Recommended Educational Reading
This section serves to acknowledge the "teachers" of mine who I have mostly not met, but whom I still accredit much of my learning. These are books written by legendary authors and speakers in their field.
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Meditational Reading
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryū Suzuki
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Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, B.K.S. Iyengar
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The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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Be Here Now, and Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart, Ram Dass
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Meditations with the Cherokee: Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Healing and Harmony, J.T. Garrett
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Kabbalistic Healing: A Path to an Awakened Soul, Jason Shulman
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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, and Divine Dance, Friar Richard Rohr
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Inner Space: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chödrön
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Passionate Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness, Catherine Ingram
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Journey Into Power, Baron Baptiste
Philosophy, Nonfiction
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12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos, and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson
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Man's Search For Meaning, Victor E. Frankl
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Journey Of The Universe, Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker
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As A Man Thinketh, James Allen
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Why Dinosaurs Matter, Kenneth Lacovara
Philosophy, Fiction
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Island, and Eyeless in Gaza, and Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
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Mother Night, and Galapagos: A Novel, Kurt Vonnegut
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Red Book, Carl Jung
Historical Wartime Reading Related to Individual Worth
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, and Volume 2, and Volume 3, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Yes, reading all of them is the way to go!)
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The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
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Prompt and Utter Destruction::Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, J. Samuel Walker
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher R. Browning
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Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific, Eric M. Bergerud
Formal Teaching Background
4 Year Meditation and Healing School, Graduated 2020
- The School for Nondual Healing & Awakening, NYC
- Kudos to my teachers Jeff Ellias-Frankel, Eileen Marder-Mirman, Shelah Stein, and Tom Schneider! Love and Respect to my Class of 26 who I learned alongside!
200 Hour Yoga Certification, 2017
- CorePower Yoga, North Whales
- 4 Years Teaching in Corporate Offices and Private Studios
- Kudos to my teacher Matt Weston and my Yoga Satsang!
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Graduated 2013
- Widener University, Chester PA
- From 2017 to 2021 I worked in the field of Psychiatric Healthcare as someone who worked closely with clinical practitioners. I have seen, also, the power of what modern approaches to mental and behavioral health can bring to individuals. Learning from these practitioners was my favorite part of the job.