David Spangler
David Spangler was born in 1945 in Columbus, Ohio, and lived with his family in Morocco from ages six to 12. He attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Arizona State University, leaving in 1965 to move to Los Angeles, where he began lecturing on spirituality. In 1970, he went to Scotland to help establish the New Age community Findhorn. Returning to the U.S. in 1973, he and Dorothy McLean founded the Lorian Association and he and William Irwin Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association. He and Thompson wrote Reimagination of the World (1991), criticizing the New Age movement’s commercialism, faddishness, glamorized spirituality, and guru figures. Spangler is considered a transitional thinker who bridges early esoteric theosophy and incarnational spirituality. His autobiography, Apprenticed to Spirit (2010), traces the development of postmodern practical spirituality. He is active as a lecturer and on the Internet.
