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J. Charles Banks, BS, has been involved in creating, marketing and managing leading edge self-help organizations in America and Europe for over three decades. With a background in marketing, psychology, and electrical engineering, from 1960 to 1974 Banks held management positions with Fortune 250 companies including the General Instrument Corporation, Standard Logic Inc., Gulton Industries, and several "silicon valley" hi-tech firms. He also ran his own marketing consulting firm, New Frontier Associates, in New York City. In 1972 he departed corporate America, and began an extensive journey into psychology, metaphysics and self-realization. He became active in the Unitarian-Universalist Church, and in 1975 created their nationwide psychological program, Liberated Men-Liberated Women, raising over $3 million for the church nationally. In 1976-1877 he was president of Synergy in Philadelphia, a Philadelphia sociological study group of medical doctors and psychologists investigating contemporary male-female relationships, and in 1977-1978, Banks served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and also held volunteer positions with leading edge psychological groups including, the est organization, Lifespring, and the Insight Trainings. In 1979 he traveled to Pune, India, where he spent a year studying meditation and learning Eastern philosophy. From 1982-1984 Banks founded and served as Director of Premsagar Meditation Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1994 he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he managed an advanced holistic detox and meditation retreat. He has traveled afar presenting his powerful transformational lectures and self-help events to thousands. He has been going to Russia since 1992, where he is cherished by the Russian people. In November 2000, NTB, Russia's Public Broadcasting TV Network did a special on Banks and his extensive work in alcohol and substance abuse in their country. He has worked in training hundreds of psychologists in Russia. His media appearances are numerous, and he had his own talk-radio program in New York City, Philadelphia and Asheville, NC, as well as being editor and publisher of new thought journals in Philadelphia, PA, Asheville, NC and Chattanooga, TN. In February 2002 he married Dhiraja, a Russian lady whom he met in St. Petersburg, Russia in October 2000. They now live deep in the mountains, near Black Mountain, NC |
