Chronology of notable speakers
1985
Rupert Sheldrake, English author
Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist
David Bohm, American physicist
Alexander Lowen, American physician and psychotherapist
Morris Berman, American historian and social critic
Albert Hoffmann, Swiss scientist and discoverer of the LSD
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist
1988
Jim Nollman, American music composer and conceptual artist
Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American therapist, psychologist and philosopher
1991
Chaturvedi Badrinath, Indian service officer and author
Hans Primas, Swiss chemist
1992
Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist and mystic
Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1996
William Irvin Thomson, American philosopher, cultural critic and poet
Iso Camartin, Swiss author and publicist
Andrew Lange, American astrophysicist
Eckhard Frick, German Jesuit, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
2004
Stuart Kaufmann, American doctor, biologist and complex systems researcher
Luca Lombardi, Italian music composer
Shams Anwary-Alhosseyni, Iranian anthropologist and calligrapher
2005
Michel Bitbol, French philosopher
Luciano Pietronero, Italian physicist
Joan Halifax, American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist and ecologist
2006
Elisabeth Blum, Swiss Architect and author
Matthias Jung, German philosopher and theologist
Wolfgang Mark, German philosopher
Marie Milis, Belgian mathematician and anthropologist of mathematics
Helmuth Milz, German medical doctor and researcher in psychosomatic medicine
Harry Nussbaumer, German astrophysicist
Michael Wallekzec, Austrian entrepreneur and coach
Robert Füchs, German chemist and Egyptologist
2007
Avshalom Elitzur, Israeli physicist and philosopher
Corrado Sinigaglia, Italian neuroscientist
Anton Zeilinger, Austrian physicist
John Casti, American author, mathematician and entrepreneur
Hanns Möhler, Swiss pharmacologist
2008
Chungliang Al Huang, chinese philosopher, dancer and performing artist
Rafael Nunez, cognitive scientist
Sam Keen, American author and philosopher
Wolf Singer, German neurophysiologist
Arthur I. Miller, American philosopher and science historian
Bruno Binggeli, Swiss Astrophysicist
Helmut Ringsdorf, German chemist
2009
Max Velmans, British phychologist of consciousness
Nahid Angha, Iranian Sufist scholar, author and human right activist
Bernard Lietaer, Belgian engineer, economist and author
Richard E. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
2010
Hildegard Keller, Swiss professor of German literature
Vittorio Gallese, Italian physiologist and neuroscientist
Rinaldo Brutoco, Canadian corporate executive, entrepreneur and consultant
Siegfired Zelinsky, German media theorist
2011
Anton Gunziger, Swiss computer scientist and entrepreneur
Germàn Toro-Perez, Colombian music composer
Vittorio Ferrari, Italian computer scientist and philosopher
Victor Candia, Chilean musician and neuroscientist
2012
Florian Dombois, German artist
Elham Manea, Swiss-Yemenit Middle-east historian and human right activist
Thich Tien Son, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and expert in Chinese medicine
2013
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Swiss science historian
John D. Liu, Chinese-American environmentalist
Joachim Simon, German chemist
Olaf Kübler, German physicist, consultant and ex-president of ETH Zürich
Gunhild Kübler, German philologist and author
Diego Hangartner, German pharmacologist, Buddhist monk
2014
Hortense Reintjens-Anwari, German anthropologist and ethnologist
Harmut Wickert, Sociologist and theater director
Harald Atmanspacher, German physicist
Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, American Zen abbot and teacher
2015
Hartmut von Sass, German theologist and philosopher of religion
Werner Stahel, Swiss mathematician
Hannes Grassegger, Swiss internet theorist and journalist
Thomas Meyer, Swiss musicologist
Richard Shiffrin, American neuroscientist
Sabine Harbeke, Swiss playwriter and lecturer
Ueli Grossniklaus, Swiss plant molecular biologist
Marcie Penner-Wilger, Canadian psychologist