Callahan - Radiant joy, brilliant love: secrets for creating an extraordinary life and profound intimacy with your partner

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to:

Pauline Aiko Lamprecht who first introduced me to the experience of Countenance, without warning, one Monday afternoon in a noisy, smoke-filled Viennese caf in the fall of 1994. As my reality horizon expanded into infinity and I could hardly breathe, she calmly said that she never opens this door for anyone. She just waits until someone visits.

Mayli, Aikos teacher, who obviously trains her students with a rare deference.

Clinton Callahan Jr., my father, a King who read this whole manuscript out loud to my mother Virginia, who cant read anymore, just so she could hear what it says.

My ex-wife; my not-ex-daughters; and every person who has ever encouraged me to learn more about love.

Sue Nestrud, who spent hundreds of unpaid hours transforming piles of badly recorded talk tapes into words on paper that built the foundation for this project.

Tilman and Dagmar Neubronner of Genius Verlag, whose unmitigated enthusiasm for our work and for revolutions in general helped entice this book out of the womb.

Regina Sara Ryan and the Hohm Press team, who excel in the compassionate art of working kindly with cantankerous authors to make a better book.

Werner and Hannelore Lutz, whose creative financial ideas and simple exuberance for life greatly supported the final writing of this book.

E. J. Gold, who moves faster than the speed of evolution for the benefit of all beings everywhere; and his student Mike McDonnell, for all those hours talking to me about responsibility under the streetlights on the far side of midnight.

Anyone who has ever tried (or even wanted to try) to write a book that would somehow help people, because many of those books have helped me.

Everyone who participated in Possibility Manager Laboratories experimenting together to discover what works and what does not work.

Marion, for being the listening into which Radiant Joy Brilliant Love could be written.

Lee Lozowick, a man who has many secrets but none worth telling, because he knows that a person keeps only what they authentically discover themselves. You are a space through which Archetypal Love does its work in the world (just my opinion). This manuscript was completed only because you said, I want to see the book. Where the words are best the words are yours. Thank you for never ceasing to kick the ass connected to this one.