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“Encounters With the Eternal” is the title of a talk to be given Jan. 17 to the Emerald Coast Meditation Society. Speaker will be Al Drucker, who forsook a career in engineering and ballistic missiles to become a holistic health practitioner and teacher at Esalen Institute. He spent many years in India with his guru, Sai Baba, focusing on the nondual teachings of Vedanta, as well as the Course in Miracles and other spiritual paths.

The meeting will start with a 30-minute meditation at 6:30 p.m. at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393, Santa Rosa Beach, one-half mile north of Hwy. 98. The ECMS is ecumenical and does not follow any religion. There is no charge.

Drucker came to America as a young Jewish boy fleeing Nazi Germany. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science a year early, determined to join the U.S. armed forces before World War II was over. While he was too late for the war against the Nazis, he saw active duty in Korea and China.

After undergraduate and graduate work in electrical engineering and physics, he became a specialist on intercontinental ballistic missile systems, and part of a team that managed all U.S. nuclear missile programs (Thor, Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, etc.). He also served on various committees with NASA, the FAA and the National Academy of Sciences.

While in Washington, he became active in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, which led him to rethink his societal aspirations and shift his focus to more humanitarian pursuits. After lengthy study, he became an acupuncturist, homeopath, herbalist, gestalt therapist and rolfer. He joined the staff of Esalen, a humanistic growth center in California, where he conducted a clinic utilizing natural healing modalities and taught a comprehensive course for health professionals on alternative systems of healing.

After having his life saved in a mysterious way, Drucker followed various clues that led him on a metaphysical journey to India. There Sai Baba, a great spiritual leader, spoke to him and, without prompting, related all the details of the lifesaving experience, and told Al it was he who had called him to India. Subsequently, Drucker made more than 30 trips to Sai Baba’s ashram in India and finally stayed for nine years immersed in spiritual studies, while at the same time teaching classes on astrophysics and aerospace subjects at a nearby university, as a visiting professor.

At the ashram he also gave talks on spiritual topics to hundreds of overseas visitors, and published a number of books. Back in the U.S. he co-founded Atma Institute, a nonprofit school based on spiritual principles. Now retired, he lives with his wife Yaani in a log cabin in the woods on the Wisconsin river. They winter in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.

The evening will conclude with a short guided meditation. The ECMS meets on the first and third Thursday of every month except July and August. Anyone who needs meditation instruction should arrive by 6:15 p.m. For information contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com.


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