Leslie Stein trained as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in New York and is in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Professor Stein's books include Becoming Whole: Jung's Equation for Realizing God (Helios); Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous (Routledge); The Self in Jungian Psychology:Theory and Practice (Chiron) - winner of the IAJS Award for the best book on Jungian theory, 2022; The Journey of Adam Kadmon: A Novel (Arcade, New York); Editor, Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts (Chiron); and Editor with D. Rickles of Varieties of Nothingness (Chiron, forthcoming). He is also on the Boardof Directors of the Philemon Foundation.