User:Tom Lougheed

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User Tom Lougheed is a candidate for a Ph.D. in Mathematics, with emphasis in Mathematics Education, at Washington State University, where he is a (very old) graduate teaching assistant.

Formerly a computer programmer and analyst specializing in Celestial Mechanics and Numerical Analysis, he previously worked as a contractor for NASA, NRL, and other government agencies. He remains an amateur astronomer and astronomy educator, and was for many years a docent for the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy; now he is a member of the Palouse Astronomical Society. He is a partisan in favor of integrated science and mathematics education.

Mr. Lougheed has a long-time an interest in ancient western cultures, particularly in their mythology and folktales, and hence the archaic religion of Indo-European peoples.

He has been a peer counselor and teacher of men's peer counseling in a dissident branch of Re-evaluation Counseling in Monterey from 1990–2005. He also has been trained as a peer counselor in Jungian dream analysis. He recently became a Master Mason.