Ilan Amit is a mathematician writing on philosophy, literature, and the spiritual search. His book Gurdjieff and the Inner Work, bringing to bear many years of spiritual search, appeared in Hebrew in 2005 and will be published in 2008 in the U.S. He lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

John Roger Barrie is the literary executor of author-philosopher Gerald Heard and an authorized lay teacher in the Ramakrishna Vedanta tradition. His first book, Mysticism: Contemporary and Classical Pathways to the Infinite, will be published by Blue Dolphin Publishing in 2008. For more information, please visit johnrogerbarrie.com.

Bhikkhu Bodhi is a Theravada Buddhist monk from Brooklyn esteemed for his commentary (The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering, etc.) and translations (The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, etc.). He is president of the Sangha Council of Bodhi Monastery and the chairman of Yin Shun Foundation.

Martin Buber (1878–1965) was a highly influential Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator. His best known work is I and Thou (1923).

Miriam Faugno taught drama and English at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City for fifteen years. She studied drama at the Michael Chekhov Studio and with Peter Bridgemont. She has been Art Researcher at Parabola since 1995 and Art Editor since 2007.

Martha Heyneman is the author of The Breathing Cathedral: Feeling Our Way into a Living Cosmos and The Productions of Time: Collected Essays. She is a long time contributor to Parabola.

Trebbe Johnson is the author of The World is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved and has been a contributor to Parabola for many years. She is the director of Vision Arrow, offering quests for vision and passion in the Utah Canyonlands, Omega Institute, Wales, the Sahara Desert, and other places around the world. For more information, please go to www.visionarrow.com.

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International.

Joyce Kornblatt is a novelist, essayist, and former English professor at the University of Maryland. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, where she is at work on a novel, and a book about grief.

Henriette Lannes (1899–1980) studied under G. I. Gurdjieff in Paris during the Nazi occupation and in her later years guided the work of the Gurdjieff Society in England.

Susan Murphy is a Zen Roshi in the Yasutani-Yamada-Aitken-Tarrant line of Zen, teaching in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia (zenopencircle.org.au). She is the author of Upside Down Zen and is a feature film writer-director, and writer-producer of radiophonic documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Sheri Ritchlin, Ph.D., is a past contributor to Parabola and the author of One-ing, Dream to Waken, and a doctoral study on “The Return of the Sage: A New Cosmology Meets the Way of Heaven and Earth in the I Ching.” She writes and lectures on Mesoamerican cosmology, dreams, and parallels between the organic worldviews of the I Ching and our emerging holistic paradigm. For more information, please visit www.SheriRitchlin.com.

Tom Rothschild is a Quaker living in New York City. Following some twenty-five years of searching that included the study of various traditions, he joined the Religious Society of Friends [Quakers]. He recently completed a two-year program of the Quaker-sponsored School of the Spirit. Currently Tom serves as clerk of the Committee on Conflict Transformation, which assists New York Yearly Meeting Quakers in using conflict as an opportunity for spiritual growth as well as reconciliation and resolution.

David Sander teaches in Religious Studies, with a special focus on Sufism.

Aryeh Wineman, a rabbi in Troy, N.Y., is the author of many studies in Hebrew literature and Jewish mysticism.

Diane Wolkstein, author of 23 books, including Inanna and Treasures of the Heart, is the director of storytelling at the Statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park. Her latest DVD is A Storyteller’s Story, chronicling her forty years of storytelling. For more information, please visit www.Dianewolkstein.com.