John MacEnulty
Eman8tions@aol.com

My name is John MacEnulty. I live in St. Louis, MO. Grew up in Florida in the fifties. Played in the band, played football my senior year of high school, had a paper route (4:00 am, bicycle, collections, the whole bit). I received a scholarship on tuba to the Eastman School of Music and went there for two years before the St. Louis Symphony offered me a job as tuba player. Got married. We had two kids, boy and a girl. Got divorced in 1973. Haven't been married since. Currently have two granddaughters, courtesy of my son.

Played for twenty years with the St. Louis Symphony. Bell's Palsy (a paralysis of the lip and facial muscles) ended my tuba playing career. I became a conductor. For nine years I conducted, executive directed, fund raised, etc for an amateur orchestra in Illinois.

I became interested in J.B. Rhine's work at Duke University and was off to the races, in love with the lunatic fringe.

I did a couple of years of Scientology and, though I did not care for the organization, learned tremendous things from it. I did my duty in the sixties with Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception and Timothy Leary's turning on, Tibetan Book of the Dead, etc.

Protested the war in Vietnam and joined CORE. Organized peace concerts to benefit the American Friends Service Committee.

My publication:

I write Eman8tions because it helps me to focus on higher levels of consciousness. It is currently mailed directly to over 1,200 people. Somewhere around 6,000 people read it every day through forwards and other lists. T

The basic concept of Eman8tions comes from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets where he speaks of the still point of the turning world. I feel that everything emanates from this still point, the Taoist emptiness. I started a monthly newsletter of longer essays and poems and sent it out in hardcopy for several years. Then I got on the internet and started doing this shorter format. The intent is to present ideas that emanate from the still point within. The object is to be able to view all things in the world from the perspective of maintaining inner peace, equilibrium, to not be thrown off of our spiritual game by anything, to have a genuine spiritual perspective that is not overblown on the one hand, or cynical on the other.

I don't claim scholarly authority, just the love of a poet mystic.