Meetings With Remarkable People

Remebrances of remarkable individuals I’ve known whose lives illuminate important truths.

Bill Lederer II

This is the third installment of my series “Meetings With Remarkable People” and the second on my friendship with William Lederer. I badly needed the money I’d get for private lessons, but I had to be frank with Bill Lederer that he should not get his hopes up.  Starting...

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Meeting Bill Lederer 1

I can’t resist writing about Bill Lederer as the first installment of my series on Meetings With Remarkable People. In 1975, or around then, I was living in Plainfield, Vermont, and eking out a living by various means, including teaching classical guitar.  It was my first full winter in...

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Meetings with remarkable people

In 1964, I read P.D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, and it had a profound effect on me.  The book is Ouspensky’s account of his quest to find direct evidence that the world is more than a material phenomenon — that some events take place outside the laws...

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