Joel M Upton has a BA in American Studies from Rutgers University, New Jersey and a PhD from Bryn Mawr College. Pennsylvania. He has over forty years' experience as an art history teacher at Amherst College. Now retired, he lives in Massachusetts, USA. Dr Arthur Zajonc is the Andrew Mellon professor of physics and interdisciplinary studies at Amherst College and is currently the director of the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind, an organization of 1500 academics supporting the appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in higher education. Dr Zajonc is the former General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America. He is the author of Catching the Light, coauthor of The Quantum Challenge, and coeditor of Goethe's Way of Science.