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1967-70 | Arrive in Boston to work at MIT, discover Isabel Hickey's Marsh Chapel Healing Group, and International Dance at MIT | 1970 | Astrological Consulting from 1970 and continuing esoteric astrological research to the present | 1970-74 | Goddard College, Teaching Fellow in Esoteric Astrology, Medicinal Herb Identification, International Dance | 1972-81 | Founding member of Word of Mouth Chorus, which performed medieval and renaissance masses, motets, and American Sacred Harp music — performed throughout Vermont, New England, with four tours to Georgia and back. Word of Mouth collaborated in many instances with Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont and on tour | 1974 | Helped establish Mahasiddha Nyingma Meditation Center in Northampton MA under the auspices of Dodrup Chen Rinpoche (Sikkim), Gyatrul Rinpoche, Lama Jigtse, and later Tulku Thondup, our present director and mentor |
1974-77 | Early Sites and Dowsers groups visiting New England pre-colonial sites (Celt-Iberian, Tartessian, Phoenician, Egyptian, etc.) | 1977 | NEARA Convention — bring carved rock discovery to New England Early Archeological Research Association conference in Castleton VT | 1977 | Mahasiddha Center Consecration at its new location in Conway MA | 1976-79 | Secretary to Robert Thurman for his 10-language dictionary of Buddhist Science, and his American Institute of Buddhist Studies program at Amherst College |
1979-87 | Circle Typing — Freelance typing/editing business | 1980-91 | Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble — perform throughout New England, East Coast, and at Carnegie Hall | 1980 | Harvard's Loeb Drama Center Opening with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Purcell's opera The Fairy Queen [Elizabeth I] performed by Banchetto Musicale on early instruments (40 performances) and Chorus (bass understudy) | 1980-83 | Castle Hill, Summer Early Opera Festivals, Ipswich MA — performances of Dido & Aeneas, Acis and Galatea, Bach Motets, etc. Sing with Back Bay Chorale, Ukrainian Liturgical Chorus, Cecilia Society, Concentus at Church of the Advent |
1984 | Mahasiddha Nyingma Temple machine-gunned and burnt to ground by ptsd Vietnam vets, who later help us rebuild | 1985 | Mahasiddha Nyingma 3rd Temple and Yumkha Tshok Re-Consecration, attended by Hope Cook, Queen of Sikkim | 1987-89 | Harvard, J.F. Kennedy School, Exec. Asst. to Ambassador Robert Blackwill | 1987 | In 1987 I was fortunate to be introduced to the Seven Ray Institute at its first conference in Ridgewood NJ. Thereafter I presented at several annual conferences: |
1988 | SRI-2 Paramus NJ — Panel on "Cosmo-Psychology and Correspondences" (John Sinclair, Johan Quanjer, Judi Laws, Stephen Pugh) | 1988 | Begin giving Talks at TS in Boston, starting with Esoteric Buddhism | 1989-99 | MIT Political Science, Exec. Asst. to Hayward R. Alker, Jr. (International Studies, Social Science, Political History) | 1989 | Begin Esoteric Astrology and Esoteric Buddhism Talks and presentations at TS; Weekly Esoteric Astrology & Cosmology Classes begin in 1991, ongoing | 1989 | SRI-3 Meadowlands NJ — Presentation on "Three Forms of Planetary Motion and Their Interpretive Implications in Esoteric Astrology" | 1989-90 | SRI gives Workshops and Talks at TS in Boston (Michael Robbins, Keith Bailey) | 1991 | SRI-5 Pocono Mountains PA — Presentations on "The Esoteric Planetary Constitution: Sirian, Solar, Planetary and Human Taxonomy," "International Dance in its Spiritual Dimension," "Heliocosms: the Soul's Signature in the Astrological Chart" | 1992 | Harvard Theosophical Union established by Richard Taylor and our TS in Boston Secret Doctrine study group begins | 1993 | SRI-7 Lincoln Tunnel NJ — Presentations on "Monads, Atoms, Principles and Planes," "The Chakravala System and the Seven Rishis in Buddhist and Vedic Cosmology" | 1993-98 | President, Theosophical Society in Boston, supervise two moves, lock financial assets into new building, renovation of new property in Arlington MA by foreman in charge of renovating the U.S.S. Constitution // anchor TS program with Secret Doctrine and Cosmic Fire weekly study groups; Esoteric Healing study group started in 1994 by Kate Rafferty (TS Boston Past President 2004-2008) | 1995 | SRI-9 Santa Fe NM, concurrent with founding of FCF and IAEA (Intl Academy of Esoteric Astrology) at Abiquiu NM, meetings in April and May; most vivid memories of Kitchen Mesa and Chimney Rock | 1996 | IAEA 3rd Meeting at Rancho Santa Fe CA | 1996 | Shakespeare Oxford Society Conference at LA (Edward de Vere Earl Oxford, Elizabethan Propaganda Minister authorship with his renaissance stable of personal secretaries/writers — John Lyly, Anthony Munday, Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, etc., helping to maintain and protect theaters from rabid Puritans and Papists) | 1998 | Oxford Library, help rescue books, establish Library, and clean/catalogue entire library Two of us organize Blue Boar Society and conference at Harvard University, secure viol consort, and present Venus and Adonis in the Stars |
1999-2000 | Spiritual Retreat in Montpelier, Vermont | 2001 | National Braille Press (Exec. Asst.); Boston Ballet (Payroll) | 2001-03 | Harvard Law School, Faculty Assistant/ Adult-child Babysitter | 2003-06 | Temp Job Hell in Vermont and Western Mass | 2005-13 | Unwitting economic self-exile in Pioneer Valley, W. Massachusetts (aka Dinosaur Valley, Valle Limaces); forced to get some writing done | 2006-2010 | Monthly Talks on Esoteric Astrology and Cosmology at TS in Boston (Mar 2006 to 2010 May) | 2006-present | Admin. Asst./Webmaster for progressive Nonprofit Public Service org (great colleagues) | 2008 | SRI-22 Mesa AZ, present book, Heliocosms - Spiral-Cyclic Placements in the Astrological Chart | 2009 | SRI-23 Mesa AZ, present The Venus Diary: Using the Venus Cycle Heliocosm to Aid the Individual — Spiral-Cyclic Motion in Action | 2010 | SRI-24 Mesa AZ, present The Jupiter Key and Diary | 2011 | SRI-25 Mesa AZ, present AMERICA: A Reference Archive of Foundational Events Illustrating America’s Aquarius Soul and Gemini Personality; SRI-25 Mesa AZ, present Destiny of the Nations Revisited, Vol. 1 – Great Britain, France, and Poland |
2012 | SRI-26 Mesa AZ, present Mars Heliocosm Transits: Character & Quality: Self-Possession & Presentation through Conflict & Crisis | 2013 | SRI-27 Mesa AZ, present Dzogchen, Sky Flowers & the Light of the Soul | 2014 | SRI-28 Mesa AZ, present The Triangle Leo-Scorpio-Capricorn | 2015 |
![]() The Heliocosm Manual Heliocosm Manual — Brief Synopsis |
![]() The Venus Diary: A Cycle of Soul Opportunity The Venus Diary — Brief Synopsis |
![]() America: An Astrological Archive of Events An Astrological Archive of Foundational Events — Brief Synopsis |
![]() The Destiny of the Nations Revisited, Vol. 1 Destiny of the Nations Revisited — Brief Synopsis |
![]() The Jupiter Diary and Key Jupiter Diary & Key — Brief Synopsis |
![]() Mars Heliocosm Transits Mars Heliocosm Transits: Character & Quality: Self-Possession through Conflict & Crisis — Brief Synopsis |