About the Author, Lou Gottlieb
Lou Gottlieb at age 71
I was born in Chicago in 1942 to two secular Jewish Holocaust refugees.
I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland in a Gentile neighborhood.
I went “home” to college in 1960 (Reed College in Portland, Oregon), and have lived on the West Coast ever since.
After two years at Reed, I dropped out and worked to save money to go to Europe, which I did in 1963 for nearly four months.
When I came back, I moved to San Francisco, attended San Francisco State and worked, eventually becoming a computer operator. I went to school to become a computer programmer. Eventually I became a systems administrator, and in 2001 the Internet forced me out of stand-alone computer work entirely.
I was psychotic for 1½ years in the mid-1960s, but I eventually found my way back. [see my essays on psychosis and eating and psychosis and the Higher and Lower]
I met my wife in 1969 at her sister’s boutique in San Francisco; we were married in 1970 and we have been together ever since.
We have two children, a boy and a girl. And one grandchild, a girl.
I met Mrs. Staveley, a direct student of Gurdjieff in 1971 and I have participated in Gurdjieff Work activities ever since.
== Lou Gottlieb 4/5/2022
