Harvey, Daniel C. Matt and Andrew

"Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on the Zohar and Kabbalah. He is the author of the best-selling The Essential Kabbalah (HarperSanFrancisco, translated into seven languages); Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Paulist Press); God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality; and Zohar: Annotated and Explained (Jewish Lights). He is also the author of the annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition (Stanford University Press). He has so far completed six volumes of this immense project, which has been hailed as ""a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought."" Formerly professor of Jewish spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Daniel C. Matt now resides in Berkeley. Daniel C. Matt is available to speak on the following topics: Shekhinah: The Feminine Half of God Raising the Sparks: Finding God in the Material World The Mystical Meaning of Torah The Zohar: Masterpiece of Kabbalah God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality. Andrew Harvey is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Son of Man. His memoir A Journey in Ladakh was praised as ""one of the best books available on the Western experience of Tibetan spiritual life."" His just-published memoir Sun at Midnight was praised by Deepak Chopra, who said, ""for those who have gone through the dark night of the soul and for those seeking a genuine understanding of spirituality, this is a very inspiring story."" Harvey is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Born in India, he was the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford. He has devoted the past thirty years of his life to study and experiencing the world's spiritual traditions and is widely recognized as one of our greatest communicators of mysticism and contemplative living today.";