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Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
Awakening to the Prophetic Call
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of his grandfather, Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is also the President of the Suluk Academy and founder of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. Pir Zia holds a Doctoral degree in Religion from Duke University and is a recipient of the U Thant Peace Award.
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Faisal Muqaddam
Dimensions of Consciousness
Faisal Muqaddam is the originator of the Diamond Logos Teachings and the co-originator and co-developer (with A.H. Almaas) of the "Diamond Approach" to liberation. He is a psycho-spiritual teacher and has been teaching in the Middle East and USA for the last 34 years, and has offered retreats in Germany, Italy and Denmark for the last 12 years. Born in Kuwait in 1946, he is a trained Reichan Therapist with Dr. Phillip Curcuruto and has also studied different systems of growth with esteemed teachers such as Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, Dr. Claudio Naranjo and Middle Eastern Sufi teachers. Currently he is practicing and teaching in California, Colorado and Hawaii.
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Matthew Fox The Return of the Divine Feminine
Matthew Fox is a lecturer and author of 28 books including Original Blessing; The Reinvention of Work; Creativity; One River, Many Wells; A New Reformation!; and The A.W.E. Project. Fox has been renewing the ancient tradition of Creation Spirituality. This tradition is feminist, welcoming of arts and artists, wisdom centered, prophetic and committed to eco-justice, social justice, and gender justice. Fox believes that by "reinventing work, education and worship we can bring about a non-violent revolution." Fox is currently working in a project for inner city teenagers called YELLAWE. www.MatthewFox.org.
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Healing with Sacred Sounds
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder of the Ligmincha Institute, is one of the few masters of the Bön Dzogchen tradition presently living in the West. Known for his clear, lively, and insightful teaching style, as well as his ability to make Tibetan practices accessible to Western students, Rinpoche is a highly respected and beloved teacher throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe.
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Carol P. Christ Goddess, Ecofeminism, and Process Philosophy:
Environmental Ethics in a Different Key
Carol P. Christ is an Adjunct Professor teaching internet courses in Women's Spirituality at CIIS. A leader in the study of Women and Religion and in the Goddess movement, she is author of She Who Changes, Rebirth of the Goddess, Odyssey with the Goddess, Laughter of Aphrodite, and Diving Deep and Surfacing; with Judith Plaskow she co-edited Womanspirit Rising and Weaving the Visions. She leads Goddess Pilgrimages to Crete through Ariadne Institute www.goddessariadne.org.
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Father Thomas Keating
The Christian Contemplative Tradition
Father Thomas Keating
is one of the architects of the Centering Prayer movement begun in Spencer Abbey in 1975 and founder in 1984 of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., now an international, ecumenical organization that teaches Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, and the Christian contemplative tradition and provides a support system for those on the contemplative path through a wide variety of resources, workshops, and retreats. He helped to found the Snowmass Interreligious Conference in 1982 and is a past president of the Temple of Understanding and of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue among other interreligious activities.

He is the author of many books and video/audio tapes series. His books include, Open Mind, Open Heart, The Mystery of Christ, Invitation to Love, Intimacy with God, The Human Condition, The Better Part, and the Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit, Manifesting God.

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