Barbara Hand Clow, astrologer, channeler, and New Age entrepreneur, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on February 14, 1943, the daughter of Eugene A. and Catherine Wallace Hand. She attended the University of Michigan and received her M.A. from the Institute for Culture and Creation in Chicago. In 1974 she married publisher Gerald Cudahy Clow. She also studied astrology and became aligned with the New Age Movement. Her interest excelled in the 1980s when she became the executive vice president of Bear c Company, a prominent New Age publishing house, and began to write out of her own perspectives on various occult topics. Her first astrology book, Eye of the Centaur, appeared in 1986.
While becoming known as an astrologer, Clow also emerged as a channel, and in 1989 she issued one of the first books containing channeled material reputedly from inhabitants from the Pleiades star cluster, Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades. This volume, along with Barbara Marciniak's Bringers of the Dawn (1992), would create the emphasis on Pleiadian wisdom that became so prominent in the post-New Age ascension movement of the 1990s. She followed it with The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light (1995). She has come to think of herself as a Pleiadian Emissary of Light who is assisting Earth with its transcendence of the dominant restrictive patterns that limit human creativity and awareness. As vice president of Bear e Company, she has been in charge of publishing many of the Pleiadian texts.
Barbara Clow is Executive Director of the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Halifax, and Associate Professor Research in the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University, Halifax. She has a PhD in the history of medicine from the University of Toronto. She is also the author of the only monograph on the history of cancer in Canada, n"Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950W" with McGill-Queen's University Press (2001).
Barbara Hand Clow has taken her masterful work, The Pleiadian Agenda, and its teachings on Goddess Alchemy, and woven them into a workshop intended for all levels of students. The objective is for students to learn about--and experience--the nine dimensions of consciousness that the Pleiadians revealed to her in 1995. We are to be opened to these levels by December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar.
