I’ve been a writer for my entire life, and my first degree is in Journalism where I learned the basics of research and fact-finding. In my early 40s I went back to school to learn a certain brand of Nutrition having to do with whole food nutrients (as opposed to vitamin pills). I have also studied a lot of Psychology along the way and have an interest in the human mind and its role in shaping reality and the quality of one’s life, as well as society as a whole.
One of the most interesting topics to me is holism — the way that our lives and world is an inseparable web of ideas, events, lives, deaths, births, happiness, and sorrow. It is this complexity that has intrigued me enough to observe my own state of mind and drove me to write several books, and many articles, having to do with the sense of self, consciousness, and enlightenment. I have drawn not only from psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality, but mostly from my personal discoveries.
Several years ago I was hired to write two biographies (one made the bestseller’s list with the New York Times, amazon.com and in the Wall Street Journal) for a couple of men whose young adulthood centered around World War II — one from Brooklyn who became a decorated fighter pilot, and the other from Poland whose entire family was murdered in the Holocaust while he managed to survive even the worst of the German death camps. I also currently have two novels to be published shortly.
Many of my articles can be found on Medium.com — on the mind, consciousness, mythology, metaphor, and self-enquiry meditation.
My personal interests include research, reading, working out at the gym, and practicing jiu jitsu (I’ve been in martial arts for 45+ years, since college). It’s a strange combination that drives me through life. On one hand I must always be creating and writing, and on the other hand I have to do something physical in fear that otherwise my head may explode, which would ruin all the furniture.