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Thomas
Berry was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1914.
From his academic beginnings as a historian of world cultures
and religions, Berry developed into a historian of the Earth
and its evolutionary processes. He describes himself as a "geologian".
For two decades, he directed the Riverdale Center of Religious
Research and taught at Fordham University where he chaired the
history of religions program and directed 25 doctoral theses.
His major contributions to the discussion on the environment
are in his books The Dream of the Earth (Sierra Club Books,
1988 reprinted, 2006), The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
(Random House, 1999) and, with Brian Swimme, The Universe Story
(Harper San Francisco, 1992). His latest collection of essays
is Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
(Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006).
Jeremy
Naydler holds a doctorate in theology and religious
studies, and has long been interested in the religious life
of antiquity. He is author of two books on ancient Egyptian
religion: Temple of the Cosmos (1996) and Shamanic Wisdom
in the Pyramid Texts (2005). Alongside his intellectual pursuits,
he has always worked as a gardener, and his most recent publication
is a volume of poems, Soul Gardening (2006). Jeremy is the
co-founder of the Jupiter Trust.
Robert
Thurman is a Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies
in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President
of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated
to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and
President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies.