Dr Johanna de Groot had a traditional catholic background, with 24 years experience living the life of a sister in a teaching order based on the Benedictine Spirituality. She developed an interest in Comparative Religion since the Vatican II (1965). Over the years her interest has deepened and expanded into processes and understandings that bridge subjective (spiritual) experiences with mainstream objective sciences.

She is a member of the Scientific and Medical Network, an organisation comprising scientists, medical professionals and discerning thinkers who question and investigate beyond the standard Western (Classical-Newtonian) world-view.

Her "Ladder of Credibility" offers a useful framework by which we may investigate anomalous phenomena, particularly in the area of subjective spiritual experiences.

Werner Sattmann-Frese is a social ecologist and psychotherapist who founded Living for a Sustainable Earth.

Werner Sattmann-Frese studied conventional medicine and body-oriented psychotherapy from 1977 until 1984. Since then he has been working as a psychotherapist mainly in private practice.

Since 1992 he has also been supervising psychotherapists and training students in psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine, and holistic bodywork.

Holding Master and PhD degrees in Social Ecology, Werner has a strong interest in the interrelationships between personal, social, and environmental sustainability.

Besides speaking and facilitating workshops at conferences, he is now also presenting workshops on consciousness transformation and psychological perspectives of ecological crises at centres throughout Australia.

Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S., F.S.P.

Peter Russell is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest.

At Cambridge University (UK), he studied mathematics and theoretical physics. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind he changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation.

He also has a post-graduate degree in computer science, and conducted there some of the early work on 3-dimensional displays, presaging by some twenty years the advent of virtual reality.

In the mid-seventies Peter Russell joined forces with Tony Buzan and helped teach "Mind Maps" and learning methods to a variety of international organizations and educational institutions.

Since then his corporate programs have focused increasingly on self-development, creativity, stress management, and sustainable environmental practices. Clients have included IBM, Apple, Digital, American Express, Barclays Bank, Swedish Telecom, ICI, Shell Oil and British Petroleum.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the "Akasha Paradigm," the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences.

Professor Reginald Cahill is Professor in Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide.

He is involved in the development of "Process Physics" -- a new model of reality that starts

"from the premise that the limits to logic, which are implied by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, mean that any attempt to model reality via a formal system is doomed to failure. Instead of formal systems we use a process system, which uses the notions of self-referential information with self-referential noise and self-organised criticality to create a new type of information-theoretic system that is realising both the current formal physical modelling of reality but is also exhibiting features such as the direction of time, the present moment effect and quantum state entanglement (including EPR effects, nonlocality and contextuality), as well as the more familiar formalisms of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. In particular a theory of Gravity has already emerged.

In short, rather than the static 4-dimensional modelling of present day (non-process) physics, Process Physics is providing a dynamic model where space and quantum matter emerge from a fundamentally random but self-organising system. The key insight is that to adequately model reality we must move on from the traditional non-process syntactical information modelling to a process semantic information modelling; such information is `internally meaningful'."

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Professor Jahn is Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has been chairman of the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, associate editor of the AIAA Journal, and a member of the NASA Space Science and Technology Advisory Committee.

He is vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories consortium. He has been a long-term member of the Board of Directors of Hercules, Inc. and chairman of its Technology Committee, and a member and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc.

In brief:

Stephen1 is a belief-systems specialist (covering business, social, scientific, political and personal dimensions to life).

Stephen is the author of critically-acclaimed books that reveal how underlying quantum physics principles operate in everyday life, and how those principles can be engaged and beneficially applied.

Prior to establishing the Belief Institute, Stephen was working within the Professional Development Unit (now ISBP) at Charles Sturt University (Faculty of Business) in the role of business development, short-course design, development and marketing.

During the 1990's Stephen used his sales experience to begin an engineering business supplying advanced fire protection systems to corporate clients. Stephen started his business during the peak of the (1991) recession, without any prior industry knowledge or experience. This lack of experience required Stephen to lean heavily on his intuition and creativity, while maintaining a professional business approach.