For many, Bernie needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people who’s mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. He continues to assist in the breaking of new ground in the field of healing and personally struggling to live the message of kindness and love. A sought after inspirational speaker and bestselling Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles, his new book being published in 2009, Faith, Hope & Healing, features survivor stories and his reflections on what they teach us.

Dr. Stephen Post is Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He has spent years studying what makes us truly happy, and he is the co-author of one of the definitive books on the subject, Why Good Things Happen to Good People. Outside the classroom, he is also President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL), a non-profit organization founded in 2001 through the philanthropy of the John Templeton Foundation and dedicated to the funding of research into the roots of altruism and compassion.

Jim MacLaren is a motivational speaker, author, and founder of the philanthropic Choose Living Foundation. His personal struggle to overcome crippling injuries has shaped his inspirational outlook on what it means to enjoy the gift of life. He is a graduate of Yale University and a recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2005.

Yossi Ghinsberg is an author and motivational speaker who was born and raised in Israel. While exploring the Bolivian Amazon during a trip to South America in 1981, he became lost in the jungle and had to survive alone for three weeks. Following his rescue, his experience fighting for survival inspired him to study serious questions of existence through a variety of cultures, philosophies and mystical practices. He is the author of Jungle and Laws of the Jungle.

Lynne McTaggart is an internationally recognized researcher and speaker on the science of spirituality. The bestselling author of five books, she has delved into the underlying physics of spirituality and non-local healing in The Intention Experiment and her giant bestselling book The Field. She also teaches Living the Field master classes around the world, showing class attendees how to integrate the science of intention and the power of thought into their everyday lives.

Dr. Helen Fisher is a leading expert in the science of what makes us love. Currently Research Professor at the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, she has been studying and writing about the evolution of human sex, love and marriage for more than twenty five years. She is the author of four books: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love; The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World; Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery and Divorce; and The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior.

Dr. Pamela Peeke is one of America’s leading educators and researchers in holistic health, nutrition and fitness. She is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Pew Foundation Scholar in nutrition and metabolism, chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV, member of Oprah Winfrey’s medical expert panel, and host of Discovery TV’s Could You Survive… Are You Fit To Live? She is also author of multiple national bestselling books including the New York Times best seller Body for Life for Women.

Sean Foy is president and founder of Personal Wellness Corporation, a California based firm that provides health and fitness consulting, educational seminars, and personal fitness training to corporations, hospitals, universities, and private clients. His firm also works with Amway, Quixtar, and the Nutrilite Health Institute’s Center for Optimal Health in Buena Park, California, to deliver fitness programming to people across the United States and internationally. He’s also a co-author with Dr. William Sears in the 2003 book, LEAN Kids, which presents parents with a complete program for addressing the optimal lifestyle, exercise and nutrition for children ages 6-12.

Dr. Michael Roizen is the Director of Wellness at the Cleveland Clinic and the cofounder of RealAge.com, a leading website that provides guidance on slowing aging through diet and lifestyle. He is the renowned author and co-author of several bestselling books on health and antiaging, including the New York Times #1 bestselling You: Staying Young and You: The Owner’s Manual, both co-authored with Dr. Mehmet Oz, with the new You: Being Beautiful appearing in autumn 2008.

Chris Kilham is an author, educator, the host of Medicine Trail (shot on location around the world) and the founder of Medicine Hunter Inc. When he is not teaching ethnobotany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he transforms into an “Indiana Jones” of plant medicine, traveling the world in search of the most time-honored and proven herbal and plant remedies. While many people confide in the latest synthetic pharmaceuticals, Chris seeks out medicinal plants from India, China, Siberia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Lebanon, Syria, Thailand, Austria, Malaysia and other exotic locales.

Azim Jamal is a leading inspirational speaker, management consultant & executive coach. He was born in Tanzania and educated in Kenya, the U.K. and Canada. He made his life-changing career switch from “accounting for business” to “accounting for life” during a soul-stirring experience while volunteering in the developing world. Overcome by the plight of homeless refugees in war-torn areas of the world, he vowed to make a difference in people’s lives. Since then, Azim has been spreading his unique, thought-provoking message in becoming a Corporate Sufi - one who can achieve material abundance through spiritual abundance. Azim is the author of several books including # 1 Amazon Bestselling Author of The Power of Giving. Over one million people worldwide have heard his inspiring words and his work has received accolades from leading thinkers including Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, and Dr. Ken Blanchard.

Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, entrepreneur and consultant at the forefront of the human potential movement promoting the power of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction. For 40 years, Bob Proctor has focused his existence around helping people create lush lives of prosperity, rewarding relationships and spiritual awareness. Recently made famous for his appearance in the film The Secret, his teaching and practice is closely aligned with the writings and work of other luminaries in the field of positive thought and abundance such as Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale. Bob Proctor now travels the globe, teaching thousands of people how to believe in and act upon the greatness of their own mind.

Dr. Joan Borysenko Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is a distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine and a world-renowned expert in the mind/ body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international healthcare revolution that recognizes the role of meaning, and the spiritual dimensions of life, as an integral part of health and healing. Extensively trained as a medical scientist and also licensed as a psychologist, she is the co-founder and former director of the Mind/Body clinical programs at the Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a former Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She is a widely recognized spiritual teacher, author of 12 books on mind/body medicine including the New York Times best seller, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. She is also the cofounder and Program Director of the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry