My Story

I grew up between worlds. My father came from Kerala, India; my mother from Fujian, China. They were schoolteachers who had emigrated from Singapore to a small Indigenous village in Northern British Columbia, where I was born and raised. Catholic at home, surrounded by a landscape that didn't belong to any tradition I was given, I was aware from early on that the world was stranger and richer than any single framework could contain.

As a teenager I turned to science to explain everything. I studied computer science at the University of British Columbia and spent the next two decades in the technology industry, eventually as a software engineering leader and then an HR director at Microsoft. That career taught me a great deal. It also left the deepest questions unanswered.

In my mid-twenties I found Tibetan Buddhism. For fifteen years it was my primary home. Through Tantric self-generation practice, I rediscovered an imagination I thought I had lost in childhood. I learned that the word yoga means something much older than postural exercise, and that ritual has an inner logic that secular reason cannot fully account for. The practice was real, and it changed me in ways I didn't have language for at the time.

By midlife, something shifted. The tradition that had sustained me began to feel foreign in ways I couldn't name. In the darkness of that transition, I found Jungian depth psychology. In its insistence that the psyche is inherently image-based and inherently religious, I recognized something I had been circling for years. I returned to graduate school, earning a master's degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University and then a doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, completed in 2025.

What that journey produced is the animating question behind everything I write and teach: how do we live an inner life that is psychologically honest and spiritually alive, without bypassing the one for the sake of the other?

My work draws on three traditions that I believe independently found the same missing thing: the depth psychology of Carl Jung and James Hillman, the Islamic mysticism of Henry Corbin, and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. None of these is the whole answer. Together, they point toward something I think of as re-enchantment: not a return to religion as it was, but a way of being in the world that takes both spirit and matter seriously.

I live in Victoria, BC, Canada. I write, teach, and work with a small number of people in one-on-one coaching and mentorship. This work is for people who feel the pull of both psychology and spirit, and who sense that the two belong together, even when the path between them is not yet clear.