LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - March 29, 2011) - The Watkins Review is pleased to announce its list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. The Spiritual 100 list ranks spiritual leaders and authors including the Dalai Lama (#2), Deepak Chopra (#5), Nelson Mandela (#19), the Pope (#34), and the best selling author Eckhart Tolle at #1. The spring issue features a full eleven pages highlighting each of these inspirational individuals.
The Watkins Review is sold and published by Watkins Books, England's oldest spiritual bookshop that has been trading for 118 years. The magazine is also available on the Apple App store world wide, except in China where it has been banned due to its praising the Dalai Lama.
Time Magazine publishes an annual list of the 100 people who most influence the world and Forbes publishes several lists including a rich list and Celebrity 100 list. The Watkins Review believes that an important list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People is long overdue.
Watkins Review is proud to debut the Spiritual 100 list, and hopes that it will nurture the debates surrounding contemporary spirituality.
| There are several factors that were taken into account when compiling the list. Listed below are the main three: |
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| 1) The person has to be alive |
| 2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale |
| 3) The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, and highlighted throughout the blogosphere |
It's interesting to think about the amount of times that a person is googled; in a sense, being googled is a form of digital voting, and illustrates just how often someone is being sought out.
| Summary of the Spiritual 100 List: |
| Male: 76% Female: 24% |
| Median Age: 67 years |
| The Oldest: 104 years (Kyozan Joshu Sasaki) |
| The Youngest: 30 years (Jeff Foster) |
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| 1. Eckhart Tolle |
| 2. Dalai Lama |
| 3. Dr Wayne W. Dyer |
| 4. Thich Nhat Hanh |
| 5. Deepak Chopra |
| 6. Louise L. Hay |
| 7. Paulo Coelho |
| 8. Oprah Winfrey |
| 9. Ken Wilber |
| 10. Rhonda Byrne |
| 11. James Redfield |
| 12. Neale Donald Walsch |
| 13. Doreen Virtue |
| 14. Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| 15. Richard Bach |
| 16. Alex Grey |
| 17. Byron Katie |
| 18. Masaru Emoto |
| 19. Nelson Mandela |
| 20. Bernie Siegel |
| 21. Caroline Myss |
| 22. Brian Weiss |
| 23. Mantak Chia |
| 24. John Gray |
| 25. Gregg Braden |
| 26. Stephen R. Covey |
| 27. Marianne Williamson |
| 28. Desmond Tutu |
| 29. Mata Amritanandamayi |
| 30. Philip Berg |
| 31. Ervin Laszlo |
| 32. Andrew Harvey |
| 33. Don Miguel Ruiz |
| 34. Joseph Alois Ratzinger |
| 35. Krishna Das |
| 36. Drunvalo Melchizedek |
| 37. Sai Baba |
| 38. Jack Kornfield |
| 39. Pema Chodron |
| 40. T.K.V. Desikachar |
| 41. Esther & Jerry Hicks |
| 42. Dan Brown |
| 43. Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi |
| 44. Diana Cooper |
| 45. Ram Dass |
| 46. Andrew Weil |
| 47. Satya Narayan Goenka |
| 48. Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| 49. Alan Moore |
| 50. Dan Millman |
| 51. Bruce Lipton |
| 52. Peter Kingsley |
| 53. Karen Armstrong |
| 54. Judy Hall |
| 55. Colin Wilson |
| 56. Joscelyn Godwin |
| 57. James Lovelock |
| 58. Satish Kumar |
| 59. Shakti Gawain |
| 60. Elaine Pagels |
| 61. Kyozan Joshu Sasaki |
| 62. Gary Zukav |
| 63. Erich Von Daniken |
| 64. David Deida |
| 65. Oberto Airaudi 'Falcon' |
| 66. Stuart Wilde |
| 67. John Bradshaw |
| 68. Jeff Foster |
| 69. Patrick Holford |
| 70. Andrew Cohen |
| 71. Vladimir Megre |
| 72. Thomas Cleary |
| 73. Daniel Pinchbeck |
| 74. Jonathan Goldman |
| 75. Sonia Choquette |
| 76. Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| 77. Mother Meera |
| 78. Barefoot Doctor |
| 79. Richard Bandler |
| 80. Robert Bly |
| 81. Adyashanti |
| 82. Sogyal Rinpoche |
| 83. Li Hongzhi |
| 84. Sri Bhagavan |
| 85. Rupert Sheldrake |
| 86. John & Caitlin Matthews |
| 87. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu |
| 88. Kenneth Grant |
| 89. Stanislav Grof |
| 90. James Hillman |
| 91. Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
| 92. Stephen Levine |
| 93. Candace Pert |
| 94. Barbara Ann Brennan |
| 95. Coleman Barks |
| 96. Robert Thurman |
| 97. B.K.S Iyengar |
| 98. William Bloom |
| 99. Lynne McTaggart |
| 100. Marion Woodman |
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