About
I am a lifelong student of philosophy and director of Integral Hypnosis, a hypnotherapy and philosophical counseling practice located in Newton, MA USA. I am also host of the Philosophic Perspectives radio show on the ArtistFirst Radio Network.
Six years of research and seven years of writing produced the book, Ethical Empowerment: Virtue Beyond the Paradigms. The book develops an ethical theory that is based upon a view that beliefs need to be challenged with opposing perspectives, while also guided by a philosophical conception of love as the universal moral principle that underlies all ethics. Many social, economic, political issues and unconventional proposals are explored from this vantage. Additional works are forthcoming.
Peter and the Whimper Whineys Coloring Book
Description
<p><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">This coloring book version of the best-selling “whine-stopper” children’s story was designed for kids to enjoy reading the rhyming, as well as being able to illustrate their own version of Peter’s nocturnal adventure into the woods.</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">Peter’s mother warns him that if he doesn’t stop whining and crying, he’ll have to go live with the Whimper-Whineys. His adventure continues as he later hops into the woods and finds lots of frightening Whimper-Whineymen! He discovers that the Whimper-Whineys are very ill-mannered and rude, and that everything is sour in Whimper-Whineland. He decides his mother was right. If only he can get back home!</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">According to a recent critique, “I cannot imagine any parent or guardian not wanting to read this book to their child! ... Parents everywhere applaud you!”</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
My inspiration is tied to a personal search for the fundamental nature of morality and ethical thinking. Almost from the beginning of my fascination with philosophy I was intrigued by the unifying characteristics of ethical reasoning that coexists, simultaneously, with the diversity of expression that is vital to beauty when it is understood as a function of the diversity that springs from underlying unity. E pluribus unum. Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man," a drawing concerning the proportions of human body, for me has meaning beyond proportionality and touches on the issue of the One and the Many. I think that others share this interpretation. But the struggle to see the one in the many, to find unity in diversity, has been the primary theme that has influenced my thinking over the course my adulthood and my philosophical reflections. I have also been greatly influenced by the great philosophers, most specifically I think, by Nietzsche and by Wittgenstein. But my interest is broad, as I am as comfortable with Hume as I am with mystical conjecture.
