Summary: Bill Gorakh Hayashi is Professor of Humanities at Columbia College Chicago, a Liberal Arts college focusing on arts and media students. He teaches courses in Consciousness: Philosophy of Love, Mystical Consciousness: East and West, and Spirituality and Empowerment, the latter with his wife, Kiyomi, who offers hatha yoga in the course. He is also a practicing experiential psychotherapist and presents workshops in Meditation, Focusing and Creativity. Gorakh is a steward of the Aspen Grove and founder and advisor of Light-Circles, a student organization working with contemplative practices and soul-shift art. He and some students are co-creating Light-Groves.com, an alternative social networking site focusing on depth and authenticity of communication, "for a new kind of family." He has recently written pieces on Brother Wayne Teasdales' Inter-spiritual Vision and the preface for the 2nd edition of Michael Brown's Presence Process. He lives in Chicago with his wife and 16 year old son. To connect with the students on the show, visit their Light-Cirlces Facebook page
