User:Neale Povey

I am a career Analytical Chemist, PhD, who specialized in Spectroscopy. Employers include Weyerhaeuser, 3M, Cargil, and University of Minnesota. Retired now with no academic credentials except for friendships within the University of Minnesota - Biotechnology Center and Mass Spec. laboratories. Author of one patent (3M), multitude of trade secrets, and a few records of invention.

Also, a lifelong contemplative. My formal path has been with the Catholic - Contemplative Prayer movement - and as a Trappist Associate [New Melleray Abbey]. Engaging Zen - Diamond Sangha - through teachers mostly associated with the Trappist Abbey [Our Lady of Guadalupe] - formal Roshi leadership by Fr. Pat Hawk, Roshi --- Sr. Ludwigis Fabean, Roshi --- and Dr. Leonard Marcel, Roshi. Currently pursuing subtle skills in the area of Qigong, Tai-Chi, and Open Hand Kempo --- Complete certification through 'Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai-Chi' Dr. Roger Jahnke.

My contributive process involves two discernable components: 1/ Develop my pedagogical skills to witness to the authority of the contemplative path; including prayer, Qigong, and Tai-chi. My laboratory is teaching; pro-bono work in prisons has been most productive. 2/ Bringing about physical - laboratory - demonstrations of subtle energetics (Qi).

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