Phillip’s Short Bio
- Founder of ElephantRescue.Net
- Rewrote Homer's Odyssey in heroic couplet
- Authored several books, eight of which are in print
- Circled the globe twice, visiting 26 countries on five continents
- Hasn't owned a television in over thirty years
- Does not own a car
- Has never owned a cell phone
- Vegan and gluten-free - drinks only water - fresh air and exercise enthusiast
Phillip was a rifle expert in the military where he ran three miles in a speedy twenty-six minutes
every morning while wearing combat boots and fatigues. He says, "Serving in the military is one of
the things of which I am most proud.
My job, however, was defense of my country and family rather than venturesome foreign expeditions of
offense. Ironically, I'm now a dedicated pacifist."
Upon his Honorable Discharge, he attended Oklahoma City University and the University of Kent in
Canterbury, England and holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in the Social Sciences.
Having completed his university studies, he circled the Earth twice on a two-year journey. The
highlights of his round-the-world-trip were meeting HRH Princess Diana, spending three days
photographing the Taj Mahal, seeing the starry belvedere
of the Milky Way from Australia, attending the tennis championships at Wimbledon, visiting Red
Square in Russia, backpacking in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal and enjoying the kaleidoscopic
culture of ancient Marrakech, Morocco,
his absolute favorite place.
It was, however, his sojourn to "not altogether civilized India", as he calls it, that indirectly
inspired his writing career. He uses the word "indirectly" for it was not India itself that was the
inspiration but what he acquired while
visiting there: a side effect of the local diet. He says, "Although paying homage to the village
doctor in a mud floor hut and drinking his prescription ominously labeled, ‘Only take this if you
are very sick’, I was, nonetheless,
very sick for three months. It was during this period of my otherwise uneventful convalescence that
I began writing essays about the human predicament, with appropriate and timely inspiration."
He especially considered the notion of reconciling the dichotomy of the need to labor and to use
one’s talent. Deeply inquiring within himself, using his own experience, he was able to determine
unique observations regarding the psychological effects
of talent. This led to his creation of Psychosymmetry and its supporting arguments in three essays:
The New World of Talent, Talent Revealed in Classic Story-Telling Style and Purpose, Evergreen. He
also created a didactic methodology
to help young people discover and develop their talent, Talemtjournaling. The mission of his
company, Talemtjournaling, is helping k - college discover their talent.
Expounding upon this theme, Phillip wrote the original libretto of an operatic musical featuring the
unique lyrics and melodies of twenty-six of his songs. With the backdrop of the Black Forest in the
year 1800, the plot is drawn taunt
with deadly conflict and high emotion, dramatizing the importance of using one's divine gift.
His articles have been published in The Sunday Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the Northwest
United States. He has also written three screenplays and several books, eight of which are currently
in print:
- The Hathaway Epics: Six Classic Tales Told In Epic Verse
- The Romantic Struggle: Ten Short Stories and Two Short Novels
- The Little Odyssey: The Retelling of Homer’s Odyssey in Heroic Couplet
- The Tribe of Sylvan, Threshold of European Man's Ascendance
- The Psychological Elegance of Talent
- Why We Are Here, and Other Essays
- Jack and the Dream Garden, an Epic Screenplay
- The Hathaway Equation, The Plan to Halt and Reverse Ecological Collapse