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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.
   
 
 
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