About Me — Alan Lew

[Updated February 27, 2025] From an academic to a blogger/author on Medium.

Everything has purpose and value, and every moment is synchronicity
— my sankalpa

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A Brief Biography

I have always been a writer. I elementary school, my science fair projects were mostly books that I put together on a topic. In my 40 years as a graduate student and then a university professor, I wrote a few textbooks and over 100 academic articles and book chapters. I mostly wrote on travel and tourism-related topics and often related to East and Southeast Asia. (I am ethnically half-Chinese; born and raised in California.)

As I approached retirement, my attention focused increasingly on my lifetime interest in spirituality. I have practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) since 1974; I called myself a Buddhist for a few years, influenced by my academic research trips to Asia; and my wife got me into yoga in 2014 (after we retired from Taekwondo).

I retired in mid-2019 (My old academic website is linked below). In the year following retirement, I became a certified yoga teacher; a Reiki, a gong and sound healing practitioner; and I started channeling my Energy Group / Higher Self. My wife…