Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith is the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational community of 9000 devoted to the study and practice of the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality. His inner vision reveals a world joined together by humankind's highest development spiritually, philosophically, educationally, scientifically, governmentally and socially. He co-founded the Association for Global New Thought, which convened A Season for Nonviolence, in 1998 inaugurated at the United Nations to promote and teach the principles of nonviolence.