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Artist Barbara Thomas creates in connection with the angels and nature spirits. She often sleeps in her chapel-like art studio that sits nobly in the forest inviting the morning mist to cast shadows on the paintings that seem to flow more from her own center than any paint brush.

Numinous Theatre as a site from writer/director Laura Wilson, focuses on theater as a link to the sacred, through the use of mythic, ritual and other themes. The awareness of, and partnership with nonphysical beings is an important part of her vision.

Spirituality: Celtic, Neo-Pagan, Interfaith

Hallowquest is the website of John and Caitlin Matthews, highly respected authors and teachers of the Western Mystery Tradition, who have between them brought a vast amount of highly valuable traditional material into modern awareness. Their books include:
The Western Way (vol. 1 and 2)
Singing the Soul Back Home
Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom
The Winter Solstice
The Celtic Book of the Dead

RJ Stewart is a noted Scottish author, musician and visionary teacher, who brings ancient Celtic traditions of faery contact and the Western Mysteries into modern times.  Other websites include RJ Stewart Books and Dreampower.  His books include:
Earthlight
Power Within the Land
The Living World of Faery
The UnderWorld Initiation
The Way of Merlin
The Well of Light
The Miracle Tree
The Dreampower Tarot

Society of Inner Light is the web site for the society created by Dion Fortune, famed occultist and medium who taught in the ‘20s to ‘40s. Her work is foundational for many modern teachers of the Western Mystery Tradition.  Dion's books include:
The Sea Priestess
Moon Magic
The Mystical Qabalah
The Cosmic Doctrine
Through the Gates of Death

Avalon Mystery School \and Chalice Centre are the websites for the work of Mara Freeman, who is an international presenter and well-known storyteller in the Bardic tradition.  She has a strong background in art and theater as well as Western Esoteric tradition, and has created the Avalon Mystery School.

Brigid's Hearth and Faery Healing are the websites of Margie McArthur, who has been a Priestess of the Old Religion for over 30 years.  She is also an author, a Druid, an ordained minister, a Reiki practitioner, and is certified in crystal healing, acupressure and herbalism.

United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence.

The Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco is among a group of centers involved in the United Religions Initiative.

The Association for Global New Thought seeks "planetary healing through self-realization and spiritually-motivated activism."

Healing and Personal Transformation

Peggy Black, is a ‘Sacred Sound Salutarist, Spiritual Synergist, Transducer and Scribe,’ world traveler, and lecturer with thirty-five years experience in the healing field. She is featured internationally in television, radio and print media. Peggy founded and co-created the International Sound Symposium 2002 and continues to create global Sound Pods.

The Sedona Method is a technique to alleviate physical and emotional suffering and liberate natural inner freedom.  It supports individuals and organizations in achieving balance, success, wellness, strength, effectiveness, happiness and well-being.

Co-Creative Working

Perelandra is the center created by Machaelle Small Wright, in Virginia.  She has worked with the Nature Intelligences for 0ver 30 years, creating an amazing co-creative garden and pioneering ways of working co-creatively in any setting. In addition, in partnership with the inner beings, she has created products and processes to help people in an amazing variety of ways. Her books include:
Behaving As If the God in All Life Mattered
Perelandra Garden Workbook 1 and 2
MAP: Medical Assistance Program

Findhorn community in Scotland began a revolution of awareness regarding working with the beings of Nature in the 1960’s. They continue to be an important international center for transformation and reconnection.

Related Work

The Alliance for Democracy is "a new Populist movement --- not a political party --- setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations."

The Center for Visionary Cosmology created by Pamela Eakins and Brian Swimme, who are "developing a new planetary cosmology.  This evolutionary philosophy is a futuristic vision that transforms the culture of destruction and death into one of integrity, interconnectivity, creativity, sustainability and celebration."

Health Realization - teaching "educators, youth-service workers, communities and families how to engage the innate resilience—the natural human capacity for learning, creativity, compassion, common sense and well-being—in the youth they teach and care for, and, as importantly, in themselves … to become outstanding role models for our children."

Integral Life, motivated by the work of Ken Wilbur and others, "is a school designed to engage, empower, and transform body, mind, and spirit. We will offer educational programs ranging from one-week to three-month intensives in integral development, knowledge, and practice. As such, ILi joins in the emergence of a new frontier in education."  Their associated non-profit is the Integral Institute.

Joanna Macy comes from the Buddhist tradition, and teaches The Work that Reconnects, including The Council of All Beings.

The Peace Alliance calls for everyone to "participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace. There is currently a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 808). This landmark measure will augment our current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict."

Sydney Banks is an author, philosopher and lecturer who teaches the three Universal principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought that psychology and psychiatry have been searching for.

More Books

To Hear the Angels Sing: An Odyssey of Co-Creation With the Devic Kingdom, by Dorothy MacLean

Kinship With All Life, by J. Allen Boone

Talking With Nature and Journey Into Nature, by Michael J. Roads