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I thought you might like to know something about me personally, so I decided to include a short sketch of my life: I was born in Wisconsin and raised in the small Illinois town of Bloomington. Bloomington is in the middle of the state about 150 miles south of Chicago, on the famous U.S. Route 66. While I was growing up the town’s population was 34,200. It was a time when no one needed to lock their house and left their keys in their parked cars. My Grandfather was a great influence on me during my growing years and taught me the skills of carpentry, electrical, plumbing, masonry, roofing, plastering, paper hanging, painting, etc. I was an innocent boy who liked to spend my summers fishin’ for whales and daydreaming. As I got older I loved hot rods and learned to build them. As a teenager, I saw the movie "Rebel Without a Cause" with James Dean and wanted to become an actor, which I fulfilled in local stage productions, and even directed one play in high school. An ancient high school teacher (he was very old when he taught my mother!) asked me if I knew the meaning of the word "existentialism". I didn’t, so I asked him what it meant. He replied, "You never know". I looked it up in the dictionary and didn’t understand the meaning so I went back to him and asked him what it meant that "man’s essence precedes his existence" and again he repeated, "You never know". This started me on a search for the meaning of "existence" which took me through the existential writings, western philosophy and the scriptures of all religions until I discovered the Beat poets. When I read "On the Road" as a senior in high school, it was like all those years of living next to U.S. Route 66 surged inside me and I had to GET OUT OF THERE. About this time, (1961) the Berlin Wall was built and President John F. Kennedy made his famous speech. I enlisted in the U.S. Army as a way to GET OUT OF THERE. I lived for two years in Germany in the Army where I learned to speak fluent German. Upon discharge from the Army, I still had the itch to travel and longed for the real answer to the question "What am I doing here?". This was 1964. From Germany I set out hitchhiking to India. I spent the next four years wandering around Asia (mostly India) looking for truth. I met hundreds of yogis, swamis, saints, pirs, walis, sadhus, malangs, etc., who told me just how holy they were and what miracles they could perform. I was living the life of an itinerant on the streets of India. I became enthralled with the Hindu scripture, "The Bhagavadgita", where I discovered for the first time, the concept of an omnipresent God and the meaning of practical mysticism. Eventually, I came into contact with a genuine Perfect Master, Avatar Meher Baba, who, with a single glance, changed my life. That is a whole other story that will eventually be published in book form under the title "In Search of the Beloved". Meher Baba told me that what I was looking for I would not find wandering around the Himalayas, but in society among people, by trying to be of service to them. He instructed me to return to the West and "be in the world but not of it". I returned to Berkeley, California in 1968 and eventually decided upon a career in chiropractic. I attended Palmer College of Chiropractic, graduated and received my D.C. degree in 1973. While attending Palmer College, the Chiropractic Fountainhead, in Davenport, Iowa, I met and married Mary Callahan. In 1972 our first son Minoo was born and when we returned to Berkeley in 1973 we had a second son, Michael. Mary and I have always had a very close family both with our parents and with our children and this remains so today. We began our practice in Berkeley in 1975. For more about the history of Berkeley Chiropractic/Hamilton Chiropractic Offices, click on "History". I am an enthusiastic people person, who has interest in world affairs, geography, language, botany, ornithology, anthropology, and world cultures. I love humor and movies. My favorite T.V. show is Jeopardy.
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