Jim Self, an international teacher and spiritual development leader, has been leading seminars on personal energy management for almost thirty years. 

Since childhood, Jim has had the ability to recall his experiences within the sleep state. This awareness expanded into relationships with the Archangels, Ascended Masters and teachers of light. In fact, his relationship to these guides is so strong he considers them co-creators of his program "A Course in Mastering Alchemy."

At the age of twenty-six, Self was elected to his first of two terms on the San Jose, California City Council and later became the Vice Mayor. Before completing his second term, he was asked by President Jimmy Carter to be an advisor for the US Department of Energy. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully built and sold two corporations, and is the founder and current Board Chairman of a third.

Self is the coauthor of the interactive book A Course in Mastering Alchemy: Tools to Shift, Transform and Ascend and Spirit Matters: Down to- Earth Tools for a Spirited Life.