AWAKENED WORLD 2000:
The Promise, the Practice, the Path
 

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
 

Please join the Leaders and Advisors of AGNT in dialogue with the best minds and hearts
of our time...
 

Richard  Barrett
Richard Barrett and Associates

Managing Partner of Richard Barrett and Associates, Cultural Tansformation and Leadership
Development Consultants; Fellow of the World Business Academy; former values coordinator
at the World Bank;  speaker; Author of two books and four meditations including Liberating
the Corporate Soul and A Guide to Liberating Your Soul.
 

Harld Bloomfield

Harold  H. Bloomfield, M.D., is a Yale-trained psychiatrist and respected
leader in alternative medicine and integrative psychiatry. He is the
best-selling author of  Hypericum & Depression, How to Heal Depression, How
to Survive the Loss of Love, and TM - Trascendental Meditation.  He has been
at the forefront of a number of self-help movements for more than two
decades.  His books have sold more than six million copies and have been
translated into twenty-four languages.  His work has been featured in every
major media outlet, including 20/20, Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning
America, Time, The New York Times, and People.
 

Dr. Lawrence Carter
Dean, Martin Luther King International Chapel
Morehouse College
 

Alan  Cohen

Author of the bestselling, The Dragon Doesn't Live here Anymore, the award-winning, A
Deep Breath of Life, and is contributing writer for the New York Times bestselling series
Chicken Soup for the Soul. Alan's monthly column, From the Heart, appears in New Thought
Magazines internationally, and his books have been translated into eight languages. The
Celestine Prophecy author James Redfield, calls Alan Cohen, "the most eloquent
spokesperson of the heart." Alan Cohen brings a profoundly endearing energy to spiritual
awakening, embodying a rare combination of wisdom, humor, intimacy., and vision.
 

Gordon  Davidson and Corinne McLaughlin
Center for Visionary Leadership

Co-authors of Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama); Builders of the Dawn,
co-founders of the Center for Visionary Leadership in Washington, D.C., and of Sirius, an
ecological village and educational community in Massachusetts. Corinne worked for
President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and taught politics at American
University.  Gordon was Executive Director of the Social Investment Forum and The Center
for Environmentally Responsible Economies.
 

Arun Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Arun was born in Durban, South Africa, fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi; in 1991,
co-founded with wife, Sunanda Gandhi, of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence on the
campus of Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, where Dr. Gandhi is also a
scholar-in-residence. The Institute's  mission is to examine, promote, and apply the
principles of nonviolent thought and action through research, workshops, seminars and
community service. Co-director of the Gandhi & King: Season for Nonviolence program
inaugurated in 1998 on their 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries;  lectures worldwide at
colleges, universities and to popular audiences; highlights programs for prisons and in
corporate settings; publications include several books, many articles and essays.
 

Sunanda Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and co-founder of A Season for
Nonviolence, Sunanda was born in 1932 in India's Gujarat province. She married Arun in
1958 and later co-founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. After marriage,
Sunanda used her nursing training to help the poor, the unfortunate and the unwanted. As a
member of the Maharashtra State Women's Council, she served on the Prison Reforms
Committee, the Domestic Violence Committee and helped place 125 abandoned orphans in
adoption. From 1958-1987, she headed up the sections for women, children, and a special
academic tutorial for children in the Bombay news weekly, The Suburban Echo. She
completed a study on the Status of Women in India, University of Mississippi, and with
Arun, co-authored The Forgotten Woman, a definitive biography of M.K. Gandhi's wife (and
Arun's grandmother). Sunanda is a senior researcher at the Gandhi Institute, working with
material to be published as resources for nonviolence education.
 

Dr. John  Hagelin
Institute of Science, Technology & Public Policy

Harvard-trained quantum physicist, life-long educator and leading researcher on higher
states of consciousness.  He is Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public
Policy, a {progressive} science and public policy think tank {that identifies, scientifically
evaluates, and promotes through public policy prevention-oriented, forward-looking
solutions to America's problems}.  In 1992 and 1996, Dr. Hagelin was the Presidential
candidate of the Natural Law Party, a new political party dedicated to {promoting}
sustainable, life-affirming policies and programs that are in harmony with natural law.
Under Dr. Hagelin's leadership, the Party became the fastest growing political party in
America, fielding more than 400 candidates on the ballot in 48 states in 1996.
 

         Thom Hartmann, Ph.D. 

Thom Hartmann is an award-winning best-selling author,
international lecturer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His books have been written about in Time
magazine, the Wall Street Journal and numerous radio and TV shows including "All Things
Considered." A former journalist and editor, he lives in Vermont with his wife, Louise. His most
recent books are The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight and The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the
Century
 

Jean  Houston, Ph.D.
Foundation for Mind Research

Scholar, philosopher, cultural historian, storyteller and internationally renowned seminar
leader in the human potential field. She is the author of 16 books ranging from mythology
and psychobiography to applications of her own and others' research in neural and sensory
re-education, creativity and innovative learning paradigms; Director of the Foundation for
Mind Research  which focuses on the understandings and uses of humanity’s vast and
underused potentials.
 

Barbara  Marx Hubbard      

Noted author, futurist, speaker and social architect is dedicated to
understanding and communicating humanity's potential for a positive future.  She is a founding
board member of the World Future Society and President of the Foundation For Conscious
Evolution.  She graduated from Bryn Mawr college cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science, and
studied at L'Ecole des Sciences Politique and the Sorbonne in Paris.
 

Dan  Millman

Dan Millman is a former coach and college professor whose ten books, including Way of the
Peaceful Warrior, Sacred Journey, Everyday Enlightenment, The Life You Were Born to Live,
The Laws of Spirit, and Body Mind Mastery, have inspired millions of readers in 20 languages and
influenced leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, entertainment,
sports, and the arts. Dan continues to write and lecture in the U.S. and abroad.
His website: www.danmillman.com
 

James Newton
Newton Learning Corp

James Newton is Newton Learning Corporation's founder and CEO.  He is a
nationally known consultant, facilitator and speaker.  For over 20 years, he
has assisted companies increase effectiveness and profitability by
cultivating accountability, effective communication, trust, and respect.
James is on retainer as the trainer for TEC, probably the most prestigious
organization of CEOs in the world, with over 7,000 CEO members.  He has also
worked with organizations such as Dura Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett-Packard, YPO,
Frontier Insurance, Tylan General, USDA Forest Service, and Stanford Health
Services.  James has facilitated organizational, professional and personal
development training for nearly 100,000 people.  James has extraordinary
insight and intuition, a playful articulate style, and a deep commitment to
helping people achieve their highest aspirations.
 
 
 

Judith  Orloff

Board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA....transforming the
face of psychiatry, Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we all are keepers of an intuitive intelligence
so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal - and prevent - illness...author of SECOND SIGHT
and the forthcoming GUIDE TO INTUITIVE HEALING...offers hands-on intuitive tools to
medical practitioners, patients, and everyday people......learn how intuition can heal or body,
emotions, and sexuality, as well as helping us accept the transition from life to death....in her
workshops, she creates a bond of warmth, trust and intimacy, within which participants can
become certain of their own intuitive abilities.
 

Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson

Dr. Paul H.Ray  has polled 100,000 Americans through his
market research firm American LIVES, Inc. He has headed more than 100 major research and
consulting projects.  Dr. Sherry  Ruth Anderson chaired psychological research at the Clarke
Institute of Psychiatry in Canada, and co-authored The Feminine Face of God.
 

Ven. Achok Rinpoche
Secretary, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Advisor to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet
Dharamsala, India
 

Sogyal Rinpoche

Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet and raised as a son by one of the most
revered spiritual teachers of this century, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.
After Jamyang Khyentse passed away, Rinpoche continued his spiritual
education with Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and many other great
masters.  He studied at university in Delhi and Cambridge, and began to teach
in the West in 1974.  Rinpoche is a master of the Dzogchen tradition, and the
founder and spiritual director, along with H.E. Dzogchen Rinpoche, of RIGPA,
an international network of centres and groups that follow the teachings of
the Buddha under his guidance.

Having lived and taught in the West for more than twenty years, Rinpoche has
developed a profound insight into the Western mind.  His rare gift for
communication cuts through cultural, religious, and psychological barriers,
to reveal the essential truth of the Buddha’s teaching.  Both the ease and
humour with which he teaches, and his very presence, open the hearts and
minds of his audience to an intensely personal experience of their own true
nature.  All this, as well as the remarkable success of The Tibetan Book of
Living and Dying   which has sold over a million copies world-wide, have made
Rinpoche one of the most celebrated interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the
modern world.

Rinpoche teaches widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia, leading
retreats, and giving a broad range of trainings based on his book which offer
spiritual care for the living and the dying.  He has become among the most
important Buddhist masters teaching today, considered by many senior Tibetan
masters as having a special role to play in the future of Buddhism, in both
the West and in the East.
 

Peter  Russell

Peter Russell is an author, physicist, and futurist.  He was one of the first to introduce
human potential seminars into the corporate field. For over twenty years he has been
lecturing and consulting with leaders of major industries with emphasis on creativity,
learning, stress management, and personal development. He is the author of The Global
Brain, Waking Up in Time,  a revised edition of his earlier book The White Hole in Time.  He
is currently working on a new book with the working title From Science to God: the Journey
of a Devout Skeptic.
 

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris
Metalog

Internationally known American/Greek biologist and futurist, speaker and consultant on
Living Systems Design.  Taught at University of Massachusetts and M.I.T.: United Nations
consultant; science writer for the HORIZON/NOVA TV series; Her books include Gaia and its
expanded version EarthDance; Living systems in Evolution, Biology Revisioned, co-authored
with Willis Harman, and  A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us.

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant on
Living Systems Design whose travels as a speaker have taken her from Asia and Africa to
Europe, North, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand. She has made many
television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops.

Dr. Sahtouris did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T.,
was a science writer for the HORIZON/ NOVA TV series and has lived exensively in Greece
and in the Peruvian Andes. She organized Earth Celebrations 2000 in Athens, Greece, is a
co-founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network, has been a United Nations
consultant on indigenous peoples and is a member of the United Religions Initiative.
 

      Bro. Wayne  Teasdale

Brother in Sannyasa tradition; adjunct faculty at Catholic Theological
Union and Columbia College; formulated with the Dalai Lama the Universal Declaration on
Nonviolence; member of the Task Force planning the next Council for a Parliament of the World's
Religions; author of numerous books and articles including his latest book--The Mystic Heart.
 

Michael  Toms and Justine Toms
New Dimensions  Broadcasting Network

Justine Toms: Co-founder, Executive Director, New Dimensions Radio; Managing Producer,
"New Dimensions" internationally syndicated radio series; Editor-in-Chief, New Dimensions
Journal; Director Emeritus, Association for Transpersonal Psychology; co-author of "True
Work."

Michael Toms: Founding President, New Dimensions Foundation; Executive Producer/Host of
"New Dimensions" and "Spirit of the Times" internationally syndicated radio series; Board
Chair Emeritus, California Institute of Integral Studies; co-author of "True Work" and author
of "At The Leading Edge." Editor, "The Inner Edge" Business Newsletter.
 

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
Have Brains / Will Travel