Ralph White
Ralph White is co-founder of the New York Open Center, the city’s leading center of holistic learning since 1984. For 22 years he has directed a series of conferences on the Western Esoteric Tradition known as Esoteric Quests, www.esotericquest.org, that have worked to bring alive the lost spiritual history of the West by focusing on epochs like ancient Alexandria, Egypt, Renaissance Florence, The Golden Age of Andalusia, the Mysteries of Antiquity, the Mysteries of the North in Iceland and the Alchemical World of Renaissance Bohemia. He introduced and edited The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited and is the author of the celebrated memoir, The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning. He also edited Lapis magazine which won the Alternative Press Award 2000 from Utne Reader. http://www.ralphwhite.net