I think it is fun to learn about the personal life behind a writer’s essays, poems or art. So, who is Sabio Lantz? Well,it is the pen name for the guy below where I have a timeline with some pics and posts I have written that discuss that point in my life.
Personally, I think that understanding a writer’s experiences and conditions in life help in understanding their ideas and certainly their feelings. So, in honor of some degree of transparency:
0 – 17 years-old: Childhood (Cleveland, Ohio)
- What scared you as a kid? : my childhood fears
- A childhood toilet epiphany : experience nonexisitance
- Sunday Best : we looked pretty on Sunday
- Hot Dog Cooker : my first “mediation” – self-torture
- Raccoons : I raised raccoons
- Raccoons Bite : what I did to my brothers
- The Magic Nail: my early superstitious thinking
- Experienced astral projection : experimenting teenager
- Seen UFOs : bunch of us see a UFO or two
- Seen flying reindeer : saw Santa’s reindeer
- Hot Dog Cooker: my early experiments with “meditation”
- Voice guides me to my dead friend : Found my best friend dead
- Before Marx: my formative pre-political experiences
- Down Syndrome Insight: HS GF taught MR patients
- You Think Too Much: I’ve been told this since High School
17 – 19: US Undergrad: New York (Cornell Univ), Illinois (Wheaton Coll)
- Lying My Way to Christ : part of my conversion
- Forgive Me : apologies for my Christian fanaticism
- Remembering Heidi’s Suicide : another death
- Scott Ross: a teacher tribute
19 – 20: Asia 1: Europe-to-India hitchhike
- Monkey vs. Cat Religions : Indian classification of religion
- Language Faux Pas: Part I : my German mistakes
- Hinduism was my Undoing : Hinduism is my exit from Christianity
- Tricking our Religious Minds: magic tricks & hitchhiking
- A True Follower of Jesus: Part 1 & Part II : fellow traveller
20 – 25: Undergrad & Grad School: Wheaton Coll, Univ. Wisc, Univ. Minn
- Punching Walls: Have You? : younger energy
- In Jesus’ Name: My Deconversion : my last prayer
- Cauterizing Empathy : learning to stop sadness
- Seen my mother’s ghost : Mom visits after she died
- Tibetan shaman weather miracle : miracles do happen?
- Universe exploding in my abdomen : weird meditation experience
- Lessons from Philosophy Grad School : Lessons I learned
- Yoga Gratitude : Studied Yoga
- My Secret Mantra: an initiation ceremony
25 – 27: Asia 2: Philosophy “scholar” – Pakistan, India
- Insh’allah: My Muslim Lesson : My Pakistani Mom hit my head
- Crow Mind : crow makes my mind talk Urdu
- Walk Behind Me, Woman : GF visits me in Pakistan
27 – 34: Asia 3: Japan, East Asia (professor & acupuncturist)
- Been possessed by a Japanese spirit : Dead woman talks through me
- The Japanese Barber : Man explains being bombed
- Language Faux Pas: Part III : more language mistakes
- All Chickens Look Alike : all other-races look alike
- Responses to Strangeness : my parents visit me in Japan
- Confessions of an Acupuncturist : my acupuncture experiences
- My Gateway to Acupuncture : my intro to acupuncture
- The I-Ching and Tofu : Chinese divination – a theory
- The Hour of the Monkey : girlfriend splits over color green
- Amanojaku : My confrontative personality
- Heard a rock warning me of death : Java cliff talks to me
- Indonesia Rapist Ghost : Ghost wakes me
- A Vision: The Withered City : Kyoto crumbles in my vision
- My Previous Life as a German : my dream reveals my past life? 10/16/10
- Reincarnation as a Pig : Ooops, I insult a friend 7/30/10
- Woman prays in crashing planes : Buddhist background haunts her
- Da Free John – Part 1 : intro to a cult leader
- Cursed by a Chinese Beggar : haunted by the words of a beggar
- My Mother’s Ghost: vision come so easily
35 – 40: Physician Assistant: Duke University (NC), Seattle (WA)
- Alternative Medicine & Weirdos : Why I didn’t do alt med
- More Honky than You: an Asian heritage woman told me off!
- Homeopathy Success and Skepticism : My homeopathy beginnings
- Your god is weird ! : Sikh has heart attack
- Alternative Medicine is of the Devil : docs hate my acupuncture background
- My Many Names: I liked playing with names
40 – 41: Asia 4: Peace Corps (China, medical officer), Taiwan (beach bum)
- Language Faux Pas: Part II : more language mistakes
41 – 43: Physician Assistant: Albany(NY), Wash DC: Emergency Med
- Alternative Medicine is of the Devil : Doc hates my background
- Premastication : chewing my food for my kid
- Your god is weird ! : Phone guy freaks with my decor
43 – 46: Professor: Central Pennsylvania
- Fictitious Sea Otter : I hallucinate an otter, or did I?
- Evolution cost me my job : Science prof is creationist
47 – 50: Professor: Western Pennsylvania
- Thankfulness : our family’s meal time grace
- Responses to Strangeness : my son in NYC
- Being Zen vs. Being Japanese : local Zen temple experience
- Zen Tree Prayer : bad experience at Zen Center
- Atheist Practices Lent : Giving up stats
- An Atheist’s Shrine : Some home decorations
51 – 58: Clinical: Dermatology & Urology (Western PA)
- My Son’s Tears : crying over religious teasing
- Do I qualify as a Buddhist? : Check list of my Buddhish traits
- My Kids’ School becomes a Church : Fighting religion in school
- Fighting Dragons & Santa : My son understand myths
- My wife’s Horse Pilgrimage : my wife loves horse riding
- Our Pseudo-Amish Family : my odd family
- I saw an Angel : at an ice skating rink
- Buses Stacked High with Feelings : school buses on road
- Disease & My Luddite Son : explaining technology to my son
- Mushroom Faith : I ate my first wild mushrooms
- Hallucinated masses of people : driving & walking hallucination
- April Fool’s Buddhist Omelet : tricked my kid
- Sound does not exist : Son’s question about sound
- Our Easter Dilemma : questioning if we go to church
- Arrogant Christian Prayer : an example of what happened to me on a flight
- Atheist Degus: my daughter gives her degus to a religious man
- Responses to Strangeness: Mom to Japan, Son to NYC
- My Kid’s School becomes a Church: and they won
- Motorcycle Sorrow: a physician friend dies on his motorcycle
59-present: Clinical Urgent Care (Western PA)
- Meaning without Memory: talk with my son
- Warts & the Meaning of Life : talk with my daughter
- Rabbit on the Moon: daughter belittles sacred Buddhist story
- Self: The Singing Flame : Stay with sculpture in Wales
- Rees & Sabio : blogger meet up in England
- Mazin’s Family Tree : women’s role in Arab culture
- Tickle and Control: teaching my son massage
Triangulations 
Awesome post! What a great gift, to your children and your readers! I only wish that I could be as introspective.
Hey Justin,
Thank you for the compliment and for stopping in !
Wow, this is amazing!
@ Sir Edmund:
Glad you enjoyed. Unless you mean, “Wow, this is an amazing display of self-centeredness!” 😳
really great post! great to see so many pix of you in one place and get to know your journey a little more (and in order!)
Very cool pix, Sabio – I did not go to the links but read the titles =- a fascinating life for certain. k.
I am SO glad you shared the photos, the personal history and the poems connected to some of your antics. This is my favorite read of the day, as I sit at a window overlooking a lake-fronted forest in rural West Virginia.
Very unusual as far as I know to find so much info and such a complete collection of one’s life and interests consolidated unless in book form. Lots of enticing fascinating topics.
Justin Bonaparte, your first comment took the words right out of my thoughts.
“Awesome post! What a great gift, to your children and your readers! I only wish that I could be as introspective.”
You wrote: “I think it is fun to learn about the personal life behind a writer’s essays, poems or art.” and I agree.
As a nurse, the Director of Nursing in a 40 bed nursing facility and then working as a charge nurse on various units in the Maine Veterans Home, Bangor..my primary post was the locked Special Care Unit..for veteran’s with various medical/psychiatric needs, I found the wto be true. I love to learn about them, not to be judgmental, but to know them better as people.
Thank you for this post. I will take my time reading the posts I haven’t come upon when they were posted.
I spent the first 14 years of my life in Wisconsin, then the next 6 in Brooklin Center (Minneapolis Suburb) ….I notice you studied in Minnesota … one of the most beautiful states I have lived in…Downeast Maine is much like where I spent my time growing up in those two states.
Peace,
Siggi
How fun, Sabio, thanks for sharing. I had more questions about your professional path that I thought I’d never have answered. I just needed to surf your site more!
@ Siggi: thanx. Yes, out geographical and career paths have overlapped a bit it seems. It is good to get some poetry bloggers visiting too.
Facebook could learn a thing or two about timelines if they bothered to look at this. Its certainly comprehensive.
55 and have a daughter so young, late starter huh. 48 and already a grandad of 5 years, so early starter here. Not being religious in the slightest, I tend to shy away from anything or anyone remotely attached to religion, which could explain why I have not visited you before now? Yep, put me under the sympathetic athiest monika, that seems to fit well enough.
I dread to think how long it must have taken you to put all this together, its an outstanding piece of work in its own right.
Not bad for such a young fellow.
But what have you don for us lately?
(Only kidding!)
Fascinating life journey (so far). Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you Victoria.
Hi Sabio Lantz,
Stocktaking your life like this here and through Pictorial Autobiography and Posts is even better than an autobiographical book in that it is ongoing and dynamic in both style and presentation.
LIVE LONG and PROSPER, Sabio Lantz!
SoundEagle would like to celebrate your life with a musical composition entitled “Journey of Life”, which you can audition and enjoy at soundeagle.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/soundeagle-in-soundcloud-art-music-and-compositions-about-new-sensations-love-life-country-nature-dreaming-meditation-and-spirituality/
Hello Sabio Lantz,
It is nice to know that you are, or have been, a professor contributing to your chosen line of work at a very high level.
Stocktaking your life like this here and through Pictorial Autobiography and Posts is even better than an autobiographical book in that it is ongoing and dynamic in both style and presentation.
LIVE LONG and PROSPER, Sabio Lantz!
I am very impressed by this layout and the possibility to delve deeper into some of your different life experiences. Am from the UK and living in Spain but was with our American friend, now a Spanish citizen, the other day and she has photos of her childhood in Cleveland Ohio. My link apart from the ‘PoetryStufffff’ is your experiences in Pakistan and learning Urdu. I spent time in Pakistan and India in the 80s and then have taught in many multicultural schools with students of Indian and Pakistani heritage. What is this in the USA with creationism and climate science denial? Love your diagrams. My husband is a non theist British Quaker.