Ernie Tamminga is a trained Spiritual Director and holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied for five years with Raimon Panikkar. His dissertation focused on Teilhard’s notion of a “Privileged Axis” of evolution. During the 1970s he was a member of the board of “The Phenomenon of Man Project,” which offered presentations and retreats centered on Teilhard’s vision.

Ernie calls himself a “planet empath” whose heart has long been broken by the degradation we are inflicting on our Home Planet and all her living beings. He shares Raimon Panikkar’s frequently stated hope, “I’m holding out for a mutation.” Ernie also had a career in the technology industry and has taught university-level courses in World Religions and in Computer Science. (One of his business cards identifies him as a “Consulting Multitasker.”)

Links:

Website: https://pointomega.com/

Substack: https://ernietamminga.substack.com/about

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernie-tamminga-32b17a1

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C. and is a prominent theologian, author, and speaker on Teilhard de Chardin and the themes of religion and science. She currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University.

Ilia has doctorates in pharmacology and Historical theology. She is the recipient of a Templeton Course in Science and Religion award and the author of twenty-two books, which have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and German.

Ilia is the founder of the Center for Christogenesis and lectures nationally and internationally on topics including evolution, artificial intelligence, consciousness, culture and religion.

Website: https://idelio.clasit.org/

Center for Christogenesis: https://christogenesis.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerforchristogenesis/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenterforChristogenesis

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtG5NEkECaDTqObZPF0g0g

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Thomas Legere, PhD, CAS, has a background that includes degrees in philosophy, theology, and spirituality—in addition to a PhD in psychology—offering a perspective that is truly holistic. The author of three books, and a frequent speaker on television, Tom has offered workshops in psycho-spiritual growth and counseled hundreds of people over a 40 year plus career.

Tom continues to offer spiritual retreats as well as his insights through his online presence. A world-class speaker and workshop leader, he is recognized globally as an articulate yet simple teacher of spiritual principles. Awarded the lifetime achievement award, Sapientia et Doctrina, from Fordham University in 2010.

Website: https://tomlegere.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095157636484

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tomlegere6298?si=JV9s6GjQmEn3LlZ7

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Brian McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member with the Center for Action and Contemplation and a podcaster with the CAC’s podcast, Learning How to See.

He is a co-host of the Southern Lights Conference and supports a new progressive ecumenical campus ministry network called ZOE. He has written more than 20 books, including his newest, The Last Voyage (2025), the first installment in a science fiction trilogy. 

Brian also mentions his book, Life After Doom, a few times, which speaks to this era of multi-crisis and how we are called to a more compassionate and contemplative perspective in approaching these often complex issues.

Brian is married to Grace, and they have four adult children and five grandchildren. They live near the Gulf of Mexico in SW Florida, and Brian’s personal interests include wildlife and ecology, fly fishing and kayaking, music and songwriting, and literature.

Website: www.brianmclaren.net

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-D-McLaren/65814657989?ref=ts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_mclaren/

Podcast: Learning How to See https://cac.org/podcast/learning-how-to-see/

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Travis Gray, PhD, MACP is a Transpersonal Psychologist who is passionate about the transformation of people into wholly integrated and actualized individuals.

Growing up, Travis was constantly in and out of jail. He had found himself in a vicious cycle that needed to be broken so it would not continue throughout his life.

In 2013, he took a train and moved to the Bay Area with a dream of transformation, personally and communally. Having completed three degree programs at Sofia University, Gray has become a counselor, professor, and a research in the field of Transpersonal Psychology. He is the host of a podcast called Gray Transforms where he explores the farthest reaches of human nature with artists, renowned experts, thought leaders, and transformative specialists in psychology, spirituality, and more.

His clinical experience facilitating psychotherapy spans a wide range of court mandated psycho-education programs including a Teen Domestic and Family Violence Intervention program for incarcerated adolescents, New Skills and Choices program for parents in custody rights court, and Sexual Trauma groups in the Juvenile Detention Center in San Jose, CA. His practice now mainly consists of working with individuals to transform their lives in alignment with the highest version of themselves.

CONNECT WITH TRAVIS:

https://www.graytransforms.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTXDOkBJzATar4aSDkiLXAg/featured

https://www.instagram.com/graytphd

https://www.instagram.com/graytransforms

https://www.facebook.com/GrayTPhD/

https://www.sofia.edu/

https://eurotas.world/

https://www.spiritualemergence.org/

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

#spirituality #psychology #transpersonalpsychology #transformation # transpersonal #evolution #mindbodyspirit #selfactualization #transcendence

Paula Guarnaccia's primary work is in partnership with her husband, the composer, Sam Guarnaccia. Together they created the Emergent Universe Oratorio Project which is a choral orchestral musical rendering of the story of our evolving Universe to the present day. It was inspired both by the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry. Paula Guarnaccia is the current Treasurer of the American Teilhard Association. She has been an active member of ATA since 2012. Her background is in administration in both higher education and healthcare.

Sam Guarnaccia is a composer, classical guitarist, scholar, and founder/director of Sam Guarnaccia Music. He studied privately at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and received a Master of Fine Arts in Guitar performance from the California Institute of the Arts. He created and, for ten years, taught and directed the guitar program of the University of Denver’s renowned Lamont School of Music. He has also taught and instituted programs at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, as Spanish scholar, player/performer, and composer.

https://samguarnaccia.com/

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

#sacred #evolution #spirituality #language #biosphere #earth #fractal #music #composer #conversation #emergence #universe #oratorio

John Keane has over 25 years of experience in practicing and teaching BioSpiritual Focusing, a spiritual practice and process of embodiment.

BioSpirituality had such an impact on his life that he changed career from working in the Health Insurance Industry, to studying the philosophy and practice of the Focusing Process. John took a BA in Philosophy in the Jesuit University, Milltown Park, in Dublin. He also obtained his certification as a Focusing Professional through the Focusing Institute in New York. John traveled to California in 2008 to work and study with Fr. Edwin McMahon and Fr. Peter Campbell the founders of the BioSpiritual Institute.

John has taught BioSpiritual Focusing in a wide variety of settings, including universities, retreat centers, parishes, schools, and has presented at a number of international conferences. John is passionate about sharing the gifts of BioSpiritual Focusing with children. He is also actively involved in the design and presentation of online BioSpiritual education programs.

John Keane Links:

https://www.focusing.ie/professionals/29-john-keane

https://biospiritual.org/

Sacred Synergy Links:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/

Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

#sacred #evolution #spirituality #biospiritual #biosphere #body #mindfulness #meditation #spiritualawakening

Tess Elia is a spiritual director whose practice centers on finding God in all things and is informed by her life experiences which include a career in healthcare, hospice pastoral care, university teaching and mentoring and raising three children. Trained in Spiritual Direction at the Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality of Fairfield University and certified in Giving the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius (19th Annotation), Tess welcomes the opportunity to be your companion on the journey to discovering the graces of God in your life.

Connect with Tess online: https://www.unitivespiritualdirection.com/

Christine M. Tracy is a writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar. She holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,where she studied the evolution of media and worked as a founding editor of oneof the web’s first e-zine.

She is a member of the Council of Scholar Advisors for The Teilhard Project and has published scholarly essays exploring Teilhard’s relationship to progressive disciplines, including media ecology and integral theory. She has reported for The Ann Magazine, The Albany Times Union, and other news outlets, and her non-fiction work has appeared in the University of Michigan’s Bear River Review.

Christine’s newest book, Just Trust Life: A Journey With Teilhard de Chardin: https://books2read.com/u/3RGW1R

Connect with Christine online:

http://justtrustlife.com/

https://ournoosphere.com/

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Wilmington, as she explores the intersection of religion, technology, and the mysterious world of UFOs (now UAPs).

From academic insight to cosmic curiosity, Dr. Pasulka challenges the boundaries of belief and science in a way that is authentically speculative, exploratory, and expansive.

Dr. Pasulka’s research focuses on religion, technology, and emerging religious movements. She has authored a series of acclaimed books, including:

Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences (2024), American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology (2019), and Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture (2014).

https://dwpasulka.com/

IG: @dwpasulka

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