About Hib: I grew up in a small farm town in Illinois. Looking back, I can say childhood was a blast, but Life fell apart fast when I began questioning the adult world - why did so many grown-ups have miserable marriages ... why did some people have millions of dollars in assets, while others struggled to pay for food or medical bills ... and why were American youths killing tens of thousands of other youths in an unpopular war (it was the Vietnam War at that time).
At Yale I played competitive sports, studied hard, and came face to face with the shallowness of my own life -- I knew I had to change and go deeper. I trained in Gestalt and small group therapy and left college to work at an Outward Bound school as a wilderness instructor. Then I began to practice the deeper disciplines of Yoga and Meditation many hours each day.
After a stint in the military, I married Nancy. Being married to Nancy is like living on a runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport -- spiritual masters, saints, client's Souls, and God are buzzing in at all hours of the day (and night). It's like being dive-bombed by Divinity. I do have a Masters degree in Teaching, and finally managed to graduate magna cum barely from Yale. But all of that is small potatoes compared with hearing from God.
The one thing I've learned beyond a shadow of a doubt: When your deeper heart opens -- Life (and the Universe) is moved. All personal problems and social issues find truer solutions.
Most of us struggle to mature and find deeper meaning in Life through Religion or New Age disciplines - relationships, jobs, family, and professions ... and this can work to some extent. But Soul is Soul. At some point, we all migrate inward and deeper.
Best not to wait 'till you're dead or dying, eh?