It was my good karma to grow up in a family on a spiritual search.
My mom avidly read New Thought luminaries Joel Goldsmith and Ralph Waldo Trine. My dad devoured books about Edgar Cayce and The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Reincarnation and the paranormal were common dinner-table topics. My grandmother read Carl Jung’s autobiographical Memories, Dreams, Reflections to me when I was 12. I started attending the largest New Thought church in the world as a teenager. At 39, I began studying Jewish mysticism with a Hasidic Rabbi. These teachings were like being given pure oxygen to breathe. I grow spiritually by seeing how different people reflect on the deep questions of existence. That is the creative spark for my writing and for this blog.
About this blog
This blog is the gravity point for a New Thought reformation. Harv and his contributors explore tough questions about mind metaphysics that are often underplayed in the community.”
-Mitch Horowitz, spiritual writer, and speaker, PEN Award-winning historian
What works in New Thought and alternative spirituality, what doesn’t and what needs reform?
How can we balance our individual growth and needs and contribute to the critically important issues of our time: equality, justice, and moving towards ecological sustainability?
Where are our beliefs nourishing the human spirit and where have we become rigid and less compassionate.
This blog is about questions and dialogue, not imposing new dogma.
Discussion about those essential questions is always being co-created although the blog that bears my name. It is a product of readers’ concerns, interests and comments, and the perspectives of my fellow contributors and me. It is this vibrant and rich dialogue between perspectives that is captured in these posts.
Our blog contributors – including writers, historians, ministers, academics and metaphysical practitioners from all generations – don’t always agree with each other and we are fine with that. Sometimes a contributor’s views shift over time. We each evolve and thus the blog itself is always evolving.
How New Thought, alternative spirituality, and spirituality more generally evolve will be up to each one of us.
5 Facts About Me
1) I’ve been vegan for 30 some years
2) I used to buy mail boxes based on how many book orders from Amazon they would hold. I also contemplated turning my basement into a dedicated library. Now my wife thanks God for my Kindle every day (but she has put me on a Kindle budget).
3) I love classic films of all kinds and as a journalist had the opportunity to interview Frank Capra, director of the Christmas perennial fav It’s a Wonderful Life. I also interviewed Cary Grant. As a film buff, hearing my name pronounced with Grant’s distinctive inflection put me into shock.
4) After my dad died from an environmentally caused pneumonia I became a college political science teacher to try and understand why we are in an ecological crisis and what we can do about it.
5) In some ways I personify the absent-minded professor. Once I showed up in front of my class with my sweater on inside-out and backward. I like to call these instances teaching moments. As an experiment in democracy, I had the class vote whether I should leave the sweater as is or fix it.
