Jay Kinney is the co-author, with Richard Smoley, of Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (Quest Books, Spring 2006) and editor of the anthology, The Inner West (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004). He was publisher and editor in chief of Gnosis magazine from 1985-1999 (www.gnosismagazine.com). His new book will be The Masonic Enigma, forthcoming from HarperSF in late 2006. You can visit Jay at www.jaykinney.com. |
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Richard Smoley is author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition and coauthor, with Jay Kinney, of Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions. His latest book is Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to The Da Vinci Code. In the 1990s he was editor of Gnosis magazine. His web site is www.innerchristianity.com. |
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Count George W. Boyer, DD, ThD, was born on a family farm near Boston in Lincolnshire, England and educated in a Church of England School, Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood country). Count Boyer is qualified in psychology and metaphysical healing, and studied comparative religion. He was consecrated as a Bishop in August 1958. He moved to London in the early 60s and worked with the late Richard, Duc de Palatine to help with the work of re-establishing the ancient gnosis of the soul. Today, as Presiding Bishop of The Pre-Nicene Ekklesia and as Grand Master and Lord Abbot of the Healing, Teaching and Chivalric Order of St Michael and St Raphael, Bishop Boyer continues the Work. |
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| Rev. Max was expelled from Catholic elementary school in the late 1970s when the nuns caught him proselytising for the occult. Today he lives with his wife somewhere on the California coast, where he works as a consultant to high tech industry. His website the Gnostic Friends Network (www.enemies.com) emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most influential Gnostic sites on the Internet and has been featured in Wired, the Independent (UK) and ART? Alternatives magazines. You can also visit him at his new site, www.secretbible.com. |
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Jason Jeffrey holds an interest in a wide range of subjects including ancient mysteries, psychic/spiritual development, lost civilisations and arcane wisdom. He can be contacted at jasonjeffrey33@yahoo.com.au |
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Tau Mikhael is the Chief Bishop of the Universal Life Gnostic Fellowship and currently serves as the international secretary of the Universal Gnostic Alliance. An ordained minister since 1980, he holds degrees of Doctorate of Divinity and Theology. He has traveled extensively in Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East, and currently divides his time between Australia and South East Asia. |
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| Jim DeKorne has been a student of the mysteries for over 30 years. He is the author of Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants. Jim currently resides in Hawaii. |
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| Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, is a filmmaker, writer, choreographer and teacher. She is the author of The Path of the Priestess; A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine and the DVD, Yoga of Light. Together with her husband, Jay Weidner, she has produced documentary and instructional DVDs for their company Sacred Mysteries Productions including Artmind with Alex Grey, Healing the Luminous Body with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Quantum Astrology with Rick Levine and more. She is currently at work on their first feature-length documentary film 2012: The Odyssey. Sharron's web site is located at www.sharronrose.com. |
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| The Most Rev. Richard, Duc de Palatine (1916-1977) is universally recognized as one of the most learned and charismatic Gnostic teachers of the 20th century. Born in Australia, of French and British ancestry, he studied in Melbourne before traveling to England where he was consecrated a bishop in 1953. On the 25th October of the same year he established The Pre-Nicene Gnosto-Catholic Church in London, with the object of “restoring the Gnosis Divine Wisdom to the Christian Church, and to teach the Path of Holiness which leads to God and the Inner Illumination and Interior Communion with the Soul through the mortal body of man.” |
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