Contributors in this issue

Robert Moss is a pioneer of Active Dreaming, who works with individuals and groups throughout the world, teaching original techniques to understand and use dreams, coincidence, and imagination to solve problems and reach life goals. Moss, who lives in upstate New York, is also a bestselling novelist and a former foreign correspondent and professor of ancient history at the Australian National University. His books range from popular thrillers (Moscow Rules) to trailblazing books on Active Dreaming (Conscious Dreaming). Read “Waking Up to Your Dreams” here, and sign up for his online workshop, starting in May, at SpiritualityHealth.com/workshops.

Allan J. Hamilton, M.D. is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon who holds professorships at the University of Arizona in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, psychology, and computer and electrical engineering. He and wife own a small ranch near Tucson where they once raised three children and now raise Lipizzaner horses and Brangus cattle. They conduct horse-training and equine-assisted learning clinics around the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Hamilton’s new book, The Scalpel and the Soul (Penguin), recounts true stories about how the spiritual and supernatural manifest themselves in modern medicine. Read about his holy alliance of medicine and prayer here.

Betsy Robinson has been managing editor of S&H for six years. She graduated from a four-year energy medicine school, worked as a book editor, and was an actress for over a decade. She’s written a novel, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, and in 2005 published Girl Stories & Game Plays, an anthology of stories and plays (see BetsyRobinson-writer.com). While taking a break from thinking, she decided to leave her body to science. Read that story here.

Kathleen Norris has been poetry editor of S&H since its inception in 1998. An award-winning poet and writer, she is the author of the bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and The Virgin of Bennington. In 1986 she became an oblate, or associate, of a Benedictine monastery, Assumption Abbey in North Dakota. Subsequently, she spent two years in residence at the Ecumenical Institute at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is currently working on a book entitled Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life. Read her poetry commentary here.