Family and long lost friends are welcome to call me toll free from any phone in the United States and Canada (even pay phones):

1-888-467-1787

This number rings in the Wellness Times office, so if I don't answer, it means I have stepped out, so be sure to leave a message and call back in a few minutes. 

I'm generally in my office Monday through Saturday and often on Sunday from about 8 a.m. 'till after 5, although I am in and out.  I often return to the office from about 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. or so, but not always.  Just keep trying at different times, and leave a message saying when you'll call next.  There is no phone in my home, so the only way to contact me is at the office - 661-323-1765. (This phone rings when you call the 888 number above.

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My primary activities these days are divided into 2 areas.  These can be seen using the following links:

• 99mind.com

    My interests in Meditation, Spirituality, Astrology, etc., I localise on the web at this website.

   

• Wellness Times, Bakersfield's Journal of Body, Mind and Spirit

    On November 1, 2005, I began publishing a print newspaper called, Wellness Times, Bakersfield's Journal of Body, Mind and Spirit.  It is now distributed throughtout Bakersfield, California at over 250 locations, and is also distributed throughout Kern County in all Kern County Libraries.  To learn more, go to the Wellness Times Website.

Below are two of my favorite sacred passages, one from the Tao Te Ching, the other from Shantideva.

Tao Te Ching      

Verse Twenty

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

Is there a difference between yes and no?
Is there a difference between good and evil?
Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense!
Other people are contented, enjoying the sacrificial feast of the ox.
In spring some go to the park, and climb the terrace,
But I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am.
Like a newborn babe before it learns to smile,
I am alone, without a place to go.
Others have more than they need, but I alone have nothing.
I am a fool. Oh, yes! I am confused.
Others are clear and bright,
But I alone am dim and weak.
Others are sharp and clever,
But I alone am dull and stupid.
Oh, I drift like the waves of the sea,
Without direction, like the restless wind.
Everyone else is busy,
But I alone am aimless and depressed.
I am different.
I am nourished by the great mother.

The Great Vow

"Whatever all beings should obtain, I will help them to obtain....The virtue of generosity is not my helper--I am the helper of generosity.  Nor do the virtues of morality, patience, courage, meditation and wisdom help me--it is I who help them.  The perfections of the bodhisattva do not support me--it is I who support them....I alone, standing in this round and adamantine world, must subdue Mara, with all his hosts and chariots, and develop supreme enlightenment with the wisdom of instantaneous insight!... I work to establish the kingdom of perfect wisdom for all beings.  I care not at all for my own deliverance.  I must save all beings from the torrent of rebirth with the raft of my omniscient mind.  I must pull them back from the great precipice.  I must free them from all misfortune, ferry them over the stream of rebirth."
                 -- Shantideva, Siksasamuccaya, pp.278-83