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John Caris
John Caris Quick Facts
Main Areas: The Humanities covers everything that humans have done—all the arts and sciences. My focus changes with time. At the moment I am studying Native American culture and spiritual transformation through the ancient science of alchemy.Career Focus: teacher, author, student of human culture
Having been a Humanities and English college teacher for thirty-six years, thirty-three of them at City College of San Francisco, my area of study embraces the Humanities, which includes the totality of human existence.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from John Caris
The mind has power to project itself and manipulate its environment. It has power to shape external reality to agree with its inner reality.
Education is the foundation for my life's journey, and so I have followed that path, both as a profession and as a means of personal fulfillment. A student and teacher, I have spent many years inspecting the doings and makings of us human beings. In pursuit of knowledge I began studying philosophy, religion, psychology, and literature. Before long I realized that these categories set false barriers, and so I reshaped my quest for understanding by inspecting all the arts and sciences and then extending the search to all human activities, following two main threads: who are we (essence or identity) and why are we here (existence)? The human spirit is expressed in everything that we do. Though cultures can be distinguished by their differences, underneath flows the human soul. Each culture, then, is one facet reflecting the soul's myriad possibilities. For good or evil, the human spirit is capable of dancing to the cosmic rhythms of life, death, and regeneration. The human world is a miniature of the universe, and if we look carefully, we see the microcosm-macrocosm link.
Getting Started With John Caris
I manage the website Ye Olde Consciousness Shoppe which presents ideas and images about transforming consciousness and reaching a higher level of reality. My publishing company Westgate House has published my three books. Hermes Beckons, a tale of alchemy and magic, is the most recent publication. The earlier books are Foundation for a New Consciousness: An Essay on Art, Science, and Meditation, and Reality Inspector, a novel set in San Francisco involving a world championship chess match and computer hacking at the Federal Reserve Bank. Information about these books is posted on my web site.
