Guy Finley

Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician.

Early life and career

The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles, California area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career.[1] He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. While never achieving commercial success as a recording artist, several of his songs were recorded by popular artists including Diana Ross, the Jackson 5, and Debbie Boone in the 1970s. He also composed scores for a number of motion pictures and TV shows. In spite of this growing good fortune early in his professional life, Finley has said he still felt something was missing in his personal life. Seeking to fill this void, he abandoned his music career and left for India and the Far East in 1979 to study spiritual teachings and the principles of self-awareness.[2]

Writing career and teachings

By the early 1980s, Finley's search for spiritual awakening had led him back to the United States where he became a devoted student of spiritual teacher Vernon Howard at the New Life Foundation in Boulder City, Nevada. In the early 1990s, with Howard's encouragement, he began a new career as an author of spiritual guidance books.[3]

His teachings, like those of Howard, draw from many different spiritual traditions and philosophies including: Christian mysticism, various Eastern philosophies, Fourth Way and Jungian psychology.

In addition to his writing, Finley teaches inner-life classes at the Life of Learning Foundation in Merlin, Oregon, a non-profit organization of which he is founder and director. He also hosts a monthly live call-in radio program, Guy Finley Live on HealthyLife.net,[4] as well a weekly syndicated program, Letting Go with Guy Finley.[5]

The OneJourney Project, an outreach program of Life of Learning Foundation, was inaugurated in conjunction with the publication of Finley's book The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred. The purpose of the project is to share the message that all human beings have a wish to connect with the Divine, that all religions have at their core the same timeless principles, and that if all of us understood this, it could lead to greater compassion among people and a more peaceful world.

Works

Books

e-books

Booklets

Selected list of audio programs

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Profile of Guy Finley
  2. ↑ Biography of Guy Finley
  3. ↑ "Lessons in wisdom from guy Finley"
  4. ↑ HealthyLife.net profile
  5. ↑ Contact Talk Radio profile

References

External links

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