About the Author

Hyatt Carter is a licensed counselor, a writer/editor, and a lifelong scholar with a wide spectrum of interests. He is a longtime member of Founder’s Center for Positive Spirituality and served for four years on the Board of Trustees there. He is assistant editor of The Word, a publication now in its 54th year, and co-editor, along with philosopher Randall Auxier, of Charles Hartshorne’s The Unity of Being, a new book that will be published soon by Open Court.

His fields of expertise include process philosophy, Zen Buddhism, positive psychology, and contemplative spirituality. Three of the essays in this volume are longer versions of papers he presented at national conventions. In the spirit of serious play, or maybe four-play, he continues to add to his ever-growing collection of what he calls Meta-Fours—significant and sometimes amusing ways in which the archetypal number four seems to turn up all over the place, such as in his personal slogan: May the fours be with you!

For the last twenty years he and his wife Linda have lived in the seaside community of Marina del Rey, California.