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Biography of Contributors
He is currently an Associate Professor in the undergraduate school and in the Ecopsychology MA
(where he was former chair) at Naropa University – a Buddhist-inspired fully accredited university
in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught environmental humanities in the BA and MA programmes
in Sustainable Living at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfeld, Iowa, and was codirector of the BA for 2 years. Dr Cox earned his PhD in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State
University; a Master’s in Philosophy and Religion, with an emphasis in Philosophy, Cosmology and
Consciousness, from the California Institute of Integral Studies; and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy
from Central College in Pella, Iowa.
Jude Currivan
Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She has experienced multidimensional
realities since early childhood, travelled to over eighty countries and worked with wisdom keepers
of many traditions. She integrates leading-edge science, consciousness research and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic worldview, underpinning her work to enable transformational and
emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the
University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Master’s Degree in Physics
from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. International author of
six non-fction books, her latest is Nautilus award-winning The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation
at the Center of Creation, the frst book of the Transformation trilogy. She is currently writing
book two Gaia: Her-Story. In 2010, she was presented with a CIRCLE Award by WON Buddhism
International for her ‘outstanding contribution towards planetary healing and expanding new forms
of consciousness’. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle (www.evolutionaryleaders.
net) and in 2017 co-founded WholeWorld-View (www.wholeworld-view.org) to empower the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness in service to conscious evolution (www.
judecurrivan.com).
Saskia G. von Diest
Saskia von Diest is a facilitator, educator, consultant and researcher of ‘ecofuency’ - intuitive, interspecies communication with the rest of Nature, as a vital way of knowing and a resource for harmonious relationship with all life – https://www.ecofuency.org/. After completing her PhD in plant
pathology (2013), she held a postdoctoral fellowship (2014–2017) at Stellenbosch University, South
Africa, to investigate quantum-based agricultural techniques and technologies that use sound, electromagnetics and intuitive abilities in management decision-making. Her passion for knowledge
extension inspired her to bring various international experts to host workshops in South Africa,
and to help build an international network of farmers, technical advisors and researchers for this
emerging feld of research. Saskia further explored intuitive farming in a collaborative postdoctoral project (2018–2020), between the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) and the
Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University, and the Centre
for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, UK. She presents her work
in various forms on numerous international platforms, and facilitates embodied experiences of how
dialogue with the rest of nature can practically beneft decisions, from food growing to personal
development (https://www.ecofuency.org/).
Paul Doesburg
Paul Doesburg holds a BSc in medical biotechnology. Paul became acquainted with the copper
chloride crystallisation method during his employment at the Louis Bolk Institute where he worked
from 2001 to 2009 on the standardisation, validation and application of this method within a
European context. In 2010, he started a private company, Crystal Lab, to continue this work. Since
2010, he has been a member of the board of the King Fisher Foundation, a Dutch foundation for
phenomenology and Goethean science. Paul’s vision is a world in which wholeness and resilience
Biography of Contributors
He is currently an Associate Professor in the undergraduate school and in the Ecopsychology MA
(where he was former chair) at Naropa University – a Buddhist-inspired fully accredited university
in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught environmental humanities in the BA and MA programmes
in Sustainable Living at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfeld, Iowa, and was codirector of the BA for 2 years. Dr Cox earned his PhD in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State
University; a Master’s in Philosophy and Religion, with an emphasis in Philosophy, Cosmology and
Consciousness, from the California Institute of Integral Studies; and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy
from Central College in Pella, Iowa.
Jude Currivan
Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She has experienced multidimensional
realities since early childhood, travelled to over eighty countries and worked with wisdom keepers
of many traditions. She integrates leading-edge science, consciousness research and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic worldview, underpinning her work to enable transformational and
emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the
University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Master’s Degree in Physics
from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. International author of
six non-fction books, her latest is Nautilus award-winning The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation
at the Center of Creation, the frst book of the Transformation trilogy. She is currently writing
book two Gaia: Her-Story. In 2010, she was presented with a CIRCLE Award by WON Buddhism
International for her ‘outstanding contribution towards planetary healing and expanding new forms
of consciousness’. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle (www.evolutionaryleaders.
net) and in 2017 co-founded WholeWorld-View (www.wholeworld-view.org) to empower the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness in service to conscious evolution (www.
judecurrivan.com).
Saskia G. von Diest
Saskia von Diest is a facilitator, educator, consultant and researcher of ‘ecofuency’ - intuitive, interspecies communication with the rest of Nature, as a vital way of knowing and a resource for harmonious relationship with all life – https://www.ecofuency.org/. After completing her PhD in plant
pathology (2013), she held a postdoctoral fellowship (2014–2017) at Stellenbosch University, South
Africa, to investigate quantum-based agricultural techniques and technologies that use sound, electromagnetics and intuitive abilities in management decision-making. Her passion for knowledge
extension inspired her to bring various international experts to host workshops in South Africa,
and to help build an international network of farmers, technical advisors and researchers for this
emerging feld of research. Saskia further explored intuitive farming in a collaborative postdoctoral project (2018–2020), between the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) and the
Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University, and the Centre
for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, UK. She presents her work
in various forms on numerous international platforms, and facilitates embodied experiences of how
dialogue with the rest of nature can practically beneft decisions, from food growing to personal
development (https://www.ecofuency.org/).
Paul Doesburg
Paul Doesburg holds a BSc in medical biotechnology. Paul became acquainted with the copper
chloride crystallisation method during his employment at the Louis Bolk Institute where he worked
from 2001 to 2009 on the standardisation, validation and application of this method within a
European context. In 2010, he started a private company, Crystal Lab, to continue this work. Since
2010, he has been a member of the board of the King Fisher Foundation, a Dutch foundation for
phenomenology and Goethean science. Paul’s vision is a world in which wholeness and resilience