![]() ![]() ![]() Heard responded to Smith's letter, invited him to his Trabuco College (later donated as the Ramakrishna Monastery) in Southern California, and then sent him off to meet the legendary Aldous Huxley. ![]() He is a notable autodidact.Īs a young man, Smith, of his own volition, after suddenly turning to mysticism, set out to meet with then-famous author Gerald Heard. He now lives in the Berkeley, CA area where he is Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.ĭuring his career, Smith not only studied, but practiced Vedanta Hinduism, Zen Buddhism (studying under Goto Zuigan), and Sufism for over ten years each. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 1983 and current emeritus status. He then moved to Syracuse University where he was Thomas J. ![]() While at MIT he participated in some of the experiments with entheogens that professor Timothy Leary conducted at Harvard University. Louis, Missouri for the next ten years, and then Professor of Philosophy at MIT from 1958–1973. He taught at the Universities of Colorado and Denver from 1944–1947, moving to Washington University in St. Smith was born in Suzhou, China to Methodist missionaries and spent his first 17 years there. ![]()
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