Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I want to thank and bow deeply to all of my teachers, most especially H. W. L. Poonja, who set me free. I want to thank all of my students, past and present, whose dedication and commitment to my vision has enabled me to give rise to emergent potentials I could never have brought forth on my own. I also want to extend my gratitude for the profound influence of contemporary evolutionary and integral pioneers, especially Brian Swimme, Don Beck, and Ken Wilber, along with many others, who have helped enormously to deepen and refine my thinking and understanding. I want to thank Deepak Chopra for writing such a heartfelt foreword to this book. I would like to thank Arielle Ford for extending herself so generously to support this project from its inception. I would also like to thank my agent Bill Gladstone for believing so passionately in the power and significance of this teaching for our time, and Kenzi Sugihara and the team at SelectBooks for being so gracious and easy to work with. Finally, I want to express my deep appreciation to my student, editor, colleague, and friend Ellen Daly for the years we have spent in creative collaboration on the articulation of my teachings, and for the countless hours she spent bringing my spoken word into a form that we could then together shape into this book. Andrew Cohen Lenox, Massachusetts April 2011