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Authors and Editors
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Lynne Souter-Anderson - Author
With three decades of art teaching, two decades of experience as play therapist, counsellor, trainer, supervisor and course writer, the author has extensive knowledge of guidance and counselling work with children and adolescents.
Since 2004, Lynne has been a member of the Play Therapy UK Board of Studies and a PTUK Senior Course Director
presenting clay workshops at the Play Therapy International World Congress, 2004; All Hallows, Dublin, 2007 and the PTI summer seminars in France. She will be presenting workshops at the 2010 World Play Therapy Congress in Morocco. She trains international groups, has a private counselling practice in Cambridgeshire, UK; writes M.A. courses; supervises M.A.
dissertations and is also the Counselling Pathway Leader at Huntingdonshire Regional College, UK.
Lynne is a great grandaughter of a long line of artisan potters from Leeds, clay is in her bones and blood.
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Anne Baring - Author
Anne Baring is a Jungian analyst (retired) and writer and lives near Winchester. She has co-authored The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine; and more recently with Scilla Elworthy Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity.
She is also the author of The One Work: A Journey Towards the Self; her current book in progress is called The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul. Her books and her website www.annebaring.com are devoted to the restoration of the lost sense of communion between us and the invisible dimension of the universe that is the source or ground of all that we call ‘life’ and to the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice.
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Ian Gordon-Brown - Author
Joint founder and co-director with Barbara Somers of the Centre for Transpersonal Psychotherapy, was in private practice as psychotherapist and consultant psychologist. He read psychology at Cambridge, and was involved in industrial psychology until 1976. He worked with the Lucis Trust for 14 years, becoming director and an international trustee. His interests included ways of expanding individual and group consciousness, esoteric movements and social networks. He died in October 1996.
Ian and Barbara met in 1970 and began to run workshops together. They founded the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology in London in 1973 and established the training there in 1978, running it together until Ian's death.
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Anne Maria Clarke - Author
Anne Maria Clarke is a writer and storyteller working in the field of myth, fairytale and legend. Since 1990 she has adapted numerous stories for cd and live performance, including The Celtic Quest for the Grail, The Sleeping Beauty, The Six Swans and the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris.
In The Dark Moon she draws upon this experience, using extracts from her previous works, in order to bring meaning and understanding to the issue of loss and recovery in her own personal life.
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Karen L French - Author
Creative and numerate, Karen L French has had a life-long interest in understanding and interpreting the simple patterns that underlie our lives. She holds a joint Hons Degree in mathematics and management sciences and art and an MSc in Marketing. She has been published on several occasions during her 20 years experience in international marketing and product management. Gateway to the Heavens is the result of 12 years researching and writing about sacred geometry. Born in Africa, Karen lives in the UK with her Canadian husband and three children.
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Celia M Gunn - Author
Celia Gunn is a Northumbrian-born writer now living in the West Country of England. Since her North American experience she has written two novels, A Dark Windand The Fourth Gateway. She continues to pursue a lifelong interest in the mysteries of reality, and with her husband enjoys exploring and researching the mystical landscape of Wessex: stone circles, medieval churches, crop formations and landscape zodiacs. Currently Celia is working on the biography of an elder of the Western Mystery tradition and a novel about ancient North America. When not planning her writing on long dog-walks, she can most often be found tending her beautiful chakric woodland garden.
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Jill Hayes - Author
Jill Hayes is a mother, teacher, practitioner, writer and researcher. Throughout her working life Jill has felt drawn to therapeutic applications of the arts. Drama, visual and plastic arts, dance movement and creative writing have all been experienced as media of personal growth and transpersonal connection in a variety of educational and residential contexts. In particular body, movement and dance are identified here as thresholds to psyche and spirit, and understood as channels of healing through reconnection with an eternal source.
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Andrew Machon - Author
Andrew is a blend of artist and scientist. He is an infrared photographer seeking to express nature's beauty and essence and also a PhD biochemist who has studied the molecular basis of life. Through the application of MA studies in psychosynthesis and his practice as a psychotherapist, Andrew continues to explore the nature of who we are.
He has worked for a number of blue chip companies but now acts as an independent consultant and coach guiding individuals and organisations through major transitions.
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Hazel Marshall - Editor
Hazel Marshall, M.Ed, editor, is a qualified psychotherapist and has, since 1989, been running Transpersonal courses based upon the work of Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown at The Rock-Bank Transpersonal Centre in Cropston, Leicestershire.
This book, distilled from transcriptions of audiotapes of Barbara and Ian's seminars, has been put together in the light of her profound knowledge of, and admiration for, the authors' work. She is currently editing all the material available for the fourth book in the 'Wisdom of the Transpersonal' series which will be titled Symptom as Symbol
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Lara Owen - Author
Lara Owen is a British writer and psychotherapist living in southwest England. She has a background in Chinese medicine and was in practice during the 1980's as an acupuncturist specialising in women's health. Her Blood Is Gold was first published in 1993 and was inspired and informed by her experiences on retreat in wilderness areas, and from spiritual practice and study in the Native American and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Lara now works with clients internationally as a psychotherapist and coach on a broad range of issues including spiritual development, creativity, and relationships. For information about her books, her teaching schedule, and her work with individuals and groups, please visit http://laraowen.com.
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Dr Rod Paton - Author
A native of the county of Pembrokeshire, West Wales, Rod’s deep, personal interest in music has been part of his make-up since he was a young child. After completing his education in the UK, he spent several years in Eastern Europe, studying composition, horn playing and the music of the Moravian composer Leos Janacek. Since that time, he has worked as a jazz horn player, composer and university teacher, specialising in the social meanings of music and the therapeutic properties of improvisation. In 1995, he completed his doctorate at Sussex University on the theme of musical renewal and since that time has been active in developing community projects which demonstrate the wider accessibility and social functions of creative music. His largest composition, the “Ascension Jazzmass” was described as “a moving testament to the human spirit” (Jazz Journal) and his book “Living Music” as “a goldmine” (Sounding Board Magazine). He is a director of Sound Sense, the UK professional agency for community music and is currently directing a series of music projects along the south coast of England together with a training programme in the Lifemusic method.
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Barbara Somers - Author
Joint founder and director with Ian Gordon-Brown of the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology, is a psychotherapist. She worked previously in personnel, as a literary editor, and for nine years with the Society of Authors. With Ian she created the training courses on which these books are based, and ran them from 1978 until Ian's death in 1996. She is fascinated by dreamwork, symbolism and mythology, the interaction of psyche and soma, and eastern systems of spiritual development, especially Tibetan and Zen.
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Bryce Taylor - Author
Before his sudden death Bryce Taylor had been involved in the world of education for most of his adult life, working alongside individuals, groups and organisations in the field of Human Relations. Passionate about learning, his depth of experience, together with his innovative, insightful and flexible approach, underpinned by a belief in the importance of relationship, enabled Bryce to make a unique contribution both in conceptual understanding and practical application.
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Anthony Thorley - Author
Anthony Thorley was an eighteen-year-old between school and university when he wrote Well Below Average, his only novel, in the early 1960s. Now, over forty years later, he is a retired
consultant psychiatrist and medical policy adviser who lives in South West England and pursues an academic interest in
indigenous traditions as found in legendary and sacred landscape, but still finds time to passionately follow the tortuous travails of his favourite football team, Newcastle United.
See www.earthskywalk.com and www.thealchemicaljourney.com for further details of his current activities.
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