BRUNO BÉRARD (1958- ), PhD (""Religions and Systems of Thought,"" École pratique des hautes études -Sorbonne) is the author of metaphysical essays and studies (some now translated and published in the United States and Italy). He is the editor of several collective books, and has also published works on metaphysics by other authors. ALDO LA FATA (1964- ) is an orientalist and historian of religions with a special interest in Christian esotericism and the esoteric tradition. For many years he worked under Silvano Panunzio as editor-in-chief of the universal studies journal Metapolitica, and currently heads the journal Il Corriere Metapolitico. He is the author, translator, and editor of numerous books.
""While the spiritual life is for everyone, some truths must remain harder to fathom for those who are unprepared to go deeper. From this perspective, sacred secrets protect themselves. It is through the doorway of religion's outward (or 'exoteric') guises that we can access its inner (or 'esoteric') dimensions; which is to say that it is only through forms that we can encounter the formless, which eludes mere ratiocination. In these highly stimulating interviews between Bruno Bérard and Aldo La Fata, the reader is taken on a journey that explores the riches of genuine esotericism, in contrast to its many counterfeits."" --SAMUEL BENDECK SOTILLOS, author of The Quest For Who We Are: Modern Psychology and the Sacred