The transformational fire burning within Erik for many years has been a passion for substances and processes integral to ancient technologies, along with their applications towards health and well-being, social evolution, and psycho-spiritual reconnection. This ultimately led to a profession as a researcher ... and to the collateral study of alchemy, visionary plants and the hidden history of humanity as personal interests. Some have labeled him an alchemist, mystic, shaman, researcher, writer ( ... plus a few things inappropriate for a public forum ), but mostly Erik is just passionately fascinated by life's unbounded multiplicity of expression.Erik is as comfortable in triple-canopy tropical rainforest or the high Himalayas as he is in the lab. He spends his time (between travels) at his home in the Indian Himalayas or on a tiny coconut island in the gulf of Thailand with his wife Sunisa and daughter Ayla.