of mutual whole-being enlightenment
Author, Waking Down, Beyond Hypermasculine Dharmas; Healing the
Spirit/Matter Split; Great Relief: When the Core Wound of Your Existence
Becomes Conscious and The Tantra of Trust: Skilled and
Superlative Intimate Sexual Partnership for the 21st Century Woman
and Man Workshop:
ConNecT! Training Your Body to Drink Deep of the Nectar of Consciousness,
All the Time! |
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Jim
Dreaver |
Jim
Dreaver, DC full
bio Author,
The Way of Harmony Workshop:
Why
Enlightenment Matters: How Self-Realization Will Bring About the Healing
of the World. |
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Brian
Qara |
Brian
Qara, full
bio A spiritual
teacher of the next generation, known for his intense and clear inquiry
Author, The Purpose of Your Life Is You Now Workshop:
A
Deeper Surrender: Living Truth in Every Moment |
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Rainbow
Lightning Elk |
Rainbow
Lightning Elk (Stephanie Wadell), full
bio Fire
Woman in Chuluaqui-Quodoushka tradition, sexual surrogate partner,
contributor, Women of the Light: The New Sexual Healers, Certified
Shamanic Hypnotherapist
Co-Founder / Co-Chief of the 13th Moon Mystey School Kivas Workshop:
Rites
of Passage - The Chuluaqui-Quodoshka Metis Cherokee Lineage of Sacred
Sexuality: FireWoman, Keeper of Sexual Healing Ways for the Centuries |
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Ellen
Eatough |
Ellen
Eatough, full
bio Founder
Extatica.com
Author, Beyond Orgasm: How to Have A More Deeply Connected Sexual
Experience
Conducting Scientific Survey on Transcendent Sex Workshop:
How
to Open Yourself to Transcendent Sex |
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Ravindra
Kumar |
Ravindra
Kumar, PhD, full
bio Founder,
Academy of Kundalini Yoga and Quantum Soul
Author, Destiny, Science and Spiritual Awakening; Kundalini for
Beginners, Kundalini Book of Living and Dying and nineteen
other books Workshop:
The
Truth of Realization and Symptoms of Awakening |
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Joe Miguez
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Joe
Miguez, full
bio Artist,
Labyrinth Builder, Facilitator, Teacher, Change Agent and Author
Nationally known as The Labyrinth Man Evening
Event: The Labyrinth Experience - A Walking Mediation |
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Greg
Tamblyn |
Greg
Tamblyn, full
bio Musician,
Songwriter, Recording Artist, Shootout at the I'm OK, You're
OK Corral and others Evening
Events: Be
the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are |
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Sita
Jamison |
Sita
Jamison, full
bio Musician,
Singer, Recording Artist, Presence: Chants of Sacred Power, Sita
has performed with Krishna Das, Ram Das and Baghavan Das Morning
Classes: Sound
Healing and Chanting |
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Gail
Ackerman |
Gail
Ackerman, full
bio Instructor,
Iyengar Hatha Yoga
Director, White Iris Yoga Studio Morning
Classes: Yoga |
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Maboud
and Tara Andrea
Swierkosz |
Maboud
and Tara Andrea Swierkosz, full
bio Instructors,
Dances of Universal Peace Event:
Dances
of Universal Peace |
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Deborah
Taj Anapol
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Deborah
Taj Anapol, PhD, full
bio PhD Clinical
Psychology, author Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, producer
Pelvic-Heart Integration videos Workshop:
Why Sex is Sacred |
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Juliana
Dahl |
Juliana
Dahl, PhD, full
bio PhD in
Transpersonal Psychology, author The Journey of a Sexual Healer,
video producer Evocation of the Female Ejaculate, certified
Dakini (sexual healer) Workshop:
Sourcing the Female Ejaculate: Journey from Trauma to Ecstatic Bliss |
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Judith Ansara Gass, full
bio
Coach, spiritual guide, creator
Women, Spirit and Power leadership training, cofounder Peacemaker Institute
Workshop:
with Judith Ansara Gass: Dropping the Veil
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Himayat Inayati, ThD,
PhD, full
bio
Spokesperson for Universal Awakening,
former head of The Sufi Healing Order, founder of the Raphaelite Work
(a method of spiritual healing that utilizes presence, breath and touch),
catalyst for the transformation process in others
Workshop:
Tools for Awakening
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Richard Lang, full
bio
Author, Seeing Who You Really Are, shares Douglas Harding's
direct method of Awakening to Who you really are, teaches Five Rhythms
dance in UK.
Workshop:
Seeing Who You Really Are
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Nigel Taylor, full
bio
Visionary teacher from Australia, healer, author, God Introduces
God, The Divine Seduction and many others
Workshop:
The Divine Marriage
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Issac Shapiro, full
bio
Author, It Happens By Itself
and Outbreak of Peace, satsang facilitator
Workshop:
An Ecstatic Love Affair With the Beloved
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Nick Arrizza, MD, full
bio
Psychiatrist, energy researcher, energy healer, developer of Mind Resonance
Process, author, Esteem for the Self: A manual for Personal Transformation
Workshop:
Spiritual Embodiment: Key to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Joyce Vissell, RN and Barry
Vissell, MD, full
bio
Founders and directors, Shared Heart Foundation, authors, The Shared
Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart's Wisdom and
Meant To Be
Workshop:
Relationship as a Path to Enlightenment
Keynote:
Living from the Heart
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Alberto
Villoldo, PhD, full
bio
Founder, The
Four Winds Society, medical anthropologist, author, Shaman, Healer,
Sage; Dance of the Four Winds and Island of the Sun
Keynote:
Shaman, Healer, Sage
Workshop: Energy Medicine of the Americas
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Victor Sanchez,
full bio
Former anthropologist, now anti-anthropologist (places emphasis on
the human experience in encounter with otherness), author, The Teachings
of Don Carlos, Toltecs of the New Millennium, The Toltec Path of Recapitulation:
Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul, and The Toltec Oracle,
founder, Art of Living Purposefully (allows people to nourish themselves
with the magic preserved among indigenous communities)
Keynote: The Shamanic
Leap: The Role of True Shamanism in the Future of Humanity
Workshop: Shamanism beyond Shamans: How to Activate Your Shamanic
Awareness by Yourself
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Brant Secunda,
full bio
Shaman,
healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian a
tradition
of Mexico, Director, Dance of the Deer Foundation Center for Shamanic
Studies
Keynote:
Huichol Shamanism: Medicine for the Soul
Workshop: Huichol Practices of Shamanic Health and Healing
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Brooke Medicine Eagle,
full
bio
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
Evening
Event:
Sacred Ceremony: Empowering the Heart
Workshop:
Creating Powerful Ceremony
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Olga Kharitidi, MD,
full bio
Researcher of healing approaches
from different cultures about the transformation of trauma, author,
Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered
by a Russian Psychiatrist and The Master of Lucid Dreams
Workshop:
Transformation
of Trauma
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Carlos Warter, MD, PhD,
full bio
Transpersonal psychiatrist, alternative
healing pioneer, author, Recovery of the Sacred, Despertar, Who
Do You Think You Are? and Pathways to the Soul
Workshop:
Rites of Passage:
The Missing Link to a New Civilization
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Jose Stevens, PhD,
full bio
Author, Praying With Power: How to Use Ancient Shamanic Techniques
to Gain Maximum Spiritual Benefit and Extraordinary Results, The Power
Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life, Transforming
Your Dragons, Secrets of Shamanism and eight other books, executive
coach and corporate consultant
Workshop: Praying
with Power
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Barbara Tedlock, PhD,
full bio
Initiated shaman practicing within
the ancient Mayan subtle energy system of highland Guatemala, Professor
of Anthropology at SUNY, Research Associate at School of American Research,
granddaughter of an Ojibwe woman shaman, author, The Woman in the
Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Workshop: Blood Lightning: The Mayan Subtle Energy System
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Leonard Shlain, MD,
full
bio
Author, Art and Physics, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess and
Sex Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution,
professor of surgery at UCSF.
Keynote:
The 'G' Spot, The Big 'O', Homosexuality and Other Mysteries of Human
Sexuality
Workshop:
Art, Sex and Physics: The Flip-Flop from Masculine to Feminine in Arts
and Science
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Antra and Richard Borofsky,
Ed.D, full
bio
Directors, Center for the Study
of Relationship, authors, On Intimate Ground: A Gestalt Approach
to Working with Couples and Joyful Wedding: A Spiritual Path
to the Altar, a couple for 35 years, Antra, Gestalt therapist
and Marriage and Family therapist, Rich, clinical psychologist
and instructor at Harvard Medical School
Workshop:
Blessing Our Union: The Sacrament of Sex
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2006
CONFERENCE WEAVERS
Robert Gass, EdD and
Judith Ansara Gass, MSW full
bio
Robert and Judith Gass, cocreators,
Sharing the Path Deepening in Love workshops for couples, married 37
years.
Robert, musical director, On Wings of Song and chanting CDs
Om Namaha Shivaya, consultant, trainer for MoveOn.org and Greenpeace.
Judith, coach, spiritual guide, creator Women, Spirit and Power
leadership training, cofounder Peacemaker Institute
Evening
Event: Transformance
Workshop:
The Sacred Art of Relationship
Workshop:
with Judith Ansara Gass: Dropping the Veils
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Raphael Cushnir, full
bio
Author, Unconditional Bliss,
Setting Your Heart on Fire, How Now: 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present
Moment, filmmaker, Sexual Healing
Workshop:
Vessels of Mystery: A Non-Dual Approach to Sexual Union
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Juliana Dahl, PhD, full
bio
Transpersonal Psychology, author,
The Journey of a Sexual Healer, video producer, Evocation
of the Female Ejaculate, certified Dakini (sexual healer)
Workshop:
Sexual Energy as a Transformative Vehicle To Heal and Transport You
to Higher Consciousness
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Gay Hendricks, PhD, and Kathlyn Hendricks, PhD full
bio
Authors, Conscious Loving, The
Conscious Heart, Breathing Ecstasy, Lasting Love, Radiance and
others
Keynote: Spirit-Centered
Relationship
Workshop:
The Power of Presencing
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Susan
Campbell, PhD, full
bio
Author, The Everything Great
Sex Book, Truth in Dating: Finding Love by Getting Real, Sex and Intimacy
Enrichment Kit and seven other books, Truth in Dating and
Truth in Sex games
Evening
Event: Truth
in Sex: Getting Turned On to One Another Here and Now Workshop: What
to Do When Love Hurts
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Ron Shane and Monique Lasky
full
bio
Workshop:
The Intriguing Art of the Feminine Mystical Sexual Enchantress
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Sita Jamieson, full
bio
Sita has been chanting for 15 years. As a native of Ireland, her
voice somes out of her Celtic roots. Originally, her chanting was
inspired by the Hindu tradition of Kirtan.
Morning
Classes: Sound
Healing and Chanting
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Gail Ackerman, full
bio
Gail has been practicing the art of Hatha Yoga since 1980. She is
the owner / director of White Iris Studio and has been teaching
in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1984.
Morning
Classes: Hatha
Yoga
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Joe Miguez
full
bio
Joe Miguez, nationally known as the "labyrinth man," has
designed sacred space and conducted workshops across the United
States.
Morning
Classes: The Labyrinth
Experience: A Walking Meditation with Joe Miguez
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Tara and Maboud Swierkosz
full
bio
Tara Andrea Swierkosz and Maboud are certified dance leaders and
members of the Mentor Teacher's Guild of the Dances of Universal
Peace.
Evening
Classes: Dances
of Universal Peace
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