What is the meaning of life? Simultaneously the simplest and most complex question one will ever encounter. Writing it down seems passé; to ask it out loud seems naive, but it is our most important question and one I have passionately sought to answer.
Perhaps, it has to do with being raised in a devote Irish Catholic family that I was aware of this question from an early age. My curiosity led me to become a Hoya at Georgetown and then into the Catholic seminary, but I did not find any answers here. Instead, I embraced the free-spirit of the 60’s and went to Europe to study philosophy and theology: first at the University de Lyon in France and then at Karls Eberhardt University in Tubingen, Germany. And still, I found no answers.
I returned to the US and received my Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Colorado, having already completed Masters Degrees in philosophy and HR management. My pursuit remained. I began my career as a clinical psychologist, started a family, went into academia and traveled the world, teaching and studying, developing answers. Over the course of my career, I taught at Regis University in Denver, UMUC in Cairo, Egypt and, for the last 12 years at the Tokyo Japan branch campus of Temple University, which is the oldest and largest of all American universities in Japan.
Today, my curiosity is replaced with philosophy and theory. I shared my answers in my first book, "Evolution, Culture and Consciousness" (University Press of America, 2004) and have refined them further in my latest book: “After Religion: Scientific Spirituality.” (Amazon).I do believe I am making progress.
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