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Marcus Anthony - first "new generation" member for Council.  One of Australasia’s most innovative and prolific futurists, author of Integrated Intelligence and The Sage of Syncronicity, Dr. Anthony has set out to try to change the world for the better as a scholar with www.mindfutures.com and as a publisher with Benjamin Franklin Press Asia  [].

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Angeles Arrien - anthropologist, founder and president of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research, associate professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and the California Institute of Integral Studies, author of The Four Fold Way and The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them.
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Ralph Abraham - mathematician, professor emeritus University of Santa Cruz, director Visual Math Institute, leading chaos theorist, co-founding GERG member, author Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior, Chaos, Gaia, and Eros, Trialogues at the Edge of the West, and The Evolutionary Mind.
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Bela H. Banathy - pioneering evolutionary systems design theorist, (deceased 2003), emeritus professor Saybrook Graduate School, past president International Society for the Systems Sciences, author of A Systems View of Education, Designing Social Systems in a Changing World, and Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View.
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Kenneth Bausch - evolutionary systems scientist, executive director Institute for 21st Century Agoras, president Ongoing Emergence, co-chair for 47th annual conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in Crete 2003, GERG member, author of The Emerging Consensus in Systems Theory.
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Richard J. Bird - psychologist and chaos theorist, senior lecturer and visiting scholar Northumbria University, U.K., president Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences (SCTPLS) 2003-2004, author of Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought.

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Howard Bloom - evolutionary theorist and activist, founding board member Epic of Evolution Society, visiting scholar New York University, author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History and The Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century.
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Raymond Bradley - sociologist, associate research professor, BRAINS Center, Radford University, director Institute for Whole Social Science, GERG member, author Charisma and Social Structure: A Study of Love and Power, Wholeness and Transformation.
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Alexander Christakis - systems scientist, Club of Rome co-founder, president International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2003, GERG member, director CWA Limited, developer of The Cogniscope and the Demosophia Paradigm for interactive management (IM).
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Allan Combs - neuropsychologist, systems theorist, and consciousness researcher, psychology department, University of North Carolina in Asheville and Saybrook Graduate School, GERG member, editor of Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition, author of Synchronicity and the award-winning The Radiance of Being.
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Gerald Cory, Jr. - neuroscientist, director Center for Behavioral Ecology, teacher San Jose State University, incoming president of the Across Species Comparisons and Psychotherapy Society, author of The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics and Toward Consilience.
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Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi -psychologist and leading creativity theorist, director Quality of Life Research Center, Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, GERG member, author of The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.
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Riane Eisler - cultural historian and evolution theorist, developer of cultural transformation theory, co-founder and president, Center for Partnership Studies, co-founding GERG member, author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Sacred Pleasure, Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, and The Power of Partnership.
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Duane Elgin - systems scientist, futurist, and media activist, GERG member, author Voluntary Simplicity, Awakening Earth, Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of a n Emerging Paradigm and Promise Ahead: Humanity’s Journey Toward a Culture of Meaning.
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Sally Goerner - engineer, mathematician, and integral activist, co-founder and twice past president The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, director Triangle Center for the Study of Complex Systems, GERG member, author of The Evolving Ecological Universe and After the Clockwork Universe.
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Rod Gorney - psychiatrist and media activist, adjunct faculty professor UCLA School of Medicine, founder and director Ashley Montagu Institute, director Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future and pioneering media research project “Mass Entertainment and Human Survival,” author of The Human Agenda: How to Be At Home in the Universe without Magic.
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Thom Hartmann - author and evolutionary and media activist, author of The Prophet’s Way, The Last Hours of AncientSunlight, and Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and Theft of Human Rights.
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Hazel Henderson - futurist, economic theorist, evolutionary and media activist, syndicated columnist, developer of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, author of Building a Win-Win World, The Politics of the Solar Age, and Creating Alternative Futures.
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Mae-Wan Ho - biophysicist and ethical activist, director Institute of Science in Society, professor Open University, U.K., GERG member, author of Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, and Toward a New Ethics of Science, The Biology of Free Will.
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Barbara Marx Hubbard - author and social innovator, president Foundation for Conscious Evolution, creator of EVOLVE, a virtual global community center for conscious evolution, and Gateway to Conscious Evolution, an internet course in conscious evolution studies, author of Conscious Evolution and Emergence.
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Sohail Inayatullah - futurist and editor, professor Tamkang University, Taiwan; University of Sunshine Coast, Australia; Queensland University of Technology; co-editor of the Journal of Future Studies, associate editor of New Renaissance, co-editor (with Johann Galtung) of Macrohistory and Macrohistorians.
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Min Jiayin - systems philosopher, research fellow Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, GERG member, president Chinese branch Club of Budapest, GERG member, author of The Evolutionary Pluralism: A New System of Systems Philosopy, and editor The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture.

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Jeffrey Kane - former dean, School of Education, now academic vice president of Long Island University, former editor of the quarterly Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, author Beyond Empiricism and editor Education, Information, and Transformation: Essays on Learning and Thinking.
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Helena Knyazeva - systems philosopher, evolutionary research scientist, Laboratory for Evolutionary Epistemology, The Institute of Philosophy, The Russian Academy of Sciences, author of The Odyssey of Human Mind: The Synergetic View of Scientific Progress and Foundations of Synergetics: Blow-up Regimes, Self-organization, Tempoworlds.
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Stanley Krippner - psychologist, Saybrook Graduate School, former director Maimonides Dream Research Laboratory, former president Association for Humanistic Psychology, author of Human Possibilities, GERG member, co-author Personal Mythology, Extraordinary Dreams, and co-editor Varieties of Anomalous Experience.
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Hans Kung - internationally known Christian theologian, President of the Global Ethic Foundation of Tubingen University, author of Does God Exist; Christianity and World Religion: Paths to Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, Christians and Jews; Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic, and editor, Yes to a Global Ethic.
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Ervin Laszlo - systems philosopher and pioneering general evolution theorist, former research director United Nations, founder General Evolution Research Group (GERG), founder and president The Club of Budapest, author Evolution: The General Theory, The Choice: Oblivion or Evolution, Macroshift, The Connectivity Hypothesis and over 30 other books on evolution and systems science.
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Daniel Levine - mathematical psychologist and neural network theorist, University of Texas at Arlington, former president International Neural Network Society, author of Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling and (forthcoming) Common Sense and Common Nonsense.
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Bill Levis - treasurer, chief financial officer and board member, The Center for Partnership Studies, consultant to The Urban Institute and many social innovation start-ups, author of Form 990 for Nonprofit Organizations.
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David Loye - psychologist, systems scientist and evolution theorist, former research director Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future, UCLA School of Medicine, co-founding GERG member, author of The Healing of a Nation, The Leadership Passion, The Knowable Future, An Arrow Through Chaos, and editor The Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution.
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Paul D. MacLean - widely considered one of the two greatest living brain scientists, former professor of psychiatry at Yale and former chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), developer of the concept of the limbic system and the triune brain theory, author of the scientific classic The Triune Brain in Evolution.
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Peter Meyer-Dohm - economist and leading German educator, chair International Partnership Initiative, chair, Academic Council, German Institute for Adult Education, The German Society for Educational Sciences, The German Institute for Distance Learning Research, The German Institute for International Educational Research, and the Institute for the Pedagogy of Natural Sciences.
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Ron Miller - historian and theorist of holistic and progressive education, founder of the Foundation for Educational Renewal and Paths of Learning and Encounter magazines, author of What Are Schools For, Caring for New Life, and Free Schools, Free people, adjunct faculty Teacher Education Program, Goddard College.
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Alfonso Montuori - systems scientist, pioneering professor of distance learning courses, California Institute for Integral Studies, principal Evolutionary Strategies, associate editor World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, GERG member, author Evolutionary Competence and From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love, Work and Community.
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Nel Noddings - leading U.S. educator and moral theorist, Stanford University School of Education, author of The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, and Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy.
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Bruce Novak - educator, lecturer, English department, University of Chicago, chair of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning of the National Council of English Teachers (AEPL), chair of the Education Task Force of the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning.
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John O’Manique - moral systems theorist, (deceased 2003), distinguished research professor The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, author of The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights and Law.
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Barclay Palmer - educator, former English teacher, head of Upper School Friend's Seminary, NYC; director Mirrors of Teaching, Teachers in Depth, board member Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.
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Karl Pribram - widely considered one of the two greatest living brain scientists, former director Yerkes Laboratories of primate research, former Yale and Stanford University professor, former director Center for Brain Research at Radford University, developer of holographic and holonomic brain theory, GERG member, author of The Language of the Brain, Brain and Perception, and co-author of the classic Plans and the Structure of Behavior.
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Raffi - composer, performer, recording artist, founder of Child Honouring, founder and president of Troubadour Music, recipient of the UN’s Earth Achievement Award, author of The Life of a Children’s Troubadour.
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Robert J. Richards - psychologist, historian, director Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago, author of The Meaning of Evolution, The Romantic Conception of Life, and the pivotal study for 20th century Darwinian research Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior.
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Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D. - Board Certified psychiatrist and educational psychologist, Saybrook Graduate School, also University of California, San Francisco, Harvard Medical School, and The McLean Hospital, co-developer of The Lifetime Creativity Scales, co-editor of Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health.
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John Robbins - health revolutionary, author of The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, and Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth.
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Nancy Roberts - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, leader in movement to shift the emphasis from war to peace for the military, editor of The Transforming Power of Dialogue and author of Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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Frank Ryan, M.D. - physician, venturesome British science theorist, author of Darwin’s Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection, The Eskimo Diet, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told, Virus X, and Taking Care of Harry.
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Stanley Salthe - biologist and evolution theorist, professor emeritus City College of New York, GERG member, author of Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology, championing a biology freed of the shackles of neoDarwinism and the integration of chaos, complexity, and other modern as well as ancient theories into evolution theory.
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David Scott - nuclear scientist, former chancellor University of Massachusetts, former provost Michigan State University, editor Accountability and Control in Educational Settings, honored as “a champion of the vision of an integrative University in which transdisciplinary research and holistic learning communities can overcome the fragmentation of knowledge and support the development of wiser human beings to create a better world.”
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Tim Seldin -educator, president of the Montessori Foundation, chair of the International Montessori Council, former director of the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies, author of The Montessori Way, Building a World-Class Montessori School, Starting a New Montessori School, Celebrations of Life , and The World in the Palm of Her Hand.
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Christine Sleeter - leader in the field of multicultural studies, director Institute for Advanced Studies in Education, CSU Monterey Bay, former professor school of education, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, author Culture, Difference, and Power.
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Joseph Subbiondo - educator, president California Institute for Integral Studies, former vice president University of the Pacific, historian of linguistics specializing in the study of the relation between English words and the evolution of consciousness and the Enlightenment development of a new language for science; editor, John Wilkins and 17th Century British Linguistics.
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Brian Swimme - physicist and ethical cosmologist, director, Center for the Story of the Universe, California Institute for Integral Studies, author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, The Universe is a Green Dragon, and The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry).
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Michael Toms - co-founder of New Dimensions Radio and chief executive officer of the New Dimensions Broadcasting Network, board chairman emeritus of the California Institute of Integral Studies, author of A Time for Choices, True Work, At the Leading Edge, and An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms.
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