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Author of The Bible.
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The philosopher who brought Eastern wisdom to the West. Thousands of lectures freely avail…
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Therapist and somatic teacher who has spent four decades mapping the chakra system onto We…
→anonymous (traditional Sanskrit)
Author of The Guru Gita.
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Architect and writer. Author of The Temple in the House (1994) and A Home for the Soul (19…
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Former high priestess and MK-Ultra survivor who conducted Illuminati rituals at the highes…
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Swiss agricultural engineer who led the IEA Bioenergy Task on biogas for over twenty years…
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Studied with T. Krishnamacharya in Mysore in the 1930s, then built the precision-alignment…
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Since 2006 they have filmed hundreds of hours of whistleblower testimony — insiders from i…
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Former US president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and longtime critic of psyc…
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Co-founded the Unity School of Christianity with his wife Myrtle in Kansas City in 1889 af…
→Chetan Parkyn
Author of Human Design — Understanding the Mechanics of Your Inner Universe.
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FBI lead international hostage negotiator from 2003 to 2007 who worked over 150 kidnapping…
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Architect at Berkeley whose 1977 A Pattern Language and 1979 Timeless Way of Building prop…
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American journalist and Marine veteran whose 1948 The Magic of Believing distilled thirty …
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Poet and former English professor at Georgia who, working from John Moyne's literal transl…
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Spent a year with his family in Manhattan attempting to produce zero net environmental imp…
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Author of How to Win Friends and Influence People — the 1936 text on human relations that …
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Co-founder of Electronic Arts who left tech to teach design thinking at Stanford alongside…
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Bioenergy researcher who led the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 working group with Arthur Wellinger…
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Kenyan author and consultant who worked on the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?. His 2008 …
→David Deutsch
Oxford physicist who in 1985 wrote the paper defining the universal quantum computer — the…
→David Flynn
American researcher and amateur archaeologist who spent years studying the geometry of Mar…
→David Graeber
Anthropologist at LSE and one of the intellectual architects of Occupy Wall Street, where …
→David Hoffman
Co-founder of Bankless with Ryan Sean Adams. His clear explanations of Ethereum's economic…
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Professor of marketing at Georgia State and longtime motivational speaker whose 1959 Magic…
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Professor of comparative archaeology at UCL who co-wrote The Dawn of Everything (2021) wit…
→David Zilber
Headed the fermentation lab at Noma in Copenhagen from 2014 to 2018. Co-wrote The Noma Gui…
→Deepak Chopra
Indian-American physician, teacher, and author whose work across dozens of books has broug…
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Amway distributor who built one of the largest direct-sales organisations in the company's…
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Former special assistant to George H.W. Bush who later wrote biographies of the Bush famil…
→Douglas Hofstadter
Distinguished professor at Indiana University whose 1979 Gödel, Escher, Bach won the Pulit…
→Dr Roger Callahan
American psychologist who developed Thought Field Therapy (TFT) — tapping specific acupunc…
→Dr. Joe Dispenza
Neuroscientist and meditation teacher whose progressive workshops document measurable phys…
→Edgar Cayce
The Sleeping Prophet — 20th-century American psychic whose trance readings produced some o…
→Edwin Abbott
Victorian schoolmaster and theologian whose 1884 Flatland is a satire of Victorian class s…
→Eileen Caddy
Co-founded the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland in 1962 with her husband Peter and Dorothy …
→Eileen McKusick
Sound therapist and researcher whose Biofield Tuning method uses tuning forks to map and c…
→Emily Spivack
American writer and curator whose Worn Stories (2014) collected first-person accounts from…
→Eric Pearl
Chiropractor in Los Angeles whose practice in 1993 began producing what patients described…
→Erin Claire Jones
Brings Human Design into business, leadership, and teams. Known for making HD practical an…
→Ernest Holmes
Founded the Religious Science movement in 1927 and wrote The Science of Mind, the field's …
→Ervin Laszlo
Hungarian philosopher of science and twice-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize who founded…
→Florence Scovel Shinn
American illustrator turned metaphysical teacher whose 1925 The Game of Life and How to Pl…
→Fritjof Capra
Austrian-born physicist whose Tao of Physics (1975) drew the parallels between quantum phy…
→Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician who spent twelve years working with addiction in Vancouver's …
→Gary Zukav
Former Green Beret and Harvard graduate whose 1979 Dancing Wu Li Masters won the American …
→Georg Kell
Founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, the worlds largest corporate susta…
→George Green
Former investment banker and USAF veteran who published the Pleiadian-channeled Handbook f…
→George S. Patton
U.S. Army General who commanded the Third Army across France and into Germany in WWII. Stu…
→Geshe Michael Roach
American-born Tibetan Buddhist monk and businessman whose Diamond Cutter teachings bridge …
→Graham Hancock
The author and researcher whose work spans lost civilisations, ancient monuments, consciou…
→Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Siddha Yoga guru and spiritual successor of Swami Muktananda, leading the Siddha Yoga path…
→Gwern Branwen
Researcher, writer, and early experimenter with long-form serious blogging at gwern.net — …
→Hale Dwoskin
Studied directly with Lester Levenson, who developed the Sedona Method in the 1950s, and h…
→Hannah Wittman et al.
Professor of land and food systems at the University of British Columbia whose research on…
→Helen Schucman
Psychology professor who scribed A Course in Miracles from an inner voice identifying itse…
→Hermes Trismegistus
Legendary figure — part Greek god, part Egyptian sage — traditionally credited with the Em…
→Ivan Illich
Austrian-born Catholic priest who left the church in 1969 and spent the rest of his life c…
→J. Paul Getty
Founded Getty Oil in 1942 and was, by 1957, the richest man in America. How to Be Rich (19…
→Jack D. Hidary
Co-founder of Earthweb in 1995 and now-CEO of SandboxAQ, the quantum-cryptography spinout …
→Jacques Vallée
French-American computer scientist who worked on the precursor to the internet at SRI and …
→James Allen
British philosophical writer whose 1903 As a Man Thinketh is a 20-page meditation on the p…
→James F. Manwell
Author of Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design and Application.
→James Redfield
Self-published The Celestine Prophecy in 1993 out of his car before Warner Books picked it…
→Jay David Bolter
Wesley Chair in New Media at Georgia Tech whose Remediation (1999), co-written with Richar…
→Jeff McCombs
Naturopathic doctor in Los Angeles whose Candida Plan protocol has been used by physicians…
→Jerry Hicks
Businessman and Dale Carnegie teacher who, with his wife Esther, brought the Abraham mater…
→Jerry Murphy
Professor of civil engineering at University College Cork and director of its biogas resea…
→Joe McMoneagle
The most scientifically tested remote viewer in history — over 450 operational intelligenc…
→John E. Brandenburg
Plasma physicist who worked on the Clementine mission and now writes on planetary anomalie…
→Joshua Goldstein
Professor Emeritus of International Relations at American University. Co-author with Staff…
→Karen Curry Parker
Reimagined the language of Human Design to be more empowering and less mechanical. Her Qua…
→Kelly Starrett
Physical therapist and CrossFit Level 4 coach who founded MobilityWOD (now The Ready State…
→Kevin Mitnick
The 1990s' most-wanted hacker, who served five years in federal prison before becoming a s…
→Kevin Trudeau
Teacher and author whose work on the Law of Attraction (Your Wish Is Your Command) and hid…
→Krista Tippett
Host of On Being — the Peabody-winning radio show and podcast where the biggest questions …
→Laura Abioli
Operator in the network-state and frontier-community space. Associated with the Infinita e…
→Lawrence Block
Crime novelist with over a hundred books in print who edited the 2017 anthology Alive in S…
→Lawrence Venuti
Temple University translation theorist whose 1995 Translator's Invisibility argued that En…
→Les Brown
American motivational speaker whose voice carries the conviction of someone who was told h…
→Les Giblin
Two-time National Salesman of the Year for an American manufacturer before turning to lect…
→Lester Levenson
American physicist and engineer who had a second heart attack at 42, was sent home to die,…
→Lyn Alden
The clearest macro analyst covering Bitcoin as an emerging monetary network. Her long-form…
→M. Mitchell Waldrop
Former senior writer at Science magazine whose 1992 Complexity profiled the first generati…
→Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker staff writer and author (Outliers, The Tipping Point, Blink) who defines th…
→Manly P. Hall
American esoteric scholar whose Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) attempted to map the e…
→Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE whose personal notebooks — never written for publication …
→Maria Engberg
Associate professor at Malmö University working on mixed-reality and digital aesthetics. C…
→Marie Kondo
Started as a teenage tidying consultant in Tokyo and developed the KonMari method around t…
→Masaru Emoto
Japanese researcher whose work with water crystals demonstrated the responsiveness of wate…
→Matt Debenham
Audio producer and adjunct at the College of New Jersey who has taught hundreds of student…
→Matthew Hurley et al.
Cognitive scientist whose 2011 Inside Jokes, with Daniel Dennett and Reginald Adams, propo…
→Maxwell Maltz
American plastic surgeon who noticed that physical changes to a patient's face often didn'…
→Michael A. Singer
Author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment — books that map the practice o…
→Michael S. Heiser
Biblical scholar with a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Wisconsin who taught for years at Liberty…
→Naval Ravikant
Founder of AngelList and a philosopher of wealth, happiness, and leverage. His body of aph…
→Neale Donald Walsch
Was unemployed and living in a tent in Oregon in the early 1990s when, in his telling, he …
→Nicholas Carr
Former executive editor of Harvard Business Review whose 2008 Atlantic essay 'Is Google Ma…
→Nisargadatta Maharaj
Mumbai cigarette-shop owner who became one of the twentieth century's most-quoted advaita …
→Norman Doidge
Psychiatrist on the faculty at Columbia and Toronto whose 2007 Brain That Changes Itself b…
→Norman Vincent Peale
Marble Collegiate Church pastor in New York for 52 years whose 1952 Power of Positive Thin…
→Og Mandino
Failed insurance salesman and recovering alcoholic who was president of Success Unlimited …
→Oliver Burkeman
Wrote The Guardian's This Column Will Change Your Life for fourteen years, reading hundred…
→Opentensor Foundation
Swiss foundation that maintains the Bittensor protocol, a decentralised network where inde…
→Orlando Eisenreich
Founder of FRQNCY — a topic graph for consciousness covering 146 subjects across money, en…
→Pam Grout
American journalist who has written for People, CNN and Outside. E-Squared (2013) presents…
→Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator and the essayist whose writings shaped a generation of builders…
→Paul Selig
Contemporary channel whose transmissions from the Guides — published as a series of dictat…
→Paulo Coelho
Brazilian songwriter who, after a 1986 pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, wrote The Alc…
→Peter B. Kyne
American novelist popular in the early twentieth century whose 1921 The Go-Getter is a hun…
→Peter Drucker
The father of modern management. His decades of writing shaped how organisations everywher…
→Peter Sage
British entrepreneur and longtime student of Tony Robbins whose work focuses on the inner …
→Peter Senge
Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan and founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. The F…
→Priya Parker
Conflict-resolution facilitator trained at MIT and Harvard who has spent twenty years desi…
→R.H. Jarrett
American businessman whose 1926 pamphlet It Works! laid out a three-step manifestation met…
→Ralph Waldo Trine
American New Thought writer whose 1897 In Tune with the Infinite sold over two million cop…
→Randall Carlson
Researcher and geometrician mapping the cosmic catastrophes that shaped human history — Ha…
→Raymond Moody
Psychiatrist who coined 'near-death experience' in his 1975 Life After Life after intervie…
→René Redzepi
Co-founded Noma in Copenhagen in 2003, which has been named World's Best Restaurant five t…
→Richard Bach
Former US Air Force pilot whose 1970 Jonathan Livingston Seagull was rejected by eighteen …
→Richard C. Hoagland
Former NASA consultant during the Apollo era who became the central figure in researching …
→Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary biologist whose Selfish Gene (1976) reshaped how we think about life, coopera…
→Richard Hittleman
Brought hatha yoga to American television in 1961 with Yoga for Health, the first national…
→Rick Strassman
Clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico whose 1990-95 D…
→Robert Collier
American advertising copywriter whose mail-order letters defined direct-response writing i…
→Robert T. Kiyosaki
Former Marine helicopter pilot who self-published Rich Dad Poor Dad in 1997 after every ma…
→Roger Ebert
The film critic who elevated popular movie criticism to literature. His reviews, published…
→Rupert Sheldrake
Cambridge-trained biologist whose theory of morphic resonance proposes that nature has mem…
→Rupert Spira
One of the clearest contemporary teachers of non-dual awareness — his books, videos, and r…
→Russell H. Conwell
Civil War veteran and Baptist minister who founded Temple University in 1884 and delivered…
→Russell Simmons
Co-founded Def Jam Recordings in 1984 and helped move hip-hop into the cultural mainstream…
→Russell Targ
Physicist and laser pioneer who co-founded the SRI International remote-viewing program wi…
→Ryan Holiday
Modern populariser of Stoic philosophy whose books (The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the En…
→Ryan Sean Adams
Co-founder of Bankless with David Hoffman. An ex-banker turned Ethereum advocate, he hosts…
→Sadhguru
Yogi, mystic, and founder of the Isha Foundation. His Inner Engineering programme has tran…
→Sai Maa
H.H. Sai Maa — spiritual master, humanitarian, and initiator of Shaktipat transmission. He…
→Sarah (Medical Intuitive)
Certified Medical Intuitive and Quantum Healer with over 20 years of practice. Sarah reads…
→Sean Carroll
Theoretical physicist working on quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the foundations of real…
→Shad Helmstetter
Behavioural researcher who pioneered self-talk programs in the 1980s. What to Say When You…
→Shi Yan Ming
34th-generation Shaolin warrior monk who defected from China to the US in 1992 and founded…
→Sri Swami Satchidananda
The yogi who opened Woodstock in 1969 and founded Integral Yoga — a synthesis of yoga's ma…
→Staffan Qvist
Swedish energy systems engineer who co-wrote The New Fire (2019) with Joshua Goldstein — a…
→Stephen R. Covey
Brigham Young business professor whose 1989 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has so…
→Stephen Schwarzman
Co-founded Blackstone in 1985 with $400,000 in seed capital and built it into the world's …
→Steven Greer
Former emergency physician who founded The Disclosure Project in 1993 — bringing hundreds …
→Steven Pressfield
Spent seventeen years failing as a novelist — sleeping in his car for stretches — before p…
→Sun Tzu
Chinese general writing around the fifth century BCE who composed thirteen short chapters …
→Susan Sontag
American essayist whose 1977 On Photography won the National Book Critics Circle Award for…
→Swami Kriyananda
Direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda who founded the Ananda communities — living exampl…
→SYDA Foundation
The non-profit founded in 1974 to preserve and disseminate the teachings of Swami Muktanan…
→Sylvia Earle
The legendary oceanographer known as Her Deepness — former chief scientist of NOAA, founde…
→Theodore Gray
Co-founded Wolfram Research with Stephen Wolfram in 1987 and has spent the years since col…
→Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen master, peace activist, and the teacher who gave the West its most accessible entry in…
→Timothy Ferriss
Self-published The 4-Hour Workweek in 2007 after 26 publisher rejections; it has since sol…
→Tom Rath
Spent thirteen years at Gallup leading its workplace and wellbeing research before going i…
→Vicki Robin
Co-wrote Your Money or Your Life (1992) with the late Joe Dominguez after watching him ret…
→Vincent Stanley
Patagonia's longtime Director of Philosophy and co-author of The Responsible Company. Stan…
→Wallace D. Wattles
Wrote The Science of Getting Rich in 1910 as a 75-page distillation of New Thought princip…
→Wayne W. Dyer
Brought self-help into the daytime-television mainstream through PBS specials watched by m…
→William Shakespeare
English playwright and shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, working in London betwee…
→Zig Ziglar
Started as a cookware salesman and became one of the most-booked sales speakers in America…
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