| About John |
PresentFocus "Explorations in Awareness"
I started my working life as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley California, doing
hardware design for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in 1985. I retired from
the electronics industry in 2001 after being involved in one of the largest purchases in
Silicon Valley history. I had become an expert in electronic design and had the
privilege of working with some of the industry's greatest talents. I myself was told by
one technologist that I was one of the top five engineers he worked with in his 25 years
in the industry. The valley was changing though, and it was time for me to move on.
I took a couple of years off to pursue personal interests, like learning to fly, spending
time with family, and experiencing what it was like to not work 60 and 70 hour work
weeks. After a couple of years I decided to get down to business and began to work
toward my PhD in psychology. It turns out, after much reflection, I found greater
pleasure in connecting with people than connecting circuits. After finishing the required
prerequisites at Cal State Hayward, I was accepted into the PhD program at the
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) in Palo Alto, California. Currently I am
two years away from my PhD. After a two year leave of absence, I will be returning to
finish my PhD with an emphasis in education, life coaching, and spiritual guidance. I am
like the technical expert for your mind.
Transpersonal psychology is an outgrowth of the Humanistic psychology movement
that started to take hold in the 1960s. The difference is that Transpersonal psychology
includes the study of spirituality as an important part of the human condition. As a
result of this significant addition to the Humanistic orientation toward positive
psychology, Transpersonal psychology includes many somatic techniques to aid in
mind-body integration. During my time at ITP, I have also completed Psychodrama
training under the tutelage of noted expert Dr. Harris Clemes who has taught the
subject for 35 years.
After severals years of study, I experienced my own transcendent process that has
been life changing. With a significant hard sciences background applied to behavioral
science, the study of philosophy, and the knowledge of a variety of therapeutic
interventions, I entered into a process of introspection that has taken 2 1/2 years to
navigate my way through. It is a psychological event, considered by many, to be the
rarest and oldest in recorded history. It brings to a person a greater sense of
self-awareness through finding the center of being, which is a place of no description,
yet is something in nothing. I have been touched by infinite love. My life's purpose has
become to communicate this knowledge to others. My work is for those who wish to
find a path to purpose in life, greater personal satisfaction, and the ability to understand
how current actions relate to achieving goals into the future. It is a place where each of
us exist only in possibility; infinite possibility! To make choices from this center is more
satisfying than any words can convey.
I offer a variety of approaches tailored to each individual, spiritual or not, that cover
philosophy, psychology, and the physiological workings of the mind, as it pertains to
perception and self-perception. The site is called present focus because it is where
decisions are made that affect the future based on past experience.
I am also writing a book based on my experience of self awareness, which I am
looking to publish in 2010. I will be including several writings from scholarly to poetry
in order to illustrate my philosophy of personal guidance to help those who are not in a
position to establish a personal relationship for guidance with me and those who want
to enhance the time we spend together.
hardware design for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in 1985. I retired from
the electronics industry in 2001 after being involved in one of the largest purchases in
Silicon Valley history. I had become an expert in electronic design and had the
privilege of working with some of the industry's greatest talents. I myself was told by
one technologist that I was one of the top five engineers he worked with in his 25 years
in the industry. The valley was changing though, and it was time for me to move on.
I took a couple of years off to pursue personal interests, like learning to fly, spending
time with family, and experiencing what it was like to not work 60 and 70 hour work
weeks. After a couple of years I decided to get down to business and began to work
toward my PhD in psychology. It turns out, after much reflection, I found greater
pleasure in connecting with people than connecting circuits. After finishing the required
prerequisites at Cal State Hayward, I was accepted into the PhD program at the
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) in Palo Alto, California. Currently I am
two years away from my PhD. After a two year leave of absence, I will be returning to
finish my PhD with an emphasis in education, life coaching, and spiritual guidance. I am
like the technical expert for your mind.
Transpersonal psychology is an outgrowth of the Humanistic psychology movement
that started to take hold in the 1960s. The difference is that Transpersonal psychology
includes the study of spirituality as an important part of the human condition. As a
result of this significant addition to the Humanistic orientation toward positive
psychology, Transpersonal psychology includes many somatic techniques to aid in
mind-body integration. During my time at ITP, I have also completed Psychodrama
training under the tutelage of noted expert Dr. Harris Clemes who has taught the
subject for 35 years.
After severals years of study, I experienced my own transcendent process that has
been life changing. With a significant hard sciences background applied to behavioral
science, the study of philosophy, and the knowledge of a variety of therapeutic
interventions, I entered into a process of introspection that has taken 2 1/2 years to
navigate my way through. It is a psychological event, considered by many, to be the
rarest and oldest in recorded history. It brings to a person a greater sense of
self-awareness through finding the center of being, which is a place of no description,
yet is something in nothing. I have been touched by infinite love. My life's purpose has
become to communicate this knowledge to others. My work is for those who wish to
find a path to purpose in life, greater personal satisfaction, and the ability to understand
how current actions relate to achieving goals into the future. It is a place where each of
us exist only in possibility; infinite possibility! To make choices from this center is more
satisfying than any words can convey.
I offer a variety of approaches tailored to each individual, spiritual or not, that cover
philosophy, psychology, and the physiological workings of the mind, as it pertains to
perception and self-perception. The site is called present focus because it is where
decisions are made that affect the future based on past experience.
I am also writing a book based on my experience of self awareness, which I am
looking to publish in 2010. I will be including several writings from scholarly to poetry
in order to illustrate my philosophy of personal guidance to help those who are not in a
position to establish a personal relationship for guidance with me and those who want
to enhance the time we spend together.
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| The only constant in life is change |
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