- Neale Donald Walsch
Neale Donald Walsch is an American author of the series "Conversations with God". The books so far in the series are "Conversations With God" (books 1-3), "Friendship with God", "Communion with God", "The New Revelations", "Tomorrow's God", and "What God Wants". His newest book, "Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends", was released on March 29 2006. He was born in Milwaukee September 10, 1943, USA, … - Gautama Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: a majority of 20th century historians date his lifetime from "circa" 563 BCE to 483 BCE, while some more recent scholars have suggested dates around 410 or 400 BCE for his death. - Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author. He wrote a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism, which he referred to as a form of sorcery. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which enable an increased awareness. - James Redfield
James Redfield (b. March 19 1950) is an American novelist. James Redfield was born near Birmingham, Alabama, and studied psychology at Auburn University. Redfield earned a master's degree in counseling in 1974 and, for the next fifteen years, worked as a therapist for troubled children in Auburn, Alabama, and later in Birmingham. Then in 1989, he quit his job to publish his first novel, "The Celestine Prophecy", which was self-published in 1992. - Tony Robbins
Anthony J. Mahavorick, pen name Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins, (born on 29 February 1960 in North Hollywood, California, USA) is an American life coach, writer, and professional speaker. Some of his well known audio programs include "Personal Power II", "Get the Edge!" and "Lessons in Mastery." - Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895-24 January 1971) (also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W.), was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics recover from their addiction. According to the AA tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W." In 1934, in the course of his struggle with alcoholism, … - Guy Finley
Guy Finley (b.1949) is an American writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher. He is also a retired profressional songwriter and musician. The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career. He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. - Alex Grey
Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. His "oeuvre" spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, … - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (born : May 13, 1956) is an Indian spiritual master (Guru). He is often referred to by the self-chosen double-honorific "Sri Sri" or Guruji. He is considered a spiritual leader by his disciples and is the founder of the international Art of Living Foundation Foundation that aims to globalise traditional Indian wisdom in ways that are compatible with modern life. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (–) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century thought and world literature. Dostoevsky's primary works, mainly novels, explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of his 19th-century Russian society. - Bernie Siegel
Dr. Bernie Siegel MD was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Colgate University and graduated with honors from Cornell University Medical College. He practiced general medicine and pediatric surgery until his retirement in 1989. He is the author of several books on the relationship between the patient and the healing process as it manifests throughout one's life. He is an avid lecturer in the medical and spiritual communities. Dr. - Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Alphonsus Liguori (27 September 1696 - 1 August 1787) was an Italian Doctor of the Catholic Church, spiritual writer, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer or Redemptorists, an influential religious order. - Anthony de Mello
Fr. Anthony de Mello, S.J. (1931-1987) was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality. He hosted many spiritual retreats and was considered by some a gifted public speaker. Father de Mello was born in Santa Cruz, a suburb of Mumbai in India. He traveled to many countries to study and later to teach, most notably Spain and the United States. De Mello established a prayer center in India. He died suddenly in 1987. - Barbara Brennan
Barbara Brennan, MA, Ph.D., is an American author and spiritual healer who had previously worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. - Mantak Chia
Mantak Chia is an author, teacher and self-described healer. He is known for his books and teachings on Taoism, qigong and Taoist sexuality. Mantak Chia is a controversial figure in Taoism, alternately praised for public disclosure of long-held secrets and condemned for idiosyncrasies such as giving undue weight to sexual practices and lore. His wife Maneewan Chia is the co-author of many of his books. - G. I. Gurdjieff
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев, "Georgiy Ivanovich Gyurdzhiev" (or "Gurdjiev"); (January 13 1866? – October 29 1949), was a Greek-Armenian mystic, a teacher of sacred dances, and a spiritual teacher, most notable for introducing the Fourth Way. At different times in his life he formed and liquidated various schools around the world to utilize his teachings. - Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet (born April 8, 1939) is an American who became the leader of the new religious movement The Summit Lighthouse, an organization encompassing the branches of Church Universal and Triumphant, Summit University, Summit University Press, and Montessori International, after her husband, Mark L. Prophet, died on February 26, 1973. The Prophets published more than 75 books on the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, … - Thomas Cleary
Thomas Cleary (b. 1949) is a prolific, and somewhat reclusive, author and translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and Muslim religious literature, and of the Chinese Art of War tradition of strategy and statecraft. He received a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, but has had minimal involvement with the academic world. - Vernon Howard
Vernon Linwood Howard (1918-1992) was an American spiritual teacher, author and philosopher. He began his writing career as an author of humor and children's books. In the 1960's, however, he began writing books that focused on spiritual and psychological personal development. These writings put emphasis on the importance, and practice, of self-awareness. Howard did not advocate a particular philosophical or spiritual school of thought, … - E. W. Bullinger
Ethelbert William Bullinger (December 15, 1837 - June 6, 1913) was an ordained Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and dispensationalist theologian. - Steve Rother
Steve Lee Rother (born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 1 1951) is an American citizen, currently living in Las Vegas. He used to be an entrepreneur, until he became a Lightworker and an author. 5 books have been published so far, which have been translated into 11 different languages. His change from entrepreneur to Lightworker happened following a spiritual experience on new year's eve 1996. That night, he started saying things which, according to himself, … - P. D. Ouspensky
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 4, 1878, Moscow - October 2, 1947, Lyne Place, Surrey, England), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky) was a Russian philosopher who envoked geometry in his discussions of psychology and higher dimensions of existence. During his years in Moscow Ouspenky wrote for several newspapers and was particularly interested in the then-fashionable idea of "the fourth dimension". - Father Divine
Father Divine (c. 1880 - September 10 1965), was an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend General Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger" and George Baker early in his life. He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congregation into a multiracial and international church. - Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon was a metaphysician, poet, painter, Sufi, and a leading figure of traditional metaphysics. Along with René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Schuon is regarded as one of the three founders of the Traditionalist School. Frithjof Schuon is best known as a spokesman of the "religio perennis" and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Adi Shankara and Plato. Over the past 50 years, he has written more than 20 books on metaphysical, … - George King
George King (January 23, 1919 - July 12, 1997) was born in Wellington in the English county of Shropshire. He claimed that as a child he had discovered an ability to heal through the radiation of spiritual power. This ostensible discovery would come to define his adult life. He served with distinction in the National Fire Service in London during the war. After it ended he decided to throw himself into the study of Yoga, especially its higher forms, … - Roger Walsh
Roger N. Walsh (MD, Ph.D.) is a professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, within UCI's College of Medicine. Walsh is respected for his views on psychoactive drugs and altered states of consciousness in relation with the religious/spiritual experience, and has been quoted in the media regarding psychology, spirituality, and the medical effects of meditation. - Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, born 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England is a British vocalist and musician, and he was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. He is recognized for his high-pitched voice, which became a trademark for Supertramp, and often writes about somewhat spiritual and philosophical topics. - Leonard Horowitz
Leonard Horowitz DMD, MA, MPH is a medical researcher who has written several books on topics of current medical interest, the most famous of which is "Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional?". Other works include "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism, and Toxic Warfare" and "DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral". He also has a host of articles to his credit. His opinions and thinking fall well outside the mainstream of medical thought. - Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American blues vocalist and actress. She was the second African American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual "His Eye is on the Sparrow". - Narayana Guru
Nārāyana Guru (नारायण गुरु,നാരായണ ഗുരു), also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a saint, sage and social reformer of India. He was born into an "Ezhava" family, in an era when the Ezhava caste, because of its precarious position between the upper and lowest strata in the caste hierarchy, faced much social injustice. - Vienna Teng
Not so long ago, being a singer-songwriter was merely a hobby for Vienna Teng , a Stanford computer science grad who was on the fast track to a lucrative career, working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But she gave all that up to pursue her musical passions - a risky career move, but one which has paid off. - C. C. Zain
C.C. Zain, born Elbert Benjamine (Dec 12, 1882 - Nov 18, 1951) was a prominent astrologer, occult author, and the founder of the Church of Light. His interest in occultism began when, at the age of 18, he joined the Brotherhood of Light, where he studied occult and spiritual topics, eventually becoming one of the organization's leaders. In 1915 he moved to Los Angeles, where he founded the Church of Light and taught esoteric subjects. - Cary Tennis
Cary Tennis is an author and columnist best known for his work as an advice columnist or agony aunt in his column "Since You Asked", which appears on the website Salon.com. "Since You Asked" began in 2001, and was based on a previous column by Garrison Keillor entitled Mr. Blue which appeared in Salon's "Books" section. - James MacMillan
Dr James MacMillan (born on July 16, 1959) is a Scottish classical composer. MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, but lived in the south Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. He studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAlister, and at Durham University with John Casken, gaining a PhD in 1987. He was a music lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1986-1988. After his studies, MacMillan returned to Scotland, composing prolifically, … - Donald Michael Kraig
Donald Michael Kraig (born 1951) is an occult author and ceremonial magician. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy and studied public speaking and music at other colleges and universities. After a decade of personal study and practice, he taught courses in Southern California on topics including Qabalah, Tarot, Magick, and Tantra. He is the author of the classic book "Modern Magick". Kraig has given lectures and workshops all over the US, … - Hall Johnson
Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 - April 30, 1970) was, along with Harry Burleigh, one of the two American composers who elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers. Francis Hall Johnson was born in Athens, Georgia, the son of William Decker Johnson, an A.M.E. minister who was also a college president. - Dorothy MacLean
Dorothy Maclean (b. 1920 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a writer and educator on spiritual subjects who was one of the original three adults at what is now the Findhorn Foundation in northeast Scotland. She obtained a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario. From 1941 onwards she worked for the British Security Coordination in New York. After being posted to Panama, she met and married John Wood, though the couple would divorce in 1951. - E. J. Gold
Eugene Jeffrey (E.J.) Gold (born 1941) is an artist, author and jazz musician whose gigantic JazzArt paintings have served as backdrops for such jazz greats as Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Nancy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Toots Thielemans and many others. His artwork has appeared in LACMA, the set of Sister, Sister, International Association for Jazz Education, The Jazz Bakery, B.B. King Blues Club, … - Saniel Bonder
Saniel Bonder (born 1950, New York, USA) is an American author and spiritual teacher. His work focuses mainly on pioneering what he calls the "widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness". He considers himself to be a spiritually awakened teacher; his work, he claims, is to transmit this awakened state to others, and to teach them how to do the same. He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. - Dada Bhagwan
Dada Bhagwan(Dadashri) Ambalal Muljibhai Patel(November 08, 1908-January 2, 1988), better known as Dada Bhagwan, was an Indian Spiritual personality. He lived in India and inspired the Akram Vignan, a spiritual path to achieve self-realization and liberation.
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