Amber K is the nationally recognized author of True Magick: A Beginner’s Guide, Pagan Kids’ Activity Book, Heart of Tarot: An Intuitive Approach and several other books on Wicca. She has been a practitioner of the religion for more than 30 years and is the executive director of Ardantane, a nonprofit pagan learning center and seminary located near Jemez Springs, NM.

Phil Elverum is a unique kind of shy. The artist, who began his musical project as The Microphones and has since switched to the moniker Mount Eerie, lets his emotions fly when he writes and performs songs, yet keeps his distance from the audience by closing his eyes through most of the set and singing as if he were in the room completely alone.

Since 9.11, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has become one of the world’s most outspoken opponents of radical Islam, specifically the way Islam is used to justify the subjugation of women. She, along with Irshad Manji, discusses this topic in “Irreconcilable Differences: Two Women on Islam Today.”

Pillars and Tongues mixes the down-home sounds of a country porch band with an emotional and psychedelic vibe that commands its listeners’ attention, while it allows the audience to melt into the sound that floats around them.

Henry Lewis is the owner of Gunstock Hill Books and one of the organizers of the second annual Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show.

An hour by hour breakdown of what to do and where to do it.

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John Corcoran is the author of The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, a memoir, and is the keynote speaker at Literacy Day in New Mexico.

Atmospheric Diver's images and sounds are unfamiliar and somewhat illogical. The mind, finding that it cannot deconstruct the ideas intellectually, refocuses and an organic and pure experience is left.

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