Menlo Macfarlane, canadiense, de unos 50 años, empezó a trabajar con EJ Gold y la comunidad de trabajo en California en 1978. Desde entonces ha dado diversos talleres por todo el mundo sobre la metafísica y los artes, tanto visuales como teatrales. Hoy en día dirige e interpreta en un grupo de teatro llamado “El Valle Negro”, un ente visual y teatral que enfoca su trabajo en la relación entre el ser y la máquina, utilizando el teatro y el arte para realizarlo.

Antes de mudarse a California, Menlo era bailarín, coreógrafo y músico en Nueva York y trabajaba con varias compañías internacionalmente famosas de baile y teatro durante muchos años. Desde 1985 ha trabado como pintor y ha expuesto sus obras en diferentes países.

Menlo tiene dos hijos, ya veinteañeros. Actualmente vive en el norte de California en la comunidad cerca de EJ Gold.

 
Menlo Macfarlane is a Canadian artist who has worked in a number of different mediums over the past 35 years. He was a professional  dancer (with Alwin Nicolai among others) and choreographer for many years in Vancouver, Canada and New York City and now teaches dance and theatre workshops around the world.  A published writer and musician who performs and co-directs The Black Valley Troupe, a group of poets and storytellers who accompany themselves on musical instruments. A visual artist since the mid-seventies whose works on paper and canvas have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Russia, Europe, Canada and the United States.  He and his partners also own the prestigious Truffle Shop in Nevada City.

In 1980 Menlo began his work with E.J. Gold; co-directing with Mr. Gold the mystical performance ensemble "Theatre Absolute" which embodied the spiritual axiom "theatrical work on self". Early director of "Creation Story Verbatim", co-author of "The Redfin"play script, and choreographer of Sacred Dance Performance. He has worked with EJ Gold for the past 20 years encompassing a wide variety of spiritual mediums in numerous teaching formats.