ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First off, I would like to thank all of my teachers, without whom I never would have been able to find the words, not to mention the place in myself, to write this book. I’d like to express my gratitude to the late Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, who showed me endless kindness and compassion, and who served as a living example of what it is to be a truly awake and loving human being.

I’d like to express untold appreciation for the late Angelo Ippolito, a truly inspired artist who introduced me to the incredible healing and joy that is the creative process of making art.

I would like to thank the wonderful Catherine Austin Fitts for our many years of discussion about integrating spiritual and economic phenomena. 1

I can’t express appreciation enough for Red Spectral Skywalker, who played a key, collaborative role in the creation of this book.

I also express my deep appreciation and gratitude to Larry Berry, who was truly in service, always willing to help in whatever way he could, always available for anything I asked to help make this work as good as it could be.

I extend a big thank you to both John Hubbird and Ezra Sandzer-Bell for all of their selfless editorial help and loving support.

I am unable to find the words to express my gratitude for the more than thirty years of endless encouragement and support that I’ve received from the beloved Rina Sircar.

Many thanks to the Don of Division Street for our many hours spent creatively co-contemplating “the dreaming” together.

I’d like to thank all of my friends at Sound Grounds Café in Portland, Oregon, which is where most of this book was written.

My heartfelt appreciation goes to Elisabeth Targ for her nonlocal and multidimensional love and support.

Unending gratitude to all of my fellow co-dreamers in the Awakening in the Dream community, without whose collaboration I would never have been able to dream up this book into materialization in the first place. Truly “conspiring to co-inspire” each other, these groups—circles of people who are helping each other to wake up in the dream together—are like a board of directors inside of my own psyche who keep me in line and help me whenever I need it. This book is a true group effort, something that would have been impossible for me to do on my own.

Finally, I offer an atemporal note of thanks to C. G. Jung, whose work has served as a great inspiration in understanding my own internal process; I don’t know if I would have made it to where I am today without discovering his work.