Author Will Keepin Ph.D.

Will Keepin, Ph.D., President and Executive Director. Will co-founded the Satyana Institute in 1996, and has been developing its Power of Reconciliation work since the early 1990s. His training was originally in mathematical physics, and later in transpersonal psychology and eastern meditation disciplines. Will's professional background began in environmental science. He was research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) near Vienna, Austria where he became a whistleblower in a major international scientific research project that was biased to favor nuclear power. He published a full expose of this project, as resident scholar at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. He subsequently became Hewlett Fellow at Princeton University, then joined the Rocky Mountain Institute, and became consulting physicist to the Energy Foundation, whose founding documents he co-authored. Will's work on global warming and renewable energy influenced international environmental policy, and he presented testimony to the Parliaments of United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Australia, and the US House of Representatives.

Will has undergone intensive training in eastern spiritual traditions, and he began leading retreats in interfaith mysticism in India in 2003. He has facilitated many experiential workshops and taught graduate courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Holy Names College. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, Master's degrees in East-West psychology and in physics, and he completed the three-year Grof Transpersonal Training. Will has published over 30 articles and book chapters, and served as consulting editor for ReVision. He is profiled in the book The Cultural Creatives, by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson (Harmony Books, 2000).

Contributing Authors

Cynthia Brix, M.Div, MA. is the Program Director for Satyana Institute, where she co-directs Satyana's Power of Reconciliation project. In addition to her leadership with the healing work between men and women, she provides development support for the Maher project, an interfaith shelter and resource center for battered and destitute women and children located near Pune, India. She is the former Unitarian Universalist campus minister at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Fundamental to her ministry and world view is the value of the contemplative life of prayer which is infused in her activism, social justice, gender healing, and racial harmony work. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Cynthia has led meditation workshops at regional and national Unitarian Universalist conferences. She also co-chaired the Race Relations Committee for the City of Muncie, Indiana, and recently developed an interfaith, multi-ethnic program to help address racial tensions at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is currently leading spiritual-service pilgrimages to India and Italy for young adults.

Cynthia earned a master's of divinity from Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado (2006) and a double master's degree in wellness management and applied gerontology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana (1999).

Molly Dwyer, Ph.D., has been a transformational educator for more than fifteen years. She completed a PhD in 2002 under the guidance of cosmologist Brian Swimme at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and worked for three years as the Co-Director of Satyana Institute¹s Gender Reconciliation Project in Boulder, CO. Molly received the 1999 Vickers Award from the International Society for the Systems Sciences for her paper, The Emergent Feminine: The Role of the Feminine in the Evolution of the Universe and her first novel, Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein will be released January 8,2008.