User:MatthewStevenCarlos

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Intellectually and from a secular perspective, Matthew Steven Carlos is a multi-disciplinary academic currently working as an information theorist elaborating the application, extension and implications (the 'conceptual architecture') of multi-media digital archives in public sphere geographies. He possesses practical specialized experience in international publication, antiquities, and inter-religious dialogue. Matthew has studied with the Graduate Faculties of Brown University, The New School for Social Research, Harvard University, and Goddard College. He has formally concentrated upon World Religions, English Language and Literature, African Studies and is further degreed in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, as well as Politics. Matthew serves as a professor of Philosophy (and other Humanities) with Granite State College and works in Media and Communications with the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee Switzerland. He was awarded a Fellowship with the Calderwood Initiative at the Boston Athenaeum (one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the United States).

From a spiritual view point, Matthew is a 'panda' (scholar-devotee) who has practiced Zen Buddhism in the Soto manner for over thirty years. While an American benefiting from the interdisciplinary character of Western Buddhism, his root practice is with the Japanese lineages of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and Zen Master Ikkyu. As a monk, he practiced with several root and flower communities in the United States and Europe, including Zen Center and Plum Village. Matthew has enjoyed the great blessing of sitting with such renowned teachers as Richard Baker-roshi, the Venerable Thich Hanh, and has been honored with titles from both Mahayana and Theravadan traditions.