Rick has an academic background in psychology. Over the years, he continued to read and study various psychological literature. In addition, be began to integrate the spiritual and the ontological into his readings.
One day, while spending a beautiful day at the beach in Cape Cod, his wife showed him a course curriculum for UMS which she found in a local, Holistic store. He had an "AHA" moment after reviewing it. Why not attach a goal to the subject matter he had already been reading for pleasure.
He enrolled in UMS, finished the 80 courses and began a two year journey of study and research in the fields of "Spiritual Intelligence and The Intuitive Thought Processes" Upon completing his Master's degree, he began another two year journey researching and writing his Doctoral Dissertation, hoping to show that the root cause of stress is fear and why a holistic approach for coping is preferable to an allopathic one.
After seven years, this phase of Rick's journey has been completed. The next phase is to pursue a path in "Transpersonal Counseling". Pura Vida. :-)