Harbert Rice

Harbert Rice is a Quaker. His home meeting is the Reno Friends Meeting in Reno, NV. He served as Clerk of the Reno Meeting for several years. He is now retired and lives with his wife Rebecca Mueller on a small farm in Northern New Mexico.

He trained as a research biologist and has a PhD in plant biology. He has done basic research on red light mediated plant developmental processes. However, at various time he also has been a seaman, a gardener, and an environmental researcher. In 1985 he formed New Riders Publishing and wrote and published books on using Computer Aided Design (CAD) on personal computers. With New Riders Harbert was an early pioneer in publishing books using personal computers. Since becoming a Quaker he has done volunteer service in hospice and was a founding team member of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) of Nevada, which introduced and facilitated AVP workshops in the Nevada State Prison System.

He studied Eugene Gendlin’s “A Process Model” with Rob Parker. He also served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Focusing Institute. The International Focusing Institute is an international non-profit organization set up by Eugene Gendlin to promote the use of Focusing and to house his philosophical works.

This book, “A Quaker’s View Of Gendlin’s Philosophy” (2020) is Harbert’s second book on the Philosophy of the Implicit. His first book is “Language Process Notes: How We Use Words To Get Beyond Words” (2008). This book describes how we use words to get to a space beyond words where we can experience change and transformation in our lives.