Bestselling author Shakti Gawain, a co-founder of New World Library in Novato and a pioneer in the Marin self-help movement of the 1970s, died Nov. 11 after complications from hip surgery. She was 70.

For a high priestess of the new age, Shakti Gawain seems pretty down to earth. But she looks the part, as she strides confidently into a West Hollywood restaurant, where she has come to talk about her ...

When Creative Visualization (Gawain's first book, now a New Age classic) was published more than two decades ago, no one had heard of Deepak Chopra, and seminars on creativity and intuition did not ...

When Marc Allen and Shakti Gawain began their book company, they named it Whatever Publishing. But the name did not go over well. "We started out not getting any respect," Allen recalled. "People ...