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Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]

Krishna Kaur is the founder of YOGA for Youth, a program that takes yoga, meditation, and stimulating discussions on the philosophy of yoga to urban youth. [www.yogaforyouth.org]

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]

Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist who uses her voice in the number one spectator sport in America as a catalyst for change. [www.leilanimunter.com]

By going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed modern slavery's penetration into the global economy. He co-founded Free the Slaves, which has helped to liberate thousands of slaves. [www.freetheslaves.net]

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Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who address some of the world's most pressing problems. He works energetically for human-rights and in his ministry. [www.tutu.org]

Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a group dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. [www.womenforwomen.org]

Despite his physical challenges, Sean Stephenson has taken a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world. He's a professional speaker, psychotherapist, and author. [www.timetostand.com]

Kia Miller teaches Yoga at Yoga Works in Los Angeles, leads teacher trainings, and runs retreats and workshops on meditation, chakras, pranayam, and mantras, and other practices. [www.kiamiller.com]

Simon Mainwaring is an ex-Nike/Wieden creative, former Worldwide Creative Director at Motorola/Ogilvy, branding/advertising writer, author/speaker/blogger, Australian, idea geek. [www.simonmainwaring.com]

Shannon Bindler is a style editor, life coach, and the co-founder of Get Up Girl, an empowerment company that inspires women to shine. [www.getupgirl.com]

Grammy-nominated art director/designer/photographer Mathieu Bitton has designed over 450 CDs and movie posters. He's a renowned collector of and authority on black films and their soundtracks. [www.candytangerine.com]

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dreaming

In my native Australia, the Aborigines say that the BIG stories are hunting the right people to tell them. Every day, I seek to put myself in the places where the big stories – the ones that charge our lives with meaning and energy – can find me. I start the day by catching my dreams and studying where my dream self traveled during the night. I share dreams with friends in a fun, fast, high-octane way and we help each other take action to honor our dreams. I approach the world around me as a forest of living symbols, and receive life guidance through coincidence and chance encounters. Synchronicity may be a kiss from the universe, or a secret handshake, or a slap in the face. When you pay attention, you put a fizz of magic, like champagne bubbles, into the air.
Often on the road, I love to hear the stories of other people’s lives, and to help them (when necessary) break free from the little stories they may have been trapped in and live a deeper drama. My calling is one for which there is no career track in our culture – that of a dream teacher who helps people gain access to ways of seeing and healing that were prized by all of our ancestors, but have been neglected, at the expense of soul, in modern society. My great reward, in all the workshops, is to see the bright light of returning spirit in the eyes of someone who has reclaimed their vital energy and brought home the inner child who is the master of dreams and imagination.
I have a great sense of responsibility to a young woman I’ve seen in my visions – a priestess and scientist who lives seven generations ahead of me and is using the tools of Active Dreaming to repair our world. I want to do something every day that will lay a foundation for her work.
Every day possible, I write and I swim, and when all goes well, these are very similar processes for me. I swim the Australian crawl, keeping low in the water, minimizing resistance, barely raising my head as I turn it to breathe. Writing, I often slip into a similar zone. This, again, is a place where the BIG stories – the ones that most need and want to be told – slip through, to re-enchant the world.
– Robert Moss
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