Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges the lectures of and conversations with the following people who contributed to the formation of this book: Roger Bagnall, Saad Abdel Basat, Bernard von Bothmer, William F. Buckley, Jr., Noam Chomsky, Steele Commager, Hossam Fahr, Henry Fischer, Elise Frick, Theodor Gaster, Ed Hirsch, Joe Hobbs, Michael Jones, Venerable Rato Khyongla, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Mark Lehner, Thomas Logan, Edmund Morris, Lance Morrow, Elaine Pagels, Edith Porada, Nora Scott, the Fourteenth Shamarpa, Gamal Sharif, E. Gene Smith, Gareth Sparham, Carl Strehlke, Robert Thurman, Jeannette Watson, Elie Wiesel, Margot Wilkie, Sally Wriggins.

Needless to say, the conclusions and ideas presented in this book are those of this author alone.

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With grateful thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Crane-Rogers Foundation for funding the research for this book.

With grateful thanks to Tina Bennett, Svetlana Katz, Eric Chinski, Ileene Smith, John Knight, and Jeff Seroy, for bringing the book to completion.