Tom Crockett is an author, artist, teacher and spiritual counselor with an extensive background in integral and cross cultural shamanism, nonduality and eastern philosophy, elemental tantra, creativity and dreamwork. He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Newport News, Virginia. In addition to writing, he has worked as a high school and college instructor, a creativity consultant for Polaroid's National Education Program, the founder of an arts-based mentoring program for teens, and the executive director of Young Audiences of Virginia and the Together We Can Foundation and as a creativity coach for adults.