INTERVIEW PARTICIPANTS’ BOOKS AND WEB SITES

In doing the research for my book, It’s Not About the Money, I was truly blessed to spend time with some of the leading spiritual and financial leaders in the world today. Below is a listing of all of them, including their website and books you might find useful.

ADYASHANTI Meditation teacher based in the Zen and advaita (non-dualism)
traditions. Selected books: Emptiness Dancing, My Secret Is Silence, Impact of
Awakening. http://www.adyashanti.org

A. H. ALMAAS San Francisco–based author and master teacher of spiritual selfinquiry.
Selected books: The Inner Journey Home, The Pearl Beyond Price, Brilliancy.
http://www.ahalmaas.com

AMMACHI Known as the “hugging saint.” Selected books: Messages from Amma: In
the Language of the Heart. http://www.amma.org

KEN BLANCHARD Teacher, author, and business consultant. Selected books: The
One Minute Manager, Leading at a Higher Level.
http://www.kenblanchard.com/about/bios/ken_blanchard

JOHN BOGLE Founder of Vanguard Group. Selected books: The Little Book of
Common Sense Investing, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.
http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_home.html

DAVID BOOTH CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors. Selected books: Trading Costs
and Tracking Error. http://www.dfaus.com

HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA The head of state and spiritual leader of Tibet.
Selected books: The Art of Happiness, How to Expand Love. http://www.dalailama.com

RAM DASS Former Harvard professor who became a leader of an Eastern spiritual
movement for millions. Selected books: Be Here Now, The Only Dance There Is, Still
Here. http://www.ramdass.org

DAVID DEIDA Focus on a nonreligious spiritual practice to create a connection
between spirituality and sexuality. Selected books: The Way of the Superior Man, Blue
Truth, Instant Enlightenment. http://www.deida.info

EUGENE FAMA Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Ser vice Professor of Finance,
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Selected books: The Theory of
Finance, Foundations of Finance. www.chicagogsb.edu/fac/eugene.fama

CHRISTINA FELDMAN Co-founder of Gaia House in England and a guiding teacher
at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Selected books: Beginner’s
Guide to Buddhist Meditation: Practices for Mindful Living, The Buddhist Path to
Simplicity. http://www.gaiahouse.co.uk

GIL FRONSDAL Zen and Vipassana teacher. Selected books: The Dhammapada: A
New Translation of the Buddhist Classic. http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org

GANGAJI Freedom and inner peace inquiry based on teachings of H. W. L. Poonja, a
disciple of Ramana Maharshi. Selected books: The Diamond in Your Pocket.
http://www.gangaji.org

JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Vipassana teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation
Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Selected books: Insight Meditation: The Practice of
Freedom, One Dharma. http://www.dharma.org/ims/joseph_goldstein.html

JERU KABBAL (DECEASED) Spiritual teacher and author. Selected books: Finding
Clarity. http://www.jerukabbal.com

BYRON KATIE Creator of a body of self-inquiry work designed to help people end
their own suffering. Selected books: A Thousand Names for Joy, Loving What Is.
http://www.thework.org

RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER Rabbi and best-selling author. Selected books: When Bad
Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life that Matters. http://www.tiofnatick.org

HARRY MARKOWITZ Nobel Prize–winning economist behind modern portfolio
theory. Selected books: The Theory and Practice of Investment Management.

JOE MOGLIA CEO of TD Ameritrade. Selected books: Coach Yourself to Success:
Winning the Investment Game. http://www.tdameritrade.com

MIKE MURRAY Venture philanthropist committed to economic and social empowerment
of the poor. http://www.unitus.com/sections/aboutus/aboutus_board_mmurray.asp

THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and leader of peace movement;
nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for Nobel Peace Prize. Selected books: The Art of
Power, Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Living Buddha, Living Christ.
http://www.plumvillage.org/

WES NISKER Vipassana meditation teacher. Selected books: Crazy Wisdom, The Big
Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom. http://www.wesnisker.com

CARRIE SCHWAB-POMERANTZ Senior Vice President and chief strategist,
Consumer Education, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and President, Charles Schwab
Foundation. Selected books: It Pays to Talk: How to Have the Essential Conversations
with Your Family About Money and Investing.
http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/research_strategies/market_insight/1/3/ask_carrie.html

MEIR STATMAN Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Leavey School of Business
Santa Clara University. Selected books: Behavioral Finance and Decision Theory in
Investment Management. http://lsb.scu.edu/finance/faculty/statman/default.htm

TSOKNYI RINPOCHE Tibetan meditation teacher in the Dzogchen tradition. Selected
books: Carefree Dignity, Fearless Simplicity. http://www.pundarika.org

DAVID WHYTE Brings the insights of poetry to bear on the world of work.
Selected books: River Flow: New and Selected Poems 1984–2007, Crossing the
Unknown Sea. http://www.davidwhyte.com