About the Author

I have always found my attention drawn to many different disciplines: science, history, literature, systems thinking, organizational behavior, social policy, cosmology and theology. I value what I’ve learned from each of these different fields, because no one discipline, institution, or specialization can answer the questions that now confront us. We all must draw from many different perspectives to reweave the world.

I had an excellent liberal arts education at the University of Rochester and University College London. From 1966 to ‘68, I spent two years in the Peace Corps in South Korea, teaching junior high and high school English to Korean boys. On returning to the U.S., I taught junior and senior high school, then became ...

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