Hallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the
earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University, she
drove from England to Nepal and back again over the course of a
year. This journey, described in her first book "Womanspirit" led
to a synthesis of spirituality and feminism, which she began
teaching in the 1970s. Since then, she has led workshops, rituals
and conferences at universities, the United Nations, and
theological schools among other places.
Hallie Iglehart Austen is cofounder of Seaflow: Protect Our Living
Oceans, which educates the public about the dangers of active
sonars and other ocean noise to whales, dolphins, and all sea life.
She also initiated All One Oceans, establishing over fifty beach
cleanup stations in California, Hawai‘i, Iowa, and Alabama and is
starting a pilot project for grade school students on ocean plastic
pollution. Hallie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and gives
classes and private consultations on dream work, life transition
rituals, and Wisdom Healing Qigong. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a
psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and an internationally known author
and speaker. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology, a former clinical professor of psychiatry
at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California
Medical Center and a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for
Women, the International Transpersonal Association, and the C.G.
Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen
books in over ninety foreign editions. She is a leading advocate at
the United Nations for a UN 5th World Conference on Women, and is
NGO Permanent Representative of the Women’s World Summit
Foundation(Geneva) to the UN. She is in three acclaimed
documentaries: the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation
film “Women – For America, For the World,” the Canadian Film
Board’s “Goddess Remembered,” and “Femme: Women Healing the World.
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