Janica Towne Anderson, a master falconer, has been a student and teacher of esoteric traditions for fifty years, which has included being a research assistant in the psychology department at Harvard University and being an instructor at Esalen Institute. She founded Big Sur Tapes, which preserved and published audio archives from teachers such as Ram Dass, Buckminster Fuller, and Alduous Huxley. She lives in Tomales, California.

Steven Zahavi Schwartz is a writer, editor, visual artist, and teacher with many years of immersion in Buddhist study and practice, including a year in Asia during which he was a student of Ajahn Buddhadasa at Wat Suan Mokkh, Thailand. He is the author of Making Sanctuary: Craft, Ecology, and the Architecture of Attention, editor of Seeking Engagement: The Art of Richard Kamler, and artist/producer of The Boy Who Cried Wolf’s Art of Sight: On the Origin of the Speechless. He runs Meantimes Press and lives in El Varano, California. Less