Bio for “Finders” Host

Updated: 
May 18 
5:44 pm

How a secular humanist comes to pursue Spirit

Phase 1 - Radical Secularism. Provide the boy experience...
• Teach him very early to think things through. Then move from an integrated Bay Area community to 1960 Houston.
• Houston is big on "just believe" and "obey as I say."
• Boggle his mind with a despotic approach to freedom of religion in which ‘educators’ institute their ‘truths’ in the curriculum, assemblies, and lunch times.
• Force him to witness the loss of humanity as Houstonians “think through” things carefully: their institutions protecting their white skins from getting too close other colors. Separate schools. Separate restrooms. “White” and “colored” drinking fountains(!) Etcetera.

Phase 2 - Mind-body Research. Next let him...
• Discover the power of mind-body effects in graduate school.
• Learn about prominent researchers documenting mind-body healing that goes beyond material physiology.
• Clinical training to handle those deeply relaxed biofeedback clients who experience out-of-body travel.
• Stumble across medical cases of resuscitated ‘dead’ people who revive — not as Hollywood zombies, not as vegetables, but as healthy and productive citizens — sometimes with enhanced abilities and sensitivities.
• Sample Cosmic Consciousness (1901) by R.M. Bucke, M.D. - documenting varying degrees of transcendent experiences, many of them outside of religious scriptures.
  • Buddha
  • Moses
  • Jesus
  • Saul of Tarsus
  • Muhammed
  • Dante
  • William Shakespeare
  • Dr. Bucke himself
  • Several 19th Century women whom Bucke identified only by their initials
• Open a yogi’s autobiography and find spiritual development that appealed to both his heart and head — that said, “test these methods for yourself” rather than, “just believe.”
• Meet and study with extraordinary women and men who had, through decades of committed practice, reached the heights described by Dr. Bucke (above).
• Commit to following their examples and tap the “Undreamed-of possibilities” which Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung said could be found in yoga.
• Practice! Practice! Practice . . .
•      Evaluate progress. Refuse be self-satisfied...
• Practice! Practice! Practice . . .
•      Evaluate progress. Refuse be self-satisfied...
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