I was born in Landstuhl, Germany on October 19, 1976. Serving in the US Air Force, my parents later stationed in Torrejon, Spain (just outside of Madrid). Most of my childhood memories come from this period in my life. Being an American kid living in a Spanish world (we lived off base) created a unique context few Americans experience. I spent seven years in Torrejon before my father retired from service and my family moved to Miami, FL when I was thirteen. I went to high school at Coral Gables Senior, the largest and most diverse public high school in Dade County (especially after Hurricane Andrew). After graduating from high school I attended the University of West Florida for two years and the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC (to study Mysticism with a unique professor of religious studies: Dr. Barron), for a year before finally deciding to act on my dissatisfaction at the traditional school system. I studied Philosophy and Comparative Religion. However, my true passion was Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies, most notable sparked by my reading of Ken Wilber's first book "The Spectrum of Consciousness" when I was fifteen. I decided to find a liberal arts college that could answer this growing need for academic freedom and flexibility. During this time I spent three years bumming around the country living in Portland, Maine; Montpelier, Vermont; Providence, Rhode Island, New York City (lower east side), Upstate NY (Dutchess County), and Phoenix, AZ before finally finding a home at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Here I (gratefully) found a community of like minds and graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in Integral Studies, Transpersonal Psychology, and Painting. I later moved to Seattle and spent two highly formative years there serving as a counselor and trying to decide where the universe was directing me. I ended up in Colorado after a complicated stint trying to attend a Master's program in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology in Liverpool, England failed (beware of governmental bureaucracy). This turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It was at this time that I decided to go to my other choice, The Graduate Institute, instead. Soon after this I started the Journal of Conscious Evolution with Dr. Allan Combs. I spent a month at the Integral Institute working on contract as an editor. Currently, I am a first year doctoral student in the Residential Doctoral program in Transpersonal Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. This is, of course, a small, annotated sampling of my current interests and my personal history. As with any personal history, much has been omitted.