User:Paulcaubet

At twenty-eight I left a manufacturing career in New Jersey and entered the publishing field, relocating to Los Angeles where I lived and worked as general manager and a contributing editor for Brain/Mind Bulletin, the science journal launched in 1975 by Marilyn Ferguson, the renowned brain researcher, public speaker, and author of numerous books and periodicals widely credited for fueling the consciousness, new age, and human potential movements of the late 20th Century (The Brain Revolution, Leading Edge Bulletin, Brain/Mind Bulletin, The Aquarian Conspiracy, PragMagic, Aquarius Now).

Brain/Mind was at the hub of an influential network of movers and shakers from every academic and scientific discipline. In the years I lived and worked with Marilyn I became acquainted with numerous iconic figures and noted luminaries of our time, as well as some of my own personal heroes.

Marilyn was a founder of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, chairman of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology, and served on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Her 1980 watershed classic, The Aquarian Conspiracy, was translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Described by The New York Times as "an alternative thought working its way into the nation’s cultural, religious, social, economic, and political life," The Aquarian Conspiracy was deemed by USA Today as "the handbook of the New Age."

In addition to overseeing daily publishing and fulfillment operations at Brain/Mind, I wrote book reviews and ad copy and served as Marilyn's business manager, scheduling her corporate consultancy gigs, booking her speaking engagements at conferences and expos here and abroad, negotiating her fees and honorariums, producing and disseminating media kits and press releases, arranging and accompanying her on her travels, and launching publicity campaigns around her appearances to promote the Bulletin and its extensive list of spinoffs.

From the early to mid-'90s we held a series of seminars on writing and editing in metropolitan centers around the country. In short time we developed a strong creative partnership, brainstorming on everything from the theme and content of upcoming issues, establishment of the BrainMind Institute and its Holophonic Sound™ recording division, and the packaging and marketing of over 80 titles in a research library that became the popular Brain/Mind Collections Series.

We worked together as editorial consultants, helping up-and-coming writers expound their personal stories, professional achievements and unique innovations into outlines and proposals, providing creative input and editorial guidance, soliciting endorsements from noted persons relative to their field, and linking authors with agents and publishers who best fit each project.

I collaborated on Marilyn's own manuscripts as well, editing a collection of essays entitled Indomitable Spirit, arranging and illustrating a two-volume anthology of witty and humorous shorts entitled Storybundle, and contributing extensively to the first complete draft of Aquarius Now, the long-awaited sequel to The Aquarian Conspiracy.

Some of my poetry appeared in two recent anthologies: The Silence Within and Azure & Amber. In 2003 I received the Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry from an international consortium of poets and publishers.

I currently live in Akron, NY, a small village in the rural suburbs of the Buffalo-Niagara region of Western New York, pursuing my interest in creative writing, digital art, and graphic design.