Christopher Bamford is the editor-in-chief of Anthroposophic Press and Lindisfarne Books. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions, and is a senior editor of Parabola. He is the author, translator, and editor of numerous books, including Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness, Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science, The Noble Traveller, The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity, and An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West. An essay of his was included in the Harper San Francisco anthology Best Spiritual Writing 2000.
Jeanne Cameron is an artist/photographer, flower designer and art historian specializing in "the history and symbolism of flower decoration from ancient times to the 20th century." Her art work "Nature Spirits" has been exhibited widely including New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Dublin, Paris and Moscow. As a designer, she created environments primarily with flowers and plant materials for events here and abroad including The Metropolitan Museum, The National Gallery of Art, The Morgan Library, The White House, American Embassy Residences in Moscow and Paris and the British and Dutch Royal Families. In the last 20 years her work with indigenous people, Shamanism, mythology, Jungian psychology and the Tarot has focused her on historic and traditional teachings regarding the beneficial uses of flowers and plants. She is currently preparing a book on how to give flowers with more consciousness based on those teachings, the effects of color, numerology, her extensive practical experience and that of her colleagues.
Craig Holdrege, a biologist and educator, is the director of The Nature Institute in rural upstate New York. Craig is keenly interested in the interconnected nature of things and carries out holistic studies of plants and animals. Craig also critically examines new developments in genetics and biotechnology from a contextual perspective. He is the author of The Giraffe's Long Neck: From Evolutionary Fable to Whole Organism and Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context.
Robert Kelly has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). In 1980, his book Kill The Messenger won the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and in 1985, A Transparent Tree received the prestigious Academy-Institute Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. He has been faculty of Bard College since 1961, and poet-in-residence at numerous universities including Tufts and California Institute of Technology.
Rachel Pollack is considered one of the World's foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She is also a poet, an award-winning novelist, and a Tarot card and comic book artist. She has published 12 books on the Tarot, including 78 Degrees of Wisdom (Thorsons, 1998), considered a modern classic and the Bible of Tarot reading. Its marriage of common sense, wide-ranging knowledge, and esoteric awareness have inspired many tens of thousands of readers worldwide to a deeper knowledge of the Tarot. As a fiction writer, Pollack has been bestowed many honors and awards, among them the famed Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction for Unquenchable Fire and the World Fantasy Award for Godmother Night. www.rachelpollack.com
David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic in New York, where his essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture. His collection of essays on photography and politics, Between the Eyes, with an introduction by John Berger, was published by Aperture in 2003, and Postmedia is currently preparing an Italian edition. The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photography Books of the Twentieth Century, with catalogue essays by Strauss, was published by P.P.P. Editions/D.A.P. in 2001. Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics was published in 1999 by Autonomedia/ Semiotext(e), and Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (with photographer Bobby Neel Adams) was published in 1998. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for 2003-04, to write his next book, Image & Belief, and the 2007 Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in New York. Strauss currently teaches in the Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and in the new MFA program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts.
Yakov Rabinovich is the proprietor of www.invisiblebooks.com, which makes mystical and underground titles available on the internet without charge. He holds a Doctorate in Classics from Brown, and has written a number of history-of-religions books, including The Rotting Goddess (a history of Hekate and witchcraft in the ancient world) and Buried Angels (an exposé of the uncovered and "reburied" archaeology of the earliest Christian church.) He has recently published several volumes of translation from Ancient Egyptian, including the Amduat, the great classic of underworld literature — the first translation of this work into English in more than a century.
Kevin Townley, co-founder of the Hermetic school, The Philosophers of Nature, which has a seven-curriculum in laboratory alchemy and Qabalah. Kevin has worked full-time in an alchemy laboratory and has conducted workshops on Qabalah, Spagyrics, Alchemy and Tarot in the US and Europe. He has been a faculty member at institutions such as The Colorado Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Boulder College, and Naropa University.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, author, translator, poet; taught at Naropa University's "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics"; hosted a late-night radio talk-show, "The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade", on WBAI-FM in New York. Omega Publications has re-published his Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry (with N. Pourjavady). Many of his works, including several on Islamic mysticism, are published by Autonomedia (of Brooklyn, NY) and City Lights (of San Francisco). His collection of essays on Green Hermeticism is still a work-in-progress.
Susun S. Weed's worldwide teaching encompasses herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, psychology of healing, ecoherbalism, nutrition, and women's health issues. She has published a number of books including Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, now in its 29th printing (1985), and New Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way (revised 2002). Susun trains apprentices, oversees the work of more than 300 correspondence course students, runs the Wise Woman Center, and is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and a Peace Elder. www.herbshealing.com
Espahbad Michael Yoshpa, Ph.D., originally from Russia, has been exploring alternative approaches to spirituality and education for over a decade, designing and teaching a variety of classes and workshops in the US as well as abroad. His concentrations include design of creative spaces ( e.g. LifeStream, Living Science, Future Now, etc.), dreamwork, photography, creative writing and mysticism of being and becoming. Espahbad holds a Doctorate in Ethnobotany, Masters Degree in Biological sciences and Masters Degree in Education.