Foundation Advisory Board

Ken Wilber

With more than two dozen published books, Ken Wilber has created what is widely considered the first truly comprehensive Integral Map of human experience. By exploring and integrating the major insights and conclusions of nearly every human knowledge domain in existence, Wilber created the AQAL Integral Framework, a framework that is both grounded in millennia of human understanding, and yet still grows and expands to embrace new information.

In 1997, Wilber founded Integral Institute (.org), a non-profit think-tank that brought together literally hundreds of the brightest integral thinkers alive, and it was in this highly creative atmosphere that individuals shared how the Integral model might be modified and improved, based on real-world application.

In 2003, Wilber started recording some of these cutting-edge conversations-all with people at the top of their profession, like Michael Crichton, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Genpo Roshi, Larry Dossey, etc.-and made them available weekly on Integral Naked (.org), which has nearly six years of the finest Integral audio and video content available anywhere.

In 2005, Wilber created Integral Life Spiritual Center, and its yearly gatherings have consistently brought together over forty of the world's finest spiritual teachers, all of whom dedicated to exploring a truly Integral Spirituality.

Wilber's latest endeavor is Integral Life (.com), with CEO Robb Smith, a for-profit extension of Integral Institute dedicated to offering practical, easy-to-understand ways to live a genuinely integral life, and to create a place for integral community to take root and grow.

For the latest news, blogs, and writings, visit www.kenwilber.com.

Dr. Chow, PhD, RN, LAc (CA)

Effie Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc (CA), National Diplomate in Acupuncture (NCCAOM), founder and President of East West Academy of Healing Arts a recognized expert in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a world-renowned qigong energy healer, acupuncturist, author, international speaker and visionary. As a practitioner, Dr. Chow specializes in successfully working with critical clients for whom all else has failed. In July 2000, she was appointed by President Clinton to the original 15 member White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Chow is the only Qigong Grandmaster-Nurse-Acupuncturist in North America who has been active in the development of national health policies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Dr. Chow served as consultant to Senator George Moscone and other legislators in the development of acupuncture licensing law in California (1970's). For over 35 years she has consulted with the DHHS in various capacities, including the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/NIH, and the Minority Task Force and the Office of the Director. She has served as an appointed member of the National Advisory Council to The Secretary of DHHS on Health Professions' Education for Medicine, Osteopathy, Dentistry, Veterinary, Optometry, Pharmacy and Podiatry (MODVOPP). At the Stanford Medical Center she was a research nurse in the pioneering arenas of kidney transplant, sleep and dream analysis, mitral valve procedure, morbid obesity, role of DNA in cancer. Dr. Chow was recognized for her expertise in the field of alternative medicine, Qigong and TCM through an appointment to the first Ad Hoc Advisory Panel of the Congress-mandated Office of Alternative Medicine (now the NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.