Inspiring Visionaries
This page highlights influential figures whose work, teachings, or explorations continue to shape how many people understand subtle energy, consciousness, reality, and human potential. The individuals presented here have inspired our work and our individual personal growth.
While their methods, language, and worldviews differ, each visionary contributed a unique understanding and perspective to the larger conversation: that reality may be more relational, energetic, and participatory than strictly material models suggest.
At Being well, we find continuous inspiration from the wealth of knowledge and teachings these unique visionaries have provided, incorporating their ideas and insights to help inform how we think about coherence, geometry, resonance, and intention when designing and crafting our energy tools.
Cleve Backster
Cleve Backster (1924-2013) was a polygraph specialist known for his work in interrogation training and for helping formalize polygraph education through his school and professional instruction. Outside forensic contexts, he became widely known for a series of plant-response experiments in the 1960s that led him to propose what he called “primary perception” - the idea that living systems may register intention and environmental events in subtle ways.
His most discussed demonstrations involved attaching polygraph electrodes to plant leaves and interpreting signal changes as possible responses to threat, emotion, or remote biological events. These claims drew significant public attention and strongly influenced later discussions in consciousness studies, biocommunication, and New Age literature.
Backster expanded these ideas over decades, applying similar tests to other biological materials and publishing on the broader concept of cellular or organism-level sensitivity. His work became a recognized cultural reference point in books, conferences, and media discussions about subtle interconnection and nonlocal perception in living systems.
Backster remains a provocative and influential figure in the history of consciousness-related inquiry. His experiments and the concept of primary perception became a lasting reference point in conversations about interconnection, perception, and living systems.
Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon (1931-2014) was an American hypnotherapist, author, and teacher best known for developing Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT). Over decades of clinical practice, she conducted thousands of sessions and documented recurring themes related to memory, consciousness, healing, and expanded states of awareness.
Her work emphasized deep-trance access to subconscious material and what she described as higher-order intelligence, often framing these sessions as opportunities for insight, emotional release, and personal transformation. Through books, lectures, and training programs, Cannon built a large international audience and helped popularize regression-oriented methods in spiritual and consciousness communities.
Cannon’s influence remains significant because she offered a practical framework that encouraged curiosity, disciplined exploration, and self-reflection rather than passive belief. Her body of work continues to shape conversations around intuition, multidimensional identity, and holistic healing.
At Being well, her legacy is a reminder that inner inquiry can be systematic, grounded, and deeply transformative. Her emphasis on self-discovery and expanded perspective aligns with our values of intentional practice, coherence, and personal responsibility.
Dr. Masaru Emoto
Dr. Masaru Emoto (1943-2014) was a Japanese author and public figure who became internationally known for promoting the idea that intention, language, music, and emotional tone can influence water structure. His books and visual presentations reached a broad audience and helped popularize consciousness-centered conversations about matter, vibration, and environmental influence.
His best-known demonstrations involved exposing water samples to different words, symbols, sounds, or intentions, freezing the water, and then comparing crystal photographs. Emoto interpreted these visual differences as evidence that water can register informational or emotional input, and he framed this as a practical call toward greater mindfulness in thought, speech, and collective focus.
His cultural impact is significant: he gave many people a practical symbolic framework for connecting inner state with environmental quality, especially in communities focused on coherence, water structuring, and intention-based practice.
At Being well, Emoto’s legacy is a values-aligned reminder that intention and quality of attention matter. His work continues to inspire careful, respectful engagement with language, emotion, and the energetic tone we bring to our tools and daily environments.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) was an American clairvoyant and trance reader who became widely known for conducting thousands of documented readings on health, spirituality, dreams, and personal development. During his sessions, questions were posed while he was in a sleep-like state and the responses were transcribed by stenographers, creating a large archival record that continues to be studied and referenced.
Over time, his work expanded from health-focused readings into broader metaphysical topics, including consciousness, reincarnation, symbolism, and spiritual ethics. In Virginia Beach, Cayce and his associates established institutional structures to preserve and organize this body of work, including what became the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), which remains active as an educational and archival organization.
Cayce’s historical impact is substantial in consciousness-oriented communities because he helped codify a practice model that joined personal introspection, disciplined inquiry, and long-form documentation.
At Being well, his readings and legacy deeply inspire and remind us of the ancient origins of the tools we create and the subtle energy systems they engage with. Cayce’s emphasis on intentionality, self-responsibility, and structured inner work is a vital part of our day to day lives.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was a Swedish scientist, engineer, statesman, and later spiritual writer whose life bridged Enlightenment-era technical rigor and metaphysical inquiry. Early in his career, he made substantial contributions in mathematics, anatomy, metallurgy, and natural philosophy before turning toward theological and visionary work in his later decades.
His spiritual writings proposed a highly structured model of consciousness, describing layered relationships between inner life, symbolic meaning, and what he called the spiritual and natural worlds. Swedenborg’s concept of correspondences - the idea that outer forms reflect inner realities - became one of his most enduring contributions and influenced later currents in philosophy, theology, and esoteric interpretation.
His influence has persisted across centuries because he combined observational discipline with systematic spiritual reflection, rather than presenting mystical insight as disconnected from reason. That combination made his work especially important to communities exploring symbolic intelligence, integrative cosmology, and consciousness studies.
At Being well, Swedenborg’s legacy supports a coherence-centered worldview: that form, meaning, and intention are interconnected. His work continues to inform how we think about symbolic pattern, energetic design, and alignment between inner and outer practice.
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes (1887-1960) was an American spiritual teacher, author, and founder of Religious Science, later associated with what became known as the Science of Mind tradition. His work drew from New Thought currents and comparative philosophy, and centered on the idea that consciousness is creative and that thought, belief, and emotional tone directly influence lived experience.
Holmes’ best-known contribution is The Science of Mind, where he organized his teaching into a practical framework for mental discipline, spiritual alignment, and intentional living. Rather than presenting abstract theology, he emphasized repeatable daily practice: constructive thought, self-observation, affirmative orientation, and responsibility for inner state.
Holmes’ teachings are primarily philosophical and spiritual, and his influence remains substantial across coaching, personal-development, and consciousness communities because he offered a clear operational model for translating mindset into action.
At Being well, Holmes’ legacy is a meaningful coherence practice framework. His emphasis on clarity, intention, and disciplined thought aligns closely with how we approach energetic craft: inner alignment and external design quality working together.
Jacobo Grinberg
Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum (1946-1994, disappeared) was a Mexican neurophysiologist and psychologist whose work moved at the boundary of neuroscience, perception research, and consciousness studies. He studied psychophysiology academically, established laboratory programs in Mexico, and later developed an unusually cross-disciplinary approach that included meditation, shamanic traditions, and consciousness experimentation.
His best-known framework, often referred to as the Sintergy Theory, proposed that perceived reality emerges through interaction between neural activity and a deeper informational field. In this model, consciousness is not treated as a passive byproduct, but as an active participant in how experience is structured. That framing made his work especially influential in communities exploring nonlocality, intentionality, and subtle-field interpretation.
Grinberg’s legacy endures because he attempted a rare synthesis: rigorous scientific training combined with direct inquiry into states of consciousness that many researchers had avoided.
His disappearance in December 1994 added lasting mystery to his public story, but the deeper value of his work remains the same: he challenged the assumption that mind and reality are cleanly separable, and invited a more participatory model of perception that still informs contemporary consciousness dialogue.
Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was a Barbadian-born teacher and author known for his interpretation of biblical symbolism and for teaching that imagination is a central creative power in human experience. After relocating to the United States, he lectured extensively in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, building a broad audience through talks and recorded lessons.
His core method emphasized disciplined inner rehearsal: assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, enter a relaxed state, and repeatedly impress that imaginal scene until it felt natural. In his framework, consciousness and assumption precede external conditions, so inner state is treated as causal rather than merely reflective.
Goddard’s best-known books, including Feeling Is the Secret, The Power of Awareness, and Awakened Imagination, framed these ideas as practical mental training rather than abstract metaphysics. He consistently taught personal responsibility, self-concept revision, and intentional attention as everyday practices.
His influence remains strong in modern manifestation, coaching, and mindset communities because his framework is concrete, repeatable, and psychologically actionable.
At Being well, Goddard’s legacy is a coherence-oriented discipline: clarify intention, embody the desired state, and maintain alignment between thought, feeling, and action.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor and engineer whose work was central to the modern electrical era. He is most widely associated with alternating-current (AC) power systems, polyphase transmission, rotating magnetic fields, and induction-motor development, all of which helped make large-scale electrical distribution practical and economically viable.
Through patents, demonstrations, and industrial collaboration, Tesla contributed to core electrical infrastructure that shaped the twentieth century, including high-voltage AC transmission and early hydroelectric implementation at Niagara Falls. His research later expanded into high-frequency apparatus, resonant transformers, wireless experimentation, and remote-control demonstrations that were well ahead of their time.
Tesla’s legacy also includes speculative and visionary concepts that inspired generations of scientists, engineers, and consciousness-oriented communities. His contributions to electrical engineering are profound and foundational.
At Being well, Tesla’s influence is part of a broader lineage of field-based thinking: precision, resonance, and practical innovation grounded in coherent energetic principles. His unmatched scientific mind along with his open understanding of subtle energy systems and the larger forces at play set an example we constantly strive to live up to.
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, educator, and social thinker who founded Anthroposophy, a framework aimed at integrating scientific inquiry, spiritual development, and practical cultural life. His work led to lasting institutions in education, agriculture, medicine, arts, and architecture.
Steiner is widely known for initiating Waldorf education and for introducing biodynamic agriculture, both of which emphasized developmental timing, ecological wholeness, and the relationship between human consciousness and living systems. He also developed methods in movement, speech, and creative practice intended to support embodied awareness and functional balance.
His influence remains strong because he translated abstract spiritual concepts into repeatable, applied systems that people could test in schools, farms, clinics, and communities. In this way, his legacy is both philosophical and operational, linking worldview with method.
At Being well, Steiner’s contributions reinforce the value of coherent design rooted in nature, rhythm, and purposeful intent. His integrative perspective continues to inspire how we approach education, field-awareness, and practical energetic craftsmanship.
Slim Spurling
Gary “Slim” Spurling (1938-2007) is widely regarded as a foundational figure in modern Tensor Technology. Biographical accounts describe his early life in Aberdeen, South Dakota, his later move to Colorado, service in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, and formal study in natural sciences at Colorado State University, including areas such as forestry, botany, mycology, and chemistry. In the same narratives, two narrowly missed flights that later crashed are often cited as pivotal experiences that intensified his sense of purpose.
After beginning in a more conventional scientific path, Spurling eventually shifted toward metaphysical and energy-based inquiry. Over more than two decades as a blacksmith and educator, he combined practical metalwork with dowsing and geopathic-stress investigation. This blend of craft, measurement, and field observation became the basis for his later development of subtle-energy tools.
In the mid-1980s, Spurling and collaborators, including Bill Reid, developed what became the core Tensor tool family: Tensor Rings, Acu-Vac Coils, Feedback Loops, and Harmonizers. In practitioner tradition, these designs are associated with exact wire lengths, cubit-based ratios, and twisted copper geometries intended to generate coherent, non-Hertzian field effects. Within that framework, the Sacred Cubit is commonly associated with a 144 MHz correspondence, while related tools are used for directional clearing, energetic rebalancing, and broad environmental harmonization.
Supporters and long-time users report applications across personal well-being, space clearing, water and soil vitality work, and mitigation of disruptive environmental conditions. In the 1990s, Spurling and Katharina Kaffl co-founded Light-Life Technology, which played a central role in manufacturing, distribution, and training related to these systems. His legacy continued through practitioner communities, workshops, and publications, including In the Mind of a Master.
At Being well, we honor Slim Spurling’s contributions with deep gratitude. His work remains a core influence on our Tensor design lineage, craftsmanship standards, and practical coherence-first approach to energy tools.
Viktor Schauberger
Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) was an Austrian forester, inventor, and natural observer best known for his unconventional work on water movement, vortex behavior, and nature-inspired engineering. His core principle - often summarized as “comprehend and copy nature” - argued that durable progress comes from aligning with natural processes rather than forcing them through purely extractive methods.
Professionally, Schauberger worked in forestry and developed practical ideas around river flow, timber transport, spring protection, and watershed behavior. He paid particular attention to spiral motion, temperature gradients, and oxygenation patterns in healthy water systems, and proposed that these dynamics were foundational to ecological vitality. His writing and designs later inspired broader “implosion” and vortex-based concepts in alternative technology communities.
His ecological observations and vortex-based design ideas remain influential in coherence-oriented circles because he reframed water as an intelligent process to be understood in motion, not merely a resource to be mechanically forced. At Being well, that perspective aligns with our emphasis on flow, resonance, and nature-referential design.
Walter Russell
Walter Russell (1871-1963) was an American polymath active as an artist, sculptor, architect, author, and lecturer. He is known both for substantial achievements in the arts and for a metaphysical cosmology that framed reality as rhythmic wave motion emerging from stillness and balanced polarity. His writing sought to unify science, philosophy, and spiritual principle into one coherent model.
Russell described a revelatory experience in 1921 that became the basis of his later books, including The Universal One and The Secret of Light. Alongside Lao Russell, he also helped build educational efforts that became associated with the University of Science and Philosophy, where his home-study teaching model continued to circulate his ideas to spiritual and self-development communities.
Russell’s influence persists in communities focused on consciousness, polarity, vibration, and integrative worldviews. At Being well, his legacy is a coherence-centered philosophical influence: balance, rhythm, and intentional alignment as design principles that can be practiced in both inner development and tool-based energetic work.
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an Austrian-born physician and psychoanalyst whose later work moved from clinical psychology into biophysical and energetic research. After early contributions to psychoanalytic theory, he developed the concept of “character armor” and argued that emotional suppression has measurable physiological expression in posture, breathing, and muscular tension.
In his later research, Reich proposed that a universal life-energy field could be observed and influenced in both organisms and environments. He named this field Orgone Energy and built experimental devices, including the Orgone Accumulator, to study concentration effects and related biological responses. His framework strongly influenced later generations working in subtle-energy and environmental coherence traditions.
Regardless of controversy, Reich’s legacy remains historically significant because he successfully bridged psychology, physiology, and energetic models into one operational system.
At Being well, his influence is a foundational reference in the lineage of Orgone Energy and field-oriented experimentation. We are deeply grateful for his contributions to humanity and brilliant mind which was far ahead of his time.
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