Winnie Lim

One of this century’s most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung’s rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace,opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience…Balancing Heaven and Earth reveals, for the first time, Johnson’s own fascinating and mystical life-from his near-death experience at the age of eleven to the lifelong soul journey that has informed his writing and taught him how to live a spiritual life in the endlessly challenging modern world.

“Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism — not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters.

Meeting in an inn overlooking Katmandu, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored the questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history.”