Marilyn Mandala Schlitz serves as the CEO and president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and has pioneered clinical and field-based research in the areas of human consciousness, transformation, and healing. Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life and Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine. She is also senior scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center.
Jeff Sharlet is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and investigative journalist who stirred up the Washington, D.C., establishment with his book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, for which he reported from within the oldest and most influential religious right organization in the United States. He is co-author of Killing the Buddha, A Heretic’s Bible and is also a visiting research scholar at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media.
David A. Shugarts, the senior contributing editor for Secrets of The Lost Symbol, is an investigative reporter and core member of the Secrets team. He has been a journalist for more than thirty-five years, and his profile of Dan Brown and the predictions he made about the content of The Lost Symbol, detailed in his book Secrets of the Widow’s Son (2005), proved remarkably prescient and won him national acclaim. Additionally, he is a songwriter, beekeeper, sailor, aviation expert, and marketing and communications consultant.
Mark A. Tabbert is director of collections at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. A Masonic brother, leading Masonic historian, and former director of collections at the Scottish Rite National Heritage Museum, he wrote the definitive work, American Freemasons: Three Centuries of Building Communities.
James Wasserman is the founder of TAHUTI Lodge, now the second oldest continuous Ordo Templi Orientis Lodge in the world. His several books include The Secrets of Masonic Washington and The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art. He is currently at work on An Illustrated History of Solomon’s Temple. Wasserman’s Web site is www.studio31.com.
About the Authors
Dan Burstein is the world’s leading expert on the fiction of Dan Brown. Burstein is also the founder of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York–based venture capital firm that invests in innovative new technology companies. He is an award-winning journalist and author of thirteen books on global economics, technology, and popular culture.
Arne de Keijzer is co-creator of the Secrets series, which includes Secrets of the Code and Inside Angels & Demons. A former international business consultant, he has also written or contributed to books on subjects ranging from China’s impact on the global economy to today’s new technologies.
Also by Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer
The Secrets Series
Secrets of the Code
Secrets of Angels & Demons / Inside Angels & Demons
Secrets of the Widow’s Son (by David A. Shugarts)
Secrets of Mary Magdalene
Secrets of “24”
Other Titles
Big Dragon
The Best Things Ever Said About the Rise, Fall &
Future of the Internet Economy
Previous Titles by Dan Burstein
Blog!
Road Warriors
Turning the Tables
Euroquake
Yen!
Credits
Jacket Design by Mary Schuck
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