André van der Braak is Professor of Comparative Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Religion and Theology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 on a study on Nietzsche and Zen. He published a.o. Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming without a Self (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011); Religion and Social Cohesion: Western, Chinese and Intercultural Perspectives (co-edited with Wei Dedong and Caifang Zhu; Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2015); and Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West (Leiden: Brill, 2020).He published several articles on ayahuasca and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Liquid Divinity: Epistemological and Ontological Explorations of Ayahuasca Religiosity in the West(to be published by Lexington Books in late 2022 or early 2023).