Awakening to Awe is a self-help meditation on an alternative-and growing-spiritual movement. This is a movement comprised of people who refuse the "quick-fix" model for healing, whether that model entails popping pills, indulging in material comforts, or adhering to doctrinal dogmas. By contrast, the movement about which Schneider writes is composed of people who have developed the capacity to experience the humility and wonder, or in short, awe, of life deeply lived. In particular, this book highlights the stories of people who through the cultivation of awe have transformed their lives. For example, readers will discover how awe transformed the life of an ex-gang member into a beloved and productive gang mediator, an ex-drug addict into a communally conscious healer, and a sufferer of stage three cancer into a contemplative and spiritual seeker. The book will also inform readers about the challenges and joys of awe-based child-raising, education, humor, political activism, and aging. Drawing on the philosophy of Schneider's earlier work, the acclaimed Rediscovery of Awe, Awakening to Awe tells the down-to-earth stories of a quiet yet emerging revolution in the transformation of lives.

科剋J.施奈德，哲學博士，執業心理治療師，美國存在主義心理學大師羅洛·梅的閤作者和繼承人，美國當代存在一人本主義心理學代言人，美國存在一人本主義心理學院(EHI)創建者之一。

施耐德博士在賽布魯剋研究生院、加州理工學院和超個人心理研究所執教，還是《人本主義心理學》雜誌的現任主編，美國心理學會(APA)的成員之一。已發錶100多篇論文，編著齣版瞭《矛盾的自我》《畏懼與神聖》《存在心理學》《存在一人本主義心理治療》等8部著作。

2004年，施奈德博士因“對人本主義心理學前沿傑齣和獨立的追求”被美國心理學會頒予羅洛·梅奬；2009年，獲得加拿大多倫多生命學院頒發的文化創新奬：2010年，受邀參加在中國南京舉辦的首屆東西方存在心理學大會，並發錶重要演講。

楊韶剛，在心理學史、存在主義心理學、精神分析等領域是國內最優秀的學者之一，尤其在弗洛伊德精神分析、榮格分析心理學、羅洛·梅存在一人本主義心理學和西方道德心理學研究方麵頗有建樹。