Prof. Ashok Gangaden is a world renowned global philosopher, author and spiritual activist.  He is the Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where he has taught for the past fifty years. Ashok's journey has been to explore the primal integral logic at the heart of human reason that can guide constructive dialogue -- what is called Deep Dialogue -- between diverse worldviews. This involves discovering and communicating common ground between different cultures, ideologies and disciplines.  He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Brandeis and has authored several books on meditative reasoning, including "Meditations of Global First Philosophy" and "Awakening the Global Mind."  Prof Gangadean's websites are AwakeningMind.org and UnumBeing.com