Confessions of a Lonely Mystic Small Talk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998794105)

Parented by recently immigrated Holocaust survivors seven days after arriving in New York City, he was born in Brooklyn where many unusual people are born: ). During his early years, he studied Do In, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Acupressure, and Tai Chi. A full scholarship to study Chinese Medicine brought him to a school of Chinese Medicine at a Buddhist University in South Korea. He obtained another scholarship to study Chinese Thought: His 337 page thesis was titled a Comparative Study of the I Ching and the Analects of Confucius and shed new light on the philosophical inner workings of the predecessor of binary arithmetic and computer programming. He obtained his MA in Asian Studies from the Institute of Asian Studies at St. John's University. Around the same time, he also completed the book, Portraits of a Personal I Ching. It consisted of Japanese Sumi ink photo-realistic black and white paintings depicting scenes from his life which correlated to the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, The Book of Changes. Misha Ha Baka has penned several other works including Tree House Pond-a photo-poem book, Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk- a book of short stories and tall tales and Portraits of a Lonely Mystic - an illustrated series of fictional novels. He has a BA in English Literature, a MA in Asian Studies and studied healing and mystic thought in Asia, England, Israel and in the United States. He is an ordained spiritual healer and an ordained member of the clergy. He is also a fine artist, a graphic artist, a photographer, a musician, a composer and a music producer with dozens of albums of original music such as Passion, Miracle and Ancient, to name but a few.