David Jay Brown is the author of A New Science of Psychedelics, and 10 other books about the evolution of consciousness and the future. Visit him online at: www.mavericksofthemind.com.
Don Lattin is the author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, published by HarperCollins. His most recent work is a memoir titled Distilled Spirits: Getting High, then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher and a Hopeless Drunk, published by University of California Press. To learn more, go to donlattin.com.
Thad McKraken is the author of the book The Galactic Dialogue: Occult Initiations. In addition to contributing regularly to Disinfo.com and writing about music at Redefinemag.com, he's also a musician, visual artist, and Occult film maker who can be followed on Twitter @Thad_McKraken.
Rak Razam is the world's “leading experiential journalist” and the author of Aya Awakenings, a unique spiritual adventure into the jungles of South America and the psychic landscapes of Amazonian shamanism. It has recently been adapted into a critically acclaimed, feature-length shamanic documentary of the same name: http://www.aya-awakenings.com
Dr. Robert M. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. (1983) in Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. In the early 1990s, Dr. Schoch stunned the world with his revolutionary research that recast the date of the Great Sphinx of Egypt to a period thousands of years earlier than its standard attribution. In demonstrating that the leonine monument has been heavily eroded by water despite the fact that its location on the edge of the Sahara has endured hyper-arid climactic conditions for the past 5,000 years, Schoch revealed to the world that mankind's history is greater and older than previously believed. More recently Dr. Schoch has determined the astronomical cause of the demise of antediluvian civilizations, which he describes in his book Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future, along with the scientific and archaeological evidence that supports his conclusions. Robert Schoch's website: www.robertschoch.com.
Mark Seelig was born in the Western part of Berlin, Germany in 1957. He has been an academic theologian for 15 years, holds a Ph.D in Psychology of Religion (Frankfurt-Main University, Germany), and he has worked as a professor of psychology at Columbia Pacific University, Novato, CA. He is a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute in Boulder, CO, a founding member of the German College of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, and he has trained and worked with Stanislav Grof, Ralph Metzner, and several other teachers in the field of Transpersonal Psychology.
Mark has lived in Germany, the USA, and in India. He is a clinical psychotherapist, facilitator of shamanic ceremonies, and a musician. He plays Indian classical, and shamanic-ambient music, and he has released several CDs collaborating with Byron Metcalf and Steve Roach. www.mark-seelig.com
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1962, Nassim Haramein from as early as nine years old was developing the basis for a unified hyperdimensional theory of matter and energy, which he eventually called the Holofractographic Universe theory. He has spent most of his life researching the fundamental geometry of hyperspace.
Combining this knowledge with a keen observation of nature, he discovered a specific geometric array that is fundamental to creation. His unification theory, known as the Haramein–Rauscher Metric (a new solution to Einstein's field equations that incorporates torque and Coriolis effects), and his recent paper “The Schwarzschild Proton” lay down the basis of what could be a fundamental change in our current understandings of physics and consciousness.
In the past 20 years, Mr Haramein has directed research teams of physicists, electrical engineers, mathematicians and otherscientists. He founded a non-profit organisation, The Resonance Project Foundation, where as Director of Research he continues exploring unification principles and their implications.
The foundation is actively developing a research park in Hawai'i which combines science, sustainability and green technology.
Nassim Haramein has been giving lectures and seminars on his theory for more than 10 years.
Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist.
Gregory Sams is a pioneer of food for the body and food for the mind. He co-founded, with his brother Craig, Seed restaurant, the first natural and organic eatery in the UK, followed by Ceres Grain Store in the Portobello Road because people wanted to cook this food at home, and then Whole Earth foods, the all-organic brand. In 1982, he launched the first VegeBurger, a product he developed and christened. Craig went on to found Green and Black's chocolate. Aged 18, Greg founded Harmony Magazine in 1968 to which John Lennon dedicated an 8-frame cartoon, and later co-published Seed: The Journal of Organic Living. He founded Strange Attractions, the world's first ever shop dedicated to chaos theory. His interest in chaos led to an interest in consciousness that led to writing The State Is Out of Date. He is also the author of the son of gOd. He lives in London.
Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist who has studied plant hallucinogens for over forty years. He is the author of many scientific papers, and co-author, with his brother Terence McKenna, of The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, and Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. He holds a doctorate from the University of British Columbia, where his research focused on ayahuasca and oo-koo-hé, two hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. He received post-doctoral research fellowships in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, and in the Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1990, he joined Shaman Pharmaceuticals as Director of Ethnopharmacology, and in 1993 became the Aveda Corporation's Senior Research Pharmacognosist. Dennis has been an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota since 2001, where he teaches courses in ethnopharmacology and botanical medicine. He has taught summer field courses in Peru and Ecuador, and has conducted fieldwork throughout the upper Amazon. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization focused on the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.
Gabriel D. Roberts was born in Tacoma, WA. The value of seeking the truth wherever it may be found was instilled in him at a very young age. At 7 years old he was street preaching in Salt Lake City, Utah and by 10 years old he had traveled to China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Macau and The Philippines as a missionary. Having grown up in a fundamentalist Christian environment, his perspective on the world was greatly influenced by the Bible and the fundamentalist view of its teachings. Having come to adulthood, Gabriel moved from his hometown of Tacoma to the more cosmopolitan Seattle to get his theology degree at Seattle Bible College. Through his studies and endeavors to live the truth and find a spiritually fulfilling life, Gabriel felt that there must be something more to the story than a contest of sin and salvation. After many years of study and with a lifetime of effort to connect with something greater, Gabriel stepped away from his Christian faith. The details and reasons are catalogued in his book, Born Again To Rebirth. Like many others who have had an earnest thirst for the answers to the big questions of life, Gabriel was not satisfied to settle for not knowing more. His continued research in the fields of Science, Spirituality and Psychedelics continue to yield more and more exciting discoveries. Not being afraid to challenge his own cosmologies in light of new information, Gabriel D. Roberts continues to put together the puzzle pieces of life in a continued effort to bring enlightenment to himself and to his readers. Foremost among his influences are great writers, researchers and scientists like Terence McKenna, Jonathan Talat Phillips, Graham Hancock, Dr. Jeremy Narby, Russell Targ, David Wilcock and Rupert Sheldrake. Gabriel is currently a contributor for Disinfo.com and Realitysandwich.com.
Rick Strassman, MD, is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD, is co-author (with Pablo Amaringo) of Ayahuasca Visions, and director of Wasiwaska, Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Arts and Consciousness in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Ede Frecska, MD, is chief of psychiatry at the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Budapest, Hungary, and a contributing author to Psychedelic Medicine.
Robert Tindall is a professor of English, writer, and classical guitarist. With his wife, Susana Bustos, he leads groups into the Amazon rain forest to encounter the healing traditions there. He is the author of The Jaguar that Roams the Mind and The Battle of the Soul in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Martina Hoffman works as a painter and sculptress. Her paintings offer the viewer a detailed glimpse into her inner landscapes—imagery that has been inspired by expanded states of consciousness: the realms of the imagination, meditation, shamanic journeys and the dream state.
“The visionary artist makes visible the more subtle and intuitive states ofour existence and creates maps and symbols reflecting consciousness. My work is an attempt to show spirit as the universal force which unifies us beyond the confines of cultural and religious differences. By accepting the interdependency of all life and our universal interconnectedness we have a chance to heal and transform the planet's general state of woundedness. In using art as a tool for transformation, we have the opportunity to create a reality as beautiful, healthy and strong as our imagination permits.”
Martina Hoffmann, has exhibited her work and spoken on behalf of visionaryart and culture internationally. Together with her husband the AmericanFantastic Realist, Robert Venosa, she teaches visionary painting workshops.
Paul Devereux is co-founder and managing editor of the peer-reviewed TIME & MIND—The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (www.tandfonline.com/rtam), a research affiliate with the Royal College of Art, and a columnist with Fortean Times. He has written 28 books since 1979 and many articles and academic papers. He gives lectures, presentations and workshops in the UK, Continental Europe and the USA. His main research interests include ancient sacred sites and landscapes, sound at archaeological sites, and the anthropology of consciousness (ancient worldviews) along with modern consciousness studies. His books include, Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places, Re-Visioning the Earth, The Long Trip, Lucid Dreaming, and Sacred Geography. Website: www.pauldevereux.co.uk.
Mike Alivernia writes The Mind of Mike blog featured on Graham Hancock's website.
Alex Grey is an American artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art.
Allyson Grey is an artist and the co-founder for the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.
Thomas B. Roberts, PhD, is a founding member of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, co-founder of the Council on Spiritual Practices, creator of Rising Researcher sessions, and originated the celebration of Bicycle Day. He teaches Psychedelic Studies in the Honors Program of Northern Illinois University. Taught since 1981, it is the world's first university-catalogued psychedelics course. He was a Visiting Scientist in the psilocybin research team at the Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit in 2006. More publications, PowerPoints, and info are at http://niu.academia.edu/ThomasRoberts. Dr. Roberts is the author of The Psychedelic Future of the Mind, Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Horizons, and Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments.
Rick Doblin PhD, is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master's thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. His undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a 25-year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Timothy Leary's Concord Prison Experiment. Rick studied with Dr. Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and eventually to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He founded MAPS in 1986, and currently resides in Boston with his wife and three children.