Dr. Serge Obolensky Beddington-Behrens, MA (Oxon.), Ph.D., K.O.M.L., is an Oxford-educated transpersonal psychotherapist, shaman, activist, and spiritual educator. For forty years he has conducted spiritual retreats all over the world, and In 2000 he was awarded an Italian knighthood for services to humanity. In the 1980s, he cofounded the Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution in San Francisco. He divides his time between London, UK and Pollensa, Mallorca.