Konrad Dietzfelbinger, born in 1940, with degrees in sociology and Germanic studies, worked from 1980 to 1990 as reader and manager at a publishing firm and has since been independently active as translator, publisher, and author in Munich. His chief interests are Christian and Jewish spirituality and mysticism. Several of his books have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech, Polish, and Dutch. He was raised in an especially religious environment and already noticed as a child that under the Christian faith as he encountered it there, there had to be hidden a much deeper, spirit...