Since 1964 David Spangler has been an author and teacher of spirituality. From 1970 to 1973 he was a co-director of the Findhorn Foundation Community in northern Scotland and the founder of its educational program. He was also a co-founder in 1974 of the Lorian Association, a non-profit spiritual educational foundation, which remains to this day the organization for which he works. He is a Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association. David has developed and taught classes at a number of institutions, including the University of Wisconsin, Seattle University, Bastyr University, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. His current work involves developing and teaching a spiritual practice called incarnational spirituality. Information about his work and the online courses which he teaches can be found at www.Lorian.org.

His books include The Call; Everyday Miracles; Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent; Blessing: The Art and the Practice; The Story Tree; and Subtle Worlds: An Explorer’s Field Notes.

David is happily married with four children ranging in age from twenty-six to fifteen. He considers being a parent his primary spiritual practice.