Born 1955 in Augsburg, Germany, writing for hunting and fishing magazines from age ten, studies of law and economics at Augsburg University, 1975-1983.At age twenty, I became an international globetrotter, dedicated to understanding the human condition and to spiritual disciplines.While also studying law, I found months each year to train with shamans in remote places and natural societies, and I played competitive chess.I left Europe and law at age twenty-eight for a cave in the Philippines, but instead of hermitage I ended up having children in New Zealand and, after a lengthy court-battle, raising them on my own.Throughout my life I pursued the spiritual path, particularly the Taoist disciplines of transforming sexual energy into higher awareness, Kung-Fu, Chinese medicine and shamanism. Being a father was the ultimate self-development, and traveling to remote places with my kids was the source of most of my insights!Apart from being a dad, building and landscaping, I spent my creative time teaching, spiritual counseling, healing, traveling inner worlds and the last rain-forests, gardening, tree-planting and writing. I published "Chess Parenting" with Seaburn, N.Y.in 2013, and "Travel Parenting" with Evolutionary Publishing, Canada, in December 2015.My latest book "Reality and Shit," a hilarious critique of Western society,takes on the deeper causes of cancer and diabetes, of failing diets, insane economies, and of sexual competence.Read more about this authorRead less about this author