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Jaime Leal Anaya, B.D., S.T.L., is the literary editor of JZK Publishing, the official publishing house of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Originally from Mexico, Anaya holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree as well as a licentiate in Theology from the University of Maynooth in Ireland. He and his wife represented Ramtha's School of Enlightenment at the 2001 annual conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, associated with the American Anthropological Association.

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Dr. Narendra Jadhav is the Vice Chancellor of the University Of Pune, which is a premier institution of higher education in India and one of the largest universities in the world. He is the head of the Reserve Bank of India's Department of Economic Analysis and Policy. He also advised the executive director of the International Monetary Fund from 1998 to 2002, and has published nearly 80 journal articles and books about monetary policy, public finance and international economics.

Niro Markoff Asistent is the author of the 1991 book Why I Survive AIDS which tells the story of how she healed herself after having been given the news of her condition. Her story was featured on the Oprah show in Spring 2008. Asistent continues to teach around the world and is now renovating her farm house in upstate NY into a modest retreat center to facilitate individuals interested in experiencing the "way of the middle." She is currently completing her next book on becoming a disciple of life.

Heidi Mueller has been an early childhood educator and newspaper columnist. She is a graduate of the Euro Institute and holds a degree in Medical Aesthetics. Her interests include ecological awareness, holistic health and spiritual awakening. She loves the arts, music and foremost learning from her six-year-old daughter Astroleah.

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Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, is a cellular biologist and former Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine.  His pioneering research on cloned stem cells at Wisconsin presaged the revolutionary field of epigenetics, the new science of how environment and perception control genes. His later research at Stanford University's School of Medicine revealed the nature of the biochemical pathways that bridge the mind-body duality. His book The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles was released in 2005.

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Monica J. Harris, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, in 1983 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. Her research interests fall into four overlapping categories: interpersonal expectancy effects; interpersonal power; meta-analysis and other methodological issues; and teasing and peer victimization. She is the co-author of the textbook Research Methods in Social Relations.

Erin Gruwell is the founder of the Freedom Writers foundation. Her experiences as a beginning teacher became the basis of the 2007 movie Freedom Writers. She is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, where she received the Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumni Award. She earned her Master's Degree and teaching credentials from California State University, Long Beach, where she was honored as Distinguished Alumna by the School of Education. She has written an autobiographical account of her experiences, Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers.

Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D., FACN, is director of natural and medicinal products research for the AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., in Puyallup, Washington, where he has been the lead scientist for 27 years. He is currently adjunct research professor of botanical medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. The author/co-author of more than 100 scientific papers and twelve books, he recently was recognized by the American College for the Advancement of Medicine for his contributions to the medical sciences with the 2005 Linus Pauling Lecture Award. Schauss earned his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and California Coast University in Santa Ana, respectively.

Dr. Lane Strathearn is a developmental pediatrician who received his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He did a fellowship in child protection and neurodevelopment at the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane before coming to Baylor College of Medicine in 2001 for a fellowship in developmental pediatrics. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Research Fellow at the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory. Dr. Strathearn's research interest is in the neurobiology of mother-infant attachment, and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism.

Alexis Kuerbis is currently a doctoral candidate at New York University's School of Social Work. For the past twelve years, she has worked in public health research, with two primary emphases: family caregivers for the chronically and terminally ill and addiction. She obtained her MSW at NYU where she focused her clinical practice and research on substance abusers and their families, particularly those with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. Her direct clinical practice has included individual, group, couples, and family therapy. Her other research interests also include social justice, empowerment, step-parenting, bi- and multi-racial identity, and organizational change.

Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. is a therapist, lecturer and trainer on client-directed, outcome-informed clinical work and other time-sensitive therapeutic approaches.  For three years, he co-directed Problems to Solutions, Inc.-a clinic specializing in the treatment of the homeless and other traditionally under served populations. Most recently, Dr. Miller co-founded the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change and works pro-bono at a clinic dedicated to serving the under served.  He is the author of many papers and seven books including The Heroic Client, The Heart & Soul of Change : What Works, The Miracle Method : A Radically New Approach to Problem Drinking , and Working With the Problem Drinker : A Solution-Focused Approach.

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Larry Gonick is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form. He has also written The Cartoon History of the United States, and he has adapted the format for a series of co-written guidebooks on other subjects, beginning with The Cartoon Guide to Genetics in 1983. From 1990 to 1997, he penned a bimonthly "Science Classics" cartoon for Discover Magazine. During the 1994-1995 academic year, Gonick was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. His work includes Candide in China, published on the World Wide Web, Kokopelli & Company, a comic that appears in the magazine Muse and the satirical, anti-corporate comic Commoners on the website OnTheCommons.org.