Michael Wiese is the world’s top publisher of over 240 books on consciousness and filmmaking including The Writer’s Journey, Save the Cat, Cinematic Storytelling, The Shaman & Ayahuasca, and The God Molecule.  His company’s mission (mwp.com, divineartsmedia.com) is to publish books that empower the filmmaker healing both maker and audience.  Michael authored the recent book Onward & Upward, an award-winning memoir which discusses his encounters with Salvador Dali, Buckminster Fuller, Shirley MacLaine, wild dolphins, Don Jose Campos, the Sonoran Desert Toad, and his sacred journey films made in Tibet, Bali, and Peru, and his battle with Parkinson’s which he is winning.