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Bernard Ross is not a best-selling New York Times author, although his wife believes he should be. He began writing at 76 after selling his stake in a tech company. His books aren’t about business; they are adventures from the hippie-drenched 1960s—a subject he’s well-versed in. He’s written Sipping Sunlight, a memoir, and Busting Timothy Leary, a historical novel.

He splits his time between his homes in Delray Beach, Florida, and Brewster, New York. Ross attended City College of New York and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, became a CPA, founded three companies, and co-founded another. Ross, a child of Holocaust survivors, was born in Poland and moved to Bolivia as an infant. When he was five years old, he immigrated to the ...more

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Empowering Your Soul through Meditation

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