Alan Watts was a philosopher, writer, speaker, well-known autodidact and expert in comparative religion. Best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was a proponent for shifts in Western attitudes regarding society, the natural world, lifestyles and aesthetics. There is a huge audio archive of his great philosophy lectures with his own characteristic humour available online.

RAW was a futurist, novelist, scientific philosopher, libertarian and a Ph.D in psychology. He's written many great works of fiction and non-fiction. In a 2003 interview with High Times magazine, RAW described himself as a "Model Agnostic" which he says "consists of never regarding any model or map of Universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory." More simply, he claims 'not to believe anything,' since 'belief is the death of thought.'

Terence McKenna was a writer, philosopher, innovative theoretician and orator. He was notable for his many speculations on subjects ranging from the Voynich Manuscript to the origins of the human species to Novelty Theory, which claims time to be a fractal wave of increasing novelty, which culminates dramatically in 2012. His concept involved a combination of hallucinogenic chemical agents, Gaianism, and shamanism. He features on the Shamen track Re-evolution of the Boss Drum album. He was a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement.

Psychologist, philosopher, explorer, teacher, optimist, author, campaigner for psychedelic drug research & use, 60s counterculture icon and computer software designer! During the 1960s, he coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." He helped initiate a renaissance which is still only beginning to elaborate itself. President Richard 'not-a-crook' Nixon once labeled him the most dangerous man in America. In the supposed land of the free his research was made illegal and he was thrown into prison for years in solitary confinement... after which the CIA tested LSD on unknowing soldiers, gotta love that US government.

Dr. John C. Lilly, M.D. was a physician and psychoanalyst specializing in biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, computer theory, and neuroanatomy. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. This work led him to interspecies communication research projects between man and dolphin. Timothy Leary praised him as the twentieth century's Columbus, who brought back conspicuous data from the far most inner world journey.

Krystle Cole runs the wonderful NeuroSoup.com website and its YouTube Channel which is one of the most informative sources on entheogens today. She has a Bachelor of Integrated Studies degree in Psychology and Substance Abuse Counseling from Washburn University. She also has a Master of Science degree in Psychology with an emphasis in evaluation, research, and measurement from Capella University. Additionally, she is currently enrolled in the Psychology PhD program at Capella University. Krystle is also a published author and makes educational videos that can be viewed on youTube.

Daniel Pinchbeck is a philosopher, writer and advocate of psychedelic drug use and experience. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. In Breaking Open the Head, Pinchbeck explored shamanism via ceremonies with tribal groups such as the Bwiti of Gabon and the Secoya in the Ecuadorean Amazon. In 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, he examines indigenous prophecy through personal and philosophical approaches, and offers the hypothesis that humanity is experiencing an accelerated process of global consciousness transformation, leading to a new realization of time and space and, possibly, a harmonic planetary civilization within the next six years.