Harvey Bigelsen, MD, helped found the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) in 1978, and three years later helped to write the Arizona law allowing alternative medical practitioners to be licensed and judged by their peers rather than by mainstream doctors. A frequent lecturer for alternative health organizations, he lives in Nevada City, CA. Medical writer Lisa Haller lives in St. Paul, MN.Barbara Brodsky is founder and head dharma teacher of the Deep Spring Center for Meditation and Spiritual Inquiry, an interfaith center offering Vipassana meditation and Tibetan dzogchen teachings. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI.