Carolyn Rose Gimian is the Executive Director of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute at Naropa University. She has been an editor of the works of Chogyam Trungpa for more than 35 years. She is the editor of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, SHAMBHALA: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, and more than twenty other volumes. She has been teaching meditation and presenting seminars on Chogyam Trungpa’s work for more than 40 years. THE FUTURE IS OPEN is the most recent book by Chogyam Trungpa that she edited.