Since 1980, Beth Maynard Green has been a spiritual teacher, intuitive counselor and consultant. She is also the composer of three music CDs and the author of five books. Beth has always been dedicated to transforming human consciousness, first as a social activist and then as a spiritual activist. In 1983 she founded The Stream, a community helping redefine what it means to be human, and has spearheaded many programs to help people achieve higher consciousness. Her current focus is co-leading Consciousness Boot Camp, which will be featured on Worldshift Media. Consciousness Boot Camp combines healing tools with teachings from her groundbreaking book and program, Living with Reality, which is a comprehensive guide to change. To learn more about her work and life, see her personal website, Beth's Place.


Beth has always been a revolutionary. Born in New York City in 1945, she became a social activist at the age of nine, this despite the repressive political environment of McCarthyism. Already at that young age, she espoused unpopular causes, hoping to help alleviate inhumanity and suffering. In 1961, at the age of 16, she wrote a heart-felt letter to the New York Times calling us to consciousness about nuclear proliferation. The letter was published around the world and led to her expulsion from Smith College, an Ivy League school she was attending on scholarship. Despite many personal sacrifices, Beth remained a devoted activist, intensely participating in the anti-Vietnam War movement and a variety of other struggles for social and economic justice, including the Wages for Housework campaign, for which she served as West Coast coordinator from 1974 to 1978. As a social activist, Beth was featured frequently on TV, radio and in the press.

After many years of devotion to social revolution, Beth had a spiritual awakening in 1978 at the age of 33. Now turning her focus to the inner revolution, she in no way lessened her concern for the wellbeing and evolution of others. She actively became a counselor and teacher in 1980, and through all her work – as intuitive counselor and consultant, author, workshop leader, speaker, blogger and more – Beth continued to confront our me-based, destructive and self-destructive patterns and called us to a higher consciousness. And she has done so with understanding, compassion and tools to help.

Beth offers original, innovative and effective programs, tools and teachings, focusing on Oneness, self-awareness, healing and connection to higher consciousness. She has developed dozens of workshops and can speak in depth on topics as diverse as sex & spirituality, money, relationships, parenting and food. Her work is broad. In addition to The Stream and Consciousness Boot Camp, the latter of which she co-founded with James Maynard, Beth also founded the Spiritual Activist Movement (in 1993, which was recently relaunched; LifeForce: The Inner Workout, an innovative mind-body-spirit exercise program she leads daily for free on the internet; and Reality for a Change, cofounded with Todd Benton, a consulting organization whose purpose is to bring higher consciousness into business.

Beth is also a prolific writer. Born to blog, she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and she was formerly the spirituality columnist for the San Diego News Network. Her articles continue to be featured in many venues. One of her blogs appeared in Ervin Laszlo's Forum on Science & Spirituality and will be appearing in an upcoming book edited by Laszlo and Kingsley Dennis.

Beth’s five books include Living with Reality, a 420-page guide to reaching higher consciousness, which is a free download at her website; The Autobiography of Mary Magdalene, which highlights a different perspective on Jesus and the Crucifixion; Sacred Union: The Healing of God, offering a very different God, one who is accessible and evolving; God's Little Aphorisms, a delightful collection of wisdom nuggets; and Memoirs of the New Age, a book of short stories, fables, poems and prayers that illuminate and help heal our relationship to the divine. Except for Living with Reality, all Beth’s books are available at Amazon.com, as are several CDs of her original music.

Perhaps the most astonishing fact about this gifted, prolific woman is this: For over 50 years, Beth has dealt with chronic debilitating illness (she became chronically ill at the age of 15). But nothing stops her. Powered by The Source, she wants to help others have that privilege and responsibility.

Beth currently lives in Southern California near The Stream, her spiritual community. You are invited to visit the community online or in person. And you are also invited to participate in the many online activities she sponsored. Check out Consciousness Boot Camp. You can join yourself, recruit others and/or help develop consciousness boot camps for all aspects of life, including healthcare, business, parenting and youth. You may also visit her at Beth's Place (her personal website).

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