Huston Smith

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1. Huston Smith

   Author of The World's Religions : Our Great Wisdom Traditions, Buddhism: A Concise Introduction, Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemical

2. Karen Armstrong

   Author of A History of God, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

3. Marcus J. Borg

   Author of Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith, Jesus: A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship

4. Ken Wilber

   Author of A Brief History of Everything, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition

5. Elaine Pagels

   Author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

6. Thomas Merton

   Author of No Man Is an Island, Contemplative Prayer, Way of Chuang Tzu (New Directions Paperbook)

7. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, Dynamics of Faith, Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analysis and Ethical Applications (Galaxy Books)

8. Joseph Campbell

   Author of The Power of Myth, The Mythic Image, The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension

9. Mircea Eliade

   Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, Patterns in Comparative Religion

10. Terence McKenna

    Author of Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution, The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching

11. John Dominic Crossan

    Author of Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated, In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom

12. Thomas Moore

    Author of Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources from Care of the Soul, Soul Mates

13. William James

    Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

14. John Shelby Spong

    Author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love

15. Matthew Fox

    Author of Original Blessing, One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths, Creativity

16. Jaroslav Pelikan

    Author of Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages, The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought

17. Philip Novak

    Author of The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions

18. Dale Pendell

    Author of Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft, Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (Pharmako Volii), Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path

19. Jack Miles

    Author of God: A Biography

20. Thich Nhat Hanh

    Author of Living Buddha, Living Christ, The heart of the Buddha's teachings