Marcus T. Anthony

Spreker, visionair, auteur

'There is more to the future than flying cars and a faster internet. At the heart of the future lies the soul of humanity.'

Marcus T. Anthony, Ph.D., is the founder and director of MindFutures, and a writer and futurist with a passion for the futures of consciousness, human evolution, intuitive research methods, and spirituality. His vision has been to balance scientific and technological futures with deeper human and spiritual futures.

Anthony's work is unique in that it blends professional scholarship and mystical insight, a result of combining intense training with spiritual teachers and advanced academic qualifications.

Beginning from the mid-1990s, Dr. Anthony began to explore visionary worlds through contemplation, deep meditation, and emotional healing. He travelled to many parts of the world, seeking the wisdom and guidance of gifted spiritual teachers. While living in New Zealand from 1996-1999, he engaged in an intensive programme of spiritual exploration with a group of committed spiritual seekers.

By the time he had left New Zealand for Taiwan, he had developed an ability to perceive and understand human consciousness at an extraordinarily deep level. This included the capacity to sense the thoughts and emotional energies of others, and to communicate with spiritual realms. Subsequently, he set about formally studying the frontiers of human intelligence, enrolling in a doctoral programme at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. During his doctoral candidature, he applied his natural intuitive gifts to develop a unique method of study, Integrated Inquiry. Integrated inquiry combines traditional research tools with intuitive ways of knowing to locate, analyse and communicate knowledge.

In recent years Dr. Anthony has become a prolific writer. Besides Discover Your Soul Template, he has published the academic book Integrated Intelligence, the more layman-friendly Extraordinary Mind (Inner Traditions, 2011), and his semi-autobiographical, mystical novel Shadow Light. He has also published scores of academic, magazine, and newspaper articles. He has delivered numerous academic and public talks all around the world.

Dr. Anthony is the Director of MindFutures, a company specialising in books and media related to human futures. In particular, the focus is to bring greater balance to discussions, analyses and visions of the future; broadening financial and technologically-dominated discourses with a consideration for deeper philosophical, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.

Dr. Anthony is an elected member of the World Futures Studies Federation, and the Darwin Project Council - a think-tank comprising many leading futurists, academics, philosophers and scientists, including triune brain theorist Paul Maclean, psychologist Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi, systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, and feminist Rianne Eisler. Dr. Anthony has lived and worked in East Asia for a decade. This includes Taiwan, mainland China (Beijing and Sichuan), and five years in Hong Kong. He is a proficient speaker of Mandarin Chinese, and can amuse Hong Kongers with his essential Cantonese. He now lives in Hong Kong.