Michael David was born in Rapid
City, South Dakota on September 28, 1949, but was raised
in a small wheat harvesting community in the Southeastern
corner of Washington actually called Walla Walla. And,
like the character in his books, Michael really graduated
from a high school simply know as “WA-HI”,
where he served as Student Body President. In 1968,
the David attended Walla Walla College, a private, denominational,
rather ridged institution of higher learning.
Michael David went on to attend
Washington State University (WSU) for 2 ½ academically
unproductive years, but he did learn something there:
He learned how to use his mind to reason and joined
the peace marches and protests against the war (actually,
police action), in Vietnam and lobbied and protested
for minority studies programs to be added to the WSU
curriculum.
Michael dropped out of WSU in
1970, sold all his belongings and bought a one-way ticket
to the island of Maui, with no intention of returning.
After living in a place called Banana Patch, Michael
found himself moving to Portland, Oregon, joining a
rock’n’roll band, and meeting Nanci, who
would later become his wife and mother to their two
children.
Michael attended Portland State
University and there received his Bachelor of Science
Degree in Philosophy. Michael and Nanci moved back to
Walla Walla in 1978 and have lived there ever since.
Michael David served on the Walla Walla City Council
from 1981 through 1991, and held the office of Mayor
in 1986-87. In 1997, Michael David became a Kriyaban,
being initiated into Kriya Yoga through the Self-Realization
Fellowship.
Since 1968, Michael has also
been a student of Baba Ram Dass, a.k.a. Dr. Richard
Alpert. In the late ‘60's and early ‘70's,
Michael, like Ram Dass, explored the use of entheogens
and cannabis sativa as a way of watching or expanding
the awareness. Like Ram Dass, the author traded in entheogen
empiricism for yoga meditation.
When he is not on the job serving
others, Michael David (a.k.a. Michael “Mike”
Johnson) keeps himself busy doing Karma Yoga, working
at being a loving husband, father, son, brother and
friend, writing books and songs and recording CD’s,
practicing yoga-meditation, and hanging out with his
friends in a local musical group called Feels Like Home.
Check out their new website @ http://www.feelslikehomeband.com.
Above all else, Michael enjoys
“hanging out” with his 4 grandchildren.
He prefers the use of his first and middle name to his
writing; hence, Michael David.
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