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
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
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:
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Balancing Duality: Experience New Pathways for Enhancing Awareness
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?
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
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
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
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
Kay Cordell Whitaker, PhD, author, The Reluctant Shaman and Sacred Link
In 2001: Workshop:The Humpty Dumpty Trajectory: Cracking Open Consciousness
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
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
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
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
Tina de Souza, Ialorixa Brazilian Priestess of Umbanda, clinical psychotherapist, trance medium, healer In 2001 Workshop:Trance and Altered States of Consciousness
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
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
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
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
ShantiMayi, founder, Terre de Sacha Ashram France, founder, Ganesh Foundation, Mahayana Chan (nondual Buddhism) teacher In 2001 Workshop:Impermanance, Emptiness and Possibility
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
Hanniah Morgan, Certified Reiki master, breath work teacher
In 2001 Workshop:Breathecstasy: Using Breath and Music to Achieve an Altered State of Consciousness
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
Valerie Gremillion, PhD, neuroscientist, researcher, neurochemistry of attention and consciousness In 2001 Workshop:Entheogens, Altered States and Evolution of Human Consciousness
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
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
Prasad, Satsang teacher
In 2001 Workshop:Come Out of the Closet as God
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
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?
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
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
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 In 2002: Workshop: Humor as an Altered State Special Evening Event:Wake Up Laughing
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
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
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
Toni Bergins, cofounder, DramaWorks Interactive Business Theater, Kripalu DansKinetics instructor In 2001 Workshop: Awakening Energy Through Movement, Awakening Heart Through Song
Presenters and Presentations from the 2002 Conference:
Hank Wesselman, PhD, research paleoanthropologist, author, Visionseeker, Spiritwalker and Medicinemaker Keynote: The Master Game: Awakening The Evolutionary Sleepers In 2002: Workshop: The Sacred Garden
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Ralph Metzner, PhD Psychology, author, The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience In 2002: Workshop:Shamanic Divination and Visionary Experience
Linda Jean Shepherd, PhD Biochemistry, author, Lifting the Veil, The Feminine Face of Science In 2002: Workshop:Paying Attention: Cultivating The Skill of Observation
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
Carol-Lynne Toleno, DC, instructor, Ecstatic Trance In 2002: Workshop:Experiencing the Tree of Life Cosmology Through Ecstatic Body Postures (with Deborah Milton)
Montserrat Auso, founder, El Sol Institute, leads intensive leadership and transformational workshops around the world In 2002: Workshop:Energy and Brain Symmetry
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
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
Contemporary healer, teacher of progressive psychology,
neo-shamanic studies. Prominent in the emerging science
of Body-Centered Psychology. Master Trance Dance facilitator.
In 2004: Evening Event: TranceDance Ritual Workshop: Rite of Passage - The 12 Mystical Stages of our Spiritual and Physical Evolution In 2002: Special Evening Event:TranceDance: Entering Our Body/Mind Consciousness
Author, Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine, Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing and Mind and Matter: Healing Approaches to Chronic Illness
Project coordinator, Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science
Keynote: How Shamans Inspire Us to Transform and Heal
Workshop: Coyote Wisdom Ways for Spiritual Transformation and Miraculous Healing
Onye Onyemaechi
Onye Onyemaechi, MBA, full bio Nigerian master drummer and dancer, founder, Village Rhythms, recording artist, spiritual advisor, healer In 2005: Special Evening Event: The Village Rhythm Experience Workshop: Dig Deep - Healing the Heart with Divine Love 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
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
Author, Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical and Transformational Medicine and Power Animal Meditations: Shamanic Journeys with your Spirit Allies
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!
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
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
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
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