John Worthington was born to the Office of Shaman in rural Pennsylvania in 1947 and spent the next four decades discovering and defining exactly what that means. He has studied with consciousness researcher John C. Lilly, been an instructor for the Silva Method, taught and lectured extensively nationwide, owned a consciousness studio featuring sensory deprivation tanks in Boulder, Colorado, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including the Today Show, describing his experiences. His writings have been published internationally in magazines and newspapers on both sides of the border and are currently being used in select college curriculum. He currently lives, writes, holds shamanic intensives and works with students at his home outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. Being unencumbered by personal history and ambiguous abstractions of any kind, he lives a simple, engaged life.