John Daido Loori
Throughout his life and career as a Zen teacher, John Daido Loori, Roshi used photography as a means of self-exploration and as a medium to
present spiritual truths. His photographs, like those of his mentor
Minor White, point to the realms beyond the visible world, calling us to
explore the mystical dimension of reality. Created as visual koans and
steeped in the artist’s appreciation of…
John Defterios
John Defterios is Group Vice President of Fact Based Communications, a
European based producer and distributor of international television
programs in 100 countries. The flagship program “World Business”
recently won the Grand Pix Award in Europe. CNBC is now airing his “The
Players” a thirteen part series profiling leading chief executives from
Europe, United States, and…
John O’Donohue
John O’Donohue Ph.D. (1956-2008) was an Irish poet and philosopher. His
books include Hegel’s philosophy: Person als Vermittlung; Two
collections of Poetry: Echoes of Memory and Conamara Blues; a trilogy on
philosophical-lyrical spirituality: Anam-Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom;
Eternal Echoes: Exploring our Yearning to Belong and Beauty: The
Invisible Embrace … all published by…
John Raatz
John Räätz is a pioneer in the growing genre of transformational media
and entertainment and the founder of the Global Alliance for
Transformational Entertainment. Over the past 15 years, he has been
involved with the marketing, public relations, distribution and other
business aspects of many groundbreaking films including Mindwalk,
Baraka, Hearts of Darkness, What The Bleep Do We…
Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell, formerly an editor with the New Yorker (1967-1987), is
currently the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute. In
1982 he wrote The Fate of the Earth, a bestseller about the grim
realities of nuclear proliferation that galvanized millions and became a
cornerstone of the movement to abolish nuclear weapons. He was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award…
Jordan MacLeod
Jordan MacLeod is the author of New Currency: How Money Changes the World as We Know It (2009).
Since its publication, New Currency has garnered critical acclaim and
MacLeod has been dubbed a “visionary thinker” and “one of the promising
pioneers of a new planetary civilization” for his work on the impact of
consciousness on money and economic systems. He is also a……
Jorge N. Ferrer
Jorge N. Ferrer, Ph.D. is an associate professor and core faculty in
the East-West Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral
Studies, San Francisco. He has also a degree of Lic. Psicologia Clinica
(1991) from the University of Barcelona (Spain). Formerly a fellow of
"La Caixa" Foundation, a research fellow of the Catalonian Council, and
an ERASMUS scholar at the University of Wales…
Joseph P. Firmage
Joseph brings a lifetime of passion for science and more than a
decade of business experience to his leadership as Chairman and CEO of
ManyOne Networks. Known throughout Silicon Valley and beyond as a
visionary at the cusp of 21st century science and technology, he has led
companies that pioneered both object-oriented programming tools and the
commercial adoption of the World Wide Web. He began…
Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett, PhD is a Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology at the University
of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist.
She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at
Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
With Richard Wilkinson
(also shown in photo), Kate co-wrote…
Kevin Hansen
Kevin Hansen works at the Integration of media, science, the
environment and human development, summarized by the tagline: The Most
Good for the Most Life. He is an environmentalist, businessman,
filmmaker, public speaker and inventor. His knowledge of the environment
comes in part from personal experience. As a child, Kevin lived in
Santa Barbara, California during the aftereffects of the major…