Barry Magid is a psychoanalyst and Zen teacher whose life and work have been on the forefront of a movement to integrate Western psychology with Eastern spiritual practices.

Later he met and trained with Charlotte Joko Beck, the Dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi and founder of her own Ordinary Mind School of Zen.

[6] In 2009, he named his first Dharma successor, Pat George, who teaches at The Zen Center of Philadelphia.

[7] In addition, for many years he pursued the craft of letterpress printing, and published limited editions of handset and handprinted books under his own imprint, Dim Gray Bar Press.

Authors published by the press include Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Jim Harrison, Thomas Merton and Jonathan Williams.