The No-Self Help Book by Kate Gustin

Author:Kate Gustin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2018-11-20T00:40:12+00:00

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the generous people who made this book possible. First, I value and thank the many clients I have worked with in individual therapy, group psychotherapy, and the classes I have taught over the years. I admire their courage, insight, and integrity. I’ve been deeply moved by our work together and by the privilege of getting to know their truest self and no-self, which has inspired material for this book.

I am very grateful for the loving encouragement of my husband, Jonathan Gustin, during the long process of manifesting The No-Self Help Book. I thank him for his tireless support of me through many rounds of neurotic selfing on this project and his example of being an agent of cultural change in the world.

I am also thankful to my dharma brothers and sisters—Gwen Weil, Dave Schultz, David Michelson, Denise Turner—for their feedback on early drafts of The No-Self Help Book and for helping to keep the morale going. Their wisdom and guidance have shaped the book (and my life) toward a fuller, deeper expression. I’d also like to acknowledge my parents for helping install the important values of learning and truth-seeking, science and study, into my upbringing.

Other friends and colleagues also offered support and interest in The No-Self Help Book vital to the book’s completion. I am most grateful for the kindness and generous spirit of Dan and Belinda Lyons Newman, Suzanne Eaves, Simone Rodin, Tracye Williams, Julie Fennimore, Michelle Fontaine, and the ladies of the meditation group.

Much gratitude goes to Byron Belitsos for his assistance with the initial book proposal and directing me to Non-Duality Press/New Harbinger Publications, toward whom I cannot offer enough praise. Thank you to my editor, Elizabeth Hollis Hansen, for going to bat for this unusual text, and to my copyeditor, Jean Blomquist, for her amazing attention to detail, and to the whole team at New Harbinger for being so skilled at what they do. I am also grateful for the generous contributions of those who have endorsed The No-Self Help Book.

I am indebted to many wise souls for their spiritual instruction. The presence and teachings of Adyashanti, Rupert Spira, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, and Candice O’Denver have been profoundly impactful on me, to name a few. My appreciation also goes to Eleanor Rosch for her graduate seminar, Clinical Applications of Eastern Thought, at UC Berkeley twenty-five years ago, for providing me with a first doorway into the overlapping realms of dharma and psychology.

Finally, I am grateful for the greatest teacher of all, my son, who reminds me daily of the irrepressible joy, delight, and exuberance possible when living as no-self.

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