Ervin Laszlo is currently President of the Club of Budapest, Science Director for the University for Peace in Berlin and adviser to the Director General of UNESCO. He has written numerous papers and articles as well as over 50 books including The Whispering Pond. He resides in Italy.

Stanislave Grof heads the Grof Transpersonal Training Program and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Described by Charles Tart as “the world’s leading authority on the deep exploration of the mind and the soul,” his books include The Holotropic Mind (with Hal Zina Bennett) and The Cosmic Game. He lives in Northern California.

Peter Russell was voted “Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire” by the American environmental magazine Buzzworm. He earned degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge, England. He is the author of ten books, including The Upanishads, From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness, and The TM Technique. His home is in Northern California.