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Read about the Top 10 people in the Watkins 100 Spiritual Power List >>
List at a glance:
1. Eckhart Tolle 34. Joseph Alois Ratzinger 67. John Bradshaw 2. Dalai Lama 35. Krishna Das 68. Jeff Foster 3. Dr Wayne W. Dyer 36. Drunvalo Melchizedek 69. Patrick Holford 4. Thich Nhat Hanh 37. Sai Baba 70. Andrew Cohen 5. Deepak Chopra 38. Jack Kornfield 71. Vladimir Megre 6. Louise L. Hay 39. Pema Chödrön 72. Thomas Cleary 7. Paulo Coelho 40. T.K.V. Desikachar 73. Daniel Pinchbeck 8. Oprah Winfrey 41. Esther & Jerry Hicks 74. Jonathan Goldman 9. Ken Wilber 42. Dan Brown 75. Sonia Choquette 10. Rhonda Byrne 43. Z’ev Ben Shimon Halevi 76. Seyyed Hossein Nasr 11. James Redfield 44. Diana Cooper 77. Mother Meera 12. Neale Donald Walsch 45. Ram Dass 78. Barefoot Doctor 13. Doreen Virtue 46. Andrew Weil 79. Richard Bandler 14. Alejandro Jodorowsky 47. Satya Narayan Goenka 80. Robert Bly 15. Richard Bach 48. Jon Kabat-Zinn 81. Adyashanti 16. Alex Grey 49. Alan Moore 82. Sogyal Rinpoche 17. Byron Katie 50. Dan Millman 83. Li Hongzhi 18. Masaru Emoto 51. Bruce Lipton 84. Sri Bhagavan 19. Nelson Mandela 52. Peter Kingsley 85. Rupert Sheldrake 20. Bernie Siegel 53. Karen Armstrong 86. John & Caitlín Matthews 21. Caroline Myss 54. Judy Hall 87. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu 22. Brian Weiss 55. Colin Wilson 88. Kenneth Grant* 23. Mantak Chia 56. Joscelyn Godwin 89. Stanislav Grof 24. John Gray 57. James Lovelock 90. James Hillman 25. Gregg Braden 58. Satish Kumar 91. Clarissa Pinkola Estés 26. Stephen R. Covey 59. Shakti Gawain 92. Stephen Levine 27. Marianne Williamson 60. Elaine Pagels 93. Candace Pert 28. Desmond Tutu 61. Kyozan Joshu Sasaki 94. Barbara Ann Brennan 29. Mata Amritanandamayi 62. Gary Zukav 95. Coleman Barks 30. Philip Berg 63. Erich von Däniken 96. Robert Thurman 31. Ervin Laszlo 64. David Deida 97. B.K.S Iyengar 32. Andrew Harvey 65. Oberto Airaudi ‘Falcon’ 98. William Bloom 33. Don Miguel Ruiz 66. Stuart Wilde 99. Lynne McTaggart (for full details read the 100 List in the Watkins Review #26) 100. Marion Woodman Interesting statistics:
Male: 76%
Female: 24%
Median age: 67 years
The oldest: 104 years, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki
The youngest: 30 years, Jeff Foster*88. Kenneth Grant passed away on January 15th, 2011. His extraordinary influence will continue to be felt.
Do you agree with their choice - of the Top 10 for example? Shaikh Kabir Helminski would be in my Top 10.
Their criteria seem a bit thin:
1) The person has to be alive
2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale
3) The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, and highlighted in throughout the blogosphere
They say;
It’s interesting to think about the amount of times that a person is googled; in a sense, being googled is a form of digital voting, and illustrates just how often someone is being sought out.
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