Acknowledgments<br > Thanks and love go to Amy， who has lived and discussed every part<br > of this book as it was created around the world. Her pioneering research<br > on the transpersonal skills---or metaskills--of process-oriented psy-<br > chology was a special aid to me in defining deep democracy.<br > Thanks to Julie Diamond and Leslie Heizer， who helped edit and<br >correct the original manuscript. Important advice came from Julie<br >Diamond， Jan Dworkin， Joe Goodbread， Leslie Heizer， Ursula Hohler，<br >*Kate Jobe， Dawn Menken， Pearl and Carl Mindell， Max Schupbach，<br >Son.ia Straub， and Nisha Zenoff.<br > ~ Special thanks are due for the valuable suggestions and corrections<br >.given to me by Anne Marie and Constantine Angelopolous from<br >Athens; Kerry Beale from Melbourne; Midi Berry from England; Steve<br >Donvan from Big Sur， California; Yukio Fujimi from Tokyo; Moses lki-<br >ugu from Nairobi; John Johnson from Washington， D.C.; Jeff Kelton<br >from New York; Jan Loeken from Seattle; Alberto Melucci from Milan;<br >Dayal Mirchandani from Bombay; Nora Montagu from Brussels;<br >Joseph Pagano from Monterey， California; Peter Shikirev from<br >Moscow; Thomaz Teodorzyk from Warsaw; Myrna Wajsman from<br >Johannesburg; and Bracha and Ben Yanoov from Israel.<br >