Mark Matousek is an award-winning author of several books including Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story, The Boy He Left Behind, and Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Tricycle, and Harper’s Bazaar. He blogs regularly for Psychology Today and offers courses in creativity and spiritual growth around the world using the Writing To Awaken method. He lives in East Hampton, NY.

World-renowned religious scholar and teacher Andrew Harvey is the author of many books, including the critically acclaimed Son of Man and The Direct Path. Born in South India in 1952, he studied at Oxford University and became the youngest Fellow ever elected to the prestigious All Soul’s College. In 1990, Andrew collaborated with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of the international bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in his ashram in India and it was this meeting that helped Andrew synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism.