I write, photograph, and am a life-long musician. Sitting meditation for decades, lived in a couple Zen centers. 15 years ago I came down with a massive flu, which severely impacts my life to this day. I'm a passionate student of various lines of intellectual and spiritual inquiry, such as the paradigm emerging from the current, vast, cross-cultural and channeled spiritual interactions-- the Tarnas, Mack, Grof, Goethe line, for example. Love, among dozens: Emerson, Jane Roberts/Seth, The Michael Teachings, Walter "Bob" Anderson, Merton, Cezanne, Evelyn Eaton, Kathleen Raine, Transtromer.