about the author

        My name is Fred Timm. 

        I am a psychotherapist and playwright living in New York City.

        In my youth, I toured the world as a modern dancer. Yet for all the worldly attention that career provided, I felt empty inside. I questioned my value as a person apart from my professional role. I left theater to find myself. 

        I became a caretaker for a church. 

        Though the archetypes of that religion were profound, the application was limited. But it was during those years of quiet, lowly work that I was able to self-reflect and find a deeper sense of myself. While tending a sanctuary, I explored my inner-sanctuary and discovered what was true and sacred -- within. I also found that I was wounded. I discovered that I had been emotionally crippled by my upbringing and culture. I began to observe that this was the norm. 

        My goal was to untie the knots of parental and societal harm to liberate my soul – and live out of my true and sacred self. I feel compelled to help others do this same, essential work.  

        My sexual orientation is gay – my emotional and spiritual orientation is universal and toward the core of truth that resides in all people.  I did not come out to get lost in the permissive, acting-out of a wounded minority.  Nor did I come out to seek conventional comforts in gay marriage, even with children, mimicking straight society.  

        I discovered I came out to move beyond convention, gay or straight, to seek truth.  Being gay, with an identity established from within, often left me an outcast.  From this unique, outsider  perspective, I could see the lies of the family and culture so I could tell the truth.  This is the best use of a divergent orientation – to reorient away from familial and cultural pathology and seek God and truth from an authentic and true self.    

        All of us, gay or straight, need to change our orientation toward truth if we are to survive as a species and fulfill our covenant with life to grow and evolve into enlightenment. 

        To contact me or to comment on this web site, mail to: Ftimm@verizon.net