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I am "retired," officially. I've worked in many different jobs, but I have been a high school teacher and I have also worked in a state human services agency. Both those experiences, along with some spiritual experiences, sparked a keen interest in history, government, religion, and spiritual teachings.
Now I keep learning, and trying to share what I have learned to contribute to and hopefully help fuel the cause of humanitarian human rights and social justice, because I see a lot of people being misguided, on the left as well as the right.
Even though I vote for the lesser of two evils (which is usually a Democrat), I see how and why we are increasingly being pushed and pulled to extremes, and being further and more bitterly divided and polarized.
My motivation and inspiration was given to me by spiritual experiences that transcend what we know as religion, and those experiences enabled me to see that religions can be and are limited and even made exclusive by outdated and erroneous concepts of God, and by ethnocentric cultural beliefs.
Like the Founding Fathers I see that while there must be a wall of separation between religion and government, we need to be guided by universal spiritual principles common to all religions. And I hope I live long enough to see the day when it is socially unacceptable to regard one religion or one nation or one race as superior to all others.
I believe we are one family of nations, religions, races and cultures, and only when we act like it, celebrate our diversity, and use the common wealth for the common good, will we have lasting peace. That's why I am a member of a coalition promoting peace, freedom and justice.
