Jay Kinney

While I do not believe in reincarnation, I do feel like I've had a series of incarnations in a single lifetime. I grew up in the U.S. Midwest, attended school in New York and ended up living, since 1972 in the Bay Area. I began my creative career as a cartoonist (first published in Bijou Funnies in '68), art directed Greg Shaw's seminal rock zine, Who Put the Bomp, increasingly turned to writing and editing as the '70s progressed, first as editor for CoEvolution Quarterly, writer for the Whole Earth Catalog series, and, ultimately as publisher and editor in chief of Gnosis Magazine (1985-1999). Since the turn of the new century, much of my work has been devoted to Masonic research, culminating in my newest book, The Masonic Myth.