MY STORY

I never set out to teach this work.

I simply wanted to understand something “big” that I could feel but couldn’t yet name.

I was born in Michigan, raised between two very different forces. My father was a military man and CEO—precise, disciplined, and demanding. My mother was an artist and country singer—intuitive, expressive, and emotionally fluent. From an early age, I learned how to move between these worlds that don’t typically speak the same language.

That skill followed me into adulthood.

After college, I moved to Los Angeles and entered the entertainment industry from the ground up. I worked my way from Production Assistant to Producer, Writer, and Director, collaborating across major film and television studios. Storytelling was always a natural ability—but not just as entertainment. As a way of understanding the world around me.

But beneath all that, an important question formed:

What actually changes people for the better?

Not temporarily. But in ways that last.

The Search

I was raised with respect for religion and tradition, but I had a need for direct experience. Born with a logical mind, I approached spirituality with both curiosity and skepticism.

I explored a variety of spiritual communities and alternative healing environments. Many were sincere. A few were run by false prophets with fake solutions.

Regarding the experiences that were interesting, the effect was gone by the next day.

But somewhere inside, I knew something deeper existed somewhere. I just hadn’t found it yet. 

Something more permanent.

Something that made sense. 

The Apprenticeship

In 1990, during my first visit to Hawai‘i, I found what I was looking for. 

Over the following decades, my life became an apprenticeship. Not in adopting an identity, but in learning how perception and coherence function.

I returned to the islands again and again. I studied. I listened more than I spoke. I learned from elders, teachers, and practitioners of indigenous knowledge systems.

I don’t claim any ownership, but I do carry wisdom forward with permission from my mentors.

Over time, understanding became less and less about knowledge—and more about orientation.

The Turning Point

What I eventually realized after years of searching was this:

We’re not actually going inside ourselves.

We’re not escaping reality.
We’re not imagining worlds.

We are reorienting consciousness.

If you think about it logically, “awareness” isn’t contained within the body. The body is a point of reference—a physical interface. When perception disengages from exclusive identification with physical location, awareness doesn’t move inward. It reorients into other fields of experience that are already present.

This realization clarified everything for me.

It explained why most spiritual experiences fade.
It explained why some practices integrate while others don’t.
It explained the difference between temporary experience and lasting change.

And it revealed that real change occurs when perception becomes coherent.

When coherence is restored, everything else begins to organize.

From that coherence, the ability to navigate perception becomes possible.

This is what I now refer to in my practice as Perceptual Navigation.

Story as Instruction

I’m a storyteller by nature and by trade.

Story has been used as orientation since ancient times.

Through narrative, metaphor, and symbol, human beings learned how to make sense of the world around them.

This is why I wrote Ocean Spaces, Island Worlds.

My book is a compilation of all I had learned up to June of 2023. It’s an instruction manual for living disguised as a story.

Only after publishing it did I fully understand what those years had been preparing me for.

I hadn’t just been researching and writing.

I had been apprenticing.

Where I Stand Now

I don’t wear robes, tribal masks, or live in a grass shack. I live in the modern world. Just like you.

I was raised in Michigan.
I love 80s music.
I love movies.
I raise children.
I work.
I have bills.
I create.
I have pressure.
I carry responsibility.

I mention this because  real spiritual work is meant to serve the village. 

The image of a guru in white robes may be compelling, but true guidance must function in the community—in work, in family, in relationships, in grief, in responsibility, and in everyday life.

What I offer is orientation.

I teach people how to recognize coherence, how to follow proper protocols to navigate perception responsibly, and how to return to their lives with something meaningful.

And in that orientation is healing.

Why I Share This

If something here makes sense, it may not be because you believe it—

but because your logical mind recognizes it.

And if you don’t, that’s okay.

This work has a way of finding the people it’s meant for.

Just like it found me.