The Intentional Spirit ... Seeing and Being

Richard Barrett's new book A New Psychology ff Human Well-Being offers the world an exciting new approach to the understanding of human well-being: an approach that aligns ancient wisdom with cutting-edge theories of science, psychology, and spirituality. He brings together Eastern and Western approaches to consciousness and medicine in a unifying model that transcends birth and death and leads us into an energetic dimension of reality, where we encounter the soul. Richard is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre. He is also a fellow of the World Business Academy, member of the council of the Centre for Integral Wisdom, honorary board member of the Spirit of Humanity Forum, and former values coordinator at the World Bank.

Catherine Lanigan is the best-selling author of nearly 40 published titles in both fiction and nonfiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, as well as more than half a dozen anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dream and Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul. Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention and the second in Lanigan's Angel Watch series of books, was published by HCI, the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. Allworth Press released Lanigan's "how-to" book on writing: Writing the Great American Romance Novel. Lanigan recently completed NotMYkid, a nonfiction regarding teen addictions, which was commissioned by the NotMYkid foundation. Lanigan has completed the third book of angelic interventions, Angel Tales, which is being published by Cedar Fort Publishers.

Dr. Barbara Fields is the executive director of the Association for Global New Thought, which was cofounded in 1996 to represent the leading edge of the New Thought lineage. Its constituent member churches and centers (700-800 in network) include Unity, Religious Science, and nondenominational New Thought spiritual communities. They are called forth by a deep commitment to bring the principles and practices of cocreation to a sacred and troubled world. Barbara is also cofounder (with Arun Gandhi) and project director of the Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence (1998-present); program director of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago; cofounder and project director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Dharamsala, India, 1999, Trent, Italy, 2001, and Rome, 2004, and coordinator of U.S. based omni-local initiatives for Harvard Global Negotiation Project's Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East.

David Goldberg has spoken and taught around the world in corporate, spiritual, and academic settings. Whether at a brain summit in China, an international conference of business communicators in London, a service at one of the largest New Thought spiritual centers in the world, or an academic presentation on ethics and leadership development, he stands ready to bring his heart, mind, and wealth of experience to help you get your messages across to your key constituents. After having a mystical expereince in 2009 at the Chartres Cathedral in France, I attended a training offered by Veriditas, an organization dedicated to preserving and creating layrinths around the world, and became a certified labyrinth facilitator. The labyrinth remains an important part of my personal spiritual practice, and I am honored to be able to share the wisdom and history of this amazing tool and offer labyrinth walks in varied settings around the world.

Dr. Mark W. Tong is the founder of Healing International and creator of Crystal Bay Hotel, the "Healing Hotel." He's also an author, lecturer, and leading expert in incorporating the "Mind" and "Spirit" in healing. He specializes in assisting cancer patients in recovery and healing, holistically. His book, Prevent Cancer With Mind & Spirit, not only empowers his readers to maintain their own wellness, but also enables others to share this powerful message with friends and family to protect their health as well. After working for three years at an alternative outpatient cancer facility, he saw the need to create an all-inclusive healing environment where guests can experience spiritual counseling, healing, and lifestyle coaching along with proper diet and detoxification.

She's been called a "real life Indiana Jones" by fans and readers around the world-an inspiring icon of truth, and a living model of the adventurous spirit and seeker within us all. Internationally acclaimed author Patricia Cori is one of the most well-known and established authorities on the realms of the mystic, views of the world, and multidimensional reality that challenge the status quo. She has been a key voice in the alternative media for decades, and a contactee who has brought paradigm-busting information to the public since 1996-contributing a wealth of material to the New Thought community. She has the "chops" to prove it, too, with 11 best-selling publications, published in more than 20 languages.

Pouline Middleton was deeply disappointed in her love life. We've all been there at one time or another. For Pouline, it was a divorce, leaving her a single mother, and then a relationship with a cheating man that opened her eyes. Pouline decided to rethink how she dated and make a list of all the aspects of having a mate that were important to her. Turns out her list had 26 items. She culled them down to just three areas: a man to talk with about not only small things, but also the meaning of life; a man to be intimate with; and a man to handle the practical things such as handyman tasks. That's when the conscious approach to dating kicked in. Pouline decided to take the pressure off the supercharged aspect of dating to "find the one." She made up her mind to date three different men, one for each area that was important to her. "One Woman, Three Men is a fun read," says Middleton, "but under the humor is a serious look at bringing our highest consciousness to modern love and sex."

David Good is a member of a remote indigenous tribe known as the Yanomai. This group is widely known and is the subject of much research and discussion among anthropologists, sociologists, journalists, conservationists, and evolutionary biologists, to name a few. They have been internationally syndicated in books, documentaries, periodicals, reports, and journals. The Yanomami have received international attention due in part to being one of the last indigenous groups that have no, or minimal, contact with the "outside" world. David founded The Good Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the education, health care, and cultural preservation of the Yanomami and Cabecar indigenous groups in South and Central America. His book, The Way Around, highlights his incredible story (released in November 2015).

Best-selling author Laura Day has spent three decades helping individuals, organizations, and companies use their innate intuitive abilities to create profound changes in their lives. Her work has helped demystify intuition and demonstrate its practical, verifiable uses in the fields of business, science, medicine, and personal growth. She has trained thousands of people to use their brains and perceptions in effective ways including scientists, celebrities, business executives, and other professionals to realize their goals while creating supportive and inspiring communities. Laura has been featured in many publications including Newsweek, New York magazine, The Independent, Bottom Line, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and People magazine. She speaks regularly in the United States and abroad, and has appeared on numerous segments on CNN, Fox News, Good Morning America, The View, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Serial entrepreneur and angel investor May McCarthy explains how to tap into your intuition and follow your instincts to achieve personal and financial abundance-much like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Oprah, Einstein, and hundreds more. Most people have experienced intuition, but they don't know where it comes from and they haven't experienced great success relying on it. May McCarthy is a successful entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and author who has grown six profitable companies to as large as 250 employees and more than $100 million in annual revenues. She has spent 32 years uncovering the mystery of how to rely on intuition and partner with its all-knowing source to experience great levels of success, financial abundance, and freedom. May explains the seven-step process she has developed that everyone, not just a few, can use to access this incredible source in her best-selling book Path to Financial Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps to Financial Abundance.

Simran Singh-author, creative visionary, transformational catalyst, and Rebel Humanitarian-is publisher of the Nautilus Award–winning 11:11 magazine host of the No. 1-rated 11:11 talk radio show. Having no interest in being a teacher of Guru, Simran invites people to stand with her as "examples of a new-world paradigms" through powerful presentations and speaking engagements. The author of Your Journey to Enlightenment and Conversations With the Universe, this Lead Rebel of the Rebel Road Tour impacts thousands upon thousands with her message. Her passionate style takes individuals on a journey into courage, fearless authenticity, and presence through writing, speaking, creative expression, and experience as the Rebel in her one-woman show, The Rebel Road: Connecting the Dots of What Was to What IS by illustrating the bridge between dark and light as our path of radiance and illumination.

Caroline Sutherland is a medical intuitive, author, radio host, teacher, and innovative leader in the fields of nutrition and energy medicine. She's the popular Hay House author of The Body Knows book series. Caroline has a vast clinical background as an allergy-testing technician in environmental medicine where her intuitive gift developed. In the early 1980s while working as a physician's assistant she began to receive intuitive impressions about her patients, an experience that groomed her to become one of the most sought-after medical intuitives today. Caroline was raised in a medical family-both her father and grandfather were medical doctors. As a child the "blueprint" of her family lineage created important seeds for her future career as a medical intuitive. For more than 30 years, she has lectured internationally on the subject of health education and medical intuition, and her intuitive impressions have positively affected the lives of thousands of people.

Dimitri Moraitis is cofounder and executive director of the Spiritual Arts Institute. An accomplished teacher and spiritual healer, he is coauthor of Karma and Reincarnation, The Healing Power of Your Aura, and Communing With the Divine. In his latest book Change Your Aura, Change Your Life, you will discover your source of unlimited spiritual energy! Everything you think, feel, and do radiates a spiritual energy that comes through in various colors and hues: this is your aura-the aura is your spiritual blueprint. By changing the quality of your aura, you can automatically change the quality of your life. In this groundbreaking book, Dimitri Moraitis and renowned aura expert Barbara Martin, known as the "Mozart of Metaphysics," lead you through this technique for improving the aura-a technique that has been taught to thousands.

Rob has extraordinary healing gifts. He is fully clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient. At a young age he was able to heal animals and communicate with spirits. These gifts were not understood and he learned to ignore them. For more than 30 years he worked in corporate America as a highly successful CEO. This was until he received the ultimate "cosmic 2-by-4," and in a time of despair he asked what his life was for and ... He heard the answer. Since then Rob has dedicated his life to being a vessel for divine light and love. He has helped tens of thousands of people of all ages and religions. Raised in a strictly Christian home in the heart of South Dakota's rich Native American culture, Rob draws from the essence of both of these traditions. He wishes his work to be universally available to people of all spiritual persuasions. Rob is also author of From Illness Is the Cure.

Our lives can take an unexpected turn at any moment. Mine did in 2001: I got sick with what the doctors initially diagnosed as an acute viral infection-but have yet to recover. I was a law professor for 22 years at the University of California-Davis until the illness forced me to retire. During those 22 years, I served six years as the law school's dean of students. I had a long-standing Buddhist practice and coled a weekly meditation group with my husband (who's also named Tony!). I never expected to become an author but, faced with learning to live a new life, I wrote How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers. Truth be told, I began it as a manual for myself, but when I shared parts of it with others, they encouraged me to turn it into a book. And so I did. To my surprise and delight, it has garnered a worldwide following and has won two Nautilus Book Awards: a gold medal in self-help/psychology and a silver medal in memoir. It was also named one of the "Best Books of 2010" by Spirituality and Practice.