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Biography of Contributors
looked at dance as a modality for healing and spirituality, including embodied epistemologies and
shamanic techniques. From 2015 to 2020, she worked at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)
at Coventry University where she designed a Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers to use the body
within the research cycle. She is a long-term shamanic practitioner and student of Jonathan Horwitz,
as well as a qualifed teacher of Movement Medicine, an approach for contemporary shamanic
improvised dance. Finally, Eline is a certifed Holden Qi Gong instructor. All these experiences
are woven into her freelance company Clover Trail, a place where people can reconnect with what
helps them thrive in life. This includes various movement practices, nature immersion, shamanic
and lucid-dreaming techniques, tools for embodied knowing, sacred art-making, ceremony and
transformation (http://www.clover-trail.com).
Hugh Lovel
Hugh Lovel (1947–2020) was a farmer and an international consultant to dairy farms, graziers,
broadacre grain growers and fruit and vegetable producers. As a multidisciplinary scientist, Hugh
introduced comprehensive soil testing using both the Albrecht approach and a total acid digest
test that more clearly revealed what is actually present in soils. Above all, he was a leading pioneer of the new science of Quantum Agriculture. Hugh Lovel authored A Biodynamic Farm, for
Growing Wholesome Food and Quantum Agriculture: Biodynamics and Beyond. He was the original designer of the Field Broadcaster quantum technology and the Quantum Radionic Analyser.
His articles have appeared in Acres USA and related organic farming periodicals such as Acres
Australia and biodynamic journals around the world. Hugh’s work and legacy are being continued
in the capable hands of his widow, Shabari Bird Lovel (www.quantumagriculture.com).
Patrick MacManaway
Dr Patrick MacManaway is a third-generation practitioner of psychic and healing arts. A graduate
of Edinburgh University Medical School, he is a former President of the British Society of Dowsers
and the author of several books and CDs. He consults and teaches land whispering in the UK, the
USA and Australia (www.patrickmacmanaway.com).
Charles Massy
Charles Massy gained a BSc (Zoology, Human Ecology) at the Australian National University
(ANU, 1976), before going into farming for over 40 years. This included the development of a
prominent Merino sheep genetics business (‘Severn Park’). Concern over ongoing land degradation and humanity’s sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU to undertake a PhD in
Human Ecology, completed in 2013. Charles has chaired and served as a director on a number of
national and international businesses, research organisations, review panels and statutory wool
boards, involving garment manufacture, wool marketing, R&D, molecular genetics and genomics. Charles has had fve books published, including two on Merino history (Penguin and Random
House) and one on the political destruction of the Australian wool industry (Breaking the Sheep’s
Back 2011, UQP), and in 2017, he published the best-selling Call of the Reed Warbler: A New
Agriculture, a New Earth (UQP and Chelsea Green). This book has become a talisman for the
regenerative agriculture movement and has won and been shortlisted for a number of literary
awards. Massy has also engaged in freelance journalism since 1977 across a range of subjects
from mountaineering, ecology, history, sheep and wool, research management, plus fction short
stories and poetry. He continues to manage a sheep and cattle grazing property, while consulting
widely in the felds of Merino breeding, transformative change in agriculture, and in landscape
design.
Georgina McAllister
With an NGO background since the early 1990s, George’s experience spans both the humanitarian and development sectors in Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Pacifc and sub-Saharan
Biography of Contributors
looked at dance as a modality for healing and spirituality, including embodied epistemologies and
shamanic techniques. From 2015 to 2020, she worked at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)
at Coventry University where she designed a Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers to use the body
within the research cycle. She is a long-term shamanic practitioner and student of Jonathan Horwitz,
as well as a qualifed teacher of Movement Medicine, an approach for contemporary shamanic
improvised dance. Finally, Eline is a certifed Holden Qi Gong instructor. All these experiences
are woven into her freelance company Clover Trail, a place where people can reconnect with what
helps them thrive in life. This includes various movement practices, nature immersion, shamanic
and lucid-dreaming techniques, tools for embodied knowing, sacred art-making, ceremony and
transformation (http://www.clover-trail.com).
Hugh Lovel
Hugh Lovel (1947–2020) was a farmer and an international consultant to dairy farms, graziers,
broadacre grain growers and fruit and vegetable producers. As a multidisciplinary scientist, Hugh
introduced comprehensive soil testing using both the Albrecht approach and a total acid digest
test that more clearly revealed what is actually present in soils. Above all, he was a leading pioneer of the new science of Quantum Agriculture. Hugh Lovel authored A Biodynamic Farm, for
Growing Wholesome Food and Quantum Agriculture: Biodynamics and Beyond. He was the original designer of the Field Broadcaster quantum technology and the Quantum Radionic Analyser.
His articles have appeared in Acres USA and related organic farming periodicals such as Acres
Australia and biodynamic journals around the world. Hugh’s work and legacy are being continued
in the capable hands of his widow, Shabari Bird Lovel (www.quantumagriculture.com).
Patrick MacManaway
Dr Patrick MacManaway is a third-generation practitioner of psychic and healing arts. A graduate
of Edinburgh University Medical School, he is a former President of the British Society of Dowsers
and the author of several books and CDs. He consults and teaches land whispering in the UK, the
USA and Australia (www.patrickmacmanaway.com).
Charles Massy
Charles Massy gained a BSc (Zoology, Human Ecology) at the Australian National University
(ANU, 1976), before going into farming for over 40 years. This included the development of a
prominent Merino sheep genetics business (‘Severn Park’). Concern over ongoing land degradation and humanity’s sustainability challenge led him to return to ANU to undertake a PhD in
Human Ecology, completed in 2013. Charles has chaired and served as a director on a number of
national and international businesses, research organisations, review panels and statutory wool
boards, involving garment manufacture, wool marketing, R&D, molecular genetics and genomics. Charles has had fve books published, including two on Merino history (Penguin and Random
House) and one on the political destruction of the Australian wool industry (Breaking the Sheep’s
Back 2011, UQP), and in 2017, he published the best-selling Call of the Reed Warbler: A New
Agriculture, a New Earth (UQP and Chelsea Green). This book has become a talisman for the
regenerative agriculture movement and has won and been shortlisted for a number of literary
awards. Massy has also engaged in freelance journalism since 1977 across a range of subjects
from mountaineering, ecology, history, sheep and wool, research management, plus fction short
stories and poetry. He continues to manage a sheep and cattle grazing property, while consulting
widely in the felds of Merino breeding, transformative change in agriculture, and in landscape
design.
Georgina McAllister
With an NGO background since the early 1990s, George’s experience spans both the humanitarian and development sectors in Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Pacifc and sub-Saharan