Ken Foldes has studied and taught philosophy, science, and spirituality at colleges and universities for over 35 years—e.g., at Sacred Heart University, St. John’s University, Iona College, and SUNY Purchase. He has sat at the feet and drank in the wisdom of some of the best minds of the age, e.g., John McDermott, Norman O. Brown, Alan Watts, Stan Grof, Amit Goswami, Eckhart Tolle, Tom Altizer, John Sallis, Stanley Rosen, Tom Rockmore, Quentin Lauer, Otto Pöggeler, and Kenley Dove. He received his doctorate from Duquesne University in 1994 and studied at the Hegel Archives in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. He has published articles and presented papers at such venues as the World Congress of Philosophy and the American Philosophical AssociKen Foldes has studied and taught philosophy, science, and spirituality at colleges and universities for over 35 years—e.g., at Sacred Heart University, St. John’s University, Iona College, and SUNY Purchase. He has sat at the feet and drank in the wisdom of some of the best minds of the age, e.g., John McDermott, Norman O. Brown, Alan Watts, Stan Grof, Amit Goswami, Eckhart Tolle, Tom Altizer, John Sallis, Stanley Rosen, Tom Rockmore, Quentin Lauer, Otto Pöggeler, and Kenley Dove. He received his doctorate from Duquesne University in 1994 and studied at the Hegel Archives in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. He has published articles and presented papers at such venues as the World Congress of Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association, and his book, Hegel and the Solution to Our Postmodern World Crisis, was well-reviewed by Giacomo Rinaldi in Hegel-Studien.
In his early years he studied art and architecture with Richard Meier at Cooper Union and played piano, guitar, and sax in several New York City rock bands. After a brief period of experimentation with mind-altering substances, he experienced born-again Christianity and holy spirit baptism with speaking in tongues. The author also went to India and studied under several enlightened Masters, e.g., Meher Baba and Ram Dass.
For more, see his “Stream of Consciousness Bio” on his Amazon Author Page. Note especially that The Jedi Handbook’s Copyright page, containing a list of the members of the Omega Society, is also the author’s Acknowledgments page—without the help and inspiration of these remarkable individuals the Handbook would not have appeared....more