Acknowledgments

While sporting my current incarnational costume (which came with an unwanted unruly mess of hair), I did not definitively capture a philosophy light years beyond my full comprehension. But I did get the treasure of working with some brilliant people. Beginning with artists:

Thank you, Sabine Buchanan, for the “Tree of Mind”, its first-ever rendering into visual form. I anticipate that many students are going to appreciate the illumination made possible thanks to this.

Thank you, Diana Fisher, for the “Energy Centers of the Law of One” and “Sexual Energy Transfer.” Finally, Ra’s descriptions of the centers (imaginatively envisioned), and finally something sexy for a philosophy that profoundly honors and sanctifies sexuality.

Thank you, Aaron Maret, for being the multi-talent that you are and adding the cover design for this book to a resume already featuring the cover design for the Ra Contact books, along with the stellar interior layout support.

Thank you, Julie Joy, my friend who makes me laugh and tricks me into thinking I’m funny, for THE COVER ART. Cheez-its that’s good.

Thank you, in quick shout out, to Joseph Dartez for quick review of the “Archetypal Mind” entry and for a piece he wrote titled “Cosmic Genesis” that illuminated my understanding of the Primal Distortions. And another quick shout-out to the fabulous BJ Harden Jones for her edits to the back cover text.

To Jim and Carla, everything I do in the service to L/L Research is a continual song of gratitude to you. See Tilting at Windmills for my full expression of such. Thank you, Jim, for the pre-publication read and the full-hearted endorsement.

And to the two main scholar-collaborators on the text:

Thank you, Austin Bridges. This book began life as a “glossary” with a five-sentence limit per entry… which was almost immediately exceeded. When Austin read and edited my first half, Adept – Mars, he recognized that a glossary could certainly be plucked from my work (which it was for The Ra Contact volumes), but he also saw that I had created something unique and worth pursuing, so he christened it a “concept guide.” And encouraged me to keep going. Thus I did; and thus, 2.5 years later, was it put back on his desk, all grown up, awaiting a final full edit from him. This Austin did in addition to loads of sweat spent collaborating with me to format and publish this book.

And if I could travel to sixth density to get that density’s equivalent of “thank you” and bring it back here just to give it to this next person, I would. Even if it took me a hundred lifetimes. But instead I’m stuck with English, so I hope that when I say “times a million” after thank you, Diana Roy will know how eternally grateful I am for her tireless work on this book.

Non-duality is an exceedingly difficult subject to navigate in language, inherent as it is with paradox. I witnessed Diana doing that online with uncommon dexterity, so I reached out to ask if she might be available to take a scalpel to my “Mystical Heart” piece (see next book). By some good fortune, she did. And from there the journey of editing began as she turned her sights next to ACG.

Imagine living an already demanding life, then reading this book front-to-back three times. Now imagine editing it every time. After each of her passes, this thing looked like an autopsy. She tackled not only grammar and syntax, but most helpfully, philosophy—from the surface levels to its mystical origins and depths.

In the process of challenging my assumptions and offering her perspective, Diana both enhanced and evolved my own thinking. The key point to the second half of the “Distortion” entry—you know, “that which moves away from or toward either of a pair of polarized concepts/values”—that was her creative brilliant super genius insight.

Diana added an elegance to this book that I would be hard pressed to accomplish alone. In fact, her contribution was so profound and upgrading that I could no longer take credit as the sole author. I had to acknowledge her colossal input. Thus “with Diana Roy” was added to the title. Many of Diana’s turns of phrase and insights found home in these pages, either verbatim or by way of translation.

From the most epic parts of my heart, thank you, Diana Roy, for the gift of your heart, your skill, your spiritual aptitude, and your elbow grease. You are a secret agent adept hiding beneath human skin.

And thank you to everyone who loves this material. Study of the Law of One is very much an alive pursuit among a readership growing every month, and I have done a good deal of my learning by way of osmosis. How can I credit all the absorption of insight from discussion in forums, in email, in cars, over coffee, over drinks, over arguments, early in the morning, late at night, at gatherings, etc.? Each has no idea how much they shine!

And a special thank you to my wife and best friend, Trisha Bean, who keeps me alive in this density with nurturance of love, home, and food; and who, most pertinent to this book, tolerated my absence from her life for a good deal of time, including evenings and weekends, I gave myself over to this project.

I love the Law of One philosophy. The more than three years working on this book is an expression of that devotion; along with an expression of my desire to serve seekers who, like me, find their hearts aflame and their souls illuminated from the inside out when in contact with a humble messenger’s words.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book go to L/L Research.