Daniel Pinchbeck is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich, a blog Return to Top centered around New Age philosophy and activism. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is the son of painter Peter Pinchbeck and writer Joyce Johnson.

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Alex Grey is spiritual, visionary and psychedelic artist that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department.

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Terence McKenna was an Irish-American researcher, philosopher, speaker, spiritual teacher and writer on many subjects; such as human consciousness, psychedelic drugs, the evolution of civilizations, the origin and the end of the universe, cybernetics, alchemy, and extraterrestrial beings.

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Ken Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.

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His first book, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, was released by Harmony Books in the fall of 1998. It has been translated into five languages.In 2006, the book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape was published by Chronicle Books. A collaboration between Davis and photographer Michael Rauner, it explores the peculiar attraction California holds for seekers of all kinds. Erik Davis' most recent book Nomad Codes, published in 2010 by Yeti/Verse Chorus Press, is a collection of essays published between 1990 and 2010.

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Starhawk is an American writer and activist.[1] She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion. Starhawk's 1979 book The Spiral Dance was one of the main inspirations behind the Neopagan movement.

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Director of the Sacred Center, His new book, Trance Formation: The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture, has just been published by Routledge. Trance Formation is an ethnographically rich look into the spiritual dimensions of rave culture from a theoretically informed religious studies perspective. Combining firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis, Robin takes the reader on a colorful journey from San Francisco to London, from Burning Man to the Love Parade, and reveals a synaesthetic spiritual world of sound, sight, motion, and deep trance.

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World-Renowned Pioneer of Goa Trance
Goa Gil is an American-born musician, DJ and party organizer. He is one of the founders of the goa trance and psytrance movement in electronic dance music. Goa Gil is a Sadhu, Baba Mangalanand, in the order of the Juna Akhara, under the Guru, Mahant Nirmalanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj.

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Mark Heley is the author of ‘The Everything Guide to 2012′ and ’101 Things you need to know about 2012′. ’101 Things was relased at the beginning of 2011 and is available in kindle and paperback editions.

Mark is the co-founder of Peace 2012, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a peaceful and positive 2012

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Researcher on Mythological Roots of EDM.
Chiara has followed trance parties all around the world since 1997 and has researched trance culture since 2004, with an extensive study of initiation rituals and mystery cults.

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Dr. Charles De Ledesma is an author, journalist and teacher currently working on a PhD in trance culture. Based at the University of East London, Charles teaches undergraduates in the Music Culture and Journalism departments there. Formerly a fan and expert in world music, Charles has contributed to the Rough Guide to World Music, and an earlier volume on African Music, African All Stars (Quartet). He is author too of a travel guide to Malaysia , again published by the Rough Guides.

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Graham was recently a research fellow at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a Research Associate at the University of Queensland's Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. His books include the collections FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, Rave Culture and Religion and Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. He has two forthcoming books: Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures, and Global Trance Culture: Religion, Technology and Psytrance.

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ISSP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. PhD, Anthropology, University of Chicago. Dr. Anthony D'Andrea is the researcher and coordinator of the Nomadic Work/Life in the Knowledge Economy project, his work has three dimensions integrating team members from the Departments of Sociology and Computer Science at UL. Among his publications are articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Mobilities, Culture and Religion, Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Dancecult,

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DJ Garth is a pioneering House music DJ who is largely credited with both defining and capturing the sound of San Francisco house music in the mid-1990s. As a recording artist, his production is featured on several San Francisco club anthems such as "Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory". He co-founded the Wicked Sound System and established a series of memorable underground parties which were important in putting San Francisco on the club/rave map.

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Treavor Moontribe is one of the co-founders of the Los Angeles based “Moontribe Collective” and its legendary full moon desert gatherings. Since 1993, these events have been at the core of Southern California’s underground electronic music scene. Treavor established himself as one of the top Djs in LA thru these events and has since traveled the world from Brazil to Japan to Morocco, Portugal, Germany and all over North America.

Also featured in Electronic Awakening are Moontribe’s Founding Members: Hayworth, Dallas, Tania, Dusti

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More to be listed.

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