Ethel Person, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytical Training and Research where she was the Director from 1981 to 1991. She is the author of Feeling Strong: The Achievement of Authentic Power; The Sexual Century; Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion; and By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives. She has edited 10 other books and contributed over 100 papers to the psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature. Dr. Person was on the Executive Council for the International Psychoanalytic Association from 1991 to 1999 as well as being the Vice President for North America from 1995 to 1999.

Currently, Dr. Person continues in her psychoanalytic practice and in lecturing here and abroad. She is currently working on a book entitled Memories.

The Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr., is the Senior Minister of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational, interracial, and international church built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1927. He is the first African-American to serve as Senior Minister of one of the largest multicultural congregations in the nation. He is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches and the Original United Holy Church of America.

Before being called to Riverside’s pulpit, Dr. Forbes served from 1976 to 1985 as the Brown and Sockman Associate Professor of Preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. From 1985 to 1989 he was Union’s first Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching. Union named him the first Harry Emerson Fosdick Adjunct Professor of Preaching in 1989, when he accepted the pastorate at Riverside. Dr. Forbes also serves on the Core Teaching Staff at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York.

Dr. Forbes is currently the host of a radio show which airs nationally on Air America, called The Time is Now and is working on a new book entitled The Courage to be Free. “What does freedom mean?” said Dr. Forbes. “Pursuing freedom requires the courage to be ourselves, even in the face of threats to our being.”

Betty Sue Flowers, Ph.D. is the Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, a position she was appointed to in 2002. Prior to that, she was the Kelleher Professor of English and member of the Distinguished Teachers Academy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute, an Honorary Fellow of British Studies, a recipient of the Pro Bene Meritis Award, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas. She is also a poet, editor, and business consultant, with publications ranging from poetry therapy to the economic myth, including two books of poetry and four television tie-in books in collaboration with Bill Moyers, among them, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. She hosted Conversations with Betty Sue Flowers on the Austin PBS-affiliate. Flowers received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of London.

Since the documentary, Dr. Flowers has been working on a monograph that should be coming out soon from Jossey-Bass. It is part of the Fetzer Institute’s series on The American Dream, entitled The American Dream and the Economic Myth. Also, in addition to her work as Director of the LBJ Presidential Library, she has finished a project (involving an international team) that produced scenarios for the future of global water for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva. She has also been a guest speaker at Chautauqua and the Omega Institute. Since filming The Mystery of Love, the Chinese and Japanese editions of Presence were published. (Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society was co-authored with Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, and Joseph Jaworski)

Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. is a psychologist practicing in Mill Valley, California and the author of Shadows of the Sacred. As a pioneer in transpersonal psychology, she has worked as an editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and was on the core faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology when it was founded. She was formerly on the clinical faculty at the University of California Medical School at Irvine. She has served as President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Association for Humanistic Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She graduated from Stanford University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

Dr. Vaughan recently participated in an international conference at Eranos in Switzerland, and is currently on the faculty for the Brief Therapy Conference sponsored by the Milton Erickson Foundation in Los Angeles in December 2006.

James Hillman, Ph.D., is an internationally respected Jungian psychologist and the founder of Archetypal Psychology. A leading scholar in Jungian and Post-Jungian thought and an imaginative clinician and teacher, he is considered to be one of the most important radical critics and innovators of contemporary culture. He is the author of more than 20 books including The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Healing Fiction, Re-Visioning Psychology, The Soul's Code, and A Terrible Love of War.

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1950. In 1959, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich as well as his analyst's diploma from the Jung Institute. He was immediately hired as the Director of Studies at the Jung Institute, a position he held until 1969. In 1970, Hillman became editor of Spring Publications, a publishing company devoted to advancing Jungian and Neo-Jungian thought. Hillman then helped co-found the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture in 1978.

Currently, Dr. Hillman is involved in a series of DVDs, each a conversation with friends about a specific topic in a different city. The series is called James Hillman’s Fragments produced by Visualize This. In the first DVD, called Surfing LA, Hillman, along with Michael Ventura and John Densmore, take a psychological tour of Los Angeles to explore the soul of the city. Next to come out will be Heart Break Land. This conversation with the feminist bell hooks will be set in Kentucky and will explore the divisions in the country. The third one is in the planning stages and is expected to be set in Pittsburgh.

Rabbi Alan Lew was the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco from 1991 to 2005. He is currently the director of Makor Or, the Center for Jewish Meditation adjacent to the synagogue. Previously, he was the rabbi of Congregation Eitz Chaim of Monroe, New York, and the first chaplain of the Jacob Perlow Hospice of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Rabbi Lew is the Past President of the Board of Rabbis of Northern California and for 10 years, the moderator of the Mosaic television program on KPIX-TV in San Francisco.

Rabbi Lew is currently writing a new book titled The Life That Ran Through Me. He is also teaching at the JTS Rabbinical Training Institute and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, as well as traveling all over the country speaking, doing scholar-in residence weekends and meditation workshops. The PBS religious newsweekly, Religion and Ethics, just aired a 10 minute profile of his work this past week, and next month he will travel to Spain at the invitation of Raimon Pannikar to take part in a conference of world spiritual leaders on the Costa Brava.