Author's Insights

The musicians and co-presenters who join Richard Moon on stage — from Bay Area blues legends like Felix "Guitar" Bannon and Russ "Bobby" Whitehead, to Aikido masters Patrick Cassidy and Kayla Feder Shihan.

Upcoming performances by R. Moon e — The New Improved R. Moon featuring Pronounced Harmony. Live music at Winter's Tavern, San Francisco farmers markets, and special events throughout the Bay Area.

Getting off the line, finding out what's really going on, and turning indictments into requests: how Aikido principles translate into a practice for resolving conflict, from the dojo to the boardroom to the negotiating table.

Why this practice is called Quantum Aikido: wave-particle unity, the unified field, and 1+1=1 as ways of describing what Aikido trains the body to know directly.

What an AI coaching chat can and can't do for martial arts practice, and how quantumaikido.com's free multilingual chat — grounded in Richard Moon's teaching, with human coach handoff — actually works.

A true account from the Old Town San Diego train station — watching a man escalate from forty-five degrees to ten, pausing before naming what color he was, and what it means to be visible when the moment calls for it. By Kenneth Kron.

Kenneth Kron on the teaching at the heart of Quantum Aikido: "Before we give meaning to experience — it is just energy." The map is not the territory.

A three-week teaching tour of New Zealand in September 2025: six cities, fifteen-plus sessions. The curriculum drew from the Quantum Aikido YouTube course, with Kenneth leading children's classes in Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

Surface and depth. What you see and what's actually happening. The difference determines everything. In Aikido, if you only respond to what you see, the fist, the grab, the apparent attack: you're already too late.

Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lives freedom. That space, between what happens and how you respond: that's where everything pivots. That's the Quantum Pause.

Two peoples. One island. Decades of silence. In the mid-1990s, as part of a track-two diplomacy initiative with the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy and the Harvard Negotiation Project, I went to Cyprus to create conditions for dialogue where none existed.

Cyprus was about positions. Bosnia was about wounds. Post-conflict reconciliation work in association with the Conflict Management Group and the Harvard Negotiation Project: and what Aikido teaches about working with fresh grief.

Aikido was born in Japan. Its root word, ai: means harmony. The Pacific Rim is where that understanding runs deepest. Work with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and what cross-cultural dialogue looks like when you meet people in their own philosophical inheritance.

What print-on-demand publishing actually is, how it differs from a commercial book deal, and why Richard Moon uses both: Quantum Aikido through Inner Traditions, his other titles through Books.by.

Corporate leaders, attorneys, diplomats, and educators who experienced Richard Moon's Extraordinary Listening programs: in their own words. Geoffrey Moore, John W. Combs, Douglas Stone, Louise Diamond, and more, each with their own table and collaborators listed.

One of the pleasures of writing Quantum Aikido was the community it drew in. David Pearl, innovator, contributor to this book, and co-founder of Future School: asks what the future wants us to know. That is a Quantum Aikido question.

David Pearl, innovator at the intersection of business, the arts, and social change: has co-founded Future School with Arne Gast of McKinsey. It gathers 50 Benelux leaders around a question that is, at its core, a Quantum Aikido question.

Podcast appearances and interviews on Aikido, consciousness, conflict transformation, and the quantum lens.

Quantum Aikido: The Power of Harmony (Park Street Press), plus print-on-demand editions of The Power of Listening, The Business of Listening, and more.

Short teachings, Aikido demonstrations, and recorded Q&A sessions.