Camp MOJO

Mojo Influences

Anthony Robbins is an American self-help writer and professional speaker who has been active for over 30 years. He became well known through his infomercials and bestselling self-help books, Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement and Awaken The Giant Within. Robbins writes about subjects such as health and energy, overcoming fears, persuasive communication, and enhancing relationships. His audio programs, seminars and self-help products featured Neuro-linguistic programming and Ericksonian hypnosis which he studied at the start of his career. Robbins seminars also used firewalking as a metaphor for overcoming fears and limiting beliefs. Later, Robbins combined his skills and techniques with other methods claimed to affect personal change.

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Dr John Demartini is the founder of The Demartini Institute, previously known as The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, which has offices in the United States and Southern Africa.

Demartini is a doctor of chiropractic. He claims his scope of knowledge and experience is a culmination of 35 years of research and studies in over 270 different disciplines ranging from psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, theology, neurology and physiology.

When not travelling and speaking, Demartini maintains his residence on the cruise ship The World, a seagoing community of 165 private residences which is the only resort community to continually circumnavigate the globe.

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Ken Wilber is an American philosopher who has written about adult development, developmental psychology, philosophy, worldcentrism, ecology, and Stages of Faith. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of his Integral theory. His writings are deeply critical of the New Age Movement, still, some have categorized him as New Age.

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Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi began his Buddhist practice at Zen Center San Francisco in the early ’70s, later becoming a student of Eido Shimano Roshi in New York and subsequently a monk. He received his Zen Master recognition in 1992.

Interested in bringing his Zen lineage (Rinzai tradition) into American culture without the Japanese cultural bindings, Jun Po left the monastery and founded the lay Buddhist Hollow Bones order, of which he is abbot. A yoga instructor as well, he traces his lineage to BKS Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois. He established the Hollow Bones seven-day Zen retreats for the Mankind Project.

Diagnosed with Stage IV throat cancer in April 2006, he underwent four months of extensive treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. That treatment was successful and he is currently cancer-free.

(from www.shambhalamountain.org)

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Caroline Myss

Caroline Myss is an American medical intuitive and mystic as well as the author of numerous books and audio tapes, including four New York Times Best Sellers: Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, Sacred Contracts, and Entering The Castle.

She has also been on the The Oprah Winfrey Show, several times, since her first appearance in 2002, and in 2001 she hosted a TV series, titled, “The Journey With Caroline Myss”, at Oxygen (TV network), co-owned by Oprah Winfrey, exploring the spiritual and psychological roadblocks of life in an intimate workshop setting, apart from that she has also done TV Specials, “Three Levels of Power & How to Use Them” and “Why People Don’t Heal & How They Can,” based on her work.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti, or J. Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was a renowned writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasized that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.

Krishnamurti was born into a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then colonial India. In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist C.W. Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras (now Chennai). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a “vehicle” for an expected World Teacher. As a young man, he disavowed this idea and dissolved the worldwide organization (the Order of the Star) established to support it. He claimed allegiance to no nationality, caste, religion, or philosophy, and spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an individual speaker, speaking to large and small groups, as well as with interested individuals. He authored a number of books, among them The First and Last Freedom, The Only Revolution, and Krishnamurti’s Notebook. In addition, a large collection of his talks and discussions have been published. His last public talk was in Madras, India, in January 1986, a month before his death at his home in Ojai, California.

His supporters, working through several non-profit foundations, oversee a number of independent schools centered on his views on education – in India, Great Britain and the United States – and continue to transcribe and distribute many of his thousands of talks, group and individual discussions, and other writings, publishing them in a variety of formats including print, audio, video and digital formats as well as online, in many languages.

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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866?–1949) was a Greek-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher. He called his discipline “The Work” (connoting “work on oneself”, according to Gurdjieff’s principles and instructions, or (originally) the “Fourth Way”. At one point he described his teaching as “esoteric Christianity”.

At different times in his life Gurdjieff formed and closed various schools around the world to utilize his teachings. He claimed that the teachings he brought to the West from his own experiences and early travels expressed the truth found in ancient religions and wisdom teachings relating to self-awareness in people’s daily lives and humanity’s place in the universe. One could express the essence of his teachings in the title of his third series of writings: Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, while his complete series of books goes under the name “All and Everything”.

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Jean Houston Ph.D. (born 10 May 1937) has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of New Thought spirituality and ritual processes. A prolific author of books, her PBS Special A Passion for the Possible has been widely viewed.

Houston was perhaps formerly best known for her involvement with renowned cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, during Mead’s final years, as well as many other prominent figures including French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Dr. Jonas Salk, best known for winning the Noble Prize in medicine for his discovery of the polio vaccine.

When Jean was 14, she literally ran into an old man on Park Avenue in New York City on her way to school. After this mishap, they became friends, and she enjoyed listening to him on various occasions. At the time she learned to pronounce his name as “Mr. Thayer.” At a much later time, she learned that she had been talking with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. (His complete surname is “Teilhard de Chardin”; the shortened form is “Teilhard” — pronounced “tay-yar”.)

Houston earned a B.A. from Barnard College, a Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

She was deeply influenced by the work of Joseph Campbell, most notably by The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). But perhaps her most significant mentor was Margaret Mead, who was also a personal friend.

With her spouse Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded the Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and chief teacher of the Mystery School, a program for the cross-cultural study of spirituality and ritual processes. She has conducted the Mystery School on both the east and west coasts for more than two decades. In 1984, she started a national not-for-profit organization known as The Possible Society to explore new ways for people to work to help solve societal problems. More recently, she has also founded the International Institute for Social Artistry. She is currently working with the United Nations Development Programme in the new field of social artistry, training U.N. staff and leaders in certain developing countries. She has lectured in more than 100 countries and worked intensively in 40 cultures. She has received many awards for her work. (wikipedia)

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Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, who held both a master’s degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity. Famous for his research on comparative religion, he was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy.

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Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a 20th century American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. He wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dalai Lama, D.T. Suzuki, the Japanese writer on the Zen tradition, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Merton is the subject of several biographies.

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Vanessa Fisher currently lives in Vancouver Canada, and has received her bachelors degree from the University of British Columbia in the department of Religion, Literature and the Arts.  She was invited to present at the First Biennial Integral Theory Conference, and received an award for best research and writing in the UL quadrant. She was also a participant on the integral feminist panel discussion.  Her recent article, Beauty and the Expansion of Women’s Identity, can be found in the fall 2008 issue of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. (Integral)

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Walter Russell (1871–1963) was an American polymath, known for his achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This physical theory, laid out primarily in his books The Secret of Light (1947) and The Message of the Divine Iliad (1948–49), has not been accepted by mainstream scientists. Russell asserted that this was mainly due to differences between himself and scientists in their assumptions about the existence of mind or matter. Russell was also proficient in philosophy, music, ice-skating, and was a professor at the institution he founded, the University of Science and Philosophy. He believed mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

In 1963, Walter Cronkite in the national television evening news, commenting on Dr. Walter Russel’s passing, referred to him as “… the Leonardo DaVinci of our time.”

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Barbara Dossey As an educator, consultant, researcher, and author, Barbara Dossey profoundly alters perceptions about holistic nursing. An inspired teacher, she effectively integrates non-traditional viewpoints with a high degree of scientific awareness in her lectures worldwide. Spanning the full range of current nursing and health information, her presentations provide challenging, practical, and innovative ways to combine holistic health care with high-level wellness. From nursing association gatherings to corporate meetings—all audiences respond enthusiastically to Barbara Dossey’s penetrating insights and abiding compassion. (Integral)

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Michael Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, headquartered in Los Angeles. During any given week approximately 6,000 individuals pass through Agape’s doors to hear Michael speak on Wednesdays and Sundays, and to attend classes taught at the University of Transformational Studies and Leadership, which Beckwith also founded. He is the originator of the Life Visioning Process, a meditation teacher, retreat facilitator, and a conference/seminar speaker. A featured teacher in the film and book The Secret, he has appeared on the Oprah Show and Larry King.

In the 1970s Dr. Beckwith began a spiritual journey that embraced the teachings of East and West. Both he and his message are profoundly influenced by his 30 years of study of spiritual luminaries including: Sri Aurobindo, Dr. Ernest Holmes, Dr. Thomas Hora, Howard Thurman, Paramahansa Yogananda, Hazrat Inayat Khan, George Washington Carver, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Walter Russell, Joel Goldsmith and Thomas R. Kelly. In 1986 he founded Agape which, in addition to its local membership of thousands, has hundreds of thousands of worldwide friends, as well as regional and international affiliates.

(from: www.wikipedia.org)

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