My Heroes
Each page I put on this site will have at least one reference to some author, researcher, theologian, psychologist, or artist who I consider to be one of my "heroes."
Here's a brief list of some of the people you might find referred to in these pages who have inspired me in my own life:
John Bradshaw Carl Sagan
Chet Raymo Scott Peck
Thomas Moore Barbara Brown Taylor
John Archibald Wheeler Frank Wickes
Gerald May Tara Brach
Albert Einstein Paul Tillich
Wynton Marsalis Chris Martin
Van Tharp Clarissa Estes
There will be many more. MANY MORE! This is what still confounds me about life sometimes. There are so many amazing people who have the knowledge and creativity and skill to solve many of the problems we face. There are people who can inspire us, lift us up, cure us, and make us whole again.
But there are always those who have some vested interest in keeping things the way they are. There exists in our humanity a thing called wilfulness. This site will not address politics directly. I've always hated politics. I'm "old-school." In church when I grew up, preachers avoided politics. You remember: separation of church and state and all.
A Course in Miracles teaches to "correct error from the bottom up." I have always had this attribute of "confrontational honesty," and I can tell you it hasn't helped me or anyone else at all. My friend Todd used to say, "Bob, you sure do have the ability to couch the truth into verbiage!" This after I had been pretty hard on something he had done back in the 1980s while we worked together on an Apple ][ music project. "Unacceptable!" I would declare. So, I'm still learning to soften my approach, and it's difficult for me believing as I do in "telling the truth."
So I hope to let the authors and teachers and artists listed above, as well as others yet to appear, do the "talking" for me. Let's allow people to find their own truth in their own way - while still trying to correct those errors from the bottom up.
Bob
September 2014