Gopi Krishna

Gopi Krishna

male
Gopi Krishna of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title "Kundalini: The...
Ledi Sayadaw

Ledi Sayadaw

male, deceased (1923)
Ledi Sayādaw was a famous Theravadin Buddhist monk in Burma (now Myanmar). He was recognized from a young age as being developed in both the t...
Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

female, 77 years old (Kingston, New York, United States)
Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument...
Swami Janakananda

Swami Janakananda

male
Swami Janakananda is a Danish yogi who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1939. He learned to use simple yoga poses as a child, and decided when...

Ralph Metzner

male
Ralph Metzner Ph.D., born 1936 in Germany, is an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard...
Roger Walsh

Roger Walsh

male
Roger N. Walsh (MD, Ph.D.) is a professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of...
Vilayat Inayat Khan

Vilayat Inayat Khan

male, deceased (2004)
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. Pir Vilayat’s mother, Ora Ra...
Webu Sayadaw

Webu Sayadaw

male, deceased (1977)
Webu Sayadaw was a highly respected monk in Myanmar, who was said to be fully liberated, an arahat, who had extinguished all suffering, free from...
Kathy Freston

Kathy Freston

female
Kathy Freston is a self-help author and personal growth and spirituality counselor. She is the author of "The One: Discovering the Secrets of Soul...
Peter Davison

Peter Davison

male
Peter Davison is a composer and instrumentalist whose works range from meditation and yoga music to well known TV and film themes and scores.