#661 Author and Lecturer William Quinn

Please join Dave the Mystic on Monday, January 8, 2024 at 8pm MST with guest William Quinn.  William Wilson Quinn is an alumnus of the University of Arizona (B.A. 1970 in Literature and Writing). In 1978 he earned an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, and thereafter earned the Ph.D. (1981) from the University of Chicago.  In 1989 he earned the degree of J.D. from Arizona State University, College of Law.

From 1973 to 1978 Mr. Quinn was employed by the Theosophical Society in America, which he joined in the year 1969. He was first the Assistant Editor and thereafter the Editor of The American Theosophist (later Quest magazine), and an Associate Editor of the Theosophical Publishing House in Wheaton. Since his first publication in 1971 after leaving university, he has published three books, one being a revision of his doctoral dissertation in 1997 titled The Only Tradition about the philosophia perennis in the writings of Ananda K Coomaraswamy and René Guénon, and the last in 2020 titled The Chela’s Handbook.

From 1982 to 1987, Mr. Quinn was an ethnohistorian for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Following law school, Mr. Quinn was in private practice for over ten years in Phoenix.

In addition to his four books, Mr. Quinn is the author of more than 60 articles published throughout his careers on comparative religion, spirituality, and metaphysics, as well as articles on American Indian history, culture, and law published in a wide assortment of national academic journals and law reviews. He has been both a lecturer for the Theosophical Society and a guest lecturer at several universities, and has appeared on the faculty of numerous seminars and workshops in all these subject areas.

Thanks for listening!

Blessings

Dave the Mystic