Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, documentary filmmaker, independent scholar, worldwide lecturer, storyteller, and creativity consultant. He has published over forty books, written or cowritten over twenty-five award-winning documentary films, and has hosted "Global Spirit," on PBS and LINK TV for the last ten years, a series that Bill Moyers has described as some of the most important television on the air. Cousineau has led art, literature, and mythology tours around the world, from Ireland and Greece to England, France, Italy, and Cuba, in search of what the ancients called "The soul of the world." Currently, he lives with his family on Telegraph Hill, in San Francisco..