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Author of books and articles on public policy, culture, and economics. Notable works include The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Political Realism, and The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth.

Social psychologist and author. Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business. specializes in the psychology of morality and moral emotions.

Born in 1956, Paul Levy grew up in Yonkers, New York. In the mid-seventies he went to college at what was then called the State University of New York at Binghamton (now called Binghamton University), receiving degrees in both economics and studio art. While an undergraduate at Binghamton, he was hired by Princeton University to do research in economics. When he graduated college, he stopped his studies in economics and pursued his career in art, moving out to the Bay Area, where he was both making, and teaching art. In 1981, due to an intense personal trauma, he had a life-changing spiritual awakening in which he began to recognize the dreamlike nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, Paul was hospitalized a number of times, and was told he was having a severe psychotic break from reality. Much to his surprise, he was (mis)diagnosed as having a chemical imbalance and was informed that he had what was then called manic-depression (now called bi-polar disorder), and that he would have to live with his illness for the rest of his life and would need to take medication till his dying breath. Little did the doctors realize, however, that he was taking part in a mystical awakening/shamanic initiation process, which at times mimicked psychosis but in actuality was a spiritual experience of a far different order, completely off the map of the psychiatric system. Fortunately, he was able to extricate himself from the medical and psychiatric establishment so that he could continue his process of self-discovery. Thankfully, as Paul freed himself from the shackles of psychiatry, he found his spiritual teachers, who instead of seeing Paul as crazy, recognized that he was beginning to spiritually awaken. An artist, after the trauma of his shamanic break-down/break-through, he became a certified art teacher. Due to his interest in the work of C. G. Jung, by the end of the decade he became the manager of the C. G. Jung Foundation Book Service in New York, as well as the advertising manager for the Jungian journal Quadrant. In 1993, after many years of struggling to contain and integrate his non-ordinary experiences, Paul started to openly share his insights about the dreamlike nature of reality. He began giving talks and facilitating groups based on how life is a shared waking dream that we are all co-creating and co-dreaming together. He is the founder of the Awakening in the Dream Community in Portland, Oregon. A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul is a wounded healer in private practice, helping others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. His work has gone through three phases: because of his intense interest in dreams (both night dreams and the dreamlike nature of reality), he was first known as "the dream guy." After writing Dispelling Wetiko, he became associated with the idea of wetiko. After the publication of The Quantum Revelation, he is now seen as connected with quantum physics. All three aspects - dreams, wetiko and quantum physics are interconnected and complementary facets of a deeper reality into which he is continually deepening his investigation. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (2006), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (2013), Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father (2015) and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (2018). A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He was the coordinator of the Portland chapter of the PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center for over twenty years.

Data Scientist at @BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Creator of AI content generation tools such as @aitextgen and gpt-2-simple. I am the data.

Paul John Myburgh, author, anthropologist and accomplished documentary filmmaker, has had a life long commitment to Africa that transcends the boundaries of politics and ideology . . . a life which has been a study of the human journey between earth and the starry heavens. His film 'People of The Great Sand Face' and book published by Penguin Books “The Bushman Winter Has Come” reveal the life lessons from seven years spent amongst the Kalahari Bushmen. Apart from those many years shared with the Bushmen, he has spent the last twenty one years working on the story of the Little Foot skeleton in a cave in the Cradle of Humankind . . . granted exclusive access to the excavation of the most complete ape-woman fossil skeleton ever found in the history of the world, and dated at 3,67 million years. Currently marketing - A feature documentary on ‘The story of the Little Foot’ - winner of the s.a.s.c. gold award for cinematography. Conversations - Paul offers private breakthrough sessions for individuals, and motivational talks for groups - giving careful consideration to our physical and spiritual evolution up to present time . . . exploring what it means to be human in the world. Talks focus on the ancient races - those who came before us and upon whose endeavours and sacrifices we stand – for we were all once first people. This is our only story . . . where we come from, who we are and what lies before us . . . past and present joined in hope for a future. “We are here to contribute to the spiritual evolution of a free humanity in a one-world environment”

Author and philosopher known for discussing contemporary subjects and themes in his books, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. Notable works include "Essays in Love," "How Proust Can Change Your Life," "Status Anxiety," and "The Architecture of Happiness."

Founder/CEO - Global Macro Investor and Real Vision Group, Business Cycle Economist, Investment Strategist, Economic Historian, Traveller and Rum Drinker..

artist, strategist, opinionist, reflectionist. Also @databeers. Artworks & available: http://iillucid.com/art-by-marcelo/ | Currently @ PHYGITAL w/ @katevassgalerie

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