Socrates was a Greek philosopher credited with being one of the founders of Western philosophy, and with being the very first moral philosopher on record. An enigmatic figure, with none of his own writings having been discovered to date, Socrates is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. […]
Rudolf Joseph Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic, and yet became truly prominent at the beginning of the twentieth century when he founded the anthroposophic spiritual movement – one that had roots in German idealist philosophy, […]
Born Stevland Hardaway Morris in May of 1950, Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter who has become one of the most creative and loved musical performers of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for […]
Tom Stoppard is a British playwright who has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along […]
Gino Strada is an Italian war surgeon and founder of the humanitarian, charity-based NGO Emergency. Starting out as a heart-lung transplant surgeon in the 1980’s, Gino has always believed that healthcare is a human right. It was this belief that led him to abandon his posh position in the United States in 1988, and begin […]
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese government official who served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara risked the lives of himself and his entire family by helping by issuing transit visas to thousands of Jews so that they could flee Europe through Japanese territory … And this […]
Born in 1950, Swimme obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Oregon (1978), and is currently a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students. He has also authored several books related to the field of cosmogenesis, among them […]
Born in 1861, Tagore was a Bengali poet, artist & musician who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 1900’s & early 1900’s. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 (primarily for his genius work “Gitanjali: Song of Offerings”), and was highly influential in introducing the best […]
“Tank Man” (also known as the “Unknown Protester”) is the nickname of an unidentified man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5, 1989 — the morning after the Chinese military had ruthlessly suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 … As the lead tank maneuvered to pass by the […]
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system … Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray […]
Born in 1926, Hanh (known affectionately by many of his friends & followers as “Thay”) is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He lives in the Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne region of southern France. By the late 1950’s, when he was already a Buddhist monk of no small […]
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