Will Tuttle
Encyclopedia
Dr Will Tuttle, PhD, is an award-winning American author
, speaker, educator, pianist
and composer
. He is a former Zen monk and a PhD graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been awarded a Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award His wife Madeleine is a visual artist. He is the co-founder, with Judy Carman, of the Circle of Compassion and the Worldwide Prayer Circle For Animals. He has lectured through Unity Church
and other New Thought
and progressive centers throughout North America since 1990.
, which according to a review on Tuttle's site: "is a deep book, aglow with insights that penetrate and expose the complacency of a culture that has strayed painfully far from compassion." -- (John Robbins) The book reached #1 overall on Amazon March 2010.
Author
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, speaker, educator, pianist
Pianist
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and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. He is a former Zen monk and a PhD graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been awarded a Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award His wife Madeleine is a visual artist. He is the co-founder, with Judy Carman, of the Circle of Compassion and the Worldwide Prayer Circle For Animals. He has lectured through Unity Church
Unity Church
Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...
and other New Thought
New Thought
New Thought promotes the ideas that "Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is ubiquitous, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.Although New Thought is neither...
and progressive centers throughout North America since 1990.
Published works
Tuttle is most famous for authoring a book called The World Peace DietWorld Peace Diet
- Reviews and reception :The World Peace Diet has been reviewed in VegNews, in which Tuttle was said to "...lift the discussion of veganism to a higher level. He argues cogently for a spiritual component, one where the consequence of using and consuming animals, so ubiquitous in human society,...
, which according to a review on Tuttle's site: "is a deep book, aglow with insights that penetrate and expose the complacency of a culture that has strayed painfully far from compassion." -- (John Robbins) The book reached #1 overall on Amazon March 2010.
Vegan advocacy
Tuttle was the first guest of Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) to appear as a live guest on the global animal rights social network, which is transcribed on the online site.Discography
- Ascension
- Islands of Light
- AnimalSongs
- The Call
- Ocean Prayer
- SkyHigh
- Four Viharas
- Living in Harmony with All Life: A Discourse on the World Peace Diet
- The World Peace Diet Audio Book