Founding Directors

William Keepin, PhD, is co-founder of the Satyana Institute and the Gender Equity & Reconciliation International project. Keepin has studied and practiced intensively in Eastern and Western spiritual disciplines for 35 years, immersing himself in contemplative practices from the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sufi traditions, and he trained with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. His spiritual mentors include Father Thomas Keating (Christian), Swami Ambikananda (Hindu), Jestunma Tenzin Palmo (Buddhist), Llewellyn Vaughan Lee (Sufi), Ravi Ravindra (Hindu/interfaith) and Sr. Lucy Kurien (Christian).

Keepin is also a mathematical physicist, social activist, and environmental scientist whose research on sustainable energy and global warming influenced international environmental policy. He was a whistleblower in nuclear science policy and presented testimony to the US House of Representatives and the parliaments of Australia and several European countries. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, M.S. in mathematical physics, M.A. in East-West psychology, and an honorary doctorate in Spirituality and Social Change (from the California Institute of Integral Studies). Keepin has over 40 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, and his books include: Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007), co-author of Women Healing Women (Hohm Press, 2009), and co-editor of Song of the Earth: A Synthesis of the Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews (Permanent Publications, UK, 2012).

In his most recent book, Belonging to God: Science, Spirituality, & a Universal Path of Divine Love (2016), Keepin sought to recover the esoteric heart of spirituality, which has the potential to create peace and respect between religious traditions and between science and religion. Identifying the “path of divine love” as a kind of universal spirituality that leads to mystical mergence into the very essence of God, Keepin traces this invisible doorway, deep within the heart, both as it is described in spiritual texts and as it is symbolized in ways observable to contemporary science.

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Rev. Cynthia Brix, MA, M.Div, PhD (hon) is co-director of Satyana Institute and co-founder of the Gender Reconciliation International project, which has organized more than 200 workshops and trainings in nine countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men.  She is an ordained interfaith minister and was formerly campus minister at the University of Colorado for United Ministries of Higher Education.  Cynthia holds an M.A. in wellness management and gerontology, M.Div. from Iliff School of Theology, and an honorary doctorate in Spirituality and Social Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies (May, 2015).  Cynthia co-chaired with the Dean of Ball State University the Race Relations Committee for the City of Muncie, Indiana.  She organized an international conference and produced a DVD video from this conference in 2009 entitled Cultivating Women’s Spiritual Mastery. Cynthia is co-author of Women Healing Women (Hohm Press, 2009), and contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (Hohm Press, 2007).