About Eric I was born just outside of Baltimore, Maryland in the mid-1950s to Christian parents, the youngest of two brothers and a sister. My passion was music as early as I can remember. I have perfect pitch and showed a talent for keyboards from age five, working as a professional musician in a small band from seven until I was eighteen. After high school, I attended and graduated from the local Community College as a piano major. I transferred to Towson University, graduating with a BA in Musicology with minors in piano and voice. I was also organist and choir director at The Divine Life Church of Absolute Monism in Baltimore. In 1978, I entered the masters program at Manhattan School of Music in New York for Voice/Opera, graduating in 1981with a Masters in Vocal Performance. In some ways, I led a double life. From the time I was eighteen, I had unusual, mystical experiences and a calling to help others sort out their spiritual life. Feeling there was no place for me in the clerical community, I pursued a more worldly desire to have a career as a singer/musician in New York. In 1998, I found the New Seminary, a place for me to become a minister and still retain my own spiritual path. In 2000, I was ordained at St. John the Divine Church as an interfaith minister. After ordination, I began God Becomes Us. Today, I am director of music at a wonderful enlightened Episcopal Church in New Rochelle, NY, the organizer of a support system for ministers, an interfaith minister, teacher and counselor in the New York area. The Interfaith Path - My Mission Over time I came to see that I was called to consider and embrace the rather audacious statement that human beings may have inherited more than the right to receive the blessings of God. Indeed, we are designed to experience oneness with God, while walking here in the body. In fact, it seems very likely that we are God, and even more audacious, that God is us. How we come to be able to realize this consciously is our individual spiritual path. I believe all religions are qualified than to lead us to this experience. Sometimes no particular religion, or a combination of many religions may work well, too. That is true in my case and I know it is also true for millions of people on Earth. I believe it is my mission to share this with all people - to remind us all that our own unique process is the right process. The process of releasing fear and guilt is the right process. The process of learning about who we really are is the right process. It is our way home.
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