Alanna Kaivalya, PhD, is the author of The Way of the Satisfied Woman: Reclaiming Feminine Power. Alanna is a bestselling author, spiritual leader, and expert on mythology, spirituality, and psychology. Her global network has more than 30,000 members, and she is host of the Spiritual Leadership Podcast, originally launched in 2005. She earned a doctorate in mythological studies with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a former board member of the Carl Jung Foundation.

Mordy Levine is coauthor of The Beginner’s Guide to Karma: How to Live with Less Negativity and More Peace, co-authored with Lama Lhanang Rinpoche. Mordy is an entrepreneur, meditation teacher, and the president of the Jigme Lingpa Center. He also created the Meditation Pro Series, a meditation program designed to alleviate chronic health issues.

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Dr. Diane Kaufman is the founder/director of the Hold On Campaign for Suicide Prevention. She is a poet, artist, internationally award-winning lyricist, humanism-in-medicine awardee, and retired child psychiatrist with over forty years of clinical experience. Diane is a suicide attempt and suicide loss survivor with Bipolar II Disorder. Her story, “Bird That Wants to Fly” inspired an opera and is narrated by actor, Danny Glover. She is dedicated to transforming trauma and despair into life affirming creativity. Dr. Kaufman has extensive training and experience in the therapeutic use of poetry and story and is also a certified Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator. She has just launched the “Talking Back 2 Suicide” podcast to share lessons learned from invited guests’ lived mental health experiences and expertise from invited guest healthcare providers.

Kelly Sullivan Walden is the author of A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: The Art of Transforming the Tragic into Magic. Kelly is an award-winning author of ten books. A dream expert, certified clinical hypnotherapist, inspirational speaker, workshop facilitator, Kelly holds a doctorate degree in interfaith studies. Her unique approach to dream-work led her to consultant with thousands of individuals from Fortune 500 executives to celebrities to stay-at-home moms. She hosts The Kelly Sullivan Walden Show podcast, and is the founder of DreamWork Practitioner Training, an online professional-development program empowering people to incorporate dream-work into their careers.

Allan Hunter is the author of The Path of Synchronicity: Align Yourself with Your Life’s Flow. Allan has written fiction for most of his life, but is best known for his non-fiction. His twelve books explore the intersections of literature, memoir-writing and the ways of the heart. He is a professor of Literature and a counselor, with a doctoral degree from Oxford University. British by birth, he traveled extensively in Europe, India, Africa, and Peru before settling in Boston, Massachusetts. He has spent much of his professional life exploring how literature and story-telling (including soap operas) tap into the deep and unarticulated needs of society, and especially the ways of the heart. It is from these powerful influences that we shape our lives and ultimately our destiny.

Ethan Nichtern is the author of the book, The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships. A renowned contemporary Buddhist teacher and the host of The Road Home Podcast, Ethan has offered meditation and Buddhist psychology classes at conferences, meditation centers, yoga studios, and universities, including Brown, Yale, and NYU.

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Julia Gordon-Bramer is the author of Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana. Julia is a professional Tarot card reader, Sylvia Plath scholar, award-winning writer and poet, and former professor for the Graduate Writing Program at Lindenwood University. Listed as one of St. Louis’ Top Ten Psychics by Psychic St. Louis and St. Louis’ Number One Fortune-Teller by CBS Radio, she has appeared on numerous local and regional television and radio shows as well as appearances on Nickelodeon and MTV. In 2013, the Riverfront Times voted her St. Louis’ Best Local Poet. Julia lives in St. Louis, Missouri

David Jay Brown is the author of the new book, Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity. David holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University. A former neuroscience researcher at the University of Southern California, he has written for Wired, Discover, and Scientific American. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Dreaming Wide Awake, Women of Visionary Art, and Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Michael J. Gelb is co-author of the book Walking Well: A New Approach for Experiencing Comfort and Vitality in Every Step. Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, executive coaching, and innovative leadership. He is a fifth-degree black belt in aikido and a gifted teacher of tai chi and the Alexander Technique. He is also a professional juggler who has performed with the Rolling Stones. He is the author of seventeen books — including the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci — which have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than one million copies. He founded High Performance Learning, a training, coaching and consulting firm in 1982. He has been active with the Conscious Capitalism movement since its inception and co-authored The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World.

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Paul Levy is the author of Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil. He is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, as well as an innovator in the field of dreaming. A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, as well as Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity.