I am a quiet person at heart. The language of stillness and silence is healing and joyful and indeed a most profound teacher. In truth, deep in all our hearts is a profound quiet that reveals the essence of who we actually are. Therefore, words are inadequate to describe any human being, you as well as me. However, as I do retreats and teach publicly I will give you a sense of my life and work.

I have been a thirty plus year student of Buddhism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, Yoga Philosophy, and Meditation. For over 20 years I was intensely involved in publishing spiritual and transformational books, newsletters and magazines. I was the publisher of the magazines Lotus: Journal for Personal Transformation and Personal Transformation magazine, and was the co-editor of the book Soulful Living: The Process of Personal Transformation.

My wife, Mary, and I spent a decade, from 1990 to 2000, engaged in the study of psycho-spiritual healing. We worked with some of the world’s leading teachers, healers and authors. In the late 1990's, near the end of this decade of immersion in psycho-spiritual work, I experienced a series of life transforming spiritual awakenings. Since then I continue to open into, integrate and learn to live from the deepest truth of my realizations.

I’m eclectic in my approach to personal and spiritual growth using both eastern spiritual and western psychological methods. I only teach what I live, and what has seemed truest and most healing in my life. I prefer a gentle, kind and loving approach that lets me discover my truth and way, rather than learning a theory, or adhering to a specific teaching or philosophy.

In my experience, truth is something that can directly be known. Truth comes from lived experience rather than from following belief or doctrine. It’s something that is felt and recognized. Truth reveals itself by allowing us to see it, feel it, hear it, and know it.

For my own growth I use journaling, inquiry, meditation, and taking time away from my usual routine—as transformational practices. More fundamentally, there is the moment to moment opening to life by consciously engaging in what arises. What I have found is if I have some preconceived idea of what healing is needed, I am making an egoic maneuver. If I rely upon my egoic level of consciousness to guide my maturational process, I'll get stuck. It is like having a sixteen year old teenager make decisions for a fifty four year old man. When I open and welcome whatever is arising to come into awareness, healing tends to come from the inner to the outer. That which is not true is revealed and in the same manner, that which is true is revealed. How it all happens is an incredible mystery. Awareness, so quiet and wise, is the true healer. I have a daily practice of noticing and listening as well as other practices. All together, these practices help me see past the thick dense parts of personality and align me with truth as it becomes apparent.

The methods we use in retreat setting are used to help participants gently peel back the layers, uncovering underlying ideas about self identity and motivations for unconscious ways of being. All is offered gently and respectfully with no pushing or manipulation. We have no agenda for someone’s transformation, nor do we have an idea of how someone should be. We trust the power of loving awareness to move participants towards their potential.

I enjoy hiking in the mountains, quiet walks in the woods and being outdoors in the moonlight. I’m a home body at heart and love good healthy cookies.

We live in a rural part of Eastern Oklahoma, on 22 acres in the middle of a forest of native trees. We have three cats, a dog and are often visited by coyote, fox, possum, raccoon, armadillo and deer.