User:Crazy.shiva.yogi

Born in !958 in NW Indiana USA. I am a lifelong artist/scholar/writer/spiritualist. I first encountered Trungpa in 1966 in Chicago and he gave me my first real transmission. I have lived a number of religions and had lived in a Hindu Ashram in the USA for nearly 7 years. I have studied Christianity, Martial Arts (especially I have studied T'ai Chi under Gin Soon Chu in Boston USA.), the Toltec of Carlos Casteneda and a little through his successors, Kashmir Shaivism (Himalayan Hindu tradition), and the Tibetan Mahayana and have had initiations by lineage leaders in all 5 lineages including the Bön. I did my undergraduate degree at Harvard through the DCE where I did lots of study but not even an area of concentration, most of it mathematics, computer science, and writing with bits and pieces of art, physics and history thrown in. I read many of the so called classics such as "Grapes of Wrath", "Huckleberry Finn", "Penrod", some F Scott Fitzgerald, Madeline L'Engle, JRR Tolkien and numerous others in grade school and high school. I did eventually suffer a severe schizophrenic breakdown in 1978 yet continued study of mind altering chemicals. I have read many works by John, and John and Antionette, Lilly, Frederick Perls, and enough to understand by Freud, Piaget, Jung, Huxley, others (Im OK You're Ok, The Relaxation Response, others) Maslow, other of the big 1960s psychedelic researchers, including Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Shulgen. Others I cannot recall off the top of my head. I am still a practicing yogi and T'ai Chi artist, musician (I play flute), poet and author, graphic artist, and student of all that comes my way.