Mieke Mosmuller (1951) was born in Amsterdam and studied medicine there. She has worked as a doctor since 1978. In 1983 she found anthroposophy, and an intense meditative inner life began. Seek the Light that Rises in the West was published in Dutch and German in 1994. Since then she has written 28 books, many of which have been published in German. She writes about philosophy and anthroposophy and she has also written 14 novels. In 1998 a book was published (Simply God) that contains her conversations with the late Toon Hermans, a well-known comic and cabaret artist in the Netherlands. She gives seminars in many European countries.