Author: Alice Leuchtag
Alice Leuchtag has a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA from San Diego State University, both in sociobiology. She has worked as a migrant farmworker, a journalist, a cabdriver, a social worker, a college instructor, and a researcher. She has published poetry, epidemiological research on burn injuries, and other articles. She lives with her husband in Texas Hill Country, they have a son, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Why I Am Not a Mystic
There were attractive—even seductive—features to the mysticism my parents inculcated in me.