Tom Lodge

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Tom Lodge was born, Thomas Odoard Marshall Lodge, April 16th 1936, in Tanleather Cottage, Forest Green, Surrey, England. He was brought up in Virginia USA during the World War II, was educated at Bedales School, England and on his 18th birthday went to Canada and became a cowboy in Alberta Canada. While commercial ice fishing on Great Slave Lake, Canada, he nearly lost his life and wrote his first book, "Beyond the Great Slave Lake" (published by Cassells and E.P. Dutton). He was a broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In England, he was program director and one of the first deejays on the pirate radio station Radio Caroline, England, when it first went on the air. His book "The Ship that Rocked the World" describes these adventures with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who and more. He founded and managed "Music Industry Arts" at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada, a training for Recording Engineers and Record Producers. He married Jeanine Arpourettes in 1957 had three sons, Tom, Brodie and Lionel. In 1975 he became a disciple of the Zen Master Roshi Joshu Sasaki, Mount Baldy, California. In 1979 he became a disciple of Zen Master Osho, Poona, India. In 1997 he became a disciple of Zen Master Mikaire and became Enlightened January 10th 1998. His disciples have created a Zen ashram around him in Santa Cruz, California., where he gives Satsang.

Bibliography

Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (Cassells, 1958) - Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (E.P. Dutton, 1959) - Success Without Goals, (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1992) - Circles, (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1993) - Footprints in the Snow, (Umi Foundation, 2000) - The River and the Raven, (Umi Foundation, 2002) - Enlightenment Guaranteed, (Umi Foundation, 2002) - God is a Dancer, (Umi Foundation, 2007) -