The oldest masonic lodge in Scotland is called Lodge Mother Kilwinning and comes from a legend of stonemasons who came from Europe to Kilwinning Abbey which was a Benedictine monastic community with roots dating back to the 12th century. The first lodge is said to have been built there and later we have Lodge Canongate Kilwinning 2 which was founded in 1677 in Edinburgh from a charter from the parent lodge.

Anthony Oneal Haye (1838-1877) was initiated in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2 in Edinburgh in 1859. He later became head of the Rosicrucian Society of Scotland in 1866 and he initiated Robert Wentworth Little (1840-1878) and William James Hughan (1841-1911) into this society. In 1867, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia was founded in London with the help of Robert Wentworth Little and William James Hughan. William was also one of the founders of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge in 1886.

Robert Wentworth Little also became a founder of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine in 1865 and the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Misraim in 1869 and the Ancient Archaeological Order of Druids in 1874. The Ancient Archaeological Order of Druids changed its name in 1886 to the Ancient Masonic Order of Druids where all who were not Masons were thrown out of the order. An associate of Little who helped establish these orders was Francis George Irwin (1828-1893) who was also in the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

George Watson MacGregor Reid (1862?-1946) was politically active and is said to have founded the Church of the Universal Bond where they advocated socialist revolution and anti-imperialism and is said to have lectured at the Social Democratic Federation in 1888. In 1909 he founded The Druid Order and they describe themselves (on their homepage) as alchemists, mystics and gnostics with their history stretching back to Haymo of Faversham (d. c. 1243) who was an English Franciscan monk who was a lecturer at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), Oxford and also in Italy in Bologna and Padua. He was a monk of the Franciscan Friars Minor who took his teachings from Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) who was an “apocalyptic thinker” who showed that doom was near and he was classified as a heretic by the Catholic Church.

MacGregor Reid was connected to The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and corresponded with Aleister Crowley and began a collaboration with Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918) and in 1916 Nuada, a Druid society and off-shoot of the Golden Dawn, was founded at Chapman in London where Reid himself became the leading Arch-Druid.

Robert MacGregor-Reid took over as Arch-Druid from his father in 1946 in The Druid Order and later Thomas Lackenby Maughan (1901-1976) became Arch-Druid in 1964. Thomas had a mother who was in the Theosophical Society and he himself was also a homeopath and with John Da Monte (1916-1975) and Edwin Tomkins (1916-1992) founded the Society of Homeopaths in 1970. The circle around Thomas was involved both in homeopathy, druidry and radionics (Radionic Association) and British Intelligence during World War II. During this time when Thomas became leader as Arch-Druid some members together with chairman Ross Nichols left the order and formed the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.

Ross Nichols (1902-1975) was a socialist, naturist and member of one of England’s first naturist communities and later befriended Gerald Gardner who shared his interest in nudity. Ross was an assistant editor for Michael Houghton’s The Occult Observer who also owned an occult bookstore called Atlantis Bookshop. In 1988 one of Ross Nichols’ students took over the leadership of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids whose name was Philip Carr-Gomm.

Philip Carr-Gomm was born in London and already at the age of 11 was influenced by Ross Nichols and joined his druid order at 18. Philip was early in contact with societies such as The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and founded his own The Esoteric Society in London which had as lecturers Gareth Knight (Society of the Inner Light), W. E. Butler (Society of the Inner Light) and Arthur Guirdham (writer on the Cathar sect, alternative medicine, ESP and reincarnation). Philip studied meditation with Olivia Robertson and was a follower of the Bulgarian teacher Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov (1900-1986) and translated his books into English and learned Deunov’s Paneurhythmy dance which he taught at Findhorn in Scotland. He later trained as a therapist and trained at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London.

Olivia Robertson (1917-2013) came from a family involved in the occult, spiritualism and Theosophy. Her father inherited Huntington Castle in 1925 and visitors there during her upbringing included Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn member William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and Theosophist George William Russell (1869-1935) from Dublin and revolutionary Maud Gonne (1866-1953) as she was also a member of Golden Dawn for a short time. On Olivia’s mother’s side of the family we find a famous person who introduced Freemasonry to Ireland by the name of Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse (1702-1741). In 1725 he became Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Ireland and he was also a founder of a Hell-Fire Club.

In 1963 Olivia started the Clonegal Castle Center for Meditation and Study and the following year she studied at the College of Psychic Studies and the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. During this time she also met Ross Nichols from the Druid order and others from occult societies such as Josephine and Mohun Lall, Gerald Gough (Fraternity of the Inner Light), Tamara Bourkoun (Order of the Sphinx and Pyramid, Golden Dawn) and Theodore Beskine. She founded her own order with her brother in 1976 which they called The Fellowship of Isis which they dedicated to the Egyptian Goddess Isis who they believed best represented the energies of the coming Aquarian Age and the celebration of the Divine Feminine. Within this Order we also find sections such as the Druid Clan of Dana and the Noble Order of Tara. Olivia explains the founding of the Fellowship of Isis:

“It was direct spiritual experience, as with my brother, that I had a direct spiritual vocation to do this from God – the feminine aspect of God, God who is also feminine – to emphasize this because the world is threatened by destruction through pollution, through misuse of nature, often through stupidity and greed. We’re destroying the planet and the Divine Plan appears to be to emphasize the feminine – charity, kindness, care for nature, nurturing, motherhood – all that side. Not to get rid of the male aspect, but to balance male aggression and materialism. And this linear, logical, mental though – always analysis, analysis. We’re more for healing and synthesis” (fellowshipofisis.com)

Eimear Burke took over the leadership of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in 2020 which she had joined in 2003. She is a student of Reiki, Shamanism and Herbalism and also became a member of Olivia Robertson’s Fellowship of Isis in 2010 and became a Priestess of Danú the following year.

Some of the Presiders in the Druid Order were John & Caitlin Matthews who were leading researchers in the Celtic Wisdom and Western Mysteries and the ancestral traditions of Britain and they have written many books on Celtic spirituality and Arthurian and Grail lore. They were both also students of Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and Gareth Knight who came from Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light. John Matthews was a lecturer in both the USA and Europe at places such as the Temenos Academy in London and the Omega Center and he worked together with the Joseph Campbell Foundation and Lorian Association.

A second listed Presider of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids is John F. Michell (1933-2009) who was a founder of the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization in 1969 along with Keith Critchlow (from Temenos Academy, Patron of Wyse International and Advisory Board on Chapel of Sacred Mirrors) and Mary Williams. John Michell takes us back to ufology and flying saucers in the 60s. He did research on ley lines and their connections to extraterrestrial craft and lost spiritual knowledge that we must rediscover before the Golden Age. Michell can be found at the Lindisfarne Association as a teacher in its School of Sacred Architecture and he was also a lecturer at the Prince of Wales’ School of Traditional Arts which had been established by his friend Keith Critchlow. Books by Michell included titles such as Dowsing the Crop Circles (1991), The Flying Saucer Vision (1967), The View Over Atlantis (1969) and The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth (1991) . He was briefly married to Denise Price, the Archdruidess of the Glastonbury Order of Druids, in 2007.

Melita Denning (Vivian Godfrey) is listed as another Presider of Bards, Ovates and Druids and is said to have been involved in the late 60’s with its founding. She also led the magical Order The Aurum Solis, becoming its sixth Grand Master since its founding in 1897. She is also said to have been a friend from a young age to Olivia Robertson who led the Fellowship of Isis. She published a number of books at Llewellyn Publications after meeting Carl Llewellyn Weschcke such as Planetary Magick: The Heart of Western Magick, The Sword & the Serpent: The Two-Fold Qabalistic Universe, Mysteria Magica: Fundamental Techniques of High Magick, Magical States of Consciousness: Pathworking on the Tree of Life, The Llewellyn Practical Guide to Creative Money-Making: Become a Money Magnet.

The Ordo Aurum Solis (Order of the Gold of the Sun) has a history with both Druid Orders, the Golden Dawn and the Fellowship of Isis and its name is supposed to have roots in an Ogdoatic tradition of the Western Mysteries with connections to Kabbalah and Alchemy and mysticism. On its website we can see a list of Grand Masters showing George Stanton as the first Grand Master and Morris Greenberg as the second, Charles Roughlett-Bock as the third, Michael Bernard Foy as the fourth, Thomas Maughan (of the Druid Order) as the fifth, Vivian Godfrey as the sixth, Carl Llewellyn Weschke as the seventh, Vivian Godfrey again as the eighth, Leon Barcynski as the ninth and Jean-Louis de Biasi as the current number ten.

Jean-Louis de Biasi lists himself as a Freemason (Grand Lodges in Canada, the G. L. F.A.A.M. of the District of Columbia and the G. L. of the State of Nevada (USA), united Grande Lodge of England, Province of Province of East Lancashire, Lodge 9659 , Grand Officer of the Grand Orient de France, Egyptian Freemasonry (33°-95°-AA), 32 degrees of the American Scottish Rite in Washington D.C. and the Royal Arch in Canada) and also leads the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross as is linked to Martinism. He has written the book “Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses” and also books on Freemasonry.

Associated with a branch of Aurum Solis called Astrum Sophia (2002) is Vivienne O’Regan who is the author of the book The Pillar of Isis: A Practical Manual of the Mysteries of the Goddess (Aquarian Press, 1992. She was involved in the Fellowship of Isis and in 1986 created the College of Isis (The House of Isis-Sophia of the Stars) and she was also involved with the London Ecology Center and the Green Spirituality Movement in support of the environment and the planet.She is also a trained psychotherapist in Psychosynthesis and sits on The Pagan Federation as an Officer. She also runs The House of Isis and Osiris mystery school associated with The Invisible College founded by Marian Green in 1976 and The House of Isis-Urania led by Naomi and Jerome Ozaniec. Marian Green is an author to books on ceremonial magic and witchcraft such as Practical Techniques of Modern Magic (1994), A Path Through the Labyrinth (1994) to name a few.

At The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids we find Honorary Bards with examples such as Jamie Reid who is from the family of the founder of the Druid Order George Watson MacGregor Reid and Mara Freeman who is the director of the Avalon Mystery School with its initiation into the Celtic Mystery Tradition and Grail Alchemy that draws from the teachings of Dion Fortune (Fraternity of the Inner Light) and Geoffrey Hodson who was a Theosophist (president of the Blavatsky Lodge) and Co-Freemason and who wrote about Angels and Fairies. She has lived in the USA and has taught at the Omega Institute (from “Omega Point” from the teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin).

“The recent growing awareness of angels may be because the inner plane Adepti are at last getting through to us the importance of conscious human cooperation with the angelic kingdom. It is taught that many angels are only awaiting recognition in order to be of greater service to our world. A new influx of cosmic energies has been steadily flowing into Earth in the last forty or so years, ushering in what many hope will be a time when humanity will be drawn into ever closer alignment with the creative sources of life.” (chalicecentre.net)

Elena Danaan became a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in 2016 and certified as a Priestess in 2019. Born in France, Elena trained as an archaeologist and worked in Egypt for several years and she writes that she was trained and initiated in Egyptian Magic when she was down there. Elena is also extremely involved in the UFO and alien movement where she describes how at a young age of 9 she was abducted by aliens from Zeta Reticuli and then rescued by good aliens like “Thor Han Eredyon from Ashaara in the Pleiades” from whom she later started to channel messages. She moved to Ireland in 2011 where she met druids with the following membership in the druid order.

In 2018, Elena describes how she was again caught up in a UFO and learned about the “Galactic Federation of Worlds”. Her website has this description:

“This night also marked the starting point of Elena’s “activation”: the step into the alchemical, transformational “dark night of the soul”, that would lead to her awakening. Because she was now ready to embrace the truth, Thor Han unlocked the memory of her missing time, regarding the night when she was abducted by Grays at nine years old.”

She visited the United States for the first time in 2022 where she was a guest at the “Galactic & Spiritual Informers Conference” in Orlando, Florida where she met people like Alex Collier, Dr. Michael Salla, Brad Olsen, Jean-Charles Moyen, Chris O’Connor, Laura Eisenhower, Tony Rodrigues and Mayan Shaman Quetza Sha involved in Disclosure of the UFO phenomenon.

Michael Salla is the author behind books such as US Navy’s Secret Space Programs and Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance (2017) where the foreword is written by Robert M. Wood with a past in the Fund for UFO research (FUFOR) which was started in 1979 and financed by Robert Bigelow and Prince Hans Adam II von Lichtenstein. Wood has also been involved in productions within TV series such as Ancient Aliens, Cosmic Disclosure and UFO Files. Michael Salla founded the Exopolitics Institute where he tries to get the government to release all secret information about extraterrestrials.

Elena has written the books A Gift From The Stars: Extraterrestrial Contacts and Guide of Alien Races, We Will Never Let You Down: Encounters with Val Thor and journeys beyond Earth and The Seeders.

“The Seeders is a must-read book that is full of shock and awe moments that awakens the reader to the true extent of our suppressed history and the incredible future that lies before us as a fully liberated species destined to take our rightful place in the galactic community” -Michael Salla, Ph.D.

“This looks like a book, but in truth it’s an historical document. It takes Humanity on an incredible journey from the beginning of advanced soul groups wondering the universe looking for a cause to the liberation and acknowledging of a Humanity blessed and suppressed throughout the ages. It will be difficult to put this book down.” – Alex Collier

Emma Restall Orr (1965-) worked for the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in the 80s and then became a joint chief of the British Druid Order (BDO) until 2002. She then started her own The Druid Network which had its start in 2003. She has written a series of books such as, Spirits of the Sacred Grove (1998), Druidry: Rekindling the Sacred Fire written with Philip Shallcrass (2002), Living Druidry: Magical Spirituality for the Wild Soul (2004), Pagan Visions For A Sustainable Future (2005) etc.

The British Druid Order (BDO) was founded in 1979 by Philip Shallcrass (1953-) who called himself Greywolf and was one of the pioneers of “shamanic” Driudism. In 1978 Philip joined an Alexandrian Wiccan coven where he was ordained as High Priest the following year. Philip transformed this coven after studies in Druidry instead into a Grove called the Grove of the Badger which became the Mother Grove of the British Druid Order.

The coven that Phillip Shallcrass joined belonged to a branch of the modern religion Wicca that was started by Alex Sanders (1926-1988) during the 60s. In 1963, Sanders was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca and later founded his own coven where he practiced ritual magic. Around the 80s, he worked with a group that called itself Ordine Della Luna. Sanders is also said to have been involved in several orders such as the Knights Templar.

“Another group which Sanders operated in London during the 1960s was the Order of Deucalion, a focus for Atlantean magical research and inner contacts, as Sanders taught that Merlin was an important leader of the last Atlantean migratory wave into Western Europe. The Order of Deucalion existed as an inner cell of the Ordine Della Luna.” (wiki)

John Michael Greer who was born in 1962 in America is another member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids which he joined in 1995. Greer was early interested in the Golden Dawn’s system of Hermetic magic and he met Sara Carroll (future wife) who was a ceremonial magician and a Priestess in the Pagan arm of the Universal Gnostic Church. He later began to explore a more nature-based spirituality which led to membership in Druid orders such as the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) where he later became the seventh Grand Archdruid of the Order. He was also initiated into the Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA). Greer also hold membership in Freemasonry with the 32 degree.

Michael Greer who has a membership in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is said to have also developed a program for the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn founded in 2013 where magical rituals are mixed with druidry. He has written a large number of books in ritual magic and druidry. The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth (2006), Mystery Teachings From the Living Earth (2012), The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance (2009), Atlantis: Ancient Legacy , Hidden Prophecy (2007), The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation (2009) etc.

Another side of Greer involves ecology and politics where he writes about peak oil, economics and the exploitation of natural resources where he describes a future gradual societal collapse where industry comes to an end. He has published books in politics and economics such as, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (2008), The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (2009), Green Wizardry (2013), Decline and Fall: the End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in the 21st Century (2014).

Greer wrote the introduction to a new edition of the book The Corpus Hermeticum (2020, FV Éditions) which was translated into English by George Robert Stow Mead (1863-1933) in 1905. Mead wrote on Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism and became a member of Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society in 1884. He later started his own Quest Society in 1909.

“It also provided one of the most important weapons to another major rebellion of the age – the attempt to reestablish magic as a socially acceptable spiritual path in the Christian West. Another body of literature atributed to Hermes Trismegistus was made up of astrological, alchemical and magical texts.” (Corpus Hermeticum, Greer introduction)

Occult Alchemy (Jung) and the worship of Mother Earth as a living being we find not only in the Druids but also in the author Stephan Harding who has written the books Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia (2009) and Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul (2022). Harding was educated in behavioral ecology from Oxford University and he later founded Schumacher College in 1990 together with Satish Kumar and John Lane, among others. Harding was a student of James Lovelock who was also one of the first teachers at this College.

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911-1977) was a German-British economist and statistician who during the 70s was president of Lady Eve Balfour’s Soil Association and who was influenced by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi whom he called “the greatest “people’s economist” whose economic thinking was compatible with spirituality as opposed to materialism” (wiki).

At Schumacher College we find Satish Kumar as Director of Programs/President and we also find him at many Institutes and NGOs such as California Institute of Integral Studies, Alliance for the New Humanity, Gaia Partnership, Marion Institute, Center for Visionary Leadership, The Vision Project, Wyse International, Institute of Noetic Sciences and Temenos Academy and more. We find Brian Goodwin who we can also find at the International Futures Forum and the Gaia Foundation. We find Jonathan Dawson from the Findhorn ecovillage community in Scotland and the Global Ecovillage Network and also Gaia Education. As teachers at this College we find, among others, Rupert Sheldrake, Fritjof Capra, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis and Arne Naess. We find Margaret Wheatley who is also at The Vision Project and the Sophia Institute.

“The importance difference between a scientific and a mythological view here, is that we must really feel that Gaia is alive- a great mysterious, animate being. We must understand that Gaia has purpose and that all the evolution that has happened up to this point is about something. That it is not just chance or blind natural selection, but that there is something deeply teleological, meaningful andpurposeful about what is happening on the Earth and that human consciousness is an essential part of that story. To develop a Gaian consciousness is to align oneself with the deep, mysterious intention that the Earth herself is manifesting.”

“There are pre-industrial peoples who for millenia have had this insight of the living Earth very similar to Gaia Theory. For them the forest is totally alive. It has a vast intelligence that they can consult shamanically to find out what’s happening in the forest- where they can hunt, where thay can’t hunt- not through science as we would do it, but through an intuitive connection. The forest is alive, full of meaning.”

“Gaia represents the energy that brings forth life and takes life back. From an indigenous point of view, She has incredible intelligence, consciousness and is full of intention. She can be fierce to those who disobey her rules and kind to those who obey her. Death and destruction are part of her creative process.” (Animate Earth: An interview with Stephan Harding/gaiafoundation.org)

James Lovelock (1919-2022) was a scientist, environmentalist and futurist who developed the “Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system” (wiki) and who wrote the books The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can (2009) and more. In 1974 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. We find Lovelock at several NGOs and institutes such as Copenhagen Climate Council, Gaia Charity, Population Matters, Lindisfarne Association, World Pantheist Movement and Gaia Society.

The Gaia Society started in 1998 and had its base at the University of East London and James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis as the governing authorities. The Royal Society was present at the launch and speakers were Sir Crispin Tickell, Mary Midgley, Chris Rapley and Tyler Volk.

“In his speech, Lovelock told the audience he had decided to keep the Gaia name for his theory because people seemed to have eventually understood that Gaia was a metaphor which had nothing to do either with religion or with any kind of New Age cult. He uses Gaia just the same way Richard Dawkins has used the term “selfish gene” as a metaphor to refer to adaptive behaviors that include the sacrifice of individuals “for the sake of the species.”” (sourcewatch.org)

Lynn Margulis has several connections to New Age networks such as the Lindisfarne Association (together with James Lovelock) and the Earthwatch Institute (Founded by Bob Citron of Foundation for the Future where we can also find Barbara Marx Hubbard and Robert Muller) and she was previously at the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences where Oleg L. Kuznetsov was a past president and who was also a director of the International Center of the Roerichs (with Mikhail Gorbachev as Board of Trustees). At the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences we also find Evgueny Faydysh who is also president of the Russian Foundation of Transpersonal Psychology and director of the Institute for Noosphere Research (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin).

The International Center of the Roerichs is founded on the teachings of Nicholas (Nikolai Konstantinovich) Roerich (1874-1947) who was a painter, hypnotist, Theosophist and a reader of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and more.

We find the speaker Chris Rapley as the patron of Population Matters (founded as the Optimum Population Trust in 1991), who describes his activities as “campaign for the stabilization and gradual decrease of the population to sustainable levels by voluntary means, globally and within the UK”. Another speaker at the Gaia Society and a patron and spokesman for Population Matters was Crispin Tickell who is a relative of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) who was a president of the Royal Society and Aldous Huxley was his cousin. Crispin was a President of the European Commission between the years 1977-1980 and sat on the Sustainable development Panel in 1994. We find Crispin as a member of the Club of Rome and as an Advisor to the Population and Sustainability Network, a member of the “Theosophical” Scientific and Medical Network and as Chairman at the Climate Institute. Crispin wrote the foreword to James Lovelock’s book The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back (2006).

Another speaker at the Gaia Society was Mary Midgley who we also find on the Scientific and Medical Network and on the Journal of Consciousness Studies and Lee Klinger who has over 30 years of academic experience with environmental sciences sat as Vice-Chair of the Gaia Society between the years 1996 to 2000. Klinger studied “Sensory Awareness” together with Charlotte Selver (1901-2003) who had an influence on the “Human Potential Movement” that came out of the Esalen Institute where she acted as a teacher from 1963. Klinger can also be found at Gaia University on the Board of External Reviewers and this university also has an influence from James Lovelock. Other “board members” at Gaia University include Declan Kennedy (Global Ecovillage Network), Ervin Laszlo, Alfred von Liechtenstein and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

“Over the years there have been several initiatives to form a university focused on the needs of Gaia, the living planet. Gaia is the name of the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth and was, more recently, re-adopted by James Lovelock in the 1970’s to promote a whole systems approach to the newly recognized field of ecology.” (sourcewatch.org/Gaia University)

Population Matters was started in 1991 as the Optimum Population Trust for “awareness-raising” among the population in relation to environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, resource depletion and climate change. At Population Matters we find Sara Parkin (Green Party) who also sits on the Forum for the Future and the Population and Sustainability Network. We find Paul R. Ehrlich with the political movement Zero Population Growth and who sits on the Population Institute and the American Philosophical Society and more. We find Jane Goodall who also sits on several New Age networks such as the Club of Budapest, the World Wisdom Council and the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. We find Jonathon Porritt who is also at the Foundation for GAIA, the Schumacher Society, Wyse International and as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Porritt was one of the founders of Forum for the Future. We also find Sir Crispin Tickell at Population Matters.

“In ancient tradition both preparation and initiation played a significant role and not anybody could successfully go through all preliminary stages which often took many years. However, the preliminary stages themselves and their sequence were very much alike. The sense of the whole process can be shortly described as symbolic death, destruction of the old Self and the birth in the new more harmonic and purified condition.” (The Mystic Cosmos, Evgueny Faydysh, president of the Russian Foundation of Transpersonal Psychology, director of the Institute for Noosphere Research)