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Not all the teachers were monks though, and of these, several left their unique signatures upon the path of my [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] growth. One was a beloved [[English]] teacher who inspired my study of [[Transcendentalism]] and an investigation into experimental learning communities while another was a [[Physics]] teacher who challenged us with a survey comparing the virtually indistinguishable musings of mystics and physicists. Otherwise, our regular [[Theology]] courses were preoccupied with the study of [[Rock music]] especially the operas [[‘Hair’]], [[‘Jesus Christ Superstar’]], and [[‘Tommy’]] all the while exploring the ascendancy of film as the story telling medium of our age. My graduation and departure from this community where I served as President of a short lived experiment with students and faculty sharing the power of governance with the official school administration left me bereft of the only place which up to that time I had ever felt at home.

Not all the teachers were monks though, and of these, several left their unique signatures upon the path of my [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] growth. One was a beloved [[English]] teacher who inspired my study of [[Transcendentalism]] and an investigation into experimental learning communities while another was a [[Physics]] teacher who challenged us with a survey comparing the virtually indistinguishable musings of mystics and physicists. Otherwise, our regular [[Theology]] courses were preoccupied with the study of [[Rock music]] especially the operas [[‘Hair’]], [[‘Jesus Christ Superstar’]], and [[‘Tommy’]] all the while exploring the ascendancy of film as the story telling medium of our age. My graduation and departure from this community where I served as President of a short lived experiment with students and faculty sharing the power of governance with the official school administration left me bereft of the only place which up to that time I had ever felt at home.

I entered college where I focused upon the study of [[Existential Philosophy]], and during the course of my visits to experimental learning laboratories, discovered the healing power of [[music]] in a child who when exposed to certain tones, spoke for the first time after being born mute. During this first college year, amidst what little leisure time I found for browsing the Vanderbilt Divinity School]] Library, I discovered the [[Urantia Papers]], and there began their study while simultaneously beginning the practice of a Hindu form of [[meditation]].

I entered college where I focused upon the study of [[Existential Philosophy]], and during the course of my visits to experimental learning laboratories, discovered the healing power of [[music]] in a child who when exposed to certain tones, spoke for the first time after being born mute. During this first college year, amidst what little leisure time I found for browsing the [[Vanderbilt Divinity School]] Library, I discovered the [[Urantia Papers]], and there began their study while simultaneously beginning the practice of a Hindu form of [[meditation]].

It was little surprise that I considered a monastic vocation and oriented myself accordingly, but I found unsatisfying the atheistic theology of the ‘[[death of God’ movement]], then dominant in many of the more influential universities, and it was only after being exposed to the reality of mindal connections indigenous to the presence of what I now recognize as our [[Universe Mother Spirit]] during a conversation with friends, that I undertook a devotion to [[attunement]] which required my departure from formal studies.

It was little surprise that I considered a monastic vocation and oriented myself accordingly, but I found unsatisfying the atheistic theology of the ‘[[death of God’ movement]], then dominant in many of the more influential universities, and it was only after being exposed to the reality of mindal connections indigenous to the presence of what I now recognize as our [[Universe Mother Spirit]] during a conversation with friends, that I undertook a devotion to [[attunement]] which required my departure from formal studies.