20th to 21st Century - A time of Great Outer Change Leading to a Need for Inner Change

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20th to 21st Century

A time of Great Outer Change Leading to a Need for Inner Change

John Muir, 1838-1914

John Muir, also known as "John of the Mountains", was an American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for…

George Washington Carver, 1860s-1943

George Washington Carver was born into slavery sometime between 1861-1864 in Diamond, Missouri. Carver had 10 sisters and one brother, all of whom…

Rufus Jones, 1863-1948

Rufus Jones was the foremost interpreter of mysticism and Quakerism as well as the most influential Friend of modern times. Rufus Matthew Jones was an…

George William Russell (AE), 1867-1935

George William Russell (AE) was born in Lurgan, Ireland on April 10, 1867 and died on July 17, 1935. When George was eleven, he and his family moved…

Helen Keller, 1880-1968

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her father was a retired Confederate Army captain and editor of the local…

Corinne Heline, 1882-1975

Born in Atlanta, Georgia into the prominent Duke family in the aristocracy of the Old South on August 13. 1882, Corinne Heline became a lifelong…

Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931

The Reverend Flower A. Newhouse has said that Kahlil Gibran was an initiate mystic—an inspired poet who wrote with the language of the soul. He…

Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993

Norman Vincent Peale was born in Bowersville, Ohio, the oldest of three sons on May 31, 1898. He was raised as a Methodist and ordained as a Methodist…

Gladys Bagg Taber, 1899-1980

Gladys Bagg Taber was born on April 12, 1899, in Colorado Springs and spent her life writing about the every-day simple things in life for her…

Edwin Way Teale, 1899-1980

Edwin Way Teale was born on June 2, 1899 in Joliet, Illinois. Teale was a mystic naturalist, a photographer, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who…

Hal Borland, 1900-1978

Harold Glen “Hal” Borland was born on May 14, 1900, in Sterling, Nebraska, to William and Sarah Borland. Hal grew up in Flagler, Colorado, where…

Rachel Carson, 1907-1964

Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University)…

Lawrence G. Newhouse, 1910-1963

Universally, people who knew Lawrence described him as the most selfless, giving, Christ-like man of integrity, love, kindness, and devotion they had…

David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., 1913-2012

February 28, 1913 — February 24, 2012…