Vic Mansfield is a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. Along with a wide range of science courses, he teaches courses focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology. He is an award-winning teacher who has published scores of technical articles in science and several dozen interdisciplinary papers connecting physics to Tibetan Buddhism and depth psychology. For nearly four decades, he has practiced and studied with spiritual leaders in the U.S., Europe, and India. He has published two previous books: Synchronicity, Science, and Soul-Making (Open Court Publishing, 1995) and Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred (Quest Books, 2002). Vic Mansfield died peacefully on June 3, 2008 after a valiant two-year struggle with lymphoma.