Archaic Drum

Pamela speaks the Truth of advaita, non-duality - that the universe is one undivided whole. For the last fifteen years she has traveled widely in the United States, Canada and Europe, holding satsang and giving private sessions.

Week-long retreats have been held in Mexico, Costa Rica, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the USA.

She has endeared herself to many through her lighthearted humor and compassion, and deep understanding of what it is to be human.

She lives in the Bay Area of Northern California.

Simon G. Powell is the author of The Psilocybin Solution and Darwin's Unfinished Business.

He is also a musician and filmmaker. He lives in London, England.

Bill Pfeiffer is the founder of sacred Earth Network which implemented leading visions for almost 20 years.During that time he made Russia a second home; having traveled there 42 times, giving him a rare cross-culturalperspective. He has been active throughout the years conducting workshops on Spiritual Ecology.He also has 25 years of experience in re-evaluation counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensivetraining with Siberian shamans, as well as with Joanna Macy and John Perkins.He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways.We'll be speaking with him today about his book Wild Earth Wild Soul A Manual For an Ecstatic Culture.

Jac O’Keeffe was raised in rural Ireland. With a desire to know more about God, she studied theology and music. Graduating in the 1980′s, she was left disillusioned and a non-believer. Turning her focus to issues of social inequality, she studied adult and community education, and began her career interweaving community development with the arts. In 1997 her life was dramatically changed when her sixth sense awakened. Her personal quest led to that which is beyond the mind – a transcendence of dualistic thought. She facilitates spiritual gatherings in a question and answer format within the US and Europe, offering clear pointers to spiritual seekers of truth.

David Jay Brown holds a master's degree in psychobiology from NYU. A former researcher at the University of Southern California, he has written for Wired, Discover, and Scientific American, and his news stories have appeared on The Huffington Post and CBS News. A frequent editor of the MAPS Bulletin, he is the author of several books, including Mavericks of the Mind, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, and we speak here about his new book, The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He lives in Ben Lomond, California.

Jake Ducey left home as a teenager one day, also leaving behind a life of alcohol and drug abuse, to explore the world with a meager savings and adventurous spirit.

His journey ended up transforming his life for good when he arrived at a deep knowing that what he was searching for was within himself all the time. He discovered that our destiny is reached only when we have looked deeply inside first.

Upon returning from his spiritual adventure, Jake raised the funds to build a school and home in San Marcos, near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, to support orphans who are taken care of by a Quiché Maya Shaman. Now 21, Jake is the author of Into the Wind (Waterside, April 2013) and he speaks throughout the country on consciously and responsibly creating our lives.