Joan Tollifson writes and talks with people about the nature of reality. She has an affinity with Advaita and Zen, but belongs to no formal tradition. Her first book, Bare-Bones Meditation, was published by Bell Tower in 1996 and has been translated into German and Dutch. Some of the teachers who have touched her most deeply include Toni Packer and Nisargadatta Maharaj. Tollifson has lived in California and New York, and currently resides in Ashland, OR.