Michael Rawlings

Michael Rawlings has enjoyed an extensive academic career in the arts and has been active in the banking and investment industries since 1985. Born in the US in 1951, Mr. Rawlings holds degrees from Butler University in music theory and composition and has pursued Doctoral studies in music from The College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.

His inaugural novel, 2014, The Enlightenment of Jason Albrecht, represents an unabashed conversation about a search for spiritual identity in a world of circumstance and allegiance. A second offering, 2019, The Silence Remains, A Conversation on Meditation, is autobiographical and details a unique meditation technique.

The most recent novel, Beyond a Crossroads, 2022, is an introspective story that blossoms in poetry and imagination in the telling of a fantastical vision—the journey of a universal Soul. The book poses perennial questions. “Why does anything exist? Is there a reason conveniently forgotten at the imposition of mortal birth?” Beyond a Crossroads offers an answer.

Mr. Rawlings’ spiritual writings are inspired by Western and Eastern contemplatives, including Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Paramahansa Yogananda, Kahlil Gibran, Hermann Hesse, Eckhart Tolle, and Rupert Spira, as well as quantum theory, most notably the work of modern physicist David Bohm.

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