David N. Dodson

BS cum laude Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
Undergraduate work in psychology at Orange Coast College and
California State University, Fullerton
Graduate work at California State University, Fullerton
Certified as a spiritual healer through a three-year intensive.

Studied spiritual psychology independently for many years.

I believe that dogmatic nationalism, dogmatic religiosity, dogmatic racism, and dogmatic sexism divide our single human family into squabbling segments which we preserve in order to belong; the exclusion paradox.

I have a dissident views about the Big Bang theory. Maybe time is NOT the reading on an atomic clock. Maybe the redshifts have a second or third cause rather than showing everything (even at the "start of time" rushing away from everything else.

And maybe international corporate capitalism isn't the answer to all mankind's needs -- even those of the extremely wealthy.

I served in the United States Army between 4-4-66 and 4-3-69. No, this isn't a typo. I dropped out halfway through my sophomore year. And no, I didn't flunk out. I found a non-combat specialty with a high re-enlistment bonus and avoided OCS like the death sentence it was for many of my fellows.

I came to believe that killing people in their own towns and cities was a bad idea -- even if they HAD been a threat to us, which the Vietnamese weren't. When we finally left, the Vietnamese almost immediately turned to defending their ancient nation from other colonialists -- who happened to be the hated Chinese colonialists.

I found an MOS that wasn't in Vietnam and had a high re-enlistment bonus and avoided Officers Candidate School like a death warrant. Served in an E7/E8 position as a nuclear weapons custodian and in an E6 position as a Nike Hercules Air Defense Missile Assembly Sergeant...waiting with nuclear missiles to try and shoot down enemy planes AFTER they'd bombed Cincinnati or Dayton.

Imagine John Lennon's Imagine. I think it's our job to create Heaven here on Earth. We need to believe in an inclusive God who has a purpose for everything, whether "good" or "bad."

Winning the MASCAC conference title in football. Living in the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house. Being liked by a girl I considered way out of my class. Bobsledding the Crum Woods on cafeteria trays.

I was a C student in world history, but I loved it. This class; about the whys, not just the whos, whats, whens, and wheres; sparked something in me that has grown throughout my life.

I was an A student in Engineering and was bored to tears in class. The teacher threatened to flunk me (despite stellar tests) if I didn't go to class.