I'm a doctoral student at UCSB. My field is sociological cognitive neuroscience. I have been interested in the evolution of consciousness for a long time. I finished a doctoral program in Transformative Learning and Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where I also taught courses in Embodied Mathematics and Cultural Consciousness and Cognition. I am very interested in social justice and in honestly and openly dealing with the issue of "white spiritual supremacy" which too often dominates interpretations of spiritual truths and traditions and distorts inter-group and inter personal relations.

The time has come for what I call "socio-spiritual liberation and justice." For truly, the social must be considered simultaneously with the spirit, liberation, and justice. My writings are sometimes seen as "over the top" or "connecting too many dots" to some. But they are a wake up call to see the water in which we swim so we can evolve to become creatures that might not just crawl out of the water and onto the shores -- but fly as flocks of Phoenix no longer tethered to our evolutionary past and free of the winds of fear, doubt, and domination.