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.

This episode is part of our deep dive into the 40-year Pathways archive.

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.

Jonathan Robinson is the author of the new book, Ecstasy as Medicine: How MDMA Therapy Can Help You Overcome Trauma, Anxiety and Depression…and Feel More Love. Jonathan is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of 14 books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages.

Ray Raghunath Cappo is the author of From Punk to Monk. Ray currently leads yoga retreats, trainings, and kirtans at his Supersoul Farm retreat center in Upstate New York, as well as annual pilgrimages to India. He is the cofounder and cohost of Wisdom of the Sages, a daily yoga podcast that has been ranked #1 on Apple for podcasts about spirituality.

Ethan Nichtern is the author of the book, CONFIDENCE: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds. 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. 

This episode is part of our exploration into the 40-year Pathways archive.

Robert Moss is the author of the book, The Three “Only” Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination. Robert is the pioneer of Active Dreaming and the author of many more books, including Conscious Dreaming, The Secret History of Dreaming, and the novel The Firekeeper. He offers workshops and lectures all over the world, hosts the Way of the Dreamer radio show, and leads a lively online dream school. He lives in upstate New York.

Gail Straub is the author of Returning to My Mother’s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine. She is a visionary pioneer and activist in the field of empowerment. She co-founded the Empowerment Institute in 1981. One of the world’s leading authorities on women’s empowerment, she co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their community. IMAGINE initiatives are currently under way throughout Africa, India, and the Middle East where they have impacted over half a million lives. Gail is the author of seven books that have garnered multiple awards, including with her husband David Gershon, the best-selling Empowerment, which has been translated into 14 languages.

This episode is part of our exploration into the 40-year Pathways archive. It originally aired on KBOO 90.7 fm on January 6, 2008.

Leonard Shlain is the author of the book, Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution. Dr. Shlain is the author of several books including, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image and Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light. He is the chief of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.