I had biofeedback for anxiety issues when I was 11. Learned to
   breath to control overactive amygdala. Early 80s, new age
   biofeedback; using my MIND to make a COMPUTER beep go down in
   tone.

   [it's probably why I feel as if I can do _anything_ with a
   computer - and usually I sorta can tongue emoticon ]

   That's likely the source of the very short but conscious pause.

   My grandmother into Edgar Cayce, my mother fed us Yogurt in the
   late 70s/early 80s... and yet she had a government job and
   wasn't a hippie. I guess she enacted her back-to-nature dreams
   as best she could with us. [although I followed more my
   grandmother, who was a Star trek + Doctor Who fan and I loved
   that stuff as a kid - AND... still do... but I didn't follow her
   interest in American theosophy or ancient astronauts tongue
   emoticon ]

   Still, being introduced to Joseph Campbell at a young age made
   me interested in the "power of myth", comparative religion, and
   I had a heavy interest in science, which easily folded together
   with religious things. I never studied philosophy 'til a year
   ago but people always called me a philosopher. So, I just let
   them, even though I"m STILL not sure what most Philosophers
   talked about or were; I just like doing it tongue emoticon