Vinny
Vinny Pinto
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My life is very much about continual surrender to Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart. My experience shows that life can be easeful and blissful if you surrender all wanting, busy-ness, struggle, striving and trying to Holy Spirit.
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58 years old
Frederick, Maryland
United States
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I
seem to most often wear the hats of a mad scientist and a mystic.
However, I wear many other hats as well, and play in many fields during
the passage of a single week, as I have surrendered my entire life and
everything in it to Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart, to
prajna
paramita. This choice to surrender into what I call Divine Coherence --
while it drastically increases the seeming uncertainty (and the
truth is that certainty is an illusion anyway) and unpredictability in
my
life -- promises that I almost never know today what I will be doing
tomorrow, or even in two hours from now, as I allow the Flow of Grace
and Holy Spirit to sweep me along in the divine dance of prajna
paramita.
Bucky Fuller once said, "You did not create this
universe and you do not control it."
Much in the same vein, for me, life is about complete surrender to the
wisdom, grace, knowing and infinity of Holy Spirit, aka Supreme Heart.
"In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung.
I
find great truth and grace in Sri Aurobindo's
words when he said: "Be
inspired, but don't aspire."
Movement
At
one time in my life, I spent quite a bit of time in extreme
outdoor
activities such as rock climbing and caving. And, in my younger years,
I also did a lot of windsurfing, scuba diving, some cave diving, and
also some kayaking (not the rough stuff, but rather, relatively calm
waters). I have largely left all those
outdoor activities behind nowadays, except for the times when I use my
kayaking, diving, rock
climbing or caving skills and gear in pursuit of an obscure
outdoor extreme adventure sport at which I occasionally play. Although
an entire chapter of a recently published book on that sport was
devoted to the activities of Sue and myself in this realm, I do not
wish to share the name of that extreme adventure sport here, as I would
prefer to avoid the influx of inevitable friend requests from other
participants in that sport whom I do not know; I do not want to have
hundreds of MySpace friends whom I do not really know! If you are a
friend and are curious to
learn more details about the extreme adventure sport, please feel free
to ask me privately! You will also figure it out if you have seen my
photos in the Pics section (open only to MySpace friends!)
In Closing this Section
I
feel that being at peace with life is intimately connected
with
being comfortable with and being able to love and accept
everything within ourselves and which we see in the world. This means
being able to accept and love all those events and actions commonly
labeled as light and darkness, as good and bad, as right and
wrong, as ugly and beautiful, being able to simply love and allow all
of this a part of the perfection of Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart in
this world.
And now, a few timeless quotes
which may be somewhat related to what I just wrote above:
"It has been my experience that
folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -- Abraham
Lincoln.
"The
problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-- Elizabeth Taylor.
"There is no external Buddha or
Christ worth worshipping. Rather, they are signposts pointing the way
to Supreme Heart (prajna paramita) and bliss. The innate wakefulness of
prajna paramita, the grace of intrinsic awareness, is one's primordial
nature." -- anonymous Buddhist precept.
| | Music | "Every breath you take is the breath of God" -- Father Theophane Boyd, OCSO, Christian mystic.
Gregorian Chants.
silence.
The sound of hens clucking contentedly.
The sounds of ducks quacking.
The sound of our geese calling to me whenever I go out on the porch.
| | Movies | Barfly (1987). A tale of the life of poet/writer Charles Bukowski.
Any of the other films (i.e., Factotum and a half-dozen others) about the life of poet/writer Charles Bukowski.
The Stalker (Russian film by Tarkovsky, 1979; "Stalker" was a mis-translation of the Russian language term for "guide" or "wilderness guide".) The film is very gray and, on the surface, rather depressing, but I find it to be rich and vibrant and fun. Strangely, while fictional, the film also eerily prognisticated the Chernobly Accident and The Zone by almost a decade.
The Fifth Element
Until the End of the World (1991; Wim Wenders). Amazing. An epic story of love and obsession and wonder spanning numerous countries and continents. The long version is even better than the "short" 2.75 hour version.
The American Astronaut (2001)
The Name of the Rose (1986). This movie is based upon the fictional tale by Umberto Eco.
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1980s.) Amazing and visually stunning modern vampire film; vampires as modern-day drifters with a lawless bent.
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1980.) Amazing play about the polarities of good and evil, perhaps David Lynch's finest work. This is perhaps the film where Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan were really launched into their acting careers. This is also the film where Dennis Hopper, in one of his most classic and spooky roles, played Frank Booth, a small time crime boss with a penchant for inhaling strange narcotic gases and for playing old Frank Sinatra songs loudly.
The Lost Room (sci-fi miniseries, orignally from Sci-Fi Channel) and yes... I am a Collector.
| | Books | The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.
Any books written by Joel Goldsmith on the topic of spirituality and/or Beingness.
The two early non-fiction books on his experiences in Zen monasteries by novelist Janwillem van de Wettering.
Any of the earlier books by U.S. Andersen on surrender to Being/Source/Holy Spirit, before his writing turned hopelessly New Agey in his later years.
Many of the books on God and mysticism by Jean Klein.
Some of books on mysticism and surrender by the American mystic Lester Levenson.
Some of the spiritual works by Eckhart Tolle.
Old Dashiell Hammett detective stories.
Some of the Randy Wayne White mystery tales set on the Florida coast.
When I was a kid, I loved Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time; one great thing about L'Engle is that she wrote her sophisticated tales for readers of all ages, and not just for teenagers.
Many of the fantasy works by Christopher Moore.
Old Raymond Chandler detective stories.
The Kinsey Milhone detective stories by Sue Grafton.
And last but not least, and this is really a sutra:
The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra!
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Holy Spirit
Supreme Heart
Source
Prajna Paramita
Lara Croft (don't try to lie to me and tell me that she is a fictional character...!)
My friend and colleague Filomena Dingle, the famed Roman Catholic "victim saint" remote healer, who passed away in mid-2006.
Padre Pio, the famed Christian mystic and healer of the early and mid 20th century.
My friend and colleague Patrick Flanagan, the maverick scientist and inventor, who has always had the courage to listen to his inner genius and guidance, to follow his inner light, and to entirely transcend the paradigm paralysis of the status quo in the sciences.
Ramana Maharshi
Lester Levenson, the American mystic
The people who have to put up with my curmudgeonly presence!
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Frederick, Maryland | | Body type: | 6' 1" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Mystic, Consulting Scientist, Spiritual Healer |
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Vinny's Schools
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Tai Sophia Institute
Laurel, MD
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Master's Program in Acupuncture (Graduate-level)
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1990 to 1991 |
Indiana University Of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Indiana, PA
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Sciences, psychotherapy (clinical psych), adult health
Minor: women's studies
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1988 to 1992 |
Suny College At New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Psychology and Sciences
Minor: Women's studies
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1986 to 1988 |
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Vinny's Companies
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Applied Research Lab at IUP
Indiana , PA US
Research assistant/consultant
Graduate assistantship -- graduate division
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9/1987 through 6/1989
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Green Spring Behavioral Health Services
Columbia, MD US
Director, Clinical Reporting
Analytic Services Dept.
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4/1993 through August 2000
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Vinny Pinto Consulting
Frederick, MD US
Scientific consultant, R&D scientist
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1/2001 through present
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Spiritual Healer
the world, including US
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Late 2000 through present
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MENTOR FUTURTEK Defense Corp.
undisclosed, classified US
classified
PGR3 Time Tunnel Project
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late 1970s and early 1980s
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About me:
First, a Note About Friend
Requests!
There
seems to be a new trend on MySpace and other social networking sites,
and its a numbers game called "friend-collecting", where the person
with the most
friends wins. I have no interest in this pastime, and I
tend to reject anonymous Friend requests unless our connection is
obvious to me from reading your profile page. I
have no interest in acquiring a large volume of MySpace Friends simply
for the sake of numbers -- I am simply not on this earth to get lots of
people to like me or to approve of me!
Rather, I prefer that the only Friends on my MySpace account be those
people with whom I have some kind of connection (and yes, that
connection or resonance may
simply be on an inner level, i.e., the level of Heart and Spirit...) So,
if you send me a Friend request, please be ready to tell me why you are
asking -- perhaps you know me from one of my list groups, perhaps you
have visited some of my websites and feel a resonance, perhaps you are,
or have been, a research colleague or a consulting client, or perhaps
you simply feel an inner connection on the level of Spirit and Heart.
Thus, be advised that I almost never approve Friend requests unless
I already know you or unless you can tell me your reasons for asking me
for a Friend link, and I am not at all shy about sending folks
a message and
asking them why they are asking to add me as a Friend. In a similar
vein, the few times that I ask a relative stranger on MySpace for a
Friend link, I
always send them a private message first explaining why I am asking,
unless the connection would be obvious when they read my profile
page; in
other words, I tell them a bit about our links or the connection which
I feel. Thank you for understanding this boundary! . .
.Lastly,
my photos in the Pics
section may be
viewed only by MySpace Friends and by no one else.
And Now, A Bit About Me. . .
Bucky
Fuller once said, "You
did not create this universe and you do
not control it."
Much in the same vein, for me, life is about complete
surrender to the Grace, wisdom, knowing and infinity of Holy Spirit
and Supreme Heart, aka prajna paramita (what some call Source.)
Although I am very spiritually-oriented, I am very grounded,
and,
as anyone who knows me can tell you, I have near-zero tolerance for
spacey New Age religionism and other New Age distractions.
As
you likely know by now, my name is Vinny. Among other things, I seem
to wear the hats in this life of a mad scientist and a mystic.
I have a graduate degree (Master's) in the health sciences, have also
studied acupuncture at the graduate level in two different
traditions; one was Worsley's Five Elements Acupuncture (which,
frankly, is a
rather bizarre amalgam of a number of Eastern acupuncture traditions
plus French systems and is really more a shamanic tradition than a true
classical acupuncture method), and the other was traditional Taoist
acupuncture, and I have also had two years of graduate-level training
in psychotherapy (clinical psychology.)
I
am a very happy and peaceful person (and yet I feel totally free
to be
cranky and irascible as needed to set boundaries with difficult
people!),
and am very grateful for, and appreciative of, everything in my life
and in this world. Much of my life seems to be about what I will call
Grace and Supreme Heart. I surrender my life dozens of times per day to
Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart, to serve in this world as is most in
coherence with Divine perfection. While I adhere to no formal religion,
I recite the Heart Sutra, aka the Prajna Paramit Heart Sutra
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which is a verse (aka sutra) from
the spiritual aspect of Buddhism -- regularly. As I have grown in life,
I have
realized that my happiness and inner peace are not dependent upon
imaginary "wants" and "needs", and rather, that the Love of Supreme
Heart and Holy Spirit is Present at all times; my beingness is fueled
at every second by prajna paramita -- there is no else.
And thus, my life is very much about surrender to Holy Spirit and
Supreme Heart.
Although
I have a wonderful partner (her name is Sue) and a number of
wonderful
close friends (almost all of them women who carry a tremendous
amount of the Goddess aspect), I do not need to be in an intimate
personal
relationship in order to
be happy; my happiness and peace come from within, not from without.
I am one of those odd persons who wears the hats of scientist/engineer
and mystic with ease; I am equally comfortable in the world of science
and
engineering and the world of Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart. So, I am
able to walk easily in the world of linear logic and science,
and
equally easeful and at home in the world of Spirit and mysticism, in
the play of prajna paramita, aka Supreme Heart, in creation. And,
this ability to straddle the line and function and flow in
both worlds has
been one which I have enjoyed since a very early age. I was reading
books from the adult section of the town library by the time I was five
years old, and I had a chemistry lab, a ham radio setup and an
electronics lab in my room as a child from age eight onward. At the
same time, I
would regularly -- in fact, daily -- go deep within and plunge into the
world of Spirit, talking with my angels and guides, and receiving
guidance even between the ages of six and twelve as to how my life
would unfold in later years. By the time I was thirteen -- and bear in
mind that this was in the early and mid nineteen-sixties -- I
was reading
books from metaphysical used book stores on Tibetan mysticism and
meditating
daily.
A
Bit About Some of the Hats Which I Wear
I work
primarily
as a research and consulting scientist, and I am also a spiritual
healer (donations only; no charge for my healing work); for some odd
reason, my spiritual healing site is well-known around the world and
thus I know quite a few healers of various types from across the world.
The Realm of
the Sciences
My
scientific
and nutritional R&D and consulting work cover several fields and niches, including the
following:
- raw food diets and partly-raw
Paleolithic diets
- antioxidant
nutrition for humans and animals
- cutting-edge
extremely low molecular weight (ELMW) hydrogen-based antioxidants
- use
of purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) in nutrition, odor management and
waste bioremediation
- use of beneficial microbes
in human
and animal nutrition
- use of beneficial microbes
in agricultural soil, odor control and waste
bioremediation
- subtle energies (aka exotic energies)
- subquantum
coherence
- psychophysiological heart-centered coherence
- "soft"
ormus
nutritional supplements
The Realm of
Spirit and Healing
My
spiritual healing work is offered only as remote healing, that is, at a
distance; in my defintion, spiritual healing differs from energy
healing in that spiritual healing
does not employ energy, light, color, or any effort. Instead, my
style of spiritual healing primarily involves surrendering all
perceived problems and challenges to Holy Spirit and Supreme Heart, so
it is about a surrender and letting go of trying to fix things or
manage things; it is about total surrender to prajna paramita, to
Supreme Heart. I have trained in a number of spiritual
traditions over the years, including Christian, Zen Buddhist (in fact,
I made the acquaintance of famous no-holds-barred Catholic spiritual
seeker Father Theophane Boyd while staying at a Zen monastery in the
mid-1980s), Tibetan
Buddhist and esoteric yogic traditions, but I do not associate myself
with any particular religion -- to me, religion is simply an external
institution, while true spiritual presence is entirely an inner matter
and inner focus. Interestingly, despite the fact that I am not
affiliated with any religion, my spiritual healing work has attracted
healing clients from across all major religions, including clergy in a
number of Christian traditions and even from the ranks of evangelical
Christians. And again in spite of the fact that I am not affiliated
with any formal religion, I was a friend and close associate of
Filomena Dingle, the Roman Catholic healer and "victim saint" (who was
living at the time in Hawaii) from 2002 until her death at age 70 in
May 2006. In fact, I created and maintained her main healing website
for her
from early 2003 until mid-2006; I have since converted it to a memorial
website.
Information
About Some of My
Websites
I
operate a number of informational websites in the realms of alternative
health, nutrition, spirituality and the fringe sciences. I also operate
a number of email list groups -- largely at Yahoo Groups -- covering
many of these topics as well. A number of these list groups have rather
large memberships (i.e., above 500) and several of the list groups --
particularly those in the realms of raw food diets and sungazing --
tend to act as a lightning rod to attract a large number of fanatics,
zealots, fundamentalists and True Believers. These are the kinds of
people whose posts and attitudes can quickly destroy the atmosphere and
the fun and usefulness of a list group, and I am rather famous for
managing such fundamentalist True Believers and their posts very firmly
and strictly, and I can be very much a cranky curmudgeon when needed in
order to manage such persons and their on-list behaviors. Luckily, as
is true of my life in general, it is not my intent in running email
list groups to gain the approval of others or to have others
like
me and thus, I feel very quite free to play the role of cranky
curmudgeon or firm parent when and as needed in managing my list
groups. And, as any long-term members of any of my list groups or
visitors to my websites can tell you, I am well known for being very
irreverent and
silly, and for using a lot of humor, for humor and light-heartedness
tend to repel True Believers and fundamentalists. I offer notes about,
and links for, some
of my informational websites below; some of those pages also provide
information on my list groups as well. . .
If you wish to see
my primary website which
organizes and presents much of
my scientific consulting work and my related informational websites and
my e-mail list groups, please visit
http://www.vinnypinto.us
If you wish to
see my website devoted to my spiritual healing work, please visit http://www.divine-heart.org
I
am somewhat involved in the world of raw food diets and also the odd
mystical field known as sungazing. If you wish to see my informational
website on raw food diets -- aka raw Paleo diets -- which include
animal foods, please visit http://www.rawpaleodiet.org
If you wish to see my informational website on
sungazing, please visit http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/sungazing/
If
you wish to visit my informational website on my R&D work with
soft
ormus, aka ormus-like nutritional supplements, please visit http://www.ormuslike.info
If
you wish to visit my informational website on devices that I have
developed which may help to protect humans and animals form the harmful
subtle enrgy "noise" effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by
manmade appliances, devices and power/communications systems, please
visit http://www.coherentspace.info
If
you wish to learn more about my work with exotic energies, please feel
free to check out my informational website at http://www.coherentspace.info/exoticenergies/
If
you wish to see my website devoted to the topic of spiritual surrender,
that is, surrender of one's life, thoughts and activities to Holy
Spirit and Supreme Heart, please feel free to check out my Spiritual
Surrender website, at http://www.heartrelease.com/spiritual-surrender/
Some Miscellaneous Notes
If
you wish to see a kinda humorous text and photo journal of my recent
(June 2007) 9-day
research-related field trip to Arizona and the surrounding parts of the
southewestern US, please see http://www.ormuslike.info/ormuswater/magnetite-sand-field-trip-1.html
We
live in a wilderness area in the mountains of Western Maryland, and we
have lots of
chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys in our yard; I use them in my
research on zero-odor organic poultry rearing using beneficial
microbes.
We do not eat the birds, but we do use their eggs if the hens do
not want to sit on them; it is primarily only the Bantam hens and our
mommy ducks who choose to sit on eggs, as mainstream laying hens have
had most of their tendency to go broody bred out of them, and also,
they are way too busy watching the soap operas on TV each afternoon to
be bothered with sitting on eggs.
And,
since I have mentioned the topic of spiritual surrender earlier in this
section and elsewhere on this page, here is a quote which is relevant
to that whole topic that I'd like to share with you:
"Seeking means to have a
goal; but finding means to be free,
to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed
a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things
that are under your nose." -Hermann Hesse.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Well, the reality is that my life is very blessed and filled with large amounts of love, grace and ease, and thus I have already met all of the people whom I have ever really wanted to meet up till this point, and this includes my wife Sue, my dear friends (who tend to be largely women who embody a tremendous amount of the Goddess aspect), and my other friends, spiritual colleagues and research colleagues.
However, to slip into banality and silliness for a bit and to indulge my more frivolous side, it would be fun to also meet the following:
Beingness
Babaji, but the only problem is that there are about 900 mystics in India named Babaji!
Lara Croft (sigh...!)
And, I would love to meet any of the following actors: Amanda Peet, Amanda Plummer (totally adorable!), Solveig Dommartin and Emmanuelle Seigner.
And I am a total pushover for female rock climbers with muscles... sigh...
...and for beautiful women with big hearts who are mystics and who are not busy pursuing worldly goals and rather have the time, the grace, the spirit and soul to be willing and able to listen to Holy Spirit, Supreme Heart and Divine Mother. sigh... And, of course, women who run with the wolves, as all the earlier-listed qualities are a given for them. And women who chase the wolves...
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