Elixir Issue 3

Stephen Aizenstat is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute, a private graduate school offering M.A. and Ph.D. programs in psychology, mythological studies, and the humanities. He has conducted dreamwork seminars for over 25 years throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Stephen has been involved in the Earth Charter project since 1995, bringing the insights of depth psychology and dreamwork to world leaders for the dissemination of the Earth Charter’s mission.

Amelia Barili is an award winning University of California at Berkeley professor and author. With Fritjof Capra, Amelia offers programs on globalization and civil society, deep ecology and the emerging new consciousness. Her last conversation with Jorge Luis Borges was published in The New York Times in 1986, and she is the author of Jorge Luis Borges y Alfonso Reyes: la cuestión de la identidad del escritor latinoamericano. Amelia’s current writing focuses on spirituality and healing, and she has been a teacher of classical yoga and qigong for many years. www.ameliabarili.com

Fariba Bogzaran is Associate Professor and founder of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. Fariba has trained students and professionals in dreamwork internationally since 1984. She worked for the Lucidity Project at Stanford and served on the board for the Lucidity Association and the International Association for Study of Dreams. She is the President of the Lucid Art Foundation. Her publications include Images of the Lucid Mind, Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity, and Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them.

Kakkib li’Dthia Warrawee’a is Kaia Kakkib, spiritual teacher/philosopher with a 15,000-year lineage; Ondtoldta, doctor of traditional medicine; Dtarrowadth, Keeper of Law (like a judge of the highest court and one who helps draft laws); Warrawee’a, Cleverman/Poet/Songman; and senior elder of the Ya-idt’midtung language group of Aboriginal peoples of southeastern Australia. He is also a lecturer in medicine, medical philosophy, and ancient medicine; and a writer. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, writes a column for the Art of Healing and is the author of There Once was a Tree Called Deru.

Barbara Tedlock is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Buffalo where she teaches courses in psychological and medical anthropology. She serves on the Board of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners and is Contributing Editor to Humanistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Consciousness, Dreaming, and Elixir. Her books include Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations, The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Dialogues with Zuni Indians, and The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine.

William Irwin Thompson is known as the founder of the Lindisfarne Association. His best-selling book, At the Edge of History, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986 for his science fiction fantasy novel Islands Out of Time. He has published numerous books as a cultural historian and as a philosopher of science. In 1997 he published Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems, 1959-1996. He now serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado.

Patrick Harpur is a novelist better known for his nonfiction works, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (Pine Winds Press, Idyll Arbor, 2003) and The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination (Ivan R. Dee, 2002). He has just completed a novel that dramatizes the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard, and is searching for both his lost sanity and a publisher. More about Patrick can be found at his website www.harpur.org.

Anne Scott founder of DreamWeather Foundation, leads retreats and seminars for women in communities and nonprofit organizations around the country. Her focus is the healing nature of dreams and restoring the link between feminine spirituality and social transformation. Anne’s publications include Serving Fire: Food for Thought, Body and Soul and The Laughing Baby. She has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path for many years. www.dreamweather.org