#671 Author and Lecturer William Quinn

Please join Dave the Mystic on Monday, March 18, 2024 at 8pm MDT with returning guest William Quinn.  William Wilson Quinn is an alumnus of the University of Arizona (B.A. 1970 in Literature and Writing). In 1978 he earned the degree of M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, and thereafter earned the Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Chicago’s Humanities Division in the philosophia perennis. In 1989 he earned the degree of J.D. from Arizona State University, College of Law. From 1973 to 1978 Mr. Quinn was employed by the Theosophical Society in America, which he joined in the year 1969. He was first the Assistant Editor and thereafter the Editor of The American Theosophist (later Quest magazine), and an Associate Editor of the Theosophical Publishing House in Wheaton.  From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Quinn was an ethnohistorian for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, applying his graduate training in tribal religion to anthropological and ethnohistorical inquiries into American Indian groups seeking Federal acknowledgment. Following law school, Mr. Quinn was in private practice for over ten years in Phoenix, specializing in Federal Indian law. In addition to his four books, Mr. Quinn is the author of more than 60 articles published throughout his careers on comparative religion, spirituality, and metaphysics, as well as articles on American Indian history, culture, and law. Thank you for listening! Blessings Dave the Mystic