Lynn Keegan, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN is one of the founders of the holistic health focus in nursing and a well known leader in holistic nursing. She currently works as Director of Holistic Nursing Consultants in Port Angeles, WA. She has authored or co-authored 19 books and scores of professional journal publications and chapters in text books. Her books include the co-authored text book, Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, 5th ed (2009), Healing Nutrition, 2nd ed., Healing with Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Healing Waters: The Miraculous Health Benefits of Earth's Most Essential Resource, Profiles of Nurse Healers (1998), and The Nurse as Healer (1994) among others. In addition she has delivered scores of presentations and keynote addresses in numerous countries throughout the world.
Lynn was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and is board certified as Advanced Holistic Nurse by the American Holistic Nurses Association. She is past president of the American Holistic Nurses' Association and is on the board of many organizations and journals. She has been on the faculty of several prominent universities teaching in associate degree programs through coordinating graduate nursing programs. In 1991 she received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Cornell University - New York Hospital School of Nursing, and she is a three-time recipient of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award.
David E. Bresler, Ph.D., L.Ac., is a health psychologist and board-certified acupuncturist who formerly served as the founder and director of the UCLA Pain Control Unit, and as a faculty member in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Gnathology and Occlusion, and Psychology in the UCLA Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences.
He has authored over 100 publications, including the book, Free Yourself From Pain, and was the recipient of the Janet Travell Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pain Management. Currently, Dr. Bresler is the Executive Director of The Bresler Center, Visiting Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the UCLA School of Medicine and President of the Academy for Guided Imagery. In October 2000, Dr. Bresler was named to the White House Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Spiritual Teacher and author was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada.
Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time.
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet.
Eckhart is a sought-after public speaker and teaches and travels extensively throughout the world. Many of his talks, intensives and retreats are published on CD and DVD. Most of the teachings are given in English, but occasionally Eckhart also gives talks in German and Spanish. In addition to The Power of Now and A New Earth, Eckhart has written a book designed for meditative reading entitled Stillness Speaks. A book consisting of selections from The Power of Now is also available, entitled Practicing the Power of Now.
