I was raised Catholic and attended parochial schools (St. Benedict's Elementary School, Central Catholic High School, and the University of Notre Dame) all the way through college. I was ten years old when I was accused of being a heretic for the first time; I questioned my fifth grade teacher's statement that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was false. My fascination with science and the scientific method was born during her irrational outburst, as was my desire to know the truth about spiritual and mundane matters. My interest in both worlds was demonstreated by my decision to attend the Yale Divinity School to sort out matters spiritual and religious immediately after earning a masters degree in Physics from Yale's Graduate School.

I researched and explored Christianity from many different perspectives, applying each new insight to my personal life in an attempt to make the teachings I received as a child relevant to my adult life. I researched the life of Jesus and the history of early Christianity because of the importance that Jesus was given in my early life and to decide whether he was still a relevant figure for my adult life. I concluded that his life story was a gnostic myth meant to convey allegorical teachings about the divine nature within all humans. If you're interested to know how the allegory got passed down to the present time as an historical account of the one and only incarnation of God, read my discussion on the Historical Jesus? page.

Since I determined that Jesus' story was allegorical, I shifted the focus of my learning from historical research to an indepth exploration of myself. I am in the process of sorting my memories and the different voices that comprise me into different categories that allow me to know myself better. As I become aware of the programming I received from my parents and the Catholic Church, I can free myself from its control. At the same time, I become aware of the other voices inside me which are more my own. Through this process, I hope to eliminate the many ways I have learned to strive to be other than I am (based on the hope of becoming more like Jesus). This striving, of course, is based on the assumption that I am defective as a being, the old Original Sin theory, and have to strive to be good because I am naturally evil. I reject this belief. However, this means that I have to learn how to live life as myself. All my Catholic training and programming was about constantly battling against myself. This is the quandry. So, this transition is quite challenging at times but rewarding, nonetheless. As I learn more about who I am and who I'm not, I hope to remember and experience more of my divinity.

I have taught high school and college physics, mathematics, psychology, physical science and comparative religions, although currently I am only teaching yoga classes. I am a certified clinical hypnotherapist and, in the past, facilitated over 2,000 past life sessions. I am presently working with my wife and partner in a recording business, doing music, web/graphic design, recording engineering, and music production. My wife and I happily reside with our two, wonderful teenage children and our two Shetland sheepdogs, Magic and Shanti.