I am a composer/poet/author influenced by art movements such as the Romanticists, Transcendentalists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Bauhaus and an interest in psychology, spirituality and science. My music sounds sometimes like modern classical and sometimes like surreal electronic. I am the creator of ParaMind Brainstorming Software (www.paramind.net) and the Virtuism aesthetic theory. ParaMind is an editor that exhausts the interactions of words coming up with every idea possible. It's a fourteen year old company and we have versions in Windows, Mac and Linux. Virtuism started in 1984 as a type of trickster response to the negative and/or nihilistic art movements. It states that acts of virtue give the aesthetic experience, something which film depicts very well. I have published a book on it recently called "Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue." I have authored two books on a fusion of psychology, philosophy and theology called "The Experience of Hallucinations in Religious Practice," and "Hyperreligiosity: Identifying and Overcoming Patterns of Religious Dysfunction." (both available on Amazon.com -- I go by R.S. Pearson). I see that mental illness often goes hand in hand with some spiritual beliefs, and if some types of religious people learned to lean on themselves more, better results would be obtained for all (except if that person is a criminal as is sometimes the case). Jesus said love God with your heart, soul and MIND -- the anti-intellectualism of Evangelicalism hurts us all by making people vulnerable to the most crass elements in society. White/black thinking gets nowhere -- people should not be afraid to embrace both perspectives of spirituality and positivism. No one is a pure liberal or pure conservative. The truth is usually in the middle. I do believe the Spirit guides us intimately and we become complete when it is in our lives. I'm anti-drug so any use of the word "hallucination" must be understood in that context. I see helping clear people from pitfalls along the religious path to be a major aim of my life, equal to my composing music and writing poetry. My website is at