CAROL CHRIST - (Ph.D., Yale University) pioneer and founding mother of the Goddess, women’s spirituality, and feminist theology movements. She has written five influential books on women’s spirituality and feminist theology, including: She Who Changes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Rebirth of the Goddess (Routledge, 1998); Odyssey with the Goddess (Continuum, 1995); Laughter of Aphrodite (Harper, 1987); and Diving Deep and Surfacing (Beacon, 1980/1986/1995).

RIANE EISLER -internationally known scholar, futurist, and activist. Author of many articles and books, including: The Chalice & the Blade, Our History, Our Future (Harper and Row, 1987) and Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body (Harper San Francisco, 1996).

VICKI NOBEL - well-known astrologer and teacher of Tibetan Buddhis.

JOAN MARLER - Marija Gimbutas’ personal editor (1987-1994) and authorized biographer, founder and executive director of the Institute of Archaeomythology.

RUTH TRINGINHAM - professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

COLIN RENFEW - English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. Received the prestigous Balzan Prize in Prehistoric Archaeology.

MARA LYNN KELLER - (Ph.D, Philosophy, Yale Universtiy) wholistic philosopher, thealogian, and international lecturer, a scholar and ritualist of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone. Published articles on the Goddess civilization of ancient Crete, the new field of archaeomythology, and Rosen Method Bodywork and Movement.

ELINOR GADON - art historian specializing in Indian art and culture and the analysis of images and symbols in their cultural context.