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Contributors Michael C. Brannigan is the Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at The College of Saint Rose and holds a joint appointment at the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College. Along with numerous scholarly articles on ethics, Asian thought, and cross-cultural studies, his books include Everywhere and Nowhere: The Path of Alan Watts; Cross-Cultural Biotechnology; Healthcare Ethics in a Diverse Society; Ethical Issues in Human Cloning; Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values, and The Pulse of Wisdom: The Philosophies of India, China, and Japan. He received his PhD in philosophy and MA in religious studies from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Peter J. Columbus is a research psychologist working in the phenomenological tradition of human inquiry. He is published in a range of academic venues including The Humanistic Psychologist, British Journal of Medical Psychology, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Journal of Engineering Education, and Journal of Sport Behavior . Co-editor (with Don Rice) of Psychology of the Martial Arts, he holds a PhD in experimental psychology from The University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an MA in humanistic psychology from the University of West Georgia. He has held faculty appointments at Assumption College and Union College (Kentucky), and is presently serving as administrator of the Shantigar Foundation located in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Ralph W. Hood Jr. is professor of psychology at the University of TennesseeChattanooga where he teaches courses on psychology of religion and philosophical psychology. He is author of Dimensions of Mystical Experience: Empirical Studies and Psychological Links, coauthor of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach (with Peter C. Hill and Bernard Spilka) and Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism (with Peter C. Hill and W. Paul Williamson), editor of the Handbook of Religious Experience, and founding editor of the International Journal 233 234 CONTRIBUTORS for the Psychology of Religion. He is a fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the American Psychological Association, past president of APA’s division on Psychology of Religion, and recipient of its William James Award. His PhD is from the University of Reno-Nevada. Chungliang Al Huang is a philosopher, performing artist, and internationally renowned Dao master. He is the founder-president of the Living Tao Foundation and the international Lan Ting Institute in the sacred mountains of China, and on the Oregon coast. He is a research scholar of the Academia Sinica, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and an assembly member for the Council for a Parliament of the World Religions. He received the highest rated Speaker’s Award from the Young Presidents’ Organization, the New Dimension Broadcaster Award, and the prestigious Gold Medal from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China. He is author of numerous best-selling books, including the classics Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain; Quantum Soup; Essential Tai Ji; and The Chinese Book of Animal Powers; and co-author with Alan Watts of Tao: The Watercourse Way; and with Dr. Jerry Lynch of Thinking Body, Dancing Mind. Alan Keightley is the former head of religious studies at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge, England, and adjunct professor at the University of Birmingham where he offered courses on wisdom traditions and mystic teachers . His writings and book reviews are published in Theology, the Journal of Beliefs and Values, and the British Journal of Religious Education. His books include Wittgenstein, Grammar, and God; Religion and the Great Fallacy; and Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East. He studied at Wesley Theological College and Bristol University where he obtained an honors degree in theology before earning his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 1974. Stanley Krippner is Alan W. Watts Professor of Psychology at the Saybrook Graduate School and holds faculty appointments at Universidade Holistica Internancional (Brazil) and Instituto de Medicina y Technologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Mexico). Formerly, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory . A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, he is author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, including Extraordinary Dreams; Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence; and The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective. His PhD is from Northwestern University. Miriam L. Levering is professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee -Knoxville. She was a visiting...

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