Since 1967, Californian, Bill Tara has been an active advocate for natural heath care. He was the Vice President of Erewhon Trading Company, one of America's first national distributors of organic foods, and was a co-founder of Sunwheel Natural Foods in London, England. He has been a health counsellor, teacher, author, entrepreneur and creator of health education centres in Europe and North America.

His innovative and creative teaching of traditional approaches to health, healing and personal development has taken him to over twenty countries as a seminar leader. He has appeared on a variety of radio and television shows in England, America, and Australia, speaking on dietary policy and the environment, including Nightline with Ted Koppel.

In 1975, he founded the Community Health Foundation in London, England, a charitable trust that was the largest natural health education centre in the world. Together with Michio and Aveline Kushi, he was a founder of the Kushi Institute and served as Executive Director of the institute programs in London, England and Boston, USA. Bill has served as a senior faculty member for the Kiental Institute in Switzerland and the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He was Chairman of the European Macrobiotic Assembly for four years and served as Chairman of the North American Macrobiotic Congress for two years.

In 1975, he edited and published, Your Face Never Lies, based on the teachings of Michio Kushi, which continues to be one of the most popular books on Oriental Diagnosis. In 1985, he published Macrobiotics and Human Behaviour, the first book by a Westerner on the Chinese theory of the Body/Mind connection. His latest published books, Natural Body / Natural Mind and Portal of Dreams are now available worldwide on amazon.com.

Bill and his wife Marlene Watson-Tara are very passionate about inspiring and empowering others to become teachers and to share their work around the globe, and that is why they created their hugely successful "Macrobiotic Health Coach Programme." Students have come from 23 countries around the world to study with them. They also facilitate and run seminars and health retreats in various parts of Europe and America for private corporations. Their public programmes and workshops are vast. Diet and the development of disease, social justice, food slavery, environmental issues, animal rights, and more are taught in The Human Ecology Project. As a young boy, Bill grew up with great appreciation for the natural environment, our animals, and social justice, and for over five decades this has been the basis of his work. He educates his students on the need to get back into a different relationship between ourselves and the environment because that is one of the things that nutrition has the capacity to do. This is the link between us and the planet. When we talk about air, water, sunlight, and the food that we eat, that’s the way that we relate to and are bonded with the environment that we live in. It was just the two of them in the gallery. Lobo turned to JK, "Van Gough was intensely disturbed you know. He saw the world through different eyes. Just look. Who in their right mind could imagine a night like that?" He swept his long arm out and pointed at the painting in front of them. The tiny canvas contained an image of stars surrounded by halos of light through blue-black space and a landscape undulating with energy. His mind reeled as he was abruptly dragged back toward the dreamscape. His heart raced as he struggled to compose himself. "I'm sorry. This is fascinating but I'm late for a meeting. I have to run." Lobo laughed and the shadow of something alarming emerged from within his sophisticated exterior. The eyes that looked back at JK glittered with an animal intensity. "Well you can run, but you can't hide Mr. Kimble." JK's life is in ruin. He is a reluctant dreamer in a world where dreaming is a disease. He has lost his status, his job all his money and is on the run to save his life. His only allies are a street gang, a madman and a beautiful angel he doesn't believe in. His only hope lies at the entrance to The Portal of Dreams.