I am driven to refine my experience and serve as a teacher—Rotnem = Mentor, weird. Everywhere I've gone, and everything I've done has resulted in me in a teaching/mentoring/coaching position. However, my calling is in Human Potential. I focus on self-knowledge as a vehicle for healing, self-authorship, and self-transcendence. To do so, I keep myself in an ongoing process of plumbing the mysteries of life via my own direct experience and training. The results of that are my work, from translating and commenting on the Dao De Jing to innovating practices for alchemical transformation, from researching and teaching at the intersection of Eastern and Western spirituality to supporting rigorous training through Zen and martial arts.