Mercedes Barrios Longfellow, Maya Elder from Guatemala, has dedicated most of her life to sharing the Maya ancestral knowledge with others. She is a wise teacher and loving healer who travels extensively throughout the world conducting sacred ceremony, teaching workshops, and providing spiritual counsel. Her vision is that humanity will fully embrace the role of healing our Mother Earth and all living things.

 

Bob (Bubbunj) Weatherall is an Australian Aboriginal traditional owner of the Gomilaroi Tribal Nation from the Balonne River region in South West Queensland. He joined the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) in 1980. For the past twenty-five years, he has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal Rights. He has become a key voice advocating the pre-eminence of Aboriginal people’s ownership, control and management of Aboriginal cultural properties and the repatriation of Aboriginal ancestral human remains from overseas and within
Australia.

 

Coyote is Kennesti (Wylacki), and lives on the Round Valley Indian Reservation. He has lectured and taught nationwide, defending natural and native lands for 39 years. He is a thirty year member of the American Indian Institute, composed of the most respected traditional Elders from nations througout North America.

Coyote is now developing a project, Helping Our Mother, which includes a documentary about mercury poisoning in the Sierra Foothills.

 

Mongolia Chief Shaman Zorigtbaatar Banzar was called by the Great Spirit to fulfill his life’s purpose as a shaman when he was eight years old and began his apprentice with many renowned Mongolian shamans. He is the leader of Center of Shaman and Eternal Heavenly Sophistication Mongolia. He holds a Master of Shaman Research from Religion University of Mongolia and received an Honorary Doctor of Nalandar University in India. He was honored as Golden Gerege from Mongolian Government and Commission of 800th Anniversary of Great Mongolia Chief Shaman. He has presented his work for The Institute of Noetic Science and several International Conferences on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing. He lives with his wife and three children at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

 

Woody Vaspra, a native Hawaiian, retired Air Force pilot, Vietnam veteran and former corporate director for several companies, co-founded the World Council of Elders, a 501(c)(3) educational organization in 2000. Woody has traveled across the globe meeting with indigenous Elders of many native cultures in fulfillment of the vision of creating a worldwide organization of traditional indigenous wisdom-keepers ready to share their Earth-honoring traditions toward love, peace and harmony for all peoples.

http://www.worldcouncilofelders.org/

 

Avon has over three decades experience working with innovative leaders, groups and organizations committed to cooperatively building inter-generational Cultures of Peace. She is Co-Founder of Pathways To Peace, a non-profit and non-partisan N.G.O., and an international peacebuilding, educational and consulting organization that has Consultative II status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Pathways to Peace is . Avon is a former diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service and serves on the Advisory Councils/Boards of several international organizations including, The Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, World Peace Prayer Society, Center for Visionary Leadership, Radio for Peace International, and the World Fund for the Dignity of Children. Through Pathways To Peace, Avon inaugurated a five-year Inquiry on the We The People’s Initiative - Peacebuilding for the 21st Century, now a co-operative international Inquiry.

http://www.pathwaystopeace.org/

 

Nicki Scully has been teaching healing and shamanic arts, and the Egyptian Mysteries since 1983. Techniques from her Alchemical Healing form are used internationally by thousands of practitioners. She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic tradition of Thoth and maintains the Lyceum of Shamanic Egypt. She is ordained as a priestess of Hathor by Lady Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis. Drawing on the knowledge she has gained through decades of study and practice, she enlightens and uplifts all whom study and travel with her. Nicki lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she maintains a comprehensive healing and shamanic consulting practice.

http://www.shamanicjourneys.com/

 

Sat Santokh is a spiritual teacher and social activist, who has been on the cutting edge of the social change movement for over forty years. A former manager of the Grateful Dead and a peace activist since the late 50's, He founded the War Resisters League West, Meeting of the Ways, Rainforest Products, and Creating Our Future, and is the Northern California director of Kundalini Yoga teacher training. His ongoing focus is: the critical relationship between inner peace and world peace, spiritual practice in the evolution of human consciousness, the importance of understanding what it is to be strategic, and the effective utilization of emerging tools for the application of consciousness to the human dilemma.

http://www.shamanicjourneys.com/

 

Anne Watts is an internationally renowned workshop facilitator and counselor Anne Watts has traveled the world extensively teaching adults to have more loving, fulfilling relationships with themselves and others. Anne's life philosophies were strongly shaped by her experience growing up as the daughter of Alan Watts, well-known pioneer interpreter of Eastern religion and philosophy for the Western world. Anne has been leading Love, Intimacy & Sexuality Workshops for the Human Awareness Institute since 1985.

 

Li Tian Chen is a Qi Gong Grand Master and the Founder of the Tian Gong school. Born to a family of little financial means and suffering from multiple illnesses, he started to learn Qi Gong at young age. He visited many famous mountains and rivers to seek out Masters and spiritual paths (Dao) and to study the secrets of sacred healing practices and the profundities of the universe. After decades of cultivation through trials and tribulations and near loss of life, Grand Master Le-Tian finally realized sudden enlightenment. Under the direct guidance and information transmissions of the Universal Grand Masters he eventually founded Tian Gong. With the global problems facing humanity, Grand Master is expediting the transmission of the universal knowledge and methods of Qi Gong to as many far-reaching areas as possible.

Comedian, comic actor and activist clown. He was a part of the Beat movement in the late 1950s, hanging out in Greenwich Village with hipsters and folk singers like Paul Krassner, Lenny Bruce, and Bob Dylan. By 1966, he was one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and lived on a mountain top commune near L.A. called the Hog Farm. After a time, the Hog Farm took to the road with its members living in a fleet of converted school buses and traveling the country protesting the Vietnam War. Wavy has filled his days with an endless list of benefits and worthy causes, including the Seva Foundation, Home Aid (for the homeless), Cowboys for Indians (for Native Americans), Blues Against Blindness and more. He also co-founded the legendary camp Winnarainbow for children with is wife Jahanara and has spent countless hours spent in children's hospital ward.

http://www.wavygravy.net/

Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. His style of personal journalism constantly blurred the line between observer and participant. He has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher; on Air America Radio with Janeane Garofalo and with Marc Maron. He hosted his own radio call-in show in San Francisco. The San Francisco Examiner: “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered there.”

Evan Engber has been a member of the Hog Farm Community for 40 years and lives at their Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville. He has spent the last 25 years restoring damaged rivers using the ancient techniques now called Bioengineering. He is one of the authors of California Salmonid Stream Restoration Manual and has been awarded the EPA's highest award for environmental restoration. At 70 years of age Evan continues to manage his company, Bioengineering Associates, doing river restoration work throughout Northern California.