The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life (39 page)

Dr. Jane Goodall is a world-famous British primatologist, anthropologist, and author, as well as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, an organization with which she has done a great deal of animal conservation and protection work. At age twenty-six, she traveled from England to Tanzania, where she entered the then little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, she may be best known for her forty-five-year study of the interaction between wild chimpanzees. Jane Goodall has received a great many awards and honors for her humanitarian and conservation work, including the Gold Medal for Conservation from the San Diego Zoological Society and the National Geographic Society Centennial Award. In 2000, the United Nations awarded her the third Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence. In 2002, then UN secretary-general Kofi Annan appointed her a Messenger of Peace, and in 2004, she was named a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire. Jane Goodall continues to travel some 300 days of the year and lectures all over the world. For more information, please visit
www.janegoodall.org
.

 JOHN GRAY, PhD

John Gray is without a doubt the world’s best-known relationship expert. His groundbreaking book
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
was the bestselling book of the 1990s. He helps men and women understand, respect, and appreciate each other’s differences in both personal and professional relationships. He has sold more than 50 million copies of his books in fifty different languages. His Mars-Venus series of books has fundamentally changed the way men and women look at each other’s roles in a relationship. He teaches individuals and communities simple ways of improving their relationships and methods of communication. He also shows how the differences between men and women can be used to develop a healthy relationship full of love and passion. John Gray has appeared on various TV shows, including
The Oprah Winfrey Show
,
Dr. Oz
, the
Today
show, the
CBS Morning Show
,
Good Morning America
,
The Early Show,
and
The View
. He has also received a great deal of coverage in print publications including
Time
,
Forbes
,
USA Today
,
TV Guide,
and
People
. Visit John Gray’s website at
www.marsvenus.com
.

ROLLIN McCRATY, PhD

Rollin McCraty is vice chairman and head of the research team at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, which has been carrying out scientific research into the intelligence of the heart since 1991. He is an international authority in the field of heart coherence and the effects of positive and negative emotions on human psychophysiology. In his role as chief science officer, he has carried out countless studies of the effects of emotions on heart-brain interaction and the immune system. He and his research team have been involved in various joint studies with other academic and medical institutions, including Stanford University and the Miami Heart Research Institute. Rollin McCraty has numerous scientific publications to his name, many of which have been published in leading scientific journals, including
American Journal of Cardiology
,
Stress Medicine
, and
Biological Psychology
. For more information about both Rollin McCraty and the Institute of HeartMath, visit the website
www.heartmath.org
.

 HOWARD MARTIN

Howard Martin is vice chairman of the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, which has been carrying out scientific research into the intelligence of the heart since 1991. He has played a crucial role in various scientific studies of the heart’s positive influence on man’s health, emotional well-being, and intelligence. He is the man behind a unique scientific program that seeks to improve individual and collective achievements as well as health and a sense of well-being through the heart. Howard Martin is a much-sought-after speaker at international conferences and provides workshops for businesses and individuals around the world as well as for the U.S. army. He has given numerous interviews about the intelligence of the heart, has appeared on
Good Morning America
, and has participated in programs on Discovery Channel and CNN and in
The Boston Globe
. For more information about both Howard Martin and the Institute of HeartMath, go to
www.heartmath.org
.

 RUEDIGER SCHACHE

Ruediger Schache is a German spiritual teacher and author. After graduating in economics and psychology from the University of Munich, he swapped his job as head of the advertising department of a renowned German company for a probing spiritual quest. He was thirty-eight at the time. He spent several years in the United States and traveled extensively across various continents, where he rediscovered old traditional knowledge about personality and consciousness. Ruediger Schache’s books have been published in twenty-six languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. His book
Your Magnetic Heart: 10 Secrets of Love, Attraction and Fufillment
spent no less than eighty-four weeks on the prestigious bestseller list of
Der Spiegel
, Germany’s biggest and most influential weekly magazine. Alongside his work as a speaker and author, he and his wife lead the Institute for Consciousness Research in Munich, Germany. For more information on Ruediger Schache, visit
www.ruedigerschache.com
.

 MARCI SHIMOFF, MBA

Marci Shimoff is one of the United States’ greatest experts in the field of happiness, success, and unconditional love. She is the author of the bestsellers
Love for No Reason
and
Happy for No Reason
, in which she shares groundbreaking insights into the great secret behind lasting love and happiness, and co-author of the now world-famous series of books Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her books have been translated into thirty-one languages and have been featured on many bestseller lists, including those of the
New York Times
, Amazon, and the
Wall Street Journal
. She has sold a total of 14 million books worldwide. Marci Shimoff gives lectures and seminars both at home and abroad and has touched the hearts of millions around the globe with subjects such as the importance of self-esteem and self-confidence. She holds an MBA from UCLA and is the chairwoman and co-founder of the Esteem Group, with which she aims to help women get more out of their lives. Visit her website at
www.happyfornoreason.com
.

 DEAN SHROCK, PhD

Dean Shrock is a psychologist and author of the bestsellers
Doctor’s Orders: Go Fishing
and
Why Love Heals
. Having carried out several scientific studies of the positive impact of joy on the life quality and life span of cancer patients, he reached the startling conclusion that the feeling of being loved and cared for has a positive influence on the life expectancy of cancer patients and that love can even have a healing effect. Dean Shrock studied at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, and obtained his doctorate in applied psychology from the University of Akron in Ohio. He developed a research proposal for the Cleveland Clinic to investigate the effectiveness of guided imagery on cancer patients and shortly afterward began his psychological research into cancer care at the Simonton Cancer Center in Malibu, California. For more information, go to
www.deanshrock.com
.

 ECKHART TOLLE