Professor Les Stein is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Sydney and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney. Professor Stein is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a member of both the New York Association for Analytical Psychology and ANZSJA. His books on mysticism and the Self include Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God (New York: Helios, 2012, 2018), The Journey of Adam Kadmon: A Novel (New York: Arcade, 2001, 2012), and Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous (London: Routledge, 2018) based upon interviews with 29 mystics in India, Cambodia, and New York. His next book is The Self in Analytical Psychology.

Carlos Hernandez is a transpersonal psychotherapist with more than 15 years of experience working with non-ordinary states of consciousness in therapeutic settings. His work is inspired by his love of God and nature. Trained as an Ayahuasquero and having completed a Post-graduate specialisation in psychedelic-assisted therapies Carlos’ work could be summarised as an integration of Amazonian traditional healing and Transpersonal psychology. Through his years of clinical experience, he has observed that profound and transformational healing processes happen when there is a deepened connection to the Highest Self. He believes it is from this source that healing and meaning can flow.

Johann Mynhardt is a facilitator, mentor and course creator at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. He first encountered Jung’s ideas in his early twenties while pursuing interests in comparative religion, philosophy and related subjects. He has taken initiation into Bwiti – a syncretistic mystical religion originated in West Africa and centred on the use of the psychoactive root-bark Iboga. He has also explored the healing potential of other psychedelics and traditional medicines such as Kambo, Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and MDMA. His interest centres on integration of these experiences and how to utilize active imagination in a similar manner to facilitate “soul retrieval”, or shadow integration.

Marcel van den Akker, PhD is a Jungian Analyst and registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist in private practice in The Netherlands. He is a former Graduate Analyst at the ISAP Zurich. During the last couple of years he has been exploring the benefits of psilocybin use in his clinical work and for his personal process.

Nancy Swift Furlotti, PhD is a Jungian Analyst living in Aspen, Colorado. She is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a founding member and past president of the Philemon Foundation. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Interregional Association of Jungian Analysts. She is on the boards of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA, the National Asian Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Mercurius Prize Committee. She has written numerous articles, edited a number of books, including with the late Erel Shalit, The Dream and Its Amplification. Dr. Furlotti lectures internationally on Jungian topics such as dreams, mythology, trauma, the feminine and the environment. Her recent book, The Splendor of the Maya: A Journey into the Shadows at the Dawn of Creation, will be published soon as part of the Fay Lectures. Her company, Recollections, LLC, edits and publishes first generation Jungian’s unpublished writings, most recently Erich Neumann’s two volume manuscript, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, published in English and Hebrew.